100 Things Your Kids May Never Know

[Motherland]

I had someone give me an audio cassette a while ago to borrow, and I realized I didn't have a cassette player anymore 
I wouldn't be able to load floppy drives either

[Saxman]

One of the guys I work with has never used Windows 3.1!

Our first computer didn't even HAVE Windows. Real men use DOS!

[Meatwad]

Had dos 4.0 on the first PC. Then when I went to dos 6.3, I was in heaven!


And the payphone thing, I loved that one 

[trigger2]

Ok, I pulled those numbers out of my arse..  But seriously...Almost every junior/high school kid I've met of this generation is an idiot..  I don't have very much hope for them..
Every kid has a phone that texts..  Every kid has either a Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, or Xbox 360..  Every kid has their own car at 16..  All the parents I know that do this

Sorry to say, then you obviously don't know very many high schoolers.
I have a phone that texts, but that's only because you can't get a phone that DOESN'T text anymore, how much do I use it? That's a different story... *zilch* Have a Nintendo Wii, but had to pay for it myself. Well, I kinda have my own car. I get to use our '95 Mercury Villager but I have to pay for gas and insurance, and it's been made perfectly clear it's NOT my car, I just get to use it.

I'm sorry to see you're such a pessimist and can't see the good there is... Although I would have to say that I know my fair share of idiots...

[jimson]

Erector sets

Orange plastic Hot Wheels tracks your brother would whack you with.

Red and white plastic water pressure rockets that would crack and be worthless after one use

The Whirly Bird helicopter toy.

COX 049 engines and control lines and planes you flew in a circle

1:48 scale Monogram and Revell WW2 airplane models.

The Big Red series of books about outdoorsmen and their Irish setters.

Soda cans with a big seam on the side.

[Saxman]

Erector sets

Orange plastic Hot Wheels tracks your brother would whack you with.

Red and white plastic water pressure rockets that would crack and be worthless after one use

The Whirly Bird helicopter toy.

COX 049 engines and control lines and planes you flew in a circle

1:48 scale Monogram and Revell WW2 airplane models.

The Big Red series of books about outdoorsmen and their Irish setters.

Soda cans with a big seam on the side.

Construx

Tinker Toys

Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars in general

The original Super Soaker 50.

Those little styrofoam WWII airplane gliders that came in a pouch, with the blue plastic "propeller."

Choose Your Own Adventure books

The Book Mobile

[Meatwad]

slinkies when they just get a little bent they never worked the same again. Then the god awful plastic ones that came out that NEVER worked at all

the LED style handheld baseball/football games that ran on 4 batteries and was the size of a small book

Walking into a KB toy store and looking at the huge display of atari games and systems

The big deal when nintendo first came out about it was "the future of gaming"

huge case of 8 tracks that took up almost the entire back seat of the car

when radio shack actually sold internal components and computers

buying farm equipment, houses, and barns from sears

[Simaril]

Meatwad-

Do you actually REMEMBER when Sears sold houses? Cause I thought that ended in the 30-40s....just assumption on my part. Did they do it longer than that?



Remember Heathkits? Could build your own "analog calculator" with some rheostats and a ammeter.

How bout when calculators were couple hundred bucks for a 4 function machine with a memory slot?

Kids in our neighborhood loved that there was a 30 acre (or so) forest next door. They used to have massive BBgun fights in the trails back there -- which my mom never would let me participate in. Amazing no one "shot their eyes out" (Or maybe they did...kinda remember them coming to a sudden stop one summer).

Rock em sock em robots being way cool.

[RipChord929]

Toys!!! Oh yeah!!!

Eldon 1/32 slot cars... Still cool if ya ask me!!!

GI Joes, before the kungfu grip...

Hot Wheels, "SIZZLERS", they were so frikkin fast that they were dangerous... When the battery worked, and didn't leak acid....

[Meatwad]

I was looking at an older sears catalog from the 50's i believe. Dont think it was the 60's but I have to go check

Meatwad-

Do you actually REMEMBER when Sears sold houses? Cause I thought that ended in the 30-40s....just assumption on my part. Did they do it longer than that?



Remember Heathkits? Could build your own "analog calculator" with some rheostats and a ammeter.

How bout when calculators were couple hundred bucks for a 4 function machine with a memory slot?

Kids in our neighborhood loved that there was a 30 acre (or so) forest next door. They used to have massive BBgun fights in the trails back there -- which my mom never would let me participate in. Amazing no one "shot their eyes out" (Or maybe they did...kinda remember them coming to a sudden stop one summer).

Rock em sock em robots being way cool.