# Back in my day... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383 "2002-07-11T06:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DaToad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/21 "2002-07-14T23:43:32Z")
Ha! we didn’t have time. It was before there was a “before” There was only the void, without substance, without light, without thought. Hmmmm, very similar to my kids mind… ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/22 "2002-07-15T18:16:17Z")
Back in my day we were all compressed into a singularity. Then suddenly there was a big explosion. We were all so happy to finally be free we shouted “Bang!”. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/23 "2002-07-15T18:46:30Z")
“Bang!”? You had a “Bang!”? Hrumph. Some folks just don’t know how lucky they are. The best we could manage was a whimper, and a pretty pathetic one at that. But we were happy with it! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/24 "2002-07-15T18:46:58Z")
Whiners! You had voices and a common language? Ha back in my day all we had was moans and groans. In fact, the start of our universe was known as The Big Grunt. ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/25 "2002-07-15T20:21:35Z")
Oh, we used to dream of a universe! Would have been a palace to us! We didn’t even have grunting! All we had was the sound of our respiration. Out of one lung that all of us had to share. If it wasn’t your day for the lung, you were SOL. ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/26 "2002-07-22T17:10:01Z")
You got to respirate?! You lucky bastards. Do you have _any_ idea how hard it is to hold your breath for 4.5 billion years? ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/27 "2002-07-22T17:54:25Z")
:nods, redfaced: whewwwwwwww :pants: pretty hard I’d say 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/28 "2002-07-22T17:56:15Z")
[sub] Pants not Ants:smack: [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/29 "2002-07-23T01:10:41Z")
YOu think you had it bad? When I was quasi-semi-born there was no internet. Imagine that! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/30 "2002-07-23T02:01:51Z")
Look at you, using all those fancy wancy words. “Quasi-semi-born.” BAH! Being BORN wasn’t even invented in my day. We just sprung from the great void (which, mind you, wasn’t much of a void at all, more like a bowl of spilled puddin’). And there weren’t much to spring into, niether. Imagine just coming into being and not being nowheres. What the hell was the point in that? Now I done gone soiled myself… ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/31 "2002-07-23T02:18:52Z")
Existence?! Void?! HA! Back in my day we didn’t have neither! Everything was just pure random chaos. I didn’t know my hat from a cornshucker with the gas power… but we didn’t have hats or gas or corn or cornshuckers, and we walked 15 miles towards the… [falls asleep] Zzzzz… eh? Where was I? ---
**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/32 "2002-07-23T02:24:59Z")
Oh, yeah! …house. ---
**Author:** ![jmalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8edcca/32.png) [@jmalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmalin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/33 "2002-07-23T04:14:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Recursion \* > \*\*Oh, yeah! > > …house. \*\* House? You were lucky to have a house! We lived in a hole in the ground in the middle of road, covered by an old tarpaulin! _We_ were evicted from our hole in the road, we had to go live in a lake! ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/34 "2002-07-23T08:00:08Z")
Back in **MY** day, we didn’t even have Threadspotting. We had to search the boards ourselves! ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/35 "2002-07-23T09:33:48Z")
Boards? Ha! Back in my day we didn’t even have Usenet! We had Not-Good-For-Anything-Net! There were so many holes, you couldn’t even play tennis with it! It was a glorified piece of string! ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/36 "2002-07-23T12:42:40Z")
At least you guys were given the ability to realize how things have changed from the “past”. In my present, I can’t even remember the past. That’s how bad I’ve got it. You people and all your new-fangled “memories” as you call them. Bah! ---
**Author:** ![Rixter1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rixter1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rixter1)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/37 "2002-07-23T14:34:04Z")
Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say “dickety” 'cause that Kaiser had stolen our word “twenty”. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles… ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/38 "2002-07-23T15:02:54Z")
I can remember when all of this was fields… ---
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/39 "2002-07-23T15:29:54Z")
Back in my day we didn’t even have language, so when you wanted an “orange” you said," " I never got an “orange.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383/40 "2002-07-23T15:42:29Z")
Back in **my day** we didn’t have language. So we couldn’t complain. **Not that we ever did! We were _grateful_, by gum!** Come to think on it, we didn’t have no gum, either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-in-my-day/118383.md?page=3)