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Just continiue the title sentence.  I'll start

... I remember when door-to-door bread, milk, and egg deliveries were made with a horse and wagon.

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Originally posted by: Constantina Ah, the london trams of the 30's. I remember that.quote>

You are in your seventies already?

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I'm so old... I... I, umm... I remember when Windows 98 came out!

<I don't really... I was only 7 at the time!>

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I remember when the Berlin Wall fell down...

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... I remember that my school had Windows 3.11.

(Heh just thought of this... I'm so old that I don't remember what happened yesterday. 9.gif)

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... all telephones were 'party' lines and started with a word, mine/ours was WAbash..

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I remember when I saw accumulating snow for the first and last time where I live back when I was 6 or 7 years old.

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...my elementary school had Mac Classics in the computer lab.

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...When I first learnt to use MS DOS, way back in the mid 80s...

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...I remember when I had my first fist fight back when I was a little kid.

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    ... I remember when my daddy came home from the War.  WW II that is.

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    Beware: Emancipated user.  No Windoze for me.
    The teacher opens the door but the student must enter himself. - Ancient Chinese Saying

    Every minute of hate in which one indulges oneself is sixty seconds of happiness lost.
    Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. -- Victor Hugo
    If you always do what you've always done, you'll mostly get what you've always got.
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    "We have met the enemy, and he is us" - Walt Kelly

    Come join us at the Moose Factory

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    ...When I learnt how to operate a VHS tape Recorder...

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    ...when I got a letter in the in the mail stating I was made a historical landmark.

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    Originally posted by: Skyfire2275 ...I remember BETA VCRs.quote>

    I remember the Philips V2000 double sided cassette VCR's

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    ...when I first looked at an SVGA colour monitor in 1993 at a tech convention and was really pleased becoz until than I had seen/used only used B&W monitors...

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    ...when I remember getting my fist PC with Windows 95 pre-installed, it was the best day of my life.

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    ...when we got our first TV, the cabinet was HUGE and the screen was only about 6 inches x 6 inches

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    ...when I was amazed that our computer had 4 MB of RAM!!! wow!

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    ...when I remember watching new episodes of "The Cosby Show"

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    ....when I was extremely excited about my portable casette player

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    ...I remember when CD's first became common.

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