I’m so old I remember…

[~Elizabeth~]

High beam control was on the floor board.

 

[Gamine67]

ISOIR when Lits interface looked like Usenet.

 

[TheMrBurns]

Soft drink bottles and McDonald's burgers were wrapped in styrofoam.

 

[Trubbycat]

When you had to go to run down old theaters to watch porn

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Cans had pull tabs that would cut you.

 

[lanceGibs]

Telegrams that were wired to you and delivered by a man

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Girls writing... 'l the Fonz' on their baseball boots.
We missed the original first 2 episodes as we were on a foreign holiday in Scotland.

 

[LostGirlTink]

 

[KarenB59]

Local TV channels signing off.

 

[BlueEyes1969]

Auto Cassette players!

 

[Trubbycat]

Auto Cassette players!

My first car had a CB radio

 

[Bdm20]

Life-Savers were 5 cents for a roll.

 

[Strixaluco]

There being no TV shows after about 2am until maybe 6 am. And only 2 channels.

 

[AmandaKellyUK]

Rent-a-ghost

 

[Strixaluco]

Monthly bus cards being show-only cardboard cards and serial tickets being a bunch of paper slips.

 

[NightOfPassion2]

E tickets for Disneyland that were rare to have in our house...

 

[Crownvic]

Tickets to the movies were 2.00...

 

[BlueEyes1969]

Life-Savers were 5 cents for a roll.

We had a penny candy store in the neighborhood!

 

[loquere]

$5 meals at McDonald's

 

[haha_on_me]

I saw Star Wars at the drive-in theater.

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Vending machines were a dime to a quarter in cost.

 

[haha_on_me]

4 cent milk at school.

 

[Btq97]

Saturday Matinee at the local cinema.

 

[Btq97]

4 cent milk at school.

Free school milk in the uk (till a certain someone stopped but she is dead now so fuck her)

 

[Dubinsky]

My son asked me today whether I got pissed when my laptop dropped the WiFi in class. He’s in 4th grade.

I didn’t even know where to start explaining that nobody knew what a laptop was, the notion of having one in class would have been unthinkable, and WiFi was a dream… mostly because nobody would have known what to do with WiFi.