From Luxuries to Everyday Utilities: 17 Childhood Comforts We Take for Granted

A BuzzFeed piece revisits 17 items once considered middle‑class luxuries (from a home computer and encyclopedia sets to color TVs, VCRs, microwaves, and early internet) and explains how many of them have become everyday necessities, highlighting how technology and daily life have transformed what counts as a premium in households over the decades.