We had 2 digit phone numbers in the town where I grew up when I first learned to use the phone. My parents had a furniture store, and the store's number was 96. It was before dial telephones, and we told the operator the number we wanted. We had a private line, much better than having a party line where your neighbors could listen in on your calls.

The local dairy made home deliveries. They had little forms like a checklist, and you filled it out and put it in this insulated box by your front door. They'd put your items in the box.

Xerox machines had not yet been invented, and they still used carbon paper. When I was in college, I had a Smith Corona portable typewriter, and I used that correcting tape or eraseable paper to correct typing errors. Several years later, my first computer was an Apple IIe with a green screen, 5 1/4 inch floppy disks, and a matrix dot printer.

When I was young the only people I had ever met who had tattoos were guys who had been in the navy. Pierced ears were considered a bit daring at that point.

When I was in elementary school girls always wore dresses, never slacks and wearing shorts was really unheard of. If it was cold, we wore slacks under the dress. We had steam heat at our house and at school. In the winter we built snow forts and had snowball fights. If our mittens got wet, we'd lay them out on the radiator to dry.