😂😂😂 So true, done that alot!

lol!!! the angry phone beep! lol.

Or doing telephone jokes. "Hello. This is the department of water and power. We've been having problems in your neighborhood and we're just checking to see if your refrigerator is running." "Yes, it's running fine." "Well, you'd better hurry up and catch it or it'll get away. Bwahaha." "You kids are idiots." "Oh. Sorry ma'am... ... Aaaahahaha." Click

@@LA_HA There were a lot of those! Calling a store and asking if they have Prince Albert in a can. (it's pipe tobacco for those who don't know.) Store: Yes Kid: Well, you better let him out before he suffocates. bwa-ha-ha-ha

@@Raggmopp-xl7yf Hahaha. I've heard of that. I know it annoyed adults, but when it comes to just the silliness of it, it's pretty funny

As a black teen with an exaggerated swagger I agree

Yeah, I think they did that on purpose! I remember there were certain times (like late at night) where you could get a bunch of songs without the DJ yapping through them. But yes - the struggle was real! lol

I learned to read a map and atlas long ago. I use the maps on our work phone the same way I zoom in and search myself because no matter which one we use it's wrong

Same here.

I’ve heard bottle opener called “church key” as far back as I can remember… I always thought it was like ironic symbolism, as in “I’m gonna drink = I’m gonna pray”

yea we just call it a bottle opener never heard of church key

Interesting. I'm a 61-year-old American who grew up in southern California, and bottle openers were also called church keys where I lived. I wonder if it's a regional (or family) thing?

It must be a regional thing. I have used this device a lot in my life, but I only ever heard it called a bottle opener.

It was just a guess Joshua 😂😂

YES! This! Even if you fold it back correctly it never lays as flat as when brand new.

Riding bikes...with no helmet :D

I hear you, born in 1960 and California was a an amazing place to grow up in. I now don't recognize it anymore. They are turning it into an over taxed, overly expensive Socialist nightmare.

Have they never watched a movie before?

It was a common nickname in my part of Canada.

Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."

@@JPMadden Interesting..

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and heard it called that in Oklahoma and Texas

Nothing better than reading a map that was folded up to be a paper fan.

I have never been able to refold it.

That's the one thing I miss the most when I finally got rid of my landline. The only thing I used it for was faxes. I live in a part of the country that actually still has people who write checks for purchases. Faxes are really important here.

Lots of places have a fax number. Just look at their info page and there's usually a fax number on it

​@@Raggmopp-xl7yf Best kind of comments - adding your own experiences that bring different perspectives with real substance. Good ones, Raggmopp and Mary! My siblings and I grew up in 1980s Yamhill County. I remember that we and our neighbors shared a single phone line. It never seemed like a problem, we'd just wait five minutes and see if the line was free. We should have all invested in fax machines!

@@joelirish Wow! You had a party line! I didn't think those lasted into the 80s. This is fascinating to me! The only time I knew of a party line was my mom explaining it to me b/c of an I Love Lucy episode (from the 50s). And she knew about them but never had one either. We grew up in California and I guess they were never a thing there.

Fax machines are used ENDLESSLY in the medical field, real-estate, renting an apartment, applying for jobs, and countless other things.

DSL runs through the same copper wiring as your telephone landline. However, DSL is not to be confused with dial-up. DSL service is “always on” and lets you surf the web while using your landline phone, while dial-up requires you to not use the phone line while using your modem. My mothers farm is a bit out in the sticks (6.5 kilometers or 4 US miles) from the nearest fiber connection, while she got DSL quite early, 800Kb/160Kb is a horrendous speed for an early FB addict.

@@torgrimhanssen5100 but you can’t get DSL if you’re too far from the DSLAM. Every network technology’s bandwidth degrades with distance and I believe DSL’s limit was around 5miles.

Hole punchers Carbon paper Microfiche (they covered card catalog, but not this) Calling home collect (and when prompted to "state your name" you'd just say "Pick me up at school") Slide rulers

I have a mini desktop multiple music unit, it has a CD player, cassette player and an AM/FM radio.

@@marydavis5234 My parents (late 80s now) didn't get rid of their Zenith 25" full console/bureau television until 2009 when television stations stopped broadcasting over the airwaves. They'd purchased it in the early 1970s. Electronics are not designed to last that long these days, that's for sure.

I guess I’m old at 18 lol

I'm shocked it was even still around. I would have assumed they stopped that aspect of their business like 8 years ago.

Thank you!

This sounds straight out of the "The Four Yorkshiremen" sketch. "We used to get up in morning, at ha' past ten at night, half an hour before we'd gone t'bed."

I always take a map on road-trips, in case the GPS stops working

AAA in the hoooouse... I mean caaaar

Many of the rest stops in all of the states here have signs telling people to take one of their free maps because you wont always have cell service even teens have maps in their vehicles. You never know when Google is going to send you on a road that hasn't been there for decades, or is a road made by ATVs.

@@marydavis5234 or sends you in the wrong direction all together as happens

I often think about my grandfather's time to mine. Or even my great great aunt, who I knew for a handful of years before she passed. He was born in 1914 and my great great aunt was born in 1892. I find it astonishing to think that I knew someone who was alive shortly after the civil war. I'm astonished when I think that my grandfather was born in a time when people didn't really have phones, televisions weren't a thing, refrigerators were a fancy cupboard that you stuck a huge block of ice in (that a guy delivered to you, that they cut out of a lake). Before people had cars. Before people were flying. Before rockets. Before the transistor. Long before penicillin. By the time my grandfather passed, he had witnessed man being able to fly, television, movies, telephones, cell phones, rockets, fighter jets, aircraft carriers, nuclear subs, space ships, moon landings, voyagers reaching far out into our solar system, and man peering into the edges of the universe. I wish he had lived only a few years longer, because as an engineer, chemist, and mathematician, it would have been incredible for him to have seen the ipad, self-landing re-usable rockets, private space flight, Elon musk's SpaceX, self-driving cars, AI, how far we can now see to nearly the edge of the universe, brain implants, drones, etc. I can't even imagine what will come by the end of my life time. And to think that I'll have touched (in a way) as far back as 1892 through someone I personally knew all the way to the mid or (hopefully) late 2000's. All of that advancement in such a short period of time. It's a shame our lives are so damn brief. Imagine how amazing it would have been to see the world change from, say, 1850 to 2100. Or to see 1980 through the beginning of the 2200s. Sometimes I think it would be awesome if you could be cryogenically frozen and them brought back, repeatedly. Imagine if you could just come back for like one week every century. You'd get to see the world evolve, to some respect, over half a million years. You'd go to sleep seeing man take first steps to fly and wake up again to see man reaching mars.

My grandfather (1913-2007) remembered hitching posts from when he was a kid and lived long enough to ask me what the Internet is, although he never used it. His mother (1888-1972), born 15 years before the first airplane flight, was convinced the moon landing was filmed in Hollywood (at least she had a good excuse).

Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."

Yeah and then flash drives and burnable CDs came along and made Zip drives obsolete.

What do you mean by "a single mp3 song"? MP3 as a format allows for a huge variety in quality (measured in Kilobits per second) that could reduce the average 3 minute song down to 1 Megabyte. Rule of thumb: at 128 kilobits per second, 1 minute of audio was 1 Megabyte in size.

@@md_vandenberg The average MP3 song is 3-5 megabytes (MB) in size. You are anal.

​@@md_vandenberg An average length song at a barely acceptable bit rate would not fit on a floppy. I lived through the early days of MP3. Nobody ever put them on floppies.

“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.” ― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970)

They smelled like feet, or cheesey body odor.

We didnt have a computer in our schools able to do any type of "real" work until like 2004, before then I never once seen a kid or a teacher ever use an encyclopedia.

Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."

This is why DVDs are still important. I have complete series that I've binge watched while the cable guys were working on an outage.

I'm American, my dad always said church key.

Another American here. Never heard the term church key for can opener.

@@betsyduane3461 Do you think it is regional? I have lived on Long Island, upstate New York and Ohio and have never heard the term church key.

A church key (in Canada) was a metal loop opener, vs. the two-ended one in the video.

I only heard my grandfather call them that. I wonder if it's an old term used in the early 1900s.

Working at a liquor store in New England, I heard guys born prior to WW2 and maybe some older Baby Boomers say "church key."