Auld Lang Syne, anyone?

[firecat]

Recycling an old post from Facebook:

"RT @ ThatEricAlper: Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?"

Here’s my entry. I’ve heard that reading the time on an analog clock is no longer a universal skill. So I think some young people would find it hard to understand where the phrase “watch my six” comes from.

(This entry brought to you by Faith Hunter’s Shining Smith series, a post-apocalyptic story in which a woman infected by mesmerizing nanobots runs a junkyard with the help of a clowder of sentient, telepathic cats. She says it a lot in combat situations…not to the cats though.)

Comments

[silveradept]

I remember a cable television channel (heck, I remember a time where television channels were represented by turning an analog dial and then adjusting the antenna's position to receive the signal cleanly) whose entire job was to scroll through all the possible channels and display what was on then and what was upcoming in the next hour or two. (I'd say I remember the TV Guide, but they still publish that, so kids might be somewhat familiar with it.)

[firecat]

Imagine that, shows being on only at a specific day and time. (I haven’t had cable in a long time…which means I got to re-experience rabbit ears this century, when I went to see if I could pull in any broadcast tv channels.)

[silveradept]

Rabbit ears are themselves an artifact of earlier generations - many antennae these days are flat squares to be hung near a window or similar. Thankfully most new televisions have the digital decoder and tuners already installed.