I remember when........

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  • maureenkhilde
    maureenkhilde Posts: 849 Member
    I remember when there was no internet at all.
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    I remember when $.75 an hour was minimum wage
  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 31,211 Member
    When I first browsed the Internet using Lynx (a text-console browser) in the early 1990s.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    They sold candy and gum to children that looked like cigarettes and cigars (the candy had a powder on it that looked like smoke when you blew on it) 🤨
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I remember when tickets to big name concerts were really affordable. Like Tori Amos or Beastie Boys for $15 and Lollapalooza for $30-50 depending on which section. And this was 90s to early 00s, not talking about 50 years ago or anything.
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    Self-service at gas stations was unusual. Most stations had attendants who would as a routine check your tires and oil while pumping your gas (which was 20 cents a gallon at that time)
  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
    FabulousFantasticFifty wrote: »
    They sold candy and gum to children that looked like cigarettes and cigars (the candy had a powder on it that looked like smoke when you blew on it) 🤨

    That is too funny...we had those too growing up. Craziness...
  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 31,211 Member
    edited December 2019
    When kids played war with toy guns and nobody worried about it because everyone including the kids knew the difference between play and the toy and a real gun and real war.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    I remember when us kids could play outside into the dark and not be scared to be kidnapped
  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 31,211 Member
    When a 56k modem home computer connection was state-of-the-art screaming fast!
  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
    I remembered that we had a 'milk man' that delivered our milk each week
  • mi_nina_lola
    mi_nina_lola Posts: 767 Member
    i remember when people used to dress up to fly on planes. and meals were served on bone china and real silverware and real glasses.
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    This will really show my age...

    I remember when doctors made house calls
  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 31,211 Member
    I remember when listening to popular music made you want to hug somebody, instead of today's stuff that seems to make people want to shoot somebody.
  • mommabear4315
    mommabear4315 Posts: 3,424 Member
    I remember when you had to press the phone button 200,000 to send a small paragraph on a flip phone.
  • 4my3gurls
    4my3gurls Posts: 104 Member
    mommabear4315 wrote: »
    I remember when you had to press the phone button 200,000 to send a small paragraph on a flip phone.

    🙋🏽‍♀️ I was one of them people 🙋🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ what a pain in the butt that was
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    people think I remember stone tablets....lol

    I remember when a "selfie" was not something you could talk about in public...lol
  • s1im62
    s1im62 Posts: 31,211 Member
    I remember when you could disagree with someone about politics and remain friends with them.
  • noelkro80
    noelkro80 Posts: 248 Member
    I used to have to check ceefax for the football results
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    Extended Families would get together for the Holidays with all the cousins, Aunt's & Uncles and Grandparents present
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I remember when people would chat on irc or ICQ or even BBS chat rooms.
    There were only a handful of people in my city of 100k who had access to the internet it seemed. So funny!
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    I remember when phones (before cell phones) were party lines
  • PaperDoll_
    PaperDoll_ Posts: 32,857 Member
    gcibsthom wrote: »
    people think I remember stone tablets....lol

    I remember when a "selfie" was not something you could talk about in public...lol

    Selfies are still something I’d find embarrassing to mention in public. As well as taking pictures of my food. People around me would tease me endlessly for that stuff. 😂
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    PaperDoll_ wrote: »
    gcibsthom wrote: »
    people think I remember stone tablets....lol

    I remember when a "selfie" was not something you could talk about in public...lol

    Selfies are still something I’d find embarrassing to mention in public. As well as taking pictures of my food. People around me would tease me endlessly for that stuff. 😂

    My friends shocked me a couple of years ago saying their social media selfies were chosen from literally hundreds of selfies they took of themselves. I fully admit to sharing selfies occasionally but I take 1-2, MAXIMUM of 3 pics and then choose the "best" of 2-3 I guess? Not dozens or more... It seriously blew my MIND thinking of these average thirty and forty-something women sitting there taking 100 photos of themselves. I can't imagine it.
  • PaperDoll_
    PaperDoll_ Posts: 32,857 Member
    seltzermint555 wrote: »
    PaperDoll_ wrote: »
    gcibsthom wrote: »
    people think I remember stone tablets....lol

    I remember when a "selfie" was not something you could talk about in public...lol

    Selfies are still something I’d find embarrassing to mention in public. As well as taking pictures of my food. People around me would tease me endlessly for that stuff. 😂

    My friends shocked me a couple of years ago saying their social media selfies were chosen from literally hundreds of selfies they took of themselves. I fully admit to sharing selfies occasionally but I take 1-2, MAXIMUM of 3 pics and then choose the "best" of 2-3 I guess? Not dozens or more... It seriously blew my MIND thinking of these average thirty and forty-something women sitting there taking 100 photos of themselves. I can't imagine it.

    That’s hilarious. I can see a couple different ones, but why a hundred? Can people really look that different in the hundred selfies? It seems too time consuming to me. Now every time I see a selfie, I’m gonna wonder how many takes it took. 😂
  • renydo2
    renydo2 Posts: 2,153 Member
    i remember when you had to actually get up and go to the tv and turn the knob to change the channel - but i didn't mind - at least we had a tv!!
  • gcibsthom
    gcibsthom Posts: 30,145 Member
    - Gas was 19 cents a gallon
    - spanking a misbehaving child with a belt was considered good parenting
    - drinking out of a garden hose was perfectly acceptable
    - doctors made house calls
    - not every family had a TV
    - Most houses (the ones that I saw or lived in anyway) only had one bathroom
    - Alaska and Hawaii were US territories
    (I must be getting old...lol)
  • mattig89ch
    mattig89ch Posts: 2,648 Member
    When antenna TV was the norm, and computers used dial up.

    Hows that?
  • Tigg_er
    Tigg_er Posts: 22,001 Member
    When 8:00am was 8:00am
  • GrumpySparkles
    GrumpySparkles Posts: 50 Member
    Power car windows was not a thing. You had to raise or lower them with a hand crank.

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