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[COLOR=#red]DM[/COLOR] – A father has ordered his family to spend a year living like it was 1986 by banning all modern technology after fearing gadgets were spoiling his children. Blair McMillan made the call to carry out his ‘social experiment’ after his son Trey, five, said he preferred to stay indoors and play games on an iPad rather than go outside on a hot summer day. So Blair, remembering when he was a child and how it was impossible to keep children sitting quietly indoors, decided to go back in time and give his kids a taste of life in the year he was born. Since April, the McMillans, from Guelph in Ontario, Canada, have given up all modern technology with Blair even growing a mullet. The family have no internet or 24-hour news channels. Instead they have an old 1980′s TV set encased in a wooden cabinet and a ‘ghetto blaster’ cassette player blaring 80′s classics. They have thrown out their mobile phones, post real letters instead of sending emails, and knock on people’s front doors instead of following them on Facebook. When traveling they use a map to navigate instead of using a GPS navigation system and use film-based cameras to capture special moments. Most of their friends have been supportive of their experiment but Blair, 26, revealed some simply can’t give up technology even when visiting the 1986 household. He said: ‘It feels weird – it feels like we have really gone back in time. The strangest thing without having a cell phone is that I could almost feel my pocket vibrating and wanted to check my pocket. ‘At the same time the experience has brought the family closer and given us an opportunity to talk to each other a lot more. ‘I’d like to think I’ve been touching a lot of lives just through the people that I’ve met when they see me and the way I look. Some won’t catch on though. I even have a ‘cell phone box’ inside the front door of our house and whoever wants to enter has to leave it there for the duration of their visit.’
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:x no wonder the kids don't want to play back there, ishh looks like a forest.
