While I’m not 30 yet, a lot of those things sure do bring back some memories.
Growing up, our rabbit ears only picked up two TV stations, PBS and NBC. This limited the viewing options a bit. Fortunately, Saturday Night Live was actually funny back then. Between 1:00-2:00am both of these stations would go “off the air”, which these days means 6 hours of infomercials but back then it meant 6 hours of fuzzy static.
Taping songs off the radio – it was usually worth the wait if you eventually got it! And then you could play the tape in your Walkman, which had no rewind button, so in order to hear it again you had to take the tape out and flip it, fast-forward it for a little while, take it out and flip it again, and hope you got the right spot… otherwise repeat the process. After a while you would know the exact length of time it needed to be fast-forwarded for each song.
Climate control meant using a fan during summer, a wood stove during the winter, and a window during the spring or fall.
And I remember the Atari. One of the few games we had for it was a Casino game. I recall watching my parents play blackjack on it.
Touch-tone dialing wasn’t available in the area I grew up in. If you had a push-button phone it had to be set to “pulse”.
Ah, the good old days. :tongue: