I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I remember before there was a user interface and everything had to be done in DOS.
It always just blinked C:\.. > at me

Command prompt entry only. Then Xerox invented the window interface.

 

[R2elk]

Oh, wow, hadn't thought of that in a loooong time! And the way America Online (AOL) constantly sent out freebee sample discs trying to get people to subscribe; wonder how many zillions went straight to the landfill like ours did?

Constantly got new AOL disks.

 

[Nomadicus]

The joke about AOL? It stood for Always Off Line.

 

[sdm111]

My grandmother had a big loom. She sewed strips of rags together and made rugs from them.

Once I moved into the room the loom was in, I continued to make the rugs until I ran out of all the strips she had sewed together.

My mom too. I remember cause I was the one doing the tearing of the strips out of yards of material It seemed like that's all I did lol. I remember she had giant crochet needles she used. She did all kinds of stuff. She was known for her christening gowns. I could probably still run a smock gathering machine.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Aaaaa! The trouble with tribbles well remember that episode - one of my favourites

My first couple years of college, I worked part time as an assistant to the "Tribbles" screenwriter (also author of many science fiction books and screenplays for other series) David Gerrold.

He had a home-based business a few blocks from my campus selling tribbles and various "original Star Trek/classic Trek" buttons, bumper stickers & other memorabilia and my job was to handle the orders/accounting/ etc....plus sew tribbles in 3 different sizes to fill orders. (He had other people sewing tribbles, too, but I was the buyer for the materials & supplied them.)

My younger brother used to help me stuff tribbles at home; to this day neither of us can look at any kind of fake fur without commenting, "THAT would make some cool tribbles!" or "Nah, seams would show, color doesn't work..." Many fun hours cruising the downtown LA fabric district for yards of "tribble fur". Last Christmas I revived that old skill set to make the deluxe "Pregnant Tribble" model for my grandson (big tribble with velcro opening and 4 baby tribbles inside). Wow, time does move on!

David became a good friend over the years but we kind of lost touch after I settled into my real career, got married, had kids, etc. I should probably surprise him with an out-of-nowhere holiday card or something; better not procrastinate, he's 10 years older than me so tick...tick...tick... Or better yet, send him a tribble!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Has anyone posted about Rin Tin Tin Yet? I haven't seen it. Started on TV in 1954. I stayed glued to the TV when he was on.

My Friend Flicka was my passion.

 

[Nomadicus]

I was sort of a devious kid like my uncles must have been. I was always glued to the Little Rascals show. They were always scheming for something. I love how they all had facial expressions that could just make you want to join the gang.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

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Oh, wow, yes! Reminds me of my beloved spiral perm all through the 80s into the early 90s [not nearly as extreme as the above picture, that's just wild!] first inspired by my time playing "Magenta" in a Rocky Horror Show guerrilla theater group in the late 70s...I liked the character's voluminous kinky hair so much, I wanted to look like that all the time! (My own hair is straight as a stick by nature, that's probably why.)

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I was always glued to the Little Rascals show. They were always scheming for something.

That show was well named!

Little bro and I watched TV reruns of it during the Saturday morning "Cartoon Cavalcade" - in between current cartoons, they'd run that and some of the very old "Popeye" episodes that had live action (black & white) segments interspersed where some little kid was being bullied until the animated Popeye advised him to "eat his spinach"; when the kid did that (huge can just labeled "Spinach") he'd get supercharged and beat/run off his bullies.

Some of those very old Popeye episodes were really weird; "Goon Island" comes to mind, and the odd critter named "Jeep"...we loved them.

 

[tripletfeb]

I remember before there was a user interface and everything had to be done in DOS.
It always just blinked C:\.. > at me

Oh yes. And to play any games, you had to type in the right code. I remember one game we loved, don't remember the name but it was gorillas on buildings and you had to throw explosive bananas at each other. Good times