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vienna

03-06-14 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 2182580)

Get off my 70's/80s lawn, kiddo - the original Billy Joel song was already dedicated to you! :O::D

Damn disrespectful whippersnappers. Go out back and cut me a switch...

Something else to make some of us feel older:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJOX4xiygk

<O>

vienna

03-06-14 04:59 PM

Just to show I'm not old fashioned, here's a picture of my keyboard:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i...6f5c&zw&atsh=1

<O>

Jimbuna

03-06-14 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin (Post 2182580)

Pff, typical sentimental nostalgia of old geezers...oh, wait a minute...:oops:

That last bit saved you :)

Rhodes

03-06-14 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2182585)

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday :dead:
I remember the Berlin wall coming down, Teenage Mutant Hero/Ninja Turtles, Cabbagepatch dolls, Transformers, X-men, Dallas, The Sweeney, Minder, Bread, Highway to Heaven, and all the others. There's a lot of things about the 1980s that make me nostalgic, the electro-synth music wave, the fonts, the derelict underdeveloped docklands of London (the difference with today is astonishing), old rattley slam-door trains, cars with angles and minimal electronics, phones that weighed almost the same as a car battery.

Seems like a different world when comparing now and then. :hmmm:

You're from 1984? Thought you were older then me!

Forgot of Knight Rider and MacGyver!

Jimbuna

03-06-14 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rhodes (Post 2182624)

You're from 1984? Thought you were older then me!

Forgot of Knight Rider and MacGyver!

ABBA even :sunny:

Ducimus

03-06-14 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 2182585)

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday :dead:

I got ten years on ya i see. Thirty ain't so bad. Hell, I wish i was thirty again. Now forty, I'm none too happy about. I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. I'm sure there's somebody here who's fifty who can say the exact same thing to me.

Sailor Steve

03-06-14 05:40 PM

I've gone beyond that. I wish I was fifty again. I wouldn't cry about being sixty again. :dead:

Ducimus

03-06-14 05:42 PM

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad. :O:

Wolferz

03-06-14 08:37 PM

Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone.:hmmm: They were called pulse dialers. The predecessor to tone dialers. Imagine one from the really early days with the crank and then you have to tell the operator what exchange you want.:haha:
Texting was done with pen, paper, envelope and a stamp.:D
Facebook was a photo album.
Twitter was only done by birds outside your window.
You tube was just a television and some faceless twit decided what you could watch. You had three channels to choose from.
The TV remote had arms and legs and was much younger than the TV owner.
Whichever kid was closest to the set got his button pressed to change the channel.:haha:

I still remember my kids (born in 78 and 79) freaking out about a TV program that was filmed in black and white. They thought the TV was broken.

nikimcbee

03-06-14 09:47 PM

Was that Steed in in apple nappies?

Sailor Steve

03-06-14 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz (Post 2182692)

Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone.:hmmm: They were called pulse dialers.

I grew up with them and I've never heard that term. We just called them "telephones".

GoldenRivet

03-06-14 10:07 PM

clever - brought back some memories lol

thanks for sharing:D

nikimcbee

03-07-14 12:12 AM

aahhh, 1986.:up:

Tango589

03-07-14 05:41 AM

Thanks for sharing, it bought back a lot of great memories, especially watching Roland Rat on Saturday mornings, or Wacaday during the school holidays. Also, he missed out the best comics: Beano, Dandy, Wizzer and Chips, Funny Fortnightly.:yeah:

Oberon

03-07-14 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Tango589 (Post 2182833)

Wacaday during the school holidays.

Mr Mallet! Mr Mallet! :haha:

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Originally Posted by Ducimus (Post 2182644)

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad. :O:

True, but it's no twenty. :03:

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