I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

I never used dial up, but I deal with old tech a lot. It's a hobby. I think they'd be horrified if I challenged them to watch YouTube on my Pentium 4 PC (Yes, you can. No, you shouldn't. Don't try it at home. Try it at a friend's house).

Will they still be your friend, afterward?

 

[notabitail]

Will they still be your friend, afterward?

Oh, I'm sure they would be. Unless using a insecure PC brings malware onto their network. Not really likely since you'd only be contacting youtube, not shady websites.

 

[SkyAJK]

Does it still make that screeching and howling noise when you log on?

No howling noise, it is cable board band.
Correction, I just been told that my landline phone will not work without internet. This is the part where I say...I am TOO OLD I don't know what I am talking about.

 

[notabitail]

No howling noise, it is cable board band.
Correction, I just been told that my landline phone will not work without internet. This is the part where I say...I am TOO OLD I don't know what I am talking about.

Oh. Those. It's actually a internet phone that is over the cable instead of traditional phone wires.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No howling noise, it is cable board band.
Correction, I just been told that my landline phone will not work without internet. This is the part where I say...I am TOO OLD I don't know what I am talking about.

Yupyup, me no needer, too!

 

[jxp]

One old sticker was "S**t Happens". When that came out is was met with disdain by a lot of people.

I was living in Colorado at the time (mid-to-late 80's). Back when Elway was a newish quarterback and the coach Dan Reeves was challenging Tom Landry to become the new "America's coach". The Broncos were in the playoffs and the offense made a couple of season-ending mistakes. During a post-game interview one of the players (to my recollection either Sammy Winder or Butch or Vance Johnson or maybe Gerald Wilhite but their bench was deep with talent and I could be mistaken) answered the idiotic question of "what went wrong out there?" with "Hey, sh!* happens. I mean stuff happens. I better watch what I say or it'll be on a bumper sticker tomorrow." That's about how long it took, too. No lie.

 

[SkyAJK]

Oh. Those. It's actually a internet phone that is over the cable instead of traditional phone wires.

I only learn it the other way around, so I have been having a landline phone for no reason, I have not use it. I wonder what else that I think it is, but it isn't?

 

[jxp]

President Carter was the butt of some bumper stickers. I remember seeing a big Billboard on I-75 in Georgia that said, "We the people of Georgia apologize for having voted for Jimmy Carter".

Yeah. As a person, I've always admired Jimmy Carter. As a President, I'll just say I've always respected the office.

 

[jxp]

I think my parents had no clue how far a couple of 12 year old girls can travel on their bicycles. I suspect they would have been shocked if they had understood the miles we covered!

And I am sure this doesn't happen any more - and maybe never did in the US - but where I grew up the Post Office would hire high school students over the Christmas holidays to deal with the extra volume of deliveries around that time.

We did a one day apprenticeship with a real postal worker and then we were on our own. My apprenticeship consisted mainly of being shown which houses gave out warm cookies if you rang the doorbell!

I think my shift started at 4:30am in the main post office where I did a couple of hours sorting (and making giant rubber-band balls) and then set out on my bicycle for my delivery round. I did it for several years - maybe from age 14. It was a blast and paid really well. I don't think we got union rates, but it was real money for our age.

That sounds like such a blast!

 

[pertnear09]

Yeah. As a person, I've always admired Jimmy Carter. As a President, I'll just say I've always respected the office.

Wasn't it Gerald Ford who was always stumbling and falling? Way I remember at least. Clumsy, I guess is the best way to describe him.