Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

AnOminous said:
Thread tax: I remember when I used to be able to drive places without a GPS telling me what turns to take.
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I remember using those paper maps and for closer data - MapQuest. It's a shame that AAA stopped doing TripTix, because those were pretty awesome. Never used them, but my parents relied on them to go anywhere more than an hour away from home. I remember flipping them page to page along the destination.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
I remember using those paper maps and for closer data - MapQuest. It's a shame that AAA stopped doing TripTix, because those were pretty awesome. Never used them, but my parents relied on them to go anywhere more than an hour away from home. I remember flipping them page to page along the destination.
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Yeah I do not miss the ritual humiliation of being the family’s unpaid IT department, printing out pages of MapQuest directions for my mom because using a web browser might as well have be piloting a Predator drone.

The printer industry is basically a protection racket where boomers are still being shaken down for ink cartridges so they can print out tickets and boarding passes.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
I remember using those paper maps and for closer data - MapQuest. It's a shame that AAA stopped doing TripTix, because those were pretty awesome. Never used them, but my parents relied on them to go anywhere more than an hour away from home. I remember flipping them page to page along the destination.
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Yes, but do you remember, let's pull over, open up the glove compartment (remember when gloves where a thing) and actually unwrap and look at a paper map and try to figure out where you are and where the map says you should be?

It's been decades.

But it's been hours since I had that happen with my phone.
 
AnOminous said:
I remember when I used to be able to drive places without a GPS telling me what turns to take. Or actually consult a map on paper. Remember those?
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Those things can be hard to refold for some reason.

And to this day, I may still look up the location of a place on a computer at home, draw a "stick map" from it, then use that "stick map" offline to see which roads to take.
 
AnOminous said:
Yes, but do you remember, let's pull over, open up the glove compartment (remember when gloves where a thing) and actually unwrap and look at a paper map and try to figure out where you are and where the map says you should be?

It's been decades.
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Ah, the days when the answer to "when do you think you'll be here?" wasn't "46.456 minutes unless my stupid app is out of real time projecting accurate traffic status."
 
Did anyone else keep emergency burger money in the change drawer in cars? Fast food, and groceries, didn't use to take cards. We'd keep some 1's, some 5's and change in those drawers for days we couldn't face cooking at home. When my kids were very small, I'd pull up to the closest pump to the gas cashier area so I could lock the car and sprint into pay or use my card and watch the car at the same time. At the grocery, I'd pull a hundred from the ATM to use to pay. Groceries took checks but they were such a bother. My mom always used to pay with a check but I think we finally trained her to use her card. She doesn't shop here but once we went to pay for her new hearing aids and she was fussed trying to find her checkbook. Good things she's mostly oblivious to my eye rolling!
 
Xbox 360 is now considered retro.
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AnOminous said:
I remember when I used to be able to drive places without a GPS telling me what turns to take.
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Apple girl voice gave me some fairly crappy instructions today and sent me through some 'hoods I never see and so she made me slightly more racist, which I thought was impossible.

I wish I could live long enough to achieve total racism, but I'm too old. New brown horrors are everywhere and never end.
 
I was wearing a Gorillaz shirt the other day and somebody stopped me and said "whoa! that's a throwback!"
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Are Gorillaz not hot any more with the youths?

Also, I just realised that some of the very first band shirts I ever bought (which I still own and wear) are legally allowed to drink this year.

Mysterious Figure said:
Xbox 360 is now considered retro.
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I remember browsing 4chan during christmas of that year and reading posts from people saying their christmas trees caught fire because the power brick was too close.

Feels like just a couple of years ago.
 
Mesh Gear Fox said:
Tax: I was talking to some probably 20 year old who had no idea what a rotary phone is. We still used them when I was young. I remember when GTE switched over to touch-tone and we had to replace all the phones in our home.
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My grandparents had a rotary phone for as long as I remember until my grandma had to relocate to a senior apartment. If the story I heard is true, it was supposedly cheaper to have a rotary phone at one point in the past and the rotary phone stayed in place out of habit/convenience.

Similarly, I remember briefly having a combination clock radio and phone combo where the phone had a switch for touch tones or rotary pulses. The pulses on that phone sounded weird and I couldn't understand why anyone would chose pulse dialing because it seemed backwards.

Thread tax: Realizing the oldest of my best friend's kids is now almost as old as I was when I flew out for their second birthday.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
My grandparents had a rotary phone for as long as I remember until my grandma had to relocate to a senior apartment. If the story I heard is true, it was supposedly cheaper to have a rotary phone at one point in the past and the rotary phone stayed in place out of habit/convenience
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And Touch-Tone service was more expensive than rotary. I remember trying to access my messages on my answering machine, and not being able to because a place only had rotary dial.
Thanks for bringing that up, I hadn't thought of that for years. The frustration!
 
>tfw you realize you're an old motherfucker because you remember when you could phreak with a rotary
 
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