It being the 70s was worth it, though.

You chopped images using scissors and glue?

how did old people get it up

Did this many times. Office copier. Some people still have my copier chops on fridges and the like. All old and yellowed.

witchcraft

Did you have "phone sex" using smoke signals?

sounds hot

Believe it or not, I wasn't directing porn at the age of 10.

only as a chaser

rip cords and gas powered contraptions

I'll chime in for this one. People didn't spit on each other. BJ's were much better -- deep throat as opposed to spitty handjobs with a little knob sucking on top. Oh lord, how much we have lost ...

Also, there wasn't as much screaming and shouting. People getting f*d didn't sound like they were being beaten to death.

OP...I'm with you...I turned 8 in late 1973. Don't remember much about it however.

how didnt u commit suicide?

How much did condoms cost?

Was a dime bag really a dime?

Goddam kid. I was 10 in 1965. Movies were 50 cents, gasoline 30 cents a gallon. Stay off my goddam yard.

MM MD

LOL - I'm older than OP.

as an aside:

computers have actually been around since the late 30's in some fashion.

as for commercial use:

"The first personal computer":-

In 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.

The Micral is considered the be the first commercial non-assembly computer. The computer used the Intel 8008 processor and sold for $1,750 in 1973.

as for video games:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...2.80.931983.29


Let's not completely confuse the kids. Pong anyone?

I remember going to the picture show to watch "Serpents on a Dirigible"

we've got to get these vaudevillian snakes off this vaudevillian contraption!

I used to get two comics for a quarter.

Hey, Old Man River, move it or I'll break your hip.

I remember having the ****ty B&W TV with the dial that had fallen off, so we had to use a pliers to change the channel.

is it true that a happy meal used to include a burger, coffee, pie, and a pack of lucky strikes?

what was the coolidge administration like?

favorite prohibition story?

remember the alamo?

bigger celebrity: amelia earheart or buster keaton?

stories from the wagon train?

is there anything you wish was never invented, and why? For example cell phones make it so that people can have a reasonable expectation to always be able to get in contact with you.

Did all girls of sexual maturity have tons of pubic hair? When did they start shaving?

How has profanity evolved?

This was all long before Samuel L. Jackson had invented the word "motherf*er." That was a gentler motherf*ing time, motherf*er.

Also, paper had been invented, but not the page. So books were 40 feet tall.

And condoms

silent

here you go

Davey Crockett used to house sit our plants when we vacationed in Mexico. Last time we got back, the plants were dead.

Fatty Arbuckle ftw

At night, wagon trains were often formed into a circle (a "laager") for shelter from wind or weather and corral the emigrants' animals in the center to prevent them from running away or being stolen by Native Americans. While Native Americans might attempt to raid horses under cover of darkness, they rarely attacked a train; wagons were seldom circled defensively, contrary to popular belief