You Know You're Old/Young If ... 1

[Ashereng]

I have been reading various comments in the fora which seems to date the poster as "old" or "young" sometimes.

I though maybe there is sufficient interest to compile a list to help the old identify with the young, and the young to identify with the old.

If you are in between, I guess pick a side?

"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater."
Albert Einstein
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[IRstuff]

text editor on the 360? That's pretty modern. My father took a training course on the 360, where the programming was done with patch cords.

78 rpm, sure - but do you have any 78 rpm singles?

Of course, if someone has any wax cylinders, that would certainly trump any 78 rpm stuff.

TTFN

 

[KENAT]

Asherang,

Tempting to say you're old if you ever owned a record. (Barring certain devotees etc)

 

[JoeTank]

Old = remembering FEM node input was manual. No graphic outputs. Stacks and stacks of green stripped paper!

Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants

http://www.tankindustry.com

 

[IRstuff]

Oh, how about the mechanical pencils with the single long lead with the "pointer" with its sandpaper for sharpening the points.

And, those wonderful ink pens that had the India ink reservoirs that you manually filled?

And those little bags of rosin for drying out the ink drawings.

TTFN

 

[MadMango]

You're old if none of your childhood toys required batteries.

I was just poor and only had sticks, rocks, and lizards to play with.

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[kenvlach]

Old = first learning 'dos' in Spanish class.

 

[ctopher]

You're old when you used to turn in (riding a bike) GLASS Coke bottles at the nearest liquor store for change or candy. A candy bar was 5 or 10 cents and 25 cents for a large one.

You're old when you could play at a construction site without being kicked off or arrested.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
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[JStephen]

You're old when you remember Texas Instruments and Timex Sinclair being big names in home computers.

You're old when you start in on family history research and find your great-granddad was a Civil War Veteran.

 

[ziggi]

I remember riding my bike down to the local arcade to spend my allowance on Gauntlet.

 

[ewh]

I remember playing with the very first release of redline hotwheels. If I had those in unopened packages today, I could make a mint.

 

[IRstuff]

Luckily, I'm not old enough to remember this hard drive:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14096484/site/newsweek/

TTFN

 

[SomptingGuy]

Blinking flip! If my great grandad were a civil war veteran I could be be over 300 years old! Now that is old!

 

[jmw]

You're old when your remember a Mars bar costing 4d. and the boost to their sales courtesey of Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful but when was that?(you're definately old if you remember when the Rolling Stones were young).


JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[monkeydog]

StompingGuy wrote "Blinking flip! If my great grandad were a civil war veteran I could be be over 300 years old! Now that is old!"

You know your old when you remember teachers made you learn stuff like when the Civil War was and how to do simple math, to know - THE CIVIL WAR ENDED 141 YEARS AGO! How the crap do you get 300 years old?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

monkeydog ... Contrary to popular belief, there really was life before the US.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~crossby/ECW/history/index.html

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[monkeydog]

OH NO!
How do you get egg off your face?
Or is that another forum?

 

[KENAT]

CorBlimey,

Touch harsh but point well made.

I'm sure the UK and US aren't the only countries to have had civil wars referred to as just 'The Civil War'.

Any other takers and how old would it make you!

 

[monkeydog]

KENAT,
I don't think CorBlimeyLimey was harsh at all, some of the "guys" can get real nasty.

 

[Ashereng]

I think just about every country is either a product of a civil war, or has had a civil war in their history.

Yes, most Americans are US centric. And, yes, most Europeans are Europe centric (respective of their country).

It's only natural.

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Albert Einstein
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[quark]

Dammit, half of the tips say I am young and another half say I am old