Remember when...

[yesthattom]

I wonder how old you have to be to be this old:

You don't remember a time when drug companies didn't advertise on pens
There were no DVDs
There was only one phone company

Comments

[geminigirl]

I remember one phone company and no DVDs. I remember my big brother explaining to me what was happening to the phone company.

I remember no DVDs. I remember the first VCR we got, and no remote control. I remember tv with no cable.

But I don't remember drug companies not advertising on pens. I grew up with lots of doctor's kids, and we always had drug ads on pens, or scrap paper.

And fwiw, I'll be 27 next month.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

There was only one phone company

And in the Darkness fined them...

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

How long has it been since drug companies didn't advertise on pens? I think I could dig up some from before you were born, anyway. :)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Older than 36. I remember this girl I had a crush on in high school (around 1982), her parents were both doctors and she had all sorts of medical tschotchkes mostly advertising psych medications.

I do remember one phone company.

DVDs date to what, the mid-90s? I think a better test of age would be remembering when there were no CDs.

[geminigirl]

I think a better test of age would be remembering when there were no CDs.

I remember that too. My nephew, who's 9 and a half doesn't.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

I grew up on 8-tracks.

*blink*

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, my grandparents had a portable 8-track player that I'd listen to in their car while visiting. And even better? Their home stereo had an 8-track player for which they'd bought an adapter for...A CASSETTE PLAYER. Mwahahahaha. :)

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

I remember betamax.
I remember wondering why the tv set was made with 4 buttons when there were only three channels.
I remember when one of the phone company's services was called "Dial A Disc" which was a radio station you could ring by dialling 16 and it was free.

DVDs!? Videodiscs!