* Your computer's ready-mode was a black screen with a single cursor, and there
was no such thing as Windows; there was just "DOS."

* Your phone choices and bills were much easier because AT&T was a good
old-fashioned monopoly.

* There was this amazing new video game called "Pong" and you thought it had the
most advanced graphics imaginable.

* The first true laptop computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. If you were hip, you
referred to it affectionately as a TRASH-80.

* Sean Connery was Pierce Brosnan.

* The astonishing mobility was a cordless phone you could take around the house;
it got better reception than the one you can now take all over the country.

* Mail was something you wrote on a piece of paper and put into a stamped
envelope. And you didn't get 110 unsolicited pieces of it every morning
promising great riches or body enhancements.

* There was a guy on "60 Minutes" named Mike Wallace who was so old you figured
he'd retire at the latest by 1990.

* No normal person had speakers on a computer.

* The diners at the next restaurant table were smoking cigarettes and you barely
noticed.

* A 1-gig hard drive seemed as big as a warehouse.

* The only thing you knew about Robin Williams was he played a weird alien named
"Mork" on television.

* An 8-track tape the size of a paperback book was an advanced concept in
compact music recording.

* And jokes were always told in person!
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Ah, good stuff. I would also point people to this site over yonder.
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Bringing back memories...
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Half-way old is right. We really old remember when all this $#!+ above was science-fiction.

FNGs. :-)
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Telephone party lines, RFD addresses, and Jack Benny on the radio!
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Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! FOGs rock! :-)
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:-) :-) :-)
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Party lines and 5 digit local phone calls.
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easy now, i had an eight track in my first truck and it was the stuff,,,,,,,,,lol
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Party lines so the kids could listen in on the neighbors conversations.:-)
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I STILL have a couple of 8 tracks, 3 are classic Led Zeppelin :-)! I just don't have a player anymore.
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I heard a few interesting conversations back in the day!
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and you may also remember when there were 3 channels on television, and YOU were the remote..... :-)
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Yes...I do!
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I guess I am "old" then cause I do remember that.
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Trash 80! HOORAH!
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I'm not that old but I remember some of this.
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