Here are a few examples:
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something
- 8 Track cartridges
- Betamax tapes
- The buzz of a dot matrix printer
- Finding out information from an Encyclopedia
- Phone books and Yellow Pages
- Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something
- When Spam was just a meat product
- Typewriters
- Putting film in your camera
- Sending that film away to be processed
- Pay phones … and phone booths
- Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC
- Having to manually unlock a car door
- Roller skates, as opposed to blades
- A physical dictionary (either or spelling or definitions)
That sound at the end of a vinyl record if the needle arm failed to automatically move off and over.
We saw a real, full sized glass phone booth with the folding door and light in it in Windsor, Ontario, Canada last year and my teenage son took pics of it…he’d only seen them in movies.
12 pics on a roll of film…you’d better be sure that that was the pic you wanted when you pressed the shutter, because you had to pay for it to be developed whether it was a good one or not. It took days to get it back to see if it was good…if you wanted reprints or enlargements, it cost more money and another week or so.
Sitting on Dad’s lap to steer the car while he worked the pedals…at age 7 or 8.
Im still trying to explain to people the concept of digital pics – they don’t understand there’s no need to print them.
DJ I remember those things,how about the handle to roll the car window down ,yea my older truck has it
Cars made out of metal, that could drive over 60, and could seat more then two small adults.
Low-taxed energy.
Green circuit boards.
non-solid state hard-drives.
300 baud modems
25 cent Saturday matinees with 2 feature films, 2 serial episodes, 2 cartoons and a news film.
Vent windows on cars.
The rear shelf in cars which made a perfect place for a kids nap.
Pong.
push button car transmissions.
Places that advertised that they were air conditioned(very important in Georgia).
TV sets with 7 inch screens and a little light that let you know if the set was on.
Real baseball double-headers…two games played back-to-back for the price of one.
More camera stuff – Finding a place in the shade or a dim room to “thread” a new roll of film into the camera.
Taking a few rolls of film at a time to get developed after a vacation because you couldn’t afford to get them all developed at once.
Thanks for making a 30 year old feel old! I can remember all of these things. I remember playing Oregon trail on Apple IIe’s in school along with where in the world is Carmen San Diego!
Big Block Engines in a Production Car!
Going to the drug store to pick up new tubes for the TV.
greg–i’m only 25 and i remember and have used almost all those things….
We just drove from TN to Jackson Hole with my five-year old grandson. On the way, we were in a truck stop to use the facilities and he saw a pay phone. He stared at it for a minute and then said “Me-me, what’s that?”
*sighs* I remember listening to “The Point” on my mom’s record player and watching “Flight of the Navigator” in our Betamax…
… I also remember putting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the Betamax.
— Another way to date yourself: people newly old enough to vote don’t remember the Cold War, two Germanys, USSR, Reagan…
Doing research at the library from microfiche
Czechoslovakia…. or how to spell it.
Drive in movie’s where the whole family went with blankets in the back of the station wagon and a playground under the screen