I'm a 30-something, and havent experienced much more than the general membership here, I'm sure, but I get the most amazing "stop and think about this for a second...." moments when I consider how much our world has changed over the lives of us all.
For me - I've lived without a cell phone. I was in high school when people who had pagers were considered to be drug dealers. I grew up with Oregon Trail in my teens. Most people didn't have computers at home. The mountain I lived on didn't have cable TV, so we had only 3 channels. Our roads weren't paved, and Saturday afternoons were spent jumping into the river swinging off vines. Call waiting and caller ID were a really big deal, but we didn't get them because they cost more money.
My grandma tells me they didn't have wheelchairs. She was a nurse in her white cap and skirt and tights. She had an alcoholic, abusive husband at a time when that was shameful to even mention. My grandpa tells me no one on his street had a TV. It was a really big deal when someone got one, and everyone whispered about it.
My 90-something patient told me about how so much of healthcare took place at home because you really, really had to be messed up for mom to go get the horses and carriage ready to go to the doctor. She got in big trouble once when she broke her arm falling from a tree.
What have you lived through? What pieces of history stay with you?
Walking to school ALONE in elementary school-cause it was safe; watching the first man walk on the moon during my 9th birthday party;buying my mom cigarettes at the corner store with no note; lining up for immunizations at school; not being allowed to wear pants to school, except on phys ed days; Vietnam; my first 45 record player; Bobby Sherman......
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
The original CANDID CAMERA with Allen (or Alan?) Funt......back when the idea of getting someone on camera unaware wasn't ever previously heard of; and the set-ups weren't unkind. The ones I remember most were : How people licked postage stamps and put them on the envelope; the one where a sign in the lobby of a building said "Please walk ONLY on the black squares.", .......
Beat The Clock
To Tell The Truth
What's My Line
The Groucho Marx show: You Bet Your Life
Art Linkletter's House Party
The Arthur Godfrey Show
Pinky Lee
My Friend Flicka
Lassie (The original one, not the one with the blond kid)
Movies that cost 2.00, and going to the drive in. My dad hid me in the car so we could all watch The Blues Brothers at the Drive In. Do they even have Drive In's anymore??
I live 10 minutes from a drive-in. We went twice last summer. With 2 babies it's the cheapest way for Hubby and me to see a movie.
Although I did not grow up in North America, it's so fun to see that some of your memories are like mine.
I remember being able to play outside till sundown and not the least afraid that anything would happen to the 9-year-old me. Children used to play with other children then without the need for playdates.
We had an all-metal electric fan that made the loudest sound.
My brother broke quite a number of my gandparents' records by "scratching" them DJ style (I guess he was trying to make The Platters rap LOL).
Our family didn't own a microwave till after the new millenium. Some of you had it in the 70s, WOW.
We studied DOS and WYSIWYG in high school!
I watched She-Ra, Looney Tunes and Sesame Street without understanding a word--- Nobody in our family spoke English and I only started to learn at about 6.
TV and Telephones had mechanical dials--- No buttons then.
Typewriters were (and are) bomb! I still want one now.
I was about 10 when I found a Gregg Shorthand book and self-taught to do it. It was so freakin hard lol.
Owned my first Nokia cellphone at age 18, I was in college. (That's how I won friends, ha!)
Watched the show Rescue 911 every Sunday with my family. I remember the story of a kid being sucked in by a pool drain.
Magazines like Bop and Tiger Beat were all the rage in middle school. I fell in love with Devon Sawa on Casper.
I'm a 30-something, and havent experienced much more than the general membership here, I'm sure, but I get the most amazing "stop and think about this for a second...." moments when I consider how much our world has changed over the lives of us all.
For me - I've lived without a cell phone. I was in high school when people who had pagers were considered to be drug dealers. I grew up with Oregon Trail in my teens. Most people didn't have computers at home. The mountain I lived on didn't have cable TV, so we had only 3 channels. Our roads weren't paved, and Saturday afternoons were spent jumping into the river swinging off vines. Call waiting and caller ID were a really big deal, but we didn't get them because they cost more money.
My grandma tells me they didn't have wheelchairs. She was a nurse in her white cap and skirt and tights. She had an alcoholic, abusive husband at a time when that was shameful to even mention. My grandpa tells me no one on his street had a TV. It was a really big deal when someone got one, and everyone whispered about it.
My 90-something patient told me about how so much of healthcare took place at home because you really, really had to be messed up for mom to go get the horses and carriage ready to go to the doctor. She got in big trouble once when she broke her arm falling from a tree.
What have you lived through? What pieces of history stay with you?
I am in my early thirties and my 3mnt old photo is black and white ðŸ˜
I have no idea why my mom decided on that.... I am pretty sure there weren't iPhones with edit options ... I bet it was just cheaper -
Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.
I'm in my 30s :0
Although I did not grow up in North America, it's so fun to see that some of your memories are like mine.
I remember being able to play outside till sundown and not the least afraid that anything would happen to the 9-year-old me. Children used to play with other children then without the need for playdates.
We had an all-metal electric fan that made the loudest sound.
My brother broke quite a number of my gandparents' records by "scratching" them DJ style (I guess he was trying to make The Platters rap LOL).
Our family didn't own a microwave till after the new millenium. Some of you had it in the 70s, WOW.
We studied DOS and WYSIWYG in high school!
I watched She-Ra, Looney Tunes and Sesame Street without understanding a word--- Nobody in our family spoke English and I only started to learn at about 6.
TV and Telephones had mechanical dials--- No buttons then.
Typewriters were (and are) bomb! I still want one now.
I was about 10 when I found a Gregg Shorthand book and self-taught to do it. It was so freakin hard lol.
Owned my first Nokia cellphone at age 18, I was in college. (That's how I won friends, ha!)
Watched the show Rescue 911 every Sunday with my family. I remember the story of a kid being sucked in by a pool drain.
Magazines like Bop and Tiger Beat were all the rage in middle school. I fell in love with Devon Sawa on Casper.
This was fun, thanks OP!
Oh em gee, I forgot about Devon Sawa! I just found this image and I'm pretty sure I had that specific edition lol...
It blows my mind that I was around for the first successful clone.
I remember before facebook, there was myspace and before that we had livejournal or little personal sites we set up on geocities.
Learning cursive. Apparently that's not a thing anymore, which I can't say is a bad thing.
I got my first cell phone when I was 18 and well into my first semester in college. Before that, I had all my friends' phone numbers memorized. I still remember some of them. I still accidentally dial my best friend's parents on accident.
I remember when digital cameras first came out and it was super exciting. They were big, bulky, used floppy disks, took terrible pictures and were insanely expensive.
Renting videos with the "be kind, rewind" sticker.
I remember being in 5th grade or so with other students talking about how it would be so cool if you could see the other person you were talking to on the phone. Now there's skype and facetime and it's nbd.
ICQ and AIM. ASL? haha.
Y2K. Y2K compliant everything. I sat there on new year's expecting the lights to go out or something. Nothing happened.
9/11, instantly knowing this meant war in some capacity. Some wanting to know if it meant we could go home. I think being on the west coast, it was a little harder for it to sink in. To a small town in OR, NYC may as well be another country. Pictures of people jumping still makes my heart stop, even for as uninvolved and unpatriotic as I am.
On a lighter note, the backstreet boys vs NSync debate. And lest we forget:
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Walking to school ALONE in elementary school-cause it was safe; watching the first man walk on the moon during my 9th birthday party;buying my mom cigarettes at the corner store with no note; lining up for immunizations at school; not being allowed to wear pants to school, except on phys ed days; Vietnam; my first 45 record player; Bobby Sherman......