You old FART!

[RobertScorpio]

TRIVIA facts that make me feel so old….

24 years since the last Roger Moore 007 movie

TNG has been off the air for 15 years. Over Twice as long as when it was on the air!!

(your turn to add a tidbit)

 

[All Seeing Eye]

It's certainly amazing how time flies.

 

[John Picard]

The Sony Walkman is considered a technical relic. I was in junior high when they first hit the scene.

 

[Omnius]

I grew up without the internet. Before everyone had a cell phone.
I remember my dad had a huge big ass phone in his company car back in the early nineties (he works for Royal Dutch Telecom)

 

[An Officer]

Cousins that I used to hold as babies are about a foot taller than I am now.

 

[Jan]

I recently told a co-worker about having appeared on a local kids TV show when I was 5 years old. She commented that I must love watching the tape of that now and was shocked when I told her that there was no tape. At first she was indignant that my mother didn't care enough to tape it or ask the station for a tape until I gently told her that VCRs didn't exist back then.

-I remember when pocket calculators were the latest tech.
-Ditto the digital watch.
-The first 'remote' control I ever saw was attached to the TV by a long spiral cord.
-There was exactly one home with a color TV in my neighborhood until my teens.
The phone in my house had a rotary dial and you had to pay extra if you got a touch-tone phone.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I remember the commodore 64............................ when it first came out.

 

[Zeta]

I remember having a CB radio in my car and house in the late 70's/early 80's when I was in high school...it was our "Internet Chat Room" back in the day. My friends and I used to enjoy getting on Channel 19 and giving the truckers a hard time. My handle was "The Alien," after the 1979 movie.

Good times, good times....

 

[jamestyler]

I remember getting really excited about upgrading to an 8GB hard drive. I have more memory on my phone now.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I remember watching The Trap Door.

 

[Niorah]

When I was a child our black and white tv didn't have a remote, it had a round antenna and two straight ones that you had to move around every time you changed channels because it would lose the signal.

The best of technology in music were LP's.

The only computers which existence we were aware of belonged to NASA.

I saw my first VCR when I was 12, it belonged to a -very- rich classmate of mine.

I bought my first CD when I was 15.

I guess I'll leave it all at this, since it's beginning to depress me a bit now that I think about it.

 

[Pingfah]

Freddie Mercury has been dead for 18 years. He'd be 63 this year.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

THinking about it now, my very earliest pop memory was "The Land of Make-Believe" by Bucks Fizz. The song still gives me nightmares.

 

[the Dagman]

I used to pay a quarter to play Pong.

My first computer programming class had me writing Fortran programs on punch cards.

I watched the first moon landing live.

ETA: Oh yeah, and I saw the episode of GH where Robert Scorpio was first introduced. (ooo, stop Cassadine's weather machine!)

 

[MetalPants]

I first got online my freshman year in college.
I was a teenager before my family got rid of our last rotary telephone.
I remember when the Atari game system was high tech.
I remember 5.25" floppy disks.
I think I was like 10 or so when my family got our first vcr

 

[TheLonelySquire]

I remember watching Dark Shadows and having it scare the hell out of me. In 1966.

 

[trekkiedane]

My first computer programming class had me writing Fortran programs on punch cards.

With a soft black pencil! -Yeah, those were the days, and the modem was bigger than any PC is today and had built in rubber cups to fit the phone handle (?) in AND the terminal was an enormous (and noisy) teletype-kind of stand-alone apparatus that was also able to punch holes in paper tapes which was what we used to store our programs!

Newspapers (remember those?) only had one colour: black! Magazines, on the other hand, had a few colour photographs in the middle-section!

 

[Mallory]

It's been forty years since I watched an original episode of Star Trek.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I remember when the Beatles were together.

I remember when you could buy Goofy Grape.

I remember when comics cost twelve cents.

I remember reading Rendezvous With Rama when it was first serialized in Galaxy.

And I remember watching this:

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I remember my first typing class, we used an old dot matrix printer. I remember using Apple IIe's when i was a freshmen. Of course, my high school was poor.