You know you are old when your son asks...

1 ...what are you looking at when you are viewing a slide with a loupe. Then you explain the difference between 35mm film photography and 35mm digtal photography.

2 ....what's a pay phone and you give this story of a time pre-mobile phone when there were phone booths all over the malls, airports, bus stops, train stations and restaurants.

3...what is an LP after hearing a nostalgic reference to a time before CDs and suddenly you turn the garage upside down and find a crate of vinyl albums and a turntable. The look on my son's face as if he is in a museum and looking at some "relic" is priceless.

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In not all that much longer kids won't have any idea what VHS tapes are.... I saw a Sony Walkman (the tape kind!) the other day and it was the strangest thing... haven't seen one of those for years. Heck, how often do you even see personal cd players anymore!?

You know you are old
...when you mention gas under $1.00 per gallon
...when you mention TV was black and white
...when you mention that postage was $0.04, not $0.44
...when you mention that telephone prefixes were names (CHerry, UNderwood), not numbers
...when you mention that FM was not yet in stereo, and 'high fidelity' was new
...when pro basketball players where under 6' tall and white!


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Wilt wrote in post #6509620
You know you are old
...when you mention that telephone prefixes were names (CHerry, UNderwood), not numbers
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Are you saying there was a time when instead of (954) area code or 989 exchange there were letters?

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Gah, I'm only 20 and you guys are making me feel old. It seems things are changing faster then ever these days. Anyone remember a time before the internet let alone myspace and facebook? Or even a time when downloading anything over a few megabytes was a huge hassell because the 28k netscape internet just couldn't handle it. Heck, I remember our first personal computer - black and green(not white) little thing and our family buying a CD player for our IBM whose processor ran at an amazing 33.3 MHZ. I remember not being able to imagine filling up a 200megabyte harddrive. Man, that was all withing the last 15 years.

To quote The Shawshank Redemption, "The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." I can't even imagine where we'll be in another 15 years let alone the next 5.

My daughter wanted to play a 'real record'. I got out my turntable, explained how on this model you had to lift the stylus and manually move it to the start of the track. She nodded, then looked at the spinning record and frowned. I explained again, and she asked, "but does the needle play from the inside out, or the outside in?".

Weird. I'm 15 and I know what all those are. My mom even put on Disney records for me when I was a kid.

My dad's old, he remembers paying $0.05/liter for gas and $0.02 for diesel.

Jim G wrote in post #6509576
In not all that much longer kids won't have any idea what VHS tapes are.... I saw a Sony Walkman (the tape kind!) the other day and it was the strangest thing... haven't seen one of those for years. Heck, how often do you even see personal cd players anymore!?

Im 17 and that makes me feel old HAHA I remember at World Youth Day seeing a south pacific man with a walkman and a bag full of CDs

Benoit College produces a Mindset List every year to explain the entering freshman class to the faculty. For the class of 2012:

Students entering college for the first time this fall were generally born in 1990.

For these students, Sammy Davis Jr., Jim Henson, Ryan White, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Freddy Krueger have always been dead.

1. Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team.
2. Since they were in diapers, karaoke machines have been annoying people at parties.
3. They have always been looking for Carmen Sandiego.
4. GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
5. Coke and Pepsi have always used recycled plastic bottles.
6. Shampoo and conditioner have always been available in the same bottle.
7. Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.
8. Their parents may have dropped them in shock when they heard George Bush announce “tax revenue increases.”
9. Electronic filing of tax returns has always been an option.
10. Girls in head scarves have always been part of the school fashion scene.
11. All have had a relative--or known about a friend's relative--who died comfortably at home with Hospice.
12. As a precursor to “whatever,” they have recognized that some people “just don’t get it.”
13. Universal Studios has always offered an alternative to Mickey in Orlando.
14. Grandma has always had wheels on her walker.
15. Martha Stewart Living has always been setting the style.
16. Haagen-Dazs ice cream has always come in quarts.
17. Club Med resorts have always been places to take the whole family.
18. WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
19. Films have never been X rated, only NC-17.
20. The Warsaw Pact is as hazy for them as the League of Nations was for their parents.
21. Students have always been "Rocking the Vote.”
22. Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
23. Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
24. We have always known that “All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”
25. There have always been gay rabbis.
26. Wayne Newton has never had a mustache.
27. College grads have always been able to Teach for America.
28. IBM has never made typewriters.
29. Roseanne Barr has never been invited to sing the National Anthem again.
30. McDonald’s and Burger King have always used vegetable oil for cooking french fries.
31. They have never been able to color a tree using a raw umber Crayola.
32. There has always been Pearl Jam.
33. The Tonight Show has always been hosted by Jay Leno and started at 11:35 EST.
34. Pee-Wee has never been in his playhouse during the day.
35. They never tasted Benefit Cereal with psyllium.
36. They may have been given a Nintendo Game Boy to play with in the crib.
37. Authorities have always been building a wall along the Mexican border.
38. Lenin’s name has never been on a major city in Russia.
39. Employers have always been able to do credit checks on employees.
40. Balsamic vinegar has always been available in the U.S.
41. Macaulay Culkin has always been Home Alone.
42. Their parents may have watched The American Gladiators on TV the day they were born.
43. Personal privacy has always been threatened.
44. Caller ID has always been available on phones.
45. Living wills have always been asked for at hospital check-ins.
46. The Green Bay Packers (almost) always had the same starting quarterback.
47. They never heard an attendant ask “Want me to check under the hood?”
48. Iced tea has always come in cans and bottles.
49. Soft drink refills have always been free.
50. They have never known life without Seinfeld references from a show about “nothing.”
51. Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
52. Muscovites have always been able to buy Big Macs.
53. The Royal New Zealand Navy has never been permitted a daily ration of rum.
54. The Hubble Space Telescope has always been eavesdropping on the heavens.
55. 98.6 F or otherwise has always been confirmed in the ear.
56. Michael Milken has always been a philanthropist promoting prostate cancer research.
57. Off-shore oil drilling in the United States has always been prohibited.
58. Radio stations have never been required to present both sides of public issues.
59. There have always been charter schools.
60. Students always had Goosebumps.

lonelyjew wrote in post #6509653
Gah, I'm only 20 and you guys are making me feel old. It seems things are changing faster then ever these days. Anyone remember a time before the internet let alone myspace and facebook? Or even a time when downloading anything over a few megabytes was a huge hassell because the 28k netscape internet just couldn't handle it. Heck, I remember our first personal computer - black and green(not white) little thing and our family buying a CD player for our IBM whose processor ran at an amazing 33.3 MHZ. I remember not being able to imagine filling up a 200megabyte harddrive. Man, that was all withing the last 15 years.

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The first IBM PC was 6MHz processor, and had no harddrive...and the first harddrive about 1-2 years later was 10MB and cost $500.

lonelyjew wrote in post #6509653
a time when downloading anything over a few megabytes was a huge hassell because the 28k netscape internet just couldn't handle it.

I can remember installing 2.4K modems - they were a blistering speed upgrade for those using 300bps ones...

I still use a 386 machine with a wopping 32MB of RAM on a daily basis. It runs one program on the Windows 3.1 for Workgroups OS. Can you remember how to use DOS?

Wilt wrote in post #6509944
The first IBM PC was 6MHz processor, and had no harddrive...and the first harddrive about 1-2 years later was 10MB and cost $500.

I thought the first ones were 4.77 MHz

Heck I remember about 4 years ago when a 512mb memory card was considered a gigantic amount of storage and cost $80.

Raikyn wrote in post #6510359
I thought the first ones were 4.77 MHz

They were. I didn't have an actual 8088, I had a machine using the NEC V20 chip which was basically a souped up 8088 clone. But my first computer was the TI 99/4A with a 3.0MHz CPU, 16KB of RAM, a cassette player for loading programs, and a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem for connecting to local BBSs.