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Really wasn't that long ago

Well in a cosmic sense, yes. lolol

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I did NOT have a MySpace page, so that makes you the geezer, not me, ๐Ÿ˜.

You weren't friends with Tom? Gasp.

I do not know the Tom you refer to, and I have a feeling thatโ€™s a good thing. I also did not have America On Hold. We donโ€™t need to talk about every other item.

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 I once swore at someone about trying to call our office fax machine and it turned out that yeah... it's using sound to communicate... they heard me ๐Ÿ˜ณ

That's amazing ๐Ÿ˜‚

don't know what Columbia House is, but the rest 100% guilty

It was a catalog of cds where you would get 10 CDs for $10

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_House

It was a was a music CD subscription service.

Pretty sure I still owe them money.

Me too? Why did they let a kids order $100+ worth of CDs.

Exactly

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 what about BMG music service? Columbia House DVD?

I totally forgot about Columbia house. CD of the month. They send it. You listen. If you keep it you pay. What a trap.

No MySpace, Columbia house, or AOL but every single one of the others.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck ๐Ÿ˜…

The Columbia record house was amazing

Yes! I don't know how they let kids sign up for that ๐Ÿ˜‚

Never wrote a cheque, but thatโ€™s only because I can spell โ€˜checkโ€™

I assumed someone from across the pond made this image ๐Ÿ˜‚

If I am busted for writing an American โ€˜cheque,โ€™ then Iโ€™m also batting 100% on this list ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Never played Atari, but yes to all others.. still shoot film and have an AOL account to this day today ๐Ÿ˜‚

Oh man I had an Atari 2600. Defender and Jungle Hunt were my favorite games.

I still have my AOL account also

Used Nostr when you still had to manually copy / paste URLs to post pictures.

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ sames

Wait, we don't need to do that anymore?

Well depending on the client I guess.

Back in my day when we wanted to send the sats we had to post an invoice. And we liked it! Uphill both ways in the snow!

Lol shit. All of em

Typewriters were all gone by the time I needed to use one.

I used one at my mom's office. I was always fascinated by it ๐Ÿฅน

Same here

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Kids don't have to learn cursive in school anymore?

Nope. My kids didn't. I think that's weird. How are they supposed to legally sign their name?

Same here

Yep same. Used to enjoy looking round Blockbuster

Video rental stores were cool. Browsing a Netflix catalog just isn't the same.

Yep enjoyed the whole visit

Just realised i never used Columbia house, everything else though

Same- I could go deeper I think๐Ÿ˜‚

8-track with the matchbook jammed in to stop the warble and bleed; 45 record player; black and white TV Fuck!

reading the news on reuters ticker tape, sending/recieving telegram, gas lamps on the street, coal and milk deliveries to the door .... i need to stop for a rest.

GM ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Hmm. My grandparents had these things ๐Ÿ˜‚ My grandparents didn't even have electricity and indoor plumbing to their houses.

I never used 8-track as far as I can remember. I did own many 45s though.

A Columbia House order away from a full stack. Shucks.

I did order from the Quelle Katalog, tho (only #DACH know this).

Lol Quelle. That's OG

In the 90s we called this, life.

We lived ๐Ÿฅน

Almost all of it

Learned cursive lol

AIM open door sound (still the best sound) especially whenโ€™s itโ€™s your crush ๐Ÿคฉ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OM-1Yn0G3KQ

ICQ uh-oh!

Damn! ๐Ÿค™

We old ๐Ÿ˜‚

with young hearts, I could keep going ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽค

It was a much simpler time. Maybe the title should be โ€œyou might be a more balanced person ifโ€ฆโ€

Had to put on your reading glasses to take the test..... 1 point

Damn, I already feel like a boomer.

Missed only one of these.... OMG! I'm a dinossaur!

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Oof. Same here. Missing โ€œOwned a Pager/Beeperโ€

So close!!

personal favorite is: Learned Cursive

Right there with you.

Don't worry, they're 'cool points' ๐Ÿ˜‚

in my mind I'm like , yes I'm the youngest man alive , and yet I did answer yes to every single one of those

need lists

Gen X - Gadget History Log

I had a MySpace account!

All but My Space. Still have a large number of VHS tapes and cassettes and players for both. Also still have/use my AOL account.

Hmm that reminds me. One of these days I need to convert a bunch of old family VHS tapes to digital video for my parents.

ok boomer

My dad's a boomer ๐Ÿค”

Every single one too!

Played in the yard

Walked to and or from school

Trimmed pakalolo for my little pony money

I had a Quantum Link account!

What about the Commodore 64? ;)

I had a VIC-20 too!

I had never ordered from Columbia House!!! ๐Ÿฃ

Used a Rotary phone? lol god damn Derek! ๐Ÿ˜‚

I had one most of the 80s I bet.

That's wild dude. lol. My family had a corded phone in the 90s, wireless in the 2000s. I wouldn't even know how to use a Rotary phone tbh ๐Ÿ˜‚

I bet it was until the mid or late 80s we had the rotary phone. Hard to remember. We had cordless phones that had metal pull out antennas in the early 90s or so ๐Ÿ˜‚

Damn it!

2 points if you are STILL using?

All of them ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿค๐Ÿซก

Ditto

same

Everything apart from a MySpace account and whatever Columbia House was. Older than you but not as old as you ๐Ÿ˜

Iโ€˜m 8-inch floppy disc young.

Me on my first day heading into the fiat mines ๐Ÿ˜‚

Blockbuster! Oh man. ๐Ÿซ‚

It was 95% VHS when I started there in 1998.

Be kind, rewind ๐Ÿ˜œ

I miss receiving and sending letters and postcards...was fascinating the surprise! ๐Ÿ™Œ

Still have some. ๐Ÿ˜‹

Welp, that is a 24/24 for me, and I'm barely Gen X. Wait, that is old nowadays. Crap. I built a fairly large CD collection cycling Columbia House memberships.

All of them except 3...I dont think Ive ever sent a fax ๐Ÿ˜‚

No boombox, no Atari but a C64, no Colombia House equivalent and no AOL or other free internet from a CD. Yeah. Boomer.

I had this one.

It's official then. I have done every one of those things, as well as used to learn from encyclopias that looked something like this:

We had World Book encyclopedias as well. They were maroon in color.

I'm calling myself out of my own typo; *encyclopedias

Me too, and the one I resent younger people the most for having lost in just one generation is cursive. People just three or four years younger than me already can't write.

By the way, I sent a fax last month. To the IRS.