Things you don't hear or see anymore

I would say...



Except...

 

Bell Bottoms

 

Cinder block TV stands (or any type of cinder block furniture)

 

Pagers



I remember. When I got my first pager in the I don't know. Late 80s early 90s. My GF at the time used to page me 1111111111 off and on throughout the day and she used to say it meant the "UGLY L WORD!!!"

 

Howard Cosell

 

Cowboys post-season success.

 

Streakers at football games

 

You don't see 'em, but a lot of people have that for their ringtone.

 

This was better. No spilling.

 

ASK JEEVES

 

Those rubber cords that you would drive over at a gas station that would ring a bell for full service.

 

Active Pascal, Cobol, & RPG Programmers. You could add Perl to that too.


That said, any active Go programmers? I first learned Basic, then C / C++, php, then finally moved on to Python in 1999. Though recently, I've started playing with the Go language.

I like and get annoyed with it. (mainly from my C/C++ and Python experience, but it has some great traits too. It's fast as all get-out compared to all the Python I've written over the last 19 years.

 

Barefoot kickers or the term "soccer-style kicker." Of course, all kickers are soccer style nowadays, but we don't call them that anymore. The single bar facemask or the double bar one.

 

She has pants? I can't seem to scroll past the first half of the picture.

 

I still carry a pager at work!!

 

You took the words right out of my mouth! And thank you, Sam, as they had no business being there as I have no idea what they mean.

And btw, I don't care for that / between the C's in my moniker, separating Coach form his Couch, but I dig the ++'s.