The place I see those gas-station air-hose bells now is the drive-up donation area of Goodwill and Value Village stores. I always back up over it again, just for old time’s sake.
On a Saturday night many moons ago when I was a mere sprog the guy used to come around shouting “Football Final”.
This was a newspaper, pink(ish) in colour, that gave all the results of the days matches, he normally sold out within a matter of 30 minutes then tootled off back to the newsagent for fresh supplies.
Of course this was in the days when all football matches were played on a Saturday
floppy disks
“At the tone, the time will be eleven eighteen and twenty seconds…BEEP!”
Ha! That version was already a replacement for the one my parents recalled: ‘one little two little three little ni–ers’.
Not sure what “greenbar computer paper” is (or a few of the other US-centric terms here), so humour me if I’m basically covering the same thing here and just use a different word for it, but that reminds me of another thing missing, fanfold computer paper with the tear-off printer holes. I’ve always thought that was the greatest thing since sliced bread, I remember getting a program that would print banners, which of course worked really well on fanfold paper. Once we got a printer that worked like “normal” printers nowadays, I remember thinking “how are people going to print banners on their printer now?” as computer-printed banners weren’t uncommon beforehand, but with the death of fanfold paper came the death of computer printed banners. 
And ASCII art.
(BTW, I’m not that young to only have computer-related things in my youth - I’m 37 - but we’ve been using computers in our house for about 30 years. Many of the other things that Dopers are missing in this thread are also things that I miss from my childhood … )
I’m US, and I’ve never heard the term “Greenbar computer paper” before, and I’m a tech type who worked in that era. I think it does mean the fanfold paper you’re thinking of, with sprocket drive holes on the side. But there were regular green-tinted regions alternating with white regions, so you could follow a single line across the width of the sheet.
Named telephone exchanges.
I learned my first phone number as “LINDEN 4-0497”. It was common when I was a kid for the first two digits of the number to be represented by a word or name. (LI=54 in my case.)
The last I heard of this practice was in the old commercials for Bouchelle Carpet Cleaning with that jingle by a really low-voiced singer: “HUDSON 3-2-7 Hunnnndred.”
First two things I thought of - high school rifle teams and Hippy Sippy.
Which goes to prove that I had a very interesting time growing up.
There is a line from [Geek]Empire Strikes Back[/Geek]
by Yoda that has always haunted me for some reason.
“The future the past, old friends…Long Gone.”
It has always made me sad because I do have friends that are gone forever.
We had a thread about this a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that you can still dial a number and hear a recording of the time (perhaps not to the second and with a beep) in a lot of places. I know in Pittsburgh we can get the time and temperature together – after a 15 second ad – “courtesy” one of our local electric utilities.
This is greenbar paper. So very much the same thing as the continuous feed printer paper, but with green bars, usually use for accounting purposes or to print out programming things. The green bars are a visual aid to break up lines and lines of figures or code.
I’m just slightly younger than you are, dhkendall but have a similar experience. My first serious computer at home (a Texas Instruments something or other) was purchased in 1981, and was upgraded quite significantly in 1985 (well, replaced, moving to the first of several Apples, the first being a IIc) with the continuous feed paper for printers, with the perforated strips on the side with the holes that kept it moving on the printer’s spindles.
We had Apple IIs in school as well, and one of our teachers actually developed a software program to create the banners you spoke of, taking advantage of those continuous feed printers. In 6th and 7th grade, we were allowed to go to her classroom during recess and print banners to take home, for our birthdays or holidays or parents’ birthdays or whatever. I remember that we had to pay 3 cents a page for paper and ink. There was a lot of ASCII art (especially of birthday cakes and balloons, as I recall) and spending a lot of time with markers and colored pencils working to make the banners look nice. It’s absolutely not possible to replicate on single sheets of paper.
Speaking of those continuous feed printers, I remember having a panic on my way to college in the fall of 1989. I’d left my box of 5,000 pages of said paper (not even 1/5 used after 4 years) at home, even though I was taking the trusty IIc and the printer with me. A stop for the night in Greencastle, Indiana netted me a box of said paper from the very first Walmart that I ever saw. Our hotel manager made a sad face when we came back to the hotel with Walmart bags. It had, she said, ruined the main street shopping in that part of the town – something else that in many places is a thing long gone.
There is also “Bluebar” paper as well.
We used to have a milkman, a bread man, AND a produce man drive through the 'hood.
Then there was “Blackbar” paper, widely used at CIA headquarters.
Most people of course just used “Whitebar” paper, with alternating rows of white and white.
Before sign off they’d often show a short clip of an F-104 flying among the clouds while someone recited the poem “High Flight” (ending with the line, “And I touched the face of God”). Very, very cool to my young self.
No, actually, greenbar was used much more frequently than white paper.
White was usually used only for things that you had to send out to customers. For internal reports & stuff, you used greenbar. It was quite a bit cheaper than the white paper. Because it was usually thinner, didn’t have the perfed edges to take off the sprocket feed holes, and because it didn’t need as much bleaching as white paper.
Greenbar was the default paper that was mounted on the high-speed impact printers. White was a special form; the operator had to stop the printer and mount the white paper when it was needed.
I intended that remark as a joke, really. The key phrase there is “alternating rows of white and white” – which I hope you’d agree is a silly way to describe plain white paper. Not to mention, “whitebar” is not a real term.
That is raster, the screen displaying background noise from the Big Bang. 
I chuckled. 
How many of us had paper routes here? I was 12 and in the seventh grade when I had mine. Delivered them on my bike every afternoon, and each Saturday morning.
Afternoon dailies are almost gone too.