This is just *too* nostalgically neat :>

[ceagle]

When did you last, if ever, use a rotary phone?
Or how about alla THESE things?

:D
(thanks for the fun posting, just2draw) !

Comments

[buran.livejournal.com]

I always feel really old when I read those lists. Oh, and I remember Challenger like it was yesterday. And Columbia.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*wingpats* A little older maybe... but not all that old ^v^

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Keen!
We still keep ours hooked up because it has the loudest RING, but rarely use it for dialing :>

[telbert.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thanks for sharing, Feathery Friend! My childhood home was one of the first test markets for cable TV, but we moved away when I was ten. We were late adopters of VCRs and microwave ovens, but we were quick to get into music CDs. It was not until later on that we had a TV with a remote control.

As for other things that younger folks never saw, I know people who never knew what Pong, the Atari 2600, the Intellivision, or the ColecoVision were. Their first game consoles were either the NES or the Super Nintendo.

I know that times change, but I still shake my head when I see 7-year-old kids walking around with cell phones or read about 9-year-olds asking their parents for an iPod. I'm 31 years old, and even MY music collection isn't big enough to to consider such a device! *shrug*

[buran.livejournal.com]

I have a 15-gig iPod. More space is taken up by backups of vital files (email, images, etc) than the music takes. Those backups have come in handy several times. There aren't many bus-powered Firewire drives that are that small -- if any. I looked once. If I get asked to suggest a small backup drive, I tell people "buy an iPod." You can just plug it in and it just works. Just about everything else, you plug it in, then you get out the power brick ... ugh.

pong and ipods

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

wow yeah.. pong!
Well, I've never had an active game system myself, but I know about mosta those and have friends n relatives with 'em *wags*

Interesting about the cable too 8> ...My pop had cable in the 1970s... mainly then it was just a reliable way to get clear channels in hard to reach areas, plus... ya had one movie station (with no commercials), all for $7 a month! :9

[altonwings.livejournal.com]

Eeks! Now I *know* I'm ancient!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*dusts ya off and polishes ya back into a perfectly shiny and glistening image of youth* :D

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Some of those aren't that old. How long has Jay Leno been on the Tonight Show?

goodness gracious mr. fox

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

:D *wingpatpat* It's been just a dozen years since Johnny retired, yup... sure goes by fast!

Things that make ya feel old....

[artemis1.livejournal.com]

I had a rotary dial phone unitil I was in Jr. High. I also remember TV with no remote, and "rabbit ears"! I remember those weird boxes with the push buttons for cable TV in the early days. Never had a microwave or VCR until I was in High School almost ready to graduate and I never had a CD player until I was in College (grad school actually). My first PC was post grad school. I did all my papers on typewriters and mini word processors (the ones that only have 1 line or 1 paragraph display screens). We had Coleco with Pong and one more no one has yet mentioned......my family had a TI 99. Ha! Remember those?

Re: Things that make ya feel old....

[loveyouenola.livejournal.com]

Yes! Texas Instruments. BBC computers were pretty hip for a while (The TRS-80 vs BBC was similar to the battle between Wintel and Apple now). I don't know if BBC computers made it into the USA. (BBC = British Broadcasting Corporation)

nostalgia

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Nostalgia doesn't make me feel old, as often as it gives me the warm n fuzzies of comfort, I guess..
Wow... I also did all my papers on a typewriter or word processor box.. was a TI 99 like a Commodore 64?

Funny about remote controls too... the tv our folks got in 1960 (before I was born) actually *did* have a remote control on it... no batteries either.. it was piezo-electric I think, and there was a tube in the tv itself that sensed the nature of the clicks to change the channels, volume, and on/off. Nifty!

[rcoony.livejournal.com]

I used a rotary phone just the other day. :)

I quite freqently use a television without a remote, because I just can never seem to find the thing. I'd like to have an old colour TV though that actually has all the controls on it. That would be great.

Old technology is raccoony.

that's great!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Just takes a little longer to dial... and if you don't have a menu on the other end (press pound to hear more options!), then it does the trick :D

[gryph0n.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Rotary phones. Pulse dial. Ever dialed a phone by emulating the pulse-dial by tapping the hook really fast for each number? You need a phone with a mechanical line-hangup, but it's great fun to try. Really prone to getting wrong numbers, though, if you are not consistent enough! :D

heh.. yeah! ^v^

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Friend of mine showed me that hook-pulse trick back around 1980 ..*hehee!* We got the hang of it pretty good ;D
Thanks for the comment!

Rotary Phones!

[loveyouenola.livejournal.com]

Brings back memories of the first hackers - Phone Phreaking. Using capacitors on the phone line to fool the exchange into not recording calls, and getting long distance via tones down the line.
The movie "War Games" with the old cradle type modem comes to mind.

Re: Rotaries!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I'd heard about that.. and read a bit on the 'net about it, but other than the curiousity of trying a few pf the old party lines, never got a chance to try that... one girlfriend I had tole me she and her friends used to do summa thet in high school though *heh*

Cradle phones.. neat!! My favorite is the candlestick style, and Ibought a replica (with pushbuttons though) a few years back for $40. It really jazzed up my office and people loved it :D
All the original ones I've seen are at least $200 though..

Glad ya liked the thread! ^v^

Re: Rotaries!

[loveyouenola.livejournal.com]

Yes, thankyou for your kind link and free promotion! I am happy to say I gained the pleasure of three new friends from it, share the joy! :)