https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:17:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384855 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:35:38 +0000 Charm54 1384855@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was this shiny copper thing called "the penny" that was worth 1 cent! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384846 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:34:28 +0000 Mamaof2 1384846@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve:<br /> "You called a number to see what time it was."</p> <p>OMG I forgot about that one! At the tone the time will be 2:34 beep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384837 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:32:16 +0000 jedeve 1384837@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@californiadreams: seriously! I'm SO glad it wasn't. The pressure to take selfies, the embarrassment of saying whatever you were thinking...</p> <p>I remember when television "started" at 7am.<br /> Calling collect from the payphone because you didn't have any quarters and you needed a ride home.<br /> You memorized everyone's phone numbers.<br /> You called a number to see what time it was.<br /> You watched TV to see if school was cancelled (no automated phone calls).<br /> You tore the edges off of printer paper. I LOVED doing that!<br /> Encyclopedias - enough said. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384801 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:22:33 +0000 deactivated_account 1384801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mixed tapes made from songs off the radio! </p> <p>@autumnlove: oh my gosh... seeded watermelons... yes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384751 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:10:50 +0000 mrbee 1384751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our TV didn't have a remote! You had to stand up to change the channel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384744 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:08:38 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1384744@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Learning cursive! Apparently its not being taught here anymore.<br /> Taking a typing class<br /> Dial-up Internet - I had 15 minutes of internet time a day in grade 8/9<br /> Keeping quarters in my backpack to call home </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384431 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:46:21 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 1384431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Film cameras! You had to take a roll of film to a store, wait a week, go back and pay for them - even if half of them didn't turn out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384357 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:23:34 +0000 Lindsay05 1384357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had to WRITE with a pencil, in full sentences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384318 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:13:00 +0000 lovehoneybee 1384318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: Two or three of her classes have workbooks...light, paperback things that are like 1/2" thick. But no, not like the 6 or 7 1-2" thick textbooks I used to have to lug around. All of her textbooks are interactive and loaded onto the laptop. It's really cool, actually. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384279 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:02:38 +0000 californiadreams 1384279@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>there was no facebook!!! </p> <p>I still can't wrap my head around how different my high school experience probably would have been if facebook had been part of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384249 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:56:20 +0000 Mamaof2 1384249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lovehoneybee: What? NO textbooks at all?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384086 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:28:56 +0000 lovehoneybee 1384086@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Geez. </p> <p>Floppy discs<br /> Ask Jeeves (before Google)<br /> Pay phones<br /> VCR<br /> Video rental stores<br /> No cell phone until I was 18, and then it was a block phone<br /> Dial-Up<br /> No FB/IG/Twatter<br /> Stupidly heavy backpacks full of textbooks instead of the laptop my niece's school provides...</p> <p>ETA: It's a little bit overwhelming to think about how far technology has come in even the past 10 years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384040 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:23:01 +0000 snowjewelz 1384040@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was your age, if I needed my parents to pick me up from school, I needed to stand in line to use a payphone, that sometimes was covered in gum or other nasty unknown substance. If my parents weren't home? Too bad for me! </p> <p>Oh also, do you know how to call collect?! I don't think so! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1384038 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:22:54 +0000 Lindsay05 1384038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had to build up the nerve to CALL my boy crush, and have his mom answer the phone and have an actual conversation with him. EEK! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383996 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:16:32 +0000 Alivoo01 1383996@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePumps: OMG!! YES!!! "If you picked up the phone and heard *beee booooooo bee beep ding ding beeee* you hung up as fast as you could and hope you didn't disconnect the internet!"</p> <p>You were lucky to get a bulky desktop. None of this laptop/tablet thing.</p> <p>Everything was manual - not automated like power locks, windows, sliding doors.</p> <p>We looked up phone number via a phone book or wrote numbers down in a personal address book or memorized it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383644 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:00:05 +0000 autumnlove 1383644@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Seeded watermelons </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383637 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:58:53 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1383637@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How about knowing why we "roll down the window"?</p> <p>Also, that we had to use maps and phone books. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383621 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:56:06 +0000 Mamaof2 1383621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: "know the phrase "be kind, rewind" " :grin: lol</p> <p>eta: we just found a TON of VHS tapes when cleaning out the basement! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383614 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:54:03 +0000 Mae 1383614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we were talking about this a few days ago! Our kid will not:<br /> - know the phrase "be kind, rewind"<br /> - know what a floppy disc is<br /> - know what a walkman is<br /> - know what a dial-up tone sounds like </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383597 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:51:04 +0000 PurplePumps 1383597@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Telephones were corded.<br /> If you picked up the phone and heard *beee booooooo bee beep ding ding beeee* you hung up as fast as you could and hope you didn't disconnect the internet!<br /> Windows 3.0!<br /> TV channels went from 2-13, then at 13, you had to use the other dial. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383556 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:44:23 +0000 LuLu Mom 1383556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was your age we had 10 TV channels, had to watch MTV at my friend's house. </p> <p>We had to share a phone line and did not have internet/texting on our cell phones. </p> <p>Dial up internet that was slower than dirt. No Youtube, Facebook, ect. We had MSN messenger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383335 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:54:12 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1383335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we didn't have cell phones<br /> or ipads<br /> and only had dial up internet<br /> google didn't exist </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383316 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:45:39 +0000 Dandelion 1383316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was your age, we watched TV live and had to sit through commercials. It didn't pause, either, so you used the commercials for your potty breaks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-i-was-your-age#post-1383308 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:42:42 +0000 Mamaof2 1383308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What kind of things will you tell your kids?</p> <p>This is going to make me feel so old but here is mine:</p> <p>When I was your age I had to walk to library and find my books in the card catalog to do a report! No computer browsing for me! </p>