Back In My Day...

[cubinator]

In this thread, we will describe things that seem mundane and perfectly normal today to our future grandkids or other young whippershnappers of the future who will have vastly superior technology and different lifestyles. For instance:

Back in my day, it took MINUTES to write an email to somebody! You couldn't just beam it to their mind!

When I was your age, you had to know how to drive a car yourself! And at an intersection there were big red lights and you had to WAIT for the other cars to stop before you could go!

While primarily directed towards the younger members of the community, older folks are welcome to give replies relevant to their generations too.

[Urses]

Back in my days you have to meet with people face to face to play games and not stare in a screen....

[YNM]

Back in my day we still have to look at 2D images ! Now you all have 3D !

[James Kerman]

To my future relatives and internet archeologists:
Whatever holographic or synaptic interface you are using to access this archaic format of information technology, we once used our mouths, fingers and eyes to exchange information. 

A repository of important facts that may have become obscured through time:
The internet was created for the exchange of cat images.
Justin Beiber was a once musician before he was elected Pope and then unified humanity.
Many people in my time can believe it's not butter.
The James Cameron film "Dances with Smurfs" was originally called Avatar.
We all rode hover-boards to school as shown in the documentary "Back to the future".
Americans were once shaped like everyone else.
The last conflict on Earth was known as the "Great Food Fight".  After the last horrible barrage of Afghan melons everyone thought there was too much cleaning up to do.
Elron Hubbard founded SpaceX and tax avoidance.
We knew about global warming but thought you might like to be able to tan in the Antarctic.
McDonalds (denoted by the ancient golden arches) was our primary place of worship for the deity Ronald.
KSP was a game invented by a militant monkey to slow the intellectual improvement of mankind by denying their brightest and best time to work on actual science.
There was great outcry in geological circles when Australia was demoted from continent to island - it was then found to have other islands around it before the probe "New Asylums" did a flyby.
Space exploration only started in earnest when Coca Cola discovered a new sugar substitute on Trappist 3.
This was only possible after British scientists isolated a molecule from baked beans known named fartonium.

Please use your personal time machine to give me the numbers in Saturdays lottery.
I apologise for this post.

[kerbiloid]

 

4 hours ago, Urses said:

Back in my days you have to meet with people face to face to play games and not stare in a screen....

You know, "face" was a special word to describe the front side of the upper segment of material body, while we were using them.
Usually there was a single body per mind, with constant shape. Bodies were designated by "names" (a semi-ramdom sequence of sounds), rather than our modern Mind UID.

4 hours ago, cubinator said:

Back in my day, it took MINUTES

Back in my days, we had a special word "minute" for an interval of 1.113*10⁴⁵ planks, and even mechanical tool where a metal bar changed its position every 10⁴⁵ planks. This was so boring.
Btw "day" is a word to describe the period of time when you keep you planet turned to the Sun with your location.

[Firemetal]

Back in my day, there was only one planet colonized by humans, and we didn't know that life on other planets existed, let alone intelligent life.

[GoSlash27]

Back in my day...

We went outside to play with other kids in person
There was no internet
The phone was attached to a cord
Only rich kids had a computer
You had to watch whatever was on TV and listen to whatever was on the radio. Each offered just a few stations.
Our "Google" was the index card catalog at the library
The Atari 2600 was a high- end home gaming system

Get off my lawn,
-Slashy

 

[Piatzin]

Back in my day, computers weren't stretchable!

[Boorang]

Back in my day...

neural networks were for comedy, not government!

[NSEP]

Back in my day, Computers where big clunky devices that wont fit in your pocket, oh, and they where grey and ugly.

Back in my day, Emoji's where called Emoticons, or even worse, Smiley's. Also, you weren't able to play simcity and/or reenact historical with Emoticons and Smileys, unlike Emojis, with their infinite gallery of useless characters.

[adsii1970]

Back in my day...

• The TRS-80 didn't have its own monitor, you used an old black and white television.
• Data was saved either on a cassette or the old 8 inch floppy disc for the TRS-80. By 1982, you could buy the 5.25 inch drive.
• A double sided floppy meant you knew how to cut the hole in the right spot of the other side of the disc.
• The newest computer game was available in PC World magazine. It took four days to type it in, then another two days to debug it.
• Going to the moon was as simple as finding a discarded appliance box - and making your own lander!
• Twitter was something birds did outside on the clothesline.
• A "facebook" was your old school yearbook.
• World Book Encyclopedia was our "Google"
• Throwing dirt clods and shooting your buddies with BB guns were considered "playing war"
   

 

[WinkAllKerb'']

we we're floating in space, then we started to swim in the primitive primordial soup ^^ (yup that's long algo, then come walrus, the tusk and all ^^)

Edited November 13, 2017 by WinkAllKerb''

[Daveroski]

Back in my day, I was in my local fish and chip shop and watched the run-up to the first moon landing.
Oh how I wanted that to be me.
I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.
My sleeping dreams were made of this.

I almost forgot to get salt and vinegar on my chips.

 

[ChrisSpace]

Back in my day, you had to go through a systemised psychological torture system for several years just to get into college!

Back in my day, there were only eight known planets!

Back in my day, some people still thought NASA would recover eventually!

Back in my day, Bill Wurtz and Vsauce were just youtubers!

Back in my day, the supreme empire of greater Korea was just a tiny state next to China!

Back in my day, we had to deal with damn eight legged abominations called "spiders"! You kids probably haven't seen one, but back in my day they were in our classrooms, our homes, everywhere!

Back in my day, when we wanted to write something down, we actually had to physically write it down!

Back in my day, we couldn't just do as many things on our computers as once! We even had to avoid using full graphics and stuff just so the computer wouldn't lag!

Back in my day, computers just had a flat screen! It didn't even change if you looked from a different angle!

On 10 November 2017 at 3:50 PM, James Kerman said:

A repository of important facts that may have become obscured through time:

Every four years, everyone in America would ritually complain about things to one another.

"The Expanse" wasn't always a documentary, it was originally an anime.

Nikola Tesla invented the first atomic bomb, but Thomas Edison later took all the credit.

[James Kerman]

21 minutes ago, ChrisSpace said:

Back in my day, there were only nine eight theoretically nine known planets!

 

[Ultimate Steve]

Back in my day, reusable rockets were cool and only three companies had ever succeeded in making them! You kids have it so easy today, with your fancy space elevators and point to point rockets... When I was your age we had launches every few days and ENJOYED them, not complained about the noise!

[TheSaint]

 

[Xorth Tanovar]

Back in my day, we knew what the phrase "dial a phone" meant!

[Just Jim]

Oh... I have a t-shirt that fits this thread perfectly...

Back in my day the Solar System had 9 planets!!!   

[DarkOwl57]

Back in my day, you could change the cursor

[Urses]

On 13.11.2017 at 12:44 AM, GoSlash27 said:

Only rich kids had a computer

/snip
You had to watch whatever was on TV and listen to whatever was on the radio. Each offered just a few stations.

/snip
 

Back in my days

1. Only biggest companies had one computer with maximal 1-3 users with rights to work on.

2. Only families who where somehow special for the goverment had one TV (with 1 govermental station) and most families had 1 radio....

As a wink, socialism is a nice theorie but somehow never reached...?

Edited November 17, 2017 by Urses

[Dman979]

Back in my day, we reminisced with strangers! Granted, it took longer, but still.

[adsii1970]

1 hour ago, Just Jim said:

Oh... I have a t-shirt that fits this thread perfectly...

Back in my day the Solar System had 9 planets!!!   

Hahaha, yeah, you're right... And the planet pack that I hung from my ceiling as a child now hangs in my daughter's bedroom... and it, too, still has nine planets...

[cubinator]

12 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

Hahaha, yeah, you're right... And the planet pack that I hung from my ceiling as a child now hangs in my daughter's bedroom... and it, too, still has nine planets...

Ought to have at least 15...dwarf planets are important.

[adsii1970]

22 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Ought to have at least 15...dwarf planets are important.

It's my planet system I bought with "birthday" money in 1978. At that time, it only had nine planets! It even came with a poster of the solar system I had for years...