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re: What Do You Consider to be the ‘Olden Days’?
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:41 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 9/2/19 at 12:41 am to RogerTheShrubber
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My first computer had a 28.8k modem, I thought it was blazing.
My first computer had 2 floppy disc drives and no hard drive, and it was state-of-the art. Also had a modem, but I don't recall the speed. It was an IBM-PC. It cost over $7,000 dollars, but it paid for itself (in about 3 months) in typesetting bills for a 250 page document that had to be formatted to strict gov't printing guidelines.
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Posted on 9/2/19 at 1:58 am to Sweltering Chill
Only 2 eras currently exist.
"before the storm"
and
"after the storm"
"before the storm"
and
"after the storm"
Posted on 9/2/19 at 6:58 am to Sweltering Chill
When a Ford and a Chevy would still last ten years like they should...before microwave ovens when a girl could still cook, and still would...
Posted on 9/2/19 at 7:03 am to Buckeye Jeaux
The old days did not have personal computers dipshits
Posted on 9/2/19 at 7:11 am to Knight of Old
quote:That lyric in a non sequitur, the build quality of today’s automobiles is light years ahead of anything that’s model year started with a “19”.
When a Ford and a Chevy would still last ten years like they should...
OP: To me it would be before the technology was developed to make audio recordings, photographs, & film.
So the American Civil War is just on the cusp of my version of “recorded” history (although I know that most photographs from that war are staged).
The rest of earlier history (like: What did George Washington actually look like in life?) is image subjective.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:00 am to davyjones
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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.
Ha, same here- for the longest time, i thought that it wasnt just the pictures, movies and tv shows from back then that were black and white- i thought that the world itself, grass, trees, everything actually *was* black and white... kind of moronic i guess.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:11 am to Sweltering Chill
I still miss Saturday morning cartoons
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:11 am to RogerTheShrubber
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My first computer had a 28.8k modem, I thought it was blazing.
Mine was a Vic 20 with a cassette drive and dot matrix printer. Olden days were before indoor plumbing.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:34 am to Sweltering Chill
Good ole days was renting risque vids at Blockbuster and being mesmerized by the delish looking licorice sticks and other assorted goodies near the checkout counter.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 8:36 am to Sweltering Chill
The days before social media and smart phones. I think my generation is the last to know what it’s like to not have tech accessible everywhere at every time.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 9:20 am to DeafJam73
When cars were not made with plastic.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:52 am to Sweltering Chill
50s, 60s. I remember how freaking excited we were to get color tv. 
And a microwave over was something that came directly out of old Star Trek episodes. Instant food in 2 minutes, yeah right. 
And a microwave over was something that came directly out of old Star Trek episodes. Instant food in 2 minutes, yeah right. 
Posted on 9/2/19 at 10:55 am to ChenierauTigre
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50s, 60s. I remember how freaking excited we were to get color tv. And a microwave over was something that came directly out of old Star Trek episodes. Instant food in 2 minutes, yeah right.
This. You can add the first remote channel changer. (Even though you are much older than I.)
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:02 am to LCA131
Yeah, you can kiss y wrinkled up old arse.
Congrats on your Apps this weekend.
Congrats on your Apps this weekend.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:05 am to ChenierauTigre
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Congrats on your Apps this weekend.
Thanks, Bud.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:07 am to DaBeerz
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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
This. Man we had a blast. Hated having to come in to be in bed by 9:00. Never wore a helmet or knee pads, climbed 40' trees until the tops almost broke out of them, swam the river, jumped off of roofs, etc. Damn I miss all that.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:12 am to ChenierauTigre
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This. Man we had a blast. Hated having to come in to be in bed by 9:00. Never wore a helmet or knee pads, climbed 40' trees until the tops almost broke out of them, swam the river, jumped off of roofs, etc. Damn I miss all that.
Exactly... Father had died very young, Mother worked. So we could have stayed in, but why in Hell would anyone do that? Sports, riding bikes, dirt clod fights, invented games.... Whole different society now...
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:17 am to LCA131
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dirt clod fights
My older brothers would pay me a nickel apiece for every dirt clod I made for them. The only thing that made it bearable to come inside at night was to get a bubble bath and wash off all the grandma beads from our necks, arm and leg bends. We'd come in filthy and sweaty but dang, we had fun.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:29 am to ChenierauTigre
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The only thing that made it bearable to come inside at night was to get a bubble bath
My 6 older brothers and I loved this! I STILL love a nice bubble bath... Scented candles, chilled Zima.
Posted on 9/2/19 at 11:39 am to Knight of Old
quote:
When a Ford and a Chevy would still last ten years like they should.
There's way more 20+ year old cars and trucks running around as daily drivers than there were back in 1990.
Don't know about down south, but back in '90 the only 20 year old cars running around up here were musclecars guys had restored/were restoring. Definitely not daily drivers.
Cars last much longer today than they did "back in the day".
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