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Remember when text messages were 25¢ each & were NOT included in any cell phone plan?

That was a painful lesson circa 2000....

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Remember when you had to wedge a pack of playing cards in the Nintendo console so it would read the game?
Remember when the Cubs won a World Series? Yeah, me either.
 
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God, this killed me. Takes me back to when the internet was a green field of pasture for nerds, and you used IRC and MSN and social networks didn't ruin it yet.
What was that thing you could do? "Trill"? I remember writing scripts to trill bomb people out of the internet. High school, fun times.
Believe it was called "buzzer" :)
 

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Remember when text messages were 25¢ each & were NOT included in any cell phone plan?

That was a painful lesson circa 2000....
How about "roaming charges?" I once ran up a $10,000 bill when I spent a month opening a new office in another state. Yikes!
 

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Remember when you used to go to Best Buy on a Saturday morning to buy the latest rocker CD and the place was jam packed? Now the place is a ghost town.
 
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Remember when you took a broken TV to a TV repair man?

Also, remember when you would forget to set up the record on a VCR before going out so you ended up missing that new season premier of your favorite show?
 

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I remember when we had one of the the first microwave ovens in the neighbourhood and my school friends would come over to watch melted cheese on toast and laugh
I remember buying a Commodore 64 and bought a modem to dialup a Bulletin Board
Remember when colour television came out in the 70's - maybe not, lol
Remember when you had dialup internet and it took forever to get a a picture to download
Remember when the milkman used to deliver milk to your door in glass bottles
Remember when Pacman was the craze
Remember when there was only 3 TV channels
Remember when you could leave your front door unlocked at night
Remember when everything seemed to be made in Taiwan
Remember when Primary school kids used to walk to school
Remember when all there was to read about personal finance was a boring old financial column in your newspaper
Remember having to drive to the city to look up an international phone number in the yellow pages in the library
Remember when small local hardware stores existed at your local shopping centre
Remember enjoying the smell of a newly printed t-shirt off the press of your favourite band that you took forever to save for
 
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Seconding the point about 'organic food' being just food.

Off topic but has anyone got/had a vegetable garden before? When I was 8 we had a small garden full of tomatoes, cucumbers, spring onions, apple tree etc...

I remember going out at 5am to pick the fruit & veg and then going to the farmer shop next door where they sold hot bread fresh out of the oven. I can still remember the aroma and crackle of the crust when you cut it.
 
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Yes, my father would grow a small vege patch with fruit in the backgarden when i was around your age although i was not as lucky as you to be able to go to a farmer shop.

My neighbour who had just arrived from Macadonia had Grapevines over trellises, roosters, sunflowers, pigeons and 50 sq metres of veges.
Oh man and the the waft of expresso coffee i can still smell to this day, lol
 

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Remember when cars had two different keys.

Remember when an international long distance call coming into the house was something that everyone in the house would pay attention too and take turns talking on the phone.
 

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Remember when cars had two different keys.

Remember when an international long distance call coming into the house was something that everyone in the house would pay attention too and take turns talking on the phone.
I remember when ANY long distance call was like that :)
 
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Remember when you've never heard the word "lockdown" before, masks were something only surgeons wore, and you had freedom to travel or visit any place or business you wanted?
 

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Before modems were introduced, one of ways to connect to the internet is using flash drives. Not just storage drive but internet drive.
 
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Remember when the post office used to raise rates every 7 or 8 years and it made big news?

Now they raise rates every 7 or 8 months.

Perhaps this should go into the hyperinflation thread...
 
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Remember when you didn't have to tell people "it isn't covid" if you're feeling under the weather?

Remember when a socialist was a taboo thing to declare yourself?
 

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Remember when you had to “dial up” to access the internet and you couldn’t use your house phone in the meantime.
 

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Remember when TVs and computer monitors were square with a convex chunk of glass on them?
 
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Remember when cars had a "desert only" setting on the AC?

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Remember when you've never heard the word "lockdown" before, masks were something only surgeons wore, and you had freedom to travel or visit any place or business you wanted?
yeah miss those days, this time is kinda hard
 

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As possibly the oldest member still active on the forum, perhaps my memories from growing up in the mid to late forties and then into the fifties might be interest.

Toothpaste came in powder form packed in a tin. A dampened toothbrush was dipped in the powder.

It was safe for me as an 8 year old to travel overnight alone by steam train, departing 8.45 pm and arriving at my home town 153 miles away at 4.45 am. I did this a number of times.

In the street where I lived there was only one car. It was an American convertible, owned by a successful criminal. It was parked outside his house and only used when he took his moll for a drive.

I knew of nobody owning a telephone, and there was no radio in our house.

Walking was the most common way to get from point A to point B. Every school day I walked 1 1/2 miles each way to and from elementary school, carrying a leather bag holding my books.

Most factory workers lived as close as possible to their place of employment so that they could walk there.

Biscuits were sold by the pound, taken from a huge tin and put in a paper bag for weighing. The shopkeeper spun the bag around between two hands to more or less close it.

Cash registers really went Ka-Ching when the shopkeeper pulled hard on the lever.

Ashes from a nearby power station rained down on our house, often necessitating that my mother wash it all again - by hand!

At the age of four, I and my male siblings had our first haircut and were allowed to drink tea. Tea was the standard beverage. Because of the cost, coffee was for the upper classes only.

Walter
 
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I remember when 9 11 was an inside job and a bunch of sand people got slaughtered for it, in collectivist fashion. Plus the Patriot act that was established for the cause was going to be temporary.

I also remember the 70s oil crisis too, even though I wasn't even born then.
 

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