answer the phone to find out who it was (no caller i.d.)

collect s&h green stamps

Saturday morning cartoon previews on the Friday nights before the new season

#thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow

Syncronize our watches by turning the little knob, then make a plan to meet up at a certain place and time.
#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow
#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow

@johnettesnuggs @johnmastodon #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow
#HashtagGames
Using a Hole Punch to turn a Single-sided floppy disk into a "Double-sided" floppy disk. 🤔

I used to scour the Sunday pink section of the @sfchronicle, looking to see if my favorite bands were coming to town. Tickets would go on sale (at physical record stores or over the phone) about a week after the show was announced, then the show would happen about a month after that.

There were no big announcements about when the tour would be announced, and no confusion over seven different pre-sales happening 8 to 12 months before the show date.

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

Watch a slide show on a pull-down screen or wall, using an actual slide projector and actual slides

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#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow
Look up people’s home addresses and phone numbers in a book that was distributed free every year, and if you didn’t want to have your info listed you had to pay extra.

@doctorjaymarie

Sending us kids to the store on foot to buy cigarettes for the adults. And they sold them to us!

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

@doctorjaymarie NOPE. Not on a bet.

Starching dress shirts.

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

I went out last night to take an epic 8k time lapse of the milky way. I brought a little robot camera slider out into the wilderness and had it take pictures for a few hours.

My genius ass had the slider moving in the wrong direction though, away from the milky way.

Oh Well. Try, Try, Try Again.

#MilkyWay #Failure #Photography #Timelapse #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

@doctorjaymarie Well one of the #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow​ is know when to stop. Maybe if they discussed that, they'd get caught in a logic doom loop and.. stop 😁

@stonebear @doctorjaymarie

Ooh, Pat Fleet! Was she the Time Lady?

We used to dial "popcorn" on the phone to get the current time. Maybe just the prefix, 767, and then any four digits.

And then Time Lady would come on the line and tell you the time!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_lady

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow #TimeLady

Stick a coin in one of these, and punch buttons with a number we'd memorized.

Ooh, or maybe punch in a calling card number, to charge the call to that.

#thingsweusedtodobutdontdonow #payphone

@APBBlue - I once spent 90 minutes in a travel agency, planning a trip. #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

@doctorjaymarie Hear Pat Fleet say "Thank you for using AT&T" when my *telephone credit card* went through...
#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow (second generation)

Study a map before a road trip and use the table to see how many miles between cities. 🚗🗺️
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#HashtagGames

Remember telephone numbers and always carry ten pence for an emergency phone call.

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

Wait until after 11 pm to make long distance calls because the rates were cheaper.

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

Have family members literally hang up on you after two minutes, saying "glad you're well, we love you, this long distance is costing you a fortune!"

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow

Smoke cigarettes at the hospital nurse's stations.
Smoke cigarettes in the dentist chair, after being offered one by the dentist while waiting for the novocaine to take effect.
Smoke cigarettes.

#ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow.

Compile indexes for academic research #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontNow #ThingsWeUsedToDoButDontDoNow