https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:37:50 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583984 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:22:37 +0000 dagret 2583984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If we called someone with the same 3 digit prefix in the same area code, you'd just have to dial 5 numbers to get through. (59464 instead area code + 3 digit prefix + last 4 numbers)</p> <p>I remember when my dad upgraded from a pager and got a bag phone for the car. He'd only use it to call work b/c it was insanely expensive. </p> <p>I learned how to read using Stickybear for Apple IIe. </p> <p>I bought record singles when I was really young.</p> <p>We used Napster in college and AOL instant messenger ruled. Facebook wasn't available to anyone with an .edu address until the year after I graduated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583918 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 06:41:11 +0000 Mamaof2 2583918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old I can relate to every single thing on this post! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583863 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:22:34 +0000 Corduroy 2583863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old I remember having to navigate my own way. Checking out the Thomas Bros Guide to figure out how to get to a friends house. Stopping to ask for directions. Debating routes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583858 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:15:13 +0000 808love 2583858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been on Facebook for over 10 years! We used to have a set status starter that began with our name and we had to complete the sentence. "(My Name) is..... " and you had fill it in for your status. I also used to trade aquarium fish and plants icons with on my friends on our FB walls. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583815 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:31:22 +0000 SweetCaroline 2583815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love this thread! I'm so old we used to lick paper stamps and stick them on an envelope to mail. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583741 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:49:07 +0000 littlebug 2583741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@shortcake: Yes! Digital cameras were JUST becoming a thing when I went backpacking in Europe, and I couldn't afford one. So I had 10 or 12 rolls of film from the 3 weeks I was abroad. Somehow my dad ran over some of my photos and negatives, so those pictures now have a permanent line in them. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583735 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:08:06 +0000 808love 2583735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: hilarious...😪! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583732 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 12:00:56 +0000 shortcake 2583732@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old I would drop off my film to get printed at the store and wait a few days to find out if any pictures came out right. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583726 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:37:21 +0000 littlebug 2583726@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: Yeah, no, we had our own "special" code. *vom* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583718 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:15:46 +0000 808love 2583718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: 143 is I love you because of the letter count. But I remember we would always end with a code, like a sign off. Usually our birthday numbers or the number of letters in our first/last name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583699 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:21:21 +0000 periwinklebee 2583699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@78h2o: I loved "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego"! Best game, ever... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583696 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:18:23 +0000 littlebug 2583696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@catlady: My college boyfriend had a pager! I'd text some code (*33, I think) that meant "I love you." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583688 Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:39:14 +0000 78h2o 2583688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twodoghouse: Yes! I would listen forever just to hit record! </p> <p>I used a cassette walkman and then later a cd diskman.</p> <p>Our family video recorder recorded onto full size VHS tapes.</p> <p>I remember using a card catalog at the library. The librarian would hand stamp a little card in the pocket of a book when it was checked out. </p> <p>I used a typewriter to write reports. </p> <p>When my family got a Mac SE, it was a big deal. You had to load 9 disks to play a single game. </p> <p>My favorite game was "Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego." </p> <p>I remember when ET came out in the theater and we went to see it at the drive in. </p> <p>When we got the internet, it was dial up AOL and said, "You've got mail" when you logged on. </p> <p>I remember my dad complaining about how smokey his office building was, since all of his coworkers smoked at their desks. He bought some huge smoke filtering machine to sit on his desk.</p> <p>I remember when my dag bought a car phone.... it came in a giant bag and had to be plugged into the lighter. </p> <p>I didn't have a cell phone until graduate school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583636 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 22:13:59 +0000 DesertDreams88 2583636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: As a middle school teacher I teach my students how to interpret maps and notice patterns; and we use atlases for a lot of our map work. We mainly focus on natural resource maps, population density maps, and combo physical + political maps. We don't do road maps very much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583592 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:24:41 +0000 catlady 2583592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old that I learned how to use an actual typewriter to do reports in elementary school, and my mind was blown when we got to use a word processor in middle school. I'm so old that my parents bought laser disk players to replace our VHS players because they thought they'd be the next big thing.</p> <p>I'm so old that my high school best friend had a pager, my high school boyfriend's family had a "portable phone" that was attached to a box with an antenna, and my college boyfriend had a "mini cd player". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583588 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:02:03 +0000 avivoca 2583588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BKCaribBaby: we still have a add catalog at work! We stopped adding to it in 2015 (transitioning to a virtual card catalog), but it still gets a fair amount of use. I work for a historical society. </p> <p>I remember bag phones, life before cable TV, and a few other things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583571 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:38:10 +0000 sunny 2583571@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember using microfiche machines to look up archived newspaper articles. </p> <p>I remember when the Internet was called the "information superhighway" and the background to all pages was grey. A lot of pages had "under construction" clip art. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583551 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:20:11 +0000 misolee 2583551@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old that my first cell phone had a separate battery if you wanted it to vibrate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583542 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 16:00:53 +0000 periwinklebee 2583542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, and one more... I'm so old that every time I'd whine or complain about something as a kid, the response (from my grandma) would inevitably start with "You may think you have it rough, but when I was a kid during the Depression..." </p> <p>I miss that generation sooooo much... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583540 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 15:49:57 +0000 periwinklebee 2583540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another memory is Sesame Street getting interrupted to test the emergency broadcasting system. There would be this loud, high pitched siren followed by "this is just a test." My mom had to explain that it was in case the Soviets attacked. </p> <p>In junior high our geography books still had the Soviet Union in them, even though it had been dissolved for almost a decade, because the school still hadn't bought new textbooks. On the bright side, it made for fewer countries to memorize! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583538 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 15:42:57 +0000 periwinklebee 2583538@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@simplyfelicity: Yes, my parents would be like "whoever is on the computer, GET OFF, NOW". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583523 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 15:01:51 +0000 simplyfelicity 2583523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@periwinklebee: I totally forgot about that! We could only use the computer for a very short time because my parents were afraid to lose a call. Then we got a separate line for the computer and it was no holds barred. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583521 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:55:53 +0000 periwinklebee 2583521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so old I remember when calling "long-distance" to somewhere else in the state, or the next state over, was super-expensive. If my mom talked to her SIL for more than 5 minutes on Christmas, my dad would be tapping his watch and gesturing wildly to get off the phone before the bill ran through the roof. </p> <p>And all my mom's friends with teenagers would complain that they could never talk on the phone because their kids were constantly tying up the line talking with friends. Then a few years after that came tying up the phone line with dial up internet...</p> <p>I like watching old depictions of what people thought the future would look like. I think few people in the 80s or early 90s imagined that there would be such an explosion in communications technology, and such a large fall in the price of transmitting information. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that/page/2#post-2583519 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:51:39 +0000 littlebug 2583519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: Along the same vein, friends and I were just talking about the Challenger shuttle explosion. I remember being in 1st grade and the horrified look on my teacher's face as she rushed to turn the tv off! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583511 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:23:51 +0000 808love 2583511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaChin: I just facetimed my 5 year old and she didn't know 'hang up'. She said, Ok, Mom. Now you can press the 'put down the phone' button. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583508 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:07:10 +0000 lamariniere 2583508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can relate to all of these!</p> <p>I'm so old that I remember the principal of my elementary school walking into our classroom and announcing that the USSR was no longer a country. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583506 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 13:58:59 +0000 Bubbles 2583506@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aw this thread is making me really nostalgic! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583473 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:43:29 +0000 littlebug 2583473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You had to go to the library and read books and encyclopedias and use microfiche machines to write papers! </p> <p>Do kids still learn how to use maps/atlases in school? I was thinking about this the other day. </p> <p>You had to sit a certain distance from the tv when playing video games because the controller cord only went so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583428 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:11:34 +0000 MenagerieMama 2583428@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@808love: Yes to the seeing people off at their airplane gate! I used to love it when we would get off the plane and our loved one was waiting for a big hug. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/im-so-old-that#post-2583426 Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:02:26 +0000 808love 2583426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I lived in a world with no AIDS, no 9/11, no GPS, no cell phones, no cable, no social media, no mandatory helmets nor seat belts. I lived in a world where the only place people could get porn is in a lined paper bag at a drugstore. You could hug people goodbye at the airport gate right before they left and wave goodbye all the way until they disappeared down the jetway. People drank out of the faucet and bought gas for $1 a gallon and cigarettes for 1.25 a pack. Ashtrays were everywhere. Kids played outside of parent's view until sunset. I'm going 'outside' would suffice as an explanation for a 10 year old. </p>