I'm so old I Remember when:

[Sally PB]

Try Kelvin instead.

0° Fahrenheit = really cold day; 100° Fahrenheit = really hot day.
0° Celsius = sort of cold day; 100° Celsius = dead.
0° Kelvin = dead; 100° Kelvin = dead.

I have so old wheat pennies I'm hoarding.

Hubby has a collection of those too.

DH one day said he wondered how I could type so fast and watch tv at the same time.

A friend of mine can type a magazine article he's writing and converse about something totally unrelated at the same time. He said that touch typing and speed reading have probably helped him get an extra 10 - 15 years' worth of work done over his lifetime.

 

[sdm111]

Try Kelvin instead.

0³K = -273.15C = -460°F.

Or Newton meter

 

[sdm111]

I got fired from my job operating one of those because I listened in to some conversations.
I was in High School - it was a summer job.

Back in about the early 90s when I first got on the fire department I got a scanner and soon realized I could listen to home cordless phone conversations with it. I soon got a mobile one for mu truck and learned alot about my neighbors. It got bad when I told my dad, he wanted to take a ride practically every evening

 

[The Moonshiner]

Along with switchboards, I remember party lines. 4 or 5 houses hooked up to a single trunk line. Each house had its own ring tone. Wasn't sorry to see them go at all.

I learned touch typing also. Still use it. DH one day said he wondered how I could type so fast and watch tv at the same time.

As for remembering when, anybody old enough besides me to remember when JFK was assassinated? I was in the 5th grade and remember the school principle coming into the room and telling us that the president had just been killed. She was a tall, slender woman stern but kind with her hair in a bun and I remember she was crying.

So anybody old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis?

JFK and the Cuban missile crisis was both before my time.
Elvis was my time but I was still to young to grasp what was going on.

 

[R2elk]

Or Newton meter

Doesn't work for temperature readings.

 

[sdm111]

Doesn't work for temperature readings.

Oh we just talking temperature? Well how's bar?

Just kidding

 

[R2elk]

Oh we just talking temperature? Well how's bar?

Just kidding

I have BAR on my air rifle rather than psi.

 

[sdm111]

JFK and the Cuban missile crisis was both before my time.
Elvis was my time but I was still to young to grasp what was going on.

I'm just a young whipper snapper, furthest I can remember back is seeing red dawn in the theater. Sis got me in

 

[Sally PB]

I was babysitting the night Elvis died. The mom came home and when she drove me home, she had the radio on, which wasn't usual. She said that Elvis had died.

 

[R2elk]

I don't really remember HST but do remember DDE getting elected.