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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Saxman on July 23, 2009, 02:24:07 PM
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Wow, lots of stuff on the list that I grew up with.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know (http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about?npu=1&mbid=yhp)
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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"Trig tables and log tables"
These are still very real, depending on the harshness of your teacher :(.
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'30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.'
This.
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'30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.'
This.
:lol
Fun times. :)
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6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
This!
<---- former TV remote
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"33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive."
What's that? :P
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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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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 :)
-Sik
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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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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
:salute
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would be more interesting to go back 100 years or so and make the same list.
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would be more interesting to go back 100 years or so and make the same list.
#1 Hygiene
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#32. Joysticks :eek:
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Theres a ton I still remember doing. how times has changed :(
There is a drive in not too far from here though
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"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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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? )
Starblazers ( cartoon ) oh and not to mention the original Tom and Jerry cartoons and the Wacky Racers, Banana Splits and Sigmund the Seamonster
Starblazers rules. :aok
I can add a few to the list:
kids playing outside
being able to count, add and subtract
only getting a trophy for 1st place
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Looking forward to the ABC Sunday Night Movie hoping it was a 007 film and it was!!
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Original Bugs Bunny cartoons, (The ugly wabbit)...
The original Road Runner show, (The violent one)...
The original Jonny Quest, (need say no more)...
Brigs and Stratton engined mini bikes!!!
Being able to run freely all over the countryside..
Without my parents worrying about me...
BB gun battles (no pump ups or CO2 allowed)...
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Tree Forts built by us and not store bought ( I have no idea how we survived in some of the things we built )
We didn't weigh 200lbs at 10 y/o would be my guess.
and on my list:
Space:1999...where they (gasp!) frequently mentioned making beer.
Giving your seat to the old lady on the bus/subway when it was crowded
Playing a baseball game where only the head coaches yell at the players
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Here is a page that is dedicated to the unfair butchering of old looney tunes cartoons. It explains most of the great gags that was removied because it was "offensive". I remember the parts that was cut out of these and they were just pure funny.
http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/
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getting to school on their own, this is one of my pet peeves, I feel like my kids are totally useles unless one ofus intervenes and helps them with whatever it is they are doing.
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I have done most of these, as well as the ones added on by you guys...does this mean I am one of those weird 15 year olds? I still watch my VHS tapes...if I want to watch a DVD, I have my computer. I can get to school by my self, I just choose the bus, as we have been having those strange Missouri springs and autumns.
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53.Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
:cry
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101. Using toll free dialed BBS message boards to communicate
102. You thought you was really flying when you upgraded from a 300 to 2400 baud modem
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Spending several days typing 20 pages of basic into the Commodore 64 to get 4 days of Syntax Errors, then realizing the game sucks after all.
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103. Having actual friends to play multiplayer video games with.
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Couple things not listed.
Dialing a phone number on the phone by sticking your finger in a hole on a wheel and spinning it clockwise several times
Also dialing numbers by pressing the on/off button.
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103. Having actual friends to play multiplayer video games with.
Longbow 2 and the golden age of sim making
Paintball, when they weren't taken over by the skater crowd and 20 bps crowd
145 Purple AVGAS
R-2800 radials
NDB/VOR navigation. I confess. I have not used a VOR more then twice since I got a Garmin stack. NDB used to listen to baseball with.
Beep codes on motherboards
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That phone number you'd dial that would ring back the phone you were dialing it on.. Used to do that to payphones all the time.. :lol
Buying a pack of smokes at 12 years old and saying "They're for my dad...."
Kids riding bikes without helmets, skateboarding without pads..
Watching the old stoner dude on the 12 speed ride a wheelie all the way down the street(three blocks)..
Topps Baseball Sticker Books
Kids are wussies now.. They are encouraged to stay inside, play video games, and eat crap.. Less than 30% of kids now even know how to start a lawnmower or much less cut grass..
Only 22% had any knowledge of how to change a tire.. Girls of this era are especially inept and will be nothing more than life support systems for their vagina..
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
have kids failing and repeating grades until they finally drop out.. I'm beginning to think things are being engineered this way so the next generation is clueless and things like
civil liberties can be swiped away without them even realizing it.. :noid
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Six foot tall, three rack computers with 8 K (yes eight) of memory.
Punch paper tape!
Punch Cards!
Cassette size mag tape to load your computer.
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I had someone give me an audio cassette a while ago to borrow, and I realized I didn't have a cassette player anymore :confused: :lol
I wouldn't be able to load floppy drives either :)
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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!
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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 :D
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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...
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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....
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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.