35 Trivia-Worthy Facts About The Past That May Leave New Generations Shook

I still remember my best friends parents home number from when I when I was a kid. They had it disconnected a few years ago because no one calls the home phone anymore. I was sad when I heard that.

I'm 39 but I'm just like that - for me it's nothing to do with numbers it's purely memory. I recall ones from when area codes changed.

650883. Then came local codes, national codes. All the prefixes started to lose me. Bizarrely now living in France the recitations of numbers easier to remember, in couplets.

me too...had those on brain speed dial...and I mean rotary

51 and still remember my home phone, grandparents, and bff from highschool.

I can barely remember my current number, but my home number when I was a kid? You want that before or after the area code changed? 37 here

That's why I still force myself to memorize the number of anyone I would use as an emergency contact

We have quite a few in Australia too, and they are free. Others have been repurposed as wifi only.

Check out the Motorama in 1955! 1955-motor...a82385.jpg

Yes! I know so many people that WANT more color choices in cars but they aren't made to order like they used to be. It's basically what's on the lot is what you can get now and it's all white/silver/black.

True! Couldn't get our new car in any other colour than white, toilet bowl grey, depressive grey, black or dark blue.

Porsche will paint your car any color you want if you have the money. There is a 2022 gt3rs on Long Island with a 100,000 USD paint job.

And car designs had style, before the gas crisis in the 70s. Now all cars look alike. At some point, Cadillacs started to look like Hondas.

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Because the resale of bright colors is s**t

For us, started with 3 and expanded to 4 when PBS was added. Easy to remember, NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS.

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Three? You were lucky, we only had two until I was about ten, and only in Black and White too.

Yep. I remember the 3 channel days. You would wait all week for your favorite show, then that night the president would cut in with a speech and you would miss your show.

Where I live now you can only get three stations with an antenna, even a good one. Two of those stations are PBS (one of them out of Canada, and they do not play the same content at the same time) and the other is a news channel from another state that occasionally has stuff other than news on it, lol.

I guess that I was lucky. We had 9 over-the-air channels in LA during the 70s. Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 28, and 50. I remember that Channel 9 showed Kung-Fu Theater on Saturdays.

Where I lived we got three main Chandel's plus PBS.

Denmark had one channel until 1988

Same here and two channels were the same. The fourth channel was one that only was viewable when the weather was nice.

I grew up in Chicago and we had 5: CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, and WGN home of Bozo the Clown!

Five channels, three of which were pbs from differentstates. Fox didn't exist yet....

And when your brother wanted to watch football, which you hated, and wanted to watch Catweazle or Floris, you missed it! Because boys and men decided what could be watched. Fortunately, we can watch many programs from the past now, even though some are hard to find on the internet.

I GREW UP ON PBS KIDS AJBDAJHDSAJSH

That was really a problem! My siblings (4) and I were watching Hitchcock Birds, and whenever someone needed the toilet, he or she would sprint out to the hall and back. Unfortunately the main ceiling light wasn't working and all we had was a table lamp of which the cord ran along the threshhold of the living room door. So, when someone had to hurry to the toilet, he or she tripped over the cord and the lights went out! It certainly added to the suspension :).

When commercial breaks happened, we had to take turns volunteering to stay behind to yell "BACK ON".

Ah, I stayed home for the X files :) However, the series got crazier as it went along...

Ralph Nader was pushing for more airport security years before 9-11. But the government just considered him a nuisance.

911 changed everything. I remember when everyone on the plane was served a full meal and we even had real cutlery. And kids could go into the cockpit.

I used to fly out of Long Beach Airport and you could show up 20 minutes before your flight, back in the day.

And not for the better.

Security screenings were pre 9/11, I remember X-ray machines being a thing way before 2001. They started becoming a thing thanks to hijackings in the 60s and 70s, and after things like Lockerbie. Things got stricter after 9/11 for domestic flights but screenings were already ubiquitous especially for international travelers

I've had a pocket knife in my pocket just about everywhere i go, for 45 years or so. I feel undressed without it (and it's been worth its weight in gold several times). I used to go through airport metal detectors, forgetting that i had it. Security would examine it, measure the blade, give it back, go on through. Have to be careful these post -11 Sept days, as it would probably prompt a cavity search at the very least.

If you were born in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland it arrived much earlier. The rest of Europe not long after before the terrorists had higher budgets, and cheap international flights ditto, before they had the reach to hit the US.

Changed trust issues. Anyone can be a terrorist

Had it happened in a developing country, or one that is not so relevant in the world scene, nothing or hardly anything would have changed. Yes, it's a complaint.

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Yank foreign policy caused it, not the minor event in 2001.

My brother and I flew alone from LAX to Sweden on SAS, when I was 8 and he was 7. We totally looked Swedish and the stewardesses took us under their wings, so to speak. They moved us to first class, so they could watch over us. We met the pilots in the cockpit and they gave us plastic Captain's wings. I still have mine somewhere, 47 years later.

I agree, that is how I remember it. There was a reason why the 9-11 theorists used box cutters. It was because the airport security was already blocking bringing on knives and guns and such. And hijacking had already happened. The main difference was before 9-11 the hijackers wanted to live; they would want to be taken somewhere get something and then try to escape.

But not just terrorism and highjackings from a single event. 9/11 was the straw that broke the camels back. Highjackings had already been going on with security already being discussed and changed, just not to the extent. Some other commenters have mentioned security policies issued as a result of the IRA .

Totally! I bought an internet machine in 1996. AOL was my provider. It would take 30 minutes for it to stop loading AOL "art" before you could do anything.

I can hear my parents yell "get off the Internet I need to make a phone call"

I located the dial up sound to play for my 9 year old. blew his mind when I explained we needed to listen to the sound every time e we wanted to get on the internet, which was a separate thing from the rest of the computer

I can hear getting the rejected connection also

I can hear the electronic screams!

https://youtu.be/QDS4B0mM-ew?feature=shared

bzzrt...bzzzaaaaart...brezzate...pshhaaaaaaaaaaa....

Lol, no doubt!

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