You know you are old when .. ..

[Kendar]

People reference the moon landing and you can say you saw it on live TV.....

(Admittedly i was only 2 months old, but my parents held me in front of the TV).

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Puka shells
The Farrah Fawcett hairstyle
Passing notes in class
MIA/POW bracelets
Using the library's dreaded card catalog to find books
Payphones
Intellivision computer games

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Using the library's dreaded card catalog to find books

Oh man. I loved the Dewey. Didnt realize how much I missed it till I read that.

 

[Stake fodder]

No one remembers blackberry phones

I remember them, and how they were nicknamed "Crack-berry" (as in crack cocaine), because people would get addicted to texting on them, and that was actually considered odd.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Who remembers this?

 

[Fuffy]

You want nothing to do with TikTok, absolutly nothing.

 

[November]

You want nothing to do with TikTok, absolutly nothing.

Clocks go tiktok

 

[Skanky Vamp]

Clocks go tiktok

The tick-tock of the clock is painful, all sane and logical... I wanna tear it off the wall

 

[TriBel]

ILLYRIAN Really, you loved Dewey!? Looks around to any one else present, who's Dewey?

Who WAS Dewey - he's dead. 😉 Melvil Dewey formulated the classification system used by libraries to classify non-fiction books (the Dewey Decimal System. It's the number you usually see on the spine of library books). I agree with @Skanky Vamp - once you're familiar with it it's a really useful tool.

Alternatively - Dewey is Donald Duck's nephew.

No one remembers blackberry phones

I think I've still got one (somewhere)...and a couple of Nokia pay-as-you-go phones.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

once you're familiar with it it's a really useful tool.

But beyond that... there is just something so visceral about pulling out the drawer and flipping thru the cards. Then writing down the numbers on a little stubby pencil. Yeah man, I don't get nostalgic for much but damn.

 

[Moptop]

You know you are old when........in my high school computer class we would load our programs into the machine using punch cards. And there was a time when there was no such thing as a push button dial phone. They were all rotary dial. Hell kids today don't even know what 45's are. ☎

https://flic.kr/p/2oJP9oQ

 

[Skanky Vamp]

They were all rotary dial.

Did you know you can get a rotary dial cellphone. For reals.

 

[Ethan Reigns]

Did you know you can get a rotary dial cellphone. For reals.

Like this one?

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I'm curious...do kids even get detention these days?

 

[Miss Muffet]

I'm curious...do kids even get detention these days?

I know some private schools have things called JUGS, which is basically detention but it sounds fancier (also I'm pretty sure they make you work instead of sitting around doing nothing, which sounds better but I can't confirm because I have always been a teacher's pet)

 

[Kratos]

I’m now older then some of the teachers were at the time they taught me back in school.

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

I know some private schools have things called JUGS...

@Skanky Vamp would really enjoy that. 😊

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Oh my God. Armor Battle kicked ass. Creeping up on your opponent's tank, hit him three times and it explodes. Even better was laying a mine and watching his tank roll over it. Boom! And chasing each other while trying to avoid being destroyed...I'm flooded with such happy memories now.

If you hid amongst the trees, your opponent usually couldn't get a clear shot. It was a game of stealth and a desire to utterly destroy the other guy's tank. It was my family's favourite game. I'll never forget it. 💕

 

[spikenbuffy]

When I remember furbies, yoyos, pogs.
Or after I watched on Netflix the first season of Pokemon (Catch them all 🎼) not long ago

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

Ah, yes. How could you ever forget this skit? 😄

 

[Ethan Reigns]

One more thing about cars from years ago is how you set the pushbuttons on the radio: you tuned to the station you wanted, pulled the pushbutton out and plunged it in as far as it would go and that was your station memory. No need for a continuous 12 volt supply and you could remove the car battery without losing the radio presets.