9. Using a typewriter
Hipster millennials might claim to use typewriters, but they don’t know the frustration of messing up a word on the last line of a piece of paper.
10. Looking up numbers in the phonebook
Nowadays, you can Google just about anything and get the answer in seconds. Back in the day, you had to know exactly what you were looking for before searching the phone book.
11. Using knobs on the TV to change channels
Thank goodness you didn’t have to do this for 800 channels.
12. The five-and-dime store
Back when you could get things for a nickel or a dime! Now you have to go to the dollar store for cheap items.
13. The very first season of Saturday Night Live
Do you remember when Chevy Chase started the Weekend Update segment?
14. Wood-paneled station wagons
Your dad came home with this bad boy and wanted to show it off to all of your neighbors.
15. Talking to an operator
If you still try to dial 0, then you know.
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R. Pickering says
I was born in February of 1961 but oddly enough, I remember when JFK was shot. I also remember watching the Ed Sullivan Show and seeing the Beatles perform for the first time in America. I guess some things make such an impact on you that you remember them. For anyone who thinks I was too young to remember JFK’s assassination, what I remember most is the networks re-running the funeral procession for three days. I remember being really miffed because it cut into my cartoon time. I was only allowed to watch 2 hrs. of TV a day, an hour in the morning and an hour after dinner. We had one television in our house–in the living room, no remote. At night we had to watch what my dad wanted to watch. Everything was so different from the way kids are raised today. Sometimes I feel like I grew up on another planet.
Tim says
I remember the first season of SNL. In fact it was called Saturday Night. Chevy Chase would start the pratfall saying Live From New York Its Saturday Night. He was mocking then President Gerald Ford by falling. Pres Ford had slipped on an airplane ramp.
Chevy would start the Weekend Update by saying “Im Chevy Chase and your not”. He would also end WU by having a segment for the hard of hearing with Garret Morris shouting the first headline.
Tim says
The first episode of Saturday Night was hosted by George Carlin and the musical guests were Janis Ian and Billy Preston.
David Alan says
Gen X here, remember all of that