- floppy disk
- Game Boy
- a pager
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Pennies !! So weird to me!
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Boredom.
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A cassette tape + pencil
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@char54: OMG, good one! When the whole penny elimination thing started, I had to tell my grade 10s about the dollar and two dollar bill. They were like, "whaaaa?? Oh, Canada.
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@Rubies: hahaha! I teach grade 2 and I'm not joking when I say dimes and pennies are critical to my teaching of place value- lol!!
I still remember the 2 dollar bill. 1 dollar bill was before my time though!
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@Rubies: @char54: haha isn't that crazy, no more penny!
Going to the movie store to rent a movie
There is one spot in my hometown that still does this, and I do hope to take LO, but still!
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VHS and cassette tapes, a discman, car phones, and the huge "real" floppy discs we used to play Oregon Trail on the old Macintosh computers in school!
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Having a house phone (landline). Doing research by looking things up in books. Life without internet. Rabbit ears on TVs. Lisa Frank stuff!!! (I dunno, maybe that stuff is still around?!?!)
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encyclopedias
colored beepers -
Also dial-up internet! I can still hear the sound it used to make while connecting. I used to get so mad when I'd go to use the phone and someone was on the internet, lol.
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VHS, cassette player, old huge monitors (forget what they were called), card catalog
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The original AIM! That was more from when I was a teenager, but still. I remember in high school trying to come up with cool away messages, constantly checking to see who was on, etc. There are so many different ways of messaging people now, but does anyone still use AIM?
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VHS tapes!
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@IRunForFun: I used to use ICQ & MSN Messenger like crazy. I wonder if our kids will IM or just text!
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Having to walk across the living room and turn that infernal dial to rotate the tv antenna.
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@char54: Yep, now when I am at the computer all day I use gchat. Other than that though I think texting will win out.
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Life without DVR. I wasn't taping a show that DS was asking to watch, and it wasn't on at that moment, and he couldn't understand why I couldn't play that show right exactly at that minute.
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@char54: I tried to explain ICQ to my students...They thought I was so lame, especially when I mimicked the "uh-oh!" message alert. LOL!
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Pay phones, life without Internet, getting the newspaper at home every day
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Handwriting papers, in cursive, after having done all the research in a book.
Phones with cords.
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Manual car windows.
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Dial-up internet. Paper maps. Phone books. Mixed cassette tapes. Heck probably CDs by the time he's old enough...
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Instant messenger
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@Andrea: I still have a cassette tape of a birthday song that I listen to every year on my birthday.
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the dial up noise. msn messenger. paper maps. getting lost without a gps. encyclopaedias.
i don't remember some of the things you've all mentioned :-o dh had to explain a pager to me the other week. i still don't really get it
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Penny candy stores.
Manual locks in the car.
Encyclopedia Britannica. The paper editions.I was going to say using rabbit ears to tune the TV in but....we use those now.
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The Dewey decimal system with the drawers of cards!
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Gas that costs less than a dollar! I remember the day gas jumped from 98 cents to $1.01... my mom lost it!
I'm terrified about the cost of gas when Sadie starts driving.
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@lawbee11: we still have a card catalog where I work.. I work for a historical society and it's used pretty heavily!
Kids won't know about pay phones, VHS tapes, life without cable/Internet, and sadly, writing and sending letters, to name a few things.
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Dino-mix and Duke Nukem. Sad sad day.....
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Calling doubles on printed photos... my niece has a little play pink camera and was "taking pics" of something... my brother yelled "I got doubles!" and we cracked up b.c she will have NO idea what that even means.
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Car window cranks - we still call it "roll down the window" but do any cars have manual windows anymore?
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@mediagirl: we still have a penny candy store! But I doubt anything's a penny anymore
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Being able to meet someone at the airport at the gate.
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@photojane: ooh, good one!! I remember driving around for the stations that were still .99. I could fill up my car for $10. Today I filled up for $75!!
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@Shutterbug: My 2004 Kia Rio and my DH's 2009 Ford Focus have manual windows and locks.
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@photojane: I remember going with my mom to the one holdout gas station that was still $0.99!!
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