The "Remember When" Thread ...

[JayKim]

remember oregon trail

 

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[taichijedi]

remember oregon trail

OMG!! or how about logos (PU was pen up, PD was pen down!!!)

How about these:

When pregnant women were allowed to smoke in the hospital.

Cool was measured in the size of your bell bottom.

Noone knew what a lightsaber, jedi, or wookie was.

The really savvy researchers did all their work with microfiche.

128 Megabytes was an unimaginably large amount of memory.

Kids had tents that they could put on their beds as sheets.

The frenzy at malls over Cabbage Patch Dolls.

People kept their phone numbers in a rolodex.

Voltron was the hot saturday morning cartoon.

People actually took the time to know who their neghbors were.

:cheers:

 

[WildFlower]

Or when phone numbers were only 5 digits! ... J/k .. not that old! LOL I hear there are still party lines in Idaho! ... wow.

 

[jhnsmith978]

Remember when you go on your first date...

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Remember when you liked a girl, you would make her a MIX TAPE? Do kids even know what a CASSETTE TAPE looks like anymore? I found one in my garage the other day and couldn't find anything to play it!

 

[PaulRobert]

Remember when you had to hear this every single time you were trying to connect to the internet... ullhair:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0]YouTube - The Sound of dial-up Internet[/ame]

 

[CarrieW]

LMAO mj!

at least my kids do!

about half of my marital movie collection is on vhs tape(and we just hit 10yrs on 11/11). I hear its pretty hard to find a new vcr nowadays...good thing we got a few of the dvd/vhs players still goin here!

I have 2 shoe boxes of all my cassette tapes from back in the day and my kids listen to them now! they sound horrible! definately not cd quality! (it was hard to find a new cassette player 5yrs ago idk if you can still buy them!)

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

The 1979 Consumer Electronics Show...
How Far We Have Come!

Yahoo!

 

[bflbob]

My first computer a TRS-80

That (a TRS-80 Model 2) was my second computer -- yes I had the 3-bay expansion drives. My third was a TRS-80 Model 3. My first was a Texas Instruments unit that stored data on a cassette tape recorder.

In order:

 

[rcardin]

I learned BASIC on a TRS80 in High School. Had a great teacher who taught us to program Night Driver. One of the first video games!

How about the color overlay you put on your 19" tv to play Breakout in color, came with the original pong

 

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[^eagle^]

I learned BASIC on a TRS80 in High School. Had a great teacher who taught us to program Night Driver. One of the first video games!

How about the color overlay you put on your 19" tv to play Breakout in color, came with the original pong

Oh man a trash 80 Radio shack special.

64K RAM we were big time then.

 

[^eagle^]

Missile Command... how could I forget that one. I played that for hours. You can't imagine how dismayed I was years ago when I returned from my out of state college, only to find that my mom had gotten rid of the Atari and all my games. I'm sure such a collection would bring in some cash from a someone now a day. To her it was junk to be given away. To me it represented hours of fun and child hood memories.

Good Post.

I have a retro atari with 40 games installed in it. I platy centipede and missle command on occasion. My daughter and I shoot each other in Outlaw.

 

[randallg99]

had my sunglasses on with my sunroof open and then I saw...

a hitchhiker!

I had to do a double take.

They were very common back in the day, them hitchhiking maniacs! heh

As a kid growing up in the 1970s, I always saw them and during college I did some hitchhiking and before today I don't think I had seen one in at least 10 years.

 

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[JayKim]

Remember when your nintendo game wouldn't work so you took it out and blew into it?

There was no internet back then how did EVERYONE know to do that?

 

[Bobo]

"Organic food" was ....food

You didn't care that you could not press 1 for English because everyone was expected to speak it.

Atari 2600

Your parents calling you to dinner did not mean hitting 1 on speed dial

You could bike, skate etcetera without first putting on a helmet, knee pads, kevlar

Schools had no metal detectors

The global warming crowd was warning us about the coming ice age (hint: you don't need to be old)

Algorithm meant a valid mathematical formula rather than a doomsday proclamation from a somewhat deranged and unstable c-science student. (I know I know)

 

[emorgan]

.... a neighborhood fistfight would even draw the parents as spectators.

LOL! Let me guess...one of your many fights? :wave:

 

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[bflbob]

LOL! Let me guess...one of your many fights? :wave:

Hey! Who's that emorgan gal??

Great to see you here again!

 

[Forbes]

Remember when your nintendo game wouldn't work so you took it out and blew into it?

There was no internet back then how did EVERYONE know to do that?

Mind=blown

I wonder if blowing into cartridges really did work though.

 

[jaykla]

Remember when you could go all the way up to the gate at the airport with your friends and family?
Remember sitting on your parents lap while riding in the car?
Remember the plastic ray-ban sunglasses with neon sides?
Remember when you could smoke on airplanes?
I grew up in Anaheim, so this one is geographically specific, but I remember when Disneyland was free to enter and you would buy "coupons" to go on the rides.

 

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[joshua24]

When I was a kid, Just playing outside running around the neighborhood not giving anyone thinks of me, screaming and leaping over fences.

 

[Tommy92l]

Sorry, but it must be posted

 

[rexxkai]

Remember when there were no cellphones, people would actually have their heads up, and communicate with people in REAL life

 

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[OscarDeuce]

Remember when you could go all the way up to the gate at the airport with your friends and family?

Heck, I remember when the "gate" was just that, a numbered gate in a chain link fence. No security. Friends and family would sometimes even board the plane to say goodby! I'm told that the airlines did have the occasional stow-away who would hide in the bathroom until airborne since they weren't going to turn around just to put him or her out. Passengers were also invited to the cockpit. I probably got my lifelong obsession with flight from sitting in the pilots seat of a Lockheed Constellation when I was about 3 or 4. Couldn't see much but the rudder petals, but for some reason remember the big weather radar display mounted just behind the engine throttles. According to my mother, I came back to my seat calling it the "pilot light."

Cheers,
O-2

 

[Hooked]

Remember when there were no cellphones, people would actually have their heads up, and communicate with people in REAL life

 

[axiom]

Remember when I hadn't read MFL? Damn, seems like the dark ages.

 

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[DrPenguin]

Remember when you used to play in the snow and mother would regurgitate some delicious krill into your mouth.

Those were the times...

 

[GuestUser140]

Remember the sound of a new message on MSN Messenger?

 

[Digamma]

Remember the sound of a new message on MSN Messenger?

God, this killed me. Takes me back to when the internet was a green field of pasture for nerds, and you used IRC and MSN and social networks didn't ruin it yet.
What was that thing you could do? "Trill"? I remember writing scripts to trill bomb people out of the internet. High school, fun times.

 

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[James Turchetto]

Remember the sound of a new message on MSN Messenger?

Taking me back 10-12 years

 

[Thiago Machado]