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Originally posted by aephi alum
I have some more...
... TVs didn't have remotes (the first did have wires)
... Cable wasn't offered in your area (until I went to college)
... TVs could tune channels 2-13, and maybe you could pull in a UHF station or two if you had a good antenna (and the UHF's were mostly "educational" TV
... Black and white TVs (!)
... A 300-baud modem was fast
... You wanted to buy a home computer, and your choices were IBM or Apple ... or, there was no such thing as a home computer
... You picked up a pay phone to make a collect call, and a human operator handled the call (or any phone)
... Pay phone calls cost a dime (and they didn't time out)
... You called any business (utility, etc) and a human being instead of an IVR system answered the phone (I miss human contact)
... Phone numbers started with two letters: HUnter 6-1234 (and before that two letters and four numbers JEfferson 3040)
... Having to make sure you were putting UNleaded gas in your car (Hi Test or regular before there was unleaded gas)
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I love these because I remember all of them. ( ) above are mine.
American Bandstand was on every afternoon.
Soft Drinks out of machines were a nickle.
"Mixed" soft drinks (Cherry Cokes, etc.) were a dime.
Sesame Street had not been invented.
Vietnam was called French Indochina and nobody had heard of it.
Saturday Night Live was funny (strange echo in here).
Professional basketball players went to college first.
Mini-skirts hadn't been invented yet (ugh, the dark ages!)
Mini-skirts weren't allowed in school.
Women had "hours" in college dorms.
Damn, I could go on for a long time. Thankfully for all of you, I won't.