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I remember when a "slim" calculator was almost an inch thick, could only do basic math and cost around $100 (adjusted for inflation would probably cost $4-500 now)

I remember when the Leafs were good.

I remember the first moon landing.

I remember when women used lots of blue eye shadow and they weren't hookers.

I remember when there was no such thing as "reality TV".

I remember when old cassette tapes used to blow around in the wind on the side of the highways.

I remember when most people smoked.

When the first TV remote became common.

When they helicoptered the top on the CN Tower.

When you couldn't take the schoolbus unless you lived in the next time zone.

Most of mine have been taken so I'll add:

-- Sesame Street wasn't politically correct.
-- You could see Wile Coyote actually hit the ground when he fell.
-- Mr. Dressup wasn't the scary, old, cross dressing man who actually lived down the street and sometimes forgot to dress up at all.
-- George Lucas was making the best movies ever.

>>> Press FFw. a few years. Oops, pressed it to long. Press Rwd. a bit. No, back to FFw. No, Damn missed it again.......

-- Girls bangs pointed up instead of down.
-- I had to admit I really liked Micheal Jackson's Thriller album but refused to buy it because even then he really creeped me out.
-- Levi's were the 'cool' jeans.

Black & white TV
The Beatles on Ed Sulliven
25 cent matinee movies
20 cents a gallon gas

Air raid drills, climbing under our desks and balling up in grammer school while the sirens blasted. Scary stuff now that I look back on it.

Our school bus was manual trans, noisy and clunky, the AC was that little fan in the front, shocks sucked and the big thrill was going over the train tracks, if you were sitting in the back, it would throw you upward.
I was dad's TV remote control for all 6 channels we had to choose from.
When I was bad, I got spanked.
Helmets and knee pads? Ha!
Legos! I guess they're still cool, huh?
Riding around in Dad's Pinto.
Space Invaders on Atari.
5 bucks lasted all day at the arcade.

Okay okay, Ajax, you win.

Cool thread...
I remember the acoustically coupled modems, my dad paying for internet access by the minute and BBS.

I remember when we didn't have a remote control on the TV. For 3 TVs worth of time.
I remember when people believed the Vector W2 might actually be available for sale.
I remember before the internet. Woo!

Sure, make us all cry.

Yes, Jack "wins". But he may not remember winning. That whole "short term" v. "long term" thing

I remember...

Recording 8-tracks off the AM radio on New Year's Eve, when they had the top 100 countdown.

Watergate.

The Gas Crisis.

Daily Vietnam casualty counts on the evening news with Walter Cronkite.

Newspapers being published more than once per day.

B&W TV's with three channels and no remote.

Replacing green monitors with amber ones. Visicalc.

good one.

I remember my mom waking me up to see the Viking Mars landing live on TV, I was 5 years old.

I remember people smoking on movie theaters.