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Fuses, drive-in movies speakers, window crank, IBM Selectric typewriter ball. They were changeable to have different fonts.

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!

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

clambo says

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

THAT is another Age Test tho.

Oh I made an error myself evidently.

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

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

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

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.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

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

For women drivers.

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?

You are officially old when you know what 2 BITs are

Lightning McQueen saw these in radiator springs.

But here’s one for everyone...

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.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

curb finders

Curb feelers


Wouldn't want to scrape those whitewalls.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Encyclopedia Brittanicas

I remember my old set from the 60s. Someone intentionally broke up the volumes so it said something interesting on the spine. My favorite:

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

The vastly more reliable manual crank windows.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I got all 20 and I'm not even that old. The curb scraper thing is new to me. Just don't hit the damn curb. Not that hard.

zzyzzx says

The vastly more reliable manual crank windows.

I've never had a problem with any car I've owned with electric windows. 7 cars deep and no issues. My first car did have manual windows though. Kind of a pain if I'm being lazy, which I am. Former smoker so just one window was not enough to get the smell out, so reaching over to the passenger side was a bitch. Thank god I quit that habit and got a newer car.