Feeling Old (Off-Topic)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 17:32 (3199 days ago) @ Durandal

I'm so old...

My Xbox handle has no numbers and is a legible, normal word
I played Pathways into Darkness when it first came out
I recall my games fitting on a single 3.5' disk with room to spare
I played games on a green screen outside of the aged school computer labs
Once my Apple IIe disk drive had an infestation of aphids that got on the 5 1/2 floppy and it ground them up and spewed green goo all over the desk.

I used to frequent arcades when games were 20 cents to play.
I used to keep 20 cents in my Kangaroo shoes (they had pockets!) so as to call home on a pay phone so my parents could pick me up.
I remember when the price of a soda at a vending machine jumped to 40 cents!
At the age of 6 most of my classmates and I would walk several blocks home alone and no one thought this was strange at all.
I ordered the special Haley's Comet Matchbox car when it last came around, chipped off the paint playing with it and repainted it to match KITT from KnightRider.

I called a hint line!
I cut actual physical film.
I was amazed at the quality of Might Ducks on Laserdisc.
I saw a TOS Star Trek film in a theatre on release.
I memorized all my friend's phone numbers!
I saw a cigarette advertisement with Joe Camel!
I did actual work on a computer with 1MB RAM and a 40MB hard drive.
I got a lego set in a happy meal.
"Please insert the FINAL segment of the archive" had me confused as fuck.
"Cody, I have to make a phone call, get off the internet!"
I remember life before the internet.
Gas was 99¢ a gallon.