A gallon of gas less than $3.00…humm those were the days…
What about the whole concept of rolling down the window. The whole hand motion that we still do when we want someone to roll down their window. No one has the “butter churner” window device anymore - but we still us that motion.
Green screen computers.
Saturday morning cartoons, that were not japanimation.
Missing children on the milk cartons.
Styrofoam containers at fast food restaurants. McDonald’s birthday parties…
They don’t?
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The last price I saw for a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.47.
I remember reading the paper and looking at the movie section only to see that Star Wars was now in its “23rd Spectacular week!”
But hey, we all use terms that are now-anachronistic. After all, we still “crank” our cars, even though we don’t, really.
computers
light bulbs
electricity
indoor pumbing
Don’t you know after the Great Global Catastrophe the kids will be rolling there eyes at grandpa who can’t even figure out how to make fire with two sticks 
?
I… never thought about that before. Whoa.
Dammit! I wanted to be the first to mention this.
There’s a corollary to this thread of sounds that are obsolete: the cha-ching of a cash register, the sound of a typerwriter (clakety clackety ding zzzap), the sound of a needle being dragged across a record. Oddly, the cha-ching and the needle/record are still used extensively – you hear needle/record all the time, as an “interruption” sound effect. Nobody under 25 has ever heard that sound in real life.
BTW, I work in the credit card biz – that manual imprinter device is called the “zip-zap machine”.
You’re right, both of them have taken on roles independent of their origin. Another example of this is the standard Windows ‘save’ icon, which will no doubt remain as a floppy disc long after these have disappeared from all new computers. Although the latest cartoon-type icons from MS seem to have gotten rid of the sprocket-fed printer as the ‘print’ icon in favour of an inkjet.
One anachronism that most people don’t notice is that the international (i.e. non-North American) road sign for an ungated railway crossing shows a steam locomotive (see halfway down this page).
That’s the second time I’ve mentioned steam trains in this thread. That’s a bit weird.
“Six feet tall? Daddy you’re tall, but you only have two feet”
“An inch? Is that like when you have to scratch?”
“Ounce?”
etc.
Even if they understand the measurement, don’t expect anybody under 25 to be impressed by “he was six feet tall”. That’s probably only just over the average height for young men now.
I’d agree. In fact, a six-foot-tall guy would be considered “the short one” out of my guy friends.
“How come, in old movies, when somebody drives into a gas station, there’s a “ding ding” sound?”
Stepping on the starter
Choking it (not your chicken) :eek:
Lawn mowers started with a 2 foot length of rope knotted to a wooden handle
Lawn mowers (reel type) without engines
Bumper jacks
Replacing the needle on a phonograph
CONELRAD markings on the AM dial
Beverage cans which needed a can opener
Canned foods with the T-handle opener attached
Filling stations where your windshield, outside mirrors, and headlights were washed, oil was checked, and you never got out of the car
Setting the running loop and framing on a 16mm movie projector
Clapping erasers
Hand operated water pump
“Dropping a dime” on someone
Switchboard operators
Enough for now…
Because, in the days before self-serve fuel, an air hose rain across the driveway of the station, and the car passing over it rang a bell (ding-ding) to let the mechanic or gas jockey know a customer was present.
ran, not rain :smack:
Beverage cans where the pull tab comes off.
A cop pulls you over for speeding and you don’t have to worry about that beer in your hand as long as you aren’t drunk. No need to worry about a seatbelt either.
I don’t know what movies and ballgames you go to, but people clap at the end of movies all the time around here (SF bay area) if they particularly enjoyed the film, and I’ve never been to a ball game of any sort with the national anthem.
Um.
How did they? Did they just have a list of every item in the store, with the prices, and the prices never changed? Did they have to enter every single thing individually? What happened when something went on sale?
slinks off to feel young and stupid