When I was a kid...

[wiegeabo]

This song is a great way to sum up this thread.
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I was thinking more like this

 

[Marx]

That's right! We also had to sit through entire lessons in school about how to use the Dewey Decimal system in the card catalogue because this was how we were going to do research for the rest of our lives.

Also, we watched films on a film projector in class or on filmstrips that had an accompanying cassette (it beeped when you needed to flip to the next picture). I didn't see a VCR in a classroom until the 6th grade, our school only had one, and it was a big deal when we got one.

When I was a kid...

If you wanted to know what was on TV, you looked it up in the TV Guide BOOK.
Sitcoms "were taped in front of a live studio audience."

I remember those.

 

[imdaly]

When I was young...


- Poor Vanna White had to actually TURN the letters every time instead of just having to TOUCH them.
- Tiger Handheld Games were AWESOME and came in a MILLION varieties.
- If a video game wasn't unbeatable because of sheer difficulty it was unbeatable because it literally didn't have an end.
- TGIF dominated my Friday nights with "Full House", "Family Matters", "Perfect Strangers", and "Just the 10 of Us".
- SNICK dominated my Saturday nights with "Clarissa Explains It All", "Roundhouse", "Ren and Stimpy", and "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".

 

[Immortalfire]

That's right! We also had to sit through entire lessons in school about how to use the Dewey Decimal system in the card catalogue because this was how we were going to do research for the rest of our lives.

LoL, I had forgotten all about the card catalogue. I used that thing, maybe once in my life before my library got a computer in like, 1990.

 

[wiegeabo]

LoL, I had forgotten all about the card catalogue. I used that thing, maybe once in my life before my library got a computer in like, 1990.

lol. I remember sometimes we'd have class in the library so we could research our paper. The class would be waiting in line and fighting to use the couple of computers in there.

I'd just walk over to the card catalog and find stuff before most of them got the chance

 

[Marx]

When I was young...

Poor Vanna White had to actually TURN the letters every time instead of just having to TOUCH them.

...and Alex Trebek also had a moustache.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

it took guts to insult and mess with a person, as, y'know, you had to actually go up to someone's face and risk physical retribution.
Nowadays, any old cowardly moron can go on the net, talk like a tough guy from the movies, and then slink off into the night.

 

[PyroChamber]

-Going to a mall was like going to Disney World, especially a suburban mall.
-Pornstars had hair like Peggy Bundy.
-The best games at an arcade were the ones that had a crowd around them.

 

[Mace Dolex]

When I was a kid...

If you wanted to know what was on TV, you looked it up in the TV Guide.
Sitcoms "were taped in front of a live studio audience."

And TV Guides were small digest size and not magazine size.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were movie gods, not a has been and a governor.

Oh and Ask.com was called AskJeeves.com.

 

[WildcatNC]

When I was a kid:

-MTV actually played video's all the time with cartoon sketches in between them.

-You actually went over to your friends house to talk to them.

-Saturday morning cartoons were the ****

-Atari was the best thing ever till the NES came out (never had a Commodore 64)

-It wasn't until middle school that we had a computer lab and got to play Oregon Trail once a week.

 

[WildcatNC]

-The best games at an arcade were the ones that had a crowd around them.

Arcades were awesome back in the day. I used to fish money out of the Mall wishing fountains to keep my fix going after my money ran out. t:

 

[PyroChamber]

Arcades were awesome back in the day. I used to fish money out of the Mall wishing fountains to keep my fix going after my money ran out. t:

Yeah, and the crowds were usually around the fighting games; everytime someone did something awesome in the game the crowd were in awe.

 

[WildcatNC]

Yeah, and the crowds were usually around the fighting games; everytime someone did something awesome in the game the crowd were in awe.

You actually had to jump in and beat someone most of the time if you wanted to play as well. People would be gathered around and if they wanted to play and thought they could beat you they would jump in. If they beat your *** they got to keep playing.

Made for some epic battles.......and broke kids. t:

 

[TheZink]

When I was a kid

We collected POGS. Soon the school banned bringing and playing with them at school during lunch or recess since it promoted "gambling"

We collected X-Men and Marvel trading cards. I remember going to the local comic shop (now a Mexican restaurant) and buying my first Wolverine hologram trading card.

Batman action figures were amazing and I collected every new one.

If you beat Super Mario Bros 3 you were considered a god amongst children.

Nicktoons on Sunday morning had a great lineup. Rugrats, Doug and Ren & Stimpy. Later, great additions were made with Rocko, AHHH Real Monsters and Hey Arnold.

The Rugrats were still babies.

Kids were in bed by 8:00, 9:00 if they were lucky and 10:00 only on the weekends for special occasions.

My mother kicked me out of the house during the summer to "get your ass outside and play" I wasn't allowed to sit in front of the TV and play video games all day.

We brought our lunch to schools in the awesome plastic cases. I had Batman many years in a row.

You were considered cool if you had a trapper keeper with the abstract futuristic art.

It was a big deal to wear Nike's or Air Jordans.

Parachute pants and suits.

We played dodgeball in gym and were allowed to throw the ball as hard as we could. We played rough sports (no tackle football) and we worked and played hard. Gym was what most of us look forward to each day.

If you had to read a book for a project you checked it out at the school or city library.

You had to have book covers for new books. If your parents had money you could buy them. If your parents were mine, you used paper grocery bags and drew your own designs.

 

[Immortalfire]

I had a Masters Of The Universe lunchbox t:

 

[imdaly]

- "No Fear" ruled the school supply market.

 

[wiegeabo]

I had a Masters Of The Universe lunchbox t:

Same here

 

[Metamorpho1977]

I had a Close Encounters Lunch box and Trapper Keeper.

 

[Norman Osborn]

- The closest thing I had to a computer was an etch a sketch

- The only time I got to stand in front of the class was when I was being strapped by a nun.

- My parents weren't my friends...they were my parents, they became my friends once I became a parent.

- I had two channels on my tv...left and right!!

- National Geographic was a porn magazine...as was the Sears catalogue!

- A quarter got me a pop and a bag of chips....50 cents got me in the movies with the aforementioned snacks

- I read The Night Gwen Stacy died when it was initially published and actually remember being quite distraught!

 

[Marx]

I remember trapper keepers.

 

[wiegeabo]

Gas being over 99 cents a gallon was crazy talk.

 

[Immortalfire]

I remember trapper keepers.

I still have one. I'm stylin

 

[wiegeabo]

I still have one. I'm stylin

Rockin' it at those meetings at work?

 

[Immortalfire]

Totally.