Remember when...

[tillie46]

^^ heck, i remember the days before colour television.

necro..........me, too!

 

[GirlFriday]

remember when victoria beckham was a singer and not just a famous athlete's wife
remember when "olay" was "oil of olay"
remember when "coke classic" was just "coke"...we didn't always have 50 million coke flavors

I didn't know it wasn't Oil of Olay anymore. I just never paid attention!

Remember when you had to wait to buy certain kinds of fruit until they were in season?

Remember wall-to-wall shag carpet?

Remember when you had to go to the record store to buy new music?

 

[Necromancer]

Remember when you could buy music on eight-track?

 

[Pursegrrl]

remember when you actually had to WAIT for the newspaper or your local/national news broadcast on TV to learn what was going on in the world?

 

[tillie46]

Before it was called a Microwave.........it was called a RadarRange
Before we had power steering and windows in our cars
Either actually ironing our hair, or wearing rollers to bed
Spoolies (rollers)
Before we had blow dryers..........it wasn't pretty!
Gas was .25 a gallon..............I know I'm really dating myself!

 

[GhstDreamer]

Remember DOS?
Remember cassette tapes?
Remember zip drives?
Remember when there was a gymnastics program in elementary school?

 

[Necromancer]

This may only be an Australian thing, but I remember at school when we got free milk everyday at recess.

 

[mattking2000]

Remember the 3 1/2 or 5 1/2 inch floppies?

 

[Pippi]

remember typewriters?

 

[GhstDreamer]

Remember when cellphones weighed like at least 5lbs? lol
Remember friendship pins?
Remember Atari?
Remember connecting to the internet through telephone cable?

 

[tillie46]

Remember Party lines on our phones
When we used to be able to just dial 7 numbers to call someone local.....now, it's 10
Wearing Weejuns, Capezios, and Rah Rahs(saddle oxfords)
Villager dresses, Harburt skirts, and Ladybuy dresses

 

[claireZk]

Remember Noxzema...........do they still make it?

They do, and it's still exactly the same! LOL

I was just remembering the other day how 2 liter soda bottles had that hard plastic piece on the bottom and how drinks in cans didn't have pop-tops like they do now. They had those foil things that you peeled off! I also remember how everywhere you went had payphones and water fountains. They didn't have bottled water and cell phones back then!

 

[GhstDreamer]

Remember Who Shot JR?
Remember the mass hysteria/paranoia over the new millennium?
Remember Babydoll dresses?
Remember Cabbage Patch dolls?
Remember the minidisc?

 

[JNH14]

Remember when we actually went outside to play with friends instead of sitting in front of the TV or playing video games?

 

[JNH14]

Remember "Palm Pilots" and using a map for directions?