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We were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and The Pill.

 

We were born before radar, credit cards, split atoms, lazer beams, and ballpoint pens.

 

Before pantihose, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets, air conditioners, drip-dry clothes and before man walked on the moon.

 

We got married first and then lived together. How quaint can you be?

 

We were before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers, and computer marriages.

 

We were before day-care centers, group therapy and nursing homes.

 

We never heard of FM radio, tape decks, electric typewriters, artificial hearts, wordprocessors, yogurt, and guys wearing earrings.

 

For us, time sharing meant togetherness, not computers or condominiums. A "chip" meant a piece of wood; hardware meant hardware, and software wasn't even a word.

 

In 1940, "Made in Japan" meant junk and the term "making out" referred to how you did on your exam.

 

Pizzas, "MacDonald's" and instant coffee were unheard of.

We hit the scene when there were 5 cent and 10 cent stores where you bought things for five and ten cents.

 

You could buy ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime. For one nickel you could ride a street car, make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards.

 

You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, but who could afford one? A pity, too, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

 

In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable.

GRASS was mowed.

COKE was a cold drink.

POT was something you cooked in.

ROCK MUSIC was a grandmother's lullaby and AIDS were helpers in the Principal's office.

 

We were certainly not before the difference between the sexes was discovered, but we were surely before the sex change; we made do with what we had.

 

And we were the last generation that was so dumb as to think you needed a husband to have a baby.

 

So, if you are over 40 you remember......if you are under 40 you don't believe it.......

I remember when GI Joe was just a little guy (about the size of HE-Man)!

I also remember everything in the initial post...

charlie914 says ...

I remember when GI Joe was just a little guy (about the size of HE-Man)!

I also remember everything in the initial post...

Oh yeah I played with some GI Joes too!  The little ones of course.  I don't think I've ever even seen a Barbie size GI Joe.

Of course I have to pick on you old(er) guys.  In 12 more years ( just a couple years shy of being half my life) I will be calling myself old and asking the other old guys, "do you remember when...?".

charlie914 says ...

Flerd says ...

charlie914 says ...

I remember when GI Joe was just a little guy (about the size of HE-Man)!

I also remember everything in the initial post...

Oh yeah I played with some GI Joes too!  The little ones of course.  I don't think I've ever even seen a Barbie size GI Joe.

Yeah... He had a kewl tank and an F-14 LOL!!!

Are you talking about the old school ones? 

Flerd says ...

charlie914 says ...

Flerd says ...

charlie914 says ...

I remember when GI Joe was just a little guy (about the size of HE-Man)!

I also remember everything in the initial post...

Oh yeah I played with some GI Joes too!  The little ones of course.  I don't think I've ever even seen a Barbie size GI Joe.

Yeah... He had a kewl tank and an F-14 LOL!!!

Are you talking about the old school ones? 

 

Yep! Those were the ones! I think he also had an attack helicopter....

irishdm says ...

Flerd says ...

charlie914 says ...

My first home computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 512kb of memory. The Internet as we know it today did not exist at the time...

And I though 512 mb was small!  My first home computer was a Speak and Spell. 

 

 

My first computer was an abacus.

roflmao, Thats a funny word!  What is that?  j/k  I think the Japanese still teach their children how to use an abacus.

NOw I do remember in 4th or 5th being introduced to using a calculator but not being able to use it on school work.  By the time I made it to middle school scientific calculators were required in algebra

charlie914 says ...

Flerd says ...

NOw I do remember in 4th or 5th being introduced to using a calculator but not being able to use it on school work.  By the time I made it to middle school scientific calculators were required in algebra

My first year in college, we were not permitted to use calculators. At that time, they had just stared with a TI-50, I believe. It used LEDs for display

It's a lost art.  I wish I could do math without a caclulator.  LED's-lol it must have been huge!

The TI-50 was the first US-built slimline scientifical calculator from Texas Instruments. It used a low-power CMOS integrated circuit manufactured by TI instead the Toshiba circuit in the previous TI-25. Another big advantage of the TI design was the great AOS system with up to 3 pending operations within 15 parantheses.

Manufacturing cost of the slimline models was not too high, the whole calculator uses one flexible printed circuit board (Flex-PCB) with the integrated circuit and a LCD-module. You won't find any soldering or usage of screws within the calculator.

I don't guess it was too big at all.

I was wrong... It was the TI-55... Not the TI-50 that had LEDs....

I believe it was the ti-85 we used even though I never learn how to.

I remember the landing on the moon and telephones that you "dialed".

Does anyone remember how big the Bicentennial celebration was?

charlie914 says ...

My first home computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 512kb of memory. The Internet as we know it today did not exist at the time...

charlie, I remember the TRS-80, had one myself, it played off of a cassette.

 I remember Sonny AND Cher!