I'm so old...

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  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    PONG!
  • FitFi74
    FitFi74 Posts: 129 Member
    I used to record the Top 40 on my double cassette deck!
  • thomassd1969
    thomassd1969 Posts: 564 Member
    When McDonalds came out with the Happy Meal.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    My sister, who was a baby when I was in middle school, is riding in cars with her friends to go out and do things. In a few weeks she's be driving herself to do things...

    I know I'm not old but makes me feel old!!! :laugh:
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    8 Tracks
  • bp716
    bp716 Posts: 68 Member
    bringing home our first tv

    Getting our first color TV when my sister broke her arm and we got extra $$ back from the insurance....
  • KarenAnnne
    KarenAnnne Posts: 190 Member
    I remember when I didn't know Vader was Luke's father.

    What?? Darth Vader is Luke's father?? Spoil Alert:noway:

    I remember having to go in our basement to get cool because we grew up without air conditioning.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    Watching Neil Armstrong's "small step" with the whole family gathered around the one tv in the house

    That was magic. I watched Neil's giant step at a camp ground in Ontario outdoors on TVs set up in an outdoor theatre for the purpose. I watched the TV and looked up to see the moon, expecting to be able to see the lander.
  • MtnKat
    MtnKat Posts: 714
    I thought 28.8k dial up was screaming fast on the internet.

    Oh no...you're still young!

    I remember when the internet consisted of just bulletin boards....there was no 28k....that was a pipe dream lol
  • hkevans724
    hkevans724 Posts: 241 Member
    Pay phones were a quarter and Travis Tritt made a lot of money because of it!
  • bp716
    bp716 Posts: 68 Member
    Stretching the phone cord as far as possible to talk on the phone in the closet for privacy !

    and tracing the cord to find my sister and make her give me my turn on the phone!
  • jonnyman41
    jonnyman41 Posts: 1,032 Member
    when pong was a sophisticated video game and we typed binary code into the pc to play games on the tv and the sony walkman played tapes!
  • tabinmaine
    tabinmaine Posts: 965 Member
    My parents would let my brother and I walk to the store to buy them cigarettes, she would give us some money for candy if we would do this for her. I was 9 and he was 4 and we walked about 2 miles alone to get smokes !! bahahaha
  • hoskibn
    hoskibn Posts: 86
    the moratorium on spoilers is 30 years. :)
  • MtnKat
    MtnKat Posts: 714
    I remember when big hair was all the rave.

    I'd still have big hair if my daughters hadn't made me change lol

    Leg warmers were super fashionable, too.
  • polarsjewel
    polarsjewel Posts: 1,725 Member
    Family night was watching the wonderful world of disney together on Sunday night

    cop shows used to rock.. Like Baretta, Police Story, the Mod Squad

    I miss the wonderful world of disney!
    Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Merlin Perkins....

    This is how I spent my Sunday nights with my Dad.
  • MtnKat
    MtnKat Posts: 714
    Pay phones were a quarter and Travis Tritt made a lot of money because of it!

    They used to be a dime :-)
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    Pay phones were a quarter and Travis Tritt made a lot of money because of it!

    A quarter? They were a dime for a good chunk of my life. :laugh:
  • thomassd1969
    thomassd1969 Posts: 564 Member
    Family night was watching the wonderful world of disney together on Sunday night

    cop shows used to rock.. Like Baretta, Police Story, the Mod Squad

    I miss the wonderful world of disney!
    Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Merlin Perkins....

    This is how I spent my Sunday nights with my Dad.

    This was the special night we got frozen pizza and sat in the living room instead of at the table with a huge meal like a family.
    Oh ya how about eating at the table everynight at the sametime like a family.
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    Pay phones were a quarter and Travis Tritt made a lot of money because of it!

    A quarter? They were a dime for a good chunk of my life. :laugh:

    What's a pay phone? :P
  • FitFi74
    FitFi74 Posts: 129 Member
    I remember when big hair was all the rave.

    I'd still have big hair if my daughters hadn't made me change lol

    Leg warmers were super fashionable, too.

    This!! and I wore lace in my big hair like Madonna!
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 Member
    Smoking in the movie theaters, hospitals, stores! OMG!! lol Smoking at school! Butts were 65 cents a pack. 2 days worth of lunch money at the corner store...
  • cutchro
    cutchro Posts: 396 Member
    Pay phones were a quarter and Travis Tritt made a lot of money because of it!

    A quarter? They were a dime for a good chunk of my life. :laugh:

    What's a pay phone? :P

    Pay phones were a dime and if you lost your money call the operator they would send you an actual dime in the mail!
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    Ha, ha. I forgot about that. When you were a kid, you used to be able to buy alcohol and cigs with a note from your parents. LMFAO. WTF! LOL.
  • charip
    charip Posts: 55 Member
    Back when.... schools were one room, and there were boys and girls outhouses....
    a quarter would buy you a bottle of pop, bag of chips, AND a chocolate bar!
    Coke machines had bottles of coke for seven cents....
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    Oh ya how about eating at the table everynight at the same time like a family.

    I miss that.
  • brendaj39
    brendaj39 Posts: 375 Member
    I remember holding the tape cassette player up to the TV so I could record the the latest song off of Solid Gold. It was the only way you could get the music for free.

    I loved Solid Gold.....that was the best!!!!!!1:noway: :laugh:
  • StarIsMoving
    StarIsMoving Posts: 437
    Getting up to change the channels on the TV, and having to use pliers because the knob broke. LOL.

    or a toothpick when the volume knob was going, in order to prop it in the right spot so you still got the sound, LOL
  • dreamingchild
    dreamingchild Posts: 208 Member
    Parachute pants anyone?
    Oh and I could fill up my monte carlo for $10 and $2 for cigs and you weren't carded for those
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    I remember holding the tape cassette player up to the TV so I could record the the latest song off of Solid Gold. It was the only way you could get the music for free.

    I loved Solid Gold.....that was the best!!!!!!1:noway: :laugh:

    It was harder to do with a Reel to reel.