How old/young are you?

[EmmettLollis]

My first job was at a place that still used reel to reel computer storage. Does that count? That was way back in 92. I can remember the debut of MTV and CNN, 9600 baud modems, Programming on an Apple II, Transformers, Kit the talking car, Max Headroom, The A-Team, Really ugly cabbage patch dolls, Vinyl Records, then there were a few years that I can't remember at all.

I'm 26 now I think.

Emmett

[CJ Swartz]

I remember using a reel-to-reel audio tape recorder to tape a movie on TV that I really liked and rarely had a chance to see -- at that time, the idea of having a VIDEO recorder seemed like a science fiction dream!

[EmmettLollis]

I heard that the FCC was going to make it illegal to sell devices made to record (i think it was HDTV) broadcasts.

[chiquitita]

actually I remember when mtv was just a show on tv, instead of a channel...


Who remembers the first video ever played on MTV? no cheating!!

[G. Couch]

"Video killed the radio star" ...and I have no clue who sung it!

[EmmettLollis]

The Buggles

[chiquitita]

right and right! loved that song - and mexican radio of course.

[Marthig]

This is what I have always liked about this forum, the wide range in ages. I don't feel like an impostor trying to impersonate a "geek"

My first exposure to computers was with the famous "ping pong" that green phosphorous little ball bouncing from one place to another. I was completely taken by "Invaders" and when I managed to buy a computer, it was a Sinclair --bought it as a birthday present for my eldest daughter really-- but since it was bought one month in advance, I had time to practice with it. Was so proud when I managed to "program" a Xms tree with on and off lights and even "Jingle bells" accompanying it ! Then remember how we suffered when uploading a game from a cassette and listening the scratching noise and watching the coloured lines on the TV monitor crossing our fingers that after all that the game would run OK (my Daughter was 16 and I was 45! )

Then we got a Commodore 64, after that I bought an Epson with 8Mb RAM and a 40Mb HD ! Was I rich !!

So yes, I am 66 since December 22nd. Remember the day WWII ended and seeing the newspapers headlines with the largest type reading Armistice ! I was 5 years old then.

I used to go to the movies with my Mom (she would take me really) and many times when at home used to think how nice it would be to have a small screen where we could watch at home the ones I liked most. hehe

OK time to wake up people and congrats to those who managed to read it all

Great idea Chiquitita !! Regards - Martha

[dmrdm]

Old enough that my first computer was one from Radio Shack, was DOS, my first printer was a daisy wheel, my first scanner cost I think $600 and only scanned in B &W and we used floppy disks.

[PatrickB]

My first computer was an Atari 600XL, 16 KILObytes of RAM baby! And it came with a datasette (translation for youngsters: tape-drive to store data on 90minute audio-tapes)

And to stay on the retouching-topic: The first digital image I saw was a portrait of a girl with an incredible maximum-resolution of 320x200 black and white! Just for info, if you wanted 8 colors you got 160x200 pixels on your screen

[FredNY]

Physical age : 25
Mental age : Not to be too certain, but id say 30-35

I think im lucky. Theres so much rubbish in life, its nice to try not let it get you down. But at that I struggle. Such is life

[JamesF]

I'm not gonna be real specific here.

Dirt is old right? Well, I'm older then that.

But age is not about years, its about attitude. By that measure I'm 16.

Well Okay. Maybe mid-twenties. Or thirties. Depends upon the moment.

When my girlfriend arches her finger with 'come hither' I am certainly twenty something. Aren't You?

[Claudiobass]

I´m almost 49

[Pocoroba]

But I look younger. Still not gray yet.... thanks be to the Irish side.

[cardmnal]

what a great thread. I am surprised it took this long for me to find it.

old enough to remember....

Crew Cuts,
good tennis shoes were PF Flyers,
Dimes and quarters were made out of silver,
Three cent postage stamps,
wearing "beetle boots"
Seeing Elvis movies at the movie theater,
The milkman,
John Glenn orbiting the earth,
7 cent sodas, and nickel ice creams.

I remember when good things were groovy or far out and bad things were a bad trip or a bummer.

I actually had to do chores in order to earn an allowance

[albatrosss]

What would be interesting would be to make the above 60 category a bit more specific.

Sometimes I wonder if I am the only guy, 75+, working in Photoshop.

[Kraellin]

hehe, nice cardmnal. sounds familiar.

i remember when a hershey's bar was a nickel, the original flash gordon was in the movie theatres and i won an official flash gordon flash light with my ticket stub.

i remember when gasoline was 18 cents a gallon and a pack of cigarettes was about 20 cents. i remember seeing a Hudsons automobile driving on our road, the milk man and the bread man coming to our door. i remember a truck having an accident near our house and he spilled his ice that was refrigerating whatever it was he was carrying.

i remember collecting empty bottles and returning them for 2 cents at the store. i remember visiting a friend of the family and having to use an outhouse. i remember visiting the south and seeing the various 'colored' and 'white' signs on bathrooms and drinking fountains. i remember lincoln logs and erector sets and that cardboard boxes were often more fun than the toys that came in them.

i remember soda fountains and that that was something that came 'after church' on sundays. and, i remember that johnny weismuller will always be 'tarzan'. and i remember the original lone ranger, especially the hour long one on the 'origin of the lone ranger'. i remember phil silvers as seargeant bilko and groucho marks on 'you bet your life' and 'pluck your magic twanger, froggy' on the buster brown show. i remember 'queen for a day' and 'howdy doody' and 'kukla, fran and ollie'. and i remember jimmie durante saying 'goodnight mrs. mc gillacuddy, wherever you are' and 'sky king', the original 'lassie', and jack benny telling rochester, his manservant/friend, 'now, cut that out!'.

i remember when detroit still had trolleys and seeing an airplane was quite rare. i remember penny candy and visiting a carpenter who had a bellows for stoking a fire. i remember one room schoolhouses. and i remember listening to 78 rpm records and 33 rpm and listening to fess parker's rendition of 'davy crocket' on that record player.

hehe, boy, what a walk down nostalia lane.

[Gary Richardson]

For a British selection of reminiscences.

I can remember my brother still had a wartime ration card.

The gaslighter, still came and lit the streetlamps (and snuffed them out in the morning).

We had an outdoor toilet which we shared with nextdoor.

We walked everywhere.

Supermarkets were unheard of, and my mum had a "divvy" card with the local Co-op, and she was on first name terms with ALL the local shopowners.

I knew the names of everyone in our street.

We went weekly to the "matinee" at the local cinema.

I was 10 years old before we got our first TV.

[chrishoggy]

Well I'm not that old (33), but I do remember 10p back on empty pop bottles.
Being in the middle of the miners strike riots, as we lived next to a coal mine.
Rag and bone man coming down the street on a horse and cart.
Street parties, where everybody joined in and had fun.
Being scared to death of the police (unlike it is now).
Getting my first Raleigh Chopper bike with gears
Getting my first computer http://oldcomputers.net/aquarius.html )and I still have it)
And best of all a 10p mix from the sweet shop

[NancyJ]

I love you guys, always make me feel young

[chris h]

Well some traditions still hold I was given £5 Syrian back on a pop bottle in Damascus in April!

[pellepiano]

I was slightly surprised to see that many "seniors" =), like my self.
Im 50.( aggghhh those numbers are freakin my out ).

[Ying]

I'm 23.

And I remembeeer...what what...aww nevermind

[Janet Petty]

Shucks, I remember a lot of things ya'll have mentioned; but most of all I remember being THIN.

Janet

[Jim Frazer]

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four?"

Oops, I already am 64!

Jim

[soleah]

"Life begins at 40." So my life hasn't begun yet.

Surprised to see the range of age here.