Geez - flashback city!
I remember the old version of the "remote control" for the TV - it was my dad making ME get up, walk over, and turn to the correct channel (of which there were only a total of 13 available to choose from, of those, only 5 were channels we actually received a signal on!) And of course, the fine tuning of the rabbit ears depending on which channel - that always took time to get right.
I remember our FIRST microwave in 1979 - way before microwaved dinners or even microwave popcorn came out (and, for those of us fogies, remember the first brands of microwave popcorn had to be stored frozen until ready to pop!?)
We used to have a three-way party line at our house in Montana.
Never had cable until a Junior in High School. First saw cable in 7th grade, and HBO was WAY different - just a carrier signal between movies (no special filler segments, fancy introductions, etc... -just a blank screen with a text announcement of when the next movie would be shown).
Wow - I just don't FEEL old anymore, now I know I AM old!
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