100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

ahoo.com ^ | 7-22-11 | Nathan Barry

[Justaham]

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks.

That is, of course, unless we tell them all about the good old days of modems and typewriters, slide rules and encyclopedias …

[Tennessee Nana]

this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing
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I would hope my grandchildren never know about this

The moon landing I will tell them about happened in 1969

42 years ago...

Is this The Onion ???

[Blood of Tyrants]

I have one for you: Pushbutton radio station presets. You know the kind where you dialed in your favorite radio station on a manual tuner then pulled the button out and pushed it back in to set the station.

[pgkdan]

What’s with the rubber overshoes/galoshes disappearing? I thought people still used those. What has replaced them?

Cold and wet feet.

[Yardstick]

Pricing guns and the little stick-on price tags.

And it really seems retro to remember cashiers at the grocery store manually typing in the prices.

Strange to think that joysticks are a goner. I've never been able to work the new control pad things.

Vinyl albums I think will live on because they were the original medium that so much great music was recorded on, and because they sound great.

I'm amazed at how dated analog video looks now. You see a camcorder video from the 90s on YouTube and it looks ancient.

Carbon paper disappearing. That's a weird one. I guess those manual credit card things that went "ka-chunk!" are doomed too.

I can remember the smell of mimeographs from when I was a kid in school in the '80s. The teacher would hand out the quiz and it would have the purple writing and sometimes be slightly damp with mimeograph fluid.

Cars with metal bumpers and ash trays. In fact, homes and office buildings with ash trays. It used to be just normal for places to smell like cigarette smoke.

Phone booths and public phones.

Incandescent brake lights on cars.

[21twelve]

Ah yes - back when I could actually figure out out to save a station!

[Yardstick]

So people just slog around now, huh? I would swear I still see people wearing those things, but maybe not.

[Daffynition]

Books.

[buccaneer81]

Last car I had with the push buttons was a 1986 Escort.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Penny candy.

Real M-80’s.

Getting on the campus bus with a shotgun to go rabbit hunting.

A bubbler on the hose bib.

Leaving the house on summer mornings with your bat and mitt and not coming back until sunset.

[eastforker]

Outhouses, cisterns,hog scalding trough with scrapers,lard rendering pot,hay hooks, smokehouse,saturday night baths in a # 10 wash tub, featherbeds,wringer wash mashine , catching fire flies, cane poles and worms, plucking chickens,wood burning stoves for heat and cooking, no telephone and finaly a party line and finaly a Little Nash Rambler.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

[Smokin' Joe]

It seemed as if every larger grocery store and hardware store had one. I remember those, too.

[MarkL]

Manual transmissions

I've always used a manual transmission in my cars until just recently, where I finally had to give in to my arthritis and go with an automatic.

Rexall drug stores

This has special meaning to me: My cousins used to have a Rexall Drug chain - Shalinsky Rexall in Overland Park and KC Kansas.

Mark

[Jane Long]

Helping Hand in the window.
Ice cream truck.
Rotary dial phone.
Playing outside til the street light came on.

[Jane Long]

Oh, and Bookmobile :)

[MarkL]

vacuum tube test stations

I remember when most drug stores and all Radio Shacks had these, and Radio Shack had knowledgable employees who could help you troubleshoot problems, make suggestions on how to fix things, and even come up with parts for interesting projects.

Today, Radio Shack's motto should be, "You've got questions, we've got blank stares."

Mark

[I still care]

I remember the scene in Apollo 13, I had to tell the kids what they were doing with those little rulers.

[pandemoniumreigns]

Hehe, Outhouses, cisterns,hog scalding trough with scrapers,lard rendering pot,hay hooks, smokehouse,saturday night baths

I think you could have posted this one in '81. ((;O)

The one that came to me was making popcorn with a pan, a little oil, stick of butter and bag of corn. Then shake, shake, shake...

[I still care]

How about Dials?

I miss dials sometimes. Now everything is buttons. I still have some old radios with dials.

[tanknetter]

In the early 1990s I worked for a DC not for profit that was obtaining office furnature alfrom the GAO warehouse in Springfield VA. Several of the gray metal desks had NASA asset tags on them ... And in one we found a slide rule. Whiche we immediately put in a place of reverence in our front office.

[I still care]

Back when books were good. We would get Junior Scholastic, and the books were 29 cents and I was allowed to buy 3 THREE! books, and I would beg for more.

And the stories always were about kids being junior detectives or such. I never had to worry about books like that. I still have a bunch of them - the Magic Tunnel, Secret in the Old Oak, Danny Dunn books. I loved Henry Reed also.