older than dirt!

[delidog]

Lizbud,
Thanks...Growing up an only child...I was wondering how I missed this one...That explains it!!

[carole]

Being a New Zealander I am not familiar with most of your terms, but I have experienced a Drive Inn, In USA, we never had them here, and those yummie candy cigarettes, still buy those for my daughter.

Never used curling irons, as have natural curls, so no need.

We used to call going to the movies the FLICKS, or pictures.

Still have my collection of L.PS, cannot seem to part with them, although most of them would not play, as they have seen many a party, spillages and scratched to death.

I remember one of the in sayings in my young days was NEAT AHYE, wow I mean isn't that so cool.

[Felicia's Mom]

I can remember all of them.

[Twisterdog]

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,

Sheesh, that's kind of surprising ... I remembered 11 of them! And I'm 35 years old! Could it be .... I'm getting old?!?! *faints*

Here's another one .... and I know all of these. *sigh*


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Shocking events that let you know you're old


Providence Journal
09.17.2003


I remember being shocked when typewriters began showing up in antique stores.

It's gotten worse.

You can now find early computers there - or in the antiques section of Web sites like Ebay.

It got me thinking about a new definition of old.


Old doesn't just apply to those who can remember life before airplanes or television.

You qualify if things you once considered cutting-edge technology are now antiques. Or when the latest trends you swear you embraced just yesterday are things the MTV generation never heard of.

So, today, a list.



You know you're getting up there if you remember when:

* Your computer's ready-mode was a black screen with a single curser.

* Apple was bigger than Windows.

* Or should I say PCs, since for a while, there was no such thing as Windows.

* There was just "DOS."

* And they were called microcomputers instead of PCs.

* Contrary to free-market theory, your phone choices and bills were much easier because AT&T was a good old-fashioned monopoly.

* There was this amazing new video game called "Pong."

* And you thought it had the most advanced graphics imaginable.

* AOL was just another start-up online service that could easily have lost out to rivals called Compuserve and Prodigy.

* A 20-something guy named Dell came up with the nutty idea of selling computers by mail.

* Jane Fonda went from sex symbol, to feminist activist, to dutiful wife of a powerful man, to obscurity.

* And that powerful man was known not as Ted Turner founder of CNN - but "Blackbeard Among the Bluebloods" for winning the America's Cup while scandalizing Newport society with raucus behavior.

* And there was no question U.S. sailors would of course win the Cup - forever.

* It was called VD instead of an STD.

* The first true laptop computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80.

* And if you were hip, you referred to it affectionately as a TRASH-80.

* Burning a CD was the act of a pyromaniac.

* Sean Connery was Pierce Brosnan.

* The new walkaround phone that gave you astonishing mobility was a cordless one you could take around the house.

* And it got better reception than the one you can now take all over the country.

* Only wives got alimony.

* Steve Jobs ran Apple. I mean, the first time.

* There was a guy on 60 Minutes named Mike Wallace who was so old you figured he'd retire at the latest by 1990.

* TheMideast was simpler because Iran was run by a dictator called The Shah, who wanted power rather than Jihad.

* Mail was something you wrote on a piece of paper and put into a stamped envelope.

* And you didn't get 110 unsolicited pieces of it every morning promising to enhance your anatomical assets.

* No normal person had speakers on their computer.

* The diners at the next restaurant table were smoking cigarettes and you barely noticed.

* The only thing you knew about Robin Williams was he played a weird alien named "Mork" on television.

* A 1-gig hard drive seemed as big as a warehouse. (Today, most are 40-times that.)

* An 8-track tape the size of a paperback book was an advanced concept in compact music recording.

* Everyone knew what an LP was.

And now the final test of whether you're getting up there:

* Even though there are plenty of LPs in antiques stores, you still have 400 in your attic, because deep down, you still think the format will come back.

[Pam]

Aaah yes Twisterdog, and who can forget Atari. I can remember my family and I practically lining up to get a chance to play PacMan on the TV screen. Geesh, even my kids are getting old because they remember it well!

[carole]

Remember owning an amiga 500?

[slick]

Originally posted by Twisterdog
* Even though there are plenty of LPs in antiques stores, you still have 400 in your attic, because deep down, you still think the format will come back.

ROFLMAO!! I still have stacks and stacks of 33's and 45's I just can't seem to let go of. I'm just dreaming of the day I walk into an antique store to buy a turntable.

[delidog]

O.k. Now I'm afraid....I still have my Album Collection...(Stored and Filed Alphabetically) a Total of almost 5,000 albums!!!!
What do I do with them now?!?!?!?

Oh and Twisterdog,I used to date the guy who wrote the book
"How to Beat The Video Games" I.E. Pac Man!!!!
John Le "Something French"
So long ago I don't remember his full name!!!
They say that "The Memory is the First to Go,Be Thankful that it is"
How True

[Pam]

Originally posted by delidog
O.k. Now I'm afraid....I still have my Album Collection...(Stored and Filed Alphabetically) a Total of almost 5,000 albums!!!!
What do I do with them now?!?!?!?

We sold all of ours about 5 years ago at a yard sale. I guess there were maybe 100-200. They had been sitting in the basement for a few years and I got tired of looking at them. The same person bought all of them. Maybe he knows something I don't know!

[Rachel]

Pam, on HGTV I saw that guy from Collector Inspector buy some albums at this garage sale. I think it's probably the album covers that people collect rather than thinking they will play the records.

You probably could have made some money selling them at a flea market or something, but who wants to go to that effort, not me. Leave it to the people who do that for a living.

[Andie]

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with color ed sugar water (You can still get those around here)

3. Candy cigarettes (these too)

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles (for 5 cents)

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933) (ok I don't remeber that but I do remember just having to dail 4 numbers)

12. Peashooters (We have one of those somewhere)

14. 45 RPM records (Yep they're in the bottom drawer of Mom and Dad's entertainment center)

17. Metal ice trays with lever (For the first six years of my life I thought that was the only kind of ice tray)

22. Cork popguns (I had a friend's brother who ran around with one in each hand)

23. Drive-ins (Remeber going to a couple)

25. Wash tub wringers (These are still in our laundramat)

I also remember being the remote control after I was mobile as a child.

pssst.... we still have 2 turntables and an 8 track player in this house.

[emily_the_spoiled]

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age...

Okay, this is making me feel REALLY old. I just had a birthday a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't think I was "old". Hey a couple of days before my birthday I was asked for ID at an airport bar in Nashville (and it wasn't policy to ask everyone), so I figured I was doing OK. This is not good...

[catland]

regarding ice cube trays.

A few years ago my nieces were visiting and they wanted a drink of water. First they stared at the refridgerator, looking for the water dispenser. (I do have lots of junk on my refridgerator).

Once they realized that they had to get the water from the sink they wanted ice. I opened the freezer and handed them the ice cube tray (the plastic kind that you twist), and received the same blank expression.


too funny

[moosmom]

OMG,

More memories!!! I remember the wax coke bottles with the sugar liquid inside, and the candy cigarettes! I used to make believe that I was "moking". Then they came out with bubblegum cigarettes. It was bubblegum wrapped in cigarette paper. If you blew threw the end, white powder would come out, making it look like it was smoke.

I also remember manual typewriters. I worked at a newspaper when I was 18 and that's all they had. We had to use paper with a bazillion sheets of carbon paper!!! That was back in 1972.

I also remember McDonald's selling hamburgers (loooooong before drive-thru) and cheeseburgers for 15 cents and 20 cents.

Thanks RICHARD. Now I really feel older than dirt!!!