They spent their time fucking around in resorts and on cruises and left their kids home with live-in babysitters who just had them watch movies and play games?
Alternately, the technological paradigm shift of the seventies and eighties fascinated people who were children in those eras, and they learned as much as they could about the burgeoning technologies that were heralding the future. Older people perhaps ignored it?
For example, I give zero fucks about zoomer bullshit, most modern games, movies, smart-home-devices, and other bullshit. I'm content with primarily early 2000s tech, with a couple exceptions.
