I'm so old that ...

[amal81 3]

...when my music collection had only cassettes...

[Kippis05 2]

...when VHS was all the rage...

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I lived through both Bush's being president.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

... that when you dropped a sound recording on the floor it broke into several pieces of shellac.

[cityhawk 12]

...I can remember when time passed by slowly.

[Vandy 110]

... I can remember dialing 0 to get the Operator in order to make a long distance call.

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember using rotary dial phones.

[Vandy 110]

... I remember getting coffee in flat tin cans that used a key to roll the seal around to open them.

[Meg 368]

. . . I remember when TV was black and white.  and live.

[Joesocwork 4]

Originally posted by: amal81 ...when my music collection had only cassettes...quote>

 

When mine was 8-track tapes.

[Vandy 110]

... I remember when hand-held transistor radios were first introduced.

[Meg 368]

. . . I remember when writing a computer program meant carrying a box of punched cards around

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember using DOS as a primary operating system.

[Vandy 110]

... I remember using CPM as the operating system on my first business computer.

[____----____ 37]

whan a gallon of gas was .99 cents

[Vandy 110]

... when a gallon of gas was only $.19.

[Joesocwork 4]

Originally posted by: aleking whan a gallon of gas was .99 centsquote>

When1999 began to seem like eons ago.

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EDIT: oooh better:  when in the Seventies we were panicking about about .99¢ gas! 

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember seeing dinosaurs in my back yard. lol j/k

[moganite 4]

I wore flairs the first time round lol

[amal81 3]

...when I watched a first live sporting event in my country on a colour TV...

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember when my community was half the size it is now.

[cityhawk 12]

...I remember when I still had woods beside my house to play in.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

... you picked up the phone and waited for the operator.  Our phone number was 2683J.  2683R was the other party on the line.

... you programmed a computer by sitting at the console toggling in the program bit by bit, word by word.  The machine had 4K 12-bit words.

[amal81 3]

...when the TV came without a remote and only 8 channels.

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember when gas was a quarter of the price it is now.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

... the RCMP kept the house next door under surveilance because they thought Mr. Leifel was an Abwehr agent.

[ky72x 13]

... cars all looked the same and had no airbags.

[masochist 111]

I'm so old that I remember when the Las Vegas Strip was only three blocks long and strictly for adults only...(I'm 19...)

[Skyfire2275 23]

...I remember when there were more years of high school in Ontario than there are now.

[Kippis05 2]

...I can remember watching quality shows like 'Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood' and 'Barney'.