Yeah, I hear you on this. I kinda miss that squealy/squarky sound you'd get when you used a dial-up modem. Sometimes I'd pretend I was working for a top-secret government acronym , trying to contact alien life forms.
I used a modem until 2008, then again for several months last year (before I got DSL). It doesn't seem that long ago to me. :)
I miss phone booths more than just the public (pay) phones. Because there still are public (pay) phones. But there aren't any phone booths, except in a few swanky restaurants that still have the wooden ones. But I miss the closey-ones. They were good for standing in if you were very cold and had to be standing around outside. There used to be one on my street (well, around the corner) for a long time, and every time I forgot to pay the phone bill and got my service cut off, I'd go out to call them and ask what was going on. It was warmer when it was an actual booth. Now I don't even know if the phone is there. Of course, I don't live on that street anymore, either. And now I also have a cell phone.
I miss . . . crap, I miss stuff all the time and now I don't even remember what I miss! And I think I was just talking about this on Monday or Tuesday. I miss the way you used to actually push and move things to make them work. Like the knob on a TV or a rotary phone dial or those old "buttons" on a VHS machine that were like pushing little levers. Or on a Walkman, the pushy-push buttons. Of course, I still have a Walkman and a recorder that have those buttons, but I don't use them as much.
I also miss the feel of that corrasable typewriter paper, even though it totally used to drive me crazy when I used it. I preferred to just White Out and retype. White Out! I never use that anymore. I bet some people still do, though.
Mimeos! How about that? Did you ever have to do that at school, write out the copy for a handout and then crank out the mimeos on the machine? It smelled really good. :)
[edit: I thought of dittos as I was about to publish, and apparently it's dittos that are supposed to smell good. I know we had both, and I'm definitely remembering the mimeograph machine, but I'm also remembering doing handwritten handouts at times, so I must be combining the two in my mind. Not surprising, since I remember a lot of us trying to "update" the teachers into using the term "ditto" rather than mimeo, which they almost all used.]
I also miss ashtrays and matchbooks. [sheepish] It's just weird not to have them around! Plus, matchbooks were a cool collectible (as were some ashtrays). I guess these are still around, but not in the proliferation they once were. Ditto for smoking in general.
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Yeah, I hear you on this. I kinda miss that squealy/squarky sound you'd get when you used a dial-up modem. Sometimes I'd pretend I was working for a top-secret government acronym , trying to contact alien life forms.
Only sometimes though...
I'd love to work for a top-secret government acronym. Or even, just be in charge of naming them!
The Alert Covert Rock Operatives National Youth Movement.
You and me both!
Who doesn't want to work for a TSGA.
:-D
They should use that one. I don't think anyone's using that one.
Maybe if you're really super-secret, you don't give your agency an imposing acronym, though.
I'd hate to think that, though. I don't want to live in that world.
I used a modem until 2008, then again for several months last year (before I got DSL). It doesn't seem that long ago to me. :)
I miss phone booths more than just the public (pay) phones. Because there still are public (pay) phones. But there aren't any phone booths, except in a few swanky restaurants that still have the wooden ones. But I miss the closey-ones. They were good for standing in if you were very cold and had to be standing around outside. There used to be one on my street (well, around the corner) for a long time, and every time I forgot to pay the phone bill and got my service cut off, I'd go out to call them and ask what was going on. It was warmer when it was an actual booth. Now I don't even know if the phone is there. Of course, I don't live on that street anymore, either. And now I also have a cell phone.
I miss . . . crap, I miss stuff all the time and now I don't even remember what I miss! And I think I was just talking about this on Monday or Tuesday. I miss the way you used to actually push and move things to make them work. Like the knob on a TV or a rotary phone dial or those old "buttons" on a VHS machine that were like pushing little levers. Or on a Walkman, the pushy-push buttons. Of course, I still have a Walkman and a recorder that have those buttons, but I don't use them as much.
I also miss the feel of that corrasable typewriter paper, even though it totally used to drive me crazy when I used it. I preferred to just White Out and retype. White Out! I never use that anymore. I bet some people still do, though.
Mimeos! How about that? Did you ever have to do that at school, write out the copy for a handout and then crank out the mimeos on the machine? It smelled really good. :)
[edit: I thought of dittos as I was about to publish, and apparently it's dittos that are supposed to smell good. I know we had both, and I'm definitely remembering the mimeograph machine, but I'm also remembering doing handwritten handouts at times, so I must be combining the two in my mind. Not surprising, since I remember a lot of us trying to "update" the teachers into using the term "ditto" rather than mimeo, which they almost all used.]
I also miss ashtrays and matchbooks. [sheepish] It's just weird not to have them around! Plus, matchbooks were a cool collectible (as were some ashtrays). I guess these are still around, but not in the proliferation they once were. Ditto for smoking in general.
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