Do you remember?

I was thinking today about how much things have changed in my lifetime - stuff I remember that makes other people around my age go - "oh yeah I remember THAY omg".

Does anyone else remember the first "remote controls" for the tv? The box with the cable that ran to the tv? It was the height of technology when my parents first got it, I can remember how excited we were not to have to get up to change the tv channel lol.

Do you remember the little yellow swirly bit of plastic that you would put in the hole in your 45's? I found some of my old 45's and the kids were asking what the yellow thing was. The kids were also fascinated with 45 and LP records - they were trying to figure out how something that big fit into the cd player lol.

Can you remember your first microwave oven? My mom got one fairly soon after they first came out - it was HUGE lol. I can remember her fascination with it - for about 2 weeks we were eating all kinds of things she "cooked" in the microwave. Thankfully that didn't last long lol.

My hair is pretty much dead straight and it was my grandmothers mission in life to get some curl into my hair. She tried everything but the WORST was these steel rollers that stabbed my scalp and were impossible to sleep on or worse even, she would hook up this weird little counter top hair dryer with something like a shower cap attached with something like a vacuum cleaner hose.

Does anyone else remember how cassette tapes were going to bankrupt the recording industry? LOL Ohhhhh or better yet, an 8 track player - I think everyone had one at some point lol. I remember our first VCR - it was a Beta and enourmous. I can remember when that was considered cutting edge technology lol.

Maybe more later - probably enough strolling down memory lane tonight.