showing your age...

[Willow Oak]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Medusa]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

[Willow Oak]

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

Books?

Now let's see, here ..., where have I heard that word before?

[lvpets2002]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great.. Still no remotes yet.. Also remember when at night & the TV Stations went off the air = there was the Indian in the circle & the TV just bussdd.. Also by the way I do still own a Manual & Electric Type Writer..

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Willow Oak]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great..

That is a fact. One of the sweetest things I ever experienced was finally getting that color TV.

[pomtzu]

Typewriters???

Ok - now I remember. Typing I was on that IBM manual, and Typing II you got the luxury of an electric.
And remember the course in Business Machines? - the 10-key adding machine and the monstrous Friden Calculator that was as big as a desk top? It would sit there and clack and grind and take 5 minutes to work an equation and spit out the answer. You could sit there and do homework for other classes while waiting for it!

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.

[kokopup]

post by Pomtzu

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.
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Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, than
most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.

[pomtzu]

post by Pomtzu


Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, than
most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.

You've got that right, but darned if I can. I watch my grandkids in amazement while they're texting!

[Taz_Zoee]

This thread is cracking me up!!
We have a typewriter here in the office and one time I was using it a younger co-worker walked by and said "you know how to use that thing?". I about died.

Several years ago when I was working in child care we had a record playing during nap time. I asked one of the college students, who was working for his hours, to restart the record. He looked at me like this and said I don't know how.

[pomtzu]

Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.

I remember the first of the fast food burger joints where I lived, before the onslaught of McDonalds and the rest. Burgers were 15 cents or 10 for $1.00 - and they were good - not like what is typical now.

[Medusa]

Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.

I remember the first of the fast food burger joints where I lived, before the onslaught of McDonalds and the rest. Burgers were 15 cents or 10 for $1.00 - and they were good - not like what is typical now.

We had one here in Canal Fulton until just a few years ago. The same counter w/stools, etc., real ice cream, too. They sold it, though, and now it's a Thai restaurant.

[lvpets2002]

You watch == The Speed of Texting will be in the Olympics..

You've got that right, but darned if I can. I watch my grandkids in amazement while they're texting!

[beeniesmom]

Great thread....

Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?

[lvpets2002]

Hey I have a 1950/1960? model.. The camera & lens comes out of the case like a acordian.. I also still have a 70's model that works..

Great thread....

Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?

[pomtzu]

Great thread....

Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?

ME!!! I had one of the more expensive ones that my Dad gave me. I still have it - maybe I can sell it to a museum some day. I don't think there is even film available for them anymore - not that anyone would want it anyway.