The "Remember When" Thread...

[Argue]

Remember when you had to make your socks into ankle socks during the summer time because you didn't have ankle socks? The struggle was real.

Remember when drinking Capri sun and you accidentally punctured it?

 

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[c_morris]

Phone books.
Rabbit ears.
Stubby beer bottles.

Sent from my SM-G930W8 using Tapatalk

 

[G-Man]

Oregon Trail.

Bruce Jenner was a guy.

 

[amp0193]

I remember when it was customary to give a Christmas gift to your mailman and paperboy. (at least where I grew up.)

Being in ecommerce, my Mailman pickups/delivers so much shit for me every day.

I gave him a 12 pack of Miller for Christmas... it's gone a long way. We're on a first name basis now, and he throws toys to my dog.

Be kind to your mailman.

 

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[amp0193]

Remember when you had to text message based on a numerical keyboard? And 1 letter sometimes equaled 444?

T9 was a big improvement to numerical keyboard texting. One click per letter, and it guessed what word you trying to input.

I'm still faster at T9 texting than I am at iphone. Also, you can do T9 texting with your eyes closed. You can feel the buttons.

 

[amp0193]

Remember when AIM was how you talked to your friends:

Remember when Myspace was your social network?

Remember when Facebook was only for college kids?

Remember when you typed out your angsty thoughts on Xanga:

Remember when you could listen to 120 songs on a CD with an mp3 cd player?

Remember when you got your music (and viruses) from:

Kazaa
Napster
Limewire

 

[amp0193]

Remember when you would sing along with this?

 

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[G-Man]

Remember when you got your music (and viruses) from:

Kazaa
Napster
Limewire

All while chatting up that cute girl down the hall on AIM. Dammit, you made me nostalgic. I was probably listening to Oasis on my gross headphones the whole time too.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Phone books.

Ha, they still deliver those in my town where the average age is about 92.

 

[Veloce Grey]

I went past the water pistols at the store over summer, all sorts of weird looking quasi cannons with fancy names and extra tanks, but no Super Soaker 50s. Lightweight, reliable, ok it leaked a bit but how has technology gone backwards that much in 25 years?

 

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[G-Man]

I gave him a 12 pack of Miller for Christmas... it's gone a long way. We're on a first name basis now, and he throws toys to my dog.

Gave ours a couple cigars, and now he'll double back if I call his cell.... and he tells me stories that are way too personal. Never thought I'd get a play by play of a vasectomy.... there's a downside to kindness.

 

[KSR]

This thread is depressing, but I love it.

I'm about to get all political on yo' asses.

- Remember when there were 2 genders
- Remembers when you could tell a joke without 75% of the people in the room getting offended

Okay now for the less political ones.
- Remember when your biggest problem was trying to beat that Super Mario or Donkey Kong level
- Remember when you played with toys - not iPads/iPhones
- Remember all those cartoons that you used to love - Biker Mice from Mars, Street Sharks, Mighty Max or even those aerobics shows early in the morning before Cheez TV

 

[G-Man]

even those aerobics shows early in the morning before Cheez TV

Sounds like somebody else woke up early before school to watch those bikini girl workout shows on ESPN

 

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[Argue]

Who remembers this cable box and its secret channel?

 

[V8Bill]

And from the dawn of the internet...

I remember buying my first 386 and THEN discovering over-clocking only to discover that I needed the upgraded 486 motherboard and cpu to jumper the board. I remember overclocking a P66 to way up over P100 or something...heady days indeed.

I remember one day after work (welder) a friend of mine asked me around to see the internet. Not sure if you can remember but there used to be little side bar/window on the left of the IE main window and we couldn't understand how to use it. There was a search bar there so we entered something in but it displayed the results again in that narrow sidebar to the left leaving the main window blank. We gave up in frustration and I can distinctly remember asking "What are you going to use the internet for anyway?"

Once I'd figure the internet out I had to go down to the local computer shop and buy internet hours. I was there every few days buying more time. I remember staring at the brand new 33.6k modem and wishing I could afford it. I skipped straight past it to grab the even newer and blistering fast 56k - oh happy days.

I remember html in notepad and my first refresh to see "Hello World" in a browser. Then I added <b>bold</bold> and was stunned to see my text turn magically to bold.

I remember "You don't have a key!" Zork.

I remember watching colour black and white TV. My uncle bought a plastic screen that was hung in front of a black and white TV that had a strip of blue hue across the top (to simulate sky) and brown across the bottom for dirt. That was it - colour TV. It stayed on and we watched it like that for ages.

I remember the night we got our first colour TV. I stayed up all night watching TV with colour turned up to retina burning psychedelic. It also had the first remote control we had in the house. Two massive technological advances at once.

I remember metal tapes (with music) (I do remember the pencil!). They were like $20 each. TDK MA90...so clean and crisp. Lee Aaron never sounded so good.

I remember when car stereos had knobs for treble, middle and bass (if you were lucky you had all three). These days I can't look at at all the flashing messages and LEDs you get on new car stereos. Treble and bass please. That's all I need.

I remember when learning bass I'd have to stop and lift the needle to play it that bit of the song again hopefully grabbing the same spot or having to wait for it to come around again.

I remember when petrol bowsers had a little latch in the handle so you could click to leave it to fill by itself (hands free) and sometimes it'd just spill over when full, sometimes explosively - no biggie.

I remember jacked up muscle cars with rear shocks showing brightly and really fat 15x10inch Mickeys.

So much more. These "I remember" threads are awesome. When people ask me where I'm from, sometimes I reply..."I'm from the 80s" I think that the decade people were in in their late teens early twenties is the decade their "from".

I remember ICQ99B.

Keep 'em comin'!

 

[KSR]

Sounds like somebody else woke up early before school to watch those bikini girl workout shows on ESPN

You're absolutely right I did hahaha! Sometimes even an hour before - not sure why I didn't just go back to bed...

 

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[rollerskates]

Somewhere there is a photo of me on Christmas with a big smile on my face because WE GOT A VCR! And we even had a TI 99 computer. Who remembers Minesweeper?

Gosh, I feel middle aged. Oh, wait, I am!

 

[jon.a]

My first computer built from a kit...

 

[Era]

Remember a time when it was impossible to preview selfies and photos were taken with these:

 

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[minivanman]

Remember when the parent would send their kid in to the store to buy them a pack of cigarettes? Remember when the teacher or the neighbor or anyone else in town that saw us do something wrong would spank us and then tell our mom? Remember when we were 10 years old and could stay out until 10pm without our parents having to worry about some pervert kidnapping us? Remember plopping down on the metal slide in the summer to be quickly reminded that metal attracts HEAT! Remember when we never had to lock the front door? Remember when the keys were left in the car so they wouldn't get lost? Oh wait... remember when the key went in to an ignition instead of just having to be in your pocket and you push a button?

 

[V8Bill]

I remember my first wage. $2 an hour washing meat trays at the local butcher after school and on Saturdays. I was about 13. I was happy there until one day a semi-trailer plowed straight into the front door.

My first instinct was to save it up because I'd never seen so much money before and I just wanted to see more of it. I couldn't even start to decide what I was going to spend it on.

 

[biophase]

Remember when you had to text message based on a numerical keyboard? And 1 letter sometimes equaled 444?

That was the 2000's

 

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[biophase]

Anyone ever rebuild a carburetor? If you got the floats wrong, you'd either flood it or starve it?

Man, unless they're into old cars...no one even knows what a carburetor is anymore.

...Spraying wd40 into the carburetor to get your car to start.

 

[biophase]

I got a few.

I remember when our new typewriter had a backspace button so I wouldn't have to liquid paper all my mistakes.

I remember when I finally got a new Walkman with auto reverse!

I remember driving around town to find an empty basketball court and then going to a pay phone to call my friends to tell them which park to go to.

I remember when I first got Doom on my 486. Game changer.

 

[c_morris]

Remember when you wanted that hit single, but you couldn't play it without one of these:

 

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[Longinus]

Remember desks were huge because computer screens were massive.

Remember "It's now safe to turn off your computer".

Remember when there were more than 2 search engines.

Remember I had to double the RAM of my pc (from 16 to 32 MB) to play Age of Empires II.

 

[G-Man]

Frosted tips
Jincos
Duncan Yoyos
... rock hard stick of gum in a pack of Topps
Opening a pack of baseball cards with the anticipation of a redneck tearing into some scratch offs.

 

[crueldeceiver]

- Answering machines. Remember the genuine excitement you felt when you came home and that red light was blinking on the machine?

- Payphones. And God forbid if you didn't have a quarter. Calling collect was only for the most dire emergencies.

- Looking up directions. Even pulling up Google Maps and printing out directions feels like a lifetime ago.

- Not being accessible. No email, texts, apps---if you were out of the house, that was it. Nobody expected to reach you instantly.

I totally feel this...brings back a lot of memories. LOL

 

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[startinup]

- Looking up directions. Even pulling up Google Maps and printing out directions feels like a lifetime ago.

When MapQuest was better than Google Maps

 

[MJ DeMarco]

That was the 2000's

Yea, and it's already a "remember when." -- although 2000 was nearly 20 years ago. Seems like yesterday.