I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

I never had the nerve to order these.
(Though I guess I knew they were fake.)
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Oh yeah. I can "see" the problem with these.

 

[notabitail]

Ordering Sea Monkeys from a comic book ad for $1.00 plus the stamp.

i still need to claim my replacements. mine never grew.

 

[notabitail]

There were also chain letters and pyramid schemes.

still are pyramid schemes. they're just called mlms, network marketing, and all kinds of stupid nonsense.

 

[notabitail]

That wasn’t that long ago. I still have working stuff from Radio Shack.

I wish I could have existed then at times.

I need to drag the TRS-80 that's in a basement somewhere out regardless of who says what. I fear the internals may be dying .

 

[notabitail]

My first computer was a TRS-80! Complete with tape deck!

i think we have one somewhere.

 

[notabitail]

I remember when I could stay up until two am every night and go all day with unlimited energy. Now I go to bed at ten pm and am dead tired all day...and I'm not even that old.

i'm not old at all and i'm always tired.

 

[notabitail]

Service Merchandise

there was a video i was watching one of these nights on old electronic stores.

 

[notabitail]

Gas pumps with rolling numbers instead of a digital screen.

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I'll take that over being blasted with ads about garbage.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Oh yeah. I can "see" the problem with these.

I was so tempted but had zero faith that they'd actually work.
But I did order this believing it would actually work.

 

[tripletfeb]

When I used to shine my own shoes as a kid with Kiwi brand shoe polish.
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I remember my dad shining his shoes when I was little. He had his stuff in an old paper bag, he probably still has it