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You Know Your Getting Old, when....

* Sigh *.....

I was browsing Treocentral's Ringtones Categories when I looked up the 'Oldies' Category. And expecting to see 70's and older tunes, I see artists like 80's B-52s, Bangles and Bruce Springsteen.

http://www.treocentral.com/content/...category-10.htm

I'm only 34, but come on!

Guess it's only a matter of time till we see Britney Spears on there

Of course, this is just my .02


Seriously, TC (is it okay to call Treocentral that?), there is a 80s category for those above mentioned artists, shouldn't they go there?

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It's Ok

The 80's were like twenty years ago dude. It's ok to age. You know your getting old when you can remember when a PDA was around for more then three months before it's "new and improved version" Remember the 80's gave us the great line from Neil Young "It is better to burn out the fade away" Enjoy the ride

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I agree with robertruelan, it still just *sounds* wrong...

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How many people from the Palm III era ever thought playing MP3 would be worthy of discussion? But, now it looks like that is going to be a standard feature.Time marches on, I do think you have more of a chance to hear a Whitney Houstan song in 10 years then a Britney Spears song on the radio

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I do think you have more of a chance to hear a Whitney Houstan song in 10 years then a Britney Spears song on the radio

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But, then again who thought the Rolling Stones would still be touring in the year 2002? Ok forget the Neil Young and let us go with the movie of the 80's "Wall Street" who brought to popular lingo "Greed is Good".....................................

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I was sitting at a stop light a couple weeks ago and it became obvious to me that the young driver behind me was thumping her palms on the steering wheel to the same song on the radio that I was, Pink Cadalac by Springsteen. Then it occurred to me that I still consider Born in the USA to be Springsteen's "new album" and it was written before this girl was even born. Yikes.

Another way to look at it...today's graduating class has the same historical relationship with Michael Jackson's "Beat it" as I did with Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" (my dad's music).

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This thread is starting to make me feel REALLY old... It doesn't seem like I have been out of high school for 17 years now.. where has the time gone..?? Yikes, even reading what I just wrote also horrifies me!

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This thread is starting to make me feel REALLY old... It doesn't seem like I have been out of high school for 17 years now.. where has the time gone..?? Yikes, even reading what I just wrote also horrifies me!

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Madkins,

I still own a ton of Laserdisks.

AM, for me, was always just the place to listen to sports and news. Not music.

Atari 800 w. 48k or ram buddy. Coleco adam: the typwriter Computer. Anybody remember Compute! the magazine.

I remember fortran. Never used it but remember it. Remeber Turle?

I remeber TVs that you had to touch. With remotes, you don't ever have to touch the TV. Even if you lose the remote, you spend an hour looking for it before touching the TV

Holloween was safe? Not in my neighborhood. True it was only eggs you had to worry about not razors in apples.

I saw the omen in a drive in (we hid in the car to pay less). I was pretty young.

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I'm really not that old, but...

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[...] OK it's time for taking off the gloves. Who remembers...

- Laser disks [...]

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I do, but then again, my wife still uses one at school.

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- Commodore 64 computers, or better yet, the Coleco Adam

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I remember both, but only had the C64.

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- TV's before 'instant on', or for that matter, with tubes

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heh...when I first started reading that, I expected to see 'before remote controls', which would be before TV. TVs _always_ had remote controls. Most people call them 'children', though, now.

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- Phones with both dials and phone numbers like CApital 1-1234

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I remember both, but my viewpoint is probably skewed from most people in my age group.

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- When Halloween was 'safe'?

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I remember Halloween being an after-dark thing, so I guess that counts.

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- No other options but 'push' lawn mowers [...]

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Are we talking the ones without even a motor?

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- Drive-in theaters and A&W Root Beer drive-in's

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I saw Star Wars at the drive-in.

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Way to make ME feel better dude- my school had their 25th reunion last summer.

OK it's time for taking off the gloves. Who remembers...

- Laser disks

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- Buicks with the absolutely useless air ports along the front fender

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The first car I bought was a '52 Buick Special, and that was is 1988! Great car. You could easily fit 8 people inside, 10 you squeezed, and two kegs on ice in the trunk.

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- Cars without seat belts

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Err.. yeah, the Buick above.

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- Drive-in theaters and A&W Root Beer drive-in's

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I remember going to the drive-in theater a couple of times in Lincoln as a kid. But I am pretty sure that any time we where in the "big city" we usually ate at A&W, but I think it was only because the folks didn't want to drag us hellions into a restaurant.

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laserdisks

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OK it's time for taking off the gloves. Who remembers...

- Laser disks

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My God - you people make me feel old.

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my school had their 25th reunion last summer

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I graduated from high school 34 years ago.

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OK it's time for taking off the gloves. Who remembers...

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Ok then:
Laser disks - way AFTER my day
When I was growing up I didn't even know anyone who had an FM radio. Our radio at home was about 4 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and had AM and shortwave. Our record player (not stereo played only 78's and 33 1/3's - all breakable by the way.
I remember the original Heath Kit computers
I learned Fortran in the Scouts along with Cobol
How about the Mercury space program in B/W and they would stop school for an assembly when there was a launch so we all could watch it.
The first TV my parents bought had only a 9" screen. I remember when our next door neighbors bought the first color TV in our neighborhood. At the time there was only ONE program in color and that was The Wonderful World of Disney and it was preceeded by announcements on TV that it was in color.
I still recall my phone number from growing up - WH-8-2256. But who else remembers when you only had to dial the last four numbers if you were calling someone in the same exchange? I do

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Cars without seat belts

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My parents had to pay $50 extra to get seat belts in their car in '63 and I am happy that they did as we were in an accident in which I would have been killed if not for the belts.

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Drive-in theaters

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- Oh boy could I tell some stories about drive-ins...................

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Re: laserdisks

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How odd... I'm surprised how many people on this board own or use these. Count me in as well.

In fact, I went massively overboard on laserdisks in the early and mid-90s. I think I have around 450 of the buggers. Learned an important lesson when DVDs came out: rent rather than buy.

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I may have more than that. Lost count. I didn't learn my lesson I still buy dvds.

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Ok - Time to make everyone on the board hate me---

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This thread is starting to make me feel REALLY old... It doesn't seem like I have been out of high school for 17 years now.. where has the time gone..?? Yikes, even reading what I just wrote also horrifies me!

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When people actually used 14.4 and 28.8 modems

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Now, this is my list of 'remember when' -
- When floppy disks were actually 'floppy'
- When computers had green screens
- When people actually used 14.4 and 28.8 modems and thought they were the best thing in the world

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Yeah, I got one sitting right next to me, although these days it is running Slackware Linux. Someone gave it to me because they didn't know what to do with it. It booted to DOS, although Windows 3.1 is installed. They just didn't know how to do anything at the command line.

My mom still has two of my first computers, a TRS-80 and an old XT. Both run last I checked, may be I should dig them out and dust them off... Oh the old days before you needed CPU coolers...

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Or...

- Winchester hard drives
- 8" floppy disks
- Cassette recorder tape drives (C64, VIC 20, TS-1000, etc.)
- When SSDD was cool because it meant 'single side, double density' so you could fit TWICE as much as the original SSSD Single Side Single Density disks! (And now, people thinks it means "same s***, different day")
- Spending time formatting floppies because it was cheaper to by them unformatted than to pay for IBM format
- Accoustic coupler modems, like on the Matrix, where you set the handset into a special cradle
- When 'video game' meant "Pong", or, if you could afford it, 'Break Out'
- The 70's (disco, leisure suits, 8-track... oh my God, the flashbacks! 8-track, 8-track 8-TRACK!!!!)
- Life BEFORE Walkmans
- Manuals before the DUMMYS series- when you actually HAD to RTFM.

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