From a Washington Post Report, in which readers were asked to tell how much
harder they had it in the old days:

Second Runner-Up:  In my day, we couldn't afford shoes, so we went barefoot.
In the winter we had to wrap our feet with barbed wire for traction.

First Runner-Up: In my day we didn't have MTV or in-line skates, or any of
that stuff.  No, it was 45s and regular old metal-wheeled roller skates, and
the 45s always skipped, so to get them to play right you'd weigh the needle
down with something like quarters, which we never had because our allowances
were too small, so we'd use our skate keys instead and end up forgetting
they were taped to the record player arm so that we couldn't adjust our
skates, which didn't really matter because those crummy metal wheels would
kill you if you hit a pebble anyway, and in those days roads had real
pebbles on them, not like today.

Grand Prize Winner: In my day, Paree was considered gay instead of San
Francisco, but not the same way.

Honorable Mentions:  In my day...
..we didn't have dogs or cats.  All I had was Silver Beauty, my beloved
paper clip.
..attitudes were different.  For example, women didn't like sex.  At least
that's what women told me.
..we didn't have fake doggie-do.  We only had real doggie-do, and no one
thought it was a damn bit funny.
..we didn't have fancy health-food restaurants.  Every day we ate lots of
easily recognizable animal parts, along with potatoes drenched in melted fat
from those animals.  And we're all as healthy as ...AAGGKK-GAAK Urrgh.
Thud.
..we didn't have hand-held calculators.  We had to do addition on our
fingers.  To subtract, we had to have some fingers amputated.
..we didn't get that disembodied, slightly ticked-off voice saying 'Doors
closing.'  We got on the train, the doors closed, and if your hand was
sticking out it scraped along the tunnel all the damn way to the Silver
Spring station.  But the base fare was only a dollar.
..we didn't have water.  We had to smash together our own hydrogen and
oxygen atoms.
..we didn't have Strom Thurmond.  Oh, wait. Yes we did.
..we wore our pants up around our armpits.  Monstrous wedgies, but we
looked snappy.
..'60 Minutes' wasn't just a bunch of gray-haired liberal 80-year-old guys
It was a bunch of gray-haired liberal 60-year-old guys.
..we didn't have virtual reality.  If a one-eyed razorback barbarian
warrior was chasing you with an ax, you just had to hope you could outrun
him.
..we didn't have the space shuttle to get all excited about.  We had to
settle for men walking on the crummy moon.
..  Kids today think the world revolves around them.  In my day, the sun
revolved around the world, and the world was perched on the back of a giant
tortoise.