People 30+, what's something that happened back your day?
I remember dial-up internet, where the phone and internet were on the same line, and if someone in your house wanted to use the phone you had to stop using the internet for a bit 😁.
@Lostpoet God I don't miss it. Good riddance to the world that was when were kids... Blockbuster and Hollywood video went under [i][b]in huge part because they deserved to.[/b][/i]
My sister WORKED for Hollywood Video, they made MOST of their Money off late fees. Reed Hasting's got PISSED and founded Netflix pretty much to get revenge and that's why I admire him..,. I've never quiet been so fond of a rich person.
I wanna answer! I mean, I'm only 5 short years away from 30! *roll-up windows in cars *cars also had a tall antenna on them *I remember Dial-up too *Floppy disks *Flash animations broadcasted on television *pagers *Boom boxes *Game Cube and Atari *The PS1 my older brother never let me play *Tomagachi *Boom boxes and CD players *Mix tapes *Tape players in cars! *VHS and Blockbuster *Arcades were big *Toonami *Teens in my state loved saying "Totally" a lot *AOL and old-school Yahoo!
I remember transistor radios and listening to AM radio for the latest hits. If you really liked a song, you got out your portable tape recorder and microphone to record it. If your tape recorder was running on batteries and the batteries were failing, playback of the song with new batteries was all distorted. Loved it all though.
@Stereoguy Yes, yes, yes! They really did do that and it drove me nuts. I finally began buying 45's because of all my failed attempts of getting a great version of my favorite songs.
There were no VCRs. If we missed a show, or something happened (someone called on the phone or someone talked through the show), that was just too bad. We missed the show.
There were no microwaves. If you got to the table after the food had reached room temperature, too bad. You ate your food cold.
We filled out paper applications for jobs, and we actually heard from the employer after an interview even if we didn't get the job. Imagine that.
We learned to solve the Rubik's cube.
We went roller-skating.
I remember when Pac-Man came out and the convenience store had a min-arcade where kids would play for hours on end.
I remember when I could count on one hand the number of TV stations in our area.
I remember break-dancing, and why it stopped. It was so sad when that 10-year-old kid fell and broke his neck when he was spinning on his head. ;(
Kids actually wanted to play outside. Our parents had to call us in when it got dark.
And, of course, great music playing on the radio, and quality, family-friendly TV shows. Those were the days.
I remember party lines...I could listen to grown up conversations between people I didn't know. I remember clotheslines between inner city buildings.. with squeaky pulleys. Yellow and blue butterflies in the overgrown city lots...and lots of Praying Mantis' everywhere...not anymore. I remember the first "cell phones"..so big you could throw your back out
@latinbutterfly I can somewhat understand why women might be sort of disillusioned with what's become of dating since that Era in the sense that things are a bit more fraught, it's easier to ditch somebody and on top of that particular problem people are often glued to their phones when they meet in person which-- Personally on a date I wouldn't even have the thing on.
But For me being Autistic I love the internet for dating because when I was Young pretty much none of my class mates would even give me the time of day.
And honestly your "You had to go out and meet people" well that's -
let me put it like this. I have Niche Interest and I'm going to pretty much want my partner to at least be TOLERANT to it if not UNDERSTAND it through RELATING to it herself.
I'm a Political Junkie for instance and am rarely far away from the news of what's going current events wise and I guess what I wanted to get at about the internet is these days people share how they feel about everything on Social media and it takes the guess work out of things and thus the need for cold approaches and I honestly prefer Harmony in my political views with my mate so Conservatives stay away.
I'm also really into Anime and such and what the internet has done for our community is incredible especially in terms of dating-you pretty much don't have to be alone just because you're an Otaku anymore.
What I'm getting at though is I know precisely what the Girls I'm into on here are reading what they're into and such and it makes it a lot easier to approach on the basis of shared interest and finding common ground a lot easier.
Yes there are downsides to internet dating but I think the good outweighs the bad.
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Waiting for my favorite TV show. Sometimes recording it in VHS. Same with songs and casetes and the radio
@SW-User Yes...it's a whole different world now than it used to be, but things seemed a lot less complicated back then too. Well, it's time for me to "sign off", got to go to work shortly.🤠
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@SW-User My parents still have a bunch of random VHS tapes, of episodes of TV shows that they recorded.
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@lizzy96 PBS Kids was awesome[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvWyIcBBdnI]
@Fernie Right? Cars and their engines were so much more simple at one time. Even my first car, a 1991 Ford Escort, was much easier to service compared my current which is a 2013 Chevy Malibu.
@Fernie Heck yeh! The folding doors were a hoot too. I have no clue why we loved that particular phone booth. It could be that it was actually inside a small store and it was kept so clean. The rotary dial was also tons of fun. Every once in a while, some change would pop out of the little holder. That meant more candy for us!
@LyricalOne Yes I do..but I was also talking about the ones with the corded receiver that came from a unit mounted in the arm rest or the back of the seat in front of them.
People were told to get honest and own your shit.... nowadays *Most* get a free pass and get labeled with a mental illness,fed pills, and told "Oh it's not your fault"
Wow..where do I start? Renting movies from Blockbuster. Playing outside watching Saturday morning cartoons, no social media or smartphones we all have home phones. I also remember phone's having any caller ID and I will remember dialing random numbers and it will ring and I would hang up. 😅😅
@CraftyMarieArts It was a sad day when we could no longer make crank calls "Hello, is your refridgerator running?" "yes, it is," You'd better go after it then!" so lame...so much fun
I remember 'Party Lines' where your telephone was connected to your neighbor(s) and you had to take turns using the phone. Or just sit and eaves drop lol
Rotary phones. Pay phones. Tape recorders. Blockbuster video stores. Record players. Dimly remember black and white tvs. Rotary tv tuners. Wringer wash machines. Libraries. Dewey Decimal System. Cars with vent windows.
I remember those things but also party lines on the phones. I remember Atari games that had to be tuned to channel 4 to work and if you wanted to play there was only one TV in the house so no one watched tv until you were done. Oh and the tv sometimes weighed more than I did as a child.
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@IllegallyBlonde Yeah, thank goodness for flat screens, right? 😅
I remember "party lines" where more than one household shared a telephone line and you could listen in on strangers conversations and desks only had a green blotter, a pen set, an 8 pound black rotary phone and an in/out basket on it
We had real life girlfriends that you could touch, kiss, hug, make love with, not online relationships where you don’t get to do it for real, only online/phone.
@pagandad Stop saying "I'm old" or I'll have to slap you. You still take care of your little farm (jealous)...at your own pace...it gets done. It's not always easy to see our body change or our strength wane a little...and the arthritis thing is a given. We adapt don't we? That is strength to me. I am in a wheelchair...completely independent and plan on always being independent. As soon as your hair turns grey many think you are done, helpless...someone is always suggesting I get "help"...I tell them that if they assume because I am in my 60's that I need help...THEY need help...psychiatric! You should be proud of yourself for not giving in to the changes...I've known people in their 40's who think and act like they were 140. I know I would have loved your Grandmother
Rose, My grandma lived on a lake in Michigan and had an icehouse. They would cut blocks out of the lake and preserve it. Then she had an icebox that operated with a block of that ice. I believe it didn’t work during the hottest part of summer.
I still remember her first electric refrigerator. She never trusted it. Later “color” television was a nightmare to be avoided. She died still using an old black and white television. 🙂
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@trackman11 Wow, she really preferred things old fashioned 😁. Bless her heart.
@Fernie wasn't that a thrill? Sometimes it took a half hour of dialing up to get online too, so when you heard that little announcement, you knew you made it on!
@Stereoguy People here will think touch phone means something other than mashing down those big square buttons..how annoying was it to dial a number and get it wrong and start over
@Bushmanoz Once that coil was stretched out you could go to another room holding the receiver under you chin leaving your hands free to chop veggies....I miss that
Way back, years ago, rural phone lines where sometimes called “party lines”. Three or four houses would have to share a single phone number. You could listen into other people’s conversations! I’m old enough to remember those!
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@Lumberjack70 Oh yeah, my parents told me about those 😁.
@Lumberjack70 sometimes if you were young enough, you might have forgotten to cover the mouthpiece. This was bound to end badly! Lol Not that I would know.😇
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I remember not having a fridge, car or telephone. The TV was black and white, and there were only 3 channels.
I remember the Kennedy Assassination (both of them) MLK's assassination the riots the moon landing watergate the bi-centennial woodstock the beatles clinton's impeachment 911 it's been an eventful life
@approachingmyexpirationdate wow that's a lot. I'm 23. I remember seeing the t.v.v coverage of 9/11, but being 5 and not being able to read yet I didn't understand what was going on Iraq war Katrina Virginia Tech shooting, two of them Sandy Hook So many other schools shootings first African American president DMV earthquake and all the disastrous hurricanes we had
Gas was 80 cents a gallon Dial up internet No WiFi Had to have America on line Prodigy or compuserve get get on the internet You can get water free anywhere even outside
