If you've got kids, get them this. It's one of the things that got me fascinated about shapes and patterns

If I hear about someone doing those things it's while reading their obit.

“Billy Jean is not my lover and the CHAIR is not my son!” This lived in my brain for far too long! 🤣

Sitting for hours with my fingers on "record/play"

Using the phone to call a number to find out what time it was

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That my house had a party line telephone and 2 long rings meant that the incoming phone call was meant for our house.

Be kind, rewind.

Yellow pages to find phone numbers and addresses. Maps and map books to find addresses and how to get to them.

If you woke up early and turned on the TV you saw this: 1950s-tv-t...egelle.jpg

Putting a penny on the tone arm to keep the record from skipping. BTW, that meant you needed a new stylus

Only one TV channel, in black and white, and dial phones.

There were only 3 major TV networks. ABC, NBC and CBS.

Pong people pong.......got bored and went outside

click the dimmer switch on the floorboard to dim the headlights!!

we didnt use pronouns to identify a gender

A phone that you had to dial, in the kitchen attached to the wall with a long cord and there was only one in the house!!

Swear to god, gasoline was only 35 cents a gallon!

Phone booths on streets, in stores, the courthouse. The home phone was attached to the wall, usually in a hall or the kitchen and there was a long cord that attached the handset to the phone. If you were rich, you had a second stand-alone phone in the master bedroom or the husband's office/den.

The only "video game" we had was Etch-A-Sketch.

Video games cost 25 cents and you had to go to an arcade to play them.

Two words: Skate Key. Oh! And “pulling the choke” was not a euphemism.

Our TV remote was the youngest kid and a pair of pliers.

Having to untangle the phone cord to answer the phone.

I remember watching the first ever programme to appear on Channel 4. It was Countdown.

Calling up the pictures to hear a list of what films were on

Adjusting the rabbit ears.

The vegas strip had only four hotels

Cars without A/C, only had AM radio, no catalytic converter, no onboard engine computer, and no shoulder belts. My parents had a 76 Chevy Vega that did not have any of the above except shoulder belts. It had the shoulder seatbelt.

Vacuum tubes in TV's. My son was watching some stupid anime c**p earlier and it said something about a vacuum tube. I told him kids today have no idea of what that is

I’m training my kids right. I have a CRT tv set up on channel 3 and they are playing Legend of Zelda for the SNES.

There was no air conditioning in cars, no music, and no radio between towns. And if there were seatbelts in the car, wearing them was optional.

I Like Ike.

Transistor radio

If the phone rings and someone picks up, there goes your download...

Video games???? WTF are those. LOL

Crusader Rabbit

Video games were decades into the future, even for my kids!

When I talk about Battlestar Galactica and young people say it's a really old show, then I say "no I'm talking about the original version" .

I was a kid when the transition from VCR to DVD was happening, so I learned how to use both

T.V. programming ended after 1:00 AM.

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Or channel 36.

HAHAHHAHA omg. Yeah, I've known I'm old for... well... a while. This confirms it. Even funnier, this is one of my fonder memories of childhood.

Press F5 for free furni.

MonsterKing doesn't look old enough to remember that

'Monty on the run' started on the 125-mark on the tape.