I’m so old I remember…

[Sundayschild]

I remember crisps with a separate packet of salt...

 

[CuriousRick]

I remember when kids could ride in the bed of a pickup.

 

[Dearelliot]

From New Jersey, I remember we owned an icebox instead of a refrigerator. It had a pan under that had to be emptied as the block of ice melted. My father owned an ice truck and sold ice to homes with iceboxes,
No one we knew owned a refrigerator

 

[Crownvic]

The old gravity fed octopus furnaces that burned coal converted to gas..took up half the basement..

 

[Misshotndeep]

Gallagher

 

[outcastpib]

I remember my parents car had an 8 track in it. Next was making mixed cassette tapes and listening to albums. Then the shiny mystical CD came out. After buying about 500 of those iPods and albums are cool again. Can't forget the forbidden Napster. Now streaming music through my phone. That's how old I am.

 

[KinkyLaughs]

Gallagher

Me too!

 

[Sundayschild]

Cars with a Choke.

(Ask your parents)

 

[Misshotndeep]

When adult women wore ruffle socks with heels.

 

[CuriousRick]

When you always carried a dime in case you had to make a phone call

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

When you always carried a dime in case you had to make a phone call

My sister put dimes in each penny loafer!!

 

[ABiGuy84]

No school meant watching Bob Barker on "The Price is Right".

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

ISOIRW some kids would come to high school and park on campus with rifles or shotguns in gun racks in the back window of their pickup trucks.

ISOIRW I could take my .22lr rifle to school, and my elementary school teacher would put it in her coat closet in the classroom along with a couple of the other kids rifles or fishing rods.

ISOIRW I remember when I was taught how to use one to open a can for the first time...

 

[AllAmericanMale]

ISOIRW pitchers had to hit...

 

[Coyote100]

When memorizing state and world capitals was an academic achievement.

 

[Strixaluco]

ISOIRW memorising all the countries and capitals in the world was not an achievement but a regular thing to do in school, just like learning the multiplication table.

And when we also had to draw a map, continent by continent, with all the borders and capitals. So we had no excuse for not knowing about them.

 

[Noor]

I remember the USSR, Yugoslavia and I have visa in my old passport from countries that no longer exist.

 

[ABiGuy84]

When people gave a HOOT about their fellow Earthlings.

 

[AlexBailey]

When people gave a HOOT about their fellow Earthlings.

Ooh! That reminds me:

Tell a friend what you heard
Never be a dirty bird
In the city or in the woods
Please keep America
Looking good
Give a Hoot!
Don’t pollute!

- Woodsy the Owl

 

[Jodaily]

The smell of the old xerox copiers

 

[1darknightowl]

Loading the magnetic tape reels for recordings. I loved the way the vacuum would suck it in.

Feels like it gave me something meaningful to do. Modern HDDs/SSDs are just the same.

 

[cheekygirl75]

Dot matrix printers & the sound they made

 

[1darknightowl]

Dot matrix printers & the sound they made

Brilliant...Daisy Wheel?

 

[jason28053]

Dot matrix printers & the sound they made

Be careful, some of those are still in existence. Lol

 

[ABiGuy84]

When you had to tear off the edges of printer paper.