I'm So Old . . .

[Draft Dodger]

and watching scrambled porn

[21C]

My parents taped a blue colored piece of cellophane in front of our black and white TV. I remember hearing that some people taped a piece of cellophane that was blue on the top and green on the bottom so that views of the landscape had that "realistic" look to them.

We used to get bread and milk delivered to our house. You would leave the empty bottles of milk out and get replacements. Our house had a small opening (with a small door) on the side of our house that you could access directly in the kitchen for these deliveries. That was where we always left the house key when we went out - making sure to tuck it around the corner for security purposes.

[21C]

I had a class of 13 year old kids using their computers. One girl said that her Surface Pro keyboard wasn't working so I told her to try disconnecting it and then reattaching it. She disconnected it, blew on it and then reconnected it. I said that it looked like she was trying to get a Nintendo cartridge working and she just looked at me like I was talking another language.

[murrayyyyy]

Two major ones from working with younger kids.

1) Having to stand in line at the bank on a Friday afternoon so your parent could take out money to do something that weekend because ATMs weren't on every corner.

2) No auto deposit on your checks so once again, you stood in line with everyone on Friday at the bank to put it in your account. They throw a fit if their checks aren't cut on Wednesday when the payday is Friday because they want to take a picture Wed night to put it in their accounts.

[corbes]

Originally Posted by molson

I remember watching the old "Sportschannel", which, in the morning, consisted solely of elevator music and rotating screens of text-only sports news and scores.

I had forgotten about that. Good times.

Sports Plus Network on SportsChannel 1/31/90 - YouTube

[Fidatelo]

'Collecting' as a paper boy every 2nd week.

Actually, I guess just being a paper boy (it's all just adults with cars now).

[Suicane75]

Getting yelled at by an old guy in a pizza parlor late on Saturday night because my friends and I were discussing "collecting" paper money.

Putting your tape recorder next to the stereo to record songs.

[Draft Dodger]

tapes:

-winding loose tape back into the cassette with a ballpoint pen

-making mixtapes

-ghetto blasters (especially that first one you got that could switch tape sides AUTOMATICALLY)

-getting those 12 free Columbia House tapes

-writing out lyrics to songs by hand via pause, play, rewind over and over again

-paying extra for the higher quality TDKs

-putting scotch tape over the "no record" notches on a cassette so you could record over it

[Draft Dodger]

cutting a notch in your 5 1/4 floppy disk to make it double-sided

[thealmighty]

Faking sleep with a transistor radio in my ear listening to the Houston Colt '45s.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

tapes:

-winding loose tape back into the cassette with a ballpoint pen

-making mixtapes

-ghetto blasters (especially that first one you got that could switch tape sides AUTOMATICALLY)

-getting those 12 free Columbia House tapes

-writing out lyrics to songs by hand via pause, play, rewind over and over again

-paying extra for the higher quality TDKs

-putting scotch tape over the "no record" notches on a cassette so you could record over it

Hell yes to all of those.

Walking into school with a tape that contained both versions of November Rain edited together into one song. How effing cool am I now girls?

[NobodyHere]

The Lions have won a playoff game in my lifetime.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Dutch

Imnso old I remember when Gatorade only had Lemon-Lime and Orange...in glass bottles.

And those glass bottles were .. textured sorta, IIRC.

[Brian Swartz]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

The Lions have won a playoff game in my lifetime.

Winner! The pain is so very real.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by corbes

I had forgotten about that. Good times.

Sports Plus Network on SportsChannel 1/31/90 - YouTube

I remember that. Was that the same channel that also had the show with all the old guys talking about sports while smoking cigars?

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Suicane75

Hell yes to all of those.

Walking into school with a tape that contained both versions of November Rain edited together into one song. How effing cool am I now girls?

Don't Cry?

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

And those glass bottles were .. textured sorta, IIRC.

They were!

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by stevew

Don't Cry?

I'm so old I couldn't even remember the song.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

cutting a notch in your 5 1/4 floppy disk to make it double-sided

More than a few young 'uns that have no idea what the hell a "5 1/4 floppy disk" is without Googling it.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by sabotai

I remember that. Was that the same channel that also had the show with all the old guys talking about sports while smoking cigars?

Yup. Out of Chicago, Sportswriters On TV I believe it was called. I remember they had the NHL as late as whenever the Oilers/Bruins cup final was. 92?
Some nights there would just be random independent wrestling. Usually crazy low rent. And then ECW started airing on SC Philly.

If there was a channel today that was a carbon copy of that overnight scroll, I would keep on it all night, every night.

[Abe Sargent]

...you probably think this thread is about you?

[Edward64]

This thread brings back fond memories.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

and watching scrambled porn

The other day I drove past the liquor store that had the best mags in town. I remember standing in the mag section for an hour trying to pick out the best one to get.

I think I was 16 or 17? The cashier was usually a brooding Arab dude who never said anything to me.

[flere-imsaho]

My Grandpa had a contraption hooked up to his TV that rotated the antenna on his roof (via an actual motor). So when you wanted to watch one of the 3 channels available in rural New Hampshire, first you turned the knob on the TV to that channel, then the knob on the "antenna-turner" where he had written the best direction for all three channels. The motor would move the antenna and voila!

[Butter]

Konami's Track & Field arcade gameplay - YouTube

For some reason I remember one of these games had a like an 800 or 1500 m, and remember just killing my hand trying to run it with the button presses.

So fun.

[Ryno]

I must've broken a half dozen joysticks playing the Commodore track and field. Good times.

[Ryno]

I loved Sportswriters On TV. I don't remember SportsVision though. I must have seen it on WFLD and/or Fox Sports Network.

That also reminds me that I used to be able to see every one of the Illini games on Raycom over the air before ESPN bought them. Although, it's probably a good thing I haven't been able to see many of their games recently.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by Ryno

I must've broken a half dozen joysticks playing the Commodore track and field. Good times.

Yes, that was it! Toggling the joystick back and forth.

[Umbrella]

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

Konami's Track & Field arcade gameplay - YouTube

For some reason I remember one of these games had a like an 800 or 1500 m, and remember just killing my hand trying to run it with the button presses.

So fun.

The secret was to use your comb (another way to show I'm old, everyone carried combs in their back pockets). You would wind it between your fingers, and the ends would be on the buttons. Instead of your hand hurting, the middle finger where the comb was would be in pain. Great times!

[tarcone]

Summer. I remember leaving my house in the morning and not coming back until dinner. Or at the beckon of my Dad's whistle.
Now my daughters sit in there rooms watching their phones.

I wonder if this generation will discover anything?

[Ragone]

Putting a piece of tape on the tv to bowl a perfect game on atari 2600!

Also using the cable tv channel changer like i was a dj.

[21C]

I got blisters on my hands when I played Atari football. You controlled your player by madly rolling the trackball which would kill the palms of your hands after a couple of plays.

[Breeze]

Originally Posted by 21C

I got blisters on my hands when I played Atari football. You controlled your player by madly rolling the trackball which would kill the palms of your hands after a couple of plays.

Down and out...worked every time.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by 21C

I got blisters on my hands when I played Atari football. You controlled your player by madly rolling the trackball which would kill the palms of your hands after a couple of plays.

This game was sick, we bought golf gloves because our hands blistered so bad and would be sweating over the damn machine after 2-3 hours of straight play.

My favorite cheese in this game was to call the bomb, which people always seemed to cover, then roll out and cross the LOS, which caused the defender in coverage to break off his man, I would then roll back behind the LOS and let it go for an easy 6.

[BYU 14]

Hell cigarettes were cheaper than gas when I started driving and gas was only 78-82 cents a gallon.

Cigs were 45 or 50 cents a pack

[Kevin]

I remember my Dad saying that if gas ever got to 60 cents, he would quit driving.
Some of our neighbours left the milk bottles on the kitchen table, and the milkman would put the full ones in the fridge.
We got our first colour TV on the first day of the 75 World Series, which got rained out.
You had to be in a pretty serious accident to dent a fender.

[Buccaneer]

...I remember snippets of JFK's funeral.

[Suicane75]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

...I remember snippets of Lincolns funeral.

I remember when Buc was the only old one around here.

[Dutch]

I'm so old, I can't remember who the fuck all these people are on my FB page.

[digamma]

I'm so old, the gal who babysits my kids didn't get my reference to Bombs over Baghdad.

[stevew]

I believe when I was in JR High, seniors could get smoking passes from their parents and we had a student smoking area.

[frnk55]

Originally Posted by stevew

I believe when I was in JR High, seniors could get smoking passes from their parents and we had a student smoking area.

That's awesome

[JPhillips]

I have to get the damn dilation eye test every year so they can spot early glaucoma.

[Butter]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

I have to get the damn dilation eye test every year so they can spot early glaucoma.

Don't they have like this radar type test now that costs extra that you can opt out of the dilation thing for? That's what I've been doing for the last 2 years. Much better than the dilation.