I'm so old I Remember when:

[LaurenRitz]

Our bookmobile disappeared about the time I hit kindergarten.

 

[sdm111]

Teddy ruxpin

 

[thecatumbrella]

I just paid a bird feed bill. I pulled 2 quarters, a dime, and two pennies from my pocket so the guy didn't have hand me change back.

I love that I've found the nickel and dime people. They DO exist!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

In southern California we had Helms Bakeries trucks.

They delivered to homes and businesses in the mornings then in the afternoons they parked by schools and churches and sold baked goods out of long wooden drawers in the back of the truck.

The drivers were uniformed and there was an awning over the back of the truck so they didn't have to stand in the sun.

I can still remember how good it smelled when they opened up the doors! A nickel or dime bought a delicious treat to eat on the walk home.

 

[SkyAJK]

I am so old that I am thinking that human used to be so free.

NOW:
We are deeply embedded in the matrix/system.

The matrix/system knows what we eat, what we buy, where we buy it, how we feel, what we read, where we go physically or online.
Everything we do now need identification - plane ticket, cruise ship, pay by bank card, online purchase all pay by bank card or EFT of some sort, all these have our name, DOB, address.

Just this week, our public transport now upgraded to all commuters to use bank card to swipe for payment of bus/train ticket.

When cash is phased out, then that is that, the system own us all. They can pin point exactly where we are at any given time.

When all these systems sync up..we are just a number in the matrix.

I am so old that my life started way way before this so I know what it was like to be so free.

I love the Matrix movies and I think we are in the matrix now.

 

[jxp]

All I keep is the quarters for the laundry room

My quarters are designated for Aldi shopping carts. The rest of the change can be spent at will.

 

[jxp]

I remember
I was 8
tv rabbit ear antenna’s and foil really did work
Mobile al only had 2 local stations CBS NBC and 2 pbs stations
Pensacola Florida and biloxi Mississippi had ABC and the weather had to be good or you did not get them

Just thought of
listening to AM radio up and down the dial and listening to other cities in the us and sometimes hearing other languages from far off countries

I never did watch much television nor did my kids but once when they were all preschool through elementary, we lived so far north in NY, our closest full size city with a television station was Ottawa. It's where I discovered the delightfully funny Red Green show on CBC.

 

[jxp]

Just thought of
listening to AM radio up and down the dial and listening to other cities in the us and sometimes hearing other languages from far off countries

I'd usually listen to the Mets and Yankees night games out of NYC with the transistor radio quickly shoved under my pillow if I heard dad's footsteps coming. That was 200 miles downstate. Then sometimes I could pick up WLS in Chicago. All the AM stations could boost their signals at night. I heard it was because so many other stations had sign off times so there was less chance of interference bleed over.

 

[jxp]

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Look at that. The fellas knew how to wear a belt to keep their pants up.

 

[jxp]

They can pin point exactly where we are at any given time....

I think we are in the matrix now.

I don't keep the location on on my phone until I need it for directions to somewhere. That didn't stop my phone the other day when I was looking up someplace on the north side of town from showing me a blue dot precisely where I was at. When I zoomed in on it a bit, it displayed a cone that faced the same direction as I was and rotated on my screen as I pointed the phone in different directions. Matrix indeed.