You still operate your computer with Windows 3.0
You still use a rotary phone
You still listen to your music on 8-track tape
You still watch movies on RCA Videodiscs
You still watch your favorite shows on a black & white TV
You still listen to your old records.
I take exception with the last one.
I just generally take exception to most things Sherman posts....or rather where he posts them...
You've never owned a microwave oven (me).
Your computer has an A-drive and no USB port (me).
Your landline telephone still has a curly cable (me).
You don't own a mobile phone (me!).
You find it questionable that your 12-year-old niece and 14-year-old nephew have their own cell phones, and still want their parents to buy them more expensive iPhones, and pay the monthly bills for them.
The 25-year-old ex-boyfriend of your similarly-aged cousin comes up to you at the October 2011 New York Comic-Con dressed as a Plague Doctor, and you have no idea what that is.
You've been watching Star Trek since day one in 1966.
You still play 16-bit video game consoles, believing them to be part of the "Golden Age Of Gaming".
I would be doing this, but about ten years ago I sold my collection of Sega Genesis games, in order to invest in a different collection. That made my console (as well as the controllers and various accessories) pretty much useless.
Sometimes I wish I could own the Genesis again, and play those great '90s games, just like old times!
I thought up a few others:
You still own a tape recorder and about a hundred cassettes (me).
You still have your portable CD player and keep all the CD's of the music on your iPod as backups (me).
You still buy used VHS tapes from various used movie stores and pawn shops, and luckily you have the VCR/DVD player to play them (me).
That's all I can think of for now!
You send emails thru your old Trs 3 Radio Shack computer .
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you watch your favorite tv shows on your old betamax (me).
You record TV shows onto video (me). [This is mostly because neither my DVD recorder nor my set-top box work at present, but I haven't exactly rushed to get them fixed either ...]
You still own a tape recorder and about a hundred cassettes (me).
I bought an expensive three-head cassette deck around 1998 or so, mostly to make cassettes to play in the car. I pretty much abandoned cassettes in 2001, when I got a CD player for the car. The last time I used the deck was in 2002 or so, when I made a tape of some LP records (yes, I have many of those too; they're now kind of a nuisance.) I don't even know if the deck works anymore; I assume it still does. And, I must have over a hundred cassette tapes, both blank and recorded (I've never counted them.)
And, I don't own an MP-3 player; I still use CDs in the car.
You Evil Content Pirate™, you!
Signed, the RIAA
Look, guys. LPs are not relics of a bygone age. They were kept alive by audiophiles who know they generally sound better than CDs and almost certainly sound better than .mp3s. Turntables never stopped being produced, and I'm not talking about DJ turntables. LPs also made a major comeback in the past few years.
You know you're behind the times if:
you transfer files via a floppy disk.
you erase it by typing:
a:> delete *.*
you can't use the computer and watch tv at the same time because your computer monitor is channel 3.
you think LPs are out-of-date.
LPs are out of date for the overwhelming majority of people. audiophiles are a tiny elite.