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59. Every now and then, it dawns on me....

Thu Sep 19, 2024, 05:42 AM

Sep 19

...that there is, and always will be, only one group of humans, throughout all of our human history, who will have known life through both an "analog", non-digital experience of the world, and the digital human experience that has now erased that prior life.

And it is us, who are the only group who will ever know both sides of that bridge.

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Funny And Relatable Posts By People Who Just Realized That They're Old Now [View all] Bayard Sep 18 OP

We must be the same age! MLAA Sep 18 #1

Yup, all of the above! WestMichRad Sep 18 #2

I still have a few pieces of Corning Ware and they still come in handy yellowdogintexas Nov 18 #74

Well, at 78 I figured I was old, but good grief I recognized everything. Biophilic Sep 18 #3

I'm old too. MiKenMi33 Sep 18 #4

I found a Spirograph NJCher Sep 19 #51

What a great find! MiKenMi33 Sep 19 #66

I gave my 5 yr old granddaughter a Jr Spirograph for her birthday. yellowdogintexas Nov 18 #75

Every one of those things is familiar to me. Ocelot II Sep 18 #5

EVERY single one Kali Sep 18 #6

We had a rotary phone Delmette2.0 Sep 19 #67

I know all of these, and have comments or anecdotes about all of them ms liberty Sep 18 #7

Good gravy, I'm old! LoisB Sep 18 #8

I didnt recognize three, but that was FUN !!!! Karadeniz Sep 18 #9

Didn't know 64 was so old pat_k Sep 18 #10

Yep. Every one of 'em! some_of_us_are_sane Sep 18 #11

Yep Charlie Chapulin Sep 18 #12

You're old when the rebellious songs of your youth are played in the elevator - on the pan flute. oldfart73 Sep 18 #13

Got all of them! birdographer Sep 18 #14

Remember all of them and both my cars still have wind down windows and 5 on the floor transmissions. sinkingfeeling Sep 18 #15

Okay, ACED IT Just Jerome Sep 18 #16

Looking at these pictures brought back a bunch of forgotten stuff in my life! kimbutgar Sep 18 #17

Waterbeds were hard to get out of NJCher Sep 19 #52

Every last one of these takes me down a memory hole. Ferrets are Cool Sep 18 #18

I am old. Lots of memories there. Thank you. BoomaofBandM Sep 18 #19

I remember all of them wendyb-NC Sep 18 #20

Waterbeds. :) highplainsdem Sep 18 #21

Damn. sorcrow Sep 18 #22

I remember all of these. Come on! Being old is FUN? sueh Sep 18 #23

I must be reallllly old. I remember all of them. niyad Sep 18 #24

The Gods Must Be Crazy mountain grammy Sep 18 #25

I wanted to watch this with my grandchildren but it was nowhere to be found. NH Ethylene Sep 18 #43

The video quality isn't great, but it is on markodochartaigh Nov 18 #79

Thanks! I never think of YouTube. NH Ethylene Nov 18 #85

I will always be able to drive a manual transmission OAITW r.2.0 Sep 18 #26

I remember all of these things. Especially the window crank. Well...all of them...n/t PatrickforB Sep 18 #27

Kids, I was doing DOS before windows 95 came along. Enter stage left Sep 18 #28

I loved 3.1 with the little lines of file folders happybird Sep 18 #30

Windows 7 was the last iteration I ever liked. Enter stage left Sep 18 #31

I was there for Windows I Picaro Sep 19 #62

Apologize if off topic but early Windows OS-s weren't really GUI EverHopeful Sep 19 #48

"Memories" Fla Dem Nov 19 #86

I can even remember NJCher Sep 19 #54

49 and I remember all of them happybird Sep 18 #29

I felt like we needed one more Bristlecone Sep 18 #32

What I wouldn't give to watch Grandma narrate a slide show happybird Sep 18 #36

Still have mine ... and hundreds of old slides. Winder if KPN Sep 18 #42

Yeah, I'm old Picaro Sep 18 #33

Thanks for the blast from the past! Kittycatkat Sep 18 #34

I remember all BUT the Spirograph. No idea what that was. DFW Sep 18 #35

Here's a spirograph video for you: femmedem Sep 19 #53

That was fun! NJCher Sep 19 #55

Looks like a discovery rating just behind electricity, antibiotics and the wheel DFW Sep 19 #64

I remember ALL of that ... dchill Sep 18 #37

I never had a waterbed, but... LudwigPastorius Sep 18 #38

You can't get one now NJCher Sep 19 #56

Try two kittens playing on a waterbed mattress during the seconds it's uncovered while you're highplainsdem Sep 19 #68

I had three kitties, and they LOVED my waterbed. One of them used to niyad Nov 18 #82

I remember them all. FuzzyRabbit Sep 18 #39

We mixed it up NJCher Sep 19 #57

Oh, c'mon Windows 98 isn't even old. (And more stuff too) hvn_nbr_2 Sep 18 #40

Oops. Forgot to mention: The road with the 3000 foot cliff had no guardrail. nt hvn_nbr_2 Sep 18 #41

What an interesting life you must lead NJCher Sep 19 #58

Yup- On a twisty mountain California road last summer, I was downshifting into first on coastal hairpin turns. You'd be NBachers Sep 19 #61

I remember, and used most of these. Never did a "will not talk in class" type punishment... electric_blue68 Sep 18 #44

The crank is part of a pencil sharpener. Ocelot II Sep 18 #46

The crank is for rolling down the windows... 3catwoman3 Sep 18 #47

Well, I'm officially old. bamagal62 Sep 18 #45

The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of my favorites EverHopeful Sep 19 #49

Yes yes yes I'm 73 I remember all those 👍😁 TommieMommy Sep 19 #50

Every now and then, it dawns on me.... Think. Again. Sep 19 #59

Too funny. I still have mine. Phoenix61 Sep 19 #60

To get ice cubes, there was actually this chrome crowbar-type thing that was used to dig & pry the ice trays out of the NBachers Sep 19 #63

I was using Windows 98 when I first signed onto DU. hunter Sep 19 #65

I had an Osborne for my first computer, was using it when I first ran on online forum on politics and tech in highplainsdem Sep 19 #69

Every freekin one. Prairie_Seagull Sep 19 #70

I didn't think fifty-five was old. Aristus Sep 19 #71

How did I miss this thread ❓ Duppers Nov 16 #72

We flipped through casette tapes in the big plastic cases, not records, and I only recognize two petronius Nov 17 #73

A local live theater has converted the cigarette machine into an art dispenser yellowdogintexas Nov 18 #76

An art dispenser!!! Nittersing Nov 19 #90

I still drive one of these. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 18 #77

I remember them all. sheshe2 Nov 18 #78

How about using a xt computer duncang Nov 18 #80

I remember all of them. SamKnause Nov 18 #81

OMG. bamagal62 Nov 18 #83

All your health care providers are younger than you yellowdogintexas Nov 18 #84

Endless more examples Danascot Nov 19 #87

All Of Them, But... ProfessorGAC Nov 19 #88

I score 100%. Harker Nov 19 #89

I miissed a few, but soldierant Nov 19 #91

Who remembers these? Mosby Nov 19 #92

I remember some of those sakabatou Nov 19 #93

All of them! Aristus Nov 19 #94

I guess snot Nov 20 #95