I'm so old, I once got excited about . . .

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. . . a laser printer that could crank out 6 PAGES PER MINUTE!

. . . a $500.00 650-watt microwave oven that could barely hold a dinner plate with 2 slices of pizza.

. . . Quadraphonic Sound!

. . . a $50.00 pocket calculator that could ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY AND DIVIDE!


And you, world?
 

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... a 1 GB hard drive!

... a computer with an actual hard drive, where you didn't have to load the program from disc each time you used it!

... those little floppy discs (smaller than a 5 1/4")!

... cable TV!
 

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A beta video cassette player. The way of the future, people!
 

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When the gameboy came out in COLOR!!!!!

Also, this reminds me of a Weird Al song called "It's All about the Pentiums." At one point he says, "In a 32-bit world you're a 2-bit user." The song came out in '99 I believe and it's all about computer at that time. So funny to listen to now!
 

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I remember when we got a color TV and we watched The Wizard of Oz in color. We were the third family on the block to get a color TV.
 

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TV remote controls.

Windows 95.

Dial-up internet.

An extension telephone. A touch-tone extension phone.

Stores opening later than 5:30.

Stores opening on Sundays.
 

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buying a computer that was dos based
 

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I remember when we got a color TV and we watched The Wizard of Oz in color. We were the third family on the block to get a color TV.

And we watched The Wizard Of Oz THE ONLY TIME OF THE YEAR IT WAS SHOWN ON TV, EVERY SPRING.
 

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The wonders of a mag-card typewriter (in the world before personal computers)!

Hand-held calculators!

Soft contact lenses!

And (drumroll)...PANTYHOSE!
 

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Central air conditioning!
 

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The original "Star Trek" series, which I watched when it aired.

Color TVs. We got our first one when I was in high school.

Seeing re-runs of "Star Trek" in color for the first time.

Microwave ovens. Wow, fast!

Reel-to-reel audio tape.

Home computers that didn't require you to assemble them from circuit boards.

A 5.25" floppy drive (as opposed to cassette tape storage) for my first home computer. My first hard-drive (20MB) for my home computer. Expanding the RAM in that computer to a mammoth 48KB.

Portable digital music players (I bought a 1st generation iPod, after seeing no use for earlier devices with much less capacity -- had a friend who had an early one that would only store about a dozen tracks).

The iPhone (first cellphone I ever saw that made me want a cellphone).
 

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this thread makes me feel young

I can just about remember a time before the internet...

I remember that, too - at least, before it was ubiquitous; 1980's, like in War Games, it was sort of like HAM radio, in that only certain enthusiasts knew about and used it.

I remember there was a dial-up modem in one of the first computers I had for me (not family), a second-hand 8088 IIRC, and I wondered why I'd ever want to use it.

Later, in a class, I remember my first experience on broadband and the internet at large... all the sites in the world, and I immediately gravitated to the dragon ones.
 

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When WordStar ran on the mainframe and had spell checking.
 

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A 1975 Cutlass Supreme with swivel bucket seats, a three body trunk and that newfangled cassette tape deck in the dash. I did miss the 8track from my 1970 f-100, though.
 

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Finally recording that one song from the radio perfectly after weeks of sitting beside my radio cassette player cursing the DJ for his premature interjections or for cutting the song too short. My mixtape was now complete.