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I love liver and onions

My mother and I used to buy Rinso in order to use the green stamps for towels.

I bought a stick shift finally at the age of 65.

Pi can be approximated very well as 355/113 to 6 decimal places and as 104348/33215 to 11 decimal places. This had value in calculators in the 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Technically the IBM 5100 was a luggable computer rather than portable, it weighed a hefty 25 kg (55 lb) and needed to be plugged into the grid to operate as only ran on mais AC Voltage and did not have batteries. I personally can tell you anyone who had to transport a "portable" computer that weighed 55 lbs was doing so only over a short distance.

Party line telephone service was originally offered when it reduced the cost of providing telephone service by sharing lines (wires) from customer telephones to the telephone exchange. Telephone service options and rates were set by government agencies ("public utility commissions"). As technology improved, the cost advantage of sharing lines declined to the point where the cost of providing private line service was comparable or even less expensive than party line service. Technical advances allowed the phone companies to use thinner wire, which could go in cable sheaths. Concentrator technology was developed to share lines without connecting customers to the same line simultaneously. Subscriber line carrier systems were developed, which also shared lines but gave each customer a virtual private line. However, there were a large number of party line customers with political clout who opposed the significant jump in the cost of their telephone service which would result if their party line service was discontinued and they were forced to upgrade to private line service. So, public utility commissions were reluctant to make party line service obsolete. Telephone companies were forced to continue to provide hardware that would ring the bells of party line customers individually. Also, for providing direct dialed long distance calling, which was deployed in the 1950s and 1960s, special hardware was used to detect which party was making the call, so the proper party would be billed for the call. Sometimes, that equipment malfunctioned resulting in the wrong party being billed, and complaints made to the business office needed to be sorted out, increasing labor costs. Long distance calls to party line customers had a higher incidence of reaching a busy because either party could be using the line. So, long distance circuits were tied up with multiple call attempts when the first attempt would have gone through if both parties had private lines. So, the party line service offering, which originally allowed the telephone companies to offer a lower cost service and put telephones in more homes, later turned into a major headache for the telephone companies, as it cost as much to provide as private line service but they were forced to provide it at a discounted rate and they faced resistance with trying to eliminate it. Eventually, they were able to phase out party line service.

How can you talk about computers for nerds in the 80s and not mention the Apple // series? It was ground zero for gamers and hackers. The Lisa was a flop. And the Mac was Apple's reboot because they lost control of the Apple // ecosystem. The Apple //gs, the final version, had a GUI, SCSI, color, sound, a mouse, a hard drive, in every way, it was superior to the Lisa and Mac, but Steve Jobs intentionally governed down its CPU so it would not perform as well as the Mac. We'd all be running derivatives of the Apple // today, if not for that decision. That one move, is what allowed the PC to become dominant. Genius, indeed...

You may want to check your locations for the Pink Floyd and Led Zep labels.

When I first left school, I got a job with the Australian Post Office (then known as, The Postmaster General)... as a telegram delivery boy. My official title was a JPO - Junior Postal Officer. I later climbed the ranks to become a postman. It was an interesting job, I virtually knew where everyone in my hometown lived. This, of course, was back when letters, telegrams, and telephones, were our only means of long-distance contact. The only thing I didn't like was delivering death notice telegrams to unexpectant recipients.

It’s so ironic that Kodak invented the digital camera.

Digital cameras and calculators in there twice. I' pretty sure you could have found several other things, especially considering that Microwaves and Trinitron TVs were from the 1960s and Walkmans from the 80s.Also the Mattel racing game wasn't ahead of its time, there were electro-mechanical handheld racing games from the 1950s. Are you people smoking the Devils Lettuce?

Yes I love Burger computer build your own burger at Burger shop you just buy you a cheeseburger and they have the salad bar with every other stuff and you just I made mine so big it was bigger than a Whopper

The bionic woman and the six million dollar man toys

I am now 72 and these old-school trends and objects still come to mind. A lot of things have now come and gone.... Fax machines - cassette tape recorders - VCR tapes and players - film cameras - drive-in movie theaters - ashtrays in cars - dip pens and inks - atlases and paper road maps - mercurochrome - hair oil - flannelette pajamas - compact discs - 8 track tapes and players - laser discs - and on it goes ... Sadly, these days. most young people seem to have no interest or knowledge of anything, used or made, prior to their birth date. In years to come, the significant evolution of these trends and objects will be long forgotten.

I'm down with the anti-slurping soup law.

In the unaired Star Trek pilot, The Cage, you can see Picturephone hardware used for internal communications on the Enterprise. So the Picturephone is from the sixties, not the seventiess.

We still have car hops. It's call sonic.

As a salesclerk back in 1979-81, I sold the Sony Walkman and the Casio digital watches. I think the Walkman was originally called the Soundabout before the name changed.

There wasn't single car from the 60s in the video. And most cars were automatic transmission by then.

Wasn't until the early 80s that the walkman became a phenomena.

I think city cars -or something similar - are still available in the Netherlands.

*You should be a little more careful with these "historical" references. The Vietnam protests did last into the 1970s, but by 1972 they had pretty much become unnecessary. Most of this was from 1967 through 1971.*

So many of these came from the 50's or 70's. Disappointed

All the cheap restaurants have RC cola.

you did not show a video disk player from Philips who invented the format and marketed the first home players.

I grew up in the 1950-60s. If child protective services had been around back then, every parent in town would have had some splaning to do.

First comment becoming nostalgic

You forgot to mention, no more smoking in public places, tv, etc

I would drink most anything except Tab. Tab was awful. Always give me Fresca! Also, you keep saying these drinks were about $2. They were about 10 -50 cents.

Singing in a swimsuit law is a violation of the First Amendment.

The frowning at the police and hot pants laws are violations of the First Amendment.

My high school had a smoking area for the students

Shasta cola still exists. You Find it at discount stores and some Grocery stores same goes for, Kool-Aid which rotates its flavors seasonally, Sun Drop & Squirt which is now owned by Dr Pepper company. Crystal Pepsi from the 90s.. I also miss Josta witch came into existence in 1995 not the 70s as well. Do you guys do research before releasing these videos?

RC...Mello Yellow...Fanta...Squirt... Kool Aid....Crystal Light...all still here and available. I had a Squirt yesterday.

I miss Red Fusion more than any other soft drink I've had ever

Those pocket transistor radios were the ultimate thing back then, before the 1960s a portable radio was the size of a small suitcase and the large heavy non-rechargeable battery lasted only a couple of hours, then suddenly you could get a radio (AM only back then) that would fit in your pocket! You could listen a couple of hours per day and the batteries would last a couple of weeks! And late at night you could pick up stations from hundreds of miles away! And even better they came with an earphone so you could listen in bed without your parents suspecting you were still awake!

I think most of these take place more in the 50s than 60s.

In the 80’s…? I’m pretty sure that all these things were illegal in the USA, but not in Western Europe! Once again showed how ‘free’ the ‘land of the free’ TRULY is….. NOT! Anyone trying to ban woman from wearing pants/trousers or even hotpants, would be laughed at right in their face and absolutely NOT taken seriously in the Netherlands in the 80’s…! And homing pigeons were 100% legal in the Netherlands too! The same goes for most of the other things mentioned in this video too… Y’all must have been/are out of your mind to think this nonsense would be accepted!

I’m definitely not a dumb person, in fact: in my 20’s several IQ tests showed an above average performance. BUT !!!! I absolutely CANNOT solve a Rubic’s Cube…! I just don’t see the solution or how to get anywhere beyond swapping 2 or 3 of the tiles to another color…. Same goes for those flat, square plastic things that has space for 16 tiny tiles inside it, yet has 1 empty spots, so you can move the 15 other small squares in order to remake the picture that is printed on it and was all mixed up when you got the toy in your hands (just realized how awful it is to explain this thing, since I haven’t got a clue what it’s called… 😉) Either way: Those things were NOT for me, never been able to solve them and DEFINITELY never had the patience for them anyway…..!! LOL !!!! On the other hand: I BELONG TO THE ‘ALF’ FANS FOREVER!!!

Re: the phone in England the emergency number is 999 it took ages!

i still think max headroom can be updated ... ahh the BBC micro.. the British apple2e I loved gi joe and transformers ......you know they make advanced versions of the Oregon trail today right ? i had the speak and math ........300 baud! yay! id love to see the spoiled peasants try to use steam ....my mom had no clue on video games other pac man and galaga that was at the movies ... and for xmas in 87 she bought me and my bro 80 percent of the colecovivion hardware and 90 percent of the games for 250 ........i liked it better than most of the nes really......... the zx when you asked grandma for a c64 and she was confused by a salesman ....... my bro was a heman fan ........ so we can blame ninty for the mess that is known as mobile gaming today ? i knew graphic novels were going to be a bit different because there was one that had a redheaded female superhero and there was a bit of "naughty" fanservice in a couple of chapters I remember for 2 years the comet was hyped in science class it was a bit meh when it finally showed up tho

I did all of these things well into the 80s (except smoking), and today, I'm proud to continue using a true phone line, which offers much more quality than cheap cell phones with no real buttons. It's true rotary phones take more time, and have a cord to the handset, but nothing's like a cordless touch-tone phone with real buttons! You can have many handsets, or distinct phones in the house, and don't need a contract to use each one. You can also have a FAX and magically send a document to someone else simply by dialing 10 digits, and then watch the document roll through the feeder! It's true that during the 60s (and even 70s) many things were more difficult to do due to the non-existance of all kinds of technologies, but as decades rolled by, I continue to stick to technologies that appeared during the 80s and 90s because they do exactly what we need, without compromising our precious human intelligence, memory, and intellectual skills. Sorry, but I'm not a smartphone driven person that stop working when the battery is discharged. You can do everything on a real computer, with a real keyboard, including of course doing things on the Internet...

Most of these are still around. I don't know why they're on this list.

Hated the Reagan Administration

President Obama was the first president to have his official portrait taken digitally. Everyone before that was taken on film.

Los Angeles was one of the last cities to have 10c pay phone

Kids were taught duck and cover so that they were looking at the floor and would not see their friends being vaporized It was not have saved a single life Typewriters DID have backspace keys

In the days of rotory phones but after the start of dialing your own long distance calls Area Codes had to have either 0 or 1 as the second digit In the 1930s exchanges were named because psychologists were so confused they actually thought words would be easier to reemember than numbers This was well and thoroughly disproven by the 1960s but it was right around 1970 that the bell system at least acknowledged that reality

Party lines were rare on the Bell System companies. They were mostly the Independent companies.

Sticky notees weere the 1980s