I remember when . . .

• The milkman delivered milk.
• You didn't have to dial the area code for local calls.
• Minimum wage was $2.90.
• You could get two packages of powdery donuts for $1.
  
• When a bag of Doritos was a $1 (not that long ago)
• A half pint of milk cost 2¢ at school.
• Gas stations just sold gas.  Now they're super centers!
• You had to use your foot to turn the high beams on and off.
• TV was free. You had rabbit ears to get the channels.
• You had to get up to change the channel.
• Airplanes had smoking sections. When restaurants had smoking sections.
• There were no security lines at airports. You didn't have to take your shoes off or put your toiletries in a bag.
• People dressed up to fly.
• Airlines served meals on planes.
• Airlines didn't charge for checked baggage.
• Kids could smoke at school, just not in the bathroom.
• When you could buy cigarettes in a vending machine.
• Gino's was as popular as McDonald's
• Pizza Inn was as popular as Pizza Hut.
• You repaired cassette tapes with a pencil.
• There was a penalty if you didn't rewind a VHS tape.
• Cars had cassette players (my truck does)
• You didn't have to wear seatbelts or helmets.
• Pac-Man was the only video game.
• Somebody pumped your gas and cleaned your windshield.
• No one put Christmas decorations up until after Thanksgiving.
• No one decorated (outside) for Halloween or other holidays.
• There were phone booths. 
• Long distance calls were costly.
• People made collect calls.
• Internet was via the phone lines, dial-up (modem)
• Telnet, Veronica, and Gopher were internet "apps"
• Computers didn't have hard drives.
• WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and AOL (remember "You've got mail?) were popular, and MS-DOS was the operating system.
• I'd ask the motel for a wake-up call.
• Things were still $1 in a dollar store (not that long ago).
• Teens hung out at the Mall.
• People let their dogs roam free.
• It wasn't common to spay and neuter dogs and cats.
• People got married before they had kids (some still do).
• Home schooling was rare, done mostly by ultra religious sorts.  
• I could get a motel room for less than $20 a night.
• As a child, I drooled over the Montgomery Wards Christmas catalog.
• Kmart, Circuit City, Ames, Nichols, Montgomery Wards, Radio Shack, Service Master, and Blockbuster were all still in business.
• Sex and gender meant the same thing.
• There wasn't a designated hitter in baseball.
• Most pitchers pitched complete games.
• There wasn't a three point line in basketball.
• There wasn't a shot clock in college basketball (who could forget the four corner's "offense?" made famous by UNC)
• You spit into a cup at the dentist's office.
• Film was the main photography medium.
• There was only one Ledo Pizza, the original. When their pizza was good.
• People treated each other with respect.
• Presidents were respected and were worthy of respect.
• The news was trustworthy.
• There was no social media.
• Google wasn't a word.
• There were no MP3 players, iPods, iPhones, iPads, smart phones, dash cams, body cams, GPS, or drones.
• Living together without being married was frowned upon. 
• When AI meant artificial insemination (still does to the livestock industry) instead of artificial intelligence.
• When you used a map to go somewhere.
• Sports wasn't all about money.  How Reggie Jackson's contract changed baseball.
• There were floppy disks, 5.25 then 3.5, then the fatter zip disks
• There was no Walmart or Amazon. When Amazon just sold books

Some of these things were good, better than the way things are today. Some are  not. Change is inevitable. The hope is that it is for the good.