I'm so old that ...

[TheMurderousCricket 5,096]

I'm so old that no more dogs or cats can ever hope to outlive me anymore.

[kkffoo 259]

I'm so old that I can remember my college lecturer telling us that there was far to much fuss about these this new fangled modem idea, and it wouldn't get us anywhere.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

I'm so old that college was called high school when I was there.

I'm so old that the people we studied about were still alive.

I'm so old that the college football schedule took about a week and a half.

I'm so old that everybody at college had blue, green and purple hair. Turned out the well water was poisoned.

[Prophet42 1,503]

I'm so old that I remember when CD's first came out.

[raynev1 1,886]

I'm so old , I owned an 8Track recorder .

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Ah, Nonny, I feel so old ...

... watching this pope in TV can't help thinking he could be my son.

[kSlank 151]

My friends want me to get a PS5 but I'm stuck in the Dreamcast Era

[CaptCity 4,908]

I'm so old, my first calculator looked like this:

 

 

[Tamijo 2,035]

I remember when John and Paul was still writing songs……..together.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

22 hours ago, Tamijo said:

I remember when John and Paul was still writing songs……..together.

I'm so old, I remember when John and Paul were still writing Bible passages together.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I'm so old I went to school together with John Paul II.

[Prophet42 1,503]

I'm so old that I remember when Johnny Carson caused a toilet paper shortage.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I'm so old, rencently I got a letter from the lokal natural history museum asking if I would gently pass over my bones to them.

[Terring 6,476]

I'm so old I remember DOS. I never liked them even back then.

[Prophet42 1,503]

I'm so old, I remember a time when Microsoft didn't exist.

[rivit 3,402]

I'm so old..............what was the question again?

[CaptCity 4,908]

Wait... we're supposed to ask a question... 

One of my pet peaves... because I'm so old that I remember when this...

...actually meant 'cease all forward momentum'...

(Probably need to be driving in certain places to understand this one... )

 

[simmering 2,734]

I'm so old, in my time, locking the phone was an entirely different process.

[raynev1 1,886]

I'm so old, I remember having to get up to change TV channels and adjust the volume.

[CaptCity 4,908]

Speaking of TVs... I'm so old that I remember having to reach out the window to turn the outside antenna pole a bit to get that third station...

[hugues aroux 3,866]

You're right to bring it up... TV... I'm so old that my first memory of television is: my teddy bear hiding half of a certain Neil Armstrong playing leapfrog on a grey floor... yes, black and white TV! Anyway, as for color, for this broadcast...!

[Silur 3,308]

I remember the times when there was no black-and-white TV, and people learned all the gossip from their neighbors. 

[Terring 6,476]

17 hours ago, raynev1 said:

I'm so old, I remember having to get up to change TV channels and adjust the volume.

I'm so old, I remember my grandparents had this kind of TV. Fortunately I was used to the remote control 

[Prophet42 1,503]

I'm so old I remember a time when you could call customer service and actually talk to a REAL LIVE HUMAN BEING.  Imagine that!!

[Handyman 786]

I'm so old that I remember 'customer service'!!

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I'm so old, recently I broke a record listening to Beethoven's "For Elise" more then 678 400 times ...

... while beeing on hold on service hotlines.

[Prophet42 1,503]

I'm so old I remember when 'safe' playgrounds used asphalt instead of cement.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

I'm so old, when I upgrated to SCSI I told all of my friends SCSI is the future and it will be there long after EIDE is gone.    

  Edited December 6, 2025 by Fantozzi  
KI'm so old I confused soft and harware

[CaptCity 4,908]

29 minutes ago, Fantozzi said:

...ASCII...

Speaking of ASCII...

I'm so old that I remember using ASCII to program a Tandy Computer to play checkers... checkers!... in college! ...and thinking I was a genius for doing it!  

[Fantozzi 4,068]

4 minutes ago, CaptCity said:

Speaking of ASCII...

I'm so old that I remember using ASCII to program a Tandy Computer to play checkers... checkers!... in college! ...and thinking I was a genius for doing it!  

You made me aware I confused SCSI and ASCII. You know ... I'm old.