I’m so old I remember…

[UsuallyPresent]

Ay work today, I made a presence to taking tests using scantron. My boss had no idea wtf I was talking about.

Which reminds me of filling in the ovals for achievement tests.

And on college, blue books for essays.

Mimeographs and getting That Damned Ink everywhere

 

[SimonSex]

Candy cigarettes

 

[angelofthenorth]

I remember Block Busters

 

[RDM97756]

I remember Block Busters

I live next the the last one standing… crazy enough i used to work there 20+ years ago, really strange watching it be a tourist attraction now.

I remember pogs.

 

[wwot40]

5 1/4" Floppy discs

 

[angelofthenorth]

I live next the the last one standing… crazy enough i used to work there 20+ years ago, really strange watching it be a tourist attraction now.

I remember pogs.

I still remember the smell of ours, carpet and popcorn

 

[ScarletDaisy]

I remember watching my first movie on video tape.

 

[Wonderer67]

Mimeographs and getting That Damned Ink everywhere

The smell of that ink!

In 8th grade we had a rotating activity every Friday of making acrostics, crossword puzzles, short quizzes etc.

We wrote them by hand and the teacher mimegrphed them.

That smell!!

 

[metrifonate]

I remember watching my first movie on video tape.

I remember watching my first movie on papyrus.

 

[ScarletDaisy]

I remember watching my first movie on papyrus.

The subtitles must have been hell.

 

[metrifonate]

The subtitles must have been hell.

they were supplied by the Bangles so I didn't complain.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

they were supplied by the Bangles so I didn't complain.

Too bad it wasn't their best-attended class - anatomy by braille

 

[metrifonate]

Too bad it wasn't their best-attended class - anatomy by braille

They started the week with that class. It was always a manic Monday

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Punch cards, dropping a stack, and trying - TRYING! - to get the damn reordering machine to work, only to eventually realize the prof had mistaught that part of how to punch 'em. Was eventually glad to have learned it then when programs ended up as stacks (plural!) of punch cards, and then was GREATLY relieved to not need 'em any more.

Only 15 years later to run across arcane military hardware that used punch TAPE..... *grrrr*

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

ISOIR being told at work that we were all getting upgraded computers - from 286's to 386's. When mine was installed, I tried installing and saving my large Excel spreadsheet. The 286 would save it in about 27 minutes. As a test of the 386, I saved and went downstairs to the vending machine to get a soda...and when I eventually sauntered back 14 minutes later, the save was ALREADY done! It was a miracle! Less than 1/2 the time...

 

[joclfc]

The subtitles must have been hell.

I remember Black and White TV

 

[joclfc]

I remember the black outs in the 70's, candles and coal fires (UK only)