21 Weird Things That Were Widely Acceptable 20 Years Ago, As Shared By People Online

I still do this - its actually liberating

I kinda feel bad for kids nowadays. My sister and I use to go into the woods with our neighborhood friends and just run around and play, ride our bikes around the neighborhood or to the corner store. Our pitbull would accompany us unleashed and everyone would just stop and pet him as they passed by.

Who owned that much Oingo Boingo?

Yup, had to use paper maps, too, no GPS....I remember stopping at gas stations so many times to get help with directions. And hoping they weren't sending me on a wild goose chase.

I can still hear the sound it made when connecting...

When I was a kid, I used to have a little book that the pilot would sign on each flight and would usually get invited up to the cockpit to get it signed. You could only stand back behind the pilots seats, and not touch anything, but if you were lucky the pilot would show you some of the controls and instruments. Used to love it. Real shame that kids these days will never expeience that.

I decided I wanted to become a pilot, so I took a crash course. Turns out that wasn't what they were looking for.

They still do this before takeoff during boarding. I see kids doing it all the time. I also fly a lot, so there's that, too.

20 years ago was December of 2001. I doubt if anyone was looking in any cockpits. Most of the things on this list would be more likely 30 years ago.

I am only in my early teens and I have seen the inside of a cockpit on a commercial flight? Maybe it's just America that has banned this because of 911

As kid, I always poked my head in the cockpit to say "hi" to the pilots.

At our town park when I was a kid there was a WWII fighter jet that we could go into and pretend we were flying it. There were sharp edges all over it, and I'm sure it wasn't the safest place to be, but that was part of the fun.

I remember this on a plane ride when I was about 6. I took a domestic flight on my own with my mom seeing me off at the gates and my dad meeting me at the gates at the other airport. Got to say hi to the pilots. I was a bit of a brat on the way back LOL. An old man said the flight stewards would throw me out of the plane if I didn't stop and I'm all like "Yeah right." Weren't we all lil' shits at one point?

My dad has a picture somewhere of me at age 5 (so, around 12 years ago) and my half-sister in a plane's cockpit, before the plane took off. I'm a little surprised they let us do that.

I got a pin shaped like a plane.

20 years ago was 9/11. Seriously somebody needs to do the math. Almost all of these entries applied THIRTY years ago.

I wonder if he became a pilot after all.

And did you become a pilot?

Not too long ago an Aeroflot Airbus made a very hard landing because they let the Captain's kids sit in the cockpit. Somehow, one of the kids disengaged the autopilot, the G-forces eventually prevented everybody from reaching the controls and finally they got a hold of it, but run out of altitude. Very tragic and very stupid.

I'm sorry son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.

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only 3 years ago my brother(7 at the time)got to see the cockpit of the plane taking of from the cincinnati airport to some airport in Los Angeles. Only got to see it because he was young and way in front of the rest of the family! He got see the controls and ACTUALLY sat in the pilots chair. THis was when we were getting off the plane to head to another plane taking us to Sheing Hi, China!! Cool experience for my brother...

i was able to do that just 10 years ago, understandable why it's not allowed anymore but still a shame

On my first flight , I've been allowed to stay on the cockpit for the entire flight ( except take off/ landing) The plane was an Air Inter Caravelle ( French guy here)

I'm glad this stopped! There was actually an incident don't remember the details though with a pilot's kid! He entered the cockpit deactivated the automatic pilot and created a series of events that lend to crash! Even without terrorism this was a dangerous practice

polyphonic songs were awesome lol

daaamn, so true !

Just you wait until 19 January 2038.

You could smoke EVERYWHERE back in the day - malls, planes, hospitals, offices. What was weird then was being told you COULDN'T smoke somewhere.

Also : smoking both on the airport and the plane! It was 1997, a flight to Dakar

And me 6 years old laying in the back window on top of the seats.

And shopkins!

I miss the times when they didn't request you one capital letter one number one symbol for a password!!! I don't f*****g remember my passwords when they are so complicated!!! A hacker will still find a way and I'll be locked out anyway

My ex had me frost his blonde hair with platinum blonde spikes. Totally 90's.

"ramen noodle looking hair" sooo true :D

Especially the ones that have the whole club looking at you

RIP :'(

It was just as disturbing back then.

The beginning of the end of privacy.

I miss those days. Pockets forever!