Remember when....

[Teh One Who Knocks]

A lot of us here are right around the same age, give or take a few years, so I was just thinking about things that don't exist in our lives anymore but you almost couldn't go without back when we were younger. Post some things that the younger folk today just wouldn't understand.

Like for example...remember when you couldn't tell what was going to be on TV unless you got the latest issue of the TV Guide every week?

[redred]

i remember that sweets/candy seemed bigger

[Pony]

Being tethered to the wall in the kitchen because it was the only phone in the house. All conversations were in front of the family.


i remember that sweets/candy seemed bigger

Your little hands and mouth could barely fit them in?

[Goofy]

I remember when people weren't completely stupid or totally reliant on technology.

I remember when people ate their dinner without taking a picture of it first.

[redred]

I remember when people ate their dinner without taking a picture of it first.

i can still manage that

i remember winding a music cassette with a pencil and the free AOL cd's they use to give out to get internet

[Hal-9000]

I remember when phones were not the center of someone's universe and it was kinda fun not knowing who was calling..

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Perrhaps remembers when mail was delivered by Pony Express

[Pony]

and the free AOL cd's they use to give out to get internet

What's this internet you speak of?

It's just a fad that will never catch on.

*makes dial up modem sound*

[redred]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

[redred]

blowing into a sega or nintendo cartridge to make it work

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember making a mixtape for someone. What a pain in the ass that was. But it was really cool. :lol:

I remember having to go to a store to buy things and having to live without if any of the stores around you didn't have what you were looking for.

I remember being primarily aware of what was going on in your neighborhood and region, maybe even in your state to a point, but being completely ignorant of what was going on in the rest of the country or in the world unless something really really big happened.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I remember back when I was in school, when we had to do a research paper, we had to actually go to a library to look up all the information.

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember going to a prospective place of employment and asking for a paper application.

[Goofy]

blowing into a sega or nintendo cartridge to make it work

Oh the memories :lol:

[Noilly Pratt]

We used to load up a box full of cassettes for a road trip. And, I remember when a cassette, after being used on a road trip in a hot car would stop working or sound weird. You pressed eject, hit it against the dash a few times, put it back in, and it was good to go.

[Goofy]

I remember having to sellotape a vhs tape ribbon together after the video recorder decided to chew it........ which happened a bit too often :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember going to a local video rental shop and sneaking into the curtained-off porn section.

[redred]

Video rental shops :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I remember back when I was in school, when we had to do a research paper, we had to actually go to a library to look up all the information.

We had a full set of encyclopedias at my house :lol:

[redred]

I got I set from 1890 in my house, looked on a few sites and think they're worth fuck all

[Pony]

I got I set from 1890 in my house, looked on a few sites and think they're worth fuck all

Can you imagine using those to write a current research paper? lol

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I remember making a mixtape for someone. What a pain in the ass that was. But it was really cool. :lol:



http://i.imgur.com/aCHV6wr.jpg

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Can you imagine using those to write a current research paper? lol

As long as it was for history class you should be ok :lol:

[HyperV12]

I remember building my first computer, the Sinclair ZX where you actually had to solder components into it. Building a computer these days means a completely different thing.

[Griffin]

I remember a living room full of people huddled around a behemoth TV with a small black and white screen watching the Apollo missions.

[HyperV12]

I remember a living room full of people huddled around a behemoth TV with a small black and white screen watching the Apollo missions.

Yes! And waiting for the damn thing to warm up for 5mins before the picture came on!

[redred]

I'm sure I remember the brakes on my BMX stopping me better than they do now

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I remember when the only way to find a person's or a business's phone number was to use the phone book.

[deebakes]

i remember memorizing numbers of all my friends

[redred]

I don't even know my own

[Oofty Goofty]

Going to AAA and getting maps for a road trip.

[redred]

Is that them paper things :lol:

[RBP]

blowing into a sega or nintendo cartridge to make it work

http://i.imgur.com/C6khoS0.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

She's wife material.

[RBP]

I remember actual courtship.

[deebakes]

:empathy:

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember playing outside when I was a kid. Stickball in the day. Jailbreak at night. Our jailbreak games spanned several blocks. We'd always hide in the yards of the people that got pissed off at us for being there.

[deebakes]

and um, cough cough, going uh, n word knocking on the neighbors and running away :lol:

[RBP]

I remember playing kick the can.

[RBP]

I remember real M-80's

[DemonGeminiX]

and um, cough cough, going uh, n word knocking on the neighbors and running away :lol:

Not as little kids... when we were teenagers, sure. Had a friend that I grew up with and he brought along a basketball and used that instead of knocking. Dude was nuts. :lol:

I remember Mischief Night.

[deebakes]

that's genius! :lol:

[redred]

porn mags rather than internet porn

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I still remember when the days before cable TV and we got less than 10 channels on TV (growing up in rural Vermont, we got ABC, NBC, CBS, two PBS channels, two English language channels from Canada, and a couple of French language channels from Canada), divided up between VHF and UHF, and you actually had to get up and go to the TV to change the channel.

We finally ended up getting cable when I was in Jr High I think.

[Hal-9000]

I still remember when the days before cable TV and we got less than 10 channels on TV (growing up in rural Vermont, we got ABC, NBC, CBS, two PBS channels, two English language channels from Canada, and a couple of French language channels from Canada), divided up between VHF and UHF, and you actually had to get up and go to the TV to change the channel.

We finally ended up getting cable when I was in Jr High I think.




We had three channels...one was CBC (very dry Canadian programming) and one was the French channel. So we really had one choice. That channel was a workhorse. Everything from shows like Star Trek to game shows to movie of the week programs.

I remember saying all sorts of nasty things to my Dad about black and white TV, no cable etc....found out later in life that he was supporting four other people, buying a house, buying a car...all on a wage that would be laughable to 12 year old children today. I hated myself for complaining about 'what we didn't have.'

[Hal-9000]

I remember playing outside when I was a kid. Stickball in the day. Jailbreak at night. Our jailbreak games spanned several blocks. We'd always hide in the yards of the people that got pissed off at us for being there.

We played hide and go seek, not sure if it's similar to jailbreak.

One of the funniest games I've heard of recently is - Get Down Mr President! :lol: That would be similar to some of our home made games. We were rough kids and often did things that hurt.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

We had three channels...one was CBC (very dry Canadian programming) and one was the French channel. So we really had one choice. That channel was a workhorse. Everything from shows like Star Trek to game shows to movie of the week programs.

I remember saying all sorts of nasty things to my Dad about black and white TV, no cable etc....found out later in life that he was supporting four other people, buying a house, buying a car...all on a wage that would be laughable to 12 year old children today. I hated myself for complaining about 'what we didn't have.'

We got CBC channel 6 and CTV channel 12, both out of Montreal. CBC had HNIC on it every Saturday at least :tup:

One of the French channels was channel 2 from Sherbrooke and I don't recall where the other French channel was coming from, probably Montreal as well.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

i remember memorizing numbers of all my friends

No kidding, I dont know any numbers anymore. Put it in my phone and forget about it

[Hal-9000]

We got CBC channel 6 and CTV channel 12, both out of Montreal. CBC had HNIC on it every Saturday at least :tup:

One of the French channels was channel 2 from Sherbrooke and I don't recall where the other French channel was coming from, probably Montreal as well.

Yep, CBC gave us one hockey game every Saturday night....along with thrilling game shows like Reach the Top and a few years later, the riveting Definition :lol:

I still remember staying up every Friday night as late as possible to watch the movie of the week. Didn't matter what it was, it was a big deal.

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember these:

http://i.imgur.com/LYMSe5Q.jpg

[Hal-9000]

I remember drinking with friends and there would be an argument about some trivial matter...then months or even years later we'd see the answer in a book or on TV and saying AH HA! See I was right!!!

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

I remember these:

http://i.imgur.com/LYMSe5Q.jpg

I moved to Banff in 1985 and took a small 12 inch TV. It had a remote with three buttons on it and was color. My room mates and I literally had people knocking on our door, asking if they could come in and watch TV. Most workers there were transient and had no more than the clothes on their backs.



Remote was similar to this, with three buttons that clicked very loudly...and often broke.

http://i.imgur.com/usyyuOQ.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/FEAiur1.jpg

I remember when this was the state of the art video gaming console...and this is the very first one we ever had in our family :lol:

[Hal-9000]

Having a REAL G.I Joe...with lifelike hair and Kung-Fu Grip (and a scar on his face).

About 11 inches tall, not the later tiny Joes that were pale imitations of the real thing.



http://i.imgur.com/024TthA.jpg

[Hal-9000]

http://i.imgur.com/FEAiur1.jpg

I remember when this was the state of the art video gaming console...and this is the very first one we ever had in our family :lol:

My life changed when we got one of these. I still remember playing the awesome game Biplanes, because of the great 'physics'.....while the planes themselves were 2 or 3 pixels at best :lol:



http://i.imgur.com/qH6x61U.jpg

[Hal-9000]

My G.I. Joe lost a couple of his fingers. Some of his beard hair was burned off in a horrible fire...I'm sure he had some serious PTSD from the shit I put him through :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

We had a VCR with a remote that had a 30 foot cable so you could use it from your couch :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

I remember JoeBob Briggs on TNT's Monstervision. USA's Up All Night came first, but JoeBob was better.

[Loser]

I remember when gas cost a dollar....Fk you all I feel old now :(

[Hal-9000]

We had a VCR with a remote that had a 30 foot cable so you could use it from your couch :lol:

Us too....and it had an eject button which I thought was soooo cool.

Still had to fucking stand up and fetch it though :lol: :doh:

[redred]

beatamax video's top loader

[Teh One Who Knocks]

beatamax video's top loader

And speaking of Betamax, I still remember when there were two completely different formats of videotapes

Beta was smaller and better quality, but VHS still won out

[Hal-9000]

my old boss gambled and bought one of the spiffiest Betamax recorders.....something like 800 bucks at the time


:lol: I teased him endlessly

[redred]

And speaking of Betamax, I still remember when there were two completely different formats of videotapes

Beta was smaller and better quality, but VHS still won out
Wasn't it down to more porn available on vhs ?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Wasn't it down to more porn available on vhs ?

No, it was because Sony put their weight behind the Betamax and tried to keep it all proprietary and JVC (which developed VHS) licensed the technology to anyone that wanted it, so that drove prices down. Not to mention the fact that the VHS tapes had a longer recording time than the Beta tapes. By the time Sony changed all that, it was too late and VHS had won.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I remember when I was a kid and you wanted to make a local phone call and all you had to do was dial the last 4 digits of the phone number

[Noilly Pratt]

When I was a kid we lived in rural Ontario. We had to go through a local operator to call anyone.

Later when I was about 6, it was upgraded to a thing called a "party line" where you share the phone line with a few others and you'd have a specific ring if it was for you. These things were still around for a long while. I remember a friend's dad was one of the last guys who went off his party line in about 1985. He hated it because it was going to cost him more.

It was mis-named. There was no party -- when you picked up the telephone it was usually just an old woman gossiping to another old woman, and I remember my dad yelling at least once a week "quit your gossiping, woman! I need to phone someone!" :)

[Hal-9000]

I remember actual phone booths and using dimes..

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I remember actual phone booths and using dimes..

Me too, recently my daughter grabbed one and put it to her face, I lost my mind yelling "what are you doing? That's disgusting" :lol:

[Hal-9000]

Me too, recently my daughter grabbed one and put it to her face, I lost my mind yelling "what are you doing? That's disgusting" :lol:


she can lift a phone booth?

whoa :shock:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

She's a power lifter in the Jr. Olympics

[Hal-9000]

Cool...last time my sister was here we were out driving one night and saw a phone booth. She had to get out of my car and look inside it.

She comes back - No phone inside :sad2:




made me laugh :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

It's funny, the Walmarts near me all still actually have payphones at them. Only place I have seen one for a long time. Haven't seen an actual phone booth in at least 10 years, maybe longer.

[Goofy]

It's funny, the Walmarts near me all still actually have payphones at them. Only place I have seen one for a long time. Haven't seen an actual phone booth in at least 10 years, maybe longer.

They still have them in the movies so the dodgy guy can make an anonymous call and not be traced to his home :tup:

[Hal-9000]

It's funny, the Walmarts near me all still actually have payphones at them. Only place I have seen one for a long time. Haven't seen an actual phone booth in at least 10 years, maybe longer.

I'll have to check that out next time I'm near Walmart (hopefully not getting a job there)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

They still have them in the movies so the dodgy guy can make an anonymous call and not be traced to his home :tup:

I don't live in the movies :sad2:


I'll have to check that out next time I'm near Walmart (hopefully not getting a job there)

At the Walmarts around here, the phones are right at the entrance inside the first main door.

[Hal-9000]

I don't understand why there aren't more payphones?

Not everyone can afford to have a smartphone with a 50 or 100 dollar data plan per month. I'm sure lots of people would appreciate having a handy place to use the phone when they're out.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:hand: They are only for drug dealers/users. If you can afford a cell phone Obama will provide one for you.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Remember when TV dinners were a treat to get to eat even though the food was pretty awful and it took an hour to cook them because you had to use the oven because you couldn't cook them in the microwave (if you even had one)

[DemonGeminiX]

:no:

Um... no. TV dinners were always nasty and never a treat in my house. My Mom always cooked stuff from scratch.

[DemonGeminiX]

Remember when you were young
You shone like the sun...

[Noilly Pratt]

Not to be a grammar :hitler:, but isn't it shone? Or are you referring to another song other than Pink Floyd?

I saw an old touch-pad phone at Sally Ann last weekend. I am tempted to go and get it for $15...just for the nostalgia and to show my daughter our old phones.

[Goofy]

Remember when you were young
You shown like the sun...


Not to be a grammar :hitler:, but isn't it shone? Or are you referring to another song other than Pink Floyd?

Shaun :thumbsup:

[Hal-9000]

Remember when TV dinners were a treat to get to eat even though the food was pretty awful and it took an hour to cook them because you had to use the oven because you couldn't cook them in the microwave (if you even had one)

A big deal for me was learning how to set the oven to broil, putting some meat on bread, and cheese on top to make open faced quick melted sandwiches :thumbsup: Pre-microwave...

[Hal-9000]

:no:

Um... no. TV dinners were always nasty and never a treat in my house. My Mom always cooked stuff from scratch.

My Mom made 3 squares a day and I got tired of that. Embarrassing to admit but I was like Lance...TV dinners, eating at a friends place, Kraft Dinner, pizza...were all considered 'treats' because I was spoiled having a Mom who could cook anything.

[DemonGeminiX]

Not to be a grammar :hitler:, but isn't it shone?

Yep.

[DemonGeminiX]

My Mom made 3 squares a day and I got tired of that. Embarrassing to admit but I was like Lance...TV dinners, eating at a friends place, Kraft Dinner, pizza...were all considered 'treats' because I was spoiled having a Mom who could cook anything.

Eating at a friend's house, OMG. I had a friend whose Mom was straight off the boat Italian and she would cook these freakin' amazing meals. Eating there proved to me how good of a cook my half-breed mother wasn't.

[Hal-9000]

Eating at a friend's house, OMG. I had a friend whose Mom was straight off the boat Italian and she would cook these freakin' amazing meals. Eating there proved to me how good of a cook my half-breed mother wasn't.

I took it for granted and too far....when I was about 12 my parents bought a cabin and went out there every weekend for four or five months per year...I started eating crap and my Mom gave up at one point.

When I look back at how many different meals she made per week consisting of three or four different things, I almost cry. She was amazing and I turned my nose up at it :|

[Hal-9000]

Use the box as a baking dish and add water, cook for nine minutes...I used to eat this crap :lol:



http://i.imgur.com/Dz1mCY7.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

Both of my parents worked, so to be fair, Mom didn't really have all day to just stand around a stove and cook like her grandmother (my great grandmother, another ridiculously awesome cook) did.

[Hal-9000]

At times we'd get red eyed, make this (add milk and put in fridge for about an hour) ...but we would only wait like 10 minutes and then drink the chocolately bowl of partial sludge :lol:




http://i.imgur.com/HVEIttd.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

:lol:

[Hal-9000]

Both of my parents worked, so to be fair, Mom didn't really have all day to just stand around a stove and cook like her grandmother (my great grandmother, another ridiculously awesome cook) did.

My Moms was stay at home from the time they got married. Older brother came along about 1.5 years after Ma and Pa married and that was it. Mom quit working and commanded the house...cooking, cleaning, groceries, bills and checkbook....she literally was the manager of our lives.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I remember when making popcorn meant doing this:

http://i.imgur.com/vr8EPxK.png

[Hal-9000]

^^ that was a big deal at our house :thumbsup:






:(

[Noilly Pratt]

I remember when making popcorn meant doing this:

http://i.imgur.com/vr8EPxK.png

That to me says "camping" as a kid. Usually 1/2 were burnt but you had popcorn in the middle of frickin' nowhere.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/ivQsEVC.jpg

I remember when movies came in this format...and you actually had to flip the disc over halfway thru the film :lol:

[Yt Trash]

http://i.imgur.com/drXiK5S.png

While I couldn't find a picture of an actual copier, back in elementary school ,I'd always volunteer to make the copies with this carbon/alcohol copy machine. I enjoyed the smell it gave out.

[DemonGeminiX]

My family had one of those old RCA video disc machines... in fact, I think I still have it and a bunch of discs in storage somewhere.

http://i.imgur.com/Zm9OsFX.jpg

[Teh One Who Knocks]

http://i.imgur.com/drXiK5S.png

While I couldn't find a picture of an actual copier, back in elementary school ,I'd always volunteer to make the copies with this carbon/alcohol copy machine. I enjoyed the smell it gave out.

http://i.imgur.com/jO1Kj0v.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XiL6i5X.jpg

[DemonGeminiX]

Remember when Tim Tebow wore an Eagle's jersey? Because he's not wearing it anymore!

:dance:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:lol:

[redred]

remember looking forward to the 1st day of the school holidays

[Yt Trash]

remember looking forward to the 1st day of the school holidays

The last day of the school year, and the whole summer ahead!

[DemonGeminiX]

The first summer day out of school that you and your friends jump in the pool.

[Goofy]

http://i.imgur.com/ivQsEVC.jpg

I remember when movies came in this format...and you actually had to flip the disc over halfway thru the film :lol:

Was that laserdisk? We never had one, we went straight from vhs to dvd iirc....... probably due to cost, my mum and dad weren't the richest of folks when i was a kid (they always made sure i wasn't left out of things though....... my dad even sold his drum kit one year to buy me a bike for christmas).

[Teh One Who Knocks]

remember looking forward to the 1st day of the school holidays


The last day of the school year, and the whole summer ahead!


The first summer day out of school that you and your friends jump in the pool.

Pretty sure kids today all remember that too :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Was that laserdisk? We never had one, we went straight from vhs to dvd iirc....... probably due to cost, my mum and dad weren't the richest of folks when i was a kid (they always made sure i wasn't left out of things though....... my dad even sold his drum kit one year to buy me a bike for christmas).

Yup, laser disk :thumbsup:

We never had one, but one of my uncle's had one

[Yt Trash]

Pretty sure kids today all remember that too :-k

While I agree with you, as an adult though nothing compares to that feeling you had as a child.

[redred]

Pretty sure kids today all remember that too :-k
What looking forward to staying in their room playing Xbox all day :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

A lot of us here are right around the same age, give or take a few years, so I was just thinking about things that don't exist in our lives anymore but you almost couldn't go without back when we were younger. Post some things that the younger folk today just wouldn't understand.

Like for example...remember when you couldn't tell what was going to be on TV unless you got the latest issue of the TV Guide every week?

:-k


Pretty sure kids today all remember that too :-k


While I agree with you, as an adult though nothing compares to that feeling you had as a child.

[DemonGeminiX]

[-(

Younger folk wouldn't understand how it felt to us.

[Hal-9000]

Having to find a dictionary or an adult to help you spell a word...not using an online white search box with red squiggly lines to help.

[redred]

when rap music was good , maybe someone could remind porky at the same time :lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

when rap music was good , maybe someone could remind porky at the same time :lol:

:lol: :fu:

But, gansta rap was the heyday

I dont like the shit my kids listens too, I still listen to 80/90s rap on the old school channel, I rarely turn on the "new" rap/hip hop channels

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Run DMC FTW

[PorkChopSandwiches]

That was my first rap tape (Raising Hell), then License to Ill :tup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Same here :thumbsup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdutu8sWmbQ

[Hugh_Janus]

I remember when things didn't cost me money

[KevinD]

Five and dime stores.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Five and dime stores.

http://i.imgur.com/BnGNDYxl.jpg

This was the chain of Five & Dime stores growing up in Vermont

[Goofy]

Run DMC FTW


That was my first rap tape (Raising Hell), then License to Ill :tup:

NWA for me back in the day :lol: When i was about 12 or so i listened to some real shite tbh........ happy hardcore, techno, shite like that :lol: After i started playing guitar i started to listen to more and more rock n roll :)



I remember when things didn't cost me money

Bank of mum and dad ftw! :lol:


Five and dime stores.


http://i.imgur.com/BnGNDYxl.jpg

This was the chain of Five & Dime stores growing up in Vermont

What exactly is a Five and Dime store? Heard it plenty of times in movies/tv/music but never actually knew what it was :lol: Yeah i could google it....... but rather hear from you guys :)

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The term Five and Dime goes way back into the old days, like the old west I believe when they sold most things for 5 cents or 10 cents. Basically a general store type thing where you could get whatever you needed. I could be a little off on the definition or time line, but that's what I was always told about the Five and Dime.

[Goofy]

Ah, so maybe something like the Pound shops we have nowadays, loads of different things all at cheap prices! Finally came to me what song i'd heard it in, Bryan Adams - Summer of 69! "Bought it at the five and dime" :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Exactly :thumbsup:

[Jezter]

I thought I was old and felt like kids these days don't know shit...but you guys...gotdamn. :D I don't remember / haven't used a lot of these things you post. :D

[Goofy]

I thought I was old and felt like kids these days don't know shit...but you guys...gotdamn. :D I don't remember / haven't used a lot of these things you post. :D

Damn whippersnapper, get off my lawn! :x

[redred]

i could get drunk on 2 pints of cheap beer :lol:

[Jezter]

Damn whippersnapper, get off my lawn! :x
:bananadance:

i could get drunk on 2 pints of cheap beer :lol:

That was when you still were in the crib, right? :lol:

[Goofy]

That was when you still were in the crib, right? :lol:

I think you mean "womb" :)

[redred]

I think it was around 13/14

[redred]

Years you fuckers

[Jezter]

"Years" was an important addition, cuz 13/14 weeks in the womb would've been real bad. :lol:

[Hal-9000]

I remember when Philippe Petit walked a tight rope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.

The towers were still under construction in some places, I was nine years old listening on the radio and then later saw the pictures in the newspaper.

It's an incredible story...they had to sneak in, wait for hours, then he ended up crossing the span multiple times. Breathtaking in scope and audacity...


:(

[Jezter]

74? Damn... I was not even a glint in my father's eye then. :D