Tag: You may be old

It used to be that these were absolutely everywhere! For a dime, or then a quarter, you could reach your home to update your parents on your schedule or on your whereabouts or to ask for a ride home. New York City removed its last one of these on May 23, 2022. Cell phones helped… Continue reading If you know what these are, you are old. Part 23.

These date back to at least 1965. Some sources say as early as 1948 or 1954 though. They help with encryption. They are subject to patent US3387396A. They are groovy and fun to look at. Feeling old?

Let me be clear on this one, knowing what these are doesn’t make you old. If you had a player in your car to play these, then that makes you old! What officially killed these was the auto-reverse cassette player. Once there was no need to flip over the cassette, it didn’t matter how many… Continue reading If you know what these are, you are old. Part 21.

Not sure what this is? Cannot predict now. Ask again later. If you would like to see all the possible answers, check this out.

Before there was television. Before TikTok. Before YouTube, there were: View-Master™ cards. Fourteen transparencies in seven pairs, giving binocular depth perception. High-tech for its time. View-Master™ is a trademark of Mattel.

Back when low-tech ruled and alternately defying and giving in to gravity was the quintessence of excitement. We had…Hoppity Hops.

Sure, what is in the egg is composed of 65% dimethylsiloxane (hydroxy-terminated polymers with boric acid), 17% silica (crystalline quartz), 9% Thixatrol ST (castor oil derivative), 4% polydimethylsiloxane, 1% decamethyl cyclopentasiloxane, 1% glycerine, and 1% titanium dioxide. But did that help you any? Back in the olden days when newspapers (remember those?) were printed with… Continue reading If you know what these are, you are old. Part 17.

You are probably thinking, “Hey, I know what those are! And I’m not old!” Really? When was the last time you took one then? When was the last time you actually did your baseball whistle to call one? Do they come in colors other than yellow? Do they? Famous actors who drove these in movies?… Continue reading If you know what these are, you are old. Part 16.

A long time before Doom and other video games escalated the ability to really knock someone’s block off there were these. It was not enough to sock ’em, you also need to rock ’em. I get to be red.

It didn’t matter how you wore them, because they were a tube stitched together at the bottom, not a sock with a formal heel. There were lots of different colors and combination. There may be imitations now, but they are not as tubular as these.