You Know You Are Old When

[stuckmotor]

You know you're old when, you remember how proud you were that your radio had "six" transistors.

 

[stuckmotor]

I'm a ways south of Pittsburg, but they've had cell service for a couple years now. Friend of mine has a camp there, called to tell me because now he could.

I thought Spectrum used Verizon's network, they were just a reseller. Of course that's been an issue all along with cell providers that give you a "free" phone with service...it's tied to that provider and they may or may not release your phone.
Last time I called their customer service they went into high pressure sales mode to get me to sign on to their wireless plan.

I feel bad for the "little guy" in any trade who has to be the one to crawl into all the nasty places no one else can fit into.

During the war, I saw a news feature about the little guys who had to crawl into the booby trapped tunnels in Vietnam. They were called tunnel rats.

 

[Jstpssng]

I saw a news feature about the little guys who had to crawl into the booby trapped tunnels in Vietnam. They were called tunnel rats.

They were men. There's no way you'd catch me crawling in there even without someone between me and the other end wanting to kill me.

 

[Jstpssng]

You know that you are old when you remember AnyWho and White Pages as viable information sources.

 

[Oaktree]

I believe that they are now owned by Burger King.

From what I was able to determine from a Google search, Wendys is an independent company. There was some connection between them and Arbys in the 00s, but that ended in 2011.

Wendy's largest shareholder proposes to buy company

Trian Partners and billionaire owner Nelson Peltz told the chain's board of directors Tuesday that Trian would explore an acquisition, merger or other transaction in which it would own the company.

www.restaurantdive.com

 

[stuckmotor]

You know that you are old when you remember AnyWho and White Pages as viable information sources.

The Sears farm catalogs were good references for technical knowledge.

 

[stuckmotor]

From what I was able to determine from a Google search, Wendys is an independent company. There was some connection between them and Arbys in the 00s, but that ended in 2011.

Wendy's largest shareholder proposes to buy company

Trian Partners and billionaire owner Nelson Peltz told the chain's board of directors Tuesday that Trian would explore an acquisition, merger or other transaction in which it would own the company.

www.restaurantdive.com

I usually go to Hardee's these days.
Why?
The lines are much shorter.

 

[Jstpssng]

I usually go to Hardee's these days.
Why?
The lines are much shorter.

It would be a bit of a drive for me... about 1400 miles.

Since this is (one of) the nostalgia thread...
Before McDs came to town my parents would treat us to another chain with a clown for a mascot. Howdie Doodie?
It was something like that. This would have been 1968- early '70s.

Any suggestions?

 

[newbury]

You know you're old when, you remember how proud you were that your radio had "six" transistors.

I still have a memory of my Dad showing me his first "pocket" transistor radio, circa 1958.

 

[BravoXray]

Not ancient history on a human scale, but how many of us were blown away with the speed you could get logging onto a dial-up BBS at 1200bps?
My first computer was a Radio Shack Model 1, with a 300 baud modem.
An now people whine like babies if they can get gigabit fiber connections.