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

9/14/2008 2:43:02 AM

that's why we built the couch pillow fort so close for saturday morning cartoons

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 2:43 AM. Reason : .]

9/14/2008 2:43:31 AM

christ

i remember having one phone

and it had a cord on it!

9/14/2008 2:44:48 AM

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

9/14/2008 2:45:42 AM

i still get up and turn a knob on the TV to change the channel

9/14/2008 2:46:17 AM

shit yeah

i can remember what it was like without computers

i was a tanned little 10 year-old

9/14/2008 2:47:37 AM

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.

i think we could get like 6 channels when all our neighbors only got 4.

remember that shit? three major channels on the VHF knob, then the others would have to be on the UHF knob.

wow.



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9/14/2008 2:51:00 AM

...State could compete in ACC athletics.

9/14/2008 2:57:33 AM

i remember the B&W in my room only got 4 channels

WRAL/CBS was the clearest picture

9/14/2008 2:57:45 AM

...I'd turn my TV off and get the little white pin light in the middle of it for the next few minutes.

9/14/2008 2:59:41 AM

..A Different World originally aired.

9/14/2008 3:02:17 AM

haha youngin'.... I remember it before Denise went to Hillman, when she still went to high school and ate breakfast with Rudy, Theo, and Vanessa

9/14/2008 3:03:30 AM

I also remember when the microwave became popular.

everyone thought they were going to kill us or mutate our babies.

my school was rife with stories about how someone was trying to dry their cat off in the microwave and it exploded. invariably, they always had to bury the whole microwave in the back yard.

9/14/2008 3:04:45 AM

Quote :

"..A Different World originally aired."

man, i remember when "Different Strokes" originally aired.

9/14/2008 3:05:55 AM

I always got One Day at a Time, Too Close for Comfort, and Empty Nest mixed up.

9/14/2008 3:11:39 AM

CD player, too!

Weird shit.

9/14/2008 3:16:50 AM

...T-dub was just the bulletin boards outside of DH Hill?

9/14/2008 5:46:58 AM

E.T. was playing at the drive-in

9/14/2008 7:04:54 AM

my samsung doesn't even have buttons, let alone knobs (they're touch controls)

9/14/2008 8:23:49 AM

touch you

9/14/2008 8:33:48 AM

touch me, touch me, i want to feel your body...

9/14/2008 8:34:44 AM

We had a Beta VCR

9/14/2008 8:51:39 AM

....when this thread was in Old School.

9/14/2008 9:36:34 AM

Shaw still had an Arabic professor.

9/14/2008 9:44:35 AM

9/14/2008 12:26:33 PM

I have one of those.

9/14/2008 12:46:05 PM

... Pluto was a planet

9/14/2008 3:14:28 PM

I had a VIC-20 before my 64

9/14/2008 3:16:35 PM

Quote :

"christ i remember having one phone a TV remote and it had a cord on it!"

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM. Reason : ]

9/14/2008 4:02:39 PM

...carpetbaggers and scalawags were in the vernacular.

9/14/2008 4:05:03 PM

MTV showed music videos

9/14/2008 4:20:33 PM

Quote :

"i remember having one phone and it had a cord on it!"

a cord that reached 25 ft.

9/14/2008 4:35:33 PM

Quote :

"Gamecat:christ i remember having one phone and it had a cord on it!"

Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis? You're the guy who refused to give up his land line for sooooooooo long.

9/14/2008 4:37:38 PM

i'm still trying to talk my dad into losing his landline

it's worthless

9/14/2008 4:39:27 PM

We have a guy here at work who refuses to get a cell phone. . .w-t-f

9/14/2008 4:40:59 PM

i like eject buttons on remotes. so that you don't have to stand the extra 3 seconds waiting for it to open/close the tray after you walk across the room.

i'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

9/14/2008 4:43:10 PM

9/14/2008 4:46:45 PM

I am trying to decide if I want to give up my landline or not

9/14/2008 5:01:07 PM

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

... "The Muppets Take Manhattan" was playing in movie theaters

9/14/2008 5:10:04 PM

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

9/14/2008 5:16:30 PM

Quote :

"I am trying to decide if I want to give up my landline or not"

Do it, I did and don't miss the landline at all.

I remember a lot of these things...damn

9/14/2008 5:28:56 PM

... 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? ]

9/14/2008 5:30:38 PM

You're so old, you waited tables at the Last Supper.

9/14/2008 7:44:50 PM

...the Big Bang was just called "Bothersome Noise".

9/14/2008 7:54:46 PM

you registered for classes over the telephone

9/14/2008 8:06:28 PM

I remember having to actually having to manueling roll up the windows and make sure each door was locked.

9/14/2008 8:07:23 PM

Quote :

"that's why we built the couch pillow fort so close for saturday morning cartoons"

Haha, yes!

We had a VCR that had a remote control ... with a cord. It would get tangled like crazy and it was almost impossible to walk in front of the TV without tripping over the cord. But it was cool to not have to get up.

9/14/2008 8:10:43 PM

atari

9/14/2008 8:13:28 PM

yep, I had an atari

a TV that was built into the entertainment center

Teddy Ruxpin (who sounded freaky as HELL when the batteries started to die


The speak and spell too!!1


G.I. Joe, He-Man, and The Smurfs played on heavy rotation too

9/14/2008 8:29:07 PM

set'em up

9/14/2008 8:29:57 PM