When I was a freshman in college:
- personal tvs (the analog kind without cable) were black and white and didn't have remotes
- M*A*S*H was a weekly show
- LaVerne and Shirley was a hit as was Three's Company (it was the 70s.)
- there were no 24 hour a day television stations
- the networks ran our tv watching schedule
- VCRs were not common
- microwaves and answering machines were new and too expensive
- hand-held calculators were new and cost $100
- computers were huge and you had to learn logic or some other program in order to run them
- personal stereos were humongous and usually included a turntable
- disco wasn't dead
- drinking age was 18
- internet was but a dream
- Macs and Windows were apples and windows
- term papers were typed, did White Out even exist? I can't remember.
- researching papers meant taking out books and looking up articles on micro film at the library
- Ma Bell ran the phone company
- long distance was expensive
- my city had two daily newspapers
- Iran held hostages
- Sting was what you got when a bee got you
- The Police were law enforcement
- Madonna was a religious figure
- pin ball was the game to play if you didn't have pong
- a gallon of leaded gas cost 63 cents
- Animal House and Halloween were in the theaters
- Terry Bradshaw was Pittsburgh's quarterback in the Superbowl
Whoooooo Boyyyyyy! I don't remember wearing anything like this, but the guys did love their pastel colored leisure suits...
Today's quote comes from Leslie Poles Hartley: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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