30 Facts From The ’70s And ’80s That Seem Unbelievable Now, Shared In This Online Thread

You mean Stranger Things was like the '80's... 😊

It was..... We sore those clothes, rode those bikes and went off on imaginary adventures.

It's the same time period...

In stranger things they spend a significant amount of time in a basement playing games. There were many of us that were forced outside to play all day until dinner time. Not a lot of overweight kids back then!

Without the upside down s**t

isnt that a bad thing?

My mom actually said . . ."I better not see you again until dark" . . . .it was a different time.

The newspapers started reporting things that had been considered taboo before, including suicide, cancer and, more relevantly in this instance, pederasty. There's no evidence that there are more attacks on children today relative to the past, but our awareness of them is much, much higher. Consequently parents are more fearful of leaving children unsupervised.

I wasn't as worried about my kid having an issue with strangers as much as being hit by a car, which happens often enough.

As a parent of two kids, my biggest concern is traffic. Drivers are soooo distracted here, and have little regard for pedestrian crossing. We've been designing streets and neighborhoods around cars for decades, then we're all surprised that kids don't go out and play by themselves. Some kids also aren't near safe green spaces to play in. Also, if you even leave your kid in the car with the windows open, you're going to get CPS called on you--never mind letting them walk around the neighborhood by themselves.

Remember the Grape one in there. Some of them had more dust on them than others and you could get 2 puffs out of them.

Chocolate or chewing gum?

But all the other stuff you read whilst doing it. I love encyclopaedias.

So, this was 15 years ago, but, I went to my public library to research books in a certain genre, and asked the librarian where the card catalog was. She replied "it's all online now. You can use any of the computers in the library to do your search." I responded "so, how will you find books when your servers go down?" I got a blank stare. I asked the same question when my Dr's office *proudly * announced that all of their patient's charts were now digital, and got the same blank stare. There's too much trust in computers and servers, and nothing wrong with paper files.

Going through the library index to locate the reference material you needed and searching the stacks for it, only to discover someone else had borrowed it. The absolute horror

Only to find out somebody else was already using it—-and taking their damn sweet time bringing it back.

AND not being able to check out, even for overnight, an encyclopedia from the school library, so you had to rush and scribble as many notes as possible in a 15 or 20 minute session.

Dewey Decimal System!

Remember the sound of the card catalogue drawers sliding out and back in and clicking into place?

Microfilm was how I learned the details of my brother's death, and that was a lot of work! I wonder what has happened to all the info on microfilm, if it's been preserved in other formats or if it's info is long lost....

Mine just threw chalk brushes at me

because as we know all dads smoke and all moms bake

For what kind of "pot"?

It's called a bong....

Me too. Still at least it wasn't difficult choosing what to watch!

me too and watching the 'dot' dissapear at the end when switched off after them playing the National Anthem

My first visit to family in the UK in 1966 left me shocked seeing limited channels and in black and white, too! Not that we had that many more in the states, but at least color programming.

Channel 4 started the year I was born... and I'm 40 this year :)

I do remember thought when my dad had an extra aerial put onto the house so that we could get BBC 2 so he could watch the cricket. And ITV was Channel 9 on the dial

BBC! Grandma! You devil.

All four of the family waited with bated breath on the opening night of Channel 4. We weren’t that impressed particularly with the downbeat film Walter they screened.

Ha ha! Me too!

Lol they sensored k n o b xD

And we thought it was a gift from the gods when we finally got FOX lol