This will make some of you feel really, really old :eek:
I don’t remember ANY of this, but I’ll whistle the “Jonny Quest” theme song for ya. Here goes.
How about this.
There’s a college in Wisconsin that’s been doing something similar for a while. They call it the “Mindset List”. Older ones are archived here while the most recent, for the Class of 2020, is here. It starts, “Students heading into their first year of college this year are mostly 18 and were born in 1998. Among those who have never been alive in their lifetime are Frank Sinatra, Phil Hartman, Matthew Shepard, Sonny Bono, and Flo-Jo.”
Or this.
I don’t feel hideously old, but I easily can remember BEFORE any of those things in the links. Films were watched in theaters. Television was limited to three channels. Land lines were the only way to call someone and if they were not home, the phone just kept ringing until you got tired of listening to it. If you wanted to listen to music at home, you had LPs, or a few stations on AM radio. Our family cars didn’t have seatbelts (or if they did we never used them). They didn’t have air-conditioning either.
This does not seem astonishing or amazing to me. I don’t remember when people got polio, or TB, or smallpox. I don’t remember when most people didn’t have telephones, or flush toilets, and most people lived on farms, and had separate summer kitchens to do their canning in because the wood stove made the house otherwise unbearable. But it wasn’t very long ago. Time is rushing to a close.
The other links in this thread are fine. The OP is for people younger than me (54). CDs, cell phones, and iPods? Are you kidding me?
Where are the 8 tracks, CB radios, and transistor radios? Those were my equivalents.
Multi-volume encyclopedias withyearly update book(s).
SHOCKER! PEOPLE BORN IN ANY YEAR CAN LEARN ABOUT HISTORY!
BAN THIS SICK SHIT!
(Sorry, I’m contractually obligated to drop that into any post about the Bri’ish press.)
SACHER! PEOPLE GROW UP WITH DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON ECONOMIC CLASS!
Zounds! And gasp, even!
SOCCER! VINYL IS IN A RESURGENCE THANKS TO COLLECTORS!
(I guess people who read the Daily Heil would call it footy-bally, or the two-meter take-a-dive.)
Clickbait knows no nationality.
The boss has a necklace with one of these, in sterling silver, as the pendant. Its remarkable how few people know what it is. It a great conversation starter.
What makes me feel really, really old is the awareness that the generation that thinks of me as old now has a generation that thinks of them as old.
It could be worse. I can still look back and see a generation that looks old to me. I guess the sign that you’ve really gotten old is when you look for an older generation and realize there’s nobody left in line ahead of you.
Sim-Sim-Salabim !
What I miss is being able to slam the phone down on some telemarketer. Just pressing “off” doesn’t do it. You know?
When I first graduated college and started to get the alumni magazine, my class was the very last one in the Class Notes section, and I could amuse myself by reading the Class Notes for the earliest classes. (“Bob Smith wrote to let us know that he’s got a new hip.”) But over time, my class section gets closer and closer to the front of the section.
OP: You’re not nearly old enough to start a thread like this. I remember when all those things were new… and the things that preceded them.
This was our first TV.
Or have you ever seen one of these?
And do you remember 78 rpm records?
When was the last time cereal had a prize in it?
Anyone who lives in a household with toddlers finds (sur)prizes in their cereal box.
Dad: What the… heck?
Toddler: (squeals) Binky Beah!
We had that washing machine, but that TV is before my time.
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Are you referring to the washing machine or a woman in a kitchen…
