You know you are old when...Y

[PFVA]

If you know some of the letters of Morse code.

Note: I just got a question right on a 'Quiz of the Day' thing.

[PFVA]

You remember very well when We Are the World song was presented for the first time on March 7, 1985. And I had just finished university.

I heard it yesterday on the evening the news in memory of Quincy Jones.

[PFVA]

You remember

when there was 3 phone number to connect to the internet
they were all in Palo Alto
those of us living in the adjacent cities, meaning a local call no minutes counted use to have friends show up to see the internet which was all text.

[SuperMappy]

When you watch "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve" and your first though is "Who the hell are these people!!??"

As opposed to when I watched it in the 80s and i knew all the bands and they were all great.

[gilesgoat]

Happened to me this afternoon ..

.. you go to a shop that sells "Art Supplies" looking for a "letraset" and the guys are all too young they don't have a clue about what you are talking about ..

.. then you try to look if there's a "tech drawing section" .. and realise there's none .. then you start remembering when you were using a compass ( the one to draw circles ), a straight ruler and a 45 degrees ruler and the 30/60 ruler to do drawings .. and see there are NONE around .. ( well they had ONE box of "math tools" it actually was a REALLY SMALL compass, a TINY 45/30/60 rules and a tiny protractor ) ..

Then you start remembering things like "Rapidograph" .. but I think you never heard of those in UK ?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/rotring-rapido ... apidograph

I remember 0.1/0.3mm for "construction lines" and 0.5mm for "solid lines".

I remembered being allowed, at SOME point, to use a "normograph" for "standard ISO letters" ..

https://vpiera.com/gb/school-normograph-set-of-3

I can't remember the heck how to do "projections" vaguely remember about "central focus perspective" I know there was the "2 points perspective" and even the "3 points perspective" but normally we had to do the :

- "projections" x / y / z planes
- "one 3D image" usually "Cavalieri" or "Isometric" projection ( orthographic )
- sometime a shaded 3D "vision"

All with rulers, compass, pencil and sometime india ink

MONUMENTAL PAIN IN THE ARSE I ALWAYS HATED IT !

[SuperMappy]

You remember seeing this device in Radio Shack.

[gilesgoat]

You remember seeing this device in Radio Shack.

Never seen that device but I think the dad of a friend of mine had that particulat "micro computer" you see in the device.

[F-ZeroOne]

"Thunderbirds" is 60.

60!



It says something about that the show that about half that trailer is explosions...

[gilesgoat]

You begin to think ( maybe wrongly ) that your day to day life has nothing much to say, thankfully there's "sheep time" that says "more" about the sheep lives

I guess it's a bit of a problem when you are working on things you are bound to secrecy/silence/NDA until the very end, you can't chat much about your day by day developments.

You could say "you don't do else other than that ?" .. well it's been quite deep this development and the answer could be "no, not very much"

It's been almost a year since I've done "very little else" than working on I-Robot basically constantly.

But yeah, still alive and swearing as usual.

[PFVA]

Roberta Flack, the American singer died yesterday at the age of 88 and you remember her singing 'Killing me Softly' very well.

[PFVA]

TV just said that it's very warm but most of the beaches in the country are nor ready to receive people yet.

By ready they mean the signs, the bars, including ice cream and water, the concessions, the public showers, the restrooms, the wood or bambou passarelas so people can walk easier, and whatever else people find necessary on the beaches nowadays.

Amazing how we survived going to the beach without all that.

[venusian]

The beach, where the sea meets the land,

or

The Beach, a profitable entertainment business?

[gilesgoat]

TV just said that it's very warm but most of the beaches in the country are nor ready to receive people yet.

By ready they mean the signs, the bars, including ice cream and water, the concessions, the public showers, the restrooms, the wood or bambou passarelas so people can walk easier, and whatever else people find necessary on the beaches nowadays.

Amazing how we survived going to the beach without all that.

Yeah .. how it's possible I spent most time of my childhood at the beach WITHOUT ALL THAT !! And we still went to the beach on summer almost every day !

[gilesgoat]

"You know you are old when .. " ..

You perfectly know that "Can't hurry love" it's NOT an original by Phil Collins ..

Spoiler: show

It's by the Supreme Sisters ..

... likewise you know that "Can't touch this" music is NOT an original by MC Hammer !

Spoiler: show

It samples Rick James "Super Freak" ...

[F-ZeroOne]

Amazing how we survived going to the beach without all that.

Well, in my day we had these things called videogame arcades. Thats how I survived. [1]

[1] A little bit of context for those residents of nations whose "seaside traditions" may be a bit different to the UKs; typically the seaside was one of the places you found amusement arcades, often very close to the actual beach. And as someone who had several very painful childhood experiences with sunburn, it near literally was a case of survival to lurk in one for a considerable time...