I'm so old that ...

[catty-cb 4,392]

8 hours ago, huzman said:

@NMUSpidey: You're pulling my leg!

Me, I'm so old I remember DOS and LISP.

green screen applications and microfiche ... ah those were the days 

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm so old I remember being in the same room as the person you were playing video games with.

[huzman 445]

I'm so old that I don't remember a sillier but wonderful topic as this one. And I keep coming back to it. Go figure...

[raynev1 1,886]

I'm so old , I remember getting cigarettes out of a vending machine for less than $1.00

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm so old I remember being able to use the phone to call a weather forecast service which would play a recording of that day's weather.

[matias93 7,535]

I'm so old that I got my gmail account by being invited to the first phase of the beta in 2004

[huzman 445]

I'm so old I can't remember how old I am.

On 8/13/2017 at 0:24 PM, catty-cb said:

ah those were the days

So sorry catty-cb, I just discovered your comment on my post. And don't forget those 8 inch floppies.

[Fantozzi 4,067]

I'm so old - each morning several of my bones want to greet me individually: argh, good morning dorsal, argh, good morning shoulder blade, argh, good morning foot link ...

[catty-cb 4,392]

6 hours ago, huzman said:

I'm so old I can't remember how old I am.

So sorry catty-cb, I just discovered your comment on my post. And don't forget those 8 inch floppies.

I've still got a 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive and floppy discs to go with it 

[huzman 445]

12 hours ago, catty-cb said:

I've still got a 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive and floppy discs to go with it 

Ha! Me too! Including the original disks of SC 2000 from 1993!

BTW, did you know that France's antipode is near NZ? It feels like we are neighbors. .

But, I'm so old that, that... oh heck! That I forgot what I was going to say...

[Fantozzi 4,067]

I'm so old, that I could bemuse my teacher when I hailed him in class the same way I had seen the day before at the olympics by Tommie Smith and John Carlos.

[airman15 4,111]

I'm so old I remember when schools used overhead projectors with clear plastic sheets! The teacher's hand would block out some of the letters and numbers. It was either that or just using a plain old whiteboard with markers. Anytime we wanted to watch a film, they had to wheel in an actual TV. By the time I reached middle school I was just blown away when the 'new' place had digital projectors linked to the computer!

[catty-cb 4,392]

18 hours ago, airman15 said:

I'm so old I remember when schools used overhead projectors with clear plastic sheets! The teacher's hand would block out some of the letters and numbers....

I'm so old I remember what happens if you left the sheets on the projector for too long

[morsabel 7]

I'm so old that I use to forgot where I put my stuff. (I'm just 24 though... LOL) 

 

[Prophet42 1,501]

I'm so old I remember when music was only available on analog media.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm so old I remember listening to the radio waiting to hit record when a song I liked came on.

[Fantozzi 4,067]

I'm so old, I can still remember the sound of steam engine driven saws cutting the trees in halfs and the aching sound when they felt from the flat conveyor, echoing down the hills in the small valley where I grew up. And those people standing at the river side with this strange tool, a long stick with a rake to fetch the trees from the river and pulling them to the waters edge.

And the workers when they moved house, sometimes they carried their wooden doors with them from the old to the new house - because they had so much love and respect for the material they worked with.

[EDIT] When I translate directly from german to english it would be a 'raftsmen hook'. Is this correct?

[airman15 4,111]

I'm so old, I remember corded phones and faxes were still a thing. I still can't let a twisted cord be!

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I'm so old I accidentally called a fax machine and didn't freak out thinking I was being haunted.

[Prophet42 1,501]

I'm so old I remember when people actually watched where they were walking instead of looking down at some electronic device.

[airman15 4,111]

I'm so old I actually remember Northwest Airlines DC-10's lined up at SFO. Always got a great view of them there and in flight when I reached my aunt's in South San Francisco.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm so old that unexplained aches and pains are becoming commonplace and I've long since stopped wondering where they came from.

[Prophet42 1,501]

I'm so old I remember when people talked about clouds they were talking about the things that are up in the sky.

[airman15 4,111]

I guess i'm so old I don't realize most of my favorite games were made that far back. Arcade games I sometimes think were not a long time ago based on the dates shown in Namco arcade collections I got on PS2 disks. Now even that's two generations behind now..

Flight Sim. X didn't come out for another 3 years after SC4 and that too is over a decade old now..

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Namco arcade collections, those were so fun...

I'm so old that I remember buying not-too-buggy, non-broken, complete games on cartridges that had minimal load times and never needed to be patched.  Because they couldn't be.

[tonyr 926]

I'm so old that I try to rotary dial my cell phone...

 

[Prophet42 1,501]

I so old that my families first computer was a Commodore 64K.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I'm so old I remember watching new Star Trek episodes that were actually on TV.

[Handyman 765]

I'm so old that I remember when you went into a local business, they knew your name and who your parents were.

[tonyr 926]

I'm so old that I remember when good customer service was a requirement.