Remembering the World Before

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I remember when we didn't have:

- The Internet
- CDs
- Personal GPS devices
- easy access to porn and had to use imagination and a Sears catalog

I remember when:

- the cost of mobile phones had people opting for pagers
- faux wood paneling came with every TV
- Coke and Pepsi was only one flavor
- I watched videos on Betamax

What do you remember? I am interested in the replies of people older than I (see: people 30 years or older). :cold:
 
[quote name='Chase']I remember when we didn't have:

- The Internet
- CDs
- Personal GPS devices
- easy access to porn and had to use imagination and a Sears catalog

I remember when:

- the cost of mobile phones had people opting for pagers
- faux wood paneling came with every TV
- Coke and Pepsi was only one flavor
- I watched videos on Betamax

What do you remember? I am interested in the replies of people older than I (see: people 30 years or older). :cold:[/quote]

Let me guess...it's your birthday?!?!
 
I've never watched a betamax. One of my first repair jobs was an 8-track player though. We couldn't find anything to play on it besides In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
 
[quote name='Quillion']I've never watched a betamax. One of my first repair jobs was an 8-track player though. We couldn't find anything to play on it besides In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.[/quote]

My Ex still has a beta max player and just uses it for the time.. come on bitch get wit the times!
 
One of the bigger impacts to my life was CAG. I think it hit us all pretty big. Back then, if we saw a new release game for ten dollars off, it was hype. Now, we all just kind of go "Meh" at it.

I also remember clearance shopping being more difficult, but fun. Back in the day, I'd find so much stuff unmarked. There was a Target, Kmart, and Circuit City all in one plaza with a TRU and Best Buy within walking distance. My Mom and Grandma would go to the mall and I'd just do random ass price checks everywhere. Circuit City would have so many random Dreamcast games for 9.96 all the time.

It was awesome, but I think I'm better off with CAG. Not to mention that Target actually labels everything now, so without CAG it just boils down to driving to random ass Targets whenever I felt like it.
 
"I'm three" - darthbudge :)

And I remember ...

Phenomenal Saturday morning cartoons
Not having a computer
Thinking Sewer Shark was the pinnacle of gaming graphics
Only having one tv (that had 30 channels)
MTV playing videos / watching the top 20 countdown on Friday nights
Wondering why everyone thought CDs were so great
When dvd disc games cost $70 and up
TGIF
Nickelodeon having the best shows ever
Ebgames.com morning updates
 
I remember when Six Million Dollar Man was not only a great show, but when Six Million Dollars was an ungodly huge amount of money to waste on a guy who wore denim leisure suits.

I remember when CB radios were hip (uuuugh) and country music made its accursed press into the mainstream.

I remember when CHIPS, Emergency and Battlestar Galactica were the greatest shows on TV (and in many respects, may still be).

I remember when WARGAMES and TRON were the height of "high technology".

I remember when CD's began to replace albums in record stores, and they came in these long boxes so that way the stores could use the old 12" Album shelves to sell CD's, and people bitched about the wasted packaging.

I remember when ATARI meant "xbox" and "WALKMAN" meant ipod.

I remember owning a B&W Tv for a long time.

I remember when Mike Douglass, Dinah Shore and Merv Griffin were on TV every day :p
 
i remember when pizza hutt had the best dan pizza in the world and it was a big deal to go there and eat and drink unlimited pepsi and play centipede and buy some of those round chalky candies.


i also remember saturdy morning cartoons on every major channel and getting up early (6am) to watch them all. rocky and bullwinkle used to be the first toon on and sometimes it was popples.


i remember when i didnt know gay people existed ( grew up in the south ) now its gay this gay that its an odd thing for something to be shameful one minute and now its openly there.

i remeber a time when kids could go out and play and yes you were told not to talk to strangers but that was the biggest threat ( usually symbolized by a guy in a hat and trench coat).

i remember when people foguht and left it at that. no guns, no knives no ganging up on people 1 on 1 and when it was done you either fight again later or you let it rest and usually ended up friends.

i remember oregon trail being the greatest game ever.

i remember when libraries were cool places to be and peole would read to you there( if you were a kid ).

i remember when you could celebrate holidays without having to worry about offending people. ( i still cant get over them cancelling valentines in some schools because of kids being left out)

one more thing. i remember when tv was an event. youd have shows , tv movies or something on and everything would stop. you, your family and friends would watch that show and really enjoy it. must see tv kinda thing shows like V the Final Battle, Amazing Stories Roots. this was before recording tv was commonplace so you didnt want to miss anything because you didnt wan to be the kid in class who missed the show and couldnt join in on the conversation.
 
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Damn HR, you're old as fuck!

I had sewer shark Mak, but My sega CD was broked so I've never gotten to play it. :(

I remember when I used to wake up in the mornings before school and watch Mr. Wizard. man that guy made some cool shit.

I remember the red/green show and the wonders of duct tape
 
I remember my parents getting pissed that i kept scratching records. I think i had my first CD player in like 92 maybe.
 
I remember having to get up to turn the channel or adjust the volume.

When cable meant you got channels 2-13.

When cassette tape players came out with "auto-reverse", and thinking that was the greatest thing ever.

When cereals had cool prizes inside.

I remember when we got our first microwave, and how happy my Mom was.

Our first VCR was the size of a large suitcase and had a wired remote control.

When everything made in Japan was considered inferior.

When Netscape 2.0 was sooo much better than Mosaic.

I remember when I was an Intellivision fanboy.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']I remember laser discs the size of vinyl records[/quote]
I had a teacher show us one once in school, only time i've seen one. Was some educational thing.
 
[quote name='kaw']I remember having to get up to turn the channel or adjust the volume.

When cable meant you got channels 2-13.

When cassette tape players came out with "auto-reverse", and thinking that was the greatest thing ever.

When cereals had cool prizes inside.

I remember when we got our first microwave, and how happy my Mom was.

Our first VCR was the size of a large suitcase and had a wired remote control.

When everything made in Japan was considered inferior.

When Netscape 2.0 was sooo much better than Mosaic.

I remember when I was an Intellivision fanboy.[/quote]


This post reminds me of the machines separate of the vcr that was meant solely for rewinding the tape (and the 50 cent charge for un-rewound tapes at the rental store). And the time when ICQ was the main (only?) chat program.
 
I'm old enough :)

Its a shame really that saturday morning isn't what it used to be...glued to the TV from 6am until 11:30, then a break for lunch, and then bad monster or sci-fi movies on starting at 1pm.

This was back when cable channels were independently owned and regional.....where you'd have 2 or 3 channels from New York, a couple from Boston, before they all became affiliated with Networks, and their programming was all over the place. But the best part was that they'd usually cater to freaks on the weekends, many would have late night monster/sci fi movie thons......hell remember USA Networks COMMANDER USA and his Groovy Movies!? Oh HELLS YES....

(Or the original Morton Downey Jr. show on Channel 11..or was it channel 9...hmmm)

Those were the days of real cool cable TV, its like the Internet was 8 years ago :) Cable TV was the wild west back then.

Alright here's one for you OLD timers: Anyone remember when you could take an old TV, swtich it over to the UHF dial, and then go up near the upper parts of the dials and sometimes..SOMETIMES late at night you'd wind up finding porn that was semi-scrambled? ANd like you'd be lookin and could sorta make out a boob..or..maybe it was an elbow...hard to tell... :D

I still to this day have no idea what that was about :p



This was in the northeast...
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']I'm old enough :)

Its a shame really that saturday morning isn't what it used to be...glued to the TV from 6am until 11:30, then a break for lunch, and then bad monster or sci-fi movies on starting at 1pm.

This was back when cable channels were independently owned and regional.....where you'd have 2 or 3 channels from New York, a couple from Boston, before they all became affiliated with Networks, and their programming was all over the place. But the best part was that they'd usually cater to freaks on the weekends, many would have late night monster/sci fi movie thons......hell remember USA Networks COMMANDER USA and his Groovy Movies!? Oh HELLS YES....
[/quote]


Yeah that was the best. Afternoons of Godzilla and ninja movies on those channels before they were taken over by the super stations and/or Fox. And USA and TNT use to have some great late night programming. Up All Night with that porn girl, Gilbert Gottfried, Sandra Bernhard on USA and Monster Vision with Joe Bob Briggs on TNT.
 
I remember when the internet was in it's infancy and AOL via a 14.4 kb modem was the shit!

I remember the USA Up All Night programming. I remember as a kid getting so excited when I would get my latest issue of the Nintendo Fan Club in the mail.

As geeky as this is, I remember wanting to go see "The Wizard" just because it featured one of the first looks at SMB 3. God was that lame!

I remember buying boxes of Garbage Pale Kids at .25 per pack.
I remember when the original Transformers were the shit and how much I wanted to buy all of the Dinobots.
 
I remember clear pepsi and OK soda.. and I loved both of them

I remember being so excited for the Garbage Pale Kids "The Movie" and rushing back from a weekend away to catch the opening weekend of TMNT the movie.
 
[quote name='homeland']I remember clear pepsi and OK soda.. and I loved both of them[/quote]

I remember Crystal Pepsi.

Anyone remember Like Cola?
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Two words: Pepsi Kona

And where did I see it advertised? During an episode of The Dinosaurs. Not the mama![/quote]
I completely forgot about The Dinosaurs...

[quote name='JolietJake']I remember watching that late night programming on USA. Wasn't Duckman shown on USA too?[/quote]

I think so. I used to love that show.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Two words: Pepsi Kona

And where did I see it advertised? During an episode of The Dinosaurs. Not the mama![/quote]
I loved that show, is till have my old VHS tapes somewhere. Back then i couldn't believe they let Earl curse in one episode.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']I'm old enough :)

Its a shame really that saturday morning isn't what it used to be...glued to the TV from 6am until 11:30, then a break for lunch, and then bad monster or sci-fi movies on starting at 1pm.

This was back when cable channels were independently owned and regional.....where you'd have 2 or 3 channels from New York, a couple from Boston, before they all became affiliated with Networks, and their programming was all over the place. But the best part was that they'd usually cater to freaks on the weekends, many would have late night monster/sci fi movie thons......hell remember USA Networks COMMANDER USA and his Groovy Movies!? Oh HELLS YES....

(Or the original Morton Downey Jr. show on Channel 11..or was it channel 9...hmmm)

Those were the days of real cool cable TV, its like the Internet was 8 years ago :) Cable TV was the wild west back then.

Alright here's one for you OLD timers: Anyone remember when you could take an old TV, swtich it over to the UHF dial, and then go up near the upper parts of the dials and sometimes..SOMETIMES late at night you'd wind up finding porn that was semi-scrambled? ANd like you'd be lookin and could sorta make out a boob..or..maybe it was an elbow...hard to tell... :D

I still to this day have no idea what that was about :p



This was in the northeast...[/quote]


usa was an amazing channel back then odd cartoons in the morning ( that show called calliopie with thse weird bug cartoons) and at night uncensored r rated goodness. they used to love showing porkies films. And Rhonda Shearer on usa UP! all night.

hell i remember when nickleodeon first got started very diff channel from what it is now.

as loose and trashy as things are now back then people werent so uptight.

i miss the Hair Bear Bunch.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']I remember watching that late night programming on USA. Wasn't Duckman shown on USA too?[/quote]

yep another great usa show.
 
I remember Liquid TV. The progenitor to Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, and Aeon Flux. And there was that crazy Dog Boy show. *shudders*

Speaking of Dog Boy .. I remember the Duracell people. *shudders harder*
 
[quote name='JolietJake']I loved that show, is till have my old VHS tapes somewhere. Back then i couldn't believe they let Earl curse in one episode.[/QUOTE]

LOL, I remember "What Al 'Sexual' Harris Meant" from Dinosaurs.


Christ, I even had a t-shirt that featured the baby and the slogan "Not the mama!"


I remember Up All Night, Monster Vision (gotta love those cheesy monster flicks), Duckman, Weird Science (The T.V show), all on USA.

Staying up late to watch Movie Macabre with Elvira Mistress of the Dark.

When large toys came in cardboard boxes and only one side featured a photograph of the contents (think Castle Grayskull).

When Zack Morris was the only high schooler with a cell phone.

Watching the original Star Wars saga oh VHS over and over and over and over...

When Star Wars merchandising was almost non-existent...talkin' about that dry spell between 1986-95 or so...
 
I remember when Pong was new and TV starting showing ads for something from Magnavox called Odyssey.

I remember the first Nixon administration.

I remember the first Moon landing.

I remember leaded gasoline.

I remember when 'full service' was the only service at gas stations.

I remember the Vietnam war and the draft.



I remember when all of this ended.
 
I find it odd to see this, because I was just telling Pixie last night that our son will have no concept of that if you missed your TV show, you had to wait the next day to see it. If you needed to look something up, and you didn't have an encyclopedia at home, you had to hike to the library.

Personally, I remember calculators that were only red LEDs. Our first VCR that had a remote...that wasn't even wireless. My first game system wasn't even an Atari: it was a Pong system...Telestar, I believe (I still have it in my basement in a box). When you went to 7-Eleven, not only were they not 24 hrs, but if you got a slurpee (only cherry or coke flavors - no mixing), they made it behind the counter for you. There wasn't a CVS or Walgreens - there was a local drug store and the pharmacist knew us by name.

Only a few people had cable. And all it did was descramble what the local channel (for us, it was channel 20) started playing at 8pm. It was called "OnTV." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ON-TV - kind of an interesting read.) I saw Star Wars at a friends house, and they didn't Pan and Scan; they just shrunk the ratio down so Darth Vader looked 10 feet tall and 150 lbs. Later, when you had cable service as we know it today, there was only one company in the neighbourhood, which was awesome for my friends and me. I came up with the idea of taking our friend's cab;e remote, going out at 2 or 3am and going up to people's living room windows and, using the universal remote that the cable company gave to everyone, turning people's TVs on and maxing out the volume (you had to angle it just right through the glass if their curtains were open).

Not as long ago, but I miss the days of prank calling. Now, with everyone having caller ID and screening, it has really taken the fun out of it. Kids will never have the chance like I did to really perfect this art.

I could go on and on, because I think the last twenty years have just been fascinating in this regard.

Of course, I remember staring at Suzanne Sommer's bouncy boobs and hard nipples on Three's Company and not knowing why I liked it so much...but I watched every week, and if Joyce DeWitt's nips were hard too - that was a good night of TV watching in my book.

I probably should have kept that last one to myself...
 
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[quote name='HeadRusch']
Alright here's one for you OLD timers: Anyone remember when you could take an old TV, swtich it over to the UHF dial, and then go up near the upper parts of the dials and sometimes..SOMETIMES late at night you'd wind up finding porn that was semi-scrambled? ANd like you'd be lookin and could sorta make out a boob..or..maybe it was an elbow...hard to tell... :D

I still to this day have no idea what that was about :p



This was in the northeast...[/quote]

See my comment in my long ass rambling about OnTV. :lol: I know exactly what you're talking about.

Whoops...sorry about the double post.

But for the double post, I'll add this: dialing into "servers" at the University of Michigan to play a text MMORPG called HeroMud on what...a 1200 baud modem? That was '89 or '90, and my mom would get so pissed about the phone bill!
 
I'm in my 30s. I remember the Rappin Duke! This was when Rap Music was just appearing...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfUSIerJ-8c[/media]
 
22 here, so can't compare with the first time someone landed on the moon.

I remember everyone not being attached at the limb with their cell phone, texting nonstop.
I remember watching movies on beta and vhs.
I remember going to high school and not having facebook and myspace. I feel sorry for this nations youth.
I remember when calling long distance cost a shitload on landlines.
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D the day is came out on a shitty PC.
I remember having a black and white TV in my room until I was 13.

The list goes on.
 
[quote name='Xevious']I'm in my 30s. I remember the Rappin Duke! This was when Rap Music was just appearing...[/quote]

When you were in diapers and wetting the sheets/
I was at the Ponderosa rapping to the beat/
da ha ha ha/
da ha ha ha ha ha
 
Here's a good one.

I remember trying to get in to see Star Wars the night it first opened in 1977.

Last thing I did with my father before he died.
 
I remember playing PC games like Kings Quest on a "state of the art" IBM 486 PC.The game came with like 8 floppy disks that you had to change out during play.
 
[quote name='Chase']I remember when we didn't have:

- The Internet
- CDs
- Personal GPS devices
- easy access to porn and had to use imagination and a Sears catalog

I remember when:

- the cost of mobile phones had people opting for pagers
- faux wood paneling came with every TV
- Coke and Pepsi was only one flavor
- I watched videos on Betamax

What do you remember? I am interested in the replies of people older than I (see: people 30 years or older). :cold:[/quote]I remember most of that but I was past the faux wood paneling although our first TV did have a dial on it two actually. I barely remember Betamax but we didn't have one. I remember when the were called car phones because you didn't carry them around like you do now. I remember open apple and closed apple. ahh good times. Lynx I remember the Lynx browser at the library. To be honest that's the only place I ever saw it but I did use it there. I still remember and i think have the first burned CD a friend gave me.
 
I remember hanging out in my off-campus apartment in college and playing Way of the Warrior on my roommate's 3DO.

[quote name='Maklershed']I remember laser discs the size of vinyl records[/quote]

I still have a giant bin of laserdiscs in my storage unit! I should put that shit on craigslist.

[quote name='Maklershed']I remember Liquid TV. The progenitor to Beavis and Butthead, Office Space, and Aeon Flux. [/quote]

...which means you're probably old enough to remember when MTV showed videos, too!

Also: do you remember MTV's Oddities? The Maxx and The Head...and I think Aeon Flux was on there for a while, too.
 
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