Things our children will never know...

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Originally posted by MisterPants

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With you there Honda, also remember the old noise the dial up modems used to make. Sounded horrible but definately has nostalgic value

I remember my mate's thrill at doubling his Internet connection speed- from 28 to 56 K!!!

Betamax and VHS video.

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Originally posted by Notech

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You had a camera with 135 film, new found for thegame

Land cameras and instamatics that spat the photo out the front of the camera and you waited for it to develop them peeled the cover off!

Rotary dial telephones.

"Mobile" phones you had to carry in a briefcase!

Cassette players in cars.

$1 and $2 bills- for us Australians. Ditto for 1c and 2c coins.

Oh yes, the pound note!
Course, there's probably some old codger hereabouts that will pipe up about pre-decimanlisation imperial measurements, shillings and so on, but hey, I miss pound notes.

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Originally posted by DocRounder

Pull-tops on beer and soda cans.

Steel cans, not aluminium.

multi-party phone lines,, long ring then two short rings was ours, that and you had to let it ring at least 15 times so they had a chance to get there to answer it!

Taking soda bottles back to the store for a nickel or a dime.

Who their real father is.

my grandpa had one of these in his livingroom

Yeah, I loved my Poloroid camera.
What about a MAP to find out where you're driving?
And the worst? Going OUTSIDE! "Dad, you went out side to play?"

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Originally posted by tammis2hott

Taking soda bottles back to the store for a nickel or a dime.

3cents
(and beer bottles where the same)

What it was like having to go to class without a computer.

I'm actually old enough to remember this. Swish!

Not having to worry about AIDS?

Life without Penicillin.

The days that ice used to be delivered by truck.

A good duel.

Marie Antoinette.

Tophats.

Tophats?

That's what you think buddy. I'm bringing them back.

disc record speeds ...33 1/2revs/min, 45 revs/min and ............ revs/min **

who knows that?

how about having sex with a girl you just met and actually having sex instead of just rubber on rubber contact because you are afraid of dying now with a new partner in bed.

GOOD MUSIC.

EVERY girl had a furry pussy !!!

Some things from Soviet times:
Soda water machines on street corners:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mconnor/39862509/
Kvass barrels on the streets:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mconnor/39862523/in/photostream/
and most important: Lenin statues in the main town square:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lenin_Statue_at_Grutas_Park.jpg