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Post by mikef6 on Aug 21, 2021 3:35:59 GMT
And no, I don't mean things like "ugly people." I mean things that will give away your age range.
Candy cigarettes
Cap pistols
Whitewall tires
45rpm records
Stick shift on the steering column
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Post by msdemos on Aug 21, 2021 4:21:47 GMT
I was born BEFORE: "The Pill" (Oral Contraceptive) (1960) John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960) Etch A Sketch Introduced (1960) Pull-Tab Cans (Invented In 1959, Introduced In The 1960's) (5 Digit) Zip Codes (1963)  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by divtal on Aug 21, 2021 4:34:12 GMT
-- TV stations signing OFF, overnight, with "Sermonette," and the National Anthem ... and, signing ON, in the morning, with test patterns. (UPDATE: Spellcheck doesn't recognize "Sermonette.")
-- Air Raid drills in early elementary school
-- A little too young to get hysterical over Elvis. A little too old to get hysterical over the Beatles. (Love both)
-- Pantyhose, finest invention ever!
-- JFK Assassination - first great, massive trauma
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Post by petrolino on Aug 21, 2021 4:46:17 GMT
45-records Wires
33-records More wires 78-records
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Post by gw on Aug 21, 2021 5:33:34 GMT
VHS tapes
bulky computer monitors
Floppy discs
born before Yangtze River Dolphin extinction
Alive during 9/11
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 21, 2021 6:39:07 GMT
I was alive when the Berlin Wall fell
I was alive when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster happened.
VHS Tapes
Floppy Disk
I was alive when Michael Jackson's Thriller video aired on MTV for the first time.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 21, 2021 7:22:29 GMT
Dial telephones
No computers as we know them now
Floppy discs
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Post by Xcalatë on Aug 21, 2021 7:36:16 GMT
The NeverEnding Story
G.I. Joe
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Saved by the Bell
Desert Storm
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 21, 2021 9:38:54 GMT
UHF TV stations The Draft (Selective Service, not just registering) Ketchup and Soda Pop in glass bottles only, no plastic Milk deliveries (in a glass bottle) Mail orders taking "six to eight weeks for delivery" A few others S&H Green Stamps The Columbia Record and Tape Club The TV repairman, no TV until the guy came and popped in a new tube A party line telephone Cigarette ads on TV "come to where the flavor is, come to Marlboro Country"
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Post by Nora on Aug 21, 2021 10:13:37 GMT
no way... this makes you sound ancient 😂🤣 |
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Post by theauxphou on Aug 21, 2021 10:41:29 GMT
Monochrome computer monitors
Telegrams
Battle Snax (MOTU-themed chips)
Stretch Armstrong
Setting the VCR to record 5 mins. before the programme begins and 5 mins. after it ends just in case it runs before or over schedule
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 21, 2021 12:03:56 GMT
Playing in the ruins of a WW2 bomb damaged gas works
Bubble Cars
Seeing the words IN COLOR on a black and white TV
Watching this happen on live TV
Seeing A Hard Days Night and Help! at the Saturday morning pictures.
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Post by redhorizon on Aug 21, 2021 16:00:40 GMT
1. The last time when Taliban was in power. 2. There was only 1 channel on TV. 3. Ronald Reagan was still president of the USA. 4. Tiananmen Square Massacre and “Tank Man” photo in the newspaper. 5. The last time Halley's Comet appeared.  |
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Aug 21, 2021 17:05:40 GMT
CD player
Facebook, no Instagram
Austin Powers impressions
Westside hand sign
Knowing my Hogwarts house
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Post by paislene on Aug 22, 2021 0:13:05 GMT
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Post by clusium on Aug 22, 2021 0:31:30 GMT
1. I watched Saturday morning cartoons, when I was a kid,
2. Star Wars was the Harry Potter of its day, when I was a kid,
3. Before he went off to Hollywood, the late movie actor Corey Haim was my schoolmate, for a brief while.
4. Fluorescent coloured-clothing was a fad for a brief time, when I was a teenager.
5. In high school, I did a co-op in a kindergarten, & movie actor Hayden Christensen's little sister was in the class.
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Post by marianne48 on Aug 22, 2021 0:50:18 GMT
The "Bozo the Clown" children's show--because all kids love clowns.
Local kids who missed the school bus would hitchhike to school.
Getting homemade treats and apples from kindly neighbors when trick-or-treating at Halloween.
Ashtrays in everyone's home.
Summer replacement variety shows on TV.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Aug 22, 2021 2:08:46 GMT
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Post by Sarge on Aug 22, 2021 7:02:21 GMT
Lawn darts
Iron-on t-shirt stores
Party line (telephone)
Hair Metal
Doing something stupid and it not being digitized for posterity so you could be fired for it 15 years later.
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