fugitive247
Feeling old af on here tonight, therefore... ISO people of Mastodon who remember life before microwave ovens, cable tv, push button landlines, and the like. Not into griping or geezing, but some generational familiarity would be welcome. Cheers, folks.
Aug 30, 2018 at 1:31amWeb
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@fugitive247 Warming leftovers on the stove... ah, those were the days.

Also, to hear a song you liked? Hope to get lucky on the radio, or go buy a flat vinyl disk and try desperately to not scratch it.

Show threaddeejoeAug 30, 2018

@mwlucas @fugitive247

explaining to your kid what "unleaded" means

Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Aug 30, 2018

@fugitive247 I remember the Krell.

AMA.

Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Aug 30, 2018
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Show threadKaren CAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 "If it doesn't say Amana, it's not a RadaRange!"
Show threadSereneTabbieAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 I went to the first and last Warped Tours. Just bought a floral print, harvest colors accent chair (and it's fabulous) that reminds me of childhood. Cheers to you too!
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 It was well into the late 1980s (probably around 1988) when my family first got a microwave, we still had dial telephones in Britain (even in London) until 1990, and cable TV only arrived in the town I then lived in around 1994!
Show threadfugitive247Aug 30, 2018
@vfrmedia If it's any consolation, there are rural tech "dead zones" here in the Ozarks (Arkansas/Missouri) whose residents are lucky to have landlines with sketchy dsl. I. Can't Even. 🤔 😜
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 one of the rural sites I work at (15km away from town) only got VDSL 2 months ago (before that we were using a cursed satellite link (laggy, and got slower as you went through the allowance) and then a WLAN connection from a tech company nearby that had earlier purchased a leased fibre optic circuit from British Telecom, but we were charged per gigabyte for using that, our latest connection (also from BT!) is unlimited...
Show threadFederico Mena QuinteroAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 check, check, check, check.
Show threadmkbAug 30, 2018

@fugitive247 I remember life before any of those things, vividly but not necessarily fondly.

In some circles it’s hard enough just to talk about the ‘net existing before the web. 😦

Show threadIrinaAug 30, 2018

@fugitive247 My parents bought their first TV to watch the first moon landing. (And got me out of bed in the middle of the night to watch it too -- I was eleven and a half).

(Most of the examples in the thread are so US-centered that I don't recognise them)

Show threadAlexQAug 30, 2018

@fugitive247

Welcome to my lawn!

Show threadGuidoAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 What's ISO people? We kids used to place milk churns with change wrapped in a paper towel in it on the farmer's window sill in the evening and picked them up again when the coins were replaced with fresh (still warm) milk. Does that count?
Show threadStringbenderAug 30, 2018
@fugitive247 Greetings, citizen, from an early adopter of the microwave, and hex coder of 8 bit kit puter with 250 bytes of RAM. Late adopter of cellphone after watching the long development of service from luggable into pocket friendly form.
Happy tooting to you!