High Tech Youth vs Us Old Timers

atlantdav

atlantdav

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I assume the majority age group here is 35-55, give or take, so please chime in some stuff or phrases I can entertain (educate) my younger relatives with. These kids are bright, but nerdy, geeky type that don't understand or believe some of the stuff us elder folks speak of and grew up with since we were high tech in our era! Such as:

-Does anyone remember how to program the preset channels on a am/fm radio in a 72 model car?
-Manual transmission (stick shift). Dead battery, get a couple of folks to push you off and "pop the clutch"!!! Good to go. None of these youngters know how to drive a stick shift. I have not in years but know I could, much less I know 3 on the column.
-Enhance the reception by using tin foil or a wire coat hanger on the rabbit ears. YOU did what to your rabbits ears??????
-How to charge (energize) your wrist watch that does not have a battery or a "port" to plug it in.

I have a 18yo cousin that is a total nerdy geek.....he does admit this. One night I passed him in his hood. His didn't have his headlights on. I called him on his cell and sadly he didn't realise they were not on, much less he DIDN'T know how to turn them ON!!! His car had an inspection that day and the headlights dial was put into the off mode, not the auto mode.
 
My sis and I were the remote control to the TV and we only had 3 channels. LOL
I had an awesome pocket camera that you had to use a flash bulbs. I believe it had 4 or 5 flashes and then you had to take the flashbulb thingy off and turn it upside down before using the rest of the bulbs.
Having a camera was not something that people had with them all the time. When we would take a picture you would really kind of pose the people or take pictures of only good stuff. There was no editing and no photo shopping. People with pimples still had pimples when the photos were developed. Oh and you had to take the film to a drug store or one of those photo places in the little bitty houses to get your pictures. 1 hour photo developing was hard to find. Usually it took a week to get your pictures back.
Greatest inventions ever in my opinion were microwave popcorn and hot chocolate in a packet...just add water. "Back in the day" if we wanted pop corn Mama would have to get out the skillet and pop us some. That was the very best pop corn and it was a treat when she made it for us. Same can be said of hot chocolate. Mama would only make it on special occassions and she would have boil (heat up) milk in a pan and add just the right amount of cocoa and sugar. Awesomeness!!!!!
I could go on and on......
 
Mrs. Jack Russell said:
My sis and I were the remote control to the TV and we only had 3 channels. LOL
I had an awesome pocket camera that you had to use a flash bulbs. I believe it had 4 or 5 flashes and then you had to take the flashbulb thingy off and turn it upside down before using the rest of the bulbs.
Having a camera was not something that people had with them all the time. When we would take a picture you would really kind of pose the people or take pictures of only good stuff. There was no editing and no photo shopping. People with pimples still had pimples when the photos were developed. Oh and you had to take the film to a drug store or one of those photo places in the little bitty houses to get your pictures. 1 hour photo developing was hard to find. Usually it took a week to get your pictures back.
Greatest inventions ever in my opinion were microwave popcorn and hot chocolate in a packet...just add water. "Back in the day" if we wanted pop corn Mama would have to get out the skillet and pop us some. That was the very best pop corn and it was a treat when she made it for us. Same can be said of hot chocolate. Mama would only make it on special occassions and she would have boil (heat up) milk in a pan and add just the right amount of cocoa and sugar. Awesomeness!!!!!
I could go on and on......
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HEY THERE! Keep going on and on. I can relate to everything you posted. And I do remember those flash cubes!! Although Polaroid was really HIGH TECH back then
 
I will say though I always have blips of wishing I had more photos, I am very glad people did not have cameras everywhere and always snapping the moment. Just saying. :whistle
 
My dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid. I remember that he brought home one of the first TV's with a remote control. Not the infrared or RF type like they use today; it was a "sonic" remote. It had 4 buttons that made metallic clanking sounds that the TV "heard" and responded to. I quickly learned that I could hide behind my dad's chair and rattle his car keys to make it change the channel. Drove him crazy! :))
 
Guard Dad said:
My dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid. I remember that he brought home one of the first TV's with a remote control. Not the infrared or RF type like they use today; it was a "sonic" remote. It had 4 buttons that made metallic clanking sounds that the TV "heard" and responded to. I quickly learned that I could hide behind my dad's chair and rattle his car keys to make it change the channel. Drove him crazy! :))
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You're such a geek! :laugh
 
Foxmeister said:
Guard Dad said:
My dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid. I remember that he brought home one of the first TV's with a remote control. Not the infrared or RF type like they use today; it was a "sonic" remote. It had 4 buttons that made metallic clanking sounds that the TV "heard" and responded to. I quickly learned that I could hide behind my dad's chair and rattle his car keys to make it change the channel. Drove him crazy! :))
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You're such a geek! :laugh
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I grew up in a TV and Radio shop...spent my summers there and afternoons while school was in. Had my own wittle workbench and tools, and was constantly building or repairing stuff.

Guess that kinda 'splains why I'm the way I am. ;D
 
Guard Dad said:
Foxmeister said:
Guard Dad said:
My dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid. I remember that he brought home one of the first TV's with a remote control. Not the infrared or RF type like they use today; it was a "sonic" remote. It had 4 buttons that made metallic clanking sounds that the TV "heard" and responded to. I quickly learned that I could hide behind my dad's chair and rattle his car keys to make it change the channel. Drove him crazy! :))
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You're such a geek! :laugh
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I grew up in a TV and Radio shop...spent my summers there and afternoons while school was in. Had my own wittle workbench and tools, and was constantly building or repairing stuff.

Guess that kinda 'splains why I'm the way I am. ;D
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That it would. Before my father retired from the Army, he was an instructor at the Signal School at Ft. Gordon. I remember how I would go to work with him once in awhile during the Summers. I was fascinated by teletype machines and how they worked. For my 7th grade science fair, my dad and some other instructors let me use an old non-working teletype machine. I fixed it, entered it and took first place. All those kids that made volcanoes were not happy. :laugh
 
Foxmeister said:
Guard Dad said:
Foxmeister said:
Guard Dad said:
My dad owned a TV shop when I was a kid. I remember that he brought home one of the first TV's with a remote control. Not the infrared or RF type like they use today; it was a "sonic" remote. It had 4 buttons that made metallic clanking sounds that the TV "heard" and responded to. I quickly learned that I could hide behind my dad's chair and rattle his car keys to make it change the channel. Drove him crazy! :))
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You're such a geek! :laugh
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I grew up in a TV and Radio shop...spent my summers there and afternoons while school was in. Had my own wittle workbench and tools, and was constantly building or repairing stuff.

Guess that kinda 'splains why I'm the way I am. ;D
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That it would. Before my father retired from the Army, he was an instructor at the Signal School at Ft. Gordon. I remember how I would go to work with him once in awhile during the Summers. I was fascinated by teletype machines and how they worked. For my 7th grade science fair, my dad and some other instructors let me use an old non-working teletype machine. I fixed it, entered it and took first place. All those kids that made volcanoes were not happy. :laugh
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When I was in the 7th grade, my science teacher challenged me to enter a project into the science fair and gave me the task of transmitting sound over a beam of light. I used a reel-to-reel tape recorder as the source and connected a xenon light bulb to the speaker output. On the receiving end, I used a photovoltaic cell too turn the light beams back into electrical pulses and played them through a small amplifier. It was the precursor of using fiber optics to transmit sound.

I won blue ribbons in local and state. Went to regional and the judges kicked out...said I must be faking the results because it was impossible to transmit sound over a beam of light. Heh.
 
STOP IT! Yall are making me feel really old!


And GD, all our TV's had remote controls when I was a kid......it was called a younger brother!
 
My dad was also a TV repair man, he had his "shop" but we weren't allowed in there. Unlike GDs dad, we didn't get all the new fangled stuff when the old worked just fine. We were the last in the neighborhood to get color TV and never had a remote. Never had cable but had a ginormous antenna sticking up on the end of the house. He was also an amateur radio operator, K4HKB.
 
Guard Dad said:
LisaC said:
atlantdav said:
I assume the majority age group here is 35-55
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I'm only 29 so I'm not qualified to answer these questions... :Ninja
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GD running before the lightning strikes
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Don't forget your walker... If you get up now, you should be to the door by the time I get back to Hiram tonight... :taunt
 
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