re: #280 ckkatz

On the ‘Geezer’ test…

I never bothered with a MySpace account.
I never had an AOL account… Because I was a techie and “true techies” (TM) had CompuServe Accounts.

I probably still have my walkman, a couple of phone books, and my VHS player somewhere around here.

Heh…

eta- fixed the story. Apparently I typed an open ‘angle’ rather than an ‘m’. It ‘zapped’ the rest of the story.

About 10 years ago, my sister and her family were visiting. My sister walked over to my record collection, pulled one out, and handed it to her daughter saying “Could you play this for us?”. My niece looked at her mom as if her mom was talking complete gibberish.

It was then that I regretted disposing of my parents’ rotary phone.

It goes further back. I once asked my mother what the “78 RPM” setting was used with on the family record -player/stereo. (I knew about 45s and LPs of course.)

She just laughed.