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One of the perks of growing up is getting a pass on lecturing the youth. Just look at the '90s kids. Every breath they take and every move they make, they'll be reminiscing about the good old days.However, it doesn't mean we have to hate on the fellas. Let's approach this as an anthropological study, why don't we? For example, if we were to fire up the Today's Kids Will Never Know tweets, we'd immediately get a whole depository of things that perfectly define those who were born in the past millenia. Like, the WordArt Gallery or some floppy disks. Don't know what I'm talking about? Continue scrolling and check it out for yourself.
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#1
The '90s was an interesting era for music lovers. MTV helped return the hit single to prominence, however, people acquired new music mostly by buying CDs. Which usually meant paying for and getting the whole album. So if you heard a piece by an unknown band and wanted to own their songs, you were getting yourself into a bit of a gamble.
However, during the '90s, the CD reigned supreme. It became the biggest money-spinner the music industry had ever seen. “In the mid-90s, retailers and labels felt indestructible,” said Rob Campkin, who worked for HMV between 1988 and 2004. "It felt like this was going to last forever."
As the economy kept growing, annual global sales surpassed 1bn in 1992 and 2bn in 1996. The profit margins were incredible, too. The CD not only cost less to manufacture than vinyl, it was also cheaper to transport and stack in stores, while selling for up to twice as much. The prices kept growing even when the costs started shrinking. “It was simple profiteering,” said Stephen Witt, whose new book How Music Got Free chronicles the industry's vexed relationship with the MP3. “[Labels] would cut backroom deals with retailers not to let the price drop. The average price was $14 and the cost had gotten down almost to a dollar, so the rest was pure profit.”
Iggy 5 years ago
CDs were really, really expensive in Ireland in the 90s (IR£22.99 (about €28!) was the average) so I used to try persuade myself that I would like it if I just tried really hard.
John C 5 years ago
I guess I'm a dying breed, but I still make a point of listening to the whole album when an artist piques my interest. I always try to give it at least 3 playthroughs, unless it REALLY sucks. Found so much great music that way that'll never make the airwaves/pandora/spotify playlists, and it feels so much more personal.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Then having an album that’s in pristine condition except for one completely worn out track.
Paul Clark 5 years ago
or buying a single because the 20 secs on the levi advert was awesome (Babylon Zoo/spaceman)
Jeff Requier 5 years ago
Try being in a secluded town and ordering CDs and waiting weeks for your music to arrive. Everyone buys albums for the single, some bands have one great song and all their other music is s**t. Kids today wont know what its like to buy CDs and finding out the music on said CD isnt even the right genre of music. Someone screwed up making it and lasered country onto a metal album
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#2
Not only was it a good release of emotions, but there was also no Messenger. No Skype. No nothing. The other person couldn't bombard you with texts to prolong the argument. And if they tried to call you back, you could always unplug the phone!
I love Foxxy 5 years ago
One of my friends always ended a call by saying “what sound does a truck make” then you would hear the hang up tone “beep beep beep beep” like a truck reversing.
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
Yea, angrily poking at the end call button doesn't have the same effect. *sigh*
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
True, that's why I throw the phone across the room after hanging up when I'm angry. :-D I still miss the good old slam, but this works too. I should probably say that I still use an old Nokia, so I actually CAN throw it against the wall. :-D
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Mama Panda 5 years ago
We recently moved into a home that was built in 1956. It has a little shelf in the kitchen for a rotary phone. There was one there when we first looked at the house. When we did the last walkthrough, it was gone. I found a rotary phone that works on Amazon and we bought it! Our 17 year old son had no idea how to work it. I finally showed him how and for an added haha, I told him that it had the # so he could text his friends from it. I will say though, the feeling of being able to slam it down is amazing!
Elida Lechuga 5 years ago
I got to slam my office landline in frustration yesterday . It was so satisfying.
Petra Biedermann 5 years ago
Oh I remember sitting in a cold hallway talking to my friend until my mom ended my call!
Magic lady 5 years ago
Today’s kids have no idea about being constrained by the length of the phone cord attached to the wall!
#3
In the early '90s, dial-up internet access was limited to 56 kbps modems connecting via phone lines. At this speed, a low-quality song (about 3.5MB) took around 10 minutes to download at full speed. If you think that's a lot, there were times when the speed was slower and it took somewhere around 30 minutes to a few hours. A 700mb low-quality movie took about 28 hours at full speed or 3-5 days at low speed. And since the connections weren't that stable, looking at the 'estimated time' graph of a download was like going on an emotional roller coaster ride.
Poonam Karekar 5 years ago
i use to start the transfer in the night before going to sleep and it used to be still going on in the morning
Daria B 5 years ago
And then you hear your mom who's talking on the phone. ♥
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Avital Pilpel 5 years ago
The guy who designed that estimated time software must have been fun to make meetings with. "I'll be there in ten minutes. No, two hours. No, five seconds. No, 30 years."
Lucas 5 years ago
I have a friend who is pretty much like that. We just gave up on believing him - he'll arrive at some point.
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Tim Wilson 5 years ago
It was all fun and games until someone picked up the phone and it disconnected you after hours of downloading.
Robbin Poh 5 years ago
However, webpages were a lot less annoying because there were much less ads and certainly no video ads
#4
Even though the mobile phone was invented in the 1970s, it took a couple of decades until it became more practical and gained popularity outside the business circle. Think about it, in 2018, there are 123.7 mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 people. In 1995, this number was 12.7. The phone was a possession of the family, not a thing of the individual. So when you called a friend, a lot of the time you had to get through their parents first!
Kaisu 5 years ago
I was always nervous about calling my best friend's house because I was worried his sister might pick up and she was always really mean
rai mei 5 years ago
my friend's sister like to impersonate my friend as they share the same middle name...
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Also deciding to meet up at a particular day, time and place. If someone was late there was no way to call up and check where he/she have reached, so just keep waiting.
Donna Reynolds 5 years ago
And you had to talk to your BF in the kitchen because there was only one phone.
Jenica Thomas 5 years ago
And that phone usually had a reaaaallllllyyyyyyy long cord that would get all tangled up.
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Karen Klinck 5 years ago
"I've got to call Jan's house." as opposed to "I've got to call Jan." How well I remember. Party lines, too. And area codes that started BR3...
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Kristin Malliet 5 years ago (edited)
We actually knew our friends’ phone numbers, and we answered the phone.
Sam T Godfrey 5 years ago
Ah, the pleasure of dialing that old machine on the little table at the end of the hallway. Nothing there but a chair, phone book (that was this paper thing that... never mind,) pad of paper and a pencil. And little sisters listening around the corner!
#5
Before adopting video on demand and video streaming services such as Netflix, people got their movies from rental stores. However, these places generally had limited supplies of new releases so whenever you wanted to watch a new blockbuster, you had to beat the competition of the whole neighborhood. Which often came down to being really lucky or knowing one of the clerks or owners.
Jill Tibbetts Tuley 5 years ago
His parents had a really good sense of humor...Substitute "G" for "J"!!!
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Full Name 5 years ago (edited)
"Library"? Is that an app for iPhone or Android?
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Fixin'Ta 5 years ago
Let's go a little further back. Pre-Blockbuster. Pre-VHS. You just had to hope your favorite movie would eventually make it to air on prime-time TV. Of course, it would be cut down to fit the time slot and would have commercials. Or, like I did with Star Wars in 1977 -- bought the record album (vinyl) with an hour's worth of audio from the key scenes, and listened to that over and over and over ...
Liz Sahlin Johansson 5 years ago
In my neighbourhood store you could rent videos AND a player! It was big as a suitcase and rather heavy to carry home but to buy a videoplayer was out of the question! Far to expensive! So payday and Friday, a bag with 3 videos in one hand (it was kind of rent 3, pay for 2) and the player heavy in the other and a big smile! Yay! The weekend was saved!!!
Ruby 5 years ago
Haha, yes - a moviebox. But then you got home and the video would flicker at the bottom and/or top. You'd call the store to complain and the clerk would say: have you tried the tracking button? Which never worked.
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Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
I remember fantasizing as a kid that I would someday have copies of every movie ever made and I could watch them whenever I wanted. Except there were no VCR's back then--I dreamed about having them on reel-to-reel with a projection room!
Bendysinkymachine 5 years ago
... ... i rent things at FAMILY VIDEO well my parents do soooooo
Magic lady 5 years ago
Kids today never have to worry about paying LAte fees for a movie you returned after hours and the clerk was to lazy to look in the overnight bin
#6
The cassette tape was developed by Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, and introduced in September 1963. It stored typically 30 or 45 minutes of audio per side and peaked in Western Europe and North America in the 1980s. People still used them in the early 1990s, however, it was soon overtaken by the CD.
Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago
Or the hilarity of playing the cassette tapes fast and making everyone sound like chipmunks.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
We did that with albums too. If you played them at 45 rpm instead of 33 RPM you got the same effect.
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Rajeev Guliani 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know the fun of fixing a broken cassette ribbon.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Or when you missed the flip in the tape during rewind, and had to take it all out again, find the crease and flatten it out, the carefully rewind it *again* because otherwise it played--something.
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Also, for those who remember 45's, do you remember when you lost the little adapter for the bigger 45 hole & tried to line up the record perfectly so it would play without it. They always sounded a little drunk. Also, putting a penny on the need to keep it from skipping on the record.
Katethebookworm06 5 years ago
I'm 12 and my mom had her old one that I used to use. So fun to play! But SO HARD to untangle.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
Or when the end came loose, and you had to pry it apart, tape it back on, then try to glue the holder back together. (Moan.)
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El Dee 5 years ago
AT LAST! One that I remember! Cassette tapes were fairly new to me but I remember what the pencil was for!! Lol!
Jill Tibbetts Tuley 5 years ago
I still have about 500 cassettes, and about 125 8 track tapes, along with players for both, as well as my record player. A local store was selling a unit with record player, cassette (player/recorder), CD (player/recorder), CD player/recorder, and good old AM/FM stereo. Cost 1.5 years ago??? $100.00!!! One of the best deals of my lifetime! Can now listen to my old vinyl rock and roll again!!! Plus copy them (or cassettes/8 tracks) to CDs!!! I do so love my '40s to '70s music, and can even find some now on YouTube! Oh the joys of being an "older person", at age 65.5! Yeah, so I did love 1940's to 1960's music as well...I cheated!
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WordArt is a Microsoft Office text-styling utility which allows users to stylize text with various "special effects" such as textures, outlines, and many other manipulations. When presenting our printed projects, me and my classmates would constantly try to impress one another by making the title as wicked as possible. We'd put shadows under the letters, bend or stretch them, that kind of thing.
Kaisu 5 years ago
This and Microsoft Paint were like my favourite things to do on a computer as a kid
Batty 5 years ago
You'll be glad to know I & fellow artists are keeping MS Paint alive with our own creations. Believe it or not, one of my closest friends can make detailed paintings on MS Paint without trouble!
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George-Florin Constantin 5 years ago
When I discovered these in '97 or '99 or whenever it was... I was tooootally blown away!
daisydiamond 5 years ago
Every assignment i ever wrote would have the rainbow one for my title 😅
#8
It takes a while until you figure out how the legendary single-player puzzle video game works. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden "mines" without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of mines in each neighboring field. Even though the game was created in the 1960s, and it is still written for many computing platforms in use today.
Misha Christensen-wildeman 5 years ago
lol after 20 years i think i finally know how this game works lol
Силвия Митева 5 years ago
MInesweeper is an example of a set of problems in computer science, known as "NP-complete". In a few words it means that if you have a candidate for an answer, it is easy to ckech if that answer is correct or not, but there is no way to "guess"the answer, unless you try all possible combinations. All NP-complete problems can be drawn down, in computer science terms to the same problem, meaning if one is able to "crack"even one of them, all NP-c problems are solvable "in polinomyal time". This includes all modern passwords, too, so if you have found a way to know how this game works, you should cash it in - it is one of the most important problem in modern computer science. If not - worry not, people still belive P=NP is not possible. http://simon.bailey.at/random/kaye.minesweeper.pdf
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Mewton’s Third Paw 5 years ago
Seriously it’s the easiest game. It’s actually pretty hard to lose this game.
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Jo Johannsen 5 years ago
Hey, it was a great way to pass time while that 39-year download was going on!
John Stafford 5 years ago
I agree. Logical really, not that difficult if you keep your concentration
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స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 5 years ago
It's not hard to understand... it's hard to win expert level but the game isn't particularly complex.
John Laurens/Gay Turtle 5 years ago
I know how to play minesweeper... i guess i have no life lol
#9
Adding text messaging to mobile devices began in the 1980s, while the first SMS message was sent in 1992 over the Vodafone GSM network in the UK. The initial growth for SMS was slow. The average American user sent only 0.4 texts per month in 1995. However, as phones and networks adapted to better accommodate the service, people started using it more and more. By 2000, that average number increased to 35.
Short messages can be encoded using a few alphabets: the default GSM 7-bit alphabet, the 8-bit data alphabet, and the 16-bit UCS-2 alphabet. Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured in the handset, this leads to the maximum individual short message sizes of 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters.
In a time where only half of adults in America were using the Internet (not to mention neither Skype nor Facebook existed), SMS was the preferred method on instant messaging, and since each and every message cost money, you had to get creative with the way you phrased your words to minimize the number of characters needed to get your thoughts across.
Kaisu 5 years ago
Also my phone could fit like fifteen texts and then it was full so I had to keep deleting texts once I had replied to them
Aisling Badsha 5 years ago
Remember being 16 and writing all my then boyfriends texts into a book so that I could still read them, my phone had a 12 text limit
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
How about being charged PER MINUTE for cell phone plans, then paying $200 to switch plans to "rollover minutes?"
Darko Pešić 5 years ago
OMG i totaly forgot about that one... And typing whilst not looking at the phone at all becouse you knew the lineup
#10
Portable CD players became popular in the 1990s when the anti-skip technology was introduced.
Even though Sony's first portable CD player, the Discman D-50, came out in 1984, it wasn't profitable. However, as the product gained popularity, it soon became profitable, and Sony began to create a portable CD market. The Discman range was later named CD Walkman.
Other manufacturers soon followed in Sony’s footsteps and started offering their own portable CD players, but these devices really took off in 1997 because of Electronic Skip Protection, making possible heavy usage.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Even worse for women. Our clothing generally lacks pockets that are anything but decorative.
shado 5 years ago
... or all the shorted out headphone wires because of trying to get it in a pocket
#11
Misha Christensen-wildeman 5 years ago
then closing your eyes or turning away so that u dont see any of it
Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago
I always found it funny to watch certain scenes backwards during rewind.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I just moved and found TWO rewinders, so I wouldn't burn out the motor on the tape deck. There were also a half dozen "head cleaner" cassettes and bottles that once had cleaning solution in them.
PjandBolt 5 years ago
Growing up my family watched VHS tapes all the time... I remember a specific moment when we were watching lady and the tramp and they were sneaking into the zoo and my brother and I would crack up over how funny the police officer looked walking backwards when we rewinded the tape.. and that was in 2011!
#12
Chris Hill 5 years ago
When checking out... "Looks like you returned a movie last week that was 1 day overdue, your total for tonite is $357.84"
Rajeev Guliani 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know the fun of watching a movie more than once within a few days, before you had to return the VHS to the store.
Charlese Bonca 5 years ago
That was my first job! Bummer kids don't use these anymore. Dang Netflix.
Baron Simone Von Bianco 5 years ago
Netflix isn't the cause of the downfall of Blockbuster. At least, in Europe. Blockbuster started to get in trouble in 2008 and with the way internet is so under developed in some countries, digital platforms are still strangers nowadays. Their business collapsed mostly because of the fines and other fees they were used to make people pay in case of late return, not rewinding, etc. These fines were way too exxagerated.
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Craptavaganza 5 years ago
And at the end of the year the employee would give you all the horrormovie posters form the past year if you asked politely. 🤩
#13
Molly E 5 years ago
Do you even know how many people have actually put Micheal Jackson: Issued black, returned white? 😆
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Even better when someone wrote in the answers on the chapter quizzes.
Amy Anderson 5 years ago
Oh yes they do! I"m a high school librarian, we still have text books and the kids write their names in them, among other amusing things.
Elijah Snow 5 years ago
LOL Michael Jackson was issued as black and returned as white? lol!!!!!!!!!
MIA J RODRIGUEZ 4 years ago
Yeah cause we don't have school libraries anymore. They just got rid of them./j
Lisa loves cats 5 years ago
They still have these things in newer textbooks, my neighbor once got my old book
#14
Nubmaeme 5 years ago
It was the same at my high school, the only one air-conditioned. If the room got above 65, the computer shut down for being too warm. We had an old binary computer that required punch cards, which were a pain to create.
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Bunzilla 5 years ago
We used to name the family members after other people in the class. Then there would be calls of, 'hey Joey, you just broke your arm, man', or 'Matt, you just drowned, dude', and of course, 'Jennifer, you died of dysentery!' After which, there would be an anguished cry 🤣
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Kjorn 5 years ago
when i was in school in the first half of the 80's we had a computer room with 4!!!! computers! and no game in that time, no internet
I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉 5 years ago (edited)
I was at school in the 90s. There were 4 school blocks and in each block was 2 computers. The only game we could play was called Math Rescue and internet was only for admin.
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Claire Armstrong 5 years ago
I ain't even mentioning this one to my man. He's 59 and I just KNOW he'll be all like "there was no such things as computers when I was at the school"!! And I really can't be bothered trying to explain to him that no, I don't believe they had computers when the dinosaurs roamed the earth pml 😜😏😂
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
I'm 66; I sympathize with him. Our schools also were not air-conditioned. And on the subject of punch cards...! The book clubs adopted the [#####!] things. Our younger friends used to take a collection to the computer lab, spend a little time adding random punches, then we'd all send them back. They didn't send punch cards for long!
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Beth Arriaga 5 years ago
Wait - I can predate this: what about the total joy of getting ALL the cards in just the proper order and the TOTAL defeat of dropping the box and having to start the programming over again?!?!
fuzzballseverywhere 5 years ago
Yay punch cards. I used those on college :p
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Chris Hill 5 years ago
My "computer" class was learning how to type a letter on a new IBM PC, looked like a mini fridge with a 5 1/4" floppy drive and chunky monochrome green monitor.
#15
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I still have a 1998 iMac just for the purpose of reading old CD backups. It only gets plugged in a few times a year. I'm always fearing it won't work.
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Janine B. 5 years ago
Or sitting next to the radio waiting for the DJ to play your favourite songs so you can record them. Then press the rec button in the very right moment only to find out the DJ starts speaking again 10 seconds before the song ended. Aaaarrrghhh!
Mama Panda 5 years ago
Fitting fave songs was a hell of a lot easier on a CD than it was on a Cassette!
Full Name 5 years ago
I remember laughing at 1gig hard drives because "there's no way anyone will fill that". I have individual photoshop files larger than that now.
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Vero Morales 5 years ago
I still have one of this full of disc with 3 or 4 movies, and the other day internet was out and I can't sleep so I take this bad boy out and chose a disc, save my insomniac night
M O'Connell 5 years ago
The worst part was doing this only to discover that your CD player wouldn't play a 700MB disk. :(
#16
These tiny pencils (and all similar writing implements) were all the rage at one point in time. And it seemed like everybody at school had at least one. They were fun to play around with because you could take off the topmost pencil or pen and put it on the bottom, pushing the whole stack upward.
However, there was a slight hitch to the design. Losing just of the mini-pencils meant that you couldn’t write with them without pushing the pencil lead inside.
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
I have some of these. You can still buy them in stores. I don't think its a "today's kids will never know" sort of thing.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
But today's kids certainly know of the struggle to spell difficult words like "losing".
#17
Not every few days, but once a couple of weeks more like. Most computer mice used to have rubber balls instead of lasers to determine the position of your mouse pointer in relation to the mouse’s position on your table.
Tables get dusty. The dust gets on the ball. The dust gets inside your mouse. You have to get the dust out of the mouse. You put the dust on the table. And the entire process repeats itself until the invention of laser mice. There was always something oddly satisfying about cleaning your mouse.
I love Foxxy 5 years ago
That’s probably why our compute mice didn’t last long, they never got cleaned lol.
sylvanticx 5 years ago
My sister used to always put my mouse in the dog's water dish when she was little.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Also hair that wrapped itself around the ball and made it stop rolling.
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
When I did IT work I used to buy mouse balls by the dozen to replace the ones that always seemed to be going missing. Not sure why they were popular to steal.
Elicio Ember 5 years ago
Those of us who use trackballs still have to do this every few days, specially if you have pets XD
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Or going into the computer lab only to find out that some punk in the class before you stole the mouse ball.
#18
Nowadays, calling someone, texting them, and using the internet is incredibly cheap. But, boy, were phone bills a lot bigger back in the day! There were loads and loads of different plans tailored to different customers. But plenty of them offered unlimited calls/texts/internet after a certain hour at night.
I love Foxxy 5 years ago (edited)
Haha, I remember when my first mobile had the offer free, first 20 mins from 7pm-7am from Optus to Optus. I used to chat to a friend for 19 mins, hang up, then call back, then talk for another 19 minutes, so on and so forth.
István Géza Juhász 5 years ago
One of our providers (Connex, Romania) offered the first five seconds free, any network, at any time of the day. It was meant to avoid being charged if you called the wrong number... but it was used to have long conversations in 4-second chunks. Better than paying 24 cents/minute in the network, or 48 if you called an other network or a landline...
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Klaudiia Sherbatzky 5 years ago
oh boy when I clicked the internet browser on my phone I almost had every time an heart attack because I thought my mother was to kill me when the phone bill would come home
Mary Tonningsen 5 years ago
When I was kid (in the Days of Yore) long-distance phone rates were cheaper on the weekends and at night and REALLY cheap on Sunday nights. You'd go to call your Granny on Sunday evening and all the circuits would be busy because everyone was calling their relatives! LOL! Damn, I'm sooo old! ;)
Snowy Tundra 5 years ago
My mom still calls her family 3 time zones away on Sundays out of habit. Back in the days of Ma Bell, everybody called on the weekends to get the best rates. If someone tries to talk to her while she's on one of these calls, she'll say, "Make it quick, I'm on a long distance call."
Magic lady 5 years ago
How about paying for long distant phone calls. Which was pretty much anyone in a different area code
#19
Most of us used to have humongous videotape libraries at home. With the advent of the DVD era, sadly, we had to let go our bulky tapes because of how space they took up. Videotapes have a certain aesthetic quality that discs can hardly beat, though.
However, did you know that the videotapes that we’re used to could have looked slightly different? In the late 1970s and 1980s, the so-called videotape format war raged between the Video Home System (VHS) and Betamax format videotapes and recorders. VHS won, but sadly, it’s now being forgotten.
I love Foxxy 5 years ago
I used to own a few hundred videos, was so pissed when VCR’s were replaced and I had to get my movies in DVD form.
Mark 5 years ago
But did you know that technically Betamax was the much better format and the only reason VHS won over Betamax was that fact that pornography was released in the VHS format as opposed to the Betmax one.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
And you could record 6 hours of football as opposed to three. (Aimed at the same people...)
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Ronnie Beaton 5 years ago
Betamax was the superior system, more stable, longer tapes. But VHS was cheaper.
Parmeisan 5 years ago
Yeah, I was also going to comment about that. Theirs are much easier to see than ours were though, with cramped handwriting on the labels, oftentimes crossed out for something else...
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Snowy Tundra 5 years ago
The first movie I ever watched on tape was "Airplane!" on a Sony Betamax in the early 80s. My BFF's dad is an early adopter and had picked one up on one of his many overseas trips. The argument of Beta vs VHS was a familiar one - quality(Beta) vs lower cost.
Magic lady 5 years ago
Some of us die hard fans still have our VHS collection packed away along with the combo VHS/DVD player thinking that we will someday watch our favorite flicks.
Simon Proulx 5 years ago
Every tape is as expected, the "pin" is broken to avoid any relative taping their ice skating "performance" over good movies!
#20
Nearly everyone knows the face of Ronald McDonald the clown. But way back in the past, he used to be just one of a huge cast of McDonald’s characters, including Grimace, the Hamburglar, Birdie the Early Bird, Mayor McCheese, and others.
For those of us born in the 90s, they were every bit as important as Ronald McDonald!
Theory Buchannon 5 years ago
Officer Big Mac, Grimace, Hamburglar, Birdie the Early Bird, Fry Kids, Mayor McCheese
Lisa Conner 5 years ago
The Hamburglar, Grimace and the pirate guy all started as bad guys who wanted to steal food. Grimace had 4 hands and stole fries, Hamburglar obviously burgers, and the pirate guy filet-o-fish sandwiches. Ronald always saved the day. Gradually they took out all conflict and made the villains nice. Everything was sweetness and light there after that.
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The internet used to be expensive and far from every vehicle had a GPS (those cost some serious mega-bucks back in the day). So if you needed directions to get to somewhere from your home, you’d look the info up online, then print the directions out.
It was a modern way of getting a physical copy of a detailed map with directions. Of course, nowadays, all we have to do is turn on a map app on our phones. Though some of us still prefer using huge maps that unfold to be larger than us.
MN Free Spirit 5 years ago
My husband and I still use a map. It makes our road trip adventures so much fun. We love hopping in the car and heading out for the weekend.
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What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
Haha, when I'm going somewhere for the first time, I actually DRAW a map. Of course I need Google Maps first to do that (which kind of destroys my point XD), but I don't have any digital stuff I can take outside. And I love it.
Pandas have no humor 5 years ago
Well we in the far, far East (EUROPE) were quite undeveloped and not so modern. We used actual maps.
Karen Klinck 5 years ago
My marathon travelling days preceded both GPS (although the science fiction writers liked it) and the internet. All we had were paper maps. Reading them was a skill you learned quickly.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
You can download the directions to your phone now.
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Kevin Talley 5 years ago
A Rand McNally Road Atlas, a loaded cooler, change for tolls and pay phones, and a book of traveler's cheques. and we were ready to roll.
#22
Personal mobile phones weren’t a thing back then (unless you were in the military or were an extremely successful businessman). So when we needed to call a friend, we’d dial their stationary phone. And who’d usually pick up the receiver than your pal’s parents?
When you’re a kid, it’s terrifying speaking to an adult because you start thinking all sorts of weird thoughts. Am I wasting their time? Am I going to get my friend into trouble for a larger telephone bill?
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Or the sheer terror of answering the phone because you had no idea who was calling.
sylvanticx 5 years ago
I have a landline. Only telemarketers call it, so I answer with "Hello, Pizza Hut".
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John 5 years ago
Far worse - calling a girls house to ask her out and having to talk to her parents first
Shauna Voigt 5 years ago
I made my friend call my now husband's house and ask for him the first time I called him.
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Erika Jones 5 years ago
Or the thrill of making prank calls at slumber parties because caller id didn't exist yet!
Katethebookworm06 5 years ago
I just got a phone but before then my mom only had my friend's parents number so I had to do this every time I wanted to talk. It is truly terrifying!
Jeff Requier 5 years ago
Kids today now have to call their friends parents cell phone. I only have a land line so I can get ahold of my kids while im out.
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
Maybe that's why there are so many anxious kids these days. They don't have the proper motivation to overcome it. I know that was one thing that motivated me.
#23
Here's something that might just blow your mind: Netflix used to be a DVD-by-mail company! What's more, it still is for a staggering 2.7 million US subscribers.
"The familiar red envelopes have been arriving in customers' mailboxes since 1998 and helped earn the company a healthy $212 million profit last year," writes CNN. Truly unbelievable.
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
I only knew it because of the jokes in the movies. At first, netflix was a rental company who sended you the DVDs by mail
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You knew it was going to be a good day when that red envelope was in the mail.
Alexis DeBruyn 5 years ago
okay but I still do this (in my defense, my internet used to *SUCK* so streaming was a joke... I just never turned it off. and there are more options this way, too! I'll stop defending myself now...)
Spiritastray 5 years ago (edited)
They still offer this service for some reason, though most people just use streaming.
Kelly Murray 5 years ago
I still use this service. Can't get everything through streaming, unfortunately.
Judi Wigren 5 years ago
We still get dvds by mail as we are so rural there is no way to stream. Our internet is very limited because we have a mountain blocking us from reception. The trade off is wildlife and lots of silence.
Suzanne Beaulieu 5 years ago (edited)
When you returned the movies by USPS mail, you could put 2 discs in one envelope. I made sure to use the return envelopes that would be received in the nearest city (ex. Los Angeles) and throw out the envelopes that would go to a far away city or state. This would get me my disc returned quickest and the next disc would be in the mail fast! I would even walk to the nearest post office that had an 8pm pick up so the discs would go out that day (if Imissed my mail at my apartment).
Dayna Kidle 5 years ago
Wait, I still use this lol. I have both streaming and I get the discs.
#24
Using iPods to find specific songs was a bit of a hassle because there was no CTRL+F-style search function. Imagine what a pain in the neck it was if you had a music collection composed of thousands of songs!
Some of us [cough, cough] still use iPods to this very day, disdain Spotify, and think that taking more than a few seconds to find the song that you want is no big deal. But that’s just an opinion.
Theory Buchannon 5 years ago
I still have one of those. It is the pink one. My family gave everyone one.
Lemon Garnished Potato 5 years ago
I have a blue one. Wasn't too hard since I had like 4 songs on it. I didn't listen to much.
Suzanne Harris 5 years ago
I found one in the street in my neighborhood yeeeeears ago and it still works today.
Sarah Storm 5 years ago
I'm 13 and I have an iPod. The worst is when I accidentally scroll past the song I want and then have to very carefully back up.
#25
Floppy disks! Diskettes! Floppies! Oh boy, do we miss those! Some early computer games, demos, and shareware came on these babies and we’d go swapping them with all of our pals. We didn’t need the internet to have a truly communal experience when playing video games.
Some of us might also still have a huge number of floppy disks back at home and miss having a floppy drive installed on our PC.
Carroll Cadden 5 years ago
Or the struggle of installing Windows from about 20 floppies, only to have it all come crashing down when one of the floppy disks inevitably was bad/corrupted.
John Bennett 5 years ago
The only product that "Norton" ever produced that was helpful was "Norton Disk Doctor". It could work some serious Vodoo on floppies and occasionally save the day.
Load More Replies... Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
Wait a minute--I still use these at work! I have a small reader that you can plug into the computer that allows you to use them. I keep all the employees' addresses on them, along with some of the older files. I remember when they were actually "floppy"--about 6" x 6", super thin, and flexible.
Jessica Hilliker 5 years ago
I had to custom add an a: drive to my Dell in 2005 to keep playing! Lol
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago (edited)
Med too, I loved the old ones before he went 3d! Duke nukem and commander keen were awesome games
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Strawberry Hellcat 5 years ago
So was "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" - I never could get off the bridge of the Heart of Gold! More importantly, does anyone remember "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" and the included scratch-n-sniff card?
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Internet piracy used to be different in the past. Some people relied on peer-to-peer file-sharing clients like LimeWire to get access to files, including songs. However, downloading songs like this took a long time and was quite a hassle.
And no mention of piracy should go without reminding you of the "Piracy, It's a Crime" ads that we still love to watch every once in a while.
Kim Lee 5 years ago
Limewire always seemed faster to me, though. Morpheus and Kazaa didn't seem to last long before I had to find something else because they were closed down :(
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Miguel Fonseca 5 years ago
basically giving your computer aids/herpes once you installed limewire, lol
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
The first one I had was napster, then limewire. Limewire almost killed my computer.
John 5 years ago
Limewire almost killed everyone's computer. It was like Music roulette. You might get the song you want, you might get an intentionally mislabeled audio clip from South Park or a political speech. Either way, probably getting a virus as well.
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Dónal Ó Murchadha 5 years ago
Ha ha, Limewire was not a hassle, it was a godsend! Have you ever tried recording your favourite songs off the radio onto cassette? Trying to get the version where the DJ doesn't talk over the start of the song and hope they don't talk too much over the end of it too. Sitting in your bedroom, the pause button, the play button and the record button all engaged and your ghetto blaster. Your finger waits on the pause button....
#27
Nearly all video game stores had one or two consoles hooked up to TVs near the ceiling. It was a blast trying the demo games out. Especially if you didn’t have that particular console at home. After all, they were expensive as heck! As were the games themselves. And not every parent was up to buying their kids whatever awesome/violent/gory game they had their hearts set on.
Lisa Johannesson 5 years ago
Gamecube, i miss you, your perfectly measured controls, your beautiful little disks..
Andrew Farrington 5 years ago
today's kids will never know that some kids got up at 5AM and did jobs for pennies and saved them up for a year to buy things they wanted - ones who didn't have parents that would/could buy them stuff like that...ever!
Adam Jackson 5 years ago
20 mins? Walmart had a full version of one of the Zelda games and I beat it! Yeah, my mom shopped at Walmart to much.
Logan Scaggs 5 years ago
I did this all the time at Walmart but then they removed the consoles so all it is now is a tv
Klaudiia Sherbatzky 5 years ago
we still have that in the stores here in Austria.... you can play on the PS4 or the xbox one or Nintendo
#28
Chonky game cartridges may be a thing of the past, but there are plenty of retro gamers out there who specifically collect them.
But the problem with cartridges is that dust gets inside them over time. So if your game stopped working, it was time to take it out of your console and blow all the dust out.
Iván Galarraga 5 years ago
I used to do this way back in my Atari 2600 cartridges and I can testify it really worked
Bored Moogle 5 years ago
Anyone who says it doesn't work are lying out their a*s.
Load More Replies... I love Foxxy 5 years ago
Pretty much ANY Nintendo cartridges. I still have 3 super Nintendo’s and one Nintendo 64.
Max L. 5 years ago
Have you found a good hdmi upscaler ? Ive got one too, and since then also a wii and a wiiU just for Mario games plus a minus others, on the N64 got pilotwings waverace, naturally super mario 64 and mario kart). Waverace on the gamecube (which I run inside the wii) is just ... perfect.
Load More Replies... Steve Cruz 5 years ago
"swiping it in their buttcrack" What did that do? Was it just a fun way to help out a buddy? I'm old and have never owned a game console of any kind.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
It's not dust; it's oxidation of the metal contacts in the cartridges and the console. Blowing in them added a bit of condensed humidity that lowered the resistance somewhat. This probably explains why sticking the cartridge up your a*s worked.
YoyoSthlm 5 years ago
I'm preeeetty sure it was dust. You left those cartridges everywhere, like on a dirty floor or couch. And when you blowed in them there was usually dust coming out.
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Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
But I used the same method on my phone plug receptacle the other day when it would only slow charge, and it worked!
Lisa Johannesson 5 years ago
Yeah except the thing is, doing that just eroded the cartridge, what actually helped was restarting the game.
Full Name 5 years ago
It didn't really erode it so much as it put a patina on it. Rubbing alcohol cleaned 'em right up.
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I was a teenager when Pong came out. Dad and I thought it was the greatest leap in technology ever to be able to control little rectangles to hit a "ball" on the TV.
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Mommyofboth 5 years ago
I spent hours creating my profile and away message with song lyrics. I thought I was so deep.
Bendysinkymachine 5 years ago
i have a ds thats pink i still have it and it has pictochat room sadly i can find no one online :(
Matthew Dell 5 years ago
Those appear to be Nintendo DS PictoChat chat rooms . . . still attractive for at least one grandpa and a few grandkids !
#30
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
These and spitballs. Remember the one big spitball that was permanently stuck to the classroom or lunchroom clock? Or the ceiling? How about the sharpened pencil stuck in the ceiling?
Ava Florine 5 years ago
at our school last year (i'm in 8th grade) someone flung a hair tie up in the air and it stuck to the ceiling all year long. it was he school joke.
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Stephanie Raffy 5 years ago
That's still around today...sadly. I teach MS and HS. Its more a MS thing. Not happy with these at all and picked up enough off the floor.
Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Smart kids hit by these would respond by firing back bent paperclips.
Country Nana 5 years ago
I liked throwing a sharpened pencil up to the ceiling where it stayed because it impaled the ceiling tiles.
#31
Lots of people feel nostalgic when they think back to the times when they used their very first chat rooms. From Yahoo Messenger to Hotmail chat rooms and others, there were plenty to choose from and they offered some people their first taste of what it was like communicating with people on the internet.
Pandas have no humor 5 years ago
f**k yeaaaaa! I didn't saw your comment! Hi, asl? :D
Load More Replies... Liz Sahlin Johansson 5 years ago
Can’t remember any hateful comments back then...Everyone were so exited to get in contact with other/new people far away from you.
Petra Schaap 5 years ago
i remember hanging out in some music chatroom in the mid nineties and all of a sudden someone from *gasp* south africa popped up! he didnt have a clue he was in a music chatroom but we talked for a while just because it was cool that he was in Africa and me in Europe. The good old days :-D
Load More Replies... Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know what it was like meeting a group of friends at a bar, dancing all night, talking to each other during drink breaks, then going out to eat after bar break and everyone talked to each other BECAUSE NOBODY WAS TEXTING OR SURFING BECAUSE THERE WERE NO CELL PHONES.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 5 years ago
The OG? Yahoo and Hotmail? No... Sorry... IRC and Usenet were the OG.
I love Foxxy 5 years ago (edited)
I used to love the ninemsn and hotmail chat rooms when I was a teen.
#32
The GameBoy Advance SP was awesome! It was like the GameBoy Color and the GameBoy Advance had a kid together and it was mega-cool. It was similar to a flip phone in the sense that you could close the screen.
But the other cool thing was that you could slightly tilt the screen back which made it easier to play when you were lying in bed. Unfortunately, what most longtime GameBoy Advance SP owners had in common was that the back of the screen would get lots and lots of scratches with use.
Francis 5 years ago
i just found mine yesterday! i charged it and now i am playing again! Best day!
Katethebookworm06 5 years ago
I'm 12 and I still have one! Love to play Super Mario Bros. and the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Mangle the Fox 5 years ago
i have a gameboy (pink, i called it a gamegirl my entire life), played a princess game on it XD
Rabbit Carrot 5 years ago
I still have mine. My son is currently playing The Sims Bustin Out on it.
Klaudiia Sherbatzky 5 years ago
Found my gameboy colour and now I´m playing Pokemon and Mario again lol
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Lol do u have Pokemon blue? XD I have Pokemon red!
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Hannah Marshall 5 years ago
I was desperate for the blue one ... Got a Nintendo DS Lite instead (was secretly gutted) still have the DS now; playing Nintendogs Dalmatian and Friends
Rosalind Harris 5 years ago
How do you do this? My SP got a lot of use and the back looks fine.
#33
Renee Gauthier 5 years ago
I'm 56 & we had ankle socks. But I hated before stretchy socks, your shoes would eat the back of your socks. Had to pull them out of the back of your shoe all the time.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
This. Didn’t matter if they were saddle shoes, Mary Janes, or Keds. They all ate your socks, especially when the elastic was shot.
Load More Replies... Misha Christensen-wildeman 5 years ago
to be honest i still do this sometimes if its laundry day lokl
Mama Panda 5 years ago
I am 53 and we had ankle socks too. I remember the ones with the little pom pom on the back of your ankle.
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Jo Bebe 5 years ago
No ...literally cheap like walmart or Goodwill today.......Champion was a reason to get teased now some rapper wore it and everyone is paying $50+ for a hoodie :(
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CherylTunt 5 years ago
I didn’t even know champion was “hip” until my nieces saw my shoes “ oooo you tryin to be cool” no they were 20$ at Payless and I had a coupon 😂
Jo Bebe 5 years ago
*Were That's what my step daughter wanted for christmas... try $35 for a pair of sneakers
Load More Replies... Sasy 5 years ago
I feel so old because when I was in high school adidas were considered not cool either.
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
LOL I remember when Gitano was a cheap brand.. wore them all the time $15 dollars for a pair of jeans LOL
Elijah Snow 5 years ago
I used to buy Champion tighty whities. They were expensive in the 90s. And nonexistent today. :(
Kelly Hartle 5 years ago
Forget any kind of "designer clothes"--my aunt used to sew my clothes herself, but she made jumpsuits (this was the 70's, after all). So I had to wear polyester jumpsuits to school.
Snowy Tundra 5 years ago (edited)
I was so happy when I outgrew my grandma's sizes. Talk about getting bullied? I know that she was trying to help us out, but what a year that was. Another year later, I ran into a former neighbor at an MS Walk-a-thon. In true mean girl style, she said, her voice heavy with mockery, "When did *you* get {brand of popular jeans}?" I had thought she was my bestie. Yeah, I know. I still carry some childhood baggage. I would have liked to have one of your aunt's jumpsuits. I have always had a torso too long for commercial jumpsuits and overalls. Kelly, I do agree with you on the polyester, though. That was what Grandma's pants were made of. You and I must be around the same age.
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Mommyofboth 5 years ago
or going into the horror section and being scarred for life by the VHS covers.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah, but at first there weren’t as many movies on DVD as videotape. You may have had cool cutting edge technology at home, but the selection of movies still sucked.
#36
Kjorn 5 years ago
Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me Do it in my van every Sunday She tells him she's in church but She doesn't go Still she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
EuroTrip, dude. It's a song performed by the movie's douche character (played by Matt Damon of all people) about how he's f*****g the protagonists girlfriend behind his back. Oddly enough, it's how Scotty finds out.
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Analyn Lahr 5 years ago
What? I graduated high school in 2005 so if this was a thing, I didn't pay it any attention.
Ande Abdrop 5 years ago
I had to google this! Lustra, never heard about that band. I'm gen x (1970s). Pretty scary lyrics, overtly sexual, compared to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s. The 90's got hot with NIN and RHCP, and then this? OK computer! (no actually, I don't like vulgarity, Madonna, Celine Dion is not so vulgar, but a bit..., Britney Spears, Samantha Fox started showing her body in the 80s, not my type of music, 'cause it's not about music anymore).
#37
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
And at first even dial up was pretty fast, because there were so few people with computers in their homes.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Lol the sound of dial up is something I'll never forget! You could tell if you were going to be connected or not by the noises it made ^-^
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Tereana Davie 5 years ago
I think my ancient username was dragonlvr0099 or something like that. I was in jr high/hs.
#38
Kim Lee 5 years ago
I guess they are painting a picture that, if you lost your friend, you had no idea what they had been up to in between then and when you found them again. Now, with cellphones and social media, you tend to know what everyone is up to in real time. No real mysteries or surprises.
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
The announcements over the store (and later mall) loudspeaker about a lost child, “Will the parents of _________ please come to the _______ Department? Your child is waiting for you.”
Carl Watson 5 years ago
My young son did this so he could hear his name called, we were sure.
Load More Replies... Lemon Garnished Potato 5 years ago
*claps* I've read the Faerie Queene! Good poem, not a short read, good ole middle english, quite exciting.
Mama Panda 5 years ago
Hmm we had pagers back then so losing a friend wasn't really an issue. I would think that it would have been harder to keep up with friends in the 70s and maybe the 80s.
Thomas Turnbull 5 years ago
most I stayed was fifty years but they had potions to keep you young.
Jocelyn Dae 5 years ago
It is a series of books, The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser. They are an English epic poem. Think Beowulf with more women & an extra dragon.
Keti Ledeno 5 years ago
Before cell phones, I got walkie talkies to keep in touch in the big mall that we went to. It worked.
Elijah Snow 5 years ago
LOL they didn't have intercoms at the department stores? This is so weird.
#39
Margie S. 5 years ago
Years ago I saw her at the mall when she was touring.
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
Old Skool Denver routinely has people post concert ticket stubs: U2 at Red Rocks in the 80s $12; Depeche Mode AND OMD at Mile High Stadium $26; The Cure at Rainbow Music Hall $8; Lollapalooza (Blondie, Cure, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc. etc. etc.) at Fiddler's Green $30...
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Rissie 5 years ago
Those were back for a little while ;) Also these are fads, not developing techs that won't return.
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This is the 2nd one that mentions "flex" in the description. What does that mean?
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James Pointer 5 years ago (edited)
Context, it's a shiny Football Sticker. It was one of the school fads buying/collecting. Much like other trading card games throughout the years, which is why like most of these pictures the "today's kids" would understand because there's equivalent thing for their times. There's literally lego trading cards from Sainsbury's kids go mad over and have trading clubs for. And the obvious Pokemon, magic and yugioh cards people have been collecting this whole time but they at least have some use other than you filled your sticker book
Catherine Hankinson 5 years ago
They're football stickers that kids in the uk would swap. The shop he's talking about is like a local corner shop.
Daria B 5 years ago
Not only UK. Other European countries had it too. And there was a variety of topics too. Football, basketball, Barbie, Sailor Moon, Disney, and the latest popular boy band / girl band, cartoon, TV drama, series or animated film. And there were albums for these stickers (like photo albums), they looked kinda like magazines and had numbered little squares inside them. The number would match the sticker, to indicate where you should stick it. And the best thing was to stick it exactly to match the square lines. ♥
Load More Replies... Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
My sister wrote the "trading rules" I'm my album so I wouldn't get ripped off XD "one puffy is worth two plain, one sparkly is 3 plain, etc"
Load More Replies... El Dee 5 years ago
Don't boys still collect football cards? When I was a kid the boys collected ACTUAL cards, well before they had stickers. God I feel old!!
Snowy Tundra 5 years ago
This past summer, my 9-year-old grand-nephew proudly showed me his binders of football cards. If it'll help make you feel not so old, I can remember a time when the only sports trading cards available were for baseball. 😇
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Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know what the hell you are talking about since the vast majority of them don't live in your twee little country.
#42
Pandas have no humor 5 years ago (edited)
Well let the old panda explain to you my kids: on left, a radio with aaa batteries, i used it to listen music outside while riding my bike (i was the cool kid because of it), on right these are bonbons like pezz. P.s. I think these were more common in Europe and mostly Central and Eastern parts of it.
Ed Souza 5 years ago
I think the one on the left is a radio? I have no idea about the one on the right.
Keti Ledeno 5 years ago
Does that mean that this person was taking drugs like it was candy and listening for the police so that he wouldn't get caught?
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Harley Hoglin 5 years ago
I have transistor radios the size smaller than that. They use a 9volt battery and only pick up AM stations. They are 40 years old.
#43
Thobias Lemke 5 years ago
It's about the wiffle ball falling in the gutter actually :)
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Carroll Cadden 5 years ago
Forty years later, I'll be there are remnants of all the Super Balls I bounced into the unreachable gutter at my childhood home.
Donald Holder 5 years ago
I don't know about this one. Still clean my gutter every spring, especially inside the "alleged" cover to keep them out that doesn't work because the squirrels carry them inside to make homes.
Ashley Kellers 5 years ago
Try reading the caption morons - he's talking about playing outside and your ball going on the roof with the potential to fall in the gutter - SMDH
#44
Bamboozled Panda 5 years ago
They're pretty nostalgic for Gen Z kids considering they grew up with them, although these were popular 6-10 years ago
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I love Foxxy 5 years ago
Half of these pictured have only been around within the past 10 years. My 14 yo used to own trash packs and loom bands and used to play fruit ninja and angry birds.
What's In Your Head? 5 years ago
Maybe my country is just behind, but those loom-things were a fad here a few years ago, maybe three, four years?
samuel smith 5 years ago
Oh my goodness this is such nostalgia! Does anybody remember silly banz rings or squinkies ,the little rubber pencil end toys, or even when youtube was a weird looking app on your ipod first gen ?!!! the good ole days of the early 2000's !
estimaate 5 years ago
Oh man, I still have a rainbow loom from when I was a kid! But I'm only 13 now so... not that old?
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Keep it ^-^ you will appreciate it again when you're older! I wish I'd kept a few more things
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Jim Ellington 5 years ago
No, I don't remember, and today's kids won't know because you have left out important details and used slang.
Craig Dupont 5 years ago
Kim Jong Un went to prison I guess and dropped a lighter on the floor upstairs? Who knows.
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
I have no idea how old I was when this happened, because I don't remember it happening. Not as iconic as Moira claims.
Guy MacGregor 5 years ago
Not old enough to be on this list, imo. This is a cartoon from my little brother era (never watched it actually)
Load More Replies... Neverumind 5 years ago
This site is run by European foreigners and I thought it was an english run site
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
The f**k does that have to do with anything? Hate to break it to you, but we're all technically foreigners, since the human race spread out from Africa thousands of years ago.
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Don Golosso 5 years ago
That's not the point here.... The point is that one can now send a DM via Instagram instead of the comment section being the only way to communicate.
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Jim Ellington 5 years ago
Today's kids know that well. It's yesterday's kids who don't know what the hell you're talking about with lingo like "insta", "snap", "shot", and "DMs".
Pandas have no humor 5 years ago
What the hell is wrong with the last 3 posts? I mean how the hell 13 years old became "old" ? Instagram, Fruit ninja and etc. aren't old at all...
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SBW71 5 years ago
Or taping a song from the radio and the beginning of it getting ruined because the DJ was still talking over it!
Mad Mar 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know a book report ment going to the library (or ur parents encyclopedia collection 20 years out of date)
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Don't forget the index card systems that made it so fun to figure out which books to look in...
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Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Todays kids will never know the joy of being able to stay at your friends house all summer and that your mom's most efficient way to get you home was to lean out the front door and yell your name to the neighborhood.
Katethebookworm06 5 years ago
My grandma used to always yell, "HEEEE!!!" across the woods and we would all come running!
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Nikki Gregerson 5 years ago
I must be getting old. Half of these people are what I think of as today's kids! LOL
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
That's my thought! Most of the stuff today's kids won't remember is stuff that is contemporary to my kids.
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Nea 5 years ago
Todays kids will never know the joy of exploring new cities with a paper fold out map in hand.
Chris 5 years ago
My 5 year old is absolutely obsessed with maps. He has loads of them. He follows car journeys on paper maps.
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know the quick reflexes you had to have to record your favorite song from the radio but stop before the DJ started talking.
Liz Sahlin Johansson 5 years ago
In my damn country they talked over both ends of all songs! Still do 😠
Load More Replies... Ed Souza 5 years ago
Todays kids will never know the joy of having real friends you actually interact with face to face. I have a nephew, he has no friends other than online people... it bothers me a lot.
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
That's not a generation thing as much as an individual character trait. I was like your nephew too and we had much less internet in my times. Some kids are just not that lucky with social skills. Also, my niece, who is in her early teens, seems to be interacting with her friends very well both face to face and online.
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Ashley Dopp 5 years ago (edited)
Today's kids will never know the beautiful anonymity of living their childhood and teen years without the eye of the world upon them where they can make mistakes and experiment without total judgement and ridicule following them for the rest of their lives.
Full Name 5 years ago
Amen. SOOOOOO glad I grew up without that. We got up to all kinds of harmless shenanigans there's no way you could now.
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Tammy Ralph 5 years ago
Does anyone remember pogs? My son who is 31 used to collect them when he was small.
SBW71 5 years ago
Or taping a song from the radio and the beginning of it getting ruined because the DJ was still talking over it!
Mad Mar 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know a book report ment going to the library (or ur parents encyclopedia collection 20 years out of date)
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Don't forget the index card systems that made it so fun to figure out which books to look in...
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
Todays kids will never know the joy of being able to stay at your friends house all summer and that your mom's most efficient way to get you home was to lean out the front door and yell your name to the neighborhood.
Katethebookworm06 5 years ago
My grandma used to always yell, "HEEEE!!!" across the woods and we would all come running!
Load More Replies... Nikki Gregerson 5 years ago
I must be getting old. Half of these people are what I think of as today's kids! LOL
Tim Douglass 5 years ago
That's my thought! Most of the stuff today's kids won't remember is stuff that is contemporary to my kids.
Load More Replies... Nea 5 years ago
Todays kids will never know the joy of exploring new cities with a paper fold out map in hand.
Chris 5 years ago
My 5 year old is absolutely obsessed with maps. He has loads of them. He follows car journeys on paper maps.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Today's kids will never know the quick reflexes you had to have to record your favorite song from the radio but stop before the DJ started talking.
Liz Sahlin Johansson 5 years ago
In my damn country they talked over both ends of all songs! Still do 😠
Load More Replies... Ed Souza 5 years ago
Todays kids will never know the joy of having real friends you actually interact with face to face. I have a nephew, he has no friends other than online people... it bothers me a lot.
Daria B 5 years ago (edited)
That's not a generation thing as much as an individual character trait. I was like your nephew too and we had much less internet in my times. Some kids are just not that lucky with social skills. Also, my niece, who is in her early teens, seems to be interacting with her friends very well both face to face and online.
Load More Replies... Ashley Dopp 5 years ago (edited)
Today's kids will never know the beautiful anonymity of living their childhood and teen years without the eye of the world upon them where they can make mistakes and experiment without total judgement and ridicule following them for the rest of their lives.
Full Name 5 years ago
Amen. SOOOOOO glad I grew up without that. We got up to all kinds of harmless shenanigans there's no way you could now.
Load More Replies... Tammy Ralph 5 years ago
Does anyone remember pogs? My son who is 31 used to collect them when he was small.
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