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DanHoo said:
Never did AOL or MySpace.
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I never did MySpace, but I did all the rest.

We had this thread going for a couple of years...

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Thread 'You know you're getting old when...'

You can add you own "You know you're getting old when..." post to this thread, if so inclined. Please keep it as positive as possible, a thread like this can easily become a gripe fest if we're not careful. :)


You know you're getting old when...you start waxing nostalgic about towels. I was clearing out some cabinets in the laundry room and came across these. Boy, they were expensive back in the day but I always felt they were worth the money because of their quality. From a time when we still had a textile industry in America. I looked up Kannapolis, NC online to see how...
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Bob Bailey said:
No AOL or MySpace.

You're older if you ever bought from a J.C. Whitney or Sears Roebuck catalog. Older yet if you remember when a transistor radios quality was rated by the number of transistors.
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My folks bought everything from Sears & Roebuck back in the day; even the seat belts my Dad installed in the 1962 Ford Galaxy 500 that my folks had. Back then, cars didn't come with seat belts from the factory.
As for the transistor count in radios, I think that was a holdover from tube radios - the more tubes or transistors, the better they had to sound(!).
Regarding the survey, I had 20 out of 24. No AOL, except for the coasters, err, I mean the disks they used to mail out. No MySpace. No Atari, though I recall using a friend's Magnavox Odyssey...even older. Lastly, I didn't do the Columbia House thing; never had enough money back then.
 
Keith Jenkins said:
My folks bought everything from Sears & Roebuck back in the day; even the seat belts my Dad installed in the 1962 Ford Galaxy 500 that my folks had. Back then, cars didn't come with seat belts from the factory.
As for the transistor count in radios, I think that was a holdover from tube radios - the more tubes or transistors, the better they had to sound(!).
Regarding the survey, I had 20 out of 24. No AOL, except for the coasters, err, I mean the disks they used to mail out. No MySpace. No Atari, though I recall using a friend's Magnavox Odyssey...even older. Lastly, I didn't do the Columbia House thing; never had enough money back then.
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You're probably not going to believe this, but when Columbia House was sinking fast, they actually sent me a demand letter, saying I hadn't fulfilled my membership obligation. I told them to pound sand and prove it in court. Never heard from them again.
 
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