r/F**kImOld | you must be this old to watch

[@TrashMammalMae]

As a gen z, I did recognize a good amount of things in this video today, which either means I was educated on the past or just that poor

[@nikitatavernitilitvynova]

Probably both. I'm also gen z. But maybe I know more as I come from Italy. Literally one of the last countries to receive and/or accept new thechnologies and inventions. We had a law being put out this year to punish establishments who don't accept digital payments. We had to make a law for every establishment to have a pos machine and to accept card payments of any amount. Anyways. I grew up with cds. I collect them now. I destroyed my fair share of cassette tapes. Hell my granddad had a camcorder to film me and my brother. And now we have tons of cassettes in the basement filled with random moments of me in kindergarden or me in elementary school. My brothers first phone couldn't do anything. It was literally black text on a gray screen that would light up blue and you couldn't pick a ringtone on it. Mine had a few presets I would listen to as a 6 year old. Or I'd ask my mom to borrow it when it was still hers so I could play the bowling game it had on it. We had a landline phone and used it probably up to 2012 so my dad could make calls for cheap to his family. On that note I was there when my dad got a huge ass phone bill because his boss called him while he was abroad and didn't know. My dad received a bill for 500 euros just because his boss didn't know my dad was visiting my mom's family in Ukraine and talked a little too long on the phone. We've all been there. Coming from a 2001 kid.

[@GemGirl2009]

Same

[@diegov166]

Both or like me a third world country person some things came here too late

[@rosesandmilk]

What year?

[@queenthot1438]

or you grew up in the us midwest lol

[@SofieAndMe]

The nostalgia makes me smile, but I do love the changes that have made our lives so much easier. Can't even imagine going back to sitting at the kitchen table writing out checks for all the bills. Gawd. 😱

[@Avrysatos]

now I sit at my computer for 10 minutes a week total and make sure my budget matches the automated bill pay. SO MUCH EASIER.

[@unknown20005]

being reminded that a suburban was first introduced in the 40s felt like god descending from the heavens just to slap me across the face

[@YinYangAngel55]

5:53 "do we still have operators?" Not since the funeral director of Place A got mad that the switchbaord operator took his clients by swtching them over to funeral home Place B because that funeral director and her were married and she wanted to give him more business. Funeral operator from Place A got so mad he invented a way to get direct calls, which put her and all the other phone operators out of a job. Pettiness and Spite are powerful fuels.

[@DavidMacLuna]

A little interesting thing for y'all: A lot of my family worked as phone operators (i was an AT&T Long Distance Operator, worked with a control board that looked like the helm station on the Enterprise ) and I can tell ya that Ma Bell has been working to cut down the workforce since the 80's. My aunt is the only one of us that still works there, and where there were 40 workstations in the 70s (when my mom worked there), and 15-20 when I worked there in the 80's, there's 2 now. And that's day shift, when it's busy. Makes me wonder what it would take to get a live,, human operator. Maybe a call to the ISS?

[@dark14life]

My grandma used to work a switchboard for Ohio Bell back in the late 30's and 40's. Except for during WW2. She worked in the factories while my grandpa was serving as a bomber mechanic in western Europe.

[@sucyshi]

As someone with a Jamaican mom I'm used to "stupid jamaican accent" referring to blatantly inauthentic jamaican accents being passed off as real ones and not a jab at patois. I got made fun of as a toddler and refused to speak Patois afterwards and entirely forgot it as a result but nobody called it a "stupid Jamaican accent" because they were too dumb and too young to have heard of Jamaica

[@bostonrailfan2427]

i heard the accent and shook my head at the idiocy of “accent” coaches..then again, i have had to endure it for years since mine is butchered in Hollywood constantly i guess they only think all Jamaicans sound like Rastafarians from the hills and not the softer accent you really hear from people born and raised on the island

[@smileyfacegummies]

Yay! Another existential crisis-inducing subreddit!! 😂 Great video as always!

[@Werewolf_Boyo.From_CRK]

"Damian's 63, he could be doing this one" This has got me laughing! (If you're asking, go to 3:09)

[@DanielleMoore-vg4lh]

I remember those library cards and seeing how many years back the book I was using had been used. The feeling of knowing it had passed through dozens of hands since like the 70s to when I was a kid in the early 00s was interesting.

[@thelunchlady8276]

And hoping you maybe knew one of the people.

[@spindalis79]

Did you notice the library card featured was from the 1940s?

[@bostonrailfan2427]

those aren’t even library cards, they’re overdue cards…it was funny seeing that a book hadn’t been touched in a decade despite being an important book to read

[@JUMALATION1]

I'm a millennial who was a kid just when the world started switching from analog to digital stuff. I learned to use cassettes and phone books and film roll cameras and encyclopedias and stuff, but also got my first computer at age 7 or 8, with like Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 installed. I'm now really happy I got "a taste of both worlds" growing up.

[@designersheets]

We got our first family computer when I was a little younger, but same experience otherwise lmao. I'm one of the latest possible Millenials from the very end of 1995, but with a sister 7 years older than me, plus my parents of course, so I got exposed to a lot of neat things that were otherwise before my time.

[@Kaeros77]

I was born in 2000 and was taught all the same things that you did- it didn't really stop being taught until like 2005, especially if you were in a poor family

[@shadowstalker130666]

Man, i was born in 85, so i remember way more of the old school, and the older i get the more i miss it. Honestly looking to bring some of it into my home and even drive an old car nearly as old as me on purpose.

[@dark14life]

It was around that same age that my family got our first computer. Except it was an Apple II and it was 1987. I grew up firmly in the analog age and got my first CD at 13. My teenage years were when digital was a thing. We even had a laserdisc player at my high school. For you youngins, the laserdisc was the precursor to the DVD.

[@Sillykitty88]

"Graduated in 2014" well now I feel even older. Great video though. You guys always make my day.

[@stevensiferd7104]

Back around 1982, I was one of those supermarket courtesy clerks who took groceries out to customers' cars. There was this one family that were regulars. They would buy a month's worth of groceries during the first week of every month. They never bought soap. They never bought shampoo. They never bought toothpaste. They never bought mouthwash. They never bought laundry detergent. They never bought toilet paper. They had a two-door Chevy Nova. When you took their stuff out to the car, one of them would get in the back seat and you had to lean into the car and hand over each individual bag. They REFUSED to put anything in the trunk. And, they got offended when I held my breath before sticking my head into their putrid ass-mobile and complained to the manager about it. So, yeah, I remember when clerks had to take your groceries to your car for you.

[@sailorjade]

i wonder if they had dead things in that trunk

[@Jon6429]

Ah yes the days when fixing a broken TV simply required hitting it in just the right spot

[@Graytail]

Or wiggling the rabbit ears into just the right position, where they'd never stay for more than a day or two

[@sytritewarum5720]

​@@Graytail Or the foil extensions on the rabbit ears, which were even more finicky...

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

20:59 Those don't reuse the towel, there are 2 towel roll holders in the machine, 1 holds the clean, sanitary towel which you pull out to dry your hands, the other holds (at first) an empty take-up tube used to collect the dirty, used towel and when the clean towel roll is empty and the dirty towel roll is full, the tech comes in and changes them out for a new set of rolls, 1 full clean one and 1 empty dirty one...

[@squishyseraph7780]

tupperwear: Brand (apparently) tufflewear: An object you use to store stuff. Thanks for the info Robin.

[@TheSecretLover]

5:36 There still IS a phone number you can call to get the time. It connects you to the U.S. Naval Observatory where an automated voice reads off the time from their master clock.

[@PotterBrony82]

I actually have a bandaid tin that I found in some old desk drawer that hadn’t been used by anyone in years when we were clearing out our old work building. It still has some in it, the one with the red string you use to tear the paper.

[@mage1439]

Uh oh, Robin snitched out Damien's real age. 🤣

[@andre_601]

5:41 Funfact: In europe does such a number still exist. You dial it and a computer voice tells you "On the next tone is it " and a signal will be heard.

[@ollieoopsie]

10:14 the City of Ember?!? That was my favorite book for like three years when I was younger and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone bring it up since then lol

[@nebulousconfiguration]

I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a kid! They were my dad's books, and whichever ones he didn't have I'd get from the library. I taught myself to read backwards/reflected so if I finished the book and wasn't near a mirror, I could read the solution to the mystery! And yes, I loved Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys mysteries as well. The games are some of my favorite computer games to this day, and the books often occupied an afternoon or two, depending on how many I had checked out. I miss being able to read like I did as a kid. Now I struggle to read more than a handful of reddit posts before my brain NOPES right out of being literate lol

[@Bacteriophagebs]

The only reference I've ever seen to _Encyclopedia Brown_ outside the books themselves was a line in the comic _Hack/Slash_ where a former kid detective mentions that Encyclopedia Brown grew up and became "Artillery" Brown, known for packing a huge revolver. I don't remember if the revolver was named Sally or if I made that up. There are several little facts that I specifically remember learning from those books. One of the stories might also be responsible for my utter contempt for modern art, the one where the hamster's painting is "too good" so they have to just submit a corner of it to a contest. Every piece of modern art I see reminds me of that story and I can't take them seriously.

[@spindalis79]

I also remember Encyclopedia Brown as well as other books such as "Nate the Great", "Superfudge", "The BFG", "Bunnicula", "Dear Mr. Crenshaw", etc. I was an elementary school student in the 80s.

[@kodomoshawn6729]

They still sell candy cigarettes. That specific brand is literally at several gas stations in my town right now. There is even gum that is in the shape of cigarettes and the gum wrappers are printed to look like cigarettes. I bought some last week.

[@hmnhntr]

Yeah, the amount of stuff in this people are convinced "no one now will know about" that is still commonplace is annoying

[@yamigekusu]

7:16 I had a few magnets that had local pizza places' numbers on them. I very much remember one day (back in early April 2000) when my brother was watching me and my sisters asked which magnet had the number for the Domino's that delivered to us. I remember shouting from the living room that it was the one by the freezer handle. Having individual magnets that had pizza joint numbers

[@MidnightSonnet]

We had those, too. Super convenient. Mom usually wrote down the phone numbers of local pizza places in a little notebook by the landline in the kitchen.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

This actually made me feel better because a lot of this is way before my time or stuff I just barely remember as like a kindergartner

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

00:25 My grandparents used to have a lot of these in the attic. There was a house, a hotel, a camper truck, a castle, even a Sesame Street set. I’m 19 going on 20, BTW.

[@Bryce_the_Woomy_Boi]

*"I* get to do another subreddit that makes me feel *old"* That's kind of the _point_

[@killedbycrit]

Like everywhere i go on youtube now, i see a comment you make

[@Bryce_the_Woomy_Boi]

​@@killedbycrityou're not alone with that

[@tzarg]

​@@killedbycrit really? there's a lot of people i'd say I "see everywhere" like the OwO guy who got his old channel deleted (for spam?) or theobjectguy47 or whatever their name was this is not one of them

[@Bryce_the_Woomy_Boi]

​@@tzargI've had a lot of other people say they see me everywhere

[@VorTheRedGod]

12:36 Mr Nickelodeon? Are you high?...Well Colorado, but seriously? You Can't Do That On Television! was a staple of my childhood. Come on, Robin.

[@elizabethmactavish739]

The silver button in the vehicle floorboard was either used to turn on the high beam lights or put the vehicle into overdrive

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

17:35 I think the short about superstitions is called “The Stupid-stitious Cat”. I remember watching it on a Shout Factory DVD that had three classic cartoon collections: one of classic Superman, one of classic Popeye, and one of other assorted cartoons including Mighty Mouse.

[@GymbalLock]

12:55 "You Can't Do That on Television" was a bunch of short skits by some pre-teens in the mid 1980s. If any of the cast ever said, "I don't know", then green slime would dump on that person from above. If anyone said "water" then a bucket of water would dump on them.

[@TikkaQrow]

5:10 Woolworths was like Ikea or Walmart, but in the past. The sold food, and discount merch. They were actually pretty predatory and drove local businesses out of business by undercutting prices. Kinda like Walmart does now.

[@sarinascales7368]

Woolworths is a main supermarket in Australia

[@ur_a_gymbro_harry]

i love when robin complains because he just makes so much sense. its not like "oh i hate this because yeah i do so screw you", its "i dont like this because of (insert reasons) and also screw you"

[@LessaCaira]

The grocery store I worked for in 1996 used to do this. The paid people just bag groceries and help you out to the car with them. You had to actively tell them no. They don't do that anymore, no idea when they stopped and the cashier will absolutely look at you weirdly and/or give you attitude if you ask for it now. I kinda miss how they would greet you.

[@shroomian2739]

10:29 for me it was a similar list, but with the HTTYD books added on. Seriously, as children’s books those SLAPPED, and as audiobooks they went even harder. Definitely going to be on the list for when (hopefully) I have children.

[@gdtestqueen]

13:00…Looks like ”You Can’t do that on Television”. I believe Nicolodeon now owns the rights but in the 80’s this was the best comedy skit show (Canada).

[@Koldphoenyx]

Props for the Donut Media shoutout at 1:21

[@Drawkcabi]

Being born in the 70’s, I remember in my earliest memories there were still things you could buy for a penny. The local drug store had a gumball machine that took pennies. The gumballs weren't that big, about the size of a marble, and they were all the same artifical grape flavor...but hey...they were 1 cent! Even if you were completely broke it was better than even odds you could find a penny or two on the ground in the parking lot. It was _almost_ free candy and the kids did a service collecting all the pennies from the ground. Win-Win!

[@Liv_themushroom]

Watched this with my parents (both in their 60s) and it was fun to see them point out all the things they recognized

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Ah, our British Elastoplast (our Band-Aid) came in little flip tins usually also called "Airstrip". Those tins were seriously good at storing loose change when empty.

[@roughrdr]

I've got a couple old tins that I still use for that. A little rusty from sitting in the garage but at least they don't break like the old mayonnaise jars.

[@Sarika38]

The Captain Kangaroo one made me laugh,because yes,all of my bones and joints hurt now!😂😂😂 Also the Wonderful World of Disney was one of my favorites,as well as Hee Haw!😁

[@coasternut3091]

"I am a standard white" The unashamed honesty

[@milksheihk]

12:27 I remember in that late 80s we had someone who worked for Henson visit our school, with her she had what was basically an early version of baby dinosaur but at that point it didn't have the tail, it vaguely represented a humanoid baby.

[@havanafayre]

I haven't ordered food over the phone since early 2020. That lil ole pandemic thing made ordering online sooo much easier. App developers for fast food companies really stepped up their game in 2020.

[@Zayfod]

20:40 The 'perpetual' towels aren't just a loop, there's a huge roll of towel inside, when the red stripes start showing up it's close to running out. They got replaced by paper towels as big institutions like schools got their budgets slashed and couldn't afford to maintain a laundry or use a laundry service.

[@Axolautism]

I was taught cursive in elementary school, I'm 21. We used paper like that for cursive, capitals and lower case, and general learning to write

[@radrabbit011]

I remember glass soda bottles. My mom would return the empty bottles to the store. I'm pretty sure the bottles were returned to the bottling company to be sanitized and reused. Seems to be a better option than today.

[@Lzzeecrkrs]

You are exactly right! I sure miss the soda bottles from then…

[@bostonrailfan2427]

the big ones shown were plastic with the cover over the “legs” not glass, the only glass ones were the smaller 20 ounce glass bottles and why they changed to plastic was purely logistical: weight and sizes. you can fit more in the trucks with plastic than glass, plus less loss due to breakage

[@underpaiddefenseattorney]

They still teach cursive in elementary! It was the bane of my existence - not because I was bad at it- but because I knew I'd never use it, and it stopped me from doing my other assignments. We studied it was a main lesson from October/november to the end of the year in fourth grade, and as an "optional" lesson in fifth.

[@GoroAkechi_Real]

Same, but for me it was in 3rd grade (so like 2013/2014) and then they made us do a refresher in 7th grade

[@thespudlord686]

@@GoroAkechi_Real Yup, 3rd grade here too, about 2010 for me, never used it once in my life, not able to now due to nerve damage and my regular handwriting is complete ass

[@Saje3D]

I have a whole rant on how much of a waste it is. I’m early Gen X, so I’ve got the mileage.

[@oceanman2011]

12:44 I STILL HAVE THOSE

[@truckingwithgearheads3190]

The little button on the floor of the car is a headlight dimmer switch. You would press it with your headlights on and would turn off high beams and turn on the low beams.

[@macailynphares9922]

10:37 my mom always tell not to hold them by the lid or else the lid will pop off.

[@Ishgard_Trash]

I don't remember having to read "The Catcher in the Rye", but we had to read "To Kill a Mockingbird". And "The Outsiders." As well as some Jack London classics.

[@ArceusDX]

19:00 sir you do not need that many commas

[@noelhutchins7366]

I remember the atmosphere ionizing when turning a television on, and the crackling whomp of simultaneous super-low-tone-&-super-high-pitch sounds that announces a TV is on.

[@thecluckster3908]

13:37 wow had no idea growing up in the 2010’s was deemed as old.

[@muffinfluff2476]

4:19 "WH0 caN still drIvE one of thEsE?!" always gets me because the answer is... most of Europe, Australia, South Africa....etc

[@acheronbutler]

The time number would also tell you the weather, temperature, and some of them would even list emergency numbers.

[@The_Keh27]

Wonderful World of Disney kept going through at least part of the 90s. As for books - Goosebumps were my go-tos. Also the Choose Your Own Adventure series. And the show that got you slimed when you say "I Don't Know" was You Can't Do That on Television. One of my faves to watch when YTV first launched.

[@Graytail]

11:27 I have to challenge this. Sure, the ewok was sad but I can bring grown men to tears with two words. Littlefoot's mother.

[@MidnightSonnet]

Hate to say it, but my fiance didn't shed a single tear at that scene. He also thinks it's weird that people cry at Artax's death in The Neverending Story. My sister and mom think he's nuts. 😆 I'm 41 and I still cry at that damn scene.

[@Graytail]

@@MidnightSonnet I always found it weird that Atreyu didn't go down too, he was clearly distraught...

[@Graytail]

@@MidnightSonnet What about another of my tearjerkers, Ripley's signoff at the end of Alien3? "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off..."

[@MidnightSonnet]

@@Graytail that's a good point. As a kid, I always assumed he found a spot where he couldn't sink. As an adult, that doesn't make a lot of sense since the entire swamp was a sinkhole for depressed people. Plus, he nearly sank before Falcor saved him. Atreyu kept saying that you have to fight the sadness in order to not sink. That it only gets you if you allow it to consume you. Maybe the swamp knew Atreyu was more panicked, anxious, and scared when Artax was sinking. Only after he died did he fall into depression. Maybe it's explained better in the book, lol. Artax does talk in the book, after all. I heard that scene is worse in the book since the horse talks the entire time she's sinking to her death. I never watched Alien 3. My mother let me watch the first one and it scared the crap outta me. I've never been into horror movies, which is ironic because I like most horror games. A scene that usually makes me cry is when Shadow accepts his death and says his goodbyes in Homeward Bound. And, of course, I don't know a single person who can keep a straight face watching Old Yeller.

[@thelunchlady8276]

@@Graytail Got chills reading that in your post from Alien 3. I remember it well.

[@kevincorbat7084]

20:53 I *still* use these every day… I work in a steel and iron shop and they have two of these in all 3 of the shop floor bathrooms, as well as the circular sinks you have to push a bar down on the floor with your foot to operate

[@nikitatavernitilitvynova]

I had this discussion with my mom one day. So I once asked my mom to go to a place. It was a square a little down from the big park five minutes away from where I live by bus. She said no despite I had already been there with my friend. Mind you I was 12. She let me go there once and I got myself a soda. But apparently this time it was too far. A few years later she confessed to me she thought I was going out too much at that time and didn't want me going out as much. Remember this y'all: I was 12 it was 2013 and I would spend a few afternoons a week during summer break playing in the park with my friends and classmates. And I came back home right around the time they came back home. I lived (and still do) 5 minutes by bus from this park and I would go there alone as I had nobody who would get me there. My granddad had left to his country, Ukraine. And my brother was 15 and was doing other things with his friends at the time. I would go there and bring my volleyball and play with my friends. Quit thinking kids these days don't do the same things. As far as I know it's the parents' fault for being overly protective over their kids. And roads not being as safe anymore. I would've loved it to play outside in the sun 24/7 if I had someone to play with. But I'm autistic. I still enjoy things outside of watching emkay and whatnot. I knit, crochet, sew, paint my nails, watch tv game shows, bake, go on walks and all. I can live without my phone. We don't have it worse. We were raised to have it that way. It's about parents who prefer to shove an iPad on a kid's face instead of buying him a board game and finding the time to be there to play with them. I was the kid who asked my granddad to play hide and seek with me. Kids want to do that.

[@MelbourneMatty]

I’m uhhhh…significantly older…and Australian…and a bloke..but similar things happened here. It’s not the kids not wanting to do stuff. It’s the parents who are more (read overly) protective. I guess it’s because bad news sells, and that’s all you see on the nightly, 24 hour news cycle - bad news - abductions, murders, home invasions, assaults, car accidents. But one thing I can tell you with absolute certainty; roads are significantly safer today, than at any time in the past. Civil engineers and town planners specifically design streets and roads in urban and city areas to be pedestrian and bicycle friendly (even if they’re not perfect) in such a way so as to slow motor traffic down and provide barriers and havens for foot traffic. How’s your crocheting going? My mother was an avid crocheter and knitter. I secretly wish I’d learned. It seems therapeutic. I bought a sewing machine a few years back to mend some clothes and make alterations. It was an impulse buy. I ruined a few items of clothing, now it sits unceremoniously in my garage. If memory serves, it sits on the box that houses art supplies I purchased that suffered a similar fate.

[@nikitatavernitilitvynova]

@@MelbourneMatty I learnt to knit because I asked my mom to teach me. She learnt it back in Ukraine in school or something. I learnt crochet on my own through with a few tutorials on here. I recently sent my mom an article on a study that came out recently that proves both crochet and knitting are good stress relievers and can help relax the person. The study was done in Italy on a group of patients in a hospital if I'm not mistaken. Both genders of different age ranges reported better decision making skills and a longer attention span when knitting before the appointment. Another thing is my granddad taught me to sew. My mom's family was quite poor growing up. Despite her family having good jobs. My granddad was a law graduate who worked for the military in the offices. My grandma that I never met (she passed away from complications to type II diabetes before I was born) was a health and safety engeneer I'm guessing on construction sites. So they both had a knowledge in sewing for the purpose of mending holes in clothes. And my grandma actually went on a sewing course with my mom who hated it. She made my mom some clothes herself with one of those old sewing machine where you had to manually spin the handwheel. Anyway, one day my granddad taught me the basics of hand sewing. I was 7/8. I remember finding a random patch and I did a classic blocky house drawing with a variety of thread colours. I was so proud. I was always interested in diys since I was little. Probably because of my adhd. So making my own clothes sounded not only super cool but super fun. I remember telling my dad I wanted to wear my hand sewn skirt I made at 9/10 to the mall. It was two squares sewn together and a piece as a belt. It was really bad. But I liked it because I made it myself. I got better at it though trial and error and got my first sewing machine at either 13 or 14. I remember when I almost cried when my parents didn't buy me a legit one when I was 11. They bought me a toy one and it was terrible. I thought I'd become the next child prodigy or fashion designer. I then stopped and got back into it and destroyed my ikea sewing machine. My parents got me a used one for my birthday in 2021 but that was a piece of junk too and it broke last year so my dad bought me my current machine the necchi Q421A and I love it. I've made heaps of progress since hand sewing as a kid. I made four pairs of wool pants for winter all in different styles. One was meant to be for my mom but somehow it ended up being a bit smaller for her. Like a size between mine and hers. Between a small and medium. So I ended up wearing those with a belt. And made her her very own pair similar to those a few weeks ago. I've also sewn a few summer dresses and shirts using french seams. And even though I sometimes make my fair share of mistakes I love what I do. Also as a side I taught myself how to cross stitch during quarantine as we had a ton of supplies my mom bought and I was pretty bored. Overall I've made plenty of clothes, knitted a few hats a sweater and a shawl and crocheted some hats too, a scarf and some tops. The fun thing is I'm average in all I do. I just try to have fun with it and not take things too seriously anymore.

[@bikerbernie821]

Never heard of a horse losing a race and saying they're going to take you to the glue factory? That's what the glue was made of, horses

[@jstaff8027]

19:10. I really miss that old school corner grocery that I used shop at when I lived down state. They had a display room with one of everything on display. You just pointed out what you wanted, told the clerk how many of each item you need and he tallied it all up on a ticket with a carbon copy. When you were done with you're selection, the carbon copy went to the back room, wile the cashier rang you up. You paid, and about five minutes later four or five guys came out from the back and carried the grocery bags right out to your car.

[@keldaogg2157]

I'm 76. I remember a lot of this, except the newer stuff. My friend 's brother had a car that had push buttons on the dash for drive,reverse, neutral,etc.I remember before dial phones when you gave the operator the number you wanted. And party lines where everyone listened in.

[@Navonex]

16:07 What really made those specials so fun was when ABC did the 25 days till Christmas line up, I know you can just watch it online now, But back then it really felt more festive with the holiday, now its just straight to the holiday sale and a boring UI that gives you the show. Yes everything was commercial back then too, but at least they were forced to make those fun to watch to.

[@ruuuuroth4831]

Fun fact I was born in 2004 in South Africa and we also used the "cursive paper" to learn how to write, ours usually can in a small 5A booklet.

[@jadeb.7501]

I was born in 1997 in South Africa and we were unfortunately forced to suffer through cursive on normal lined paper, oof.

[@SillyDCbaby]

19:56 i remember learning cursive in second grade which was probably around 2014 or 2015 i believe

[@darcydreaming6931]

7:43 I remember when phone books were a thing, boy was it fun to search through all those numbers looking for a friend. Also, the town I currently live in only has options to order food over the phone because none of the places here are big enough to have online ordering. I miss being able to order online :(

[@jabur81]

10:08 ok, seriously. Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and a ton of other shit has been reprinted about a thousand times over the years. That’s like saying you’re old if you read Dr. Seuss books as a kid

[@DolltheFool]

2:39 I actually have a stereo like this sitting in my house! My family just uses it as a table, but it's still pretty nostalgic to see

[@RookMeAmadeus]

3:20 - You're right. New Jersey's the only state left where you can't pump your own gas. It WAS illegal in Oregon, but they finally changed that about 4 months ago.

[@CombustibleCake]

oh! i remember when all soda came in glass bottles. my great-aunt had a little shop in front of her house and i used to feel so special and grown-up giving customers one of the 1 peso deposit cards whenever they bought one and refunding it when they brought back the bottles and refusing if they “lost” the card because how could i be sure they bought the drink from us??

[@thepeternetwork]

Call me weird, but reading through the phone book was one of my favorite past times for me. My favorite sections were comic books, arcade amusements, and at one point "film and video production." I took film making in college at one point.

[@Graytail]

I bet you liked to just sit and browse though store catalogues too, drawing rings around the things you wanted? I know I did...

[@thepeternetwork]

@@Graytail Consumers Distributing was my favorite read in that genre.

[@Graytail]

@@thepeternetwork It'd be the Argos catalogue for me, its a chain in the UK.

[@sethsteele7163]

1:40 Cars in the 70s actually had ridiculous gas mileage because of the gas shortage. I remember my dad telling me about how some cars then could get 40+ mpg but manufacturers did away with it after the shortage ended. He even said that there were some small cars that he thinks got over 70 miles per gallon.

[@kellyrogers4492]

I work in a tiny rural town where people demand their phone book, then call me, the local phone company switchboard operator, asking for phone numbers for people that they can only give the vaguest of descriptions.

[@rockclanhawkstar1454]

19:04 my grandpa had one of these machines for a few years at his Automotive shop- it was only ever stocked with the watery chocolate drink yoohoos and Mt dews. I am pretty sure the only ones who bought drinks from it where me, my siblings, and my dad. Eventually business started going down significantly at the shop, so he was able to keep up rent with the drink machine and the candy dispenser. Note, he had this machine back in like 2008 to 2014. I can't quite remember clearly how long it was around for.

[@Jacoe413]

0:12 I don't remember that. But I do remember opening bandaids in the dark to see the little blue sparks.

[@ArtamStudio]

In our area, the specific numbers to hear a recorded voice with the current time was 767-8900 and POPCORN. 12:00 hell yes! 14:00 OMG... 18:00 high-beam switch! 19:10 the clerk has a super sus look!!

[@erinmalone2669]

I forgot it was popcorn! Thank you.

[@starlight846]

2:02 the fact that K-mart sign was like that before it became the Big K is a dead giveaway to older times

[@rafamajcher8929]

While I'm not old (20), growing up in Poland I ended up using a phone book enough to be glad to have experianced it

[@ADSBlue44]

“Holden Caufield is such a whiny little baby” that’s the point lmao. Honestly it’s what made me want to read Catcher in the Rye even more

[@terryfilkohazi2237]

Ugh, can't stand that whining phony. The biggest phony in the book!

[@elaexplorer]

17:56 That button on the floor, as I learned trying to install new lights on my 1989 Ford Econoline, is the high beams.

[@autisticwitch7581]

The "what time is it?" phone number broke me. Didn't you people have clocks? It's not like a power outage could knock out your clocks and make you need to reset the time. Wasn't there a village clock you could check? Why was a specific phone number necessary?

[@ForgottenPixelz]

5:25 So I did some research and here's the prices accounting for inflation. Based on someone saying this is a 1950s menu, I chose 1959 as the original date to calculate for inflation as I can't seem to find an exact date for when this menu stopped being used. Hamburger Platter: 55¢ in 1959 | $5.82 in 2023 Cheeseburger Platter: 60¢ in 1959 | $6.34 in 2023 Frankfurter Dinner: 50¢ in 1959 | $5.29 in 2023 Grilled Ham and Egg Platter: 60¢ in 1959 | $6.34 in 2023 Grilled Ham and French Fried Potato Platter: 60¢ in 1959 | $6.34 in 2023

[@yamigekusu]

4:17 my fiance knows how to drive manual, and he used to have a manual car. It was fascinating watching him driving it. He tried explaining how it works, but my brain could not comprehend it

[@Graytail]

13:03 when I was a kid, if a show DIDNT get you slimed it was probbably a 'grown ups' show. Like, the news. In the UK we had a show called TisWas, a saturday AM kinda show, and they would splatter the kids, the parents, random people on the street, the hosts, anyone in range... with regular slime, custard pies, water, baked beans, extra creamy mashed potato... if it made a wet squishy sound when it hit someone's face, it was used.

[@unnamedplayer7]

The City of Ember!! I think I had to read the book and watch the movie for school, but I don't quite remember. It's so weird how many of these things I'm familiar with or have used in the past even though I'm relatively young (early 2000s kid, but with boomer parents) "Having trouble remembering names lately, I think I'm dying." Same, dude, same.

[@Kageoni187]

The first show on Nickelodeon I remember people getting slimed on was Double Dare. Original run was 1986-1993. The host I remember was Mark Summers.

[@randothoughticalittle2600]

slime first appeared on a show called "You Can't Do That on Television"

[@klever...1]

​@@randothoughticalittle2600came to say this

[@spindalis79]

I actually met Mark at Universal Studios, CA while on a family trip to see my aunt, uncle, and new cousin in June of 1991.

[@AngharadMac]

We were a harvest gold AND avocado household, plus the teal and green furniture and shag carpet. Anyone remember floral patterned berber carpet?

[@erinmalone2669]

I kind of miss colored carpet. The pattered, colored carpet that was half regular and half looped was really popular too.

[@RookwingsKirk]

5:50 It was the Speaking Clock, Robin. You rang the Speaking Clock to get "The time, according to accurist, is..."

[@David_H__]

19:45 Jesus, I can STILL smell that paper

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

19:05 My barber used to have a really old Coca Cola machine at her previous barbershop. She kept it unlocked so you wouldn’t have to pay for a drink. I’m fairly certain the coin mechanism wouldn’t have worked anyway.

[@adelinesieber1881]

About the school libraries. In elementary and middle school we had a library class, though in middle school, library class was more about learning about internet safety. Now that I’m in high school, we still have a library, but it’s more like a study hall or a place for people to go when their teacher is out and there’s no substitute.

[@MythologicaYT]

11:52 hey hey HEY WAIT

[@dark14life]

"The Wonderful World of Disney! How old are you?" And I took that personally.

[@AmazingAutist]

11:44 I absolutely hate the catcher in the rye. Holden Caulfield was the worst.

[@rosiefay7283]

5:40 LOL at the tone. Kids, I shit you not, to this day there are buildings with clock faces on them.

[@naugle67]

I bought a Whee-lo last spring and will play with it ever so often. It was my generation’s fidget spinner. If I’m stuck on a project, playing with it helps clear my mind.

[@kimberlyx4060]

When I was a kid, Montgomery Wards had these movie booths that played Hexkle and Jeckle cartoons for .50 cents. Almost every single thing here Id remember. Makes me feel young again.

[@tybois74]

@5:26: Look up Five and Dime stores. They had lunch counters and they were the best! @5:37: In Norfolk, VA, it was 666-1212. You'd get the current time and weather for Norfolk International. Ironically, the number still works. @11:49: "A Day No Pigs Would Die", the end broke me. @14:01: We have a drive-in about a mile from my house. The speakers still work too. :)

[@jacobgrosvenor6446]

19:08 Love this even though i am a gen Z as im a retail person that would help bag and scan items, our grocery store I work at does allow it if we are NOT in fact busy and there is either another lane open or two to take people just let your other colleagues know where you are going incase the manager for shift asks where you went I happen to do this last thursday helping a nice eldery with her items and asking if they need help carrying to the car she allowed me to help and waited for me to do somone next in line after her with a very small order before helping them out I got $3 dollars in tip after helping (normally i get 5 or 4 dollars in tip for helping) which I glady take whatever tip I get which is kinda useless with the prices we have today unless you save it ( also spear change from tray at the end of your shift can add up as well if you get very good customers who dont want their change ) Sorry for my bad english might be alot of EDIT on this comment

[@nemo_is_real]

hearing robin mention warrior cats is startling & scary. also he should read percy jackson. even if he isn't the target demographic. it is good.

[@BunnyNZplays]

I loved the "Trixie Belden" book series when I was a kid. Worzel Gummidge and the Wombles were probably fave TV shows.