Old things youngins might like to know

[Julia1996]

Or taking an old pair of roller skates, hammering them down and attaching them to a board to make a skate board. Or Swanson tv dinners in metal trays.

Frozen dinners with metal trays........ok, how could they have metal trays? That would wreck the microwave.

[Deborah]

Computers were something mysterious that took up entire rooms.  The only time you saw one was on science fiction TV.


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[Deborah]

Frozen dinners with metal trays........ok, how could they have metal trays? That would wreck the microwave.

Microwaves were unknown.  Everything went in the oven or on the stove and took a long time.


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[Julia1996]

And a shooting star was a meteor or meteorite, not a part of skylab coming down

Skylab?  Do you mean the international space station? Why would it ever crash down?

[Lady Lisandra]

Prices:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/melismashable/now-and-then-20-prices-that-will-blow-your-mind?utm_term=.isgvPgR2e#.cbM28QLZx

Nothing more? That's the usual price difference every two years in Argentina

[Cassi]

Computers were something mysterious that took up entire rooms.  The only time you saw one was on science fiction TV.


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Very true.  I was working on a computer merit badge and visited the local IBM company.  Not only did they take up an entire room, they were heat sensitive.

[Julia1996]

Microwaves were unknown.  Everything went in the oven or on the stove and took a long time.


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Oh. Well that sucks.  The main reason to make a frozen dinner is because it's fast.

[Cassi]

Skylab?  Do you mean the international space station? Why would it ever crash down?

Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

Also, as I recall, it crashed in Australia.

[Deborah]

We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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[Julia1996]

We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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Slide rules??

[Cassi]

Oh. Well that sucks.  The main reason to make a frozen dinner is because it's fast.

Didn't have microwave popcorn back then.  Two ways to have popcorn; grease in a pot and kernals in and you stood there shaking the pot, or Jiffy Pop which is still around.

[Julia1996]

Skylab was the United States' first and only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

Also, as I recall, it crashed in Australia.

Oh wow. I didn't know they had space stations back then. How cool! Well except for it crashing into earth. Did it kill a lot of people?

[Cassi]

S&H Green Stamps or Blue Chip Stamps - When you purchase stuff at a store or bought gas you could or would get these stamps which were placed in a booklet.  Once the booklet was filled you could exchange them for merchandise at either the S&H or Blue Chip Stamp Stores.

[Julia1996]

Didn't have microwave popcorn back then.  Two ways to have popcorn; grease in a pot and kernals in and you stood there shaking the pot, or Jiffy Pop which is still around.

I've seen that popcorn you set on the stove and the wrapping blows up full of pop corn. I always thought that looked cool. I didn't know they still made it though.

[Cassi]

Oh wow. I didn't know they had space stations back then. How cool! Well except for it crashing into earth. Did it kill a lot of people?

Skylab's atmospheric reentry began on July 11, 1979,[4] and people on earth and an airline pilot saw dozens of colorful firework-like flares as large pieces of the space station broke up in the atmosphere.[5] Skylab did not burn up as fast as NASA expected, and Skylab debris landed southeast of Perth in Western Australia, resulting in a debris path between Esperance and Rawlinna.[4] Over a single property in Esperance, 24 pieces of Skylab were found.[4][5] Analysis of some debris indicated that the Skylab station had disintegrated 10 mi (16 km) above the Earth, much lower than expected.[5]

Snatched this from Wikipedia.

[Julia1996]

S&H Green Stamps or Blue Chip Stamps - When you purchase stuff at a store or bought gas you could or would get these stamps which were placed in a booklet.  Once the booklet was filled you could exchange them for merchandise at either the S&H or Blue Chip Stamp Stores.

That sounds like reward point cards. Except for the putting them in books part.

[Cassi]

I've seen that popcorn you set on the stove and the wrapping blows up full of pop corn. I always thought that looked cool. I didn't know they still made it though.

I've seen it for sale in a few stores and you can buy it on-line at Amazon too.

[Devlyn]

Black & white TVs, and rotary dial telephones.

[Cassi]

We used slide rules to calculate the math in physics class.

They are actually pretty fast once you learn to use it.


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Please enlighten Julia as to what a sliderule is.  My experience was limited to hitting people with them _

[Devlyn]

The Etch-A-Sketch...