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I can't believe this hasn't been said yet, or I missed it, but back in my day....

Pluto was a planet.

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Back in my day, Rosie O'Donnell was a backwards-hat wearing comedienne on the Improv. She later hosted it.

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Touché, good sir. You outdid me on this one.

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Back in my day, floppy disks were at least as common as CDs.
Back in my day, the same went for cassette tapes.

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Back in my day, car stereo was the house stereo, powered by an inverter, and playing 7" reel to reel tapes

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Man, I feel way too young for this thread.

Back in my day, Beanie Babies were normal animals and colors. And the names of the cats rhymed.
Back in my day, TV shows for kids AND pre-teens/teens were animated
Back in my day, Ms. Frizzle was the coolest teacher ever
Back in my day, my gaming consisted of blowing on cartridges to try and get them to work. On my dad's Intellivision.

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Back in my day floppy disks were 8" and expensive and the first computer I owned used cassette tapes for memory.

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Back in my day, data was stored on mag tapes. And I had to hand carry it from the data center in one building to the data center in another building to transfer the data (aka "sneakernet").

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Back in my day, a floor sort was a great way to ruin your day.

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In my earliest days
I arrived here from WEST Germany taking an intercontinental flight that was propeller driven... stopping 6 times between Frankfurt and Chicago

Gasoline was cheap enough that $2.00 worth could last the weekend...

On Sundays most stores were closed... (in Germany stores were closed from Noon on Saturday until Monday morning...)

Televisions were black and white...

We ate most of our meals at home and I walked home for lunch every day from Elementary school.

We had one car.

Telephones were dialed on a dial and we had a party line.
Telephone numbers started with letters not numbers...

At school we did atomic bomb drills

Television stations "signed off" at night... usually around midnight.

Interstates were new and exciting.... and often not completed...



yes I know... people ask me whether it was really sad when all the dinosaurs died...

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So...was it? Or perhaps some of your peers could weigh in on that question.

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doesn't make sense, we all thought you wore armored suits as a knight, hung out with King Arthur, etc

That is what your picture indicated, graduation from knight school !!

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We listened to the World Series games over the school intercom.

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We watched the astronauts on a big (it seemed big at the time) TV in the cafeteria.

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Back in my day, NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys were the most popular bands, I used the AOL software for everything on the internet, and it would be common for my parents to find parts from flashlights, CD players, click pens, and R/C cars scattered all over my room.

Side note on that last one:
Being a robotics nerd started early for me. I could take almost anything mechanical/electrical apart. Problem was, I didn't know how to put most of them back together. Ahhhh, good times.