My dad bought a used 4.77MHz PC at a price that would get you a new VERY high-end gaming rig today.

I'm so old that I remember a time when 2001 and 2010 were science-fiction movies.

People used to come to my house to behold my incredible videopac (odyssey2).

Then, I got an Amiga. It was working with a mouse : you moved a device on the table, it moved a pointer on the screen.

Then the university had the internet : I could use it to download 300 kb shareware games for the Amiga. It was just a matter of being patient.

Also, at some point, I got a hifi CD player : they were disks with high quality sound, and weird rainbowish reflexions.

And much later I got DVDs : like CDs, but for films. They held the movie in sveral languages simultaneously, subtitles and all.

I'm not really sure what happened next. I ceased to pay attention.

I'm so old, I remember my grandmother worrying about JFK running for President. She was concerned because he was Catholic.

I'm so old that I can remember when the kids programmes were really scary.

Sara and Hoppity (The naughty goblin toy) used to scare the crap out of me when I was little.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was the inspiration for Chucky from the Child's Play films

http://www.jedisparadise.com/3/Sara_and_Hoppity.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6FQG0H9-I

Well, I'm not the oldest member here by far (I'm 35), but here are a few of the things I remember that makes me feel old, in no particular order:

- Watching Dallas in B&W (we didn't get a color TV until the mid-80s) on the only channel we had.
- Checking my "email" and the discussion threads I was subscribing to via my FIDONet account on a local BBS through my 14k4 modem.
- The release of Return of the Jedi.
- Renting both VHS movies and a VCR to watch them on, because that's not something most people owned.
- Vacationing in Yugoslavia.
- Lifting the Trabant of a visiting East German teacher off the ground with 3 other guys from my class, one in each corner.
- Playing Valhalla MUD, again on a local BBS through my 14k4 modem.

I'll probably think of more later on.

I remember sneakin' out on my Huffy in the summer and riding it about 3 miles to the North East Mall to play video games at Aladdin's Castle and hoping I wouldn't get my @ss kicked by some PCP smokin' devil worshiping freak (aka me(a)talhead) or some steroid raging KKK roper.

Those were the summers...

That's how old I am.

I played Master of Orion in 1996 at ten years old on a copied floppy disc (OMG PIRACY) with no manual forcing me to memorize every single ship DRM popup to keep playing.

I'm so old that I remember when...

...when ... erh... where I still have my Dragon computer!

I am old enough to have had go-bots and original star wars toys (and played with them).