Speaking of stuff that makes you feel old...

[NightTrain]

...what do you suppose we Generation X-ers will tell our kids when we want to convince them either that they're pampered or that they missed the "good old days?" Here's what I've come up with:

When I was your age, we only had 36 cable channels. And we were damned glad to get 'em!

When I was your age, we didn't have all those cops and security guards protecting us in school. No, we had to fend for ourselves!

When I was your age, MTV played music videos. All the time!

When I was your age, the national debt was a measly $1 trillion!

No, really! They were called "45s" and "LPs."

Of course it wouldn't fit in the VCR! It's an 8-track.

When I was your age, there were only nine planets.

When I was your age, we didn't have all that fancy-shmancy computer stuff. No, we played board games like "Monopoly" and "Battleship."

When I was your age, there were only 220 million Americans!

When I was your age, you couldn't go to war unless you had an actual reason!

[ok222]

1. WOW

I am old LOL.

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. When I was your age...

Our video games only had 4 button controlers and 8 bit graphics, and it was the best thing ever.

Damn spoiled kids!

[ok222]

10. YOU HAD 4 BUTTONS!!

I only had one atari 2600 before that intellivision and Texas Instruments...... LOL

[Reverend_Smitty]

14. A classic

[ok222]

15. AHHHH

the days.

[ok222]

16. Don't forget the Commadore P.E.T. computer =)

[RC]

17. All I had was PONG

Two knobs.

[olddem43]

3. everyone didn't have a cell phone, at least one that

took pictures.

[LibDemAlways]

4. I'm older than you and frequently

tell my 11 year old stuff like:

When I was your age, most tv shows - on the 7 channels available - were still in black and white.

When I was your age, kids played outside all day with little or no adult supervision and no sunscreen.

When I was your age, there were no music videos and there was no MTV.

When I was your age, the Beatles dominated AM radio with hits like "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Lyrics like "your shit don't stank" were unthinkable.

When I was your age many adult women didn't have their ears pierced, and body piercings were unheard of.

When I was your age, kids went to the "kiddie matinee" on Saturday with other kids and parents didn't have to worry about what might be on the screen.

When I was your age, Barry Goldwater was considered a dangerous man and lost an election in a landslide. Today the repukes would consider him a "liberal."

[CRK7376]

25. I'm with you on this one...although

Goldwater was alittle before my time.

Don't forget walking to school

FM radio was not spinning LPs yet

gas was less that a Quarter.....

[Mizmoon]

5. My first computer had 16k

and a cassette tape drive.

That usually knocks em right out.

[Elidor]

6. Old age officially begins the 1st time you say, "When I was your age"

When I was your age, we had to get up to change the channel or adjust the sound. We were too stupid to think of remote controls.

When I was your age, bedtime was 6 pm. 5 if I complained.

There were no computers when I was your age. There was no internet. We watched a lot of tv, and like I said, we had to get up to change the channel.

God, childhood was really awful.

[Mikimouse]

7. When I was your age...

I had to walk to school, in the snow, uphill both ways, in my summer clothes ;cause that's all we had!

Seriously, I had this discussion with my older daughter many years ago when (at the ripe old age of 8) she asked me to buy her a computer for Christmas. My reply was the following: "I'll make a deal with you, I'll buy you a computer to help with your studies when you can work out an integration by parts, labeling each step and explaining why you took the steps, AND get the correct answer. Once I have seen it in your handwriting, I will be satisfied that you are not expecting the machine to do your work for you."

[amerikat]

8. when I was your age.....

This was server!



And this was a router.



And this was a keyboard.

[CRK7376]

26. This was classic!

Thanks for a great laugh...I can identity with all of them

[maveric]

9. We got four channels, no cable in Boston 1956-68.

No video games.

All telephones were tethered to the wall and were made of an indestructable epoxy substance.

No microwaves.

[RC]

19. That was Bakelite

http://www.deco-echoes.com/bakelite.html

http://freespace.virgin.net/neil_allan.c/

[ok222]

11. Anyone have a spare Walker

LOL....

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. Self-delete.

Damn! Wrong thread!

[GOPisEvil]

13. *I* was our family's remote control!

No fancy hand-held devices for us!

[prole_for_peace]

27. Me too. And I used to get yelled at for changing channels

too fast. "Slow down. You'll break it."

And we didn't get cable or a phone until I was sixteen. Horrors...

[AlCzervik]

18. When i was your age my home computer

was a Hewlett Packard scientific calculator.

[smada]

20. I guess I'm borderline old

I remember being amazed the first time I saw a remote controlled TV.

I remember seeing the first computer in someone's home. The computer I used at school had no hard drive. It had 64K of internal memory and I didn't have a single program that was bigger than 1k. The drives were side by side 5.25" floppies. Programming was done is BASIC.

My first video game machine was an Atari 2600. The controller had one joystick and one button.

I remember the transition from single use rockets to the space shuttle.

I remember when there was no such thing as cable TV.

I remember when phones were rotary dial. A "party line" wasn't a 900 sex number, it was a phone connection you shared with your neighbors. There were no cordless phones.

[acmavm]

24. Here's old: I remember that we rarely locked out doors at night and if

we were really good after we took our baths, we could go outside and sit on the porch in our pajamas. We got to go to Dairy Queen and get a "Dilly Bar" once in a while. NOTHING came premade, it was all cooked from scratch (the only prefab food was Kraft Macaroni & Cheese), and later on we had ONE McDonald's, on 78th & Dodge Street.

[marigold20]

29. I remember that McDonalds!

Having a meal there was such a treat.

[CRK7376]

21. My first car had one of the

last 8tracks....

What really makes me feel old is having students who are the sons and daughters of previous students in my high school classroom.

The other biggy is knowing that I've been in the militray longer that most of the junior enlisted kids have been alive...27years of service and still going.....

[LWolf]

22. You know what makes me feel really old?

Reading about how gen X-ers have recognized their own aging process. OMG...I'm a boomer. Sort of; 1960 is pretty much the end of the boomers. If the X-ers are getting old, what am I?

[baldguy]

23. When I was your age...

I had to type - yes T*Y*P*E - in commands to get the computer to do anything. There was no mamby-pamby point and click GOOEY interface, we had a black screen with green TEXT. And the modem needed an ACOUSTIC COUPLER to work.

And we had to get up at 5AM every morning - half hour before we went to bed - and lick the road clean with out tounges!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

28. Word Processors were pencils

Microwaves was a bad day at the beach.

MTV was not even dreamed of yet.

Hell, cable was not even dreamed of yet.

No one had ever heard of Vietnam, Beiruit, Islamabad, Jalabad, Nairobi, or the West Bank.

Gas was so cheap, gas stations had "gas wars" with each other to see who could sell it cheaper.

MPG was not on car stickers. Very few people knew what it meant anyway.

I am sure there are more.

[lpbk2713]

30. A hard drive was a long trip on bad roads.

Ram was some kind of goat. A mouse was something you would set a trap for. A browser was someone walking around in a store.