TVNZ used to play a short cartoon of their station mascots, TV Kiwi and The Cat, turning off the equipment and lights in the station before going to sleep in one of the dishes on the broadcasting tower when they signed off for the evening, but IIRC they switched to 24 hour programming in the mid-90s.
Wiki says there’s a Digital TV channel in NZ still using the sign off, though. That makes me happy for some reason. I always did like TV Kiwi and The Cat. 
Remember ZOOM?
Yep! Ain’t it wonderful?
Remember home video game systems that used plug in game cartridges? The new systems all use discs (like CD’s) now.
Between my Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision, and Colecovision I must have 300 carts. And all of those 300 separate games would probably fit on one modern disc. With much room to spare for another thousand games.
Hosted horror is actually making a strong come-back in a lot of places. New England has Penny Dreadfull, Western PA has Its Alive and Midnight Monster, Buffalo has had a couple lately (Off-beat Cinema?), Ohio has quite a bit going as well. Problem is most are re-run to death but at least they are getting made.
TV shows like Doctor Shock…I kinda miss that stuff, cheesey as it was. O course I miss MST3K, But Doctor ?Shock and shows like it were the precursor for them.
The punchy sound of writing on a typewriter, rather than the clickety-clack of a computer keyboard.
There are adults now who’ve never heard it. Bizarre to me.
CSA’s? What the heck are they?
Confederate States of America – that’s long since dead & gone.
You can order them Here and from a few other places. Our local craft store has blank white ones, but I can’t find them on their website.
I just bought two kerosene heater wicks this past season at the hardware store, so they are still out there!
Filmstrips. We used these a lot in school, especially Spanish. It was considered quite an honor to be the child chosen to turn the knob on the projector to advance the film when you heard the tone on the record that played along with it.There was much teasing and derision if you got out of synch, or turned the wrong way!
Twenty-ish years ago, when I was still in elementary school, I remember reading about the Combat Zone and for some reason I thought it was in Roxbury.
Here’s another one…body worn FM devices/auditory trainers for deaf and hard of hearing kids. It was this box that you wore on your chest, and you had to wear a harness. shudders
Man, I loved those crappy filmstrips. It meant you got to sit in the dark for 30 minutes and the teacher wouldn’t know what the hell you were doing. And the strips themselves were always 30 years old (early seasons of The Simpsons had the best film strip parodies). Sometimes the filmstrip would last so long it wouldn’t be finished by the time class was over!
The school where I teach uses Powerpoint for our presentations. I’d kind of like to see the reactions from the students if they saw an old filmstrip like I grew up with.
Ma used one in the mid 60’s until it pulled her arm into the rollers. It popped open the rollers when it got almost to the shoulder. The new washer was in the house in a week. Some Mexican immigrants bought the old one. These washers were known to have ripped off arms and scalps, also to have permanently damaged arms and hands not ripped off.
Hence the old expression "(whatever)…since Ma got her tit caught in the wringer)
Oooowwch!
Was her arm OK?
Does anyone else think this is an awesome name for a street frequested by prostitutes? 
Short shorts on NBA players.
Ads to sell Grit in the backs of comic books.
Black quarterbacks as oddities, invariably described as “athletic.”
Local wrestling shows.
One heavyweight boxing champ, and championship bouts on regular TV.
Inkwells on school desks.
Ashtrays in stores.
Ah, Lil’ Hugs.
Joe
More ancient A-V tales.
Speaking of filmstrip projectors, in most cases there was a beep sound to advance the film. I went to parochial school so we were often shown religious themed filmstrips and instead of a beep there was the strumming of a harp.
Also when we were shown a movie in class I remember the huge metal boxes with canvas buckle straps the film reels came in.
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Our religious filmstrips also had the beep. I don’t recall ever having a harp.