Five things I remember that make me feel old


  • Cars only had two brake lights.

  • Hair conditioner came in a separate bottle.

  • Pennies were pure copper.

  • All stamps had to be licked, and mailing a letter only cost 13 cents.

  • TV spots advertised new albums on 8-track, LP, and cassette (and MTV actually played music videos).


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    damn.. yeah. I had a disk camera. I can work on carberetors (but EFI is baffling to me.. MFI, like old 50s corvettes, i can do wonders with). I recall when CAs sales tax was 3%. Learned to type on a typewriter. My friends moms all stayed home and drove station wagons. and.. i HAVE a reel-to-reel deck and it works.

    Posted by: pril at October 2, 2003 10:31 AM

    I've got a reel-to-reel tape deck that my dad gave me. It needed a little work, but with some tweaking, it plays beautifully.

    Posted by: Ravenwood at October 2, 2003 11:48 AM

    What? Why, you young whippersnapper! I remember when a byte had only two bits... and they were both ones. We hadn't gotten around to stealing zero from the Arabs, who stole it from the Indians. So all our calculations were done in Roman numerals -- and if you think Form 1040 is a pain in the ass today...!

    Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at October 2, 2003 4:59 PM

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