Memories of old people (your memories)

Oh wow....I hope that doesn't mean the announcers had to say things like "Here's the Old Spice 4th and goal coming up"

 

Of course not. It was the Palmolive Extra Point Kick to soak your fingers.

 

We always called our grandparents "Grandma" and "Grandpa". But wwe had neighbors who called theirs "Bubbie" and "Zaydie". For some reason, every kid in the neighborhood also addressed them that way (myself included.) By the time Zaydie passed away, I was an adult and wanted to pay a Shivah call. But, since I had never called him anything but Zaydie, I had to ask my father what his actual name was.

 

When I was in highschool, we learned metres and kilogrammes ... when is the USA going to follow?

 

That is true, though the first web browser (NCSA Mosaic) was available a bit earlier. When I got a demo of that, I was convinced it would never be used for serious stuff (like Gopher and Usenet) ... was I ever wrong!

Indeed, the Web has made the world a lot smaller.

 

A huge difference is that you used to get old at 50 ... nowadays reaching 50 is a sign that you may need to start growing up

But seriously, I do not feel "middle aged" at all, and I think the same applies to friends who are the same age. Even if my kids try to convince me otherwise

 

One of my cousins called our grandfather "Lantsman" one day which I thought was very inappropriate. I didn't say anything but I could tell it annoyed our Zaydeh. He was such a fine man - a real mensh.

 

I meant Mosaic . Knew that actually, but I was a very early Netscape user too.

 

In 1992 I used a NeXT station to run WAIS. That was a graphical interface that I used for Gopher, Archie/FTP, and another one I just forgot the name of - specifically for researching papers that were published on various sites. NCSA Mosaic came later, and people keep forgetting about WAIS. WAIS was truly the _first_ "web browser".

 

I remember when I was the remote.

 

Were you also the dishwasher?

 

Oh. A movie and popcorn and a soft drink was $1. Heck I'm old.

 

No. That would be my sister, I was the remote and garbage man.
I also sold newspapers on the corner for 5¢

 

Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Andy Griffith Show
Star Trek
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
All in The Family
M*A*S*H

 

My Uncle Martian
Mr. Ed
Howdy Doody
Captain Kangaroo
Sid and Marty Krofft SuperShow (SchlepCar!)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Gomer Pyle
The Beverly Hillbillies. (Anyone have a concrete pond?)

 

My Favorite Martian, you mean

It's About Time
My Mother The Car
The Flying Nun
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons
UFO
Space 1999
Thunderbirds
Speed Racer
Gigantor
Kimba The White Lion[/QUOTE]

 

Officially ... England in 1965, Canada in 1970, and in Australia in 1966. I was taught it in the early 70's and I asked "why change" and was given the answer "everyone else is doing it". Funny as a teenager if you gave that answer to your parents, they'd say "only fools follow the crowd".

I find the metric system fine for science, but I was introduce to the metric system ~45 years ago and still buy a gallon of milk and drive three miles to my brothers house.

By the way I'm in the science field and still only use it at work.

US ... rebels to the end.

 

+1 on this. I grew up with the metric system and imperial. Metric is good for computers, but people tend to automatically think in fractions, and measure against body parts. I find imperial more useful on a day to day basis.

 

I remember my grandfather, my mom's dad. He was from South Dakota, big man, big rough hands. But he had this soft gentle side of him, he didn't say much but when he did it was important. He took me out on some back road and we pulled over, I could only see corn for miles and he said let's go get some corn, he opened the trunk of the car and we started to load up, I asked him if it was ok to be doing this and he said yes. It turned out to be the other end of his property and he wanted to see how I reacted. I guess I passed. I miss him and think about him and my grandmother often.