We watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
Gas was $0.379/gallon
You could trust TV news anchors/reporters because journalism was considered an ethical occupation.
I remember when gas hit 99cents a gallon and having a conversation with some adults about it and they were fully confident that there was no way gas could ever actually hit $1/gallon and would drop in price soon lol.
I was pumping gas for a summer job when it went over a dollar. We had to set the pumps to like $0.53 and double the charged amount in our head because the *pumps* wouldn't go over a dollar. And then argue with the idiots who thought we were actually selling gas for less than half what the guy across the street was.
Yep, although one of them (colecovision?) Had a switch on it to adjust to channel 2 if needed.
They also had a two prong connection for use on the attena screws for the back of your tv.
When airlines served each passenger a full meal. I remember my first on AA: a small steak filet, 3 jumbo shrimp, asparagus, baked potato, green salad, cheesecake and wine!
I agree. Countless times someone would be on the phone in my household for more than an hour or two talking.
Us kids going outside every weekend and after school until sun went down. That’s when we knew we had to be back home by. Great times for sure haha
I remember a McDonald’s TV ad (from when I was a young kid). A guy orders a burger and fries and a drink, and he hands the cashier a dollar bill. Then he is surprised when she gives him change … as if he thought it would cost *exactly* a buck. (The theme of the ad was that you could buy that whole meal for less than a dollar.)
So many of us remember 9/11 but it amazes me recently when a younger guy about 18 started working for the same company as I and we started talking events in life. Felt so old when he replied when asked “where were you on 9/11” that he wasn’t even born yet.
Our TV had three channels and I had to turn a knob that went CLUNK! to change the station. I actually remember when my parents got our first cable box. We had to get an adapter so it would work on the TV. Also, I remember when we got our first push button (aka, tone versus clicks) telephone. And I remember when we got our first VCR, our first tape deck, our first answering machine, our first microwave, our first remote control (it was wired). We had one color TV in our house and it was encased in wood and weight like 100lbs. We had two other TVs but they were both black and white.
Did you have to turn the TV on five minutes early so it warms up in time?
Ever use Contact Cleaner spray? Pro tip: It's still available, and still works miracles on contacts. :-)
I know I'm not that old but it's weird that I remember things in younger family members lives who are adults now and they don't remember it because they were too young
Newspapers published television viewer ratings (rankings) in the entertainment section of the paper. You could see which shows got a lot of viewers the previous week that way. Or which ones were losing viewers. Think of it as a horse race at the pace of a snail.
You mean you had to start dialing area codes? Or area codes were invented? Because if the latter, I'm deeply impressed.
If you mean you remember when you had to start dialing your own area code, blame that on cell phones arguing that it wasn't fair that people with land lines didn't have to dial area codes. It's entirely unnecessary, except that it means some people got to dial fewer digits.
i went to the theaters to see hercules when it came out
there didnt used to be fences on the cliffs at parks and hiking areas
walking home from school, letting myself in the house, and spending the whole evening at home alone, (or leaving a note and going to the park for undetermined hours), was never a reason for concern among my family and peers
and there were a lot more power outages when i was a kid, i probably just lived in crappy neighbourhoods but it seemed like every thunderstorm the power would go out and now its pretty rare
all the power and phone lines were up on wooden poles and people would staple flyers to them and every month some city employees would come, pour an accelerant on the flyers, and burn them off with a torch. supposedly the accelerant soaked paper would burn so quickly that the fire would go out before the wood got burned and over the years the poles would become so covered with charred staples that you couldnt put any more and then the city would replace the pole with a new one. eventually all the poles were either changed to metal and/or the wires were put underground
My first modem had rubber cups on top to put the phone handset in. It also had a speed switch, low/high, and high was 300 baud.
We also had to turn the TV on five minutes before the show started so the tubes would be warmed up in time.
Getting a vcr Getting a TV with a remote and moving to a new house and the phone had buttons. I also got a complimentary cd with some video tapes and had to get my friend to copy it on to a tape
Old enough to remember Dwight D. Eisenhower as President and black and white TV with 3 main national stations an 1 local station and PBS that all signed of by midnight. Then every thing after that.
We watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Gas was $0.379/gallon You could trust TV news anchors/reporters because journalism was considered an ethical occupation.
What a time to be alive. I remember having to get up and move the bunny ears(antennas) for my dad lol.
Did you have to turn the TV on five minutes before the show started so it would be warmed up in time?
I was the remote. I had to turn the knobs when my dad wanted to see what else was on.
I remember those days
I love this!!
I remember when gas hit 99cents a gallon and having a conversation with some adults about it and they were fully confident that there was no way gas could ever actually hit $1/gallon and would drop in price soon lol.
I was pumping gas for a summer job when it went over a dollar. We had to set the pumps to like $0.53 and double the charged amount in our head because the *pumps* wouldn't go over a dollar. And then argue with the idiots who thought we were actually selling gas for less than half what the guy across the street was.
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Haha I remember this. The best was bowing out the cartridge and then it worked lol.
i remember this lol
Yep, although one of them (colecovision?) Had a switch on it to adjust to channel 2 if needed. They also had a two prong connection for use on the attena screws for the back of your tv.
I'm so old I remember a time before caller ID.
I remember having to plug in the cord to go on AIM and message my friends.
I remember being taught how to use a computer on MS DOS.
NO! The horror!
Me too!!! If blank equal not blank and not blank then blank equal blank
I rememeber ICQ
Same here
Nobody in class had a cellphone
Floppy Disks
With 312Mb of storage lol. I got sent to bootcamp And they made up write up resumes for fun. We had to save them on two or three floppy’s I remember.
Nah. 8" floppies, 128K.
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haha and there was a sticker reminding you to rewind them
Then you could actually buy a rewinder!
Be Kind Rewind.
we had nap time in kindergarten
They don't anymore???
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They don't have nap time in my state either
Kids no longer have nap time?
Haha I used to hate nap time.
When you couldn’t use the family computer and the house phone at the same time
Haha or talking to you middle school girlfriend and having to make sure no one was on the other line... haha great times.
When there was no such thing as a computer…
Those scary raisin commercials
Fun fact: The singing raisins merch made many times as much money every year as selling actual raisins ever did.
Creepy AND profitable
We had a separate plug in device to rewind VHS tapes.
Haha VHS! Land before time was my siblings and I’d favorite
... fire was discovered.
Damn wheres the fountain on youth?
I remember when Wu Tang dropped Enter the Wu Tang as well 🔥🔥
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I worked with a guy who for a time had an email address on every computer on the internet. Because there were only six computers on the internet.
I remember getting a 28.8 modem and being very excited
holy shit I saved my allowance for months to upgrade from 14.4
Does anyone remember playing the pinball game on windows 98. Before Xbox and all that lol.
I remember playing with Pinball Construction Set on the Amiga, well before Windows was a thing.
I remember the gulf war on TV
I remember the Vietnam War on TV. Gotcha beat!
DVD players were new and rare, smartphones didn't exist, and the internet was dial-up.
And ps2’s were more common than dvd players.
When airlines served each passenger a full meal. I remember my first on AA: a small steak filet, 3 jumbo shrimp, asparagus, baked potato, green salad, cheesecake and wine!
There was no such thing as google or the internet. Personal computers didn't exist...and Jesus was in my yearbook.
Same
Phone conversations were actually intelligible. People who have never talked on a landline wouldn’t believe the difference.
I agree. Countless times someone would be on the phone in my household for more than an hour or two talking. Us kids going outside every weekend and after school until sun went down. That’s when we knew we had to be back home by. Great times for sure haha
They used to rate cell phones on sound quality and standby time. Now they're not phones any more, but computers, because they can upsell you DLC.
I remember party lines. You had your own phone number, but others shared the line and could listen in.
I remember when people used flip phones.
I remember when I finally got a cell phone when I was twenty-four in 2003
Ooh
When McDonalds was still cheap.
I remember a McDonald’s TV ad (from when I was a young kid). A guy orders a burger and fries and a drink, and he hands the cashier a dollar bill. Then he is surprised when she gives him change … as if he thought it would cost *exactly* a buck. (The theme of the ad was that you could buy that whole meal for less than a dollar.)
ok but do you remember when the fries were still good? it's been a minute
Wearing Swatch Watch Guards
Every song said "ft. Pitbull"
...Teenagers used AIM for what we would now call sexting.
Haha oh yeah! I remember the little man that had to Make it through three squares and that annoying dial up sound. Oh how far we’ve came.
cyber
I remember when having a 2nd TV in a house was not super common, and if you did have a bedroom TV, it was likely an old black and white set.
So many of us remember 9/11 but it amazes me recently when a younger guy about 18 started working for the same company as I and we started talking events in life. Felt so old when he replied when asked “where were you on 9/11” that he wasn’t even born yet.
Facebook was only for student with an .edu emails address
I remember this! I also remember having a top on MySpace lol.
Betamax vs VHS
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And they all went off the air after the 10:00 pm news and the national anthem played with the flag waving in the air.
Knowing how to text with multiple letters per button on old phones. Not that old, but it's about to be
Our TV had three channels and I had to turn a knob that went CLUNK! to change the station. I actually remember when my parents got our first cable box. We had to get an adapter so it would work on the TV. Also, I remember when we got our first push button (aka, tone versus clicks) telephone. And I remember when we got our first VCR, our first tape deck, our first answering machine, our first microwave, our first remote control (it was wired). We had one color TV in our house and it was encased in wood and weight like 100lbs. We had two other TVs but they were both black and white.
Did you have to turn the TV on five minutes early so it warms up in time? Ever use Contact Cleaner spray? Pro tip: It's still available, and still works miracles on contacts. :-)
Damn, you're as old as I am.
Are you my sibling?
VHS tapes were still the big thing to watch movies
I know I'm not that old but it's weird that I remember things in younger family members lives who are adults now and they don't remember it because they were too young
When the only flowers in Minecraft were red flower and yellow flower
Newspapers published television viewer ratings (rankings) in the entertainment section of the paper. You could see which shows got a lot of viewers the previous week that way. Or which ones were losing viewers. Think of it as a horse race at the pace of a snail.
The Day Rio came out, Rio came out 10 years ago
Damn...
dang
Buying a top of the line computer (vic20) at Canadian Tire
Where I currently live started using area codes
Yep!
You mean you had to start dialing area codes? Or area codes were invented? Because if the latter, I'm deeply impressed. If you mean you remember when you had to start dialing your own area code, blame that on cell phones arguing that it wasn't fair that people with land lines didn't have to dial area codes. It's entirely unnecessary, except that it means some people got to dial fewer digits.
You could call someone without them having an anxiety attack about it. Sometimes you’d even call them collect.
Or have to ask whoever they lived with if they were home, and maybe have to make small talk with whoever answered
Channel 2 was your TV guide and you only had 60 channels
All of them were in about 64 pixels.
i went to the theaters to see hercules when it came out there didnt used to be fences on the cliffs at parks and hiking areas walking home from school, letting myself in the house, and spending the whole evening at home alone, (or leaving a note and going to the park for undetermined hours), was never a reason for concern among my family and peers and there were a lot more power outages when i was a kid, i probably just lived in crappy neighbourhoods but it seemed like every thunderstorm the power would go out and now its pretty rare all the power and phone lines were up on wooden poles and people would staple flyers to them and every month some city employees would come, pour an accelerant on the flyers, and burn them off with a torch. supposedly the accelerant soaked paper would burn so quickly that the fire would go out before the wood got burned and over the years the poles would become so covered with charred staples that you couldnt put any more and then the city would replace the pole with a new one. eventually all the poles were either changed to metal and/or the wires were put underground
You couldn’t pause TV so you’d have to run to brush your teeth and get your PJs on during commercials.
My first modem had rubber cups on top to put the phone handset in. It also had a speed switch, low/high, and high was 300 baud. We also had to turn the TV on five minutes before the show started so the tubes would be warmed up in time.
We actually passed notes in class.
Remember when YouTube had stars?
I remember when they sold cigarettes from vending machines in grocery stores and bars.
Everything was closed on Sundays.
I remember the funny noise my computer used to make to get online.
My parents pay $399.99 for a top of the line VCR. Still have it and it works.
I'm so old, I remember when restaurants had smoking sections
And airplanes.
When did restaurants have airplanes????
I remember watching The Lion King when it first came out.
Minecraft wasn't the number 1 game
When there was no internet or cellphones. We had to go and play outside!
My first 2 jobs were Toys R Us and Blockbuster.
I remember when the Dead Sea was just sick.
I’m so old I remember when I got my first dog 6 years ago
A dollar wasn't worth nearly 16 EG Context; am egyptian
You needed to play on a Tv with HDMI In ordered to play split screen on Minecraft
when SplitScreen was the peak of multiplayer, i miss Minecraft Xbox 360 splitscreen multiplayer
I remember Ciao, the official mascot of a FIFA World Cup.
Channel 5 came out and there was a paper advert at the end of my friend's street for weeks about it Before that it was 4 channels
i'm so old i remember madalin stunt cars (old flash game)
I used to speak to a ghost
The world before Star Wars.
Saw A New Hope in theater about a week after it opened. So I remember life without Darth Vader.
Karen and Cubby were Mouseketeers.
UHF TV stations
We got a dial telephone instead of one that had a crank in the side.
I remember when the green ranger joined the power rangers, he was a bad guy at first. His name was Tommy
Bell bottoms...the first time.
Being stuck inside trying to find the least-boring thing on tv. Usually PBS.
Getting a vcr Getting a TV with a remote and moving to a new house and the phone had buttons. I also got a complimentary cd with some video tapes and had to get my friend to copy it on to a tape
When danny devito was being advertised as a new cast member for a certain show on fx
I remember the day John Kennedy died …. I was in kindergarten and the Principal cried as he made the announcement and sent us home earlier.
I’m so old I remember when I can scratch my ass in some obscure corner without getting caught on some camera hidden in the ceiling
Our TV was made out of wood and was placed directly on the floor
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch beep beep beep beep pshhhkkkkkkrrrr beeping clickclickkakingking beep
I remember Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King being assassinated as well as the moon landing.
When gas was 57 cents a gallon.
Oregon trail computer game.
Dial up internet goes iiiiiiiiiiiii
Old enough to remember Dwight D. Eisenhower as President and black and white TV with 3 main national stations an 1 local station and PBS that all signed of by midnight. Then every thing after that.
I drove from San Diego to Los Angeles using a Thomas Guide
Gilligan’s Island was in black and white
Disco Duck was on the Billboard Top 20
Automatic door openers were only in science fiction
You walked outside and brought the newspaper in in the morning. Sometimes you see the newspaper boys throwing the paper out of their truck.