What Do You Consider to be the ‘Olden Days’?

the '50s

For me personally? Before 56k internet.

The world is divided into those who remember what it was like before the internet and those who don't.

2010 and before.

I’m 40 and remember having to get up to change the tv on our old wooden box tv... when we got a remote with a cable box it was awesome. My dad had an old guy always coming out to repair our zenith tv.

I don’t know about olden days but those were the good ole days. I’d leave the house in summer before 7, ride my bike down to swim practice and stay at the neighborhood pool til 9pm every way weekday while parents are at work, other days would be out at neighborhood friends or riding our bikes, parents would just say be home at dark for dinner, then could go back out... play hide and seek, jumping fences/hiding on roofs. Can’t do that stuff hardly these days

Horse and carriage, frontier, wild west immediately comes to mind for me.

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In my 40s, and when i was growling up in the 1980s, i’d see pictures (actual paper photographs) of my parents when they were growing up; they were all in black & white

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Same, all of that but regarding the black and whites, add....when I was little I thought there mustn't have been color at all back then. My eruditeness came a little later.

When the large print was the contract, not the fine print.
When kids didn’t need bottled waters. They drank from the faucet.
When kids rode a school bus, instead of having mom block major roadways twice a day.

My 8-year-old learned the term "the olden time" and uses it to refer to my childhood in the 90s. I actually use "the old days" for the 90s (almost always relating to technology and entertainment, but occasionally coke machine prices), and "the olden days" as anything before the 70s.

Yes, yes, all of that.

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When kids didn’t need bottled waters. They drank from the faucet.

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And from the hose, after turning a dangerous shade of red from extensive outdoor tomfoolery and sport.