People 30+, what's something that happened back your day?

I remember dial-up internet, where the phone and internet were on the same line, and if someone in your house wanted to use the phone you had to stop using the internet for a bit 😁.

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SW-User

Waiting for my favorite TV show. Sometimes recording it in VHS. Same with songs and casetes and the radio

Memorizing phone numbers

Now one doesn't need to wait...🤭

indyjoe · 56-60, M

@SW-User I remember the first video discs...the ones as big a car's hubcap. I remember tv's you turned on and had to wait for them to warm up. I remember cassettes and of course radio, but I also remember 8-track tapes and record players that had three speeds: 45,33 1/3, and 78.

SW-User

@indyjoe wait for them to warm up? Hahahaha

lizzy96 · 26-30, F

@SW-User this would apply to early 2000 and 1900s kids as well although if you watched PBS kids there were no ads. Kids shows back then were so much better too.

SW-User

@indyjoe you've seen many interesting things. A different generation after all.

indyjoe · 56-60, M

@SW-User Yes...older televisions were tube type and when you turned them on it would take a couple of minutes for the tubes to warm up and the picture appear...they were on the way out when I was a kid but a lot of people still had them.

indyjoe · 56-60, M

@SW-User Yes...it's a whole different world now than it used to be, but things seemed a lot less complicated back then too. Well, it's time for me to "sign off", got to go to work shortly.🤠

SW-User

@SW-User My parents still have a bunch of random VHS tapes, of episodes of TV shows that they recorded.

SW-User

@lizzy96 PBS Kids was awesome[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvWyIcBBdnI]