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2009-07-27 Science & Technology

Wanna feel old? - 100 Tech Things Your Kids May Never Know About

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Posted by Mike 2009-07-27 15:35|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 ...Going through an phone operator for connection outside toll area.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-27 17:46|| 2009-07-27 17:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Author sounds rather young.

Posted by 3dc 2009-07-27 17:47|| 2009-07-27 17:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Pay phones. US Mail boxes. Garbage pails in the backyard. 7 digit phone numbers.

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-27 17:50|| 2009-07-27 17:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Author sounds rather young

Yep, left out punch cards, paper tape, and banging rocks together in binary.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-27 18:00|| 2009-07-27 18:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Dang I feel old. I remember the ice man delivering a huge block to the "ice box" and giving us kids a chunk of ice we could suck on while sitting on the back porch on summer afternoons. We played outdoors all day in the summer, no reason to come inside (i.e. no TV, too hot inside without A/C) until it got dark. The basic video game then was catching lightning bugs in a Mason jar.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-07-27 19:22|| 2009-07-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Daddy What was the MSM?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-27 19:23|| 2009-07-27 19:23|| Front Page Top

#7 "Exchange Area" prefixes for phone numbers (FIreside 5-****), party lines and a few miles to the west of where I grew up, 'crank' phones (2 long rings-2 short rings, 3 short-1 long, etc)

And only having ONE phone in the house.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2009-07-27 20:16|| 2009-07-27 20:16|| Front Page Top

#8 And the crazy old sisters down the street who always listened in on the party line.....

Posted by Spulet Ghibelline4424 2009-07-27 20:59|| 2009-07-27 20:59|| Front Page Top

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