Different country, but a number of those things were the same for me. Vinyl Records: yep, I still have a bunch of them that I bought when I was a teenager. I must see if I can rip them to CD. Rotary phones: yep. Aerial Signal Television . . . (Not actually going anywhere soon. That's what we've got right now because satellite wasn't worth the money.) Agreed on both counts. Test Pattern: yep. Cassettes: yep. Still have some along with the vinyl. Milk man and milk in glass bottles: yep. Delivered every day. I even remember when the milk was not homogenized and we had to be careful that the birds didn't peck the silver foil lids off and scoff the cream. House call doctors: not as a rule, but I've encountered two doctors in my life that made house calls; one of them still does, he makes house calls to my parents when needful. Awesome doctor. Encyclopedias: yes, that impressively-bound Encyclopedia Britannica... Triangular car vent windows: ah, that casts my mind back Typewriter and carbon paper: yes. And the manual typewriter keys would stick sometimes. Metal ice cube tray . . . (Oh, yes! Now that's a blast from the past. With the little levers.) Oh yes. Television with channel knob: ah, yes, the days when "Channel 2" actually meant channel 2. And the two knobs, one for VHF and the other for UHF.
High definition home video games Video games? Video games? Bah! When I were a lass, we played real games, with real people and actually had social interaction, not this anti-social stuff where you hide in a dim basement and never see the light of day... 8-P Still do play board-games, actually. With the nieflings, no less.
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Date: 2010-02-09 09:52 pm (UTC)Vinyl Records: yep, I still have a bunch of them that I bought when I was a teenager. I must see if I can rip them to CD.
Rotary phones: yep.
Aerial Signal Television . . . (Not actually going anywhere soon. That's what we've got right now because satellite wasn't worth the money.) Agreed on both counts.
Test Pattern: yep.
Cassettes: yep. Still have some along with the vinyl.
Milk man and milk in glass bottles: yep. Delivered every day. I even remember when the milk was not homogenized and we had to be careful that the birds didn't peck the silver foil lids off and scoff the cream.
House call doctors: not as a rule, but I've encountered two doctors in my life that made house calls; one of them still does, he makes house calls to my parents when needful. Awesome doctor.
Encyclopedias: yes, that impressively-bound Encyclopedia Britannica...
Triangular car vent windows: ah, that casts my mind back
Typewriter and carbon paper: yes. And the manual typewriter keys would stick sometimes.
Metal ice cube tray . . . (Oh, yes! Now that's a blast from the past. With the little levers.) Oh yes.
Television with channel knob: ah, yes, the days when "Channel 2" actually meant channel 2. And the two knobs, one for VHF and the other for UHF.
High definition home video games Video games? Video games? Bah! When I were a lass, we played real games, with real people and actually had social interaction, not this anti-social stuff where you hide in a dim basement and never see the light of day... 8-P
Still do play board-games, actually. With the nieflings, no less.