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2024 Aug 16, 10:44am   30,202 views  492 comments

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4   clambo   @   2024 Aug 16, 11:16am  

Fuses, drive-in movies speakers, window crank, IBM Selectric typewriter ball. They were changeable to have different fonts.
5   clambo   @   2024 Aug 16, 11:21am  



7   MolotovCocktail   @   2024 Aug 16, 4:03pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says






I just posted this one on FB with the following text:

Now young people, gather around for another story from Back In The Day.

This here is how we changed fonts in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. We had to buy these and mail them in each time.

Took about a week. Like we had to send film in and wait for our pictures.

So the smarter of us figured out we could use this as an excuse to extend our deadlines for term papers in school:

"Sorry teacher. But I am still waiting for Microsoft to update my Word font!"

True story!
8   clambo   @   2024 Aug 16, 5:34pm  

The above is in error.
That's a ball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.
9   MolotovCocktail   @   2024 Aug 16, 6:29pm  

clambo says


The above is in error.
That's a ball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.


THAT is another Age Test tho.


10   clambo   @   2024 Aug 16, 7:06pm  

Oh I made an error myself evidently.
11   Onvacation   @   2024 Aug 16, 7:17pm  

Dot matrix printer from 1983. It had a switch to print in italics. But the whole document was printed in italics!


13   RWSGFY   @   2024 Aug 18, 7:09pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says






Um, no: if you know what these are you're officially dead.
14   FortWayneHatesRealtors   @   2024 Aug 18, 7:27pm  

RWSGFY says


DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says







Um, no: if you know what these are you're officially dead.



and now voting Democrat from the grave.

Those were curb finders. similar concept to break censors… they scrape when you too close to scraping the curb.
15   MolotovCocktail   @   2024 Aug 18, 8:26pm  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Those were curb finders. similar concept to break censors… they scrape when you too close to scraping the curb.


For women drivers.
17   komputodo   @   2024 Aug 18, 9:05pm  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says


Those were curb finders

we used to call them CURB FEELERS. The lowriders and the joggers were still using those in the 70s...BTW, does anyone remember when people would have 2 rubber straps dangling from the chassis and touching the road...something about static electricity?
18   komputodo   @   2024 Aug 18, 9:09pm  

You are officially old when you know what 2 BITs are
19   PeopleUnited   @   2024 Aug 18, 9:53pm  



Lightning McQueen saw these in radiator springs.

But here’s one for everyone...

20   MolotovCocktail   @   2024 Aug 18, 11:28pm  

PeopleUnited says

But here’s one for everyone...




True story: I hid under one these babies during the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I, a librarian and a little girl. All hell was breaking loose. Encyclopedia Brittanicas were flying all over the place.

All three of us figured out that the card catalogs were the safest places to dive under.

I had a student job there as a page. My shift started at 5pm. I was just starting to take a cart of magazines to shelve when the quake hit at 5:07pm.

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