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Did any other farm kids' dads have the phones mounted in their truck that made your horn honk so you'd know you were getting a call while you were in the cafe or gin office drinking coffee? Or were we just fancy?

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rich fancy or ghey fancy?

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Well I was both. Dad was just rich fancy.

they were basically the mounted bag phones, right? just without the bag

Yeah it just mounted on the dash, and all the buttons were on the back just like the bag phones. And if your truck was turned off they made it honk when someone called you.

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If you remember watching Bucky Richardson play his freshman year then you are not a millennial.

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How about that six foot long slide rule hanging from the ceiling in high school chemistry/physics class?

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Early and late millennials should be split into those who remember 9/11 and those who don't

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I was about to say something similar. More so remembering life before 9/11 and remembering that day. I was born in '83 so I was 18.

That may not really be an "adult" in today's pampering society but I kind of feel like being an adult or old enough to really see what is happening during events of that magnitude change your perspective. Those kind of things shape a generation.

I guess in my mind you can usually see a distinct difference between those born before and after '85/'86. I fully admit there are people my age and older who fit millennial to a T, but I would say a majority are nothing like the millenials born from '90 onward.

Maybe it's life without the internet and cell phones.

I remember for any school project going to the library and pulling an encyclopedia to look up something. Or using a paper card catalog to find a book. I also remember heavily using a dictionary when writing an English paper.

Looking up a business usually meant going though a few phone books. If you wanted to know the hours of an establishment you called them up and asked.

Typewriters, fax machines, carbon copies (with real carbon paper), dot matrix printers, and real cash registers were all part of my life.

I'm a millennial and I remember what both of those are and know how to use them.

I also remember:

Life before the internet
Life before cell phones
Spanking in schools
<$1/gallon gas
Typewriters
Hand washing ALL of the dishes
Saturday morning cartoons not aimed at drooling, mouth breathing morons


Also dot matrix printers and carbon copies and answering machines and tape decks

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Any guesses?

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Intellivision. I had one back in the day and it was pretty cool.

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or this?

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Modem!!

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I'm a millennial and I remember what both of those are and know how to use them.

I also remember:

Life before the internet
Life before cell phones
Spanking in schools
<$1/gallon gas
Typewriters
Hand washing ALL of the dishes
Saturday morning cartoons not aimed at drooling, mouth breathing morons


Also dot matrix printers and carbon copies and answering machines and tape decks

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yes, but were you driving with <$1/gallon gas?

I was

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I'm a millennial and I remember what both of those are and know how to use them.

I also remember:

Life before the internet
Life before cell phones
Spanking in schools
<$1/gallon gas
Typewriters
Hand washing ALL of the dishes
Saturday morning cartoons not aimed at drooling, mouth breathing morons


Also dot matrix printers and carbon copies and answering machines and tape decks

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Maybe you were just poor

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My family had and used daily the one on the bottom until about 2004.

Did anyone else play Super Troopers? Trying to solve mysteries?

Pagers were all the rage.

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I'm a millennial and I remember what both of those are and know how to use them.

I also remember:

Life before the internet
Life before cell phones
Spanking in schools
<$1/gallon gas
Typewriters
Hand washing ALL of the dishes
Saturday morning cartoons not aimed at drooling, mouth breathing morons


Also dot matrix printers and carbon copies and answering machines and tape decks

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yes, but were you driving with <$1/gallon gas?

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Yes. I remember filling up in HS for $.89/gal many times.

Yeah, but you also aren't the person who that question was directed. My point is I am older than the person who originally said that, and gas wasn't under a dollar when I started to drive

I know how to format a floppy disk

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That's Congressman Ben Jones, mutherfooker!

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I see a very real break between millenials who are old enough to remember life before the internet, and those who have only known social life through things like Facebook and unlimited smart phone texting.

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Anyone who's spanked it to frustrating, line-by-line dial-up porn and still thought it was the greatest thing they've ever experienced is ok in my book.

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I also remember trying to watch porn through the static channel.

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My typewriter is sitting beside my desk at work
Still used occasionally

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We had to get a typewriter at my office for some IRS forms and the other people my age (28) had no idea how to use it. I had played on one growing up and used those old word processors too. Needless to say, I was the one who had to fill out all the forms :-/

I remember going on road trips with multiple cars and if you wanted to pull over you flashed your lights until the front car flashed their hazards, then you all pulled over.

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I don't know what the top thing is, but remember owning the bottom one as a small child (never used it).

I did use cassette tapes, pay phones, vcr/vhs, hand cranked car windows, CRT tvs, computer mouse with rolling ball, 3.5" floppy disks, and dial up internet.

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I used all of those things as an adult. I am old, and this thread depresses me.

I remember having to look **** up in the encyclopedia when doing homework.

Do younguns today even understand why you click that weird little square icon thingy to save things on the computer? Or why we use terms like "rewind," "fast forward," and "tape it" when talking about DVRing things?

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Do younguns today even understand why you click that weird little square icon thingy to save things on the computer? Or why we use terms like "rewind," "fast forward," and "tape it" when talking about DVRing things?

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I got called out by my kids for saying that I was going to tape something on my Tivo.

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Do younguns today even understand why you click that weird little square icon thingy to save things on the computer? Or why we use terms like "rewind," "fast forward," and "tape it" when talking about DVRing things?

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that was the point in having the knuckle buster credit card copier in my OP. That is where the term Carbon Copy comes from in emails.

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Yeah it just mounted on the dash, and all the buttons were on the back just like the bag phones. And if your truck was turned off they made it honk when someone called you.

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My dad had one of these in 1990.

I think most people are still pretty familiar with Carbon Copies. You see them all the time.

Sniffing mimeographs.