draculaz opened this issue on May 08, 2007 · 44 posts
electroglyph posted Sat, 12 May 2007 at 9:33 AM
Old Stuff?
You young punks, I was there! I can remember when you had to turn on the black and white TV to let the tubes warm up two minutes before you could watch. And there was only three channels.
We had party lines on the telephone. You didn't need a wiretap to hear your neighbor's conversations. You just picked up the phone and held your hand over the mouthpiece.
There was only AM on the radio.
We thought cafe latte was coffee that didn't arrive on time.
Why, this new fangled internet thing was just a gleam in Al Gore's eye. We used to call it ARPANet. Porn was made of x's, o's and periods. You printed it on green and white tractor feed sheets from your unix terminal. Then you had to stand back about four feet just to see it.