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When you connect with someone on social media that you last saw when they were a little kid less than 10 years old… and now they are a grandparent.
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When every channel on TV (all 3 of them) carried the Watergate hearings.
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When there were only 79 episodes of Star Trek in existence. No Animated Series, no movies, and no TNG.
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You know you’re old when, a young child does something that could possibly get them hurt and immediately you get nervous. 
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Well I’m nearing my 30’s and I remember 8track, vhs’s and vhs’s rewinders (we had one) big heavy TV’s and wanting one of those cool huge flat screen tv’s. I watched plenty of old shows since we didn’t pay for cable, no reason to since local TV stations had stuff like He Man, Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, TMNT and many more all translated to Spanish, matter of fact anime was so common in PR that we even had shows on local TV most people in the US had to go to a shop to get.
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…you remember playing video games where the controller only had one button.
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You still write cheques to pay bills and physically go to the bank to give them the cheques.
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Old enough to remember a lot of things I would rather not.
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Be kind, rewind!
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I remember pulling tubes from the TV and going down to the drug store and use their tester to see which one was bad and replace it.
I also remember calling the new portable radios as transistor radios to distinguish them from the more common radios with tubes.
My first car was a '56 Ford station wagon inherited from my grandparents. Outweighed a tank but with an short block V8 fed by a Holly four barrel carburetor, it took off like a rocket. I generally got 12 miles to the gallon but that was fine as gas was 17 cents a gallon ( Four cents per liter for Canadian friends.).
I can still remember telling a nice, young lady about something I went to when I was in college and then realized, oh, you weren’t born them. /sigh
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Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Alan Parsons, the Carpenters…and omg - Captain and Tennille were the hot thing!
Oh, and Jurassic Park playing on TCM!
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I saw UHF in theaters. Is it on TCM, yet?
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I eat supper at 4:30 pm. Go to bed by six. Dropping something on the floor is a big deal to pick up.
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I remember when the only video games available were in the pinball arcade … Pong, Tank, and that new fangled Space Invaders.
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Hey, classic? That’s awesome! Now we get to tell the kids that they don’t know what music is.
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Sitting up late at night looking at the scrambled paid Cinimax channels and leveling up your mental decoding skills with the sound down as your parents slept…hic!
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This is such a fun thread. I’m old enough to only have been around Saturn once, but I like hearing about ‘other times.’
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You’re old when you recall visiting Circuit City.
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I preferred rap music when the beats were all old funk records. Early 90’s was also good, when they had to start making their own beats once artists started demanding royalties for samples. After that, rap passed me by and I don’t even know what’s going on anymore.
Paul’s Boutique is the goat, when it comes to sampling old funk records.
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Thankfully, Fry’s is still around in Los Angeles area!
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Had my group over for our regular weekly D&D game.
We started the session by chatting while we waiting for everyone to arrive.
About 30 minutes into the convo I realize we were talking about kitchen appliances and whether we prefer wood or tile floors. I was halfway through telling them why I preferred a certain brand of garbage bag when I suddenly stopped talking mid sentence.
After a moment of silence I blurted out “F____ we’re old!”
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Hey! I bought my last tube TV there a bit over 20 years ago, a wonderful and huge 32" Sony WEGA. Just replaced it a few months ago.
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