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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.

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I'll bite. I turned 59 in April

I was 300 years old everyday for several years in a row. Maybe it was sundowners syndrome next to a vampire clock.

I'm 34 years old, and I can't remember the early 2000's🤦‍♂️

This year, I will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of my fortieth birthday.

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I'm 34 years old, and I can't remember the early 2000's🤦‍♂️
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Nobody really wants to remember the early 2000s so you're not missing anything..

I'm old enough to know better.

I'm 1 year younger than the Wizard.

My only memory of the 60's is the moon landing. My parents thought it was a big deal. But I had already seen Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck battle Marvin the Martian in deep space so didn't understand what all the fuss was about.

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I'm 1 year younger than the Wizard.

My only memory of the 60's is the moon landing. My parents thought it was a big deal. But I had already seen Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck battle Marvin the Martian in deep space so didn't understand what all the fuss was about.
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Wiz was born in 1965. It was a good year for TV shows, one of the best. These shows premiered in 1965.

Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971) ...
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969) ...
Lost in Space (1965–1968) ...
Green Acres (1965–1971) ...
I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970) ...
The Big Valley (1965–1969) ...
Get Smart (1965–1970)
F Troop
I Spy
Dean Martin Show
Dating Game
Hollywood Squares
The Monkees

Speaking of Troop, I finally made it to the ruins of Fort Courage

Speaking of Troop, I finally made it to the ruins of Fort Courage

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I'm 1 year younger than the Wizard.

My only memory of the 60's is the moon landing. My parents thought it was a big deal. But I had already seen Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck battle Marvin the Martian in deep space so didn't understand what all the fuss was about.
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Wiz was born in 1965. It was a good year for TV shows, one of the best. These shows premiered in 1965.

Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971) ...
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969) ...
Lost in Space (1965–1968) ...
Green Acres (1965–1971) ...
I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970) ...
The Big Valley (1965–1969) ...
Get Smart (1965–1970)
F Troop
I Spy
Dean Martin Show
Dating Game
Hollywood Squares
The Monkees
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I still watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes and Get Smart.

Let's not forgot those short-lived super hero shows, "Captain Nice" and "Mr. Terrific."

Mid 60s television was strange. The Western was dying, and no one knew what would replace it. Talking horses, talking cars, cavemen, time travelers, space travelers,the Munsters, Dream of Jeanie, Adams Family, Green Acres, and so much more madness.

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Mid 60s television was strange. The Western was dying, and no one knew what would replace it. Talking horses, talking cars, cavemen, time travelers, space travelers,the Munsters, Dream of Jeanie, Adams Family, Green Acres, and so much more madness.
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It was a great time to be a teenager in the mid60s because every night was a delight on television compared to what we'd seen previously. It actually started to change about 1962 which shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and Bewitched.

“Jeanne Louise Kalman: biography and secrets of longevity” – an amazing story of a woman who lived for 122 years.

THE RULES OF LIFE OF JEANNE KALMAN IN QUOTES

Youth is a state of mind, not a body. Therefore, I am still quite a girl, I just look bad for the last 70 years.
God forgot about me!
I’m in love with wine.
Always smile. This is how I explain the reason for my longevity.
If you can’t do anything about something, don’t worry about it.
I have a great desire to live and a good appetite, especially for sweets.
I never use mascara because I laugh a lot to tears.
It seems to me that I will die of laughter.
I have iron legs, but to be honest, they began to slowly rust.
I enjoyed every opportunity, I followed the principles of morality, and I have nothing to regret. I’m lucky.

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“Jeanne Louise Kalman: biography and secrets of longevity” – an amazing story of a woman who lived for 122 years.

THE RULES OF LIFE OF JEANNE KALMAN IN QUOTES

Youth is a state of mind, not a body. Therefore, I am still quite a girl, I just look bad for the last 70 years.
God forgot about me!
I’m in love with wine.
Always smile. This is how I explain the reason for my longevity.
If you can’t do anything about something, don’t worry about it.
I have a great desire to live and a good appetite, especially for sweets.
I never use mascara because I laugh a lot to tears.
It seems to me that I will die of laughter.
I have iron legs, but to be honest, they began to slowly rust.
I enjoyed every opportunity, I followed the principles of morality, and I have nothing to regret. I’m lucky.
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She left out the most important one in the only one that matters. The right genes..

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I'm 34 years old, and I can't remember the early 2000's🤦‍♂️
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2020 is mostly a blur to me

I would wager I am probably one of the youngest people on this forum....very early 20s.

I don't remember the early 2000s for the most part either.

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I would wager I am probably one of the youngest people on this forum....very early 20s.

I don't remember the early 2000s for the most part either.
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One thing you missed from that and the late 1990s was seeing the web develop. Back then it was amazing you could download songs in 10 minutes or so to burn to a CD for your car. Now it is instant or near instant. Even in the early 2000s most people still did not instinctively do things online. When I got into mortgages in 2003 it was still only the minority who used email to communicate with me. By 2006 when I left that first company it was most everyone.

Another thing you missed was the best years of Television. Cable series like "The Shield" broke new ground. You got so many better characters and stories. This era kind of opener with "Oz" and ended with "Breaking Bad" when streaming started to take over.

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One thing you missed from that and the late 1990s was seeing the web develop. Back then it was amazing you could download songs in 10 minutes or so to burn to a CD for your car. Now it is instant or near instant. Even in the early 2000s most people still did not instinctively do things online. When I got into mortgages in 2003 it was still only the minority who used email to communicate with me. By 2006 when I left that first company it was most everyone.
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The web was invented in 1989 and it was built on top of the internet which was 6 to 15 years old at the time, depending on who you ask. I was using e-mail and the internet in 1990. I was involved in a demonstration of streaming video over fiber for the 3-letter agencies in 1991 using Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). I was using the web to download past performances for handicapping in 1992 but I was still betting in person at the track. I preferred to use the lynx client over Netscape because the internet was too slow back then for GUIs. My friend was involved in the development of poker over IRC (Internet Relay Chat) in the early 90's. This was the start of online gaming.

I was talking to a woman today who was born in 1950 and we were remembering how everybody smoked years ago and you could smoke anywhere. She said she drove a school bus for 30 years and she smoked on the school bus for at least half that time and when she tells that to people they don't believe her. I think the only place you couldn't smoke was in an elevator, but people smoked in grocery stores and doctors offices and drug stores and subways and public buses and airplanes. That's right, you could not smoke in a movie theater you had to go to the lobby. Other than that you never saw a no smoking sign.

Restaurants were interesting. You'd sit down and smoke while you contemplated the menu and placed your order. After your appetizer, you'd smoke while awaiting the main course. Since smoking is enjoyable after eating, you'd light up again after the main course. Then, after dessert, you'd talk and drink coffee while smoking.

You can imagine what casinos were like with cigarette girls patrolling with their trays of tobacco in rooms with no modern ventilation.

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Wiz was born in 1965. It was a good year for TV shows, one of the best. These shows premiered in 1965.

Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971) ...
The Wild Wild West (1965–1969) ...
Lost in Space (1965–1968) ...
Green Acres (1965–1971) ...
I Dream of Jeannie (1965–1970) ...
The Big Valley (1965–1969) ...
Get Smart (1965–1970)
F Troop
I Spy
Dean Martin Show
Dating Game
Hollywood Squares
The Monkees
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Yes, I was. I'm proud to have been one of the original fans of Sesame Street.

Of the shows you list, ones I watched on a regular basis were Lost in Space, I Dream of Jeanie, Get Smart, Dating Game, Hollywood Squares, and the Monkeys.

Of all those, I like Get Smart the best.

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Of all those, I like Get Smart the best.
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Don Adams was a genius on that show.

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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.
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I was too young to vote but old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam.

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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.
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I was too young to vote but old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam.
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So you were born in 1952 or 1953?

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I would wager I am probably one of the youngest people on this forum....very early 20s.

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There were some good dramatic shows on TV in the sixties.

I especially looked forward to viewing "Mission Impossible," "I Spy," "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "77 Sunset Strip."

Gotta say that I don't miss the Irwin Allen productions.

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There were some good dramatic shows on TV in the sixties.

I especially looked forward to viewing "Mission Impossible," "I Spy," "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "77 Sunset Strip."

Gotta say that I don't miss the Irwin Allen productions.
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Irwin Allen is my hero. He seemed to grow up with us. From the low-budget tv shows like Lost in Space to his big budget disaster movies, he was a huge part of my childhood/teen years. His stuff didn't age well, but neither did I.

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There were some good dramatic shows on TV in the sixties.

I especially looked forward to viewing "Mission Impossible," "I Spy," "Man From U.N.C.L.E." and "77 Sunset Strip."

Gotta say that I don't miss the Irwin Allen productions.
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Irwin Allen is my hero. He seemed to grow up with us. From the low-budget tv shows like Lost in Space to his big budget disaster movies, he was a huge part of my childhood/teen years. His stuff didn't age well, but neither did I.
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My favorite Irwin Allen production was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and it got weirder and weirder as time went on. Here's the plot line from one of the shows in the last season.

Aliens snatch a manned space probe launched from Seaview with Chip Morton aboard, and transport it at the speed of light to their observation post on the rocky, unstable surface of Venus. Checking out the duplicate capsule, Crane suffers the same fate before he even has time to launch. With Chip blinded and a prisoner, and the planet's surface due to undergo catastrophic quakes in a few hours, the odds seem to be against the two men.

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My favorite Irwin Allen production was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and it got weirder and weirder as time went on. Here's the plot line from one of the shows in the last season.

Aliens snatch a manned space probe launched from Seaview with Chip Morton aboard, and transport it at the speed of light to their observation post on the rocky, unstable surface of Venus. Checking out the duplicate capsule, Crane suffers the same fate before he even has time to launch. With Chip blinded and a prisoner, and the planet's surface due to undergo catastrophic quakes in a few hours, the odds seem to be against the two men.
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In almost every episode, Seaman Kowalski (Del Monroe) got beat to a pulp by a space alien, sea creature, or human bad guy.

When I was a punk kid in my 20's, I would say, "I'm old enough to do all the things I couldn't do when I wasn't old enough."

Now I'm old enough that I make weird sounds when I stand up, AND sit down. Yeah, I chose item #2 in the poll.

I'm 64. But people, including the Wizard, think I look a LOT younger. A few years ago, at a poker game at Binion's after a G2E Wizard's dinner, I became his trivia bitch when he called across the table to ask me "Dave, what was the name of the boat in Gilligan's Island?" Obviously, he thought I was too young to know the show. That was partially true, but I wasn't too young to know it in syndication. Truthfully, my knee-jerk answer was "I don't know..." but then I started to think about it, and the theme song started to run in my head, and moments later, I shouted the answer. I imagine there are a couple people scratching their heads right now, so I'm not putting the answer here. Even in spoiler tags!

I'm gonna discuss two topics that came up in this thread:

Smoking.

Although I never smoked, just about everyone did, everywhere. Even the school bus drivers. When I got to high school, half the kids on the bus smoked. My best friend used to bum a cigarette from the driver almost every day. At the end of the year, he gave the driver a carton to pay back and say thanks. Frankly, I never smoked because I thought it was a waste of money, and I didn't have a lot to waste.

Someone mentioned that there was no smoking in theaters. That was more because of the visual problem rather than heath.

Internet.

In the late 70's I purchased a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer. A couple years later, I got a job as the assistant manager at the Radio Shack Computer Center in Paramus NJ a couple weeks before it opened. I had the keys, and I lived only 2 miles away. And Paramus was, and still is, a blue law town (nothing but the essentials can be open on Sunday). So I used to go there every Sunday, park at the deli next door, go into the store with most of the lights out. (Otherwise the police would show up to kick me out.)

One reason I did that was to play with all the more advanced computers, as well as the one thing I couldn't afford at home: internet access. Although, truthfully, I don't remember if we ever called it that. What we were doing was going on line to waste time in chat rooms. Does anybody remember CompuServe CB?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Simulator
Truth be told, It took me a few minutes going down a rabbit hole to remember that name.

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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.
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I was too young to vote but old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam.
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So you were born in 1952 or 1953?
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I served in Vietnam 1966-1967.

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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.
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I was too young to vote but old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam.
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So you were born in 1952 or 1953?
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I served in Vietnam 1966-1967.
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Thank you.

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I know how old a lot of people are here but I'm curious about the rest. I just had my 74th birthday last month, born in 1949. I remember the 1950s like it was yesterday.
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I was too young to vote but old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam.
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So you were born in 1952 or 1953?
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I served in Vietnam 1966-1967.
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So you were probably born in 1948 a year before I was. I know lots of guys that got out of the draft for a while by getting married in 1966 or going to college. It worked for a while but most of them ended up being drafted anyway eventually. I was never drafted because my lottery number was really high. Over 300 as I recall.

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When I got to high school, half the kids on the bus smoked. My best friend used to bum a cigarette from the driver almost every day. At the end of the year, he gave the driver a carton to pay back and say thanks.
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That's the most heart-warming story about smoking I've ever heard!

I'm 53 and used to play TRS-80 computers at my junior high. The teacher who ran the computer club once had us organize an "arcade" fund-raiser in which kids at lunchtime could pay 25 cents per game to play the TRS-80 version of arcade games.

I never used CompuServe, but did use the GEnie online service during high school on my Atari 800.

I seem to have come along after most folks on this board, but I love hearing your stories of the '50s and '60s. I feel like I enjoy the good parts of those decades more than what happened during my childhood. My mom is older than everyone else's mom of my age — she had me when she was 43!

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When I got to high school, half the kids on the bus smoked. My best friend used to bum a cigarette from the driver almost every day. At the end of the year, he gave the driver a carton to pay back and say thanks.
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That's the most heart-warming story about smoking I've ever heard!

I'm 53 and used to play TRS-80 computers at my junior high. The teacher who ran the computer club once had us organize an "arcade" fund-raiser in which kids at lunchtime could pay 25 cents per game to play the TRS-80 version of arcade games.

I never used CompuServe, but did use the GEnie online service during high school on my Atari 800.

Though I feel like I came after most of folks on this board, I love hearing the stories of the '50s and '60s. My mom is older than everyone else's mom of my age — she had me when she was 43!
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My older sister was a grandmother at 37, which made my Mom a great-grandmother at 61. My sister used to laugh when people thought her grand daughter was her daughter.

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My favorite Irwin Allen production was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and it got weirder and weirder as time went on. Here's the plot line from one of the shows in the last season.

Aliens snatch a manned space probe launched from Seaview with Chip Morton aboard, and transport it at the speed of light to their observation post on the rocky, unstable surface of Venus. Checking out the duplicate capsule, Crane suffers the same fate before he even has time to launch. With Chip blinded and a prisoner, and the planet's surface due to undergo catastrophic quakes in a few hours, the odds seem to be against the two men.
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In almost every episode, Seaman Kowalski (Del Monroe) got beat to a pulp by a space alien, sea creature, or human bad guy.
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I have vague memories of seeing some of the Voyage episodes when they first aired, but we didn't watch it on a regular basis.
Back then there were only three networks, so you'd watch one network show live, and you'd get to see another show when they went to reruns. Voyage certainly got strange towards the end. I think they had all these props laying around and they wrote the episodes around whatever leftovers they had.