Dear uralicnomad, and rudi:
You both have made my day! As for a club name, I like the "retros". I teach jr. and hi school age kids and when the parents see my phone they suddenly see the light and soon my students have lost their smart iPhones and now have stupid phones. It's amazing how that work, LOL Yes I do remember stamps, envelopes and writing letters that you mailed. I remember when phones had cords or were attached to walls, LOL. I remember when kids rode a bike and if it had 3 speeds it was special. I remember the days before CABLE TV and Crowdfunding. Waiting for the new TV season and hoping your favorite TV show wasn't killed off or moved to some stupid time. When you had to choose between watching one show or another because of the time conflict...so you watched one of them during the summer re-runs. Then we had VCRs and could record things. Oh how about vinyl (real records) and 8-track, cassette tapes, which were the new thing before we came to mp3. When you bought a record and you owned it and could share it and "tape" it to share with friends...oh my how wicked was that? When mobile music was a transistor radio that ran off of a 9 volt battery and it might of had an ear plug so you could listen and not bother other people (imagine that concept) and walking home (yes I did say walking home) from school you could listen to all your favorite top hits on some local radio station. Reception might be an issue but with the nifty antenna as part of your transistor hand held radio, you could make it work.
How about the original "cell" phones that were the size of a men's size 10 shoe and just about as thick, and you had a range of maybe three city blocks and calls were stupid expensive to make. Yep and the first computers for home use, where a 386/66 was state of the art! You had floppy disks, and the internet was still very new and exciting and often didn't work really well. Well that last part hasn't changed. The term "fast" internet was pretty much a dream because everyone had dial up service and the funny noise your modem made when it connected to the internet. Emails were not free, they came with service to connect you to the internet. AOL was living the high life and it would be around forever...LOL. Oh I could wax on and on... Thanks again for this trip down memory lane.
I like to say I am not getting older I just remember a lot more of the past than the present.