Man, you must be old! ;-) - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Next up: explaining 8tracks... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That was back when there were dinosaurs, right? - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

They're still laughing thinking that I lived before home computers. I realize it's because they're used to 50 and 60s movies with room size computers. - Admiral Anika

And pre-cellphone? Telephones used to be connected with wires and if you were out you had to use a payphone! - Nick B.

Oh man, when I explained payphones to them a couple of years ago, they oldest acted like I was making stuff up. - Admiral Anika

I had to explain what a rotary phone was yesterday to mine after we saw one in a movie. The look on their faces was priceless. - Sels

My optician showed me the eye test for young children.One picture was of a black rotary phone. Every kid identifies it as a T shirt. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

A friend in Texas took her kid to the optician and their eye chart for kids were corporate logos. She was pissed and walked out to find another doctor. - Admiral Anika

Corporate logos seems particularly bad from the perspective of being able to test the ability to see. They are, by design, very distinctive and recognizable, even if blurry. - Andy Bakun

Good point. I hadn't thought of that. - Admiral Anika

Me and my friend were playing the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game on his XBox 360, his son came in and commented "the graphics are so bad that doesn't even look like a video game." ...I suggested we wash his mouth out with soap. - Joe Pierce

A few weeks ago, I put in some classic Atari disc in the PS2. My daughter said, "No wonder you and daddy wear glasses. These games make my head hurt!" - Admiral Anika

I have an Atari Flashback 2. Who wants to play Combat? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

This is why I've always maintained when I have kids they get the video game progression I had. Start with Atari and Coleco-vision games, move on to some old school computer games (Oregon Trail and Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego-like) then NES, then SNES/Genesis, then Playstation etc.... ....It may be for the best that I don't have kids, I've put too much thought in here. - Joe Pierce

OMG Eric, when I told her we used to play Combat for hours, she looked at me like I lost my mind. The boy declared it "boring". And they went to play with lint to prove their point. - Admiral Anika

I think I'd better start ours on Yars' Revenge right away. He's been playing Little Big Planet for a while- don't want him to get spolied! :) - Matt Mastracci

My kids are weird with what versions they like to play/watch. They prefer the older versions of Sonic or Pac-Man, but the newer versions of Super Mario. - Admiral Anika

haha..............they wouldn't know a phone with a cord - VAL D. Zone

Have you ever tried to explain the rotary phone to them? - Joe Pierce

...then we stood up and walked to the TV and turned a dial to change channels but it dodn't matter there were only 3 CBS, ABC, NBC but Bonanza was in COLOR... yes I am old thanx for asking - WarLord

I don't have to. They've seen rotary phones in the wild. We almost bought one at the beginning of the year, but figured it wasn't safe. They've seen phones with cords...we do have a fax machine. - Admiral Anika

The other day someone asked me if we still had a TELEX machine at work. - Nick B.

And all this is pretty funny considering my daughter thinks we need to go back to using quills to write. She already told me that for her birthday, she wants a quill and ink set. - Admiral Anika

When I was young I wanted to write with a quill, until I tried writing with one. Not so easy. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Same here. I think she'll outgrow it. I hope she will, at least. - Admiral Anika

Maybe she does think I'm *that* old. We're watching Storyteller. I said, "I used to watch this as a kid." And she asked, "In black and white?" - Admiral Anika

I usually tell my niece and nephews: "Before Youtube..." lol. It helps contextualize. - anna sauce

You walked to the TV to turn the dial? The dial had fallen off our TV and we had a pair of vice grips on the stub where the knob used to be in order to change channels. - Andy Bakun

You know, when I read this earlier, I immediately though of the scene in Ferris Bueler's Day Off where the principle is on the phone with Cameron claiming to be Ferris's girlfriend's father but thinks it's Ferris, and Ferris calls on another line and they show the blinking "on-hold" light dramatically. There's a lot of passing the receiver around and avoiding getting twisted up in cords. Then, later in the day, this movie was on. - Andy Bakun