Tell me you're old without telling me you're old

[ArtieChokePhin]

A spin off from the fireworks thread.

I remember having to walk across the living room to change the channel on the TV.   And if I wanted to find out what was on, I had to look in the TV Guide that came with the Miami Herald each week.

[Fau Teixeira]

I remember when saturday morning cartoons were actually cartoons

[SlothVomit]

I remember my dad buying me an Atari and playing it on a 10inch box tv

[CF DolFan]

I remember picking up the phone at my grandmother's house and her neighbors would be having a conversation. She had a "party line" until I was 9 or 10 I'd say. You'd have to wait to use the phone just like they were in your house.

[Tenshot13]

I had a rotary phone when I was a kid.

[ArtieChokePhin]

I remember when sodas were made with real sugar, not that nasty high fructose corn syrup.   

My go to soda is Check Cola from Winn Dixie.   Made with real sugar.

[Spider-Dan]

"At the tone, Pacific Standard Time will be... Nine Seventeen... and twenty seconds.  BEEP"

I used to call Time whenever I got a new clock or watch.

[stinkfish]

Or when some tv stations would stop broadcasting for the night? I think it was channel 68 in Boston that at midnight the screen would cut to a fighter plane flying across blue sky and a superimposed US flag to The Star Spangled Banner Banner or God Bless America, and then vertical colored bars on the screen. And that was it for their broadcasting day.

[Dave Gray]

Nickelodeon and A&E were one channel that switched over at night-time.

[Phishfan]

I had to refill ice trays as a child.

[Spider-Dan]

I had to refill ice trays as a child.

I think that's more class-based than era-based.

If you have a cheap refrigerator, or if you live in an older house with no water line for the fridge, you're still refilling ice trays in 2022.

[stinkfish]

I had to refill ice trays as a child.

Hahaha ya baby. I just refilled an ice tray before coming onto the board. First world problems man.  Pro tip. Hot water freezes faster than cold. Gotta keep those drinks coming.

[stinkfish]

Atari 2600

[CF DolFan]

The first video game I played in store 


The first video game I had at home

[EDGECRUSHER]

If I wanted to listen to a band, I had to buy the CD/Tape and listen to the whole thing, thus giving me an appreciation of the music as opposed to having the world at my fingertips and having the balls to say "I'm bored".

Yes, I am crotchety and have a Unabomber hatred of modern technology.