You know you're old when...
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cdbd3rd
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One of my grade school math teachers showed us how to use them (mid 70s).
Real old geeks used slide rules.
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I remember helping my mother sort punch-cards at her work in that same mid-70s era.
Buddha5440
"There are some who call me...Tim"
Heck the moon mission was planned with slide rules. I still have one in my junk drawer, along with graph paper, a compass, and a protractor...and nowadays most people can't even make change without a computer. It kinda seems like we're moving in the wrong direction.
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Buddha5440
"There are some who call me...Tim"
"You know you're old when..." You actually start to believe that you DID have to walk 5 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, to school. 
cdbd3rd
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"You know you're old when..." You actually start to believe that you DID have to walk 5 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow, to school.
It was only a half mile for me, but in those days they didn't cancel school until snow was crazy deep. Like knee deep or more. Downhill along our driveway, and uphill to the bus stop.
To the previous - Talking to one of the trainers at the stores I used to wholesale merchandise, they had some new clerks they were having to teach them what coin values were and how they added up. Sad but true.
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You know you're old when - you remember you took a programming course, graduating second in your class, but now have to ask your boy how finagle a thingamajigger on your cell phone.
Buddha5440
"There are some who call me...Tim"
I wish there were a way I could combine a love and sad emoji for this one. Sadly, "sad" does not show up in the available post emoji list only in the response list. So...It was only a half mile for me, but in those days they didn't cancel school until snow was crazy deep. Like knee deep or more. Downhill along our driveway, and uphill to the bus stop.
To the previous - Talking to one of the trainers at the stores I used to wholesale merchandise, they had some new clerks they were having to teach them what coin values were and how they added up. Sad but true.
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You know you're old when - you remember you took a programming course, graduating second in your class, but now have to ask your boy how finagle a thingamajigger on your cell phone.
As far as the cell phone comment...They aren't engineered for people who know how they work, they are engineered for people with no actual knowledge of how things work. It's just a tap this button instead of the more in-depth stuff we know. I wish windows 95/98 were still supported, you could alter the heck out of them. Windows 11 is starting to look more and more like iOS...It works but you can't really change much.
cdbd3rd
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When "school board" meant that wooden paddle in the principal's office with the holes drilled in it for better contact.
The_Apocalypse
The Chosen One
When you remember EQ1 pre-Luclin.
When you remember the D&D Gold Box games.
When you remember Chainmail and Blackmoor.
When you watch Stranger Things and point out all of the "D&D" bull*&^%. You don't roll a d20 to cast a fireball. Demogorgon was pronounced DEE-mo-gor-gon, because he was the Prince of "DEE-mons". Mind Flayer historic lore didn't come out until, I want to say AD&D2nd, "The Illithiad", 1998. Clerics don't cast Dimension Door. Sorcerers didn't exist until about 2001. Etc.
When you remember the D&D Gold Box games.
When you remember Chainmail and Blackmoor.
When you watch Stranger Things and point out all of the "D&D" bull*&^%. You don't roll a d20 to cast a fireball. Demogorgon was pronounced DEE-mo-gor-gon, because he was the Prince of "DEE-mons". Mind Flayer historic lore didn't come out until, I want to say AD&D2nd, "The Illithiad", 1998. Clerics don't cast Dimension Door. Sorcerers didn't exist until about 2001. Etc.
Lagin
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1st edition orange box 1974...
I played cavaliers & Roundheads AND Chainmail in my minature war game era. Hence me naming a guild called Chainmail.
Biggdaddy
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Oh man!when you find these while cleaning out your closet ....
My first computer was a NCR 310 running paper tape. Then an IBM 1620 (famous for Colossus: The Forbin Project) with punch cards.
cdbd3rd
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Aye. My mother, now 82, still hits me with the "that reminds me of your father", usually after I do something bone-headed.
(He died in 1970.)
kmoustakas
Scourge of Xaos
Remember the good old days nobody had a phone so your parents would send you to your neighbours house to ask them if they wanted to come have coffee with your parents