"Yeah Dad, that's way better than having to send a telegram to order a new divan from the Sears Roebuck Company catalog you were reading in the outhouse!"

"Wha... Again son I was born in the 60s."

"Then they deliver the divan in a big wooden crate with you name painted on the side."

"We had cardboard in the 60s."

"And then grandpa was like '23 Skidoo! I also ordered us one of them new radio contraptions! It's 200lbs and made with asbestos! We can listen to Benny Biggs and the Blue Jays now!'"

"Hey, we... well grandpa got all the asbestos out of the house by the time I was 10. Also that's not a real band."

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[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People thought I was making an extremely mean joke about my Highschool Algebra teacher's age, because I said in front of the whole class she didn't have calculators when she went to school, but she backed me up, and said the first pocket calculator came out when she was in her senior year, and it only did 4 functions and cost $300.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

my parents used abacus'

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Mine used beans

[–] miz@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

abacuses sound cool when in use