I'm So Old.....

[Revoltingest]

Did you tow it with Mr. van?

Mr Van was born long after party lines.

 

[wandering peacefully]

....that when I was in elementary school,
desks still had special holders for inkwells.

How old are you?

A year younger than I thought I was all day today! Thanks to you...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Im so old I learned to type on a typewriter. And we still had alot of vinyl records. And 8tracks. And VHS. And no internet. And hardly anyone had a cellphone. And most people still didn't yet have a computer. And I first learned geography with a map that had Czechoslovakia on it (I remember the effort I put into trying to figure out the Czecho part). And I had some crayola crayons that were retired about midish childhood (if I remember the years correctly).
And I'm so old my knee cracked in an office type building once and it sounded and echoed kind like you would expect a tiny, miniaturized gun to sound like with a nasty "CRACK!"
Oh! And Im so old that anyone more than a couple years younger than me was likely tethered to a cell phone while in high school, meaning I'm old enough to disappear while in highschool and worry about a story for where I was after I got back home and was walking inside.

 

[Thief]

'animated' cartoons like Clutch Cargo

and someone has the time it takes to upload these to the internet
you can buy a copy of the entire series

 

[Thief]

tv stations used to 'sign off' every night

how about? …..the native American Indian performing the Lord's Prayer in sign language

 

[Thief]

real toys had real parts

Erector Sets had steel nuts and bolts

microscope sets had sharp probes

chemistry sets had hazardous materials

 

[sun rise]

The internet is full of "I'm so old" suggestions. I'm so old that I remember when we looked up facts in dictionaries and encyclopedias and trusted the result.

 

[Deeje]

All civilized people refer to soda pop as "pop".
Brits do too apparently.

Not Aussies....we just call them "soft drink".....as opposed to "hard drink" I guess. You can imagine the Aussie preference....

 

[Thief]

pens with ink cartridges and split 'ball point' tips

and some pens had a lever to draw ink into the pen....!!!!!

 

[McBell]

I'm so old that I played *original* D&D---no computers.

My first D&D books did not declare what "edition" they were...

 

[McBell]

I'm so old my first hard drive had 100 MEGABYTES on it----and that was high powered!

I'm so old, the first computer I owned was booted using 360K floppies.

Data cassette...

 

[McBell]

I'm so old:

Cost of a new home: $30,500.00
Median Household Income: $9,697.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.10
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.52
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.20​

 

[Thief]

leaded gasoline

27cents to the gallon

 

[Thief]

when a bottle of coke went from 5cents to a dime

 

[Thief]

Cobalt was a college course

 

[McBell]

Radon was the big environmental crisis

 

[sun rise]

I'm so old:

Cost of a new home: $30,500.00
Median Household Income: $9,697.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.10
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.52
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.20​

Youngster. Gas should cost 29.9c/gallon

 

[Deeje]

'animated' cartoons like Clutch Cargo

and someone has the time it takes to upload these to the internet
you can buy a copy of the entire series

Anyone remember Jet Jackson? That was the first TV show I ever saw on a neighbors home made TV, when no one else had one....

 

[Thief]

Anyone remember Jet Jackson? That was the first TV show I ever saw on a neighbors home made TV, when no one else had one....

as a rerun

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I'm so old that I had a party line when I grew up.

And you had to stand up to use the telephone because the cord wasn't long enough to reach a chair.

I'm so old I fought with the cords on phones and untangling them and unwinding them from everything, only to mummify a chair in the process.
Amd Im so old (more of a just old enough) I got the shock when I moved out of my parents that I wont be getting a landline, thay 8nstead I'll be getting a cellphone because it was cheaper.
But I am so old I had Atari and NES amd lots of beeps and doots for sounds and music in my childhood. I think those are called sticks now.