Back In My Day...

[roboslacker]

Back in my day, you could go outside without being irradiated.

[Kernel Kraken]

No. Nutrinos. And ambient radiation. 

Back in my day North Korea tested nukes!

[SiriusRocketry]

Back in my day, North Korea existed! Imagine that!

[TheKSPBeginner]

Back in my day, the plane redesigns were NEW!

[Mukita12]

Back in my day Chernobyl wasn't radiated.

[ColdJ]

Back in my day, a box with a knob was called a paddle.

[cubinator]

Back in my day, I remembered that I made this thread.

[adsii1970]

Back in my day... Wait, am I already expired?

[Rutabaga22]

Back in my day, we had this thing called privacy, our lives weren't perfectly tailored to our likes and dislikes by the algorithms.

[Ben J. Kerman]

Back in my day, trucks actually had people inside controlling them!

[ColdJ]

Back in my day a TV program used teleporters rather than shuttles because it was cheaper.

[kerbiloid]

Back in my days you didn't unboot in airport to pass.

[Second Hand Rocket Science]

Back in my day, ovens were called heater uppers. This is because you "of in" the cold food and take out the hot food. There's some logic for ya.

[ColdJ]

Back in my day, TVs were black and white. The school TV was in a big cabinet on wheels and had shutters on the front. The teacher would wheel it out from the store room and open up the shutters then click on the knob on the front, then another knob was fiddled with till it was tuned to the strongest signal it could find. There were no remote controls.

[kerbiloid]

Back in my days trams, buses, and trolleys were equipped with self-service ticket registers , when you drop the coin and rotate the handle to get the ticket,

Spoiler

 

[ColdJ]

Back in my day, we had a person called a conductor, who would check your ticket and sell you a ticket if you didn't have one.

[kerbiloid]

And a resistor, if he didn't.

[ColdJ]

Back in my day the 1 cent coin existed and you could buy a lolly with it.

[kerbiloid]

Back in my day the 1 kopeck coin existed and you could buy a box of matches (60 pieces) or "Pionerskaya Pravda" newspaper with it.

Or a glass of soda without syrup from the drink trading machine with glassy glasses washed in mini-fountain by everyone using them.

Spoiler

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by kerbiloid

[ColdJ]

Back in my day, your PFP would have taken an hour to load.

[kerbiloid]

Back in my days, there were resident programs hanged on interruptions instead of background processes.

[Zozaf Kerman]

Back in my day, you had to go through preflight-checklists instead of everything being maintained by a personal bot!

[RKunze]

Back in my day, a "card reader" was a device that you could plug into a computer in order to read stuff from memory cards - just like nowadays. But the memory cards were made from actual cardboard, with holes punched through...

Edited June 13, 2022 by RKunze

[kerbiloid]

Back in my days a "card reader" was a dresser-sized metal thing reading punch cards.

Another similar thing was a "card writer".

Memory cards, though were very light, flat, and flexible.

Spoiler

 

[ColdJ]

Back in my day, toys were made out of tin and cast steel.