Remember the days before...

fwan · Apr 21, 2006

I remember back in england we only had 4 channels.
Mobile phones and computers wasnt big.
My first mobile phone was a Siemens and it was a brick!

gosh i miss it!
Digital cameras were also not around back in the day.
And we never had a telephone line untill i turned 8 years old

sar · Apr 21, 2006

Natalie, do you mean the Dot Matrix printers?!!

Fran, Digital cameras have been around for decades, but not in the way we know them!

I remember the digital cameras that would save the pictures to a floppy disk!!

fwan · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by Sar

Natalie, do you mean the Dot Matrix printers?!!

Fran, Digital cameras have been around for decades, but not in the way we know them!

I remember the digital cameras that would save the pictures to a floppy disk!!

well i didnt know they existed untill early 2000

sims2fan · Apr 21, 2006

When I was a kid Â£1 (about 75c) would buy me a whole lot of candy from the sweet shop. Now one kitkat is 70p and its in a plastic wrapper

I used to love peeling the foil off...

gemlady · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by katachtig

What about learning to type on an old typewriter? When I was in high school we had some electric typewriters which were really fun to type on. Everytime you hit the return key, the carriage would slam to the right (which gives us the term carriage-return for the young whipper-snappers who only know computers). After about 10 minutes, I had to readjust the machine because it slowly was moving sideways. And of course there was carbon paper. I just "loved" erasing the same stupid typo 5 times.

REading this reminded me of the humongous Olympia mom used to type a newsletter! After an hour of working on it, you had to move the table back to where it originally was because the carriage return was so strong!

gemlady · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by Sar

Yeah, when you'd get work sheets in school copied in purple photostat ink!

I also remember the days before floppy disks were encased in plastic!

....and when computer games came on casette tapes!

I remember helping my 2nd grade teacher making coloring sheets with this gel transfer. What a smell!

valanhb · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by Sar

Natalie, do you mean the Dot Matrix printers?!!

Fran, Digital cameras have been around for decades, but not in the way we know them!

I remember the digital cameras that would save the pictures to a floppy disk!!

We still own one of the digital cameras that saves to floppy disk. If it tells you how small the file size is - you can save about 20 pics onto a 1.4 MB floppy.

The really sad thing is - we paid $1000 for it, and it was the coolest, greatest thing since sliced bread at the time.

Did anyone else have the Radio Shack computer and printer when personal computers were just starting out? I remember it well - the TRS-80 and DMP-100 or affectionately called the Trash-80 (computer) and Dump-100 (dot matrix printer). And yes, it played programs from a cassette tape!

sharky · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by zak&rocky

My gosh. I think my age is kinda interesting b/c I remember when certain things were brand new and before others, while my younger bro and sis don't remember. I'm 27. My parents didn't get a color TV until we got cable in 1983. Then we got our first VCR soon after and my dad gave our babysitters a tutorial in how to work it. I remember we had one pushbutton phone that wasn't touch tone, it made rotary clicks, and learning how to dial a phone. My parents actually got a cell phone pretty early (1992) b/c my mom's job had her on the road a lot. We called it the car phone, were not allowed to use it unless it was a real emergency, and it was about the size of a computer printer and weighed about 10 pounds! We finally got a microwave in 1988 and I was so excited to make popcorn in it. I thought it was so cool! My dad didn't think that CD's would stick around so we didn't have a CD player in our house for a long time- he finally got a CD ROM for the computer, so we could use that! I remember we had a "remote" for the VCR- it plugged into the VCR from a cord.

I am 28 and can totally relate... I still have a vcr with attached remote... it is in storage but still worked in 2000.. I got a cd player in 1997 as a graduation present from my aunt and uncle ... Mom and I got cable early up in our cabin and that yeilded three stations ... Mom had a brick phone as soon as they came out ... My Grandma had a 1968 dodge dart with two lap belts in back and front ///

katiemae1277 · Apr 21, 2006

I think my parents still have the first VCR they ever bought! the thing is probably over 20 years old and it still works like a charm

They also had the giant microwave with the turn dials until about 4-5 years ago, it still worked, I guess they just wanted a more modern one... the new one they bought broke in less than a year

laureen227 · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by lilleah

So no..I dont "remember when".

AAawww...This is sad. I cant belive things used to be like that.

ok, i've got some just for you...
remember when there were no ipods? no psps? remember when gas was less than $2 a gallon, & we thought it was really expensive then?
now, for mine...
i remember when there were records & tape [reel-to-reel] - no cds, dvds, etc.
3 channels on tv - & when the president addressed the nation, your whole evening was ruined!

first girls were not allowed to wear pants to school, only skirts
then, girls were not allowed to wear jeans to school, only pantsuits
men wore really ugly outfits called 'leisure suits'

- i grew up in the '70's - my mom calls it 'the age of ugly' because fashions were so unattractive!
i remember when there were no baby monitors - my dad wired the 4 houses at the end of our street to work with his amplifiers. a home-made baby monitor!

i remember when there was only 1 movie showing at the theater, & my mom would drop us off to go - we often arrived during the movie, but we just watched till the end & then started at the beginning again - she'd usually come back after we got to the place where we'd started.
ok, that's enough for now!

consumerkitty · Apr 21, 2006

I bought a VCR in 1984. The salesperson suggested a beta max because VHS would be obsolete soon.

Who remembers when a 30 minute TV show had 60 seconds of commercials in the middle of the show and that's all?

sar · Apr 21, 2006

I remember the days when we'd go to the cinema and it was actually one screen to the side of a pub!

(I also remember my parents taking my sister's wheelchair to the car and my sister and I nearly getting locked in the pub whilst hiding under a table!

)

oz'smum · Apr 21, 2006

Talk about these old VCR's has reminded me that my microwave oven must be heading on to 20yrs old. My Mum bought it for me, and she died in 1989.

stormy · Apr 21, 2006

I was actually thinking about phone booths last week, how you never see them anymore (at least not in this area).

How about before there were CD Players? All of those snap, crackles, pops and jumps on the vinyl albums

Or 8 track tapes....I am aging myself here...better stop!!

dazeemazeegraze · Apr 21, 2006

Originally Posted by katachtig

How about planning to get gas or groceries before holidays and some places, Sundays because nothing was open?

Rotary dial phones.

Those were the first two things I thought of when I clicked on this thread.

wellingtoncats · Apr 21, 2006

Can't rememeber any of these things. Sorry y'all!

jeanor · Apr 22, 2006

how about the days before bar codes and price scanners when items had price stickers and cashiers had to key each price.

gemlady · Apr 22, 2006

Not long after the introduction of the bar codes and scanners, Mom and I were shopping at a grocery. The lines were getting long, so a cashier opened up the last line which still had the old cash register. One of the experienced cashiers , she was getting folks through faster than the others!

katachtig · Apr 22, 2006

When I was working at a discount store around 1980, they still had the old type registers where there were 10 rows of keys 0-9. (my dad had calculator like it). The keys were tough to push. I had to be really careful to not make a mistake because we had to void the whole transaction and start over.

karmasmom · Apr 22, 2006

I remember a time when to be a Rock Star you had to know how to PLAY an instrument. Also when MTv was for videos. There was a time when kids could go trick or treating at night without parents. I may only be 29 but I even rember Pong. I loved that game. Oh and Atari.

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