Remember when ?

[subaro]

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Going to the cane fields to suck cane juice, till belly was overfilled and enjoying every bit of it. It was illegal to do that and we had to hide from the security that patrolled the fields. Different story, when the fields were burnt for harvest, then we were allowed to take a few pieces. We used our teeth to peel the cane, some had knives.

[subaro]

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Remember When...
Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And if you had a 3-inch floppy . . . You just hoped nobody ever found out!

[KenB]

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Remember When...
Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And if you had a 3-inch floppy . . . You just hoped nobody ever found out!

"Modem" was what you did to da weeds

[MjarbarV2.0]

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Remember when MTV actually played music videos?

Not anymore.

I still remember MTV Raps and Headbangers Ball, especally when Anthrax gatecrashed a kids birthday party!

Tried to find it on Youtube but no luck

[Lagonda]

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Remember when..........

Cars had starting handles, how else did you turn the motor over to adjust the tappets?
When they had running boards?
Vacuum powered windscreen wipers? The faster you went the slower they got.
When front disc brakes where only available on expensive sporty models?
When only racing cars had aluminium radiators?
When an auto gearbox was an expensive option? Now you have to pay extra to get a manual box.
I was also going to say when cars had starter buttons but they seem to be back in vogue again.

[Iowatech]

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Yeah, remember when a car's automatic transmission only had two or three gears? On most cars you can't get one with less than four gears now, at least around here anyway.
A while back, the Chevy two gear automatic transmission was prized by drag racers.
How about engines you had to crank with your hands to start? Granted, I'm far to young to have experienced this when it was the main way to start an engine, but I have come across a couple of them. God help you if the thing backfires while you try to start it (especially old John Deere tractors that you actually had to turn the flyweel to start). Magnetos powered the spark plugs on those, no battery needed.

[subaro]

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Back in the '70s, my first job was at an electronics store, a competitor for Radio Shack at the time.

We carried, by special order only, some of the first cordless telephones.

The price? $750. That would be like paying $5,000 or more today.

Ah, yes the days of landline only. When the shout, bob phone and you had to leave what you doing, even if you were under the car and run upstairs only to hear some salesman wanting to sell you some thing. rotary dial too. misdial a number, do it all over again. what about your sister using the phone and the whole set of noise to get here off, cause only one line and don't disturb her gossip. not to long ago.
the fights for the phone, or waiting for an expected call and the phone always busy, one of the siblings on for ages.

[ZOOTECH]

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I remember my dad told me "do not crank the handle" with your thumb around the handle; a back fire would take your thumb off!

[KenB]

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Yeah, remember when a car's automatic transmission only had two or three gears? On most cars you can't get one with less than four gears now, at least around here anyway.
A while back, the Chevy two gear automatic transmission was prized by drag racers.
How about engines you had to crank with your hands to start? Granted, I'm far to young to have experienced this when it was the main way to start an engine, but I have come across a couple of them. God help you if the thing backfires while you try to start it (especially old John Deere tractors that you actually had to turn the flyweel to start). Magnetos powered the spark plugs on those, no battery needed.

My friend's Dad had a '64 Pontiac Bonneville back in the day.

It was considered really special to have an automatic transmission that actually had four forward speeds.

My first car was a '63 Chevy Impala, and it had the two speed automatic in it, along with a 283 V8 engine.

[subaro]

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I am not as old to remember hand crank engines working, though i have seen a few. [15 yrs or so behind you guys] I have seen one zepher automatic car where the driver change functions of the drive by push buttons on the dash.

[fixthecopier]

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I remember when you pulled up to a store, pumped your gas then went in and paid for it.

I remember when you wrote a check, and then you still had about 3 or 4 days to get the money in the bank.

I remember my mom eating this diet candy called Aydes. pronounced aids

I remember taping a nickle to the end of the arm on a turntable to play records that were badly scratched.

[KenB]

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I am not as old to remember hand crank engines working, though i have seen a few. [15 yrs or so behind you guys] I have seen one zepher automatic car where the driver change functions of the drive by push buttons on the dash.

I had a '64 Dodge Dart with a push button tranny.

You flipped a small lever to the right to put it in Park.

[subaro]

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I remember when you pulled up to a store, pumped your gas then went in and paid for it.

I remember when you wrote a check, and then you still had about 3 or 4 days to get the money in the bank.

I remember my mom eating this diet candy called Aydes. pronounced aids

I remember taping a nickle to the end of the arm on a turntable to play records that were badly scratched.

Talking about turntable. we had an old philips tube radio,turtable combo. Whenever our cousin will come over, she would just play this record over and over and over. this is how i still remember the name. who remember this tune.

[Iowatech]

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I always liked the odor of ozone that would come out of tube radios or TVs.

[KenB]

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In 1954, this was what the "home computer" of 2004 was expected to look like: