officially old...

[thoreau]

I was training my interns this morning on a new web utility - and said "and hit a carriage return" - and the classroom stopped and they literally asked "what is a carriage return?" - I had to explain when you typed on a typewriter - that you stopped and pulled the carriage return. OMG. The conversation also wandered to the fact that none of them have ever used or owned cassette tapes (8 track or simply "cassette). I'm now old.

fuck.

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[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

Hand them a phone with a rotary dial and watch them freak out.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Hell, show them punched cards...

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

Honey, we're all old but truth be told, if you told me to hit "carriage return", I'd probably look at you like you've lost your marbles. I forgot that's what they called it.

*giggles*

N.B. I'm even hotter looking today. :P

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

Ask them about David Gates and Bread, and Styx.

[tbone1961.livejournal.com]

*dyslexic moment*

"I'm an old fuck now"

LOL

[squalidbear.livejournal.com]

Back in the old teletype days we had to use LF & CR (line feed and carriage return) to start a new line - that is why there were ASCII codes 10 & 13 in the geeky 'first 32 non-printing characters'.

You're not old sweetie, you're merely providing some historical context!

[omenode.livejournal.com]

The shock of the old, came for me when my nephews came over and asked what "these" are, pulling out my 7" singles.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

You're not old sweetie, you're merely providing some historical context!

ooooh - I love this! thanks, love.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

what are punch-cards?

(ducking)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

indeed :) I'm so glad we added each other to our friends list - those of providing "historical context" for the world need to stick together. :)

[apparentparadox]

Duh. Sometimes you needed to overstrike characters on the same line to make those nifty ASCII christmas cards.

[pulsecub.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation, I remember those old manual typewriters; hell, I even remember the days of punch cards for computer...

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

We had a college grad applying for an apartment who had seen clocks with hands, admitted that she didn't know how to read one without having to stop and count the numbers.

Recruited by Google.

I'm afraid

[squalidbear.livejournal.com]

We used to make paper tape block letter banners that spelled Christmas messages...

[cubdaddy.livejournal.com]

I had an 8 track in my first car. I used to watch Howdy Doody in the mornings before walking to school. And I took a typing class in high school.

*my body aches--I need to lay down.*

[tenderandtough.livejournal.com]

I could have really shocked them. Back when I was a little boy, I would help my grandparents at their hotel. The switchboard was literally one of the old timey kind that had the red and black connect cords that you had to plug in to transfer calls to the rooms.

LOL, what a hoot. I hadn't thought about that old thing in years and years. Nice memories today.

[cubdaddy.livejournal.com]

And Pat Benatar, (old) Aerosmith, Heart, Bob Marley, Judas Priest, Talking Heads, the Smiths, the Police, and Elvis Costello.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

this is the kind of tape that we used for cryptography "keys" when I was a bubblehead in the US Military (I was so butch then!) - it brings back frightening memories of the reader breaking and staying up all night fixing it. :( ugh!

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't even know what it was myself :)

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

With the exception of The Smiths (who were never that big in the US) and maybe Elvis Costello (heck, even I don't know why he's famous), all of those acts would probably be recognizable by today's youth... simply because their music is still played. Bob Marley, in particular, has taken on the Che Guevara levels of cultism, with his image worn by people who probably don't own any of his albums.

Now, ask them about the Bay City Rollers and you'll probably get blank stares...

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

Ironically, 7" singles have recently made quite a comeback among youth, especially in the UK. However, I risk the ire of diehard vinyl purists by saying that I don't think that most of the people buying them are actually listening to them -- they're more like a collectable item, like a t-shirt or a poster.

[wearbear.livejournal.com]

or when i call my iPod a walkman:)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

oh yeah - I remember being the first kid at school to have a SONY WALKMAN - it was like a badge of honor. LOL - and how my bookbag was full of tapes.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

hahahahahaha I do stuff like this all the time. Sometimes on purpose to fuck with *their* heads but sometimes I just forget the yungins have no clue what the hell I'm talking about.

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

Oh, WOW!

Are those the Dead Sea Scrolls???