What fo u remember that kids wouldn't understand today?

[fuggstop]

If i wanted to see a music video for my favorite band,i had to sit and wait for mtv to play it then recorded it on vhs  (oh! And mtv played music videos for hours and weird shit at nite like liquid tv!)

I remember when games came with every character and instead of paying for extra special characters, you had to get the code from a nerdy friend and unlock the character by pressing the right buttons during start up.

I remember when you didnt have to pay for cable if you knew a guy 

I remember being 8 and being the only one in the house who could program the vcr. 

I remember being bored and having no phone or internet...so id find a screwdriver and take shit apart and put it back together (this was before i was old enough to go to the library on my own)

I remember when people sold cats on the street that werent microchipped or fixed. You took them home and they were yours. If they got out ...theyd eventually come home. Some "rescue" didnt own the cat forever or was able to terminate your ownership of said cat.

I remember being 6 and leaving my house by myself and going inside other people's houses and wondering the neighborhood all alone for hours and no one got snatched or molested. I picked wild blueberries and played in a creek catching crawdads. We went deep in the woods and ate raw oysters. Same mom that let me do all this now gets mad if madison is playing in the front yard for too long.

(This might not pertain to everyone because i was precocious)  i remember coming home and doing all my homework without being told, teaching myself multiplication and division...basically...all subjects being easy af and not once asking my parents for any help. Now math is all retarded. Kids these days need laptops and quizlet and tutors just to make it out of elementary school. I was done with all homework after an hour then played all day. It takes madison hours to do all her work and sometimes she gets up at 5 am to finish it (might be an AP thing tho).

I remember going to the "Candy Lady" store with $2 and buying a bag full of candy, lick ups or pickled pig feet. Now kids come over and drink up and eat up all your shit for free.

Everyone's dad had a station wagon.

Time passed soooo much slower.

[tsar4]

If I wanted to see a music video, they didn't exist.

I remember when games only came on boards.

I remember when you didn't have to pay for cable because there were only a handful of channels and were broadcast OTA.  Well to do people had antenna rotators. 

I remember being 8 and going to my first Blackhawks game.  There was a lot of smoke and burnt out buildings around the Chicago Stadium.

I remember being bored only when there was nobody else to play with, one friend always got Scarlet Fever in the Summer, a lot of the rest went off to Summer Camp.

I remember when 5 & dime stores sold bunnies at Easter that farmers had raised.

I remember being 6 and playing bowling in our long (to me) hallway with a clincher softball and plastic pins.

I remember my parents taking me with to a Parent-Teacher conference.  My folks were told that I told the teacher I "couldn't read", which she said was untrue, I read very well.  So my folks called me in and asked why I said that & I answered that "I can't read the newspaper" (meaning I couldn't fully understand all the words).

I remember going to "Ma's & Pa's Candy store" with a quarter and buying a bag full of candy, bullseye, slow pokes, black cows, root beer barrels, etc. Years later, I walked into a "By the Weigh" candy story, recognized that smell & was immediately taken back to being that kid.

Everyone had a black and white tv.

Time passed far too quickly.

Edited November 17, 2018 by tsar4

[Bouvre]

Be Kind, Rewind

The Dial-up Sound

Cords on phones

 

[tsar4]

Duck & Cover

The 2 tone EBS sound ("This is only a test").

Phone numbers starting with 2 letters - MO4-4100 (Mohawk four- four one hundred)

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

On 11/16/2018 at 5:28 PM, fuggstop said:

I remember going to the "Candy Lady" store with $2 and buying a bag full of candy, lick ups or pickled pig feet. 

In what universe is pickled pig feet "candy"?

Anyway, I remember having to resort to lingerie catalogues and scrambled pay-per-view porn to fap to.

[DragonSinger]

1. The urge to throw a typewriter outside a window because it's messing up the night before your paper is due.

2. How hard it was to see pictures of naked people.

3. Being unable to have cute clothes while broke as fuck. The quality of cheap clothes is still shit, but there are a lot more secondhand shops than there used to be to give people more options.

4. The need for an overseas hookup just to watch subtitled anime.

Also this:

 

Edited November 19, 2018 by SorceressPol

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

3 minutes ago, SorceressPol said:

1. The urge to throw a typewriter outside a window because it's messing up the night before your paper is due.

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Do computers still do that? I never experienced this with a typewriter, but boy did I ever experience this with computers over the years.

[CAC]

8 hours ago, SorceressPol said:

Also this:

 

lolz, oh god that is so true.

[DragonSinger]

8 hours ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

Do computers still do that? I never experienced this with a typewriter, but boy did I ever experience this with computers over the years.

Computers are different. There was just something more rage inducing for me having to fix the typewriter ribbon myself and going over my mistakes with whiteout. Maybe also because there was no cord, I really came closer to throwing it out of my window than I ever did with a computer. The first time I used a computer for homework, I distinctly remember how much less drama was involved and wanted to hug it. The typewriter went straight into the basement after that day. 

That's why when it was the hipster thing to use typewriters for writing, I never got on that train because as soon as I hear that clacking, there's an instant flashback to how fucking annoying they were.

[fuggstop]

We had an electric typewriter with builtin eraser. Boy did i get bored and fuck up the ribbon beyond repair.