Tuesday this week.
Seriously?
Record - last weekend.
Cassette - last night.
8-track tape - maybe a month ago.
Last night, my husband actually acquired a cellphone. I know that the end times are nigh as this is one of the signs of the apocolypse - it’s in the bible, man. For real. This is the same guy who within the last year bought, from one of his friends, an 8-track RECORDER!! We don’t have an entertainment center - it’s a MUSEUM. :rolleyes:
…took some film in to be developed somewhere
…went to see a movie that you had not already seen at least one trailer for
…thought of buying something online and found that item just wasn’t available online, so you’d have to buy it ‘in real life’
…dealt with a company or business that didn’t have a website
…thought of a popular song from years gone by that you couldn’t find on Youtube
…went to a celebration, party, event or occasion where at least one person didn’t take your photo with a phone camera (even if only a ‘crowd’ shot)
…got on a train or bus carriage where no-one was staring into a little black box of digital mesmerism
…managed to live an entire day without seeing or hearing any variant of the f-word
…I had sex?
…You hitched a ride?
I was just thinking about this the other day, in terms of how my world has changed in the past 10 years. I got my first digital camera in 1999 and considered it a fun toy, what with the shutter lag and low resolution and completely crappy prints; the REAL pictures for keepsakes were still taken with my 35mm camera until about early 2001.
Now I hardly have any prints at all. It’s all online viewing. The few I want posterized or in book form, I order through Webshots as a poster or as a book. (Though I found the resolution and detail in those rather lacking, I might want to try Picasa or another picture hosting/printing portal.)
I still have a heavy handset telephone with an actual bell set inside it, but it is push button and not rotary. It worked until about 3 years ago when I got digital phone service as part of a discounted package for HDTV And internet service, no more analog POTS lines in my house. Oh well. It still rings “the right way” if I knock on it.
My contributions:
Used a pay phone?
Used a typewriter? (No power cord, just a ribbon!)
Used Wite-Out or Liquid Paper?
Wore roller skates (not inline skates)? (Do they even still make/sell these?)
On the technical side, I suppose:
… heard the sound of a modem connecting? (Fax machine doesn’t count)
… heard a dot matrix printer going bzzt-bzzt?
… used a computer terminal? That is, a monochrome display with just a keyboard?
… Used a floppy disk?
…that actually flopped?
… Used a paper hole puncher to use the reverse side of a floppy for extra storage?
And in a sense of how childhood has changed, especially for those who are parents, how long has it been since you’ve seen kids under the age of 12 (your own or someone else’s):
… play pickup baseball (including variants like stickball, punchball, even kickball)?
… play pickup ANYTHING other than playground basketball, or MAYBE catch?
… ride a bicycle not just in a park or playground, but as routine transportation?
(I do see a few kids doing this in my neighborhood, mostly young teenage boys)
(…and I live in the same neighborhood I grew up in!)
… go knock on a neighbor’s door and ask if “<X>” could come out to play?
… go to the playground on their own with same-age friends and no adults?
I watch VHS tapes all the time! I know not of this Teevo you all keep talking about.
I listened to a cassette tape in my car last Sunday. New wave band Reflex, ‘Politics of Dancing’, which sounds like something favored by a demented rollerblader cranked up on drugs.
Wanted to use a pay phone outside the drugstore. Nothing there but the box, the innards were gone!
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…wound your watch?
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The last time that I wore one of my dress watches (they’re both vintage)
Today. My only vehicle is manual.
Multiplied large numbers with paper and pencil.
The other day I multiplied 35 by 14 on paper (but with pen, not pencil). Are those numbers large enough?
Large enough that I’d use my calculator if I could.
When is the last time you scored your bowling game on paper?
Did ‘The Hustle’?
I’m 23, by the way.
Too bad I can’t remember all of them, but I recall when phone numbers consisted of three letters and four numbers (until a year or so after WWII) and then they were two letters and five numbers, probably until the 60s or 70s.
I drove a stick shift until three years ago, when the stop sign forests here finally defeated me. And I have walked four miles to my office regularly from 1973 to 2004 when I slipped on ice and broke an ankle and I still do when the ground is clear.
When I drive to NY, I try to stop for gas in NJ which is always cheaper and, by law, never self-service.
I try to always visit my son in Seattle in August and then I pick gobs and gobs of blackberries. And why not?
Not only do I occasionally multiply three digit numbers with paper and pencil, but I also sometimes do it in my head, just to prove I still can. I do use various tricks, though.
Not only are there still milk deliveries in my neighborhood, but between 1964 and 1968, I got milk delivered by a horse-drawn truck.
But the last time I used a typewriter was around 1980 and the last time I used a manual one was in typing my thesis in 1962. I use wite-out every year when I do my taxes. Which reminds me, ugh.
…used a rotary phone?
…watched a Slinky go down the stairs?
… made a wish on a firefly or a shooting star?
… nibbled on a blade of tall grass?
…scraped your knee?
…crossed your fingers in earnest?
When I went and played duckpin, which was in the last year. I don’t think any duckpin ally has automatic scoring. I also drive a manual car, and my motorcycle still has a choke on it.
…popped your own popcorn on a stove or over a fire? (I did last night)