Tiny photocell powered calculators used to be everywhere. There were “thin” ones to fit in your Costanza sized wallet, Mousepads with them built in, and my wristwatch in 6th grade had one with tiny rubber keys.

It was a magical time till be alive. 5318008

My brother and I are rebuilding it this summer. The pool at my moms house is also being re-plastered so we’re going to drill and epoxy new bolts in the deck and sand and fiberglass the old wood, which hopefully isn’t too rotten.

Gotta get my 7 y/o diving off it this summer.

Looks exactly like this model but with on thicker spring instead of the 2. My 6’3 230lb dad could just about bottom it out.

We were riding off skate ramps at the time though. If I lived in a place with separate bike lanes I might consider going helmet-less. But I’ve also been hit by a car and likely saved a lot of brain damage by having a helmet on. Same with skiing (helmets and accidents, not hit by a car!).

Bike helmets didn’t get common until 6th grade or so. Same with face guards and mouth guards in anything but football.

We also had a diving board with a full size car spring. A gymnast pal could do double flips off it.

Probably voter disenfranchisement actually.

Yup this didn’t start till after the 2000 election.

What decade though. I did too, but it was the 1980s.

They got rid of it in many outpaces as a reaction to the Bush admin saying phonics works and arranging to mandate it.

It was probably the only thing Bush was right about, but common core was not the way to implement it.

I know you don’t need the validation, but I have 6-7 domains that don’t have email on them at the moment.