You know you're old when...

vreihen16 · 04-30-2020, 05:35 PM

If you want to feel even older...I just realized that this year's crop of high school seniors wasn't even born on 9/11!

I'll give you a nice, shiny quarter to mow my lawn, kid.....

mc-m3 · 04-30-2020, 06:44 PM

Draft numbers being announced on the news.

wcr3d · 04-30-2020, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by NorthCountryGuy

Nobody has their names...without the Google...
Bonus points if you got their bosses name...

If you are old, memory is not what it used to be.
The blonde guy is/was the doctor on NCIS.
I can say the character name but wouldn't be able to spell it.
That was kinda European show.
How about the boys name from Flipper?

vreihen16 · 04-30-2020, 07:33 PM

Sandy and Bud. Never missed an episode.....

UncleWede · 04-30-2020, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Sandy and Bud. Never missed an episode.....

But can you simulate dolphin???

Or connect to 9600-baud modem???

NorthCountryGuy · 04-30-2020, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wcr3d

If you are old, memory is not what it used to be.
The blonde guy is/was the doctor on NCIS.
I can say the character name but wouldn't be able to spell it.
That was kinda European show.
How about the boys name from Flipper?

Napoleon Solo
Ilya Kuryakin
Mr. Waverly

lsturbointeg · 05-01-2020, 12:15 AM

I don't feel old but i remember when I was a kid when TV would sign off with the National Anthem

Psychotic Mouse · 05-01-2020, 02:57 AM

I can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned unless I missed it.

Taking a photo and having to roll the film to take another. Then once the film was finished you had to take it to be developed before seeing your work of art or how crap you are

jimbobiggens · 05-01-2020, 03:09 AM

I asked my parents why it took so long for the Apollo moon mission astronauts to answer Mission Control.

When MLK was shot, we were visiting relatives in Memphis. At that time Dad was working for Bud Moore Engineering in South Carolina and Mom was driving a loaner, a white 65 Mustang. We got pulled over several times that night. Mom got to crying, thinking she was doing something wrong. I remember sitting in the passenger seat, singing in a singsong voice; "Mommas a bad driver, Mommas a bad driver, Momma can't drive, momma can't drive". We had no idea what had happened.

zgood4u · 05-01-2020, 03:45 AM

My grandparents had this on their TV.

https://www.metv.com/stories/who-rem...-white-tv-sets

Ric in RVA · 05-01-2020, 06:27 AM

TRS-80's and cassette data storage.

NorthCountryGuy · 05-01-2020, 06:43 AM

You’ve been around if you say ‘I’ll dial his number’.
My kids says ‘I’ll call his number’.
Also,
I have an old iMac that I keep because I have stored on it thousands of photos and many hundreds of songs that I’ve loaded on to my old iTunes library and can not be gotten elsewhere. When I load some music onto the Music Collection on any of my BMW’s, I call them albums. My son asked my one time, ‘Dad, why do you call the playlists “albums” ?’
I had to explain.

2000cs · 05-01-2020, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbobiggens

I asked my parents why it took so long for the Apollo moon mission astronauts to answer Mission Control.

When MLK was shot, we were visiting relatives in Memphis. At that time Dad was working for Bud Moore Engineering in South Carolina and Mom was driving a loaner, a white 65 Mustang. We got pulled over several times that night. Mom got to crying, thinking she was doing something wrong. I remember sitting in the passenger seat, singing in a singsong voice; "Mommas a bad driver, Mommas a bad driver, Momma can't drive, momma can't drive". We had no idea what had happened.

We lived in Memphis at the time. Immediate curfew. Frightening evening.

spazzyfry123 · 05-01-2020, 07:09 AM

We started each school day with the Pledge of Allegiance. And I’m not even that old!!

vreihen16 · 05-01-2020, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UncleWede

But can you simulate dolphin???

Or connect to 9600-baud modem???

I could actually handshake with a 1200 baud modem back in the day!

Dolphin? Never tried. I am fluent in a few Terrier dialects, though. I used to have 5-10 minute conversations with our Westie when he was younger. Now, all that he does is complain about the squirrels/chipmunks on his lawn.

Get off my lawn, kid...and take that new-fangled 9600 baud modem with you!!!!!

Murf993 · 05-01-2020, 08:33 AM

The National Anthem and the Lords prayer at the beginning of school every morning.

Murf993 · 05-01-2020, 08:34 AM

My wife started her career in IT and bought a Timex Sinclair computer to teach herself basic programming....we still have it in the basement.

wcr3d · 05-01-2020, 08:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zgood4u

My grandparents had this on their TV.

https://www.metv.com/stories/who-rem...-white-tv-sets

Grandparents?!?!

I guess you know to Get off my lawn!

zgood4u · 05-01-2020, 09:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mc-m3

Draft numbers being announced on the news.

Ours were announced over our high school P.A system

zgood4u · 05-01-2020, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wcr3d

Grandparents?!?!

I guess you know to Get off my lawn!

I was around 8 at the time.

DDD31 · 05-01-2020, 09:22 AM

Having one of these bad boys (Apple IIe) as my first computer with a whopping 64K of RAM:

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Dpc2u · 05-01-2020, 09:46 AM

I was late to the game. I got my first computer, a Tandy RL 1000, in 1986.

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