You are too old if you remember.......

[kkt]

When you thought an Apple ][ was hot stuff.

Never.  It was a toy compared to the real computers - mostly mainframes that would either be running batch jobs or shared between 50 users most of the time, unless you logged on in the middle of the night.

[roadman65]

When shopping malls were a thing.  No dead malls but a place to go on a Saturday afternoon and walk around.

I remember blue laws that kept the malls closed on Sundays.

[hotdogPi]

When shopping malls were a thing.

I'm too old if I remember the present?

[Rothman]

Dead malls have been around over my multi-decade lifetime, so we must be talking OLD.

[mgk920]

Dead malls have been around over my multi-decade lifetime, so we must be talking OLD.

Like that late 1970s Saturday Night Live skit about the 'Schotch Boutique' (one of the last remaining stores in a dying mall).

Mike

[CtrlAltDel]

the Franco-Prussian War
the French Commune
the publication of Around the World in Eighty Days
US Civil War Reconstruction
the establishment of Yellowstone National Park

[kphoger]

....... the Maine.

[roadman65]

John Belushi and Gilda Radner on SNL.

[elsmere241]

When you thought an Apple ][ was hot stuff.

Never.  It was a toy compared to the real computers - mostly mainframes that would either be running batch jobs or shared between 50 users most of the time, unless you logged on in the middle of the night.

I was six years old when I first saw one, and hadn't really seen any other computers.  (Though the one at Kmart had a reel-to-reel tape drive.)

[roadman65]

When panhandling was only tolerated ( and seen) in urban areas.  You never ( or rarely) saw them in suburban or rural areas.

[formulanone]

When you thought an Apple ][ was hot stuff.

Never.  It was a toy compared to the real computers - mostly mainframes that would either be running batch jobs or shared between 50 users most of the time, unless you logged on in the middle of the night.

I was six years old when I first saw one, and hadn't really seen any other computers.  (Though the one at Kmart had a reel-to-reel tape drive.)

With the exception of playing games on an Atari 2600 and a Magnavox Odyssey, the Apple ][ was my first exposure to computers, as they had one in the back of our classroom when I was 8. Of course, that meant playing exactly one educational game: "Guess the President" (I forget the actual name) for about 5-10 minutes. Didn't see Oregon Trail until 7-8th grade, but by then, I was a little more interested in mucking around with BASIC coding than dying of dysentery.

[kkt]

When Kaiser was most famous for building ships.

[D-Dey65]

When you had to wait till the weekends to see and talk soup with your friends as cell phones were a fantasy of the future.

I thought cell phones existed at the same time as Talk Soup. In fact, I thought they were around before Talk Soup.

[ZLoth]

When you thought an Apple ][ was hot stuff.

I still miss Appleworks on a IIe...

Appleworks... now that's a name I haven't heard in three decades.

[ZLoth]

When most homes had only one television, and your broadcast area had a CBS affiliate, NBC affiliate, ABC affiliate, and maybe a independent station. You had to schedule your life around your favorite program, and if you missed it, it would be months before it was repeated. Often, the hierarchy of selecting what program to watch was in the order of dad the breadwinner, mom the homemaker, and then maybe the kids (which is why Saturday mornings were coveted).

When car radios came with AM as standard, but FM was an expensive addition, not to mention 8-track player that really only had four tracks (the left and right audio channels were considered separate tracks).

Roadside call boxes. I never used one.

Rax Roast Beef. Only six locations remain as far as I can determine.

The Ponderosa Ranch on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

When a long distance call was so expensive, someone would yell out "It's long distance" if a relative was calling. Thus, letter writing.

The Baltimore Colts and how their move made the national news.

Howard Cosell.

The 1980 catch-phrase "Who shot JR?"

1970s gas lines and odd/even days.

[1995hoo]

....

The 1980 catch-phrase "Who shot JR?"

....

Around that time, there was a steakhouse named J.R.'s in Fairfax, Virginia, located where this Indian restaurant is now. (The restaurant was not affiliated with J.R.'s Stockyards Inn in Tysons Corner.) Our family used to go there periodically and I remember a time when we went there in 1980 and the maitre d' was somewhat taken aback when I, a kid of seven years, asked whether the restaurant was going to close. He wondered why until I said, "Someone shot the owner." I think my parents were both amused and embarrassed.

[hotdogPi]

Roadside call boxes. I never used one.

I remember them. My mother used one, and nobody answered on the other end. About 30 minutes later, again, and it didn't even go through because the people on the other side didn't clear it to allow it to be used again. If they responded properly, my father would not have died from being hit two hours later. This made national news, by the way.

This is why call boxes got removed.

[Rothman]

When you thought an Apple ][ was hot stuff.

I still miss Appleworks on a IIe...

Appleworks... now that's a name I haven't heard in three decades.

Introduced me to spreadsheets and I've been hooked ever since.

[kurumi]

When most homes had only one television, and your broadcast area had a CBS affiliate, NBC affiliate, ABC affiliate, and maybe a independent station. You had to schedule your life around your favorite program, and if you missed it, it would be months before it was repeated.

"They'll never let us show that again! Not in a million years!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57EvSk4lI70

[GCrites]

When most homes had only one television, and your broadcast area had a CBS affiliate, NBC affiliate, ABC affiliate, and maybe a independent station. You had to schedule your life around your favorite program, and if you missed it, it would be months before it was repeated. Often, the hierarchy of selecting what program to watch was in the order of dad the breadwinner, mom the homemaker, and then maybe the kids (which is why Saturday mornings were coveted).

No way were the kids playing video games when Dad's sporting event was on.

[Rothman]

I remember when ice cream was sold by the half gallon.

[D-Dey65]

When most homes had only one television, and your broadcast area had a CBS affiliate, NBC affiliate, ABC affiliate, and maybe a independent station. You had to schedule your life around your favorite program, and if you missed it, it would be months before it was repeated. Often, the hierarchy of selecting what program to watch was in the order of dad the breadwinner, mom the homemaker, and then maybe the kids (which is why Saturday mornings were coveted).

Since I'm a brother of twins, despite being older, I ended up at the bottom of that hierarchy. Plus, where I grew up, there were a few more independent stations, some PBS stations, and a lot of others with bad signals.

Roadside call boxes. I never used one.

I have at least a couple of times once I was dragged down to Florida.

1970s gas lines and odd/even days.

And yet there are still people who think the '70's was some golden age. I cite this as one of the reasons the future died in 1973.

[mgk920]

Paper paychecks.

 

Mke

[bing101]

You're too old if you remember Yahoo and AOL as "Big Tech" in the dot-com bubbles of the 1990s.

https://www.cameronsworld.net/


Also Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod were the Website host and builders before WordPress, Joomla, Wix and Squarespace took over.

[Big John]

Netscape