I’m so old I remember…

[cactusjack0584]

ISOIR MS Encarta 98 load screen

 

[CuriousRick]

ISOIR when orange juice came in a frozen concentrate tube.

 

[Shymidwestgirl]

ISOIR when a fast food value meal with tax cost $3.17. I seriously just aged myself a lot I feel.

 

[JackStayII]

ISOIR when you could drive in to a service station and while the attendant filled your car, checked the oil and washed your windshield, you could pop into the men's room and buy a condom for twenty-five cents.

 

[HornyExecutive]

ISOIR, old school Lit where it was must more free and admittedly there were less predator-like situations that didn’t cause you wonderful women to be as on-guard as you have to be now.

This was before there were many of the subforums there are now!

Met some amazing people, had some great conversations, some really good stimulation, etc.

 

[cactusjack0584]

ISOIR when McDonalds did a burger deal that was $.29 for regular or $.39 for cheeseburgers. I had a few dollars and ate like a king (in my younger self’s brain)

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

ISOIR "Where's the beef?"

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

ISOIR feeding my Teddy Ruxpin Lite Brite pegs while Batman starring Adam West was playing on the tv..

 

[ccs29745]

ISOIR pong was the game and atari wasn't invented yet.

 

[CX726577]

TV stations going off the air at 11-12pm with only a test pattern remaining. My dad taking me out at night to see Sputnik.

 

[Strixaluco]

ISOIR when it was rare for parents to drive their kids to school. Possibly on the days when PE meant cross country skiing and thus we dragged skis to school, if even then.

 

[EctoJohn]

I'm so old I remember actually needing a library and encyclopedias to look something up.

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Huge drawers of the card catalog that I love looking through.

 

[Waiter519123]

Using a telephone patty line with others.

 

[easyoff]

Using a telephone patty line with others.

My own ring on a party line

 

[mickyp123]

Whirlybirds, and the Forest Rangers

 

[stiv837]

Saturday mornings watching The Cisco Kid and then the rest of the morning watching cartoons.

 

[Scareltt]

I remember when $10 was a ridiculously high price for a top tier live concert.

I can remember 20 for the ticket and 20 for the tshirt.

 

[Seokrocks]

Kennedy’s assassination
Alan Shepard’s space flight
Stewardesses offering cigarettes on airplane flights.
Legally drinking in high school.

 

[LustfulIntentions2]

I can remember 20 for the ticket and 20 for the tshirt.

And $2 for the beverage.

 

[Coyote100]

Kennedy’s assassination
Alan Shepard’s space flight
Stewardesses offering cigarettes on airplane flights.
Legally drinking in high school.

I go further back than you and l don't remember it ever being legal to drink in high school.

 

[Scareltt]

I go further back than you and l don't remember it ever being legal to drink in high school.

Haha it still happened.. older boyfriends helped

 

[Scareltt]

Kennedy’s assassination
Alan Shepard’s space flight
Stewardesses offering cigarettes on airplane flights.
Legally drinking in high school.

I remember my parents smoking on the plane.. seems crazy that they would allow smoking on a plane but it did happen.

 

[grey228]

I remember my parents smoking on the plane.. seems crazy that they would allow smoking on a plane but it did happen.

Smoking on a plane was allowed when Hong Kong was still rented out by the British. It wasn't all that long ago.

 

[apantyhoselovr]

i remember when the Dead Sea was sick