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Offline Saxman

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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« on: July 23, 2009, 02:24:07 PM »
Wow, lots of stuff on the list that I grew up with.

100 Things Your Kids May Never Know

I especially got a kick out of these three:

80. Starbuck being a man.
81. Han shoots first.
82. “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 02:36:31 PM »
"Trig tables and log tables"


These are still very real, depending on the harshness of your teacher :(.
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2009, 02:39:10 PM »
'30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.'

This.
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2009, 02:56:46 PM »
Quote from: Motherland on July 23, 2009, 02:39:10 PM
'30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.'

This.


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Fun times. :)
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2009, 02:59:26 PM »
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6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.

This!

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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2009, 04:52:39 PM »
"33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive."

What's that? :P
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2009, 05:09:42 PM »
Couple things not listed.

Adjusting he rabbit ears on the TV to get better reception. Or running a wire fro the antenna to the big 3 ft high steam radiator to get better reception.

Drive in movies

Dialing a phone number on the phone by sticking your finger in a hole on a wheel and spinning it clockwise several times

10 cent phone calls or a phone booth

Getting into a fight without legal ramifications for the winner
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2009, 05:24:07 PM »
Quote from: DREDIOCK on July 23, 2009, 05:09:42 PM
Couple things not listed.

Adjusting he rabbit ears on the TV to get better reception. Or running a wire fro the antenna to the big 3 ft high steam radiator to get better reception.

Drive in movies


My last experiences with these two were in the Spring of 2000. I had to much tin-foil on my rabbit ears that it looked like modern art. Of, those were the days. I miss college :)

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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2009, 06:15:03 PM »
6a.  Vert and Horiz  knobs.. and actually having to use them.

6b.  Rooftop antenna rotors.. and how it sucked in the winter when it was frozen pointed to PBS.

6c.  UHF vs. VHF
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2009, 07:01:53 PM »
Baseball card in the bike spokes to make your 2 wheeler sound like a mean machine

Climbing the rope in gym class ( my elementary had one that went from the floor to the ceiling of the gymnasium, it must have been 3 stories high, could you imagine that in an elementary these days? )

The sound of a Chevy Vega with no muffler

Going to bed with all the doors of the house unlocked

Combat for Atari

Weeble Wobbles  ( weebles wobble but they dont fall down  lol )

Starblazers ( cartoon ) oh and not to mention the original Tom and Jerry cartoons and the Wacky Racers, Banana Splits and Sigmund the Seamonster

World at War  Sunday nights, or the Muppets TV show

Toy guns w/o the orange tip

Tree Forts built by us and not store bought ( I have no idea how we survived in some of the things we built )

Great Post, man i could go on and on

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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2009, 07:10:42 PM »
would be more interesting to go back 100 years or so and make the same list.
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2009, 07:22:03 PM »
Quote from: vorticon on July 23, 2009, 07:10:42 PM
would be more interesting to go back 100 years or so and make the same list.
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #12 on: July 23, 2009, 07:24:45 PM »
#32. Joysticks  :eek:
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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #13 on: July 23, 2009, 08:04:54 PM »
Theres a ton I still remember doing. how times has changed  :(


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Re: 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know
« Reply #14 on: July 23, 2009, 08:14:31 PM »
Quote from: Denholm on July 23, 2009, 04:52:39 PM
"33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive."

What's that? :P

I know this one...
Programing teacher gave us some old comps that had 340 meg harddrives for our final, and gave us a program to write that if it wasn't *perfect* would take about 15 minutes to load. :D Done right, it only took about 5 minutes... Whole point was to show how important using the smallest variable type (int rather double stuff like that) really can be. Prolly the best teacher I've ever had cause of how he taught. ;)
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