32 Comments on Kids today do not know the struggle
At least Clark Kent can now use starbucks
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nice one Bongo
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The kids all have smart phones now days along with most everyone else. May as well have your local sheriff attach an ankle tracking monitor on you.
Even when they claim they’ll respect your privacy they have been proven liars.
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Gee Wally, I remember those!
Yeah Beave, there wuz life before cell phones, but what I can’t believe is that every kid from First grade on up is walking around with a $500.00 piece of hardware in their pocket!
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Yeah, when someone “dropped a dime” on you it was either that you were going to have to deal with the police or you got a nice bag of weed.
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organgrinder
MAY 24, 2018 AT 6:32 AM
May as well have your local sheriff attach an ankle tracking monitor on you.
So passé, who needs clunky monitors for all eyes to see?
The City of Orlando PD entered into a pilot program that collects facial recognition and uploads to Amazon for the purpose of “enhanced public safety”. I guess if I’m ever confronted by a terrorist Amazon will drone drop a SWAT team on my doorstep, or something.
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no one makes you walk around with a phone, at least not yet.
some liberal judge will soon decide it’s your right to be monitored all day every day and you’re going to like it.
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Englelburka
Every leap in technology is an opportunity for the left to weaponize it against the public.
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They will recognize the smell from those glass wall urinals, every time they go to a progressive orgnaized sit in or march.
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Two rings meant come pick us up at wherever we were.
No answering machines.
Every long road trip was more dangerous because of lack of communication and bias ply tires.
Computers are what large institutions and the armed forces had.
I think the average youth today would think they were in hell if they were put back in the early 60s and before.
And yeah, I take note when I see a “homeless” person or a child with what amounts to what was the cost of an old car in their pocket.
P.S. More than nostalgia, it’s a look at how small the world has gotten in a relatively short time. We really didn’t know much about what was happening elsewhere in the world like we do now. You are more in the “world” now at your computer than actually being outside – it’s just so local! lol
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I no longer have a cell. It was scary at first but I love it now. Might get a Tracphone later on
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By Kids you mean 30 and under, right?
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When we wanted a ride or to let everyone know we made it home after a long trip we would call collect and ask for someone who wasn’t there. It was our code.
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And you waited till after 6 to call Long Distance.
Different rates for Sundays and Holidays.
When we lived in Germany (60-63) we exchanged tape recordings through the mail because the International Phone Rates were exorbitant.
Funny how stuff works.
izlamo delenda est …
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And none of this “search it up” crap. Just that ratty, torn up, urine-soaked phone book hanging on a chain, with whole Taxicab section always ripped out. And the bail/bond section, too.
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Remember having to carry a card and/or memorize your AT&T long distance dialing number? That’s more recent, but what a pain.
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1 Hello?
2 This is United States calling, are we reaching?
3 Why, Yes. Yes, I believe we are reaching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zclrGl_peZg
Jan 5, 2018 – 5 min – Uploaded by Puddles Pity Party
Puddle Party Line
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And using a nickel then smacking the old black pay phone to get a dial tone, and your nickel back, so you could buy a 8oz. coke from the flat vending cooler, to drink while you talked on the phone.
We did the two rings thing, too. worked pretty well unless sis was waiting for her boyfriend to call her.
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Ahhh, the good ole days. Back when YOU had to be smart to survive. I’d go back there in a heartbeat.
Most people today are dumb, because they don’t have to be smart. They have an internet terminal in their pocket.
I love it when one of these brainless idiots gets run over while crossing the street staring at their phone.
Darwin takes another typical Dem voter. MAGA!
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Scored a few windfalls out of the coin return box. Hope the IRS doesn’t catch wind of this.
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Called my girlfriend (now my wife) back in the sixties. It was a collect call to the mainland from Guam. Call lasted less than a half hour and cost $85.00. Had to mail a money order to cover it.
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@Poppy O’Charts – Thanks I neeed some Puddles Pity today.
1972 – back from indo-china called from Phone Banks at Rota Spain to St. Thomas, PA (Hone of Nellie Fox and my girl) — about 10 minutes and $ 50 bucks and it took 10 minutes to get through.
Still have a box of over 100 cassettes with a diary of my days — didn’t take many pictures but I did keep a pretty good narrative.
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I’m so old I remember picking up the phone to make a call, and the operator said “Numbuh pleeuz.”
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Ah yes, Quinn. In 1973-1977 in Lake Geneva – only 5 numbers needed to dial local. I felt like I went back in time.
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Ah, yes. Urination stations 😷.
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Geez, I recall two oldies. As a Cub Scout given a tour of the telephone exchange in my small home town. A small room above the post office where in several women worked plugging cables into the switchboard to make phone connections. And the phone number to the local Piggly Wigglies store was 223.
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We had a party line and if the other party was speaking you had to wait until the line was available.
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“You’ll believe a man can fly”
Could be a new iotw tagline…
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Millenials need a smart phone, because they are so dumb, they use an app to tell them which hand to wipe with. Personally, I use toilet paper.
None of them even know what one of these is. Having graduated from college over 50 years ago, this was the go to calculator.
Slide rule. https://youtu.be/xYhOoYf_XT0
Slide rule, manual typewriter, and actually having to go to the library for basic information they can now get via a qiock search on the iPhone.
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IBM Mag Card II
Early word processor. Our state office had this high tech monster in the mid 1970s.
Basically a IBM as electric typewriter with a huge electronic box which could store and retrieve something like 8000 characters on a magnetic card about the size and shape of an IBM punch card. https://youtu.be/NiomTFAK4HM
I think they ran around $8000.
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Donated two coal shovels the the Hysterical Society of Arlington Heights, IL, Phone number 7.
At least Clark Kent can now use starbucks
nice one Bongo
The kids all have smart phones now days along with most everyone else. May as well have your local sheriff attach an ankle tracking monitor on you.
Even when they claim they’ll respect your privacy they have been proven liars.
Gee Wally, I remember those!
Yeah Beave, there wuz life before cell phones, but what I can’t believe is that every kid from First grade on up is walking around with a $500.00 piece of hardware in their pocket!
Yeah, when someone “dropped a dime” on you it was either that you were going to have to deal with the police or you got a nice bag of weed.
organgrinder
MAY 24, 2018 AT 6:32 AM
May as well have your local sheriff attach an ankle tracking monitor on you.
So passé, who needs clunky monitors for all eyes to see?
The City of Orlando PD entered into a pilot program that collects facial recognition and uploads to Amazon for the purpose of “enhanced public safety”. I guess if I’m ever confronted by a terrorist Amazon will drone drop a SWAT team on my doorstep, or something.
no one makes you walk around with a phone, at least not yet.
some liberal judge will soon decide it’s your right to be monitored all day every day and you’re going to like it.
Englelburka
Every leap in technology is an opportunity for the left to weaponize it against the public.
They will recognize the smell from those glass wall urinals, every time they go to a progressive orgnaized sit in or march.
Two rings meant come pick us up at wherever we were.
No answering machines.
Every long road trip was more dangerous because of lack of communication and bias ply tires.
Computers are what large institutions and the armed forces had.
I think the average youth today would think they were in hell if they were put back in the early 60s and before.
And yeah, I take note when I see a “homeless” person or a child with what amounts to what was the cost of an old car in their pocket.
P.S. More than nostalgia, it’s a look at how small the world has gotten in a relatively short time. We really didn’t know much about what was happening elsewhere in the world like we do now. You are more in the “world” now at your computer than actually being outside – it’s just so local! lol
I no longer have a cell. It was scary at first but I love it now. Might get a Tracphone later on
By Kids you mean 30 and under, right?
When we wanted a ride or to let everyone know we made it home after a long trip we would call collect and ask for someone who wasn’t there. It was our code.
And you waited till after 6 to call Long Distance.
Different rates for Sundays and Holidays.
When we lived in Germany (60-63) we exchanged tape recordings through the mail because the International Phone Rates were exorbitant.
Funny how stuff works.
izlamo delenda est …
And none of this “search it up” crap. Just that ratty, torn up, urine-soaked phone book hanging on a chain, with whole Taxicab section always ripped out. And the bail/bond section, too.
Remember having to carry a card and/or memorize your AT&T long distance dialing number? That’s more recent, but what a pain.
1 Hello?
2 This is United States calling, are we reaching?
3 Why, Yes. Yes, I believe we are reaching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zclrGl_peZg
Jan 5, 2018 – 5 min – Uploaded by Puddles Pity Party
Puddle Party Line
And using a nickel then smacking the old black pay phone to get a dial tone, and your nickel back, so you could buy a 8oz. coke from the flat vending cooler, to drink while you talked on the phone.
We did the two rings thing, too. worked pretty well unless sis was waiting for her boyfriend to call her.
Ahhh, the good ole days. Back when YOU had to be smart to survive. I’d go back there in a heartbeat.
Most people today are dumb, because they don’t have to be smart. They have an internet terminal in their pocket.
I love it when one of these brainless idiots gets run over while crossing the street staring at their phone.
Darwin takes another typical Dem voter. MAGA!
Scored a few windfalls out of the coin return box. Hope the IRS doesn’t catch wind of this.
Called my girlfriend (now my wife) back in the sixties. It was a collect call to the mainland from Guam. Call lasted less than a half hour and cost $85.00. Had to mail a money order to cover it.
@Poppy O’Charts – Thanks I neeed some Puddles Pity today.
1972 – back from indo-china called from Phone Banks at Rota Spain to St. Thomas, PA (Hone of Nellie Fox and my girl) — about 10 minutes and $ 50 bucks and it took 10 minutes to get through.
Still have a box of over 100 cassettes with a diary of my days — didn’t take many pictures but I did keep a pretty good narrative.
I’m so old I remember picking up the phone to make a call, and the operator said “Numbuh pleeuz.”
Ah yes, Quinn. In 1973-1977 in Lake Geneva – only 5 numbers needed to dial local. I felt like I went back in time.
Ah, yes. Urination stations 😷.
Geez, I recall two oldies. As a Cub Scout given a tour of the telephone exchange in my small home town. A small room above the post office where in several women worked plugging cables into the switchboard to make phone connections. And the phone number to the local Piggly Wigglies store was 223.
We had a party line and if the other party was speaking you had to wait until the line was available.
“You’ll believe a man can fly”
Could be a new iotw tagline…
Millenials need a smart phone, because they are so dumb, they use an app to tell them which hand to wipe with. Personally, I use toilet paper.
None of them even know what one of these is. Having graduated from college over 50 years ago, this was the go to calculator.
Slide rule.
https://youtu.be/xYhOoYf_XT0
Slide rule, manual typewriter, and actually having to go to the library for basic information they can now get via a qiock search on the iPhone.
IBM Mag Card II
Early word processor. Our state office had this high tech monster in the mid 1970s.
Basically a IBM as electric typewriter with a huge electronic box which could store and retrieve something like 8000 characters on a magnetic card about the size and shape of an IBM punch card.
https://youtu.be/NiomTFAK4HM
I think they ran around $8000.
Donated two coal shovels the the Hysterical Society of Arlington Heights, IL, Phone number 7.
One digit, not sure on it being 7…