A few memories from days gone past - Page 2

vienna · 03-06-14, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

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

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

Something else to make some of us feel older:

<O>

vienna · 03-06-14, 04:59 PM

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

<O>

Jimbuna · 03-06-14, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

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

That last bit saved you

Rhodes · 03-06-14, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday

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.

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

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

Forgot of Knight Rider and MacGyver!

ABBA even

Ducimus · 03-06-14, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

80s child here, hitting the big 30 next Friday

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.

Ducimus · 03-06-14, 05:42 PM

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad.

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.

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.

Texting was done with pen, paper, envelope and a stamp.

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.

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

Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone.

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

nikimcbee · 03-07-14, 12:12 AM

aahhh, 1986.

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.

Oberon · 03-07-14, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Tango589

Wacaday during the school holidays.

Mr Mallet! Mr Mallet!

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

See Oberon, what did i tell ya?

Thirty ain't so bad.

True, but it's no twenty.

03-06-14, 04:59 PM	#17
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,718 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Just to show I'm not old fashioned, here's a picture of my keyboard: <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I've gone beyond that. I wish I was fifty again. I wouldn't cry about being sixty again. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Wolferz Navy Seal Join Date: May 2007 Location: On a mighty quest for the Stick of Truth Posts: 5,963 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Even the guys who made the "Kids react" segment couldn't get the name right for a rotary dialed phone. 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. Texting was done with pen, paper, envelope and a stamp. 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. 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. __________________ Tomorrow never comes

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GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	clever - brought back some memories lol thanks for sharing __________________

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Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	See Oberon, what did i tell ya? Thirty ain't so bad.

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nikimcbee Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Patroling the Slot. Posts: 17,952 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	aahhh, 1986. __________________

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Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,375 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	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. __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...