4. Yard darts. Remember these things? Huge ass darts you'd throw up in the air and try to get em to stick within a certain area on the grass in your yard... huge sharp ass darts thrown up high in the air with kids around... you get the picture.*
I almost got hit in the back of the head with one of those heavy ass things once...s-k-e-t-c-h-y.
The first time I got grounded was for throwing yard darts into the lawn chair cushions. So I was stuck in my room for the night, playing with my Shogun Warriors.
Remember when kids had record players? I did anyway, Still have a few of my Sesame Street records.
Rotary telephones sucked if there were a bunch of nines in the number. It was hard to dial before you ran out of time.
But I do remember some computer system using cassettes as a means of data storage.
Early Commodore 64. I still have it stashed away somewhere. A few years back I put one of those tapes in the regular cassette-player to HEAR THE DATA and by God... it was dreadful.
Naturally I sampled it.
One huge thing that hasn??t been touched by anyone yet, proving how ingrained in society it has become:
Remember pre-cellular phone days? I don??t know how it is in the states, but over here EVERYONE has a cellphone. I heard some perople discussing it, saying people were way more punctual back in the day, since now all you do is call them on their mobiles and say you??ll be half an hour to a week late.
Restaurants used to offer smoking and non-smoking sections.
I still see this.
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
I remember when:
-Schools really taught reading, writing, and arithmetic and would flunk your ass if you didn't deserve to pass.
-Mom disciplining me at the store after my temper tantrum.
-Teenagers that drove busted cars because their parents made THEM buy it THEMSELVES to teach responsibility.
-Atari before it was called "2600".
-Playing "Tron" all day at the laundromat.
-Sandlot football, baseball, and basketball games which kept young kids fit, unlike the lard-ass youngsters of today who play X-Box all day and each junk food.
-The card catalogue in the school and/or public library were you actually had to flip through the cards manually to find the listing of the book you wanted.
-Professors smoking cigarettes, stogies, and/or pipes in their offices before public universities were smoke-free.
-Using a pay phone to make a call "on-the-run", before the advent of the cell phone.
-Fast food sandwiches served in styrofoam containers before restaurant chains were "earth friendly".
-I remember when "Intellivision" was considered a state-of-the-art video game (i.e., an upgrade from Atari).
-I remember when you could play the radio all day because the music played had variety and didn't suck (e.g., AM Gold).
-I remember when people in movie theaters weren't rude and obnoxious.
-I remember when fast food restaurants didn't have salad bars. These were only available at cafeterias or fine-dining establishments.
-I remember back when Dairy Queen only served ice cream.
-I remember back when a pharmacy only contained drugs and medical-related items (pre-Walgreens era).
-I remember Harmony Hut music stores.
-I grew up in the reel-to-reel era. Pops had a million of those tapes.
-I remember back when cable television and computers were exclusive items. These used to be luxuries.
-I remember paddle ball, Stratego, jacks, plastic army men, Battleship, and Merlin games/toys.
Better still - remember pay phones? As of 2005, so many folks owned cell phones that actual public phones have been disappearing one by one. I have a cell too, but I don't always remember to recharge that bad boy, so it would be nice to have a pay phone around around just in case. (When I went to London, England last year, not only did they still have pay phones, but they had them in the booths - in the States, for the last 20 years or so, booths were three-sided affairs, but in England they still have four sides and look like professional outhouses.)
-Teenagers that drove busted cars because their parents made THEM buy it THEMSELVES to teach responsibility.
Oh fuck YES! I keep saying to my wife how I absolutely cannot believe the caliber of cars that teenagers drive today. When I was in high school, the few lucky kids that had cars were driving busted old Dusters, Gremlins and such, or their Grandma's old battleship. There is way too much money in my part of Jersey.....
I remember...
Before cable TV
Before desktop computers
When most new songs came out on 45
When fast food places like McDonalds were considered kind of a special treat (when we had to drive like 20 minutes to get to the only McDonalds in the area)
When most of the now congested area I live in was about 90% farms/undeveloped woods
Staying up way past midnight for stuff like Rock Concert, Night Flight, SCTV, Uncle Floyd
Before infomercials, back when they used to show movies late at night (or TV stations that actually signed off the air with a playing of the Star Spangled Banner)....
Steve Austin, Evil Knievel and the Fonz were kool. At McDonalds you could get a hamburger fries and a coke for a dollar and you got change back. Slime (that green shit that came in a garbage can). The arcade game Phoenix. Kiss My copper colored Schwin Stingray with nobby tires.
Staying up way past midnight for stuff like Rock Concert, Night Flight, SCTV, Uncle Floyd
Don Kirschners Rock Concert.
I bought the entire first season collection of SCTV and it brought back way too many memories. Bobby Bitman and his younger brother Skip Bitman, Edith Prickly, Farm Film Blowup with Meryl Streep.
Before infomercials, back when they used to show movies late at night (or TV stations that actually signed off the air with a playing of the Star Spangled Banner)....
Dude! My little ass used to stay up waaaaay past my bedtime and I remember that vividly. After the last note of the song, I would just pass out.
On the computer topic, you don't even have to go that far back (well, I guess it has been 10-15 years) to remember dot-matrix printers. Super loud and of very questionable quality. Paper jams were a nightmare, and sometimes if it wasn't set up correctly, the perforations would be in the middle of the text. Still, it was satifying to complete an essay and tear the little guide strips of the sides of the paper.
Not sure if they still do cause I graduated in 2004, but Temple University still uses these. And so does my local wachovia. It took them an hour to print three months worth of bank statments I needed for my home loan.
On the computer topic, you don't even have to go that far back (well, I guess it has been 10-15 years) to remember dot-matrix printers. Super loud and of very questionable quality. Paper jams were a nightmare, and sometimes if it wasn't set up correctly, the perforations would be in the middle of the text. Still, it was satifying to complete an essay and tear the little guide strips of the sides of the paper.
Not sure if they still do cause I graduated in 2004, but Temple University still uses these. And so does my local wachovia. It took them an hour to print three months worth of bank statments I needed for my home loan.
We still have several deployed throughout the enterprise, used mainly for heavy duty report printing.
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
Here are some more memories:
-Koogle's peanut butter (in banana, chocolate, and vanilla flavors).
-The Ajax tornado commercial.
-"Weekly Reader" kid newspaper in elementary school.
-When "KFC" was "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and it DIDN'T suck.
-The big red balls we used to play kickball in school.
-Zips sneakers.
-Member's Only jackets.
-When jigsaw puzzles were used as decorative items.
-Model trains and racing tracks.
-Electric football games with the vibrating metal field (my brother I used to make up a schedule and play full seaons).
-Mattel's electronic (green-colored and hand-held) football game (was that shit).
-Blue-light house parties.
-When young girls looked like young girls (pre-steroids in foods era).
-When teenage blow-jobs and other freaky shit were taboo and rare.
-"Field Day" sporting events at elementary school near the end of the year (remember the different ribbons you could get for hold you performed in each event? Presidential ribbon, red ribbon, etc.). Once upon a time, child fitness was STRESSED.
-Console record players (pops had one).
-Plastic furniture covers (my aunt Magdalene had these).
On the computer topic, you don't even have to go that far back (well, I guess it has been 10-15 years) to remember dot-matrix printers. Super loud and of very questionable quality. Paper jams were a nightmare, and sometimes if it wasn't set up correctly, the perforations would be in the middle of the text. Still, it was satifying to complete an essay and tear the little guide strips of the sides of the paper.
Not sure if they still do cause I graduated in 2004, but Temple University still uses these. And so does my local wachovia. It took them an hour to print three months worth of bank statments I needed for my home loan.
The last time I used a dot matrix was in Jan. 2005. I know for a fact that the U.S Army still uses dot matrix printers (to print reports and what not) but I believe there phasing that out of their inventory.
Yes, they are a bitch to work with. There were many a time where I was tempted to get my Michael Bolton on and catch wreck on the ol' dot matrix.
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Oh hell yeah.. that shit tasted SO good too didn't it?
And another one,
6. Bottled soda. I call it "pop" but remember bottled Mountain Dew and bottled Coke? Shit was the best. Sold in 8 packs, 16 oz bottles.
I almost got hit in the back of the head with one of those heavy ass things once...s-k-e-t-c-h-y.
Remember when kids had record players? I did anyway, Still have a few of my Sesame Street records.
Rotary telephones sucked if there were a bunch of nines in the number. It was hard to dial before you ran out of time.
Early Commodore 64. I still have it stashed away somewhere. A few years back I put one of those tapes in the regular cassette-player to HEAR THE DATA and by God... it was dreadful.
Naturally I sampled it.
One huge thing that hasn??t been touched by anyone yet, proving how ingrained in society it has become:
Remember pre-cellular phone days? I don??t know how it is in the states, but over here EVERYONE has a cellphone. I heard some perople discussing it, saying people were way more punctual back in the day, since now all you do is call them on their mobiles and say you??ll be half an hour to a week late.
Weird.
- J
I remember when their used to be a music class in elementary.
The teacher would actually play records!
Damn, I feel old and I'm not even old.
I remember when going to see a new movie cost $4 bucks.
Lego was the bomb. The space lego was my shit!
Ricky The Dragon Steamboat!
Typing for hours on a VIC 20 just to get the fucking colour on the screen to change or to make sounds.
Going to the drive-in was a regular deal.
Most video stores had major Beta and Laserdisc sections.
CHiPs
Kids played marbles
When there was never any hip hop on the radio.
Pong with the paddles was the hot shit
BBS Boards were how people talked through computers
To men all over the place, 20 minute workout was TV porn.
When everyone had a Rubik's Cube and only rich dudes had cel phones
I still see this.
I remember when:
-Schools really taught reading, writing, and arithmetic and would flunk your ass if you didn't deserve to pass.
-Mom disciplining me at the store after my temper tantrum.
-Teenagers that drove busted cars because their parents made THEM buy it THEMSELVES to teach responsibility.
-Atari before it was called "2600".
-Playing "Tron" all day at the laundromat.
-Sandlot football, baseball, and basketball games which kept young kids fit, unlike the lard-ass youngsters of today who play X-Box all day and each junk food.
-The card catalogue in the school and/or public library were you actually had to flip through the cards manually to find the listing of the book you wanted.
-Professors smoking cigarettes, stogies, and/or pipes in their offices before public universities were smoke-free.
-Using a pay phone to make a call "on-the-run", before the advent of the cell phone.
-Fast food sandwiches served in styrofoam containers before restaurant chains were "earth friendly".
-I remember when "Intellivision" was considered a state-of-the-art video game (i.e., an upgrade from Atari).
-I remember when you could play the radio all day because the music played had variety and didn't suck (e.g., AM Gold).
-I remember when people in movie theaters weren't rude and obnoxious.
-I remember when fast food restaurants didn't have salad bars. These were only available at cafeterias or fine-dining establishments.
-I remember back when Dairy Queen only served ice cream.
-I remember back when a pharmacy only contained drugs and medical-related items (pre-Walgreens era).
-I remember Harmony Hut music stores.
-I grew up in the reel-to-reel era. Pops had a million of those tapes.
-I remember back when cable television and computers were exclusive items. These used to be luxuries.
-I remember paddle ball, Stratego, jacks, plastic army men, Battleship, and Merlin games/toys.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
Better still - remember pay phones? As of 2005, so many folks owned cell phones that actual public phones have been disappearing one by one. I have a cell too, but I don't always remember to recharge that bad boy, so it would be nice to have a pay phone around around just in case. (When I went to London, England last year, not only did they still have pay phones, but they had them in the booths - in the States, for the last 20 years or so, booths were three-sided affairs, but in England they still have four sides and look like professional outhouses.)
Big wheels and toys guns, the more realistic the better.
Oh fuck YES! I keep saying to my wife how I absolutely cannot believe the caliber of cars that teenagers drive today. When I was in high school, the few lucky kids that had cars were driving busted old Dusters, Gremlins and such, or their Grandma's old battleship.
There is way too much money in my part of Jersey.....
I remember...
Before cable TV
Before desktop computers
When most new songs came out on 45
When fast food places like McDonalds were considered kind of a special treat (when we had to drive like 20 minutes to get to the only McDonalds in the area)
When most of the now congested area I live in was about 90% farms/undeveloped woods
Staying up way past midnight for stuff like Rock Concert, Night Flight, SCTV, Uncle Floyd
Before infomercials, back when they used to show movies late at night (or TV stations that actually signed off the air with a playing of the Star Spangled Banner)....
At McDonalds you could get a hamburger fries and a coke for a dollar and you got change back.
Slime (that green shit that came in a garbage can).
The arcade game Phoenix.
Kiss
My copper colored Schwin Stingray with nobby tires.
The girl from Escape to Witch Mountain
HAWT!
Don Kirschners Rock Concert.
I bought the entire first season collection of SCTV and it brought back way too many memories. Bobby Bitman and his younger brother Skip Bitman, Edith Prickly, Farm Film Blowup with Meryl Streep.
Buying vinyl from Sam Goody or Strawberries.
My little ass used to stay up waaaaay past my bedtime and I remember that vividly.
After the last note of the song, I would just pass out.
Not sure if they still do cause I graduated in 2004, but Temple University still uses these. And so does my local wachovia. It took them an hour to print three months worth of bank statments I needed for my home loan.
We still have several deployed throughout the enterprise, used mainly for heavy duty report printing.
Here are some more memories:
-Koogle's peanut butter (in banana, chocolate, and vanilla flavors).
-The Ajax tornado commercial.
-"Weekly Reader" kid newspaper in elementary school.
-When "KFC" was "Kentucky Fried Chicken" and it DIDN'T suck.
-The big red balls we used to play kickball in school.
-Zips sneakers.
-Member's Only jackets.
-When jigsaw puzzles were used as decorative items.
-Model trains and racing tracks.
-Electric football games with the vibrating metal field (my brother I used to make up a schedule and play full seaons).
-Mattel's electronic (green-colored and hand-held) football game (was that shit).
-Blue-light house parties.
-When young girls looked like young girls (pre-steroids in foods era).
-When teenage blow-jobs and other freaky shit were taboo and rare.
-When watching parents' porno tapes blew teenagers' minds.
-Tetherballs in the school playground.
-"Field Day" sporting events at elementary school near the end of the year (remember the different ribbons you could get for hold you performed in each event? Presidential ribbon, red ribbon, etc.). Once upon a time, child fitness was STRESSED.
-Console record players (pops had one).
-Plastic furniture covers (my aunt Magdalene had these).
-Bean-bag chairs.
-Etch-a-Sketch.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
I know for a fact that the U.S Army still uses dot matrix printers (to print reports and what not) but I believe there phasing that out of their inventory.
Yes, they are a bitch to work with.
There were many a time where I was tempted to get my Michael Bolton on and catch wreck on the ol' dot matrix.
also
video games = pong
coffee for less than a quarter
6 pack of beer for less than $2
smoke for $20-30 an oz
gas for less than $0.50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBgSa1z84NI&mode=related&search=
dot matrix printer,
wats dat ???
it somehow still gets used in 2006.
are punch cards still in existence?!
i remember when sneakers were for playing basketball
i remember being in awe of anyone who could dunk
i remember sesame street
i remember when poprocks first came out
i remember when only bikers, sailors and criminals had tattoos
i remember when girls bellybuttons used to be unpierced
i remember madonnas (B&W) spread in playboy (hairy armpits
i remember passin notes in class
i remember writing a letter
i remember Buck Rogers and Steve Austin
i remember watching Ali on tv live.
You couldn't eat them with soda, though. That's how "Mikey" died.
gawd, i hope not
after compute 101 with the punch cards @ flo valley,
it took some time to get over my mad hat on the puter
& join the internets