BBassett

"When I was a kid..." What comes to mind to you? What has changed? What no longer exists since you were born.

When I was a kid cans didn't have pull tabs.

When I was a kid there were no color tv's.

When I was a kid all telephones were black.

When I was a kid I got a chemistry set that had Mercury in it.

When I was a kid the 1st computer (ENIAC) wasn't built yet.

When I was a kid 33 1/3 albums hadn't been designed.

When I was a kid there was a thing call 8-track tapes.

When I was a kid a bunch of families shared the same line.

VegasTriker

33 1/3 rpm records may have been first used in 1931 but it wasn't until 1948 that they became commonly available for ordinary home use and began to replace the 12" 78 rpm records most people played. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record. I even remember the first person I knew to have an 8-track tape player in his Ford Mustang. I remember all of the things listed in BBasset's post and probably a lot more but it just shows some of us are older than dirt. I remember when those old 78 records were used by carnivals as targets for their baseball throws. They must have bought them by the pound.

jon c. 

When I was a kid, road bikes had 10 speeds

canklecat

When I was a kid I dreaded stories that began with "When I was a kid..."

Wileyrat

When I was a kid, being a kid was a lot different than it is now.

Machka 

Thank you for making me feel like 50 is actually quite young.

martianone

My kids (now grown), hated it when I said "when I was a kid".
They still do.

Steve B.

When I was a kid

- Air conditioning in a car was a luxury. Nobody I knew had power windows

- Single ring tone on the phone

- We got our milk from the milk man, glasses bottles that got put into a metal insulated box on the back porch.

- TV channels 2-4-5-7-9-11 and sometimes 13

- There was no such thing as Chinese takeout (near where we lived)

- A slice of pizza was 25 cents.

- We Knew the mailman’s name

AlmostTrick

I walked or rode my bike to school everyday. 10 miles, uphill in the snow... And grumpy old guys yelled at us kids to get off their lawn.

bkentr

When I was a kid, there were still lots of people that loved their neighbors, were kind to oldsters,
looked forward to the "future', had families with a mom and a dad, loved their country, and believed in God.

kentr

Hondo Gravel

We had a party line phone and grandma would always ease drop and only 3 TV channel where we had to turn the antenna pole with a pair of vice grips depending on what channel you wanted to watch. Atari was the greatest thing ever at that time especially Missle Command.

downtube42

Was?

BBassett

Nice group!

Machka 

When I was a kid, there were colour TVs ... but we did have to get up to change the channels.

When I was a kid, telephones came in all sorts of different colours ... but they did have to be attached to the wall.

When I was a kid, 8-tracks were going the way of the dodo and cassette players were the thing.

When I was a slightly older kid, we got our first PC and I also started taking computer courses in early high school.

When I was a kid, I transitioned through the 5" floppies to the 3.5" floppies.

When I was a kid, road bicycles had 10 gears and cycling kit was wool ... when I was a slightly older kid, road bicycles suddenly developed all sorts of gears. I had a 27-speed back in the day!

When I was a kid, fast food was for holidays or occasional weekends. And in my really early days, A&Ws were still drive up and food was delivered to your car window. But that went out of fashion by the time I was maybe 10.

When I was a kid, there were still a few drive-ins around. Most were gone, but you could still find the occasional one.

And milk was found in the store ... along with everything else. But one of the houses we lived in was a bit older and had a milk door.

BBassett

Not so sure you understood the point, but ok.

Machka 

Ease drop.


Funny autocorrect on that one.

AlmostTrick

I hope you didn't take any offense, because none was intended. I was just being silly in a thread that had nothing to do with cycling. Carry on.

Hondo Gravel

eaves·drop
ˈēvzˌdräp/Submit
verb:
secretly listen to a conversation.
"she opened the window just enough to eavesdrop on the conversation outside"

I flunked spelling in school.

Retro Grouch 

When I was a kid I didn't know there was such a thing as a road bike. I was in my 2nd or 3rd year of college before I saw my first 10-speed.

B. Carfree

I think I'm living your childhood.
My car doesn't have AC or power windows, but I don't drive it either. (If I absolutely need to drive, I rent something nice. Otherwise, I walk, ride my bike or take the train.)
I did just trade in my land-line for a smart phone a few months ago, so I missed that one.
While we no longer have a milk man, I do walk a km to pick up my milk in returnable glass bottles.
Hmm, no TV so I'm a little down on the channel number.
I'm sure there's a Chinese take-out somewhere in this city, I've just never used it.
Our pizza slices are $2.50, but that's probably about a right adjusting for inflation.
I've known my mail carrier's name for fourteen years. My prior one is even a Facebook friend; she changed routes because of arthritis in her feet and upper body ailments stemming from a drunk driver ramming her. I also know my new carrier and he also has arthritis in his feet and a host of other ailments. It's a tough job.

B. Carfree

I had a Ford Mustang with an 8-track in high school. Funny enough, my wife grew up just over the hill from me and also had a mustang, as did her sister and our best friend. They sure made a lot of those things. However, I was the only one dumb enough to put an 8-track in.

Rollfast

Both right for different reasons. 33 1/3 was used by a failed home recording system and for experimental records with stereophonic sound made by Bell Laboratories, I have a commercial LP release of some of those recordings release I think in the late seventies to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Edison's invention of phonograph recording.


Which is not the earliest method of recording sound, but the phonautograph was not a mechanical playback device but rather a plotting of sounds on paper that modern computers transformed into audio with a program. Even that needed tweaking, the early transformation thought to be a woman singing Claire de la lune was actually a male's voice as it was recorded improperly. Other examples are of noise levels in train stations. The system was never intended to be a recording device but lent itself to this once science discovered how to make the transformations.

Rollfast

The ice cream truck had an 8-track of all his jingly songs, I suppose there is a CD with bad quality ding-dongs for that now.


My cousin had the first three Van Halen albums on 8 track and that's how I was introduced to them.


I have 4 tracks that preceded them. You can advance to 2 and 4 or 1 and 3 on an 8 track player and get two stereo programs, just half of the channel each time, so it's not a huge deal, unless you don't have the 'gidget' or roller that's needed and part of an 8 track, no gidget', no playback. Fortunately you can swap 'em.


After years of saving old computer files I can still find web addresses that are long since gone and no longer archived and programs I can't hope to use or games I can't begin to play.


No matter how much I cull them I'm still getting them from backups. Six gigabytes worth.


I had a Gateway 2000 tower that needed a CARD to use a CD-ROM drive.


I had a 286 with DOS Wheel Of Fortune and Vanna looked like she was wearing huge wooden clogs and walked like a Geisha (which was sorta hilarious except that the style of CMOS battery cell wasn't replaceable and it was a crappy Packard-Bell that I never ended up archiving from before it basically just totally died on me, they were JUNK anyway).


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My father was not pleased when I took my bike apart and couldn't put it back together.

md11mx

When I was a kid the TV stations turned off at 11 PM, all two of them. CBS on one channel, NBC/ABC on the other. NBC/ABC came on at noon. CBS seven AM.
Cheers,
David
Way up North

CliffordK

Don't you mean they pulled all the way off, so you could toss them back into the can, then swallow them?