My father always told me that the world would change dramatically as I grow older.  I never knew exactly what he was talking about until recently, as I look back on how things have changed since I was a student in high school.  Here is a lighthearted look at a handful of things that have changed dramatically since I was in high school. Before the days of Facebook, Twitter, and social media, and texting, messages and social communications were sent in a very old-school manner.  Whenever someone wanted to disperse information to someone else, in lieu of speaking, one would simply write the message on a small piece of paper…