YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2008 when...

Candy317

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that
they don't have e-mail addresses .

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the
screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the
first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this
message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on
this list.

AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself

iwantmypup

LMAO too funny!

sillylilykitty

I love these things

Durbkat

I saw this already a couple of years ago, but still funny!

dog-man

you know you are old in 2008 when (made up on the spot):

you still grumble because the promise of cable TV was that there would not be commercials.

you remember how excited you were when the Tandy PC came out in 1982, with a huge 128 K of internal memory.

your first computer didn't have a hard drive...just floppy disks.

you still never bothered to learn how to retreive messages on your cell-phone.

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Max'sHuman

That's funny dog-man, the reminds me of when my Dad got his new cell phone and proudly announced that it had "Saber tooth technology"

ACampbell

I remember this, we had the Apple II's up until I was in high school...I like the Commodor 64's better though

And another - you know you're old in 2008 -

You actually remember when the National Anthem was played and the TV shut off at night after Johnny Carson

Kuma'sMom

lol, too funny!

sillylilykitty

The TV would turn off! I never knew that!

ACampbell

Lol no joke, National Anthem played with a flag waving and then it went to static until about 5 AM Yes this really did happen (I remember watching this on my mom's black and white TV - but color was out for quite awhile she just kept the old B&W)

Durbkat

I think she thought you meant that the tv powered off, not that it just went to static.

harrise

... It's not PC to say "Hussein"...

Willowy

I grew up overseas, and this happened there as late as 1994 (when we moved back to the States). Except we had a color stripe holding pattern instead of static. I had NO idea that you could watch cartoons 24/7 here in the U.S. I guess it's good that our TV shut off at midnight or my brothers and I would never have gone to bed .

dog-man

i still don't know what saber tooth is.

i also just asked my friend what the contraption was on his glasses (or ear, i forget)...he just laughed at me....and started telling me about a new invention, the microwave oven.

i remember the commodore 64 people saying there was no reason to ever take the computer beyond this perfect word-processing computer.

ACampbell

Yep Dog-man...
And then when I was about 10, they came out with Windows 95...(though we had the uber-cool 3.11x Windows on an old IBM...386 )

harrise

... no one knows what a laser disc is...

ACampbell

LOL, uhm, I don't know what one is...

But I remember 8-tracks!

sillylilykitty

I guess I did say off but I was thinking it turned to static

Willowy

Haha! My dad bought one of the first Laser Disc players available.....I think it cost about $800. He was sure it was the Next Big Thing, and I guess it was, except they made them smaller and called them DVDs, LOL. Thank goodness they did make them smaller, because we broke a lot of the Laser Discs accidentally. My dad also liked BetaMax. He was sure VHS wouldn't last, because the picture quality on BetaMax was so much better.

P.S.---don't take investment advice from my dad .

cshellenberger

Yes! They were the forerunner of the DVD, about the size of a 12" LP LOL, I remember seeing them out when I was about 13 or 14.

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