bestcee
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Be Kind, Rewind! :thumbup:
teens today will never know..
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Be Kind, Rewind! :thumbup:
SeattleSheri
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
I know some of these are dupes ...
- waiting for your favorite song to come on the radio
- actually having to remember ph#'s!
- how to read/write cursive
- how to use a typewriter
- needing to get up and manually turn the channel (yes, I'm that old, lol)
- having to race home to watch a show (or risk never getting to see it or having to wait until it shows up a a rerun)
- stalking the TV guide
- having to call or mail in a catalogue order
- mailing in a resume
- having to actually attend a reunion to know what your former classmates/family are up to
- not knowing ho long it will take you to get somewhere (or what the best route is)
- waiting for your favorite song to come on the radio
- actually having to remember ph#'s!
- how to read/write cursive
- how to use a typewriter
- needing to get up and manually turn the channel (yes, I'm that old, lol)
- having to race home to watch a show (or risk never getting to see it or having to wait until it shows up a a rerun)
- stalking the TV guide
- having to call or mail in a catalogue order
- mailing in a resume
- having to actually attend a reunion to know what your former classmates/family are up to
- not knowing ho long it will take you to get somewhere (or what the best route is)
EvelynD2
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
Teens today will never know what it's like to use a pay phone to call your parents from college or to place a collect call.
Teens today will never know what it's like to look up information in a World Book or Brittanica Encyclopedia.
Teens today will never know how fun it was to make gum wrappers into chains to hang across your bedroom.
Teens today will never know what it's like to look up information in a World Book or Brittanica Encyclopedia.
Teens today will never know how fun it was to make gum wrappers into chains to hang across your bedroom.
GraceJ
Well-known member
Teenagers today will never know...
- use a walkman (I used it when I went to run), have a beeper, use floppy disks (they were a real pain, especially when it was necessary to format them), use a fax, address books and projectors. Use VHS tapes and a VHS head cleaner.
And of course having to race home to watch a tv show or movie, or having to race to blockbuster Friday evening to rent some movies.
- use a walkman (I used it when I went to run), have a beeper, use floppy disks (they were a real pain, especially when it was necessary to format them), use a fax, address books and projectors. Use VHS tapes and a VHS head cleaner.
And of course having to race home to watch a tv show or movie, or having to race to blockbuster Friday evening to rent some movies.
HavaDrPepper
Active member
Teenagers today will never know...
life without the internet
life with not having a calculator for math class (in other words doing all math problems in your brain or writing it out on paper)
multiple phones on one line aka party lines (sharing the same line with others not in your house)
phone numbers that started with letters
3 channels on the tv that you watched in black and white (ABC, CBS and NBC)
life without the internet
life with not having a calculator for math class (in other words doing all math problems in your brain or writing it out on paper)
multiple phones on one line aka party lines (sharing the same line with others not in your house)
phone numbers that started with letters
3 channels on the tv that you watched in black and white (ABC, CBS and NBC)
laurabobaura
Sweet Shoppe Designer
laurabobaura
Sweet Shoppe Designer
^this!
GraceJ
Well-known member
Oh I remember those flashcubes, when I was child I used to play with them :wub:
fruitysuet
Sweet Shoppe SugarBabe
So many of these.
I thought I had got a new one to add but @HavaDrPepper beat me to it - telephone party line and having to wait for the next door neighbour to finish their call before being able to make one of your own. Added to which being limited to where you could be when making a calll by how far the cord would stretch. Ours was something like the third stair and caused a trip hazard by being in the path from the lounge to the kitchen. No privacy whatsover!
Not getting fancy drinks - I remember when if you had a coffee in a cafe or restaurant it was fancy if it was filter! Tea, the only option was with milk or without! However, it was much quicker to get served given that only took seconds to pour and pay.
Not having drive-through restaurants.
Not having a whole range of international cuisines (or in fact any take away options) to choose from. In the UK growing up the only option for take away apart from the 'chippy' (fish and chips, sausage and chips, pie and chips) was the local Chinese.
Career advice to girls who were reasonably intelligent being pretty well limited to teacher or secretary. I admire my female contemporaries who went against the grain and followed different paths.
Having to physically get up to press a button on the tv to change channels or volume. I remember only having a black and white tv before my parents upgraded to a colour one. There were only three tv channels with a fourth added when I was 18. TV was not broadcast 24 hours. The lack of screen watching options really made other hobbies and interests more prevalent.
I thought I had got a new one to add but @HavaDrPepper beat me to it - telephone party line and having to wait for the next door neighbour to finish their call before being able to make one of your own. Added to which being limited to where you could be when making a calll by how far the cord would stretch. Ours was something like the third stair and caused a trip hazard by being in the path from the lounge to the kitchen. No privacy whatsover!
Not getting fancy drinks - I remember when if you had a coffee in a cafe or restaurant it was fancy if it was filter! Tea, the only option was with milk or without! However, it was much quicker to get served given that only took seconds to pour and pay.
Not having drive-through restaurants.
Not having a whole range of international cuisines (or in fact any take away options) to choose from. In the UK growing up the only option for take away apart from the 'chippy' (fish and chips, sausage and chips, pie and chips) was the local Chinese.
Career advice to girls who were reasonably intelligent being pretty well limited to teacher or secretary. I admire my female contemporaries who went against the grain and followed different paths.
Having to physically get up to press a button on the tv to change channels or volume. I remember only having a black and white tv before my parents upgraded to a colour one. There were only three tv channels with a fourth added when I was 18. TV was not broadcast 24 hours. The lack of screen watching options really made other hobbies and interests more prevalent.
HavaDrPepper
Active member
Dad used me as the channel remote when I was a kid. I was usually playing on the floor in front of the TV so he'd have me switch from one channel to another. When that first colored TV arrived in the house, watching TV was so much different.
Vrielinkie
Well-known member
I love all of these, trip down memory lane....in The Netherlands there still are some movie theaters that have intermission. Love it!