For me, signs of getting older are:

my kids see my 45's and with a frisbee motion ask "What are these?"

when I had a phone, it had a cord attached to it.

when I was on the phone as a teen, anyone who would call our home would get a busy signal.

I bought albums.

Records would get scratched.

If I missed a t.v. show, Oh Well. Had to wait for the rerun, if there was one.

Getting a tan meant going out in the sun or going to the beach.

When I was punished, I couldn't use the phone, t.v. or record player.

I had an 8 track player.

Cassettes were the "in" thing when I got older.

If we missed a movie at the show, we had to wait for it to come out on t.v. years later.

Cable movies started for our family when I was 17. By then, if you missed a movie at the show, you only had to wait abt two years for it to come out on cable.

When VCR's first came out, there was Beta.

When "Roots" was shown on t.v. that was SHOCKING!!!!!!!!:eek:

Here's one that makes ME feel old, and I'm 21.

Nick at Nite, a network that I've always thought of as showing OLD shows, now has nothing but sitcoms that ALL originally aired during my lifetime! (With the exception of Three's Company, if they still show that)

Now how's THAT for old? :(

^ I'm almost 18 and I remember watching some of them growing up.

This doesn't really make me feel older, but it makes me worry about kids a lot younger than me- when I was 10, there was no way on God's green earth my mother would have bought me a cell phone. I didn't get one until I was 16 and even then it was an older model. It bothers me seeing 10 year olds talking on cell phones just trying to look "cool" (and run up mama and daddy's phone bill).

For me, signs of getting older are:

my kids see my 45's and with a frisbee motion ask "What are these?"

when I had a phone, it had a cord attached to it.

when I was on the phone as a teen, anyone who would call our home would get a busy signal.

I bought albums.

Records would get scratched.

If I missed a t.v. show, Oh Well. Had to wait for the rerun, if there was one.

Getting a tan meant going out in the sun or going to the beach.

When I was punished, I couldn't use the phone, t.v. or record player.

I had an 8 track player.

Cassettes were the "in" thing when I got older.

If we missed a movie at the show, we had to wait for it to come out on t.v. years later.

Cable movies started for our family when I was 17. By then, if you missed a movie at the show, you only had to wait abt two years for it to come out on cable.

When VCR's first came out, there was Beta.

When "Roots" was shown on t.v. that was SHOCKING!!!!!!!!:eek:
OMG I'm old. :( :lol:

I felt old when I was babysitting my 11 yr old cousin, and he heard an old rap song come on the radio. The song was from like 1990 or 91 and he said, "Is that how they rapped back in the old days". LOL, now I'm only 24 almost 25 next month, And that made me feel soooooooo old. Now I see how my mom felt when I would say things like "Back in the olden days" LOL

Also the other night I was up feeding my daughter and I was flipping through the channels and I saw the Snorks on, I sooooo remember every Saturday morning watching those cartoons. My aunt use to tell me when I was little that when you get older that you're gonna miss your childhood. And now I totally understand what she was saying, I really miss being 5/6 with no worries.

VHS movies were $50 or more when I was still a little thing.

VCRs still weighed 1,000 pounds and most of them were top-loading until '86.

Two words: CONSOLE TVs!

Computers were still horrendously expensive, and there was no such thing as computer mouses.

Only the wealthy businesspeople had mobile phones, and they carried it around with them in a briefcase. GASP- how portable! ;)

Once the 3" floppy disks came along, people marveled at how much information they held. Today we have 2GB flash drives.

Rotary phones. People in my family still had rotary phones when I was growing up, plus we had a wall rotary phone at home when I was still really young.

Super 8. My parents had a Super 8 camcorder when they got married in the late 70's and we used it until they replaced the Super 8 with an updated 500-pound camcorder in 1990. We watched our Super 8 reels on a projector. :cool:

When cordless phones became the norm, it was very common for the antenna on it to stretch out to more than two FEET or longer. Be careful- don't take out anybody's eyes! ;) Now there is barely an antenna on today's phones. Times have changed. :crazy:

Oh, and another thing- hearing impaired people were screwed out of being able to watch TV before the early 1980s because there was no such thing as closed captioning. Over the years, more programs and movies started utilizing the CC feature and a law was finally passed 13 years ago that required TVs to be equipped with a built-in CC decoder. TVs before that didn't have CC and you had to buy an external decoder unit and it had to be hooked up to your TV for it to work. I still have mine from the 80's.

I remember when this cousin of mine was just a baby, crapping his pants and suckling on mammalain milk like all babies should. Now he's like 6 feet tall and has a deep voice.

I still look at my cousin as this little bratty kid who was always making me play with her and watch Nickelodeon. Now she's taller than me and dating.

This kid I used to babysit when I was 13...he's 22 now. :faint:

You want old?

I saw the original run on Nov. 22, 1963 of JFK getting assasinated on the Black/white TV. 2 days later. I saw Lee Harvey Oswald get shot on live TV.

I can tell I'm getting older when HOT YOUNG CHICKS who work at a fast food restarunt call me "SIR"-lol Getting older sucks

tha foyst time i said ta myself, "i remember 20 years ago."

When "Roots" was shown on t.v. that was SHOCKING!!!!!!!!:eek:
:lol: That reminds me of the episode on "That 70s Show" when the parents bought a VCR. The dad tells the mom NOT to watch "Roots" because he said they could record it watch it two hours later when it ends. Then at the end, they realize the dad didn't have the tape inside the VCR. She was ANGRY because it was her favorite movie and he didn't check beforehand! hahahaha.. :eek:

Anyway....

I still remember the early 90s music. Some good stuff, and it was around the time when these kids from some family friends were born or very young. My sister and I used to babysit for them. I remember it all like it was yesterday, and one is 12 and the other is 14. It makes me feel old too! :crazy:

VHS movies were $50 or more when I was still a little thing.

VCRs still weighed 1,000 pounds and most of them were top-loading until '86.

Two words: CONSOLE TVs!

Computers were still horrendously expensive, and there was no such thing as computer mouses.

Only the wealthy businesspeople had mobile phones, and they carried it around with them in a briefcase. GASP- how portable! ;)

Once the 3" floppy disks came along, people marveled at how much information they held. Today we have 2GB flash drives.

Rotary phones. People in my family still had rotary phones when I was growing up, plus we had a wall rotary phone at home when I was still really young.

Super 8. My parents had a Super 8 camcorder when they got married in the late 70's and we used it until they replaced the Super 8 with an updated 500-pound camcorder in 1990. We watched our Super 8 reels on a projector. :cool:

When cordless phones became the norm, it was very common for the antenna on it to stretch out to more than two FEET or longer. Be careful- don't take out anybody's eyes! ;) Now there is barely an antenna on today's phones. Times have changed. :crazy:

Oh, and another thing- hearing impaired people were screwed out of being able to watch TV before the early 1980s because there was no such thing as closed captioning. Over the years, more programs and movies started utilizing the CC feature and a law was finally passed 13 years ago that required TVs to be equipped with a built-in CC decoder. TVs before that didn't have CC and you had to buy an external decoder unit and it had to be hooked up to your TV for it to work. I still have mine from the 80's.
Oh yes!!!! console t.v.'s...My God, and you had to actually get up from where you were sitting to go up to the television and turn the knob to change the channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TV's only had 13 channels

Rotary phones. Man, we had those for the longest. When I got a phone in my room, I was abt ten, they finally had the buttons!!!!!!!!

Answering machines: Those huge bulky ugly looking things came out when I was a teen.

The first VCR I bought COST $500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I bought my dual VCR and DVD Player two years ago, it cost $79!!!!

Reality Shows: PBS (Public Broadcasting system)

You call your family using telegram.......;) :eek: :eek:

Oh yes!!!! console t.v.'s...My God, and you had to actually get up from where you were sitting to go up to the television and turn the knob to change the channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TV's only had 13 channels

Rotary phones. Man, we had those for the longest. When I got a phone in my room, I was abt ten, they finally had the buttons!!!!!!!!

Answering machines: Those huge bulky ugly looking things came out when I was a teen.

The first VCR I bought COST $500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I bought my dual VCR and DVD Player two years ago, it cost $79!!!!

Reality Shows: PBS (Public Broadcasting system)


I saw one of those Bulky answering machines on Three's company the other night. It was a 1982 episode

Oh yes!!!! console t.v.'s...My God, and you had to actually get up from where you were sitting to go up to the television and turn the knob to change the channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TV's only had 13 channels

Rotary phones. Man, we had those for the longest. When I got a phone in my room, I was abt ten, they finally had the buttons!!!!!!!!

Answering machines: Those huge bulky ugly looking things came out when I was a teen.

The first VCR I bought COST $500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I bought my dual VCR and DVD Player two years ago, it cost $79!!!!

Reality Shows: PBS (Public Broadcasting system)

LMAO exactly!! My family was pretty "with the times" back then- my parents brought their first VCR together in 1981 and it was $600. It was also a top-loading VCR, we had it until about 1990 I think. Then they gave it away to somebody else and brought a front-loading Quasar VCR. My parents split up and my dad has it now. That VCR is 16 years old AND STILL WORKS. If my dad decides to get rid of it, I am calling dibs on it. :D

I think by the time my parents got their console TV, it had buttons on it, no dial. We still had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I think the one we had died sometime in the early 90's. I remember ours had a hidden compartment on the front of the TV, on the side, where you could manually adjust the brightness, contrast, etc. and they were dials. I was easily entertained just turning the dials to make the TV screen B&W. Then I would mess with it until the whole screen was red. Good times. :lol:

My grandma STILL has her console TV- it hasn't been hooked up in years, though. But I'm fairly sure hers still works. She had the deluxe model, from maybe 1975 or so. It had a top-of-the-line entertainment system - LP player AND 8-track player built into the top of the TV! You had to flip open one side of the top to access the LP player or 8-track player. I thought that was absolutely groovy. :lol: And her TV had dials on it, as well as sheets of plastic with numbers on it of which you had to push out if you wanted to add channels to your dial and whatnot. Very cool to check out. :D

When I was growing up and still friends with that psycho ex friend, I spent a lot of time at her house. Her parents got married in the early 70's and they brought a console TV then. They must have brought one of the first TVs that came with a remote. I don't remember if their TV had dials or buttons on it, but I can tell ya about the remote - it seriously must have weighed 5 lbs and it was BULKY. It only had buttons for the numbers, volume, channel up/down and on/off. That's it. The buttons were black with orange numbering on them. I think their TV was from between 1972 to 1974. They still had it when they moved out in 2002 so I wouldn't be surprised if it still works. Man, they just don't make things like they used to back then.

This thread make me feel good-lol. ;)

Here is the only one I can think of. We used to have a Radio Shack Tandy computer that we got in '90 and it was new technology. Just a 5 1/4 disk drive. It came with a ribbon printer. All my favorite childhood computer games I played on it.

LMAO exactly!! My family was pretty "with the times" back then- my parents brought their first VCR together in 1981 and it was $600. It was also a top-loading VCR, we had it until about 1990 I think. Then they gave it away to somebody else and brought a front-loading Quasar VCR. My parents split up and my dad has it now. That VCR is 16 years old AND STILL WORKS. If my dad decides to get rid of it, I am calling dibs on it. :D

I think by the time my parents got their console TV, it had buttons on it, no dial. We still had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I think the one we had died sometime in the early 90's. I remember ours had a hidden compartment on the front of the TV, on the side, where you could manually adjust the brightness, contrast, etc. and they were dials. I was easily entertained just turning the dials to make the TV screen B&W. Then I would mess with it until the whole screen was red. Good times. :lol:

When I was growing up and still friends with that psycho ex friend, I spent a lot of time at her house. Her parents got married in the early 70's and they brought a console TV then. They must have brought one of the first TVs that came with a remote. I don't remember if their TV had dials or buttons on it, but I can tell ya about the remote - it seriously must have weighed 5 lbs and it was BULKY. It only had buttons for the numbers, volume, channel up/down and on/off. That's it. The buttons were black with orange numbering on them. I think their TV was from between 1972 to 1974. They still had it when they moved out in 2002 so I wouldn't be surprised if it still works. Man, they just don't make things like they used to back then.

Our first television had the somewhat oval screen, it resembled the one on I Love Lucy. The second one, the console, had the buttons, but like you said, still you had to get up. I remember my dad trying to make a device, kinda like a fishing pole thing, so that he could touch those sensitive buttons and change the channel without getting up from the chair. LOL

Oh how could I forget the damn remotes!!!! I remember the next television came with this remote that was huuuuuuuuuge!!!! We didn't think so back then, but remembering that heavy black thing, with the bulky numbers just makes me laugh!!!!!! My dad called it "the clicker" because it made this clicking noise when you pressed any of the buttons and the t.v. kinda made a slight noise with the changing of the channels.

My first VCR lasted me for abt ten years. That's pretty good considering it cost me $500.

Another thing. When phones broke in your home, or there was a problem with the line, you had to call the phone company and wait and wait and wait for them to come out so they could change the phone for you. You couldn't unplug the phone. That damn line was CEMENTED INTO THE WALL!!!!!
Nowadays, if your phone breaks, you just throw it away and buy another phone! If you want to move your phone, you just unplug it and plug it elsewhere. Or you get a real long extension cord or you buy those phones with multiple handsets.

I remember our milk and other dairy products were delivered to our front door!

I can remember when my mom got a cell phone for the first time back in the day. Back then we use to call then car phones LOL. It was so big that it looked like the first cordless phones from the 80s, and it was so heavy you could knock someone out with it and it actually came with an long antenna that you had to pull out LOL.

IM NOT OLD!!!

HAHAHAH

IM NOT OLD!!!

HAHAHAH

One sign you're getting old:

Your name is CarrieCrazed.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. :lol:

*Clown Horn*


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Irene
If you remember milk being delivered that's goes back to the 1960's. I vaguely remember that. For the longest time we had a antenna on our house and due to the poor reception we had buy a rotator. The rotator worked better for we could aim in all directions to pick up other local newengland stations. Also before cable we only had one tv set in the house. Those were the days when my bedroom had only a bed, chair, table and lamp. Now it has a tv.vcr, stereo, computer and a cramped look, along with the 4 other items .

You remember when there was only one HBO, and that channel showed only movies.

The first time you saw the Olsen twins was when they were infants.

You remember when a summer blockbuster movie would play in the same theater for the entire summer - not for three weeks then out on DVD by the time school started.

One sign you're getting old:

Your name is CarrieCrazed.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. :lol:

*Clown Horn*


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whert ever :rolleyes:

:p

Irene
If you remember milk being delivered that's goes back to the 1960's. I vaguely remember that. For the longest time we had a antenna on our house and due to the poor reception we had buy a rotator. The rotator worked better for we could aim in all directions to pick up other local newengland stations. Also before cable we only had one tv set in the house. Those were the days when my bedroom had only a bed, chair, table and lamp. Now it has a tv.vcr, stereo, computer and a cramped look, along with the 4 other items .
Actually I was 10, that was 1975, and we had our milk and dairy products still delivered.

you watched stick stickly on nick every afternoon after school in your moms room

you watched stick stickly on nick every afternoon after school in your moms room
i didnt watch him but i watched gumby :p

I remember our milk and other dairy products were delivered to our front door!

THEY DID THAT HERE TOO. I'm not sure when they stopped delivering milk to our house, but they did that when I was a kid. I think we stopped getting milk delivered to our house when I was 10, so around 1995. We had a milkbox out front and everything, and the milk was always delivered really early in the morning so we had it by the time we woke up. :)

I was actually thinking about that the other day- I miss having milk delivered to our house!

^ I'm almost 18 and I remember watching some of them growing up.

This doesn't really make me feel older, but it makes me worry about kids a lot younger than me- when I was 10, there was no way on God's green earth my mother would have bought me a cell phone. I didn't get one until I was 16 and even then it was an older model. It bothers me seeing 10 year olds talking on cell phones just trying to look "cool" (and run up mama and daddy's phone bill).

I do some volunteer work with the middle (and high school) academic teams occasionally, and it blows my mind to see all these 6th graders with cell phones....I didn't even get one until LAST YEAR, and I have to pay the bill MYSELF. AND THEY'VE GOT ONE AT 12.

When I was their age, only one person in my family had a cell phone (my aunt), and it was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Now....@#%!

I was easily entertained just turning the dials to make the TV screen B&W. Then I would mess with it until the whole screen was red. Good times. :lol:


Finally, someone who UNDERSTANDS!

i didnt watch him but i watched gumby :p
I was just thinking of that. OMG, how weird. But then when Gumby came out, that was in 1957. I wasn't born yet. but I do remember watching it afterschool when I was real young. I love Gumby:

My first game ever played officially was Pong. Who remembers Pong? Me played it way, way back during the dreaded, aboniable 70's.

My first adventure/rpg game was Adventure on the Atary 2600 way back in the ancient 80's. I was about 10 or 11, maybe 12.

Then I played the 1st Legend of Zelda Game, also during the 80's when I was 13 or 14, me thinks.

Then I continued to play the next zelda game that came out, then the First Final Fantasy game to come out.

Then I played the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on the N64 when it first came out back in me thinks 1997. Then Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask years later.

Then I get me X-Box and Morrowind in late 2002 and play it seems like forever and get Morrowind Game of the Year in 2003 for me XBox and play again with new character for what seems like an eternity through all the quests and newest quests.

Then it's on with the XBox 360 and Oblivion, yes, Elderscrolls 4 Oblivion and will be playing it for very long time once again.

Man, I must be gettin' really old, ahem!, ancient in age.

I feel old when the guy who was President when I was born is dead. :(

The N@N complaint is also a good one. Roseanne PREMIERED when I was 3 months old!!!

More signs:

I remember life before the internet(How boring that was).

I remember having a dial-up connection. :lol:

I remember not having a cell phone to keep up with.

Oh

I remember when Gas was under a $1 a gallon(I think I remember it being $.89 at one time) in the Mid to Late 90's. :crazy:

I just got an Atari with 40 original games built into it. I have a signed picture of Robin Williams dated from when he was still playing Mork, and I too am only 21. It's not that I remeber this stuff, it's that I love it.

I remember having a dial-up connection. :lol:

I still do. :cuss:

Wow, this thread is making me feel all nostalgic :) I am going to try and recap the things I remember (I was born in 1982).

- I too remember those console tvs as a kid. I would go up and fiddle with the dials and buttons until my Mom got pissed at me. I think we had it for a few years until we got a better, UPDATED one.

- Yup, I remember before call waiting, cell phones, DVDs, MP3 players (I was using a cassette player walkman for all my Pearl Jam stuff until I was 13 :lol: )

- I remember when they actually played videos on MTV! Like, all the time! Then Real World 1 and Road Rules 1 came out and slowly but surely, music ceased to exist on MTV.

- I used to play an old Atari (must've been my parents' set), Nintendo, and a set called Turbo Graphics that no one seems to remember.

- God, life before the internet....it seems soooooo LONG ago. I only got a computer when I was 16 (1998), mind you. Computers weren't that needed before then...well, I should say they were just warming up. I'd say by 1999 or 2000 was when everyone had at least ONE computer in their house, but I can still remember in 1998 when my teachers used to ask, "Ok, who doesn't have a computer at home?" and a few people would raise their hands. Anyway, I can't believe I actually used to go out before I had a computer :lol: What did I do before then? Go out with friends, breathe some fresh air, maybe... Oh yeah, and I had dial-up too--lemme tell ya how frustrating that was! :mad:

- Like TJL said, I remember when a huge movie would come out and it'd stay in the theatres a LONG while, not just a measly month or so before it came out on DVD. I mean, I think it's great that we even get to see all these great movies come to DVD (can't wait for Brokeback Mountain!) but I miss the fact you can go with your family/friends numerous times throughout those long summer months if you want to go see a particular movie again and again. Nothing beats being at the theatre to see a big movie like that.

-I remember when cartoons were better. It seems all they have on now is the same old crap with a different name. All that high-tech, overly produced, crappy animation stuff. I miss simple animation with fun shows-- Doug (I heard it came back to Nickalodeon!! SQUEAL!!!), early Rugrats, the Smurfs, Muppet Babies...the list goes on. (There was also a show called "Where's Waldo?" that I remember....does anyone recall it? Throughout the show, the screen would pause for a minute and you'd have to find Waldo in the midst of all these characters, just like the book. Man, they don't make that stuff anymore! That was awesome!)

- Last but not least, I remember when it was OK to wander around outside with friends well after dark. The world starting becoming really scary somewhere in the mid to late 90s and I don't think parents are too keen on letting their young kids go out and play Manhunt, hide n' seek, Capture the Flag, etc after dark. I used to do that all the time with the kids on my block (yea, I played with all the boys :lol: They felt sorry for me! )


I rambled, I know...I know I'm not that old, but remembering stuff like this and realizing it's long in the past makes me feel OLD. I'll be 30 in 7 years and time flies! :eek: :D

Wait a tick.

Doug came BACK to Nickelodeon?! HALLELUJAH!

I'm sure it still won't hold a candle to that classic early 90s version, though, but I can dream.

Wait a tick.

Doug came BACK to Nickelodeon?! HALLELUJAH!

I'm sure it still won't hold a candle to that classic early 90s version, though, but I can dream.


It is the classic version :D!!!!!! I am so excited, can't ya tell? :lol:

i won't rest untill stick stickly comes back.....pissed:

i won't rest untill stick stickly comes back.....pissed:
what's stick stickly?

MTV first appeared when I was 17!!!

The first video game ever came out when I was 13 and it was that ping/pong and tennis game with that boring little white dot going back and forth.

Us kids could play outside until dark.

we had no computers, no beepers, no cell phones.

what's stick stickly?.
he was this popsickle stick that got dipped in stuff everyday...

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I was born in 1981. I first realized I was getting old last year when the fourth graders were reading a story about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. That happened when I was about eight years old. These kids weren't even born yet. Also, last April, we had a birthday party in the class for a girl who was born on April 19, 1995. I couldn't believe it had been 10 whole years since the OKC bombing. I remember that happening when I had just turned 14 years-old.

I also remember console TV's, Atari, Nintendo, and record players. I remember playing Mario Brothers on Nintendo and I think they even had a cereal. I knew one child who had her own TV in her room. Now, it seems that children not only have their own TV's, but their own computers and cell phones. I also remember when Walkmans were cool. Now, we have I-pods.

I also remember that when I was a kid, we always played outside in the nicer weather. I took a walk on an unseasonably warm day recently after school let out and did not see ONE kid outside. We also played unsupervised for hours outdoors and even remained outside long after dinner. Now, with all these sick perverts out there, it's scary to let the kids out unsupervised. They're also either too busy with all the activities that their parents signed them up for (I know a little girl who does gymnasitics, dancing, music lessons, enrichment, Girl Scouts, sports, and church youth group.) or they're too busy watching TV and playing their computer and video games.
I also remember walking to the corner store all alone when I was younger.

Also, and forgive me if I sound sexist (I'm a working woman myself, but with no kids.) but when I was growing up in 80's suburbia, most moms worked part-time while the kids were at school, if they even worked outside the house at all. I know I'm no expert, but I can't help but notice that a lot of the students at school with behavioral, emotional, and/or academic problems come from broken homes, homes where both parents work full-time, and homes with little, if any, parental discipline or supervision.

I was born in 1981. I first realized I was getting old last year when the fourth graders were reading a story about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. That happened when I was about eight years old. These kids weren't even born yet. Also, last April, we had a birthday party in the class for a girl who was born on April 19, 1995. I couldn't believe it had been 10 whole years since the OKC bombing. I remember that happening when I had just turned 14 years-old.

I also remember console TV's, Atari, Nintendo, and record players. I remember playing Mario Brothers on Nintendo and I think they even had a cereal. I knew one child who had her own TV in her room. Now, it seems that children not only have their own TV's, but their own computers and cell phones. I also remember when Walkmans were cool. Now, we have I-pods.

I also remember that when I was a kid, we always played outside in the nicer weather. I took a walk on an unseasonably warm day recently after school let out and did not see ONE kid outside. We also played unsupervised for hours outdoors and even remained outside long after dinner. Now, with all these sick perverts out there, it's scary to let the kids out unsupervised. They're also either too busy with all the activities that their parents signed them up for (I know a little girl who does gymnasitics, dancing, music lessons, enrichment, Girl Scouts, sports, and church youth group.) or they're too busy watching TV and playing their computer and video games.

Also, and forgive me if I sound sexist (I'm a working woman myself, but with no kids.) but when I was growing up in 80's suburbia, most moms worked part-time while the kids were at school, if they even worked outside the house at all.


My mom used to stay home and take care of us too. It was a couple of years before money got too tight and she had to leave us with a baby sitter (I can still remember her quite clearly...her name was Liz and she looked like the stereotypical 80s teenager :lol: BIG hair, spandex, etc) and often we'd go to my Nana's house overnight if both my parents had to work late.

Wow, I didn't know Girl Scouts was still popular now...I haven't really heard much word about it since I went in the mid 90s. I really had an awesome time doing that.

p.s. and, yes, I remember Mario cereal :)

Man, Mario cereal was awesome.

People think since I was born in 84, I might not be able to remember a lot of that stuff, but I can remember a lot of the late 80s (and especially the early 90s) VERY clearly.

It's amazing when you REALLY sit down and think about it how long ago that was. I mean, for instance, 1996 was -10- years ago! That doesn't sound like a lot, but when you think about it, that 10 years sure as hell FEELS like a long time ago.

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I was just thinking of that. OMG, how weird. But then when Gumby came out, that was in 1957. I wasn't born yet. but I do remember watching it afterschool when I was real young. I love Gumby:
i watched when i was little too. i had a gumby action figure :D i think i still have it somewhere :lol:

Wait a tick.

Doug came BACK to Nickelodeon?! HALLELUJAH!

I'm sure it still won't hold a candle to that classic early 90s version, though, but I can dream.
am i the only one who HATED Doug? -_- i only saw the mid-late 90s one though.

i remember playing the original Nintendo, and i remember when the Nintendo 64 came out, which is now extinct

and i remember the original All That. and clarissa explains it all. my cousin was obsessed with that show.

I remember our first remote control for the Beta AND VCR.....it was connected to the Beta and VCR with a cord you could stretch accross the room. :lol:

We still have our Atari 2600 (still works, love playing the games) we had a Comodore (any one remember those systems?)

Someone brought up the Legend of Zelda, I played that for the first time when I was in the hospital for surgery. The hospital staff brought me a tv and nintendo that had mario and zelda so I could play (they would bring it to the kids who could not leave their beds) That was my first taste of nintendo back in.....88-89 I think b/c it was before moving to Texas.

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I was in high school when President Reagan was shot.

I was 21 when the Challenger exploded.

These are some of the shows I watched in the 70's:
WELCOME BACK KOTTER
HAPPY DAYS
LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY
GOOD TIMES
THE JEFFERSONS
MARY TYLER MOORE
BOB NEWHART
ADAM-12
EMERGENCY

Some of the movies I seen in the theatre:

JAWS
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
AIRPLANE
KING KONG
DEATH WISH
THE GODFATHER
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
BILLY JACK
ALIEN
GREASE

You remember the AMC Pacer! :rofl:

http://www.carrera.no/images/AMC_Pacer_01.jpg

And you're really old if you remember the Studebaker Lark! :brent

http://www.billstudepage.homestead.com/files/62blue1.jpg

You see, kiddies, many many years ago, before your mother was born, almost, America had five car companies! No one heard of Toyota or Honda, and no one would have even considered buying a car made in. . . Japan! Hard to believe, ain't it? :eek:

OMG, I remember the pacer. As a matter of fact, in 1983 I remember this lady i knew who owned one that looked just like the one in your pic. God, those things are FUGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we needed emergency services we had to call an actual telephone number for either the police, fire, etc. There was no 911 until 1977!!!! (in our area). We had to have a list of emergency numbers by the phone or else we'd be screwed whenever an emergency arose.:crazy:

us kids didn't need to wear safety belts in cars or wear helmets when riding our bikes. WE WERE FREE!!!!!!

you watched stick stickly on nick every afternoon after school in your moms room

dude i still remember stick stickly's address

it was like
write to me stick stickly
P.O. BOX 963
New York City New York State
10108!

cool song

i just played mario brothers 3 the other day on the original nintendo i still remembered how to get the rope whistle that took you to all the levels :)