Totally so. And, relatedly:
Calling the neighbors and your parents’ friends to try to track down where your mom or dad is.
And you had to have a diverter switch attached between the antenna and the tv to switch from the broadcast signal to the game signal
Even people who never smoked had ashtrays in their houses.
Because it would have been horribly rude to ask anyone not to smoke in your house.
It’s popular at least in part because social media hackers are looking for ways to determine people’s age demographic - for the purpose of targeted advertising - without asking them directly. Same with “tell me where you are from without telling me where you are from” and similar sorts of questions.
I wish this wasn’t true, but when I realised that the “porn name” meme is also the answers to your secure login questions, I had to accept the truth of it.
I remember seeing those. Since I was also familiar with anarchist bombs, I figured that’s where they got them.
Hmmm. Civil Defense shelter.
One of my mother’s first jobs was jukebox operator. The patron would put a nickel in the slot, pick up a phone handset which would ring Mom in a central location. They would request a song, she would find the record, plug a record player into that line, and drop the needle on the record which would play through a speaker at the location.
Facebook is totally full of them. The latest I saw was “name an old fashioned name”. 90% of people are going to give a grandparent’s name. And most names have a specific period of popularity. If I’d answered I would without question have given my grandmother’s name and that would mean there is little chance I was born after 1980.
The smell of mimeograph paper.
There was a movie (Fast Times at Ridgemont High maybe?) where a teacher handed out mimeographs to the class, and everyone held it up to their face to smell it. Probably a majority of people wouldn’t understand that gag today.
I think he meant it became really fast when push button phones came out.
knowing when a book was due by looking on the inside cover of a book because they stamped te dates there (these days they cive you a printout of when your books are due)
when it took 2-4 (or more ) hours to download the first 8-bit MMORPG that you had to have aol for … and you prayed to the PC gods it didn’t get corrupted or anything or yo started all over again
Being a nude entertainer/adult film star wasn’t a mainstream career choice
This is the phone we had, on our party line. We had to listen for our ring in Morse Code*, that the Operator would perform by hand.
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*D - long short short
Our TV was so old, it didn’t even have a UHF tuner, only VHF. Converters were available to let you tune in UHF, but we never had one.
When I was a kid, if I wanted to get on the Internet I had to wait for Al Gore to be born.
Fill up your gas tank and the station would give you a free drinking glass.
Be kind, rewind.
The first car racing computer game I played was on a line printer. Before you started playing, you could ask for a given track to be printed out, in ASCII. To race, you input a percentage, either positive or negative, for acceleration or braking respectively. The software then replied with your race position, speed and the distance to the next corner. And of course whether you had crashed or finished and if the latter in what place.
I can’t think that we ever got around the track without crashing.
The remote control was a little box with tuning forks in it.
Walking home from school there would always be at least one house with a TV repair or appliance repair truck or van in front of it. Stuff went on the fritz a lot then and people actually got them repaired rather than tossing it and getting a new one.
Yep. No age to buy cigs or to smoke. There was a designated smoking area at my high school called “the smoking pit”. And it was official. Was even mentioned in the .school handbook.
I could legally drink most of my senior year in high school. The age was 18.
8-track tapes. Jebus Gawd they were awful.
Going to the drug store for an ice cream cone would probably elicit some strange looks from people only a few years younger than myself.
Watching filmstrips and slideshows in class where the audio was played separately and there was a beep to tell the teacher to press a button to switch to the next slide.
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Can you even have film developed into slides anymore? My Dad had about 10K pictures all on slides. You have to load this crummy magazine in a projector. Sometimes the metal slide frame would get stuck inside the projector and it was a major pain to get it out,
