Onionskin was a flimsy, thin, transluscent paper that became your "carbon copy" when you typed something. You placed carbon paper behind the typing paper and the onionskin behind the carbon.
Next lesson - we'll learn how to build a shelter using only stone tools and palm fronds. x;-)
Thermal paper is the roll of really thin and kind of shiney paper used in fax machines maybe five or ten years ago. And when you got to the end of the roll your faxes would curl up. They also would turn completely black if you left them in your car in the summer.
Doesn't make me feel old, more like blessed. But I don't remember McDonalds coming in styrofoam containers but then again I probably didn't go to a McDonalds until I was in my 30s.
I LOVED the smell of mimeographed papers. Do you remember the teacher having us wave them in the air to get the ink dry before we started writing on them (otherwise, they'd get all smudged)? And hand cranking the machine to make the copies? Now you all know how OLD I am !!
I remember when my Dad bought our first remote-control TV. It only had two buttons, and it was attached to the TV with a long cord that we always tripped over, yanking it out of the TV. But, hey - it was remote control!
Now my TV is a little more modern, but it's still older than these freshmen.
In an attempt to get my son to mow the lawn with a power-mower, I told him I used to use a push mower. Even bought one to show him how they worked. He wasn't impressed. Said it was cruel and unusual punishment to make your kid use a push mower!
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Next lesson - we'll learn how to build a shelter using only stone tools and palm fronds. x;-)
I believed her.
Of course, maybe this is because my parents were 41 and 53 when I was born.
Now my TV is a little more modern, but it's still older than these freshmen.
James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
That was when he was Beaver Cleaver's age.
He's now 28.