You Know you're getting older when...

[GA Russell]

Originally Posted by DrDln

You know you're getting old if you still mail your utilities bill.

That's me! Our electric company charges $4.99 per month to pay electronically, so I said to heck with that!

[HomeInMyShoes]

^$4.99?!? That is pathetic.

You know you're old when you're crotchety about everything.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

I typed the first draft of my dissertation on a manual Olympia typewriter. Much whiteout was consumed in that process.

Do you mean to tell us that whiteout had already been invented then? Why, you must be a veritable youngster!

We had to use those little white anti-carbon papers to strike out the mistakes.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by wodin

Do you mean to tell us that whiteout had already been invented then? Why, you must be a veritable youngster!

We had to use those little white anti-carbon papers to strike out the mistakes.

That reminds me: did you hear about the man who mixed up his bottles of Viagra and white-out?

Spoiler:

He woke up in the morning with a massive correction!

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Roger Parkinson

Paper tape. I always bring up paper tape when people mention punch cards. I did use punch cards, but one of the machines I worked on (in fact the first one that I could claim some actual professional association with) used paper tape. Ghastly stuff..

I got really good at wrapping paper tape around my fingers in a figure eight roll so it would feed off correctly to the tape reader.

Originally Posted by Roger Parkinson

The other story, which is much later, was about the Internet, although not the Internet we know today. I worked for Digital in the '80s and they had a private network connecting their offices using DECnet (gone now...).

When I was writing my resume for my PMP certification my first IT project was upgrading from a PDP-11 with RS-232 VT 52/100 terminals to a Vax with DECnet.

[wannabee]

When test papers were mimeographed and filled out with pen and ink from the ink well.

I could never get a handle on why my dad's razer was called a safety razer. When I first had to shave I immediately bought something far less dangerous that didn't require as many band aids.

[Solitaire1]

- You think of Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs rather than Gilligan.

- You think of type size as pica or elite.

- You knew that if a package had to be there tomorrow, you'd have to take it there yourself.

- 3D meant ViewMaster.

[DrDln]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

That's me! Our electric company charges $4.99 per month to pay electronically, so I said to heck with that!

That is really pathetic. Normally they prefer auto-payment because it ensures the payment.

If I misunderstood electronic payment: I am getting too old not to know the difference between electronic bill payment and automatic deduction from bank account.

[orange!]

Originally Posted by rhadin

when you prefer to read or watch tv rather than have sex

Maybe that's not about *you* getting old.

Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

When you mention doing something you've done for years, or wanted to do for years, and hear, "Don't you think you're a little too old for that?" (Happened to me last year)
...

ouch.

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Yes you truly know that you are getting old when you can recollect using one of these whenever one of the tubes in the T.V or radio went bad.
...

Wow, I'd almost forgotten about those. How about this one--I remember getting the fit checked on some Buster Browns with one of these:

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

...
In order to produce a stack of these.

I did have to use punch cards for one programming course (Fortran). But most of my programming in graduate school was in Pascal on the Terak computers that ran the UCSD p-System.

Originally Posted by GlenBarrington

You know you're getting old when your child thinks VHS is a sexually transmitted disease.

You know you're really getting old when VHS *is* an STD and you don't know it.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

That reminds me: did you hear about the man who mixed up his bottles of Viagra and white-out?
...

[orange!]

You know you're getting old when...

...you remember seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. On a black and white t.v.

...you remember when men didn't go outside bare-headed. And they didn't wear ball caps either, unless they were ball players!

[wannabee]

You know you're getting old when you apply for a birth certificate to find out it is a cave painting.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by orange!

Wow, I'd almost forgotten about those. How about this one--I remember getting the fit checked on some Buster Browns with one of these:

I've used those, and so far I haven't developed toe nail cancer!

Do you remember the Buster Brown jingle?

Spoiler:

I'm Buster Brown
I live in a shoe
That's my dog Tagg
He lives in there too

[orange!]

Originally Posted by wodin

...Do you remember the Buster Brown jingle?...

No, I *don't* remember it.

Maybe I'm not as old as you.

Or maybe I'm older and getting senile!!

[Laine]

I remember the foot machine from when I was at high school. When I've told people about it they don't believe me.

[Solitaire1]

- You remember when a new car cost $2,999.

- You hear the name "Bill Bixby" and think of "My Favorite Martian" rather than "The Incredible Hulk."

- You remember when the evening news came from Huntley & Brinkley.

- You first saw Morgan Freeman as "Easy Reader" on "The Electric Company."

- You remember when AM radio played mostly music.

- When someone mentions The Bee Gees and you think of pop instead of disco.