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9/14/2008 8:30:15 PM

For you knob people. It just sounds to me like your parents were poor/cheap. I remember our tv from the early to mid eighties had a remote and non-knob remote. We also had cable and HBO (I used to love the star warsish hbo sequence).

9/14/2008 8:30:17 PM

... Captain Kangaroo was on TV.

9/14/2008 8:31:41 PM

printing was not easy back in the day and took forever....you also had to take the sides off of each piece of paper once in printed and also remove the attached pages once it was finished.

9/14/2008 8:35:11 PM

Dot Matrix FTL

9/14/2008 8:36:08 PM

PeeWee's Playhouse...

9/14/2008 8:36:51 PM

I remember playing text-as-graphics games on my dad's monochrome terminal.

9/14/2008 8:40:59 PM

I played zork on my commodore 64.

9/14/2008 8:41:53 PM

Zork FTMFW

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

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9/14/2008 9:03:03 PM

9/14/2008 9:05:32 PM

I'm so old, i dont know what the fuck that ^ is.

9/14/2008 9:31:08 PM

Hell yeah, I had this motherfucker:


Knight Rider Big Wheel. I see the badass Power Wheels that my nephews have and get all pissed that they don't have to suffer all the injuries the Big Wheel caused me.

9/14/2008 9:33:34 PM

i remember doing this when i wanted to play nintendo

9/14/2008 9:33:58 PM

I like pizza pie
I like macaroni
but what I love is my first sony!


roller racer


popples
maple town
purr tenders
pound puppies
wuzzles

being 5 years old and getting my first casette tape: Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
which explains alot

9/14/2008 10:32:01 PM

^^^^ it is a glow worm, duh. how old were you in the early 80s GEEEEEZ.

oh also, it would help if you were a girl in the early 80s.

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 10:33 PM. Reason : ^]

9/14/2008 10:32:55 PM

I remember when all my friends' parents seemed to work at Nortel, IBM, or CP&L.

9/14/2008 10:34:15 PM

...AIDS was the "in" disease.

9/14/2008 10:36:20 PM

I'm so old I can remember when ... cartoons only came on Saturday mornings

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" I'd have to get up and turn a knob on the TV to change the channel. "

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"and it had a cord on it! I'm so old I can remember when ... cartoons only came on Saturday mornings "

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"i can remember what it was like without computers "

We had a Commodore 64...then an IBM clone running DOS

and then i remember the advent of Windows

and then Windows '95

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"we had an antenna on the top of the house that we could rotate via a control box, in order to tune in a particular channel on TV... remember that shit? three major channels on the VHF knob, then the others would have to be on the UHF knob. "

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"...State could compete in ACC athletics. "

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"I also remember when the microwave became popular. "

yeah, i know they were around before i can remember, but i do remember when "everyone" got them.

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"CD player, too! Weird shit"

shit, i remember jumping around and making records skip

and I remember having Weezer's "blue album" and REM's "Monster" on cassette tape (the CD was the way to go by this point, but i didn't have a CD player yet)

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"E.T. was playing at the drive-in "

my dad took me to the theater to see E.T. i was really, really little, though.

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"We had a Beta VCR "

we never had Beta, but i remember both formats. you'd go to the video store and see a video you wanted, and Mom would say "they only have it in Beta...it won't work in our VCR."

I also remember going to the video store to rent a huge-ass camcorder for Christmas and stuff.

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"MTV showed music videos "

that i wasn't allowed to watch

although i distinctly remember watching Pauly Shore and MTV Spring Break and some Motley Crue and Aerosmith videos when I went to the beach with my friend (Mark Smith, a few of you on here probably know him. He died of cancer a few years ago) and his family. His dad had a BMW E30, which I thought made him the richest man in town. Now college kids buy them as racetrack toys, haha.

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"... the name OJ Simpson didn't have a negative connotation "

haha, that doesn't make you old school.

I remember jokes being made about my friend's white Bronco...in 11th grade.

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"shit, my earliest memory was watching The Empire Strikes Back in the theatre "

yeah, I remember watching Star Wars at YMCA summer camp

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"... the BTI Center was just Memorial Auditorium [Edited on September 14, 2008 at 5:32 PM. Reason : wait, is it the Progress energy center now? ] "

haha, i didn't know the name had changed. i've always called it the Memorial Auditorium.

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"you registered for classes over the telephone "

yep...i remember doing that.

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"Dot Matrix FTL"

not when it was an upgrade from mom's electric typewriter, which was itself an upgrade from my manual typewriter!

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"I'm so old, i dont know what the fuck that ^ is. "

that, Rob, is the venerable Glow-Worm.

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"roller racer "

i remember that.

actually, my younger brother and cousin had those, but i was still young enough to play with it.

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"I remember when all my friends' parents seemed to work at Nortel, IBM, or CP&L."

my mom worked as a secretary at CP&L

9/14/2008 10:53:25 PM

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"we had an antenna on the top of the house that we could rotate via a control box, in order to tune in a particular channel on TV."

The house we moved in to has one of these still.

We are leaving it there for nostalgia.

9/14/2008 10:56:43 PM

Available only at BJ's

9/14/2008 11:01:53 PM

9/14/2008 11:48:25 PM

Hahah, I remember getting yelled at for jumping/running while records were playing. But, that also happened in high school--dad's a bit of an audiophile w/ an extensive record collection. I don't remember not having a cd player. He bought one soon after they came out. Oddly, he still has it, and it plays burned cds. We had a tape player, but it was really only used to copy cd's or records onto tape for the car (more specifically road trips (mix tapes etc (think "As Good as it Gets" (hahaha (just because (cold meds)))))).

9/15/2008 12:19:16 AM

I remember when UNC campouts were fun.

9/15/2008 12:22:09 AM

how about waiting in teh parking deck to bum rush the ticket stand?

9/15/2008 12:35:13 AM

Holy crap.. the memories...

I remember:

-McDonald's burgers came in styrofoam containers (I also remember winning a t-shirt for doing the whole Menu Song correctly).
-All Wendy's had salad bars.
-Stretch Armstrong toys
-Coleco (playing Pitfall and Kaboom!)
-A monster toy where it was a monster with a clear belly that was filled with slime and plastic guts that you could dissect. Can't remember the name though.
-My Buddy
-Tonka trucks were metal and could handle being riden down a flight of stairs.
-more to come...

9/15/2008 1:10:26 AM

9/15/2008 1:18:18 AM

9/15/2008 1:24:15 AM

^ that reminds me of when my sister had a car radio that could be taken out and she'd walk around the mall or whatever with a whole radio by the handle... then came the bag phone... lol.

All of this was in her Renault Fuego. And I remember my brother having an AMC Pacer.

9/15/2008 1:28:55 AM

I remember when there was no Clark Dining Hall. (I think it was an infirmary.)

9/15/2008 1:31:35 AM

9/15/2008 1:41:51 AM

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"I remember playing text-as-graphics games on my dad's monochrome terminal."

Oh man, I remember playing "Space Wars" on my Dad's green-and-black computer screen. I gotta see if I can find a video or something of that game.

9/15/2008 10:04:09 AM

I'm not that old, 24

But I do remember playing the Odyssey 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey%C2%B2

9/15/2008 10:24:36 AM

^^^ you're not very old, are you

^^ i 'member that!! it was programmed in BASIC. i was in middle school and tried to figure out the code. that's when i learned about the DIM command.



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9/15/2008 10:25:43 AM

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"Knight Rider Big Wheel. I see the badass Power Wheels that my nephews have and get all pissed that they don't have to suffer all the injuries the Big Wheel caused me"

I grew up poor and didnt know anyone with a Big Wheel so I had to look this up..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2SBo-ZDVe0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq71FmCo2Fg\

LOL

9/15/2008 10:34:43 AM

Holy shit those were good.

9/15/2008 11:13:27 AM

michael jackson was a black man, melanie griffith had normal sized lips, and nobody put baby in the corner

9/15/2008 11:17:17 AM

Coca-Cola had cane sugar.

9/15/2008 11:55:23 AM

OMG

Can you still get Dunkaroos?

9/15/2008 11:56:36 AM

i just thought of a new one

i remember being able to buy toy guns

that looked exactly like the real thing

w/o the orange tips

9/15/2008 1:11:06 PM

I loved to watch Starblazers on TV. Fucking wave motion gun FTW.

[Edited on September 15, 2008 at 1:21 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2008 1:20:43 PM

I'm so old, I remember smoking cigarettes in McDonalds. they had their little aluminum foil ashtrays with the "M" logo stamped in it. we used to steal them to use at my friends' houses.

and it wasn't just a smoking "section" i remember the whole damn stores were smoking. everywhere. you would walk right up to the counter to order while smoking a cigarette.

I mean, to NOT be able to smoke, in a McDonalds or anywhere else, well that was just damn inconceivable....



of course, the "non-smoking section" did come later. and all the paranoid individual-rights agitators ranted and raved about how accommodating the non-smokers with their special section was a slippery slope in the ultimate goal to criminalize smokers everywhere. needless to say, no one believed those crazy moonbats.




[Edited on September 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM. Reason : ]

9/15/2008 4:27:32 PM