I still have a rotery dial phone, brown bananna style. I keep it plugged in and the kids look at it in amazement.
You know you're getting old when...
by nonjwspouse 95 Replies latest social humour
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iCeltic
... A pint of lager cost £0.71.
I had a pint last week, it was $9...
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QueenWitch
you remember (for the US people), Stores like Best, Memco, Caldor
-streetlight curfews
-hand games and jumprope and hopscotch
YKYGOW you're drinking with your legal age kid
-when CDs and ATMs first came out
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Simon
You could tell if you were having trouble connecting to the internet or not because of the sound the modem was making.
... and before the internet you used Compuserve.
... and before compuserve you used BBS and had to call the number for each computer you wanted to connect to.
Sometimes a site would be 'busy' (i.e. the phone would be engaged).
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Satanus
...when the old people you used to know are all dead.
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1. You are no longer surprised to hear of the deaths of people your own age.
2. You have Hank Aaron baseball cards that you purchased as a kid.
3. Some young punk on a subway train asks what type of music you're into, and suggests that you are into "Woodstock." (I restrained my fist from connecting to his head . . .).