Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of.

[Liberty Belle]

308. Chopping wood for a wood-fired stove.

I actually stayed in a cabin once where we had to cook on a wood stove - took some practice not to burn anything. It had no electricity or running water, either - we pumped our cooking water and bathed in a creek. There was an oil lantern, a bunkhouse for guests to sleep, and a crankup Edison Victrola record player! The place was enchanting.

Now I'm old enough to remember growing up with these things:

Telephones with party lines.
Hand-writing high school essays. By college, I had an old Royal typewriter, then later an electric one.
Believing self-correcting typewriters were a major innovation while on my first job after college. No more white out!
My first home computer had half a meg, with a screen that had amber letters. I wrote a novel on it and sold my first book!
Getting our first color TV just in time to watch Neil Armstrong take that first giant leap for mankind on the moon. Dad was a rocket scientist - what a thrill...
Having three channels - ABC, NBC and CBS - to watch. Everyone saw the same popular shows.
Kids actually spent most after-school time playing outside. Nobody had a computer and computer games weren't invented yet.
Until Pac-Man came along...I remember my brother getting one.
45 records that played single songs with those little disks in the middle to make them work. Then 8-tracks, cassette tapes, CDs, and now DVDs. Seemed like every music player got obsolete in no time.
Hand-crank ice cream makers -- every family had one, and you'd have ice cream socials on hot summer nights; kids would catch fireflies while the grownups made dessert.
Times were so much more innocent - we all walked to school, and kids ran all over the neighborhood - over open fields, down to a lake nearby, ducking through a farmer's corn fields. Nobody worried about wackos out there snatching kids.