Apparently that’s what it was in 1959. I think you’ll find things have moved on a bit since then.
Extra points if you know the difference between a ditto machine (which made the purple copies) and a mimeograph machine.
All the time. Every week I have kids ask to use the stuff. I always keep several bottles out in the classroom.
You know, the lady who invented that was the mom of the lead singer of the Monkees.
Wait a minute, what are the Monkees?
So there is an upside, at least.
Ah, apparently I was using it in 1982.
Apparently you didn’t read your reference properly: "The Tipp-Ex company was founded in 1959…"
Whoah! I thought you were joking.
Right, but they started producing liquid correction fluid in 1965, and that’s all they’ve been known for for at least 20 years.
So what are you telling me - that I wasn’t using Tipp-Ex correction paper in 1982? Or that Wikipedia is the Be All and End All of All Knowledge?
Who ya gonna believe, Wikipedia or yer own lyin’ eyes?
Jeez Koxinga - you’re really puttin’ me on the spot here…
Message boards. 
Really.
I was talking to an 18-year-old the other day, and I mentioned SDMB. I had to explain to her that it is a message board…and then I had to explain what a message board is.
I’m 40, and I have no idea what any of these are. Well…I did send a few air mails with the special paper, but I mostly used a regular envelope. I’ve never seen a telegram outside of a museum, and have no idea what a telex machine was.
I’m sure you were. However, you were using Tipp-Ex correction paper, not Tipp-Ex, which was already the shorthand for the liquid stuff.
Um, wait. Are you American? Because if so, none of this applies.
ETA: I used to send aerogrammes when I was a kid. And airliners still used telexes until a couple of years ago.
Also about (US) Air Mail: Until the late 1970s, there was a separate domestic Air Mail rate.
I used the stuff all the time as a kid once we were old enough that we were allowed to use pens rather than pencils for stuff in school. I’m going to guess it was 5th grade or so that we started using pens and had white-out.
I remember it was kind of cool when some company introduced erasable pens.
Early 40s. Never saw a telegram, but knew what they were. Used airmail, and got letters with airmail envelopes and paper, mainly pen pals overseas. I also remember Zenith numbers, and the twilight of exchange names (e.g. with a nasal 1940s accent, “Say there, skirt, give me Hudson 3-5423 and make it snappy!”); old-timers around my parts continued to use them into the late 1980s.
I wonder if Millennials see the use of “dial a phone” or “tape a program” as quaint as we Generation Xers saw archaic terms like “icebox” for refrigerator and “carfare” for bus fare.
Here’s one. Cabooses. Do youngins understand the word in contexts like “She’s got a nice caboose?”
Kids these days are allowed to use Wite-out? Lucky bastards. We had to scratch the word our or start all over again if we made a mistake in an essay (see my previous post about typing). Actually, come to think of it, we didn’t use Wite-Out because we didn’t have any.
Not in the way that full-service was meant. Oregon and New Jersey mandate that an attendant must pump the fuel into your vehicle, that’s it. That is what is called full service now.
A real full service station used to clean your windshield, pop the hood and check the oil and washer fluid, radiator resevour, and maybe check the air in your tires. In fact, most gas pumps had retractable hoses for air and water right beside each pump station. Now you might still find air and water at a separate machine that you can put quarters in and do-it-yourself.
I’d forgotten about this. Ah, the good old days.
Anyway, my contribution is that I run a networking group of mixed ages of business people, 24 to 86. I do a couple of really wicked impressions. Rodney Dangerfield they all get. Peter Lorre just whooshes the younger crowd, much to the amusement of the older crowd. They have no idea who he was. Richard Nixon had one of them asking if Nixon really talked like that because it is such a charactature of evil that even Micheal Meyers wouldn’t use it in an Austin Powers movie.
This past winter I was watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles, starring (Mr.) Steve Martin and John Candy. It occurred to me the movie probably made no sense to my 17 y.o. This was a plot that would be completely implausible in today’s world because of the easy access to cell phones and ability to book travel reservations online. He said he realized that the movie was accurate for the day it was made. In any case he found it absolutely hilarious.