The "Remember When" Thread...

[G-Man]

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

The monsters wiping the boards in the NCAA tournament were born in '95. Let that sink in.

 

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[mindfulimmortal]

The other night I was watching a movie from the late 90's and I couldn't believe how much things have changed since then, and heck, the late 90's wasn't too long ago.

It brought on a conversation of "remember when" as we tried to remember all the things we used to do in the past, that now seem to ancient history and forgotten.

Like...

Remember when you answered your cell-phone by flipping it open?

Remember when you went to a store to rent a movie?

Remember when your home land line was busy because someone was using the internet?

Remember you were cool if you walked around with a PAGER?

So let's hear it from everyone, including us middle-aged guys (@SteveO @Vigilante @jon.a @AllenCrawley) what "remember whens" has the technological life made us forget?

Remember when?? (PICTURES WELCOME!!)

Remember when the SEARS and JC Penney catalog was the "internet"
Remember when as a kid the SEARS Catalog with the women's underwear was your porn! So I heard...........haha

 

[amp0193]

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

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haha, what is that thing?


I have no idea.

 

[amp0193]

Remember when local phone calls only needed a 7 digit phone number?

Remember when you knew all of your friends' and families' phone numbers from memory?


Remember loading up a game on a floppy disk?

 

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[Fox]

Great thread.

Remember taking photos with these and waiting a week to get them developed...



When I went to Singapore as an 8 year old I had my first ever one of these cameras. I spent 4 days taking all the photos I could of all the cool stuff I could find. Turns out I had my finger over the lenses for pretty much every one but couldn't tell looking through the little view finder. All my pics looked like...

I still have the album cause its makes me laugh so much.

 

[TKDTyler]

Obligatory South Park memberberry post

I couldn't help myself

 

[minivanman]

That thing was inserted in to the middle of a 45rpm record.
7 digits for the phone number? I remember when it was just 4 digits in the early 70's. Ours was 2408 and my grandma's was 5747. And if I didn't know the number I could just say, "Can I talk to uncle T.L."? And the local operator knew who I was and who I wanted to talk to.
Remember Camel brand hot patches for bike tires? You had to light it on fire!!
And in the 80's that tv/am fm radio/cassette/weather radio combination thing that had the 5 inch screen for the tv.

 

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[c_morris]

haha, what is that thing?


I have no idea.

45 records (singles) had a large hole that didn't fit on a turn table. You needed to insert one of those to play it.

 

[Unknown]

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 still use notepad. Even on large programs. Although I have upgraded to using Notepad++ on occasion.

Remember when you had to call in pizza orders...?

Remember when you had to pay for things with cash?

Remember when Luke did that flip on Dagobah?

Remember when you found out Samus was a girl?

 

[mindfulimmortal]

Remember when this awesome book came out? (Just bought two more to give away to friends)!

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[ProblemSolver]

Haha, I was just thinking about this today. I have one and am curious if it was just me.

Does anyone else remember going to the bathroom and reading random things laying around? Now we have cell phones to occupy us but I remember reading soap bottles, shampoo, toothpaste, etc when I was younger.

Kinda random but it came across my mind today and then I see this post.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Remember when a plasma TV meant you were rich!

52" Plasma, only $4,999 now at Best Buy! Darn, I guess I'll get by on the big screen TV in a cabinet the size of Uhaul.

 

[JWelch]

I remember when my mom had everyone's phone numbers wood burned on a wooden house next to the phone but I had them all memorized anyway. Now the only number I know is my wife's.
Also having to rip the perforated edges off the sides of the paper after you printed something out.

 

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[jon.a]

I remember when my mom had everyone's phone numbers wood burned on a wooden house next to the phone but I had them all memorized anyway. Now the only number I know is my wife's.
Also having to rip the perforated edges off the sides of the paper after you printed something out.

My printer in college...

 

[biophase]

Haha, I was just thinking about this today. I have one and am curious if it was just me.

Does anyone else remember going to the bathroom and reading random things laying around? Now we have cell phones to occupy us but I remember reading soap bottles, shampoo, toothpaste, etc when I was younger.

Kinda random but it came across my mind today and then I see this post.

Used to have magazine subscriptions!

 

[biophase]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_vV-JRZ6E

 

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[eliquid]

I'll post some:

1. Anyone remember Laser Disks?

2. When you could buy "penny candy"?

3. Crystal Pepsi first time ever came out?

4. You could stay out until the street lights came on, and still be safe?

5. Hyper color t-shirts

6. Stone washed jeans

7. You could tune a VW with 2 tools and a matchbook of matches.

8. Matchbooks

9. You had to roll up your car window, or use a coat hanger to pull up the lock/latch if you were locked out.

10. Im proud to be drug free ribbons at school

11. This is your brain on drugs video

12. Garbage Pail kids stickers

13. a 9 volt battery and licking it.

14. LA Gear shoes, Reebok "Pumps"

15. Using the old school dewey decimal system to find a book with those cards in the drawer at the library.

16. Big Wheels trikes

17. Trapper Keepers

18. Dot Matrix printers

19. Tommy Hilfigure and tommy jeans

20. Teachers and their pull down maps on the chaulkboards

21. Sea monkeys

 

[c_morris]

13. a 9 volt battery and licking it

I still do this [emoji1]

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[Runum]

I'll post some:

20. Teachers and their pull down maps on the chaulkboards

I still use my pull down maps quite often. My projector and smart board are usually on another image so the pull down maps are very useful. I use them in addition to Google maps and other tech.

 

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[TKDTyler]

All this nostalgia got me thinking...

Technology is moving so fast. What do you guys think the "remember when's" will be of the next generation?

Remember when you had to drive your own car and pay for car insurance?

 

[GuitarManDan]

Remember when you forgot to print out the "reverse" mapquest directions and it was survival of the fittest to see if you made it back? More importantly, when you made a wrong turn and no road map.

 

[FiftySeven]

Fizzies

Hula hoops

Fins

Dagmars

Looking in the back of the TV just to see the orange glow. The front was B & W.

You can tell it's Mattel - it's SWELL!!

"Stranded, stranded on the toilet bowl. What do you do when you're stranded, and you don't have a roll..."

Cousin Brucie at 77 W-A-Beatle-C, where the Chime Time is 7:47 - "News 5 minutes early" - with a little reverb ...

Tuning eyes

Rear-seat speaker ( mono only )

Slide Rules ( no, it wasn't about taking your turn on playground equipment )

4-function calculators that cost 100 bux - if you wanted "square root" it was 10 bucks more

640K

Pet Rocks

Pop Rocks ( my KIDS had these ! )

"New" ( blechh ) Coke

Three Stooges

The Rolling Stones - scratch that, they're still rolling ....

... Aaannnndddd, Jerry Mathers as ...



'57

 

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[KSR]

Anyone else remember these bad boys

 

[c_morris]

Remember when:

 

[scott.legendre]

watching "adult" movies through squiggly lines hoping to see something...

 

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[Alma Zamarly]

watching "adult" movies through squiggly lines hoping to see something...

This is funny. LoL, Remember when the connection is so slow only 56kbps, but the patience is so high. You need to wait pixel by pixel to load it.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

 

[jon.a]

 

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[KSR]

Remember when you had to take turns to get up to change the TV channel? I do.

 

[AlexLegault]

Remember when you actually had to walk over to your friend's house if you wanted to play video games together?

(And call them with.. *GASP* a home phone before going??)