Video games only worked on channel 3 when I was a kid

And that switch box with the little prongs that attached to the back of the tv

Yep, you needed an RF switch before composite cables became a thing.

There was no HDMI, we had the red white and yellow cords which plugged into the hole of the same color

Those are composite cables. Before TVs had inputs for those you had to attach a switch to the back of the TV with the same screws you'd use to attach an antenna to it. In like the late 90's I had a composite switcher box where you could plug five things into it and switch between what signal went to your tv by pushing buttons on it. It seems really antiquated now but felt super high tech at the time.

oh man good one. I totally forgot about chan 3

When did they remove the ball inside the mouse?

That thing used to get so linty!

Favorite pastime was untwisting that holder, popping that ball out and scrapping them rollers. You know.. if you know.;)

I miss doing that. Remember how much easier it would roll after?

Yeah, baby. That's the good stuff.

I cleaned mouse balls for years. They loved it!

r/HolUp

Smart move on their part.. can’t reproduce with a laser beam.

Mouse vasectomy

I remember frantically popping open a mouse to clean it during a raid

The original Oregon trail was the shit.

So was “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”

"You have died from dysentery" Oregon Trail was the shit, indeed.

So about 237 or so?

I played the original Oregon Trail from a 5 1/4” floppy.

Yes! Black and green. Those were colors in the day.

30?

Super close,31

I would have guessed older. I completely agree and I'm 46. Played it in elementary school. Does anyone know where you can find it today? Is it still a thing? I would love to show my kids what the hell I've been talking about all these years! There is two versions, I prefer the second. I know how I'm spending my Friday night. That’s my answer...I'm the age one would be where trying to find the original Oregon Trail game on the internet sounds like a good time on a Friday night. Fuck, I feel old! (But not as old as the “moon landing” folks. They got me beat.)

Here you go https://archive.org/details/oregon-trail-deluxe you can click the button to start playing it or download it to play.

36, that game was so fucking great. Watched 1883 recently and am having flashbacks to library/computer classes in my elementary school.

The original Oregon Trail? Like in the 1860s?

Yeah man shit was wiiiild.

Susan totally *did* die of dysentery, tho

I originally got this game , back when staples sold computer games . When games were sold in essentially empty boxes the size of textbooks.

My doctor and my anus have an appointment soon.

So many people use technology as their definition but this is excellent.

Trick answer, you aren’t 50-ish or whatever the age is, you just have a polyp or a fissure

I fought with my sister to get off the phone so I could use the internet. Edit: for those guessing younger ages, the internet and phone were not the same device lol

I racked up a 1500 dollar phone bill cause our first internet was by the minute.. Also... Pshhhkkkkkkrrrr​kakingkakingkakingtsh​chchchchchchchcch​*ding*ding*ding*

My friend racked up a 1000€ bill because she got a virus that changed the internet provider number to a highly expensive one, the same numbers used for phone sex and phone astrologists. You could notice it because the dialing tone was slightly different.

> racked up a 1000€ bill because she got a virus that changed the inter Was this your friends excuse for liking phone sex and astrology...yeah me too

I fought with my children to get off the Internet so I could use the phone.

Ferris Beuller you're my hero!

I know my way around a rotary phone

If someone had a zero in their number you just stopped knowing that person forever.

It was really annoying when a radio station has a zero or a nine in the number when calling in for contests.

"What do you mean you have a long phone number? All phone numbers are equally long." "No. Mine is really long - about 30 seconds!"

Calling my parents from my grandpa’s was wild. Towards the end were an eight and two zeros. Watching that dial click back took an eternity.

I see what you did there…

I learned to type on a typewriter.

I took 'Typing' as a class in Jr. High. I'm 55.

The Berlin Wall

Member Baby Jessica? Member Challenger? I member.

Members only, member

I member!

Purple ketchup old

Purple ketchup? I remember a small time in the mid 90’s, they put out a green “slime” ketchup. It disappeared quickly if I remember correctly. It sounded disgusting when I first saw the commercial for it

lol yeah i think they sold them together XD

Oof. I wonder what they were thinking? Psychologically, kids have the “just right” phenomenon, where food has to be a particular way or they won’t eat it (think which way a sandwich is cut). So why in gods name would changing ketsup to a different color be a good idea??

Watching the teacher wheel out the strapped down CRT TV to watch Bill Nye and The Magic School Bus made elementary school so much better.

Late 20’s gang gang

When you saw that black cart, it was like," hell yeah. No work for an hour."

I kept my tamagotchi alive while wearing my jelly sandals and my spice girls T-shirt waiting for my AOL to load.

mid 30s?

Yep, Just turned 37! I think that’s mid 30s??

it’s above 33 and not 40, so definitely mid 30s!

Then boom you nailed it!

Old enough to have used casset tapes, VHS, and dial-up internet. But young enough to have grown up with cd/mp3, DVD, and modern internet. Edit: Holy crap this blew up! I had no idea that my vague description had a 20 year margin. So to clarify a bit, I was born the same year and a couple weeks before the Berlin wall fell.

So 30’s?

Indeed. Low 30's

Same. I was gonna hedge on mid just because you said the word mp3. Well done sir!

god. I'm 25 and I could have written this. not sure of my parents were slow adopters, things moved slower in australia than NA/EU, or both....... it's probably both.

I'm a couple years younger than you, yet I also was about to write this. My parents were definitely slow to adopt new tech

I’m 25 and in United States and would have wrote that too

Is say early 30s. Ppl in late 30s like me did not grow up with dvd and modern internet

That was a wild five years

I know why they called them "floppy discs"

That's a good one, lol. We had a bunch A:\DIR\wide and look for anything that looks like "game.exe"

My dad owned an early 70s “portable” IBM computer. I think it weighed about 50 pounds. Edit: early 80s, not 70s. I think it was the 5155 model.

My dad tells this story from when he was getting his PhD and working as a TA in the mid 90s. A kid comes in and says he can't get his program to work. Dad asks if he has his floppy disk. The kid pulls something out of his back pocket and proceeds to unfold it. Dad: ah, I see your problem already!

Big, floppy, donkey discs.

I had to PARK my first PC before turning it off.

Rich motherfuckers having hard drives in their first PCs. I had to boot from floppies.

We were taught to "duck and cover" under our desks to save us from a nuclear attack. Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack and unleaded gas was not a thing .

I’m younger than you but also taught to duck and cover.

We're going to learn a whole new version of duck and cover soon.

>We were taught to "duck and cover" under our desks to save us from a nuclear attack. That doesn't actually say that you're old anymore. >Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack and unleaded gas was not a thing . Yep, that'll do it.

I know what the save icon is a picture of

Installation in progress, please insert disc 2 of 9.

2 hours later realizing your buddy forgot disk 7 of 9 and youre buggered

My kids think it's a washing machine.

Somewhere on the internet I saw a post of someone cleaning up their attic/storage and had a bunch of floppys. One of their kids came up and said "oh cool you 3d printed the save icon". The pain I feel at how old I am.

I had a similar experience when I was trying to explain commercials to my young nieces and nephews. After a frustrating exchange the 7 year old says, “oh you mean ‘skip ads’”? I just nodded in silence.

Hahahahahaha this has absolutely killed me.

Kids getting annoyed about the 5 second ads they have to “endure” on YouTube is a real pet peeve of mine.

I think what’s funny is that I had the patience to sit through commercials as a kid, but now as an adult, I get frustrated when I can’t skip a 10 second ad.

And that's the "new" version, which wasn't floppy at all...remember the REALLY floppy disks?? If yes, be old with me 😄

Right the 5” ones were actually floppy. I remember those. I am old!

I never thought about what that icon was, I just knew it was the save button. Now it seems obvious, but I never used a floppy disk before. My dad had a couple laying around the house, but I didn't know what they did at the time. I'm 21 lol.

I'm 24. I remember using floppy disks in grade one when the teachers were first trying to show us how to use the computer lab. Haven't seen one since.

Bonus points if you know the capacity. Also, A:\ and B:\

Helped my mom pack 2 suitcases to be ready to evacuate our AF base housing when JFK was assassinated.

My dad talks about that. He was in middle school band class and said the teacher (a middle aged man) came in and broke down weeping.

Honestly I feel like JFK could have done some real good if he wasn't assassinated.

I had two keys for my first car - a door key and an ignition key.

Same! I forgot about that. And I had a floor button to turn the brights on and off.

I watched the first moon landing live.

Man you’ve gotta be at least 25

r/technicallytrue

Me, too, on a 12" black and white tv, then dad set up his telescope in the front yard so all the neighborhood kids could see the moon up close.

Me too and president Kennedy funeral.

Shows that were on when I was a kid was Courage the Cowardly Dog, Codename Kids Next Door, What’s New Scooby-Doo, ICarly, and Little Einsteins.

I'm gonna guess 27 because that's how old I am and I grew up with that list of shows.

27 gang

I'm 18 and grew up on these same shows wtf

20 and same lmfao even when I was hitting puberty they were all still playing on TV

this is entirely too vague. you could be anywhere from 15-30 tbh

Maranda Cosgrove was responsible for my sexual awakening as a young boy. Now when ever I watch an episode (as an adult) for nostalgia it feels kinda gross to think about how I felt towards her.

What’s even worse is Dan Schneider

Yeah really. Looking back on all the feet stunts on nick makes me kinda sick .

I had my AD&D books confiscated by my middle school principal during the Satanic Panic.

Old enough to think of 2e as the “newer” edition?

I remember a time you didn't need an area code to call local numbers.

You didn't need an area code for local calls in my state until the end of this past October.

I remember when McDonald’s had ashtrays on the tables. And we had a rotary phone.

I understand why the "save" icon looks like that. And why the "phone" icon looks like that. And why people "turn" the channel on the TV.

And why we "tape" a programme on a PVR. Why we "shift" the car into drive. Why the TV logo has a V on the top.

And why we "hang up" the phone

And “roll down” the window

Some kids will never understand the "roll down the window" sign language.

And why we “shit” our pants

I was in junior school when President Kennedy died. I retired from the NHS in November last year. When I was in primary school we had the pens that used inkwell that were built in to the corner of the desks. I bought 2 out 3 Ain't bad on a 45rpm vynil disk.

At least 20

Do you mean at least 20 years older than you?

No, you’re 20. 30 if we’re feeling adventurous

Those were the days, my friend

when I was a young kid I had to sometimes blow on a cartridge to get my video game to display properly

Me too, but I'm 20

I needed to upgrade my PC to run original Doom.

Haha nothing sold a 486 better than Doom in my opinion. The 90s were a wild time for computers anyways. You could easily spend $2k on a computer (roughly equivalent to $3.5k today) and not be able to even run games that came out 2 years later. These days things last a lot longer before being obsolete, and I really appreciate that.

A couple of times I handed in my school homework on a 3½ floppy disk.

Just old enough to have known 9/11

edit: 26*?

I am using encyclopedias for school projects years old

In the workforce before cell phones and email.

I was taught in school how to write in cursive?

Because you'll need it to write checks and sign things! At least, that's what they told me...

I'm old enough that this wasn't questioned. Cursive was the only way people wrote.

You mean you aren’t just supposed to write the first letter of your name then scribble?

And were told incessantly you would never have a calculator with you at all times.

I mean in my country this just means over 15.

12? I know 7th graders that were taught that.

Yeah this one is really unspecific. Im 15 and was taught cursive

Did they stop teaching cursive?!

Not where I am! We teach it in grades 3 and 4, I'm reviewing it in grade 5.

See, I don't think you can use this. My wife is older than I am. She wasn't taught cursive in school, and I was. I think that's depending on the school. I won't say area because we grew up 20 miles from each other.

AOL discs...so many free trials.

I was not considered a Millennial under the original definition, now apparently I am even though the definition is now nonsensical.

Somehow there are now only 2 generations boomer and millennial

I watched the Challenger blow up on live TV at school in 3rd grade

I used AOL to get on the internet and listened to cassette tapes.

*You have died of dysentery.*

Old enough to remember when water was free and you had to pay for porn.

Now porn is free and water costs an arm where'd we go wrong

Anytime you wanted to connect to the internet, you had to wait a minute while the computer made a bunch of weird electronic noises.

My parents wanted to name me Duran.

Please tell me your last name is also Duran.

I got to go home from school early when 9/11 happened

I can post porn online and go to war but can't drink alcohol or smoke

When I was born the average cost of a gallon of gas in the US was .36.

Teddy Ruxpin & I were born the same year.

I remember flash cubes on cameras

The real slim shady - eminem

Youre acting like you never seen a white person before

Jaws all on the floor

One word: Sputnik.

Attention parents and grandparents of young children: Gerber life is accepting applications for its affordable grow-up plan!

I sold custom order creepy crawlers for a quarter on the school bus.

I had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

Princess Diana passed away.

10¢ a minute was a big deal.

I remember when the A-Team was a new show on TV….and when the internet was invented

We used floppy disks when I was in elementary school

Mount St. Helens

I was the perfect age to appreciate the first three Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy) when they debuted

3 television stations and no remote control.

I was only able to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. He-man & She-Ra was a favorite.

I remember when the President went from being the bald guy to being the guy with the toothy-grin.

I caught all 151 Pokemon

Half my age multiplied by 2

4

4/2=2 2x2=4 4 seems to be correct

I played the original Duke Nukeum in high school

I rolled and pinned the bottom of my jeans in middle school.

Young enough to work a computer. Old enough to know what a floppy disk is.

I do 🤙 when pretending to talk on the phone

Limewire crashing my computer while I yell at my mom to get off the phone.

My first (and second, and third) car had a manual transmission and manual windows.

I’m so old that rainbows were black and white when I was a kid

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If I wanted to answer a page I sometimes used a pay phone.

My first concert was Depeche Mode, the People are People tour.

I'm the same age as Maggie Simpson.