“Do You Remember When”: 50 Pics That Might Not Make Any Sense If You’re Too Young (New Pics)
A walk through one’s old bedroom or visiting a mall you used to go to can hit you with a wave of nostalgia and memories that you often didn’t even know existed. Without these reminders, it can be hard to sometimes remember how things have changed.
The “Do You Remember When” Facebook page is dedicated to images, memes, and even ads that might jog some deeply buried memory. From plywood furnishings to pogo sticks, these posts are a real blast from the past, so get comfortable as you scroll through, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your thoughts below.
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Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Gum And Comic For A Penny
Love It!
“Getting old” can be a pretty relative term. While most of us would agree that pensioners are “old,” you can also be hit by a wave of “oldness” when you first realize that you aren’t quite as up-to-date with popular culture. Or perhaps you overhear the younger generation (whose existence is already a sign) refer to the films you watch or music you listen to as “retro.”
Despite our best efforts, there is no escape from getting older. Of all the processes on this planet, the passage of time is the one we can’t even start to influence. Realistically, people need to make peace with the fact that every second they fight aging, they age regardless. Instead, images like the ones in this post serve to remind and perhaps educate beyond anything else.
I Have Several, Two Of Which I Inherited From My Parents!
It's also where we keep the restaurant menus, scotch tape and batteries. 🫣
Had A Datsun B210
Who just learned that Datsun became Nissan, and that they’re not mutually exclusive car brands? 🙋🏻♀️
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I remember when we first got a phone that had a speakerphone function. That was groundbreaking.
In much of the world, aging is actually celebrated. In Korea, when one turns 60, they will have a special party called a hwangap. Part of this celebration’s history comes from the fact that many people in the pre-modern era did not even reach the age of 60. As a result, Koreans have also started to celebrate “Gohi” or “Chilsun” when they turn 70 and “Palsun” when they reach the venerable age of 80.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Division Was Goesinto
Its not called times tables anymore? 😭
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Multiplication is what you do. Times Tables is what you memorise.
Yep. My 6th grade math class had a contest every week, we were timed to see how fast we could write out our multiplication tables. Those with bad handwriting failed immediately, because they would try to write so fast that the teacher couldnt read the numbers. Such a dumb idea.
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Anybody here ever watched Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies do his cipherin, when he did his gazintas? 2 gazinta 4 2 times, 2 gazinta 6 3 times.........
We used to have a spelling test and times tables test every Friday morning after assembly. I'm getting traumatic flashbacks from 30+ years ago.
I'm 14 and we did that in elementary, this isn't an old person thing
In the UK children do national tests on their knowledge of times tables in Year 4 (8-9 years old).
When I learned the times tables for 9’s and learned the trick and the answers being reversed towards the end I thought…”What sorcery is this !” It was so amazing as a 3rd grader to the 18 was transferred to 81. And the 27 transferred to 72 ‘ I wanted to skip ahead even though I missed a few days prior. She didn’t want me too far ahead. lol. That was fun !! Lol
Now having nightmares of speed math. I could of gone rest of my life not remembering that childhood trama
Me too, and I still know my "times tables" this was before calculators were invented. Are children still taught "mental arithmetic"?
It was called that because it was an actual table multiplication for 1through10 that schools gave you to memorize.
Aren't they still? I was a teacher in 2014 and that's what we called them.
Which we all learned by rote, which is why youner (enough) folks do do maths in their heads.
And I remember drilling my little sister on the times tables when she was in 3rd grade because they weren't teaching it in Elementary school anymore. "Oh, they'll figure it out." NOT!! My parents and I spent a week drilling her so she wouldn't be crippled in math.
I'm a teacher in the UK, we do still call them times tables sometimes. ""Multiplication refers to the process of multiplying two numbers together, usually to solve a problem, "times tables" refers to the multiplication facts you need to know off by heart by the time you finish school
What's it called now lookie how to make addition even MORE HARD
Did anyone have the card that went from 1 to 12 so you could see the answer.
Still is. Times tables are the actual facts on a table. Multiplication is an operation.
I'm not even a legal adult yet and that's what we called them
I’m 14. I remember when multiplication was called times tables.
They still call it that! Proof: I'm 18 and in high school where they still refer to it as the times tables!
I made a times table for my granddaughter- she thought I'd was so cool- she took it to school for show and tell. The teacher had all the students make one.
Bro, not fair I'm 31 and remember that. You're making me older exponentially by the minute lol.
I made my kids learn the "plutification" table. They hated me. I was SO strict.
We used to have to write them out as punishment at school. That's why I'm good at math... I was always in trouble
Im so old I remember party lines on the phone. You pick up the receiver and hear neighbors conversations ... no privacy..
I kinda miss that, i had a teacher that loved Disney one year and we did Disney karate for our multiplication and went up belt by belt, i think i got to yellow belt
Somebody is so old they don't remember that it was always called multiplication and times tables were how you memorized multiplication up to 10 x 10.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
One reason to make your peace with aging is that it can actually help you live longer. A positive self-perception of health in old age appears to be directly correlated with longer lifespans. So if living as long as possible is really important, then it’s almost as vital to believe it will happen. Worrying just wastes time for little-to-no gain.
This Brings Back So Many Memories (Of Getting Thorned)
I Remember Swinging So High That The Poles Came Out Of The Ground. What Do You Remember?
It Was Much More Rewarding. I Miss Researching And Enjoy Reading My Encyclopedias!
After my parents bought me a set of Encyclopedias at the age of 11, I announced that I would no longer be going to school since I could now look up anything I needed to know!
Memory plays just as important a part. We tend to have a lot of what scientists call “flashbulb” memories, itself a reference to older cameras that would provide lighting with a bright flash from a lightbulb. These are instances, moments, and events that feel “burned” into our memories. Traumatic or important events are often featured, particularly if it was something shared with many people. Witnesses of 9/11 would be an example of “flashbulb” memories.
And When A Person Gets Older.....you Lose Them, In More Ways Than One! Lol
Tin Kaleidoscope Toy
That's my favorite toy. I enjoy all the colors and shapes and the way they change.
Yep, And My Dad Would Criticize My Teachers Handwriting For Being Illegible!
We do tend to remember our firsts, as they set the standards and expectations for most events. First kisses, first days of school, and first day on a job all feature here, even though subsequent ones will often be forgotten very quickly. Try to imagine a specific day in fourth grade in November and most of us will draw a blank, even though in the abstract we have an idea of what could have happened and what the classroom may have looked like.
Hey Boo Boo!
I Did It Way Back When When I Was In School And Then Made Them For My Kids!
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
You got dropped off? We would take ourselves there by bus or bike. (From about 10 years old.)
That being said, memories do degrade with the passing of time. Most “unimportant” memories disappear after the first couple of days unless there is a reminder or we convince ourselves to keep track of something. So if many of the things seen here are the first time you’ve thought of them in years, that’s a normal function of how our memory works. This “whiplash” of seeing something the brain has purposefully forgotten is also why these images might make someone feel “old.”
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
"I'm Strong To The Finich, Cause I Eats Me Spinach, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!"
Drying My Hands In A Public Restroom, 1975
Of course, a lack of attention also plays a part. If you stop to carefully look around you, there are a lot of dates. Colors, shapes, textures. Remember, every place you have ever gone has an abundance of information that, thankfully, our brain filters out. It’s enough to know in the abstract that most walls have some sort of coat of paint without systematically categorizing every wall you have ever seen. It could be a cool party trick, but realistically you would just get overwhelmed.
Remember These Days ?
Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Rosemary Radcliffe, And John Candy, 1974, Sctv Cast
The Good Old Days Puts A Big Smile On My Face
Plus, as you age you take in a lot of new memories and information. Like building on top of a ruin, new memories “push back” older ones and make them harder to retain. The deeper these ideas are buried, the “older” one feels when they are rediscovered through the images here, or visiting a once-familiar place after a long time.
And The Sound Of Music Too!!
Just A Random Question
Can still find cans that open like this now. Corned beef comes to mind.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
What also causes these feelings of “being old” is the fact that, despite what we often think, our memories are not actually recordings. We can misremember all sorts of details, falsify memories, and remove or add things that never actually happened. This only becomes apparent when we encounter images such as these that serve as a reminder that a lot of things we think we remember don’t actually look the way they did.
Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn...40 Years Together
Instead of talking about how they look ... consider that they have loved each other for 40 fckn years. Most of you have NO idea what it is like to be with someone that long. ( been with my hubby 46yrs)
What A Truly Incredible Snapshot To A Simpler Time
The Flavor Only Lasted For Like A Second.. But It Was Super Delicious
But don’t despair, just because you can’t recall the precise model of a neighbor's car doesn’t mean that this memory is lost forever. Somehow, somewhere, you will probably come across something that will jog your memory into place, and you’ll get that little rush as a bit of your past rematerializes in your head. So if you are trying to unlock as many memories as possible, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our other articles here and here.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I mean, anyone who camps or backpacks still mows what a percolator is.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
WRONG! Ozzy and Harriet did it first and the stars were a real married couple and they insisted they were shown in bed together in 1952. So not animated but definitely "otherwise".
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I Love The First Three Seasons Of The Show The Most. The Writing Was Really Sharp And Funny
I Absolutely Loved These!! Forgot About Them! The Tropical One Was My Favorite!
Look Out!!
Cue the coughing if somebody clapped these together and you were standing fairly close to that person for any reason!
Esp The All You Can Eat Buffet -- Absolutely The Best Bread Sticks In The World
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
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Heck - This Was A Snack When I Was Growing Up
I Wonder What Happened To Mine
Meanwhile, my Norwegian grandparents had the old fashioned trolls...and I never fully recovered.
Childhood In A Jug! They Were Essential To Camping And Picnics!
Accurate As Heck
We Remember Baby Cribs That Looked Like This
U Only Had To Remember 4 Numbers The First 3 Were The Same Everywhere Near
My Mama Made Some Of The Best Fried Chicken Ive Ever Had In This Baby!!!
Cheech & Chong.... What Comes To Mind?
'scooby-Doo, Where Are You' (1969-75)
Only until Scrappy came along. Scrappy ruined Scooby Doo. If they ever make a Roger Rabbit 2 I hope Scrappy gets the DIP.
Never Seen This In My Life, Definitely Never Put Any In Any Toilets
My Husband Got Me One As I Was Always Cutting Up My Legs
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A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
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I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
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It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
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Sorry, I just glanced before I posted the last. Of course Sunbeam made them too!
This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
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If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
Load More Replies... A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
Load More Replies... I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
Load More Replies... It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
Load More Replies... Sorry, I just glanced before I posted the last. Of course Sunbeam made them too!
This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
Load More Replies... If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
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