Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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U.S. postage stamps that had glue on the back and you could mail a letter for 3 cents. You also had a choice between airmail and regular mail. Airmail was 6 cents.

I'm sure most kids born in late 2000 or later don't know about VHS

Station Wagons with a "way back".

A lot of the Japanese companies which made high quality goods in the 1970s and 1980s (eg Sony, Panasonic) later started manufacturing them in places like Thailand and Slovakia, and the quality deteriorated horrendously. I suspect the stuff they now manufacture in China is less than top-notch.

Hamburger Press.

Did you ever have real home made ice cream where you cranked it by hand for what seemed like hours.

Yes, and homemade peach butter, from our own trees, was the same way. I used to sit on a stool at the stove, with the handle resting on my shoulder----and stir, and stir, and stir.....

Tape players
VHS
DIAL UP!! !! !

Yep! Then my father got all fancy-schmancy and got one with an electric motor. Still had to keep replenishing the ice, and still made the best ice cream ever.

Yes--last summer. Only it was an old enough battered enough tub that one person had to sit on the lid to keep it shut tight while another cranked.

about 15 of us took turns and it still wasn't exactly the way it's supposed to be but it was still good!

Some people keep things like that forever. Nostalgia being a common ailment of packrats (I speak of myself too here, no slam against anyone!)

"Download managers", when it took a week to download a small file from a dial-up connection, especially when you could only use it after business hours, in order to free up the fax line. (And when you were an ignorant little kid who didn't know about curl/wget, so you had to restart the download 500 times when the proprietary, malicious "adware" based software malfunctioned.)

Oh, and those proxies that applied lossy compression to images that dial-up providers offered. Hmm....Do I want it on "actual image" or "turn their face into four giant pixels" mode?

I STILL have Dial-up!! ALOT of people do, cuz it's cheaper!!


Yep----though I never used a Download Manager, cuz it took longer. I downloaded about 130 songs from Napster (before they figured-out that it wasn't fair, that it was free), in a few months; then, I told an online friend about it getting ready to start charging, and she, with High-speed, downloaded 300+ songs, in just a couple of days----though, she didn't realize that some of the songs could be messed-up (as in, not complete, for example), and that one had to actually LISTEN to each one, so who KNOWS the quality of the ones she downloaded.

Also, alot of people, on here, know how much I'm into fashion, and I really miss the days when women wore dresses (that didn't show us what they had, for lunch), stockings (or pantyhose), gloves, hats----and, BRUSHED THEIR HAIR (not like today, when it's the fashion to make your hair look "natural" [NOT brushed], with a screwed-up part). Think circa 40s, 50s, 60s, and earlier.

Citronella candles. We used to light these all around our campsites and patios in a vain attempt to keep the mosquitoes from swarming and biting. They were around before "bug zappers" and spray-on mosquito repellents like "Off" and other DEET-based products.

Before Legos took over, did any of you have an Erector set or Lincoln logs?

Oh, yeah----I LOVED Erector sets (I learned of my engineering abilities WAY before I became one); but, not many people *I* knew, could afford one----so, it was rare, to get to play with one.

Lincoln Logs were my all-time favorite, when I was growing-up----a babysitter of mine, had one, and I couldn't get ENOUGH of it----but, we couldn't afford one of THEM, either.