I’m so old I remember…

[PageWriter2]

Phone booths that required a dime or calling collect with a live operator.

 

[nock]

PageWriter2, you are so old you don't even remember the correct name of your commodore computer

 

[StrangerDuJour]

Thunderbird and Olde English 800 were the cats' meows

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

https://imgur.com/a/2dff5fw

 

[cadman7777]

When TV was just ABC, NBC, and CBS.....

 

[subtle_Dom]

When Morgan Freeman was Easy Reader on the PBS kids show Electric Company

circa 1971, he starts singing his song at 1:30 in but it does not age well lol.

 

[ericalauren]

I used to babysit before the advent of tablet devices. Screen time saves babysitters’ sanity at times. Phew!

 

[subtle_Dom]

Airlines used to served full meals which could be a steak dinner in coach/economy. First filet and first flight I ever had was on Eastern Airlines 1977.. now lucky to get a bag of pretzels.

 

[Coyote100]

Ì remember live TV shows of the first freeways in Los Àngeles being built.

 

[ALovelyNudist]

I remember when talks of a touch screen phone were coming and it seemed like something out of a sci-fi movie

 

[UKSilverFox]

I think I gave someone the idea for the touch screen, I remember getting so many annoying texts, on my Nokia 6310i.
I would get angry and prod the screen with my finger. Guess someone was watching.

 

[God_Above]

When I could flick people into a volcano for doing stupid things.

 

[Coyote100]

When I could flick people into a volcano for doing stupid things.

I am so old l actually believed this was true when l was just a young kid.

 

[deft]

Pacha tickets for 1000 pesetas.

 

[AlpineFresco]

For the Brits - I remember when a Freddo was 10p

^ y'know now I type it, my god that looks like a euphemism. It's not!

 

[Awaywego]

I am so old I paid $2.50 a ticket for concerts like Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stone, Sly Stone, etc

 

[PageWriter2]

So old I remember watching "Hee Haw"

 

[Stopokochac]

When you could walk your family to the door of the plane without a boarding pass

 

[Strixaluco]

When cigarette smoke in the nightclubs was so thick it could give you a hangover without one drop of alcohol.

 

[Baztrachian]

Thunderbird and Olde English 800 were the cats' meows

T-Bird and O-E-800!!!

 

[PageWriter2]

PageWriter2, you are so old you don't even remember the correct name of your commodore computer

Enlighten me.

 

[Baztrachian]

I remember the days before AI.

 

[Coyote100]

I remember when cars had cigarette lighters.

 

[Crownvic]

Roll up windows in the car...

 

[PageWriter2]

I'm so old I remember when telling someone "Shove it up your ass" was an insult not a pick up line.