- portable cellphones were the size of bricks
- both the Jets and the Giants actually played football in New York
- Tetris was the hot new video game
- no one was sure who was going to win: VHS or Betamax
- everyone on TV sitcoms slept in single beds
- 8 tracks began to replace LP's
- people actually wore their Sunday best to take a flight
- American Idol was called Star Search
- computers used punch card decks
- Ronald Reagan was President...of the Screen Actors Guild
Join me on a tour (for I call it a tour rather than a journey as I am just passing through this world) as I ponder the life around me and in me. Random thoughts, musings and ideas from a mind that does not know any better.
January 31, 2009
You May Be Getting Old If You Alive When
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Wait a minute. By this criteria, I would be... Nah. I'm not old, despite this list.
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