[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I remember being embarrassed when being seen naked because I had no hair on my chest or under my arms.

 

i remember when a handshake sealed a deal no matter what

 

i remember when people believed what they were familiar with was innocent and harmless, but i also remember discovering that it wasn't.
and i don't believe i'll ever forget the fact that it isn't.
but i also remember when people believed harmlessness was possible, and that i still do.

 

I remember when robbing a bank was possible. I guess its still possible but with cameras at every intersection....

 

i don't know if there was ever a time when no one ever had to hurry, but i remember a time when the hurryest it was possible to go, was a lot slowere then it is now.
i'm so old i remember when you had to be rich to fly in an airplane, but you didn't have to be to ride a train.
i remember when you could buy land for less then a hundred dollars and acre, and didn't have to buy more then 20 acres to do so.
i remember when 40k or less was an average house, and 80k or more was a mansion.
i remember when every dam had a powerhouse and generated electricity. even the little ones for flood control way up in the mountains, and there was always someone who worked there
i remember when there were a lot of jobs at remote wilderness sites, although you still had to go to the city to get hired to work there.
i remember wishing i could have one of those kind of jobs when i grew up. never happened though. (i did manage to work one summer on a mineral exploration drill rig, but that turned out to be only for the one season)
i remember when there weren't any communications sattilites to bounce microwaves off of, or anything else.

 

i remember visiting several when they were constantly maned. (back in the 60s and 70s. i would imagine/hope, at least some still are. unless they've got a.i. robotics reliable enough to do so.)
when i had a little truck or off road capable vehicle, they were in the kind of places i liked to go wandering around and wished i could have lived.
the dams in remote places that had generators, often had power company housing nearby.
and the railroad used to have switch and signal 'towers' in places, that other then the tracks, were really pretty much wilderness too.
even piplines, and the phone company, had pump stations and repeater stations respectively.
the first microwave ground links did too, before there were satilites to bounce them off of.
cdf and usda forestry were both outfits i thought i would like to work for, but i would have had to take the right classes, AND be physically fit, AND still apply through some office in a city somewhere.
heavy road building equipment and highway maintainence were another of those kind of jobs, which there still are some of, where the highways are a long way between towns and the towns few and far between.
(and, as with the mineral drilling that lasted a season, i DID manage to appentice heavy (construction) equipment for the railroad for a year. best job i ever had. but things happen and that's life.)

 

we've still got plenty of wilderness in the great basin, even some parts of the northern sierras.
yup. i haven't been pacific crest trail in decades, just because i haven't lived near it. but i remember when i did, hiking in to what they called the peter grub cabin.
although that was less then a day each way when i lived at norden.
i can remember when an atv was a wwii surplus willies jeep, or chevy 53 pickup with 4wdrive.
first thing i ever drove that had a motor in it was a hunda 55cc in 1964.
i'm so old i can remember, when trolls were the kind of kids other kids parents told their kids never to play with.
i'm so old i can remember when you didn't need survailance drones, because your neighbors WERE "survailance drones".

 

I remember Goldie Hawn go-go dancing on TV... Think it was Laugh in.
And the Vans... You couldn't go anywhere without seeing Vans, sometimes in convoy.

 

I remember when every sweet selling shop had sticky lice. Now the best sweetshops are called retro!

 

sticky lice????
eeewwww.

 

I'm so old I remember my first year at college and the only computer related courses were for COBOL, FORTRAN and BASIC which was in it's infancy then and the "new kid on the scene".
If I knew then what I know now, I would have worked my ass off to master FORTRAN.

Why you ask, because it is a dead computer programming language and before the Y2K bullshit, FORTRAN programmers were in very high demand.
For example one ad I remember seeing was looking for someone for an 18 month project and they were offering complete relocation, including getting you a house to live in, $750,000 for the project, all living expenses paid and another $250,000 bonus if completed early. The entire job package was worth in excess of 1.3 million when everything was tallied up.
Around that time I saw more than a few similar ads looking for FORTRAN programmers.
If I only knew then what I know now..........

 

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Before there was internet access there was AOL...

 

I'm so old that I remember when Halloween masks were plastic and the eye holes never matched up to where your eyes were.

 

We used face paint before those