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42 Things That Were Totally Normal In The ’80s And ’90s That Seem Totally Alien To New Generations
Things that make up and shape our daily lives seem a natural part of it. And while these circumstances might seem to be changing faster nowadays, it is enough to hear about such experiences as “sitting by the radio and waiting for one’s new favorite song to come on, so one could record it on a cassette tape” or “being on the home phone when all of a sudden someone in the house picks up another phone and tells you to 'get off'” from people who lived them and one might feel time slowing down, as if one has been transported back in time when certain things were and felt different. These people are sharing exactly these kinds of experiences from the recent past by answering one Redditor’s question: “What was a perfectly normal situation for you in the '80s-'90s that the younger generations just can’t relate to?”
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#1
Sitting by the radio waiting for your favorite new song to come on so you could record it onto a cassette tape. And hoping the jack**s DJ didn’t talk over the first 45 seconds. (Spoiler alert: He always did!)
Todd Boughn (Strange Agent) 2 years ago
I was a DJ at a rock station in the mid to late 80s. We didn't have any choice!
Therese Clarke 2 years ago
of course he did, he was supposed to in order to prevent you from taping it/
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I hated those bastards. They knew the pain they were causing. What was insufferably worse was taping 95% of the song only to have one of these dipsh!ts talk over it at the very end.
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#2
Parents kicked you out of the house and telling you to be home when the lamp posts came on. They had no clue where we were or what we were doing. My brother and I would play on the train tracks and under a bridge. I think about my kids doing the same and it stresses me tf out.
Edit to add, Saturday morning cartoons. I'm sad for my kiddos to not have the experience of getting up early to not miss cartoons before getting kicked out of the house for the day.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
I'd spend all day in the park or in the library. XD I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, pet stores actually sold pets. I remember I walked to the pet store by myself at age 10 and bought my first kitten, all by myself, with my own money, no parent/adult with me, and the pet store owner didn't bat an eye. Wild days XD
Magnifico Giganticus 2 years ago
Then on the way home you stopped and got a pack of smokes!
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Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
The Saturday morning cartoons just now got me. Geez! They no longer have a special slot of great cartoons to watch. On demand is one thing, but having specially chosen cartoons you could only see then was great! We're all about special editions and one time showings nowadays, why not bring this back for today's kids?
Paul C. 2 years ago (edited)
I remember in the mid 60's going to the local park early morning, with my mates. We would play football with/against whoever was there. The game would last for hours. Kids would turn up, ask to join in, yes you're kicking that way👈👉. You could go off get food/drink, come back and just join in again. I was about ten, mum and dad were at work, I had a key and would just pop home to make myself something to eat. They were both great cooks so I learnt a lot from them.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
The good ol' days. Going deep into the woods with friends to find spare parts from old cars to add on to our frankenstein go-cart..
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I loved 1 Saturday Morning on Fox Family. Recess, Pepper Ann, Life With Louie,Bobby's World, Goosebumps. Loved it as much as I loved SNICK on Saturday nights
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
Cartoons at 6:30 with eating cereal on the carpet in front of the t.v., then dressed and out of the house for the day by 9:00. What the heck did we do all day?
#3
Calling someone’s house and having to speak with their parent before talking with them.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago (edited)
"So and so is grounded and can't talk right now. Aren't you grounded too??" Oh...Uh...*hangs up at light speed*
Michelle C 2 years ago
Yep! I was as fine as not with that! Mostly, I enjoyed talking with my friends’ parents. There were times when I would just want my friend to hurry up and get to the phone, though!
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Or calling a boyfriend who had a party line and being forced to talk with his parents AND their adult neighbors. I can still recall the butterflies in my stomach.🤣
Downunderdude 2 years ago
I was smart enough to be sure to be polite to the parent. 'Hello, Mrs xx. This is name. Please may I speak to yy?'. Paid dividends because they'd think what a nice young man you were.
Angelica Millan 2 years ago
I hated that! I was shy and didn't want to interact with anybody else but my friend.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
That was always a horrible nightmare. But the whole landline experience with party lines and home extensions was a barbaric system in hindsight. You never knew who was listening in on your conversa... Never mind. Stupid to bring that up when we're all under government surveillance no matter what device we use.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Corders at public telephone to call the girl/ boy you liked at highschool and you just get the number from the yellow pages here( that enormous book with directions and telephones , you know what I mean :))
#4
That TV just stopped broadcasting late at night.
My kids still can’t comprehend this one
Missy Corron 2 years ago
And there were 5 or 6 channels max!!! When HBO came out it was a few more channels, $10 a month and was completely commercial free!!!
Bored something 2 years ago
5 or 6? You were lucky. When I was really young we had 2. Went to three when I was 10 or so, 4 when I was about 16.
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Auntie Panda 2 years ago
When the National Anthem played, then that weird screen came on it was turn off the TV and go to sleep.
Melli Peep 2 years ago
Midnight sign off 3 channels ABC, NBC, CBS. If you had an antenna you could get uhf channels. But that was later on in the 70's.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
In Australia they used to have an Epilogue and Close with a stirring rendition of the national anthem. Now instead night owls can feast upon a late night smorgasbord of home shopping shows featuring people getting excited about a steam mop (hmmm...maybe the idea of closing the station down should be brought back)
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
One great thing back in the day was being able to snag a station out of your normal roof-antennae range because you lived on a hill and the broadcasting waves were just right that night. Late at night, I would catch local cable stations out of NYC or Boston. It was cool.
#5
Going with your parents to Blockbuster to rent a movie and hoping a copy (VHS tape) was still available and not completely rented out.
ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago
The hot new releases always had about 50 of the same movie displayed... Yes!! There is a tape behind this one!!!
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
There was a tape for you?? There was never a tape for me out of the entire wall of display cases! 😭
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Suzanne McHenry 2 years ago (edited)
And then find that you have to rewind the video before watching, as some people did not do that before taking them back to the video place.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
No one in their right mind sent me to the video store unaccompanied because I can never remember if I've seen the movie or not. Me: Hey, this movie sounds really cool. Friends: Yeah, you thought it was really cool when you saw it last month.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Nah, we had a nice Irish lady who ran a video shop at the bottom of the road, always reminded me of my Nan.
DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight 2 years ago
And getting really mad because without ID, I missed out on alot of movies I wanted to see.
#6
Going to a restaurant and being asked “would you like to sit in Smoking or Non-smoking”?
There were smoking sections *on airplanes*.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Smoking, non-smoking, didn't matter where you sat, you got cigarette smoke from the dragons in the smoking section lol.
Andi 2 years ago
just to point out that since they banned smoking on airplanes, to save money, many airlines they don't clean and recycle the air as much and at times oxygen content can drop from 20% we need to 10 -12 % - deep vain thrombosis and over inebriation from alcohol anyone?
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Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
I remember when they didn't even have sections. There were ashtrays at every table
Shiva Ho 2 years ago
So grateful they finally outlawed it in buildings and planes! & Especially Hospitals! When I had my last Intestinal Obstruction Surgery back in 87 I was in a room with a smoker and I could barely breathe! A kynd nurse wheelchaired me to the smokers balcony and lit up a joint! Made me feel instantly better!
Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
As an exsmoker, sometimes when someone else is smoking, the smell can be comforting. Other times it'll drive me crazy.
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Getting a new "TV Guide" each sunday with the newspaper and obsessing over it for hours highlighting what shows/movies you wanted to watch Calling the movie theater to get showtimes Shopping at Sears
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
I miss the TV Guide. We'd get the TV Guide and read it cover to cover and then do the crossword 😁
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago (edited)
My mother and I had that as a guilty pleasure each week. We'd sit shoulder to shoulder and do the crossword. I miss those days. RIP, mom.
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Foxglove🇮🇪 2 years ago
My son loves getting the "telly magazine" with Saturday's paper - he saves them up and even takes them out of the recycling bin if I clear them out 🫣
#8
Watching the news to see if your school scrolled across the bottom was cancelled because of inclement weather.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
My school was allllllllllways the last one to cancel. Like my dad is trying to drag me out and I'm clinging onto the tv "JUST ONE MORE MINUTE PLEASEEEEE!"
Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
Haha- mine too! It was alphabetical and my elementary school was West Tualatin View, so sometimes the ads would start before the whole list scrolled by.
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SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Oh, come on. We had stage one smog alerts. I mean, we still had to go to school, but at least PE was cancelled. And it never happened to me, but proximity to a wildfire closes schools from time to time, though that's usually part of a lead story, not just scrolling along the bottom. XD
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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
Growing up in California, the weather was never remotely bad enough to cancel school. I longed for a snow day!
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
In my case it was waking up before my mom was supposed to and waiting to see if she would come in or not. If she didn't, no school!
Jennifer Gray 2 years ago
Me too, Atwater lol I remember fog days, but very seldom
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Kaa 2 years ago
Hahaha, we had a phone call chain, the ministry called the school, the school the teachers and they called their classes in alphabetical order, means they called the first in each list, that family called the next and so on. Yeah, we often ended up going to school anyway because the chain didn't work.
#9
Having to stop at a gas station and ask for directions and pay attention to what the clerk is saying.
Bonus: waiting to call long distance after 9pm because it was free. Then getting very excited when they dropped it to 7pm.
JR Doyle 2 years ago
Back in the late 90s I remember sitting in the car and plugging the family's "emergency" cell phone into the cigarette lighter to talk to my girlfriend who lived in a different area code. We would talk every night for hours and hours. I also remember thinking "it's 8:55pm.. close enough to 9" and the look on my parents face getting the first months bill. If I called even a minute before 9 the ENTIRE call was billed at the regular daytime rate. I'll finally have them paid off this holiday season!
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
Dialing 0 to make a collect call, the phone Operator would ask, "How may I place your call?" ...
PeachPossum 2 years ago
and playing with the dial by counting the clicks for each digit in the number you were trying to call.
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“Sorry! We’ll have to talk at 9 PM because I don’t have free minutes until then!”
theflyingcicero 2 years ago
Grew up in Austria with my grandmother, while my parents were in Italy. When they called, every second counted. So it was almost never. I had to write letters every week, that took days to reach Italy (a country just next to Austria). And the money they sent to my grandma came with the postman.
Thomas Biorogue 2 years ago
And internet was by the hour and where we lived, it was a long distance call to get on America Online or CompuServ. Man when we got on and that 1st bill came..Holy Shirt! Phone bill was $500 and America Online, if you went over your allotted 10 free hours, then it went to $3.95 an hour so that credit card hit at like $400!
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
You've been driving around in circles without hope of ever finding your way. You're tired and hungry, when suddenly you see the welcoming lights of a gas station. The guy behind the counter is answering your prayers of salvation, when you hear a voice from the back, "don't send them that way, for chris sake. They need to go to blah street, hang a right on blank street..." And with a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, you enter into the second act of your nightmare.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Having a map or getting one to find where you are going with your truck. Yes kiddos, we didn't had Google maps hahahahahahahaha
#10
Being on a phone call with someone using the home phone when all of sudden someone in the house picks up another phone and tells you to get off
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
You could very faintly hear another line pick up. You and your friend go silent because you were talking about girls :P. "Sooo the weather huh? Oh yeah maybe we could go outside and play huh? O_o"
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
This is nothing, I tell you. I had younger brothers who would listen in on my conversations. Blackmailing little...
Michelle Reynolds 2 years ago
Party lines anyone? We had one in the 70's. Sometimes we would pick up the phone and there was someone else using the line that we didn't even know. Super weird.
David Brandel 2 years ago
I remember my dad telling me I had TWENTY minutes to wrap up my call because he knew I couldn't finish it any quicker.
BPisaddictive 🇮🇹 🤌 2 years ago
We shared the line with the family who lived one floor under ours. If they were using the phone ours was silent. Worked until my sister and I and their sons became teenagers and wanted to talk on the phone with our girl/boyfriend. We used to hit with a broomstick on the floor or on the ceiling to ask for the line!
#11
Writing and receiving letters by post.
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
You do realize you can still send letters, right? The post office still exists. When I was dating a girl, and I went on a trip to Europe, I made sure to find a card and mail her a letter every day. That way she'd know I was thinking of her, and would have something she could touch and hold in her hand to remind her of that.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Pft, in the UK it may as well not exist, we get post 2-3 days a week, they don't bother with the rest, of the 30+ Christmas cards we sent last year (early Dec) 4 people received them before Christmas.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Did anyone else have the Free Stuff for Kids book? It was a compilation of all the companies you could write to and get free stuff. Sometimes you had to enclose $3-5 for shipping . It was awesome. The last time I got something free in the mail was the early 00s when you had to continually check into the jelly belly site until you "won" a free pack of jelly bellies. It contained 8 jellybeans when it came lol
Kimberly Herbert 2 years ago
While in HS, my niece and her friends sent each other letters and postcards by post while attending different camps or going on vacation with their families.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
I wish this was still around. There are pen pal sites out there, but no one wants to do this any more.
#12
Not having a camera all the time.
PRIVACY
Tabitha 2 years ago
I still like my privacy. I never joined the social media crowd and overshared my life. I prefer to be in full charge of what individual people know about me—-for instance, when employers started online stalking their employees’ private social media accounts, even though I wasn’t online much anyway, I made the conscious decision to never post anything. I briefly had a Facebook account to keep in touch with some family members, but only posted the most banal stuff, because I can’t stand gossip. So, if a boss tries to online stalk me, they’re not going to find much at all. I like it that way.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
My dad had an Olympus, I still remember the noise of the flash charging. Weeeeeeeeee. Pop
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
My favorite (then and now) was (is) the old reliable Polaroid Instamatik! It was literally the ONLY way to know "right away" (within a few minutes) whether or not your picture was any good.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
My dad always had our camcorder out at special events. I have so few photos/film of him, because he was always the one holding the camera. It's a little sad.
Michelle K 2 years ago
I don't own a cellphone. Have an iPod I use at home to take photos of the cats and garden.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I used to love the crappy disposable cameras as a kid. You would always forget what you took pictures of so it was like a little surprise when you got them developed.
Michelle Reynolds 2 years ago
I would give anything to have had a digital camera or cell phone when I was in high school. Would've saved a LOT of money!!!
#13
Going out as a kid from dawn til dusk without your parents being able to contact you or know where you are. Then knowing you have to go home when the street lights come on.
ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago
Or when you heard your mom yelling your names out to the whole neighborhood.
Norah Reilly 2 years ago
And if I heard my middle name, I KNEW that I was in trouble.
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Bgray450 2 years ago
I could whistle so loudly my kids could hear me two blocks away at the school playground.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Yup, that was my father. He had a distinct whistle that was loud as sh1t, I felt like a dang penguin that knew it's parent's call out of a billion other penguins (kids)
Load More Replies... Hey! 2 years ago
My mother had a bell, which I now have, and you could hear the bell; it was like a church bell sound and my siblings' friends and my friends all knew that sound. Bell-Time-...4ebc06.jpg 
Mark Rudolph 2 years ago
And if you had done something you shouldn't have, word of it would have gotten home before you did. Plus if you hadn't listened to Mrs.X, it would have been considered just as bad as not having listened to your own mother.
Igor914624 2 years ago
My mother had a distinctive whistle. And every kid in the neighborhood knew that whistle meant that our mom wanted us home and would let us know.
DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight 2 years ago
Unless your parents were a$$holes who wouldn't let you leave the house (resulting in social difficulties as an adult)
#14
Dedicating songs on your local radio station.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
A Senior in our high school called up the local radio station and dedicated a song to my best friend- a 9th grader. It was the stuff of legend, the whole school knew Mark dedicated "Love Thy Will Be Done" by Martika to her. A senior in like with a freshman.
Ruby Begonia 2 years ago
WFMU began as a Lutheran oriented Upsala College station in E.Orange NJ with with many Scandinavian enrolies.My best friend and I thought it would be fun to shake up the usual Nordic named dedications with all the boyfriends and friends we had with southern European names: ex - Frank Mastropasca, Vito DeOria, Matty Ciccone, Tony Giannelli, etc. The station survived our hijinks !!
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
Once heard a middle school kid request "Lola" for his girlfriend of the same name because she was "so pretty and ladylike"... The DJ could barely respond due to choking on laughter... The kid clearly hadn't paid attention to the lyrics
Angelica Millan 2 years ago
Bet you can, just not common and people listens to music differently
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Someone calling the landline and disconnecting the internet
Sean 2 years ago
The worst thing is that it always disconnected that download you already had running for 5+ hours, so you had to start it over from scratch.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
5 hour download = Spandau Ballet's 'True' (5 min & 46 seconds).
Load More Replies... Xitxarel•lo Panda 2 years ago
Ouch.....anyway I kind I miss my 56k modem "talking" with the servers..,.that sound was glorious hahahahaha
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
You know she's going to answer it at lightning speed because it could be a family member that she's going to talk to for hours.
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Oof always the worst. Especially when trying to download a game or music. 98% downloaded "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
#16
Riding your bike around town with no destination, looking for a pile of your friends bikes so you can hang out.
Having your friends’ phone numbers memorized
Harley 2 years ago
I used to ride my bike all the time to a pub crawl until one day they kicked me out, I guess I just can’t handlebars
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Wow I forgot about the bike pile. You see a pile of bikes in front of the house, you go into the house unannounced lol
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago (edited)
Back in the day, (up until around 1994) my friend and I lived across the street from each other. If we wanted to call each other, we had to call long distance even tho we were in the same area code, across the street from one another! Our parents told us to "just go across the street if you really need to talk to each other"! 😂🤣 ...because of the long distance phone bill. 🙄
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Isn't it weird I can still remember phone numbers and addresses of people I haven't spoken to in 30 years but anyone I've known in the last 20-nada, all in my phone.
#17
Having to wait or be somewhere you don't want to be like visiting your mom's friend's house or at the bank with NOTHING to distract you but your own mind. My parents never bought me a handheld game nor did she have room in her handbag for my books. So I just had to BE in the moment.
Alexej Dvorak 2 years ago
Hah, I have a vague childhood memory of being at the bank with my parents when they bought their first house. I was around 7 or 8 years old and they were printing out bank statements after finalizing their mortgage I assume. It was just like OP describes it. In my memory it took hours and I was just there with them with nothing to do and not understanding a single bit of what was happening or why. To this day it is the memory that immediatlely comes to mind when I try to think of when I was the most bored in my entire life.
Angie Brown 2 years ago
My parents bank had a kids room with foam blocks and a few books.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Me too! And then I got a Gameboy when I was 10
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I was lucky to have a GBA as a kid, but I burned through batteries on laundry day at the Laundromat...
Paul C. 2 years ago
I used to cut our grass at home as part of my earning pocket money. One day I cut the old ladies grass a couple of doors down just to be neighbourly. Big mistake! She insisted on me going round for afternoon tea with cakes and sandwiches Looking back it was sweet of her, but Jeez was I bored.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Oh, I had a wildly vivid imagination and several dozen imaginary friends, so I was always able to entertain myself, no matter where I was.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
l just carried my own book around everywhere (until 2020 when I finally got a smart phone)
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
Did they not have hands? Could they not carry their own book(s)? I definitely always had at least one book, wherever we went.
#18
Going out into the world with no cell, a map in hand, hoping to find the new address you’ve never been to, and then in addition to that, hoping the people you were going to meet up would get there.
If you got there and your friends weren’t there, the most you could do was ask the business to lend you their phone or walk to a pay phone and call your friends house phones to see if they picked up. If they didn’t, you had no way of knowing if they were late, selling you out, or dead.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
I had a Thomas Guide map. Friggin thing was 3" thick on a ring binding. My dad gave it to me. I loved that thing XD
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
It may just be me, but in my experience, people were more on time then because of this lol
Richard Michael 2 years ago
I delivered pizza back in the day before beepers and cellphones. We had a giant map on the wall and little scraps of paper to write down directions. We made bank back then too. There was no delivery fee, and if there was the driver got it.
jdtimid123 2 years ago
Asking a business to use their phone reminded me of a few months ago I came up on a lady with her hood open in the on ramp to the interstate. So I pull over and she's got this trucker with her saying she needed a jumpstart, and that he didn't have jumper cables so was helping her flag someone down. Apparently she had been waiting all night/morning, parked right next to a travel center with phones she could have called and jumper cables... Obviously I let them borrow mine, but it's still annoys me that they didn't think to just walk two minutes across to the travel canter store and either buy supplies or ask to borrow a phone since hers was dead. Crazy. I wouldn't have stopped if it hadn't been in broad daylight, too risky.
Suck it Trebek 2 years ago
I am proud to know how to use paper maps. When the world goes dark I'll find a way out.
#19
This is more 90’s-early 00’s but the ability to just... not be reached sometimes? And that was okay?
It stresses me out that there’s this social pressure to be available at all times, and people get upset with you if you don’t respond to a text fast enough etc. but as a kid we’d call each other on the home phone sometimes and if you didn’t pick up it was just assumed you were busy and nobody was actually UPSET with you over it. Obviously I love being able to keep in contact with friends on a more regular basis, but the constant pressure to be accessible to people 24/7 or you’re some kind of bad friend is too much and it really does a number on my anxiety. I miss being able to call/text/message someone back at my leisure and not have to have a “good enough” explanation ready as to why I was “ignoring” that person.
Hey! 2 years ago
I totally get this. My brothers can't understand why my phone doesn't ring between 10pm-10am. If I happen to see it, I might answer the call, but I may not and that's my choice.
Melli Peep 2 years ago
I have my phone set on do not disturb and announce caller for that very reason. If you're not on my favorite list and don't get announced, I'll get to you when I can.
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I've aged enough to not care about social pressures..... Nothing more freeing!!!! I please my Lord, my hubby, and myself 😂
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
If I don't answer the phone (or a text, or whatever) it's because I have a life outside of my phone and said device is NOT surgically attached to my hand!
Mario Strada 2 years ago
My phone is set to "Do not disturb" after 6pm and the whole weekend. My daughter is the only exception. Screw the rest of the world. If the Zombie apocalypse or a comet stryke happens, I'll probably notice on my own. Outside of that, it can wait until Monday.
Richard Michael 2 years ago
Not an issue at all with me and my friends and acquaintances. I ignore everyone until I am ready to respond. Back in the 80s, if the phone rang you answered it. Not the case now.
Magnolia DJ Holmes 2 years ago (edited)
You could always tell people this. "Hey, sorry it takes me a while to get back to you, sometimes. I deal with stress and anxiety, and sometimes responding quickly to something I need to think about makes me feel stressed. I'm not trying to ignore you on purpose." If they still get mad, then maybe it's a question of whether or not they care about your well-being and whether or not they really are a friend. Unless it is a matter that really does need an immediate response, the people in my life understand if I don't respond the second they send the text. And I understand when it takes them a while, too. Maybe it's a maturity thing, too? And I don't mean age because there are plenty of entitled, immature older people
BrownTabby 2 years ago
I make no apologies, and I’m not particularly stressed or anxious about it. It is not reasonable to expect instant replies at all times, and those who do expect that need to adjust their expectations.
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Sara C 2 years ago
My friends let me still get away with this - I can take up to 48 hours to reply to messages. As I have always done this it's just 'normal' for me!
steve g 2 years ago
Same :) I even tell people (including my work), that I'll try to remember to check my emails every Friday. If it's important enough for me to know, it's important enough for someone to find me and tell me :D Now it's 'normal' for me.
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#20
I was thinking the other day about how I applied for out-of-state college (1989.) How did I even do that? Did I write to them and ask for an application, the fill it out and mail it back? When I applied to graduate school (1993) how did I even know which schools had my program? Did I go to the library or something?
Sitting here in 2020 imagining doing those things with no Internet, it seems impossible. But since I don’t even remember how I accomplished it, it must have been pretty mundane at the time. Sounds like a f*****g hassle if you ask me!
kitsune rushed 2 years ago
I filled out all the forms they sent. The schools came for me when my SAT scores came out.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
As a senior in 1968, I was offered full scholarships to four schools I hadn't even applied to. Thanks, but how do you know that much about me? How have you even heard of me? (I went to a Jesuit high school, and they were all Jesuit colleges. I don't think that was a coincidence.)
Load More Replies... 54 s 2 years ago
My school in a smallish city in Central/upstate NY had a "career center". I did have to put up with a lot of military recruitment attempts but all the brochures and a very dedicated professional woman running the place got me applying to lots of out of state schools and helped me get into me top pick. (back in 94-95) could not have done it without her
Doozle bug 2 years ago
Writing a letter to get information packages for high school projects and buying a stamp then posting the request. Then waiting for a response. OMG
Shelli Aderman 2 years ago
Sending a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) along with an inquiry! (HOW did that just pop into my brain from the nether-memories? 😳)
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
I was 40 by the time I got a computer and the internet back in '95. I find life confusing enough even with the valuable assistance I get being online, so I'm glad I can't really remember the hassle we went through before. I do remember the torture of going from store to store, restaurant to restaurant, day after day, submitting applications in person. Glad to know the younger generations don't have to go through that rigmarole.
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 2 years ago
U.S. College day at the mall where colleges came from all over the country with their little tables and brochures and pencils. I grew up in the city tho. Idk what rural kids did.
#21
Calling collect and saying your message really quickly instead of your name so the other person doesn’t have to accept the call
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
Hi, Dad-Pick-Me-Up-At-The-Mall. My name is Loose Seal.
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R Burke 2 years ago (edited)
My family had a code - "Person to Person" for my formerly alive greatgrandma "Sarah" meant "We've reached our destination safely." EVERYONE in the family did it!
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
I never actually learned this skill. My talent was having the exact change I needed to make a call from the payphone, making said call, and the payphone ALWAYS giving me my money back...
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 years ago
I accepted a collect call from an acquaintance, curious as to why he was calling. Just to chat, from his ship out in the Pacific - cost me over £40 nearly 30 years ago!
#22
Having arguments about factual information and having absolutely no way of determining who is correct.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
There were things called libraries...but we had encyclopaedia and dictionaries in the house.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Yeah, but wikipedia has 7 million articles. Your encyclopedia had a few thousand. And the entries were often a single paragraph. Maybe a page.
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LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
"Alternative facts". and please God don't let the clown show back into the White House.
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Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
OMG! Did y'all NOT have a family copy of Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus in your house!?!? I thought literally EVERY family had those!!! (Sorry, I'm dating myself HARD today...)
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
I'm a walking Britannica, according to my friends/co workers. My family refers to my as Book of Knowledge 😁 lol ...Book of Knowledge for Dummies 😂😂🤣🤣
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Kiera DeCanio 2 years ago
The Guinness Book of World Records was invented for basically this. It was to settle arguments in bars(thus Guinness beer) when they were debating who was the best whatever.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
My mum. Always right, still is, even if there's proof to the contrary, she's right.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
People mentioning encyclopedias forget that such books wouldn't be able to tell you things like who played Worm Wellings in that episode of "Going Straight". Nowadays all sorts of ephemeral information is out there
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Encyclopedias also couldn't provide any information newer than the day they were printed.
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I will forever be indebted to Google for stopping what would've become horrible arguments.
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
I remember being enlisted to prove or disprove one side of said arguments... Random people used to be our Google
Kristen Bagan 2 years ago
Yes, this. Or phone calls. Call... Blockbuster to confirm who was in that movie. Etc
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#23
Hanging out at the high school after school was out with no supervision. I was floored to learn kids can’t do that now. I spent hours sitting on the floor in some back hallway with friends, not wanting to go home, doing my homework, waiting for my ride to get out of practice.
Thrillion 2 years ago (edited)
SAME! Every time I missed the bus, my mother gave me the option of getting picked up after she got off from work. She told me to go to the library across the way from the school. I spent a lot of time at that library.. I wasn't a reader but I did, learned a lot too.. One thing specifically, I know all 12 verses to The 12 Days of Christmas.
Load More Replies... Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Kids nowadays seriously can't be trusted to be alone in the classroom let their teacher go to the bathroom much less go about the building.
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
The band hall was my hang out with my friends. Often times an hour or two just chilling and talking.
Tim Douglass 2 years ago
As a junior and senior I actually had a key to my high school. I was in band and on the school paper so they thought I needed access.
Unproductive Panda #3 2 years ago
We're kicked out after 4pm if we're not with a teacher. We just walk to the cafe down the street to hang out after school
Michael Braisher 2 years ago
When I was at school, decades back, kids were sent home then, too.
#24
Going through catalogues (remember Lillian Vernon?) to find things you like, then filling out the order form, mailing it with a check, and waiting 6 weeks to get your stuff. And during that 6 weeks you have no idea if they even received your order or not!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Or being too poor to do this, so you pored over the catalogs and circled the items you WISHED you could order XD
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Yes!!! Spiegel and Sears and the JCPenney wish book! I actually cut the photos of all the children out of the clothing section and made them into a family when I was 11. I wrote a 100 typed page chapter book called "A Weaver-Brown Family Christmas" about a combined family with 16 children spending their first Christmas together. Never ordered things though- just dreamed.
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Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
Sears, JC Pennys, even that place that sold sausage and cheese had a neat catalogue.
Glitcher 2 years ago
During COVID I ordered a replacement brand name part from the manufacturer. Over the phone bc no one was there to take Internet orders, so their site said. Lady on the phone took my CC # and said the part would go out in the mail the next day. No receipt, no proof of purchase. But it was legit. Part arrived on time. It was really a throwback moment to when you wanted to speed up your catalog order and called them instead!
#25
I feel like kids today will never know boredom like I experienced when I was a kid. We were poor and didn't have any videogames, there was no Candy Crush on your phone, no Netflix, if your friends were busy you'd just have to make up your own game or watch one of the 5 videos you actually owned for the 347th time, but even that wasn't always possible if your parent/s wanted you out of the house for a while. So you'd just walk around hoping to run into some kids you knew.
I also remember my sister and I would watch MTV, wait for our favourite music video to come on, then record it on VHS. We had two tapes full of music videos. I wish I had those tapes now, there were some bangers on it.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I remember being bored at my grandma's and reading whatever books she had, which were usually mysteries and it always turned out to be a good time.
Ashlisha 2 years ago
I read my grandparents encyclopedias. I think I learned alot.
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TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Bruh, The Land Before Time was my shizz and I watch the series on repeat daily. I was lucky to get my own tv in my room, I'm sure it was because my parents were tired of the dinosaurs yelling "PEEEETREEEEE!!!! DUCKYYYY!"
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I watched Teddy Ruxpin on repeat when I was 2 and screamed "I WANT NEW TEDDY RUXPIN!!" while it rewound...sobbing like he was dead and clutching my own teddy ruxpin in horror
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Trillian 2 years ago
OMG this. We once went away for the long Eastern weekend, to a tiny town in Bavaria. The weather was horrible, cold and rainy. EVERYTHING was closed. Nothing on TV. 4 days. I can still feel my brain melt slowly just remembering HOW BORED we were. And that is almost 40 years ago.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
My grandparents had 2 "libraries"; one contained my Grandpa's Popular Mechanic Home Repair Guides, the other was my Grandma's romance novels. By the time I was 13, I'd read them all... and my mom's Harlequin collection...
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
The summer between 7th and 8th grade (mid 90's) all my friends went on vacations and stuff and left me with noone to hang out with. I got two books and learned how to crochet and knit and spent the summer making scarves. Fun fact, it took until my early 30's to realize I held the knitting needles wrong 😂 I can't even learn to do it the correct way because it feels too awkward every time I try
Bored something 2 years ago
I read a lot. My dad chose not to have a TV. My mum did but my dad's was the only house I knew of without a TV.
#26
Having to spend hours in the library to look up information you needed. I had to write a 10 page paper on the industrial revolution for school, it took days to find what would take moments now.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
The most boring class ever was solely writing a research paper and following all citation and references. Had to have at least 10 references and only 3 could be online
DJR 2 years ago
I was doing a research paper for an online class while I was deployed to Iraq. I went to Wikipedia, looked at the source, then went to amazon to view the copyright page in the sample. Worked like a charm.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Back-breaking piles of books just to do a paper, but the worse was the microfiche. Hours of scrolling through that horror until my eyes didn't focus.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
It took so long that you started writing it during the industrial revolution and finished during the information revolution.
Thomas Biorogue 2 years ago
Try being in a small town in the 80s and having to write a paper. Small Texas town of about 1,500. Local library didn't have enough info so me and some buddies piled in his brother's car and had to go 2 hours away to a bigger library to look stuff up.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Having a word like "porn" censored because it was seen as a fopaux, but being able to freely use the word "p**n" [p-a-w-n] because people knew the difference.
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#27
Being out and realizing you're going to miss the beginning of whatever tv show you wanted to watch.
Harley 2 years ago
I think there should be a tv show about playing guitar better, but there isn’t. Until then I guess I should just stay tuned.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
There is. It's on an American network called AXS. My dad likes watching some of the shows on that channel, so I've seen ads for that show. XD
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Trillian 2 years ago
We don't have a regular TV program anymore (just Netflix and Disney) and my daughter just doesn't understand the concept of a TV show that can't be stopped anytime. I was at my sister's place with her and she was jumping up and down, needing to the bathroom and when I asked why she didn't just go she pointed at the TV: I can't get it to stoooooooop.
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
Camping for a month (against my will) knowing i am missing a new epusode of Little House on the Prarie. I had a Nellie Olson withdrawl.
howdylee 2 years ago
My niece was born on the day of the Friends series finale. Went to go visit at the hospital, had other brother record the episode on VHS. Yes in 2004, on VHS! Clock on machine was off by a couple minutes, so it stopped recording with like a minute left in the show! I didn't get to see that final minute for months until it came on reruns! I was also in college at the time and couldn't afford to buy the seasons on VHS/DVD, and the final season wasn't out for a while. Strange to think that was only 19 year ago!
Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
Missing the first 5 or 10 minutes of Macgyver would cause me to cry. Gotta get home earlier!
Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
Yeah, I'd act as the street alarm clock- "it's almost 8 o'clock, Brady Bunch is about to start!" (I know, I know, I just dated myself)
Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
But back in the 1900s, you couldnt see it later on streaming or pause and back up live tv or anything. You were just out of luck.
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Turn on the Game Boy with the cartridge in.
Did the game start?
Yes. Enjoy
(2) No. Pull cartridge out, blow into the contacts like a f*****g mad harmonica player
Put in back in and turn on the Game Boy.
Did the game start?
Yes. Enjoy
No. Try Again (2)
Edit: Thanks for the Award! First time ever to get one! Little me didn't know how contacts work so I just copied what other kids back then did lol. I wonder when did that myth started...
Austin L 2 years ago
This was actually bad advice. You are blowing stuff that can add to the problem over time. The reason this temporarily works is because the contacts are scraping away gunk and creating a better electrical connection. You can do the same thing by just inserting and removing the cartridge a couple times or ideally use a high concentration alcohol and a swap to clean the cartridge's contacts.
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
My original NES was quite finnicky... Had to blow in cartridge and machine... Insert cartridge until it hit resistance and then gently force it in another half inch... After that you would wiggle it back out slightly and push the cartridge all the way left... Finally push down on the cartridge and hold it in place with a stack of 12 pennies taped together wedged in the gap above it... And for god's sake no sudden movements that might upset the console and reset the game
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Pft, kids. Gameboy's came out when I was 18. Atari 2600 and ZX Spectrum, prior to that a Grandstand system that had duck hunt and pong.
SuperDarkStudios 2 years ago
Oh god I'm Gen Z (07) and know this too well.. I used to use my moms GameBoy Color a ton and I used to get so aggravated that it would get paused on the gameboy color screen and would vigorously blow into the cartridges
#29
Convincing your sibling to get up to change the channel
Todd Boughn (Strange Agent) 2 years ago
Then, of course, when Dad was watching I was the remote.
kitsune rushed 2 years ago
Using a pair of pliers to turn the channel because the plastic k**b had long broken off.
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
I was the oldest, but because I am female, it was expected for me to "choose" to watch what my little sisters and cousins wanted to watch. The other option was typically to not watch anything (which was almost always my choice by going outside or into another room on bad weather days and playing by myself)
Michelle C 2 years ago
“It’s your turn!” or “Heeeeeey! I was watching that!! Mom, Dad….tell [sibling] to change it back!”
Mario Strada 2 years ago
In Italy we got color TV really late (mostly because they couldn't agree on what kind) so even the earliest TVs had remote controls. I was stupefied when I came to the USA and lots of TV had no remotes.
#30
I grew up in a very rural part of Ontario, Canada. Since there were so few households in the area, it was not profitable for the telephone company to give each home a private line. Instead, our community had a "party line". Every household was on the same telephone line and you could pick up the phone receiver and hear Betty from down the road having a conversation with her sister. You would have to ask to have the line and you would have to listen for the "click" to know if Betty left or if she was still listening to your conversation. I remember more than once, asking in the middle of my conversation, "Betty can you please leave?" and having her respond "Oops, sorry" and then hang up her phone.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
That reminds me of Little House on the Prairie and nosy Mrs. Oleson listening sinisterly to all the private conversations and starting trouble
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
I live by their 1870's house. To bad the TV show was wrong as The Michael Landon television series Little House on the Prairie was not set at this location, but at Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the family moved in 1874. Which wasn't Little House on the Prairie, which was Lauras time in Kansas.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
And each household was given a specific ring pattern so you knew if the call was for you or someone else.
Devin Schmitt 2 years ago
Party lines weren't limited to rural areas. I grew up in Seattle, and would get yelled at for listening in on strangers.
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
Colorado Springs 1994, I moved to a place near the 'historic district' and at first I thought it was just the weather or maybe something like a couple of phone lines touching because every so often, I would hear other ppl's conversations. Then, when I would go and pay my phone bill in person, I finally remembered to tell the gal at the phone company. She was like confused but then she said, "y'know, I bet you're on one of those old shared lines. Lemme check..." Sure enough, of the last 6 or so forgotten shared lines in the entire city I had been hooked up with and shared with 3 other numbers 😂🤣
Teresa Spanics 2 years ago
I remember that when I was growing up on the family farm near Beulah, Manitoba, Canada. Mom told us of the time her older sister called and they both started to talk in Hungarian and heard a 'click' of someone hanging up who had planned to listen in to their conversation.
Gregory McCombs 2 years ago
I remember back to the days of the old wooden crank phone, and waiting to hear if was your ring (two longs and a short) so you know if the call was for you on the party line.
Alice Landers 2 years ago (edited)
same but it was US in the 60s Our phone # was 4 digits I remember 5430
#31
I was born in the mid-70’s and have my clearest childhood memories during the 80’s, graduated HS and college in the 90’s. Here are a few of my favorites:
1. Requiring a landline to talk on the phone, even pre-cordless landline phones. Think long-a*s coil cords to take the phone to your bedroom for a private conversation.
2. Downloading files, online gaming, or faxing to be disconnected cuz mom decided to make a call.
3. Using a paper map to go places or relying on dubious directions like “turn left at the second or third light, I can’t remember which”
4. Going to a theater to see movie trailers... like they didn’t even show them on TV.
5. 4 local TV channels that could only be tuned via antenna.
6. a 20” 4:3 ratio TV being considered large.
7. Getting pissed that there wasn’t any leaded gasoline available and you need to use that s****y unleaded c**p.
8. Arguing the virtues of seat belts and motorcycle helmets. Also, cars still on the road that didn’t have seat belts.
9. smoking sections on airplanes being a new thing that people were pissed about. Used to be you could smoke anywhere on the plane.
10. Smoking literally everywhere. Restaurants being hazy with smoke.
11. Needing an encyclopedia set to verify facts.
12. Phones only being used for voice communication.
13. Cell phones costing hundreds of dollars per month. Making a mistake and falling asleep talking to your SO on your cell phone and getting an $800+ bill for the month.
14. Cell phones weighed in pounds. Think 2 lbs strapped to your belt.
15. Hardwired Cell phones in your call so you didn’t need to haul a heavy-a*s phone around with a crappy antenna. If you knew a real estate agent in the 80’s they probably had one. My mom did.
16. Needing a pager and a cellphone for work. Page to make sure someone is available so you didn‘t waste your minutes.
17. Minutes being something you regularly budgeted for and managed.
18. Russia being the bad guys and fear of nuclear war being a regular topic of conversation.
19. the world seeming A LOT more mysterious and interesting... I can’t over stress this.
20. Hanging out in music stores looking for hidden gems and picking up girls.
To name a few
Hope Cows&Chickens 2 years ago
Applies again. And its definitely different this time.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Remember car phones? I was telling my daughter how special movie previews were. And how if a movie came out at Christmas and you missed it, you would have to wait an entire year for it to come on VHS because they would wait til next Christmas for sales
Historyharlot93 2 years ago
Encyclopedias were expensive. A grocery store near us was giving a set out as a premium, if you spent x amount of money, one volume released every 2 weeks. We only got to “F” by the time the promotion was over. This was the ‘80s. The books made great forts for my brothers Star Wars figures and houses for my dolls.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
19; now people just make 💩 up to make the world seem more mysterious and interesting. Because reality is just not enough fun.
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 2 years ago
20 is interesting. My hS kids are in track. Last year we went to meets and all the kids were on their phones. Not just my kids, all the kids. I thought it’s a beautiful day. When I was in HS and in track, we used go scam on the runners from all the other schools.
Thrillion 2 years ago
Those cars were still on the road... That generation fixed stuff, most of the time themselves no one had credit.
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Calling your bf or gf house and hoping that they pick up instead of their parents.
#33
There being nothing on television.
I watched the weather network for longer than I should when I was younger because it was better than soaps and sometimes nothing was on.
With streaming services and even YouTube / shorter videos like tic tok you can be watching new content 24/7.
Little overwhelming!
Bgray450 2 years ago
I remember the three channels on TV would play the National Anthem, at midnight? 10 pm? And then it was just static.
Tabitha 2 years ago
Or the announcement right before the 11 O’Clock News, “It’s 11:00 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”
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Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Even with all today's options, the majority of people still wind up watching the same things or types of things.
Paul C. 2 years ago
On South TV in England in the early 70's there was some bloke who after the programmes had finished would after a few minutes say things like, "are you still sitting there", or "come on now it's bed time." There would be a blank screen and this random bloke would do this most nights while there was just a blank screen. I often sat up just to hear what nonsense he would come up with.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
there are channels on YT that post videos of Weather Channel stuff. It's like the 1990s all over again!
Squiffle Noses 2 years ago
I remember watching the static like it was meaningful - like in that movie Poltergeist.
Alice Landers 2 years ago
Remember coming home and 'allowed' to watch tv before homework. Favorite Dark Shadows
#34
Spending $15-20 on a CD as well as spending entire days combing thrift shops, p**n shops and flea markets looking for CDs and cassettes on the cheap
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
Wow, just goes to show how idiotic BoredPanda is when it comes to their over the top censorship. They've censored p-a-w-n but not porn! Hah hah!
#35
Standing in line with quarters in hand to play a video game
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
Putting your quarter on the cabinet to signify that it was your turn next.
Sandra Scully-Mannaravalappil 2 years ago
Same with the Pool Table in Bars
Load More Replies... Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
I used to be able to lap Double Dragon and Shinobi Warrior, hours of cheap fun.
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
My buddy used to hustle grown a*s adults playing Mortal Kombat 2 in the arcade... He'd be all like "Gee mister, you just beat me bad. I was gonna say I bet you 5 bucks you can't beat me before the match. Glad I didn't... Well, I guess we can bet this time if you promise to give me a chance." Then Id watch him Flawless Victory and fatality the chump. Sometimes they didn't pay up but the vast majority did
#36
Video games had no dlc and you unlocked everything through mere grinding. Good times.
Bored something 2 years ago
Having to change floppy discs ultiple times during the installing process.
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
Hoping you didn't lose the code wheel that came with the game...
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Marley Nachi 2 years ago
you didn't need to pay extra to for "downloadable content", and just unlocked more game content via playing a long time
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Ozymandias73 2 years ago
And the early games had no saves so you played until you couldn't anymore then had to start over from the beginning again next time.
#37
Snow days. The school didn't text or email you, no one called.
What did you do? Sat there watching the news with basically a stock ticker going across the bottom and if you missed your school...oh well time to spend another 20 minutes or take the trip and see if the doors are open. This was made worse because some schools (like mine) would wait until the last possible minute meaning you could be at the bus stop waiting because the 'call' was made 5 minutes before the buses start their route. If you were lucky someone's parent would drive by to say there was a delay, other times you basically stood there for 20 minutes (in the snow) before deciding it had to be delayed...but wait the bus could just be slow (which also wasn't unheard of) now 45 minutes late everyone is convinced it must be a delay.
so you go home and yes
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
We used to check if the parking lot was plowed the night before. This was only after we moved to MD. In CT they were on top of the plowing and we only missed 1 1/2 days once during a blizzard. Otherwise we had like 4 snow days and lots of 2 hour delays. Then moved here and missed an entire week over 8 inches of snow. Got 2 feet in 2010 and they called it "Snowmageddon"
Michelle C 2 years ago
I grew up in Maryland and lived through so many blizzards I’ve lost track now!
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Nichole Harris 2 years ago
But y'all got outta school like... In May, not mid June 😂
Load More Replies... Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
We lived in an apartment across the street from my grade school, and most of the kids lived in the neighborhood (NYC). There were no snow days because everyone could walk to school.
Squiffle Noses 2 years ago
You make it sound bad - but i remember going through all that and then actually getting a snow day - it was still like birthday and xmas combined! :)
Sandra Scully-Mannaravalappil 2 years ago
IN Connecticut they actually used to blast it by the Fire Horn. My grandmother had a legend that explained what the fire horn was blowing street addresses, they actually ment something and certain pattern ment school was canceled for snow
#38
Wondering who invented the hot dog and being unable to find out
Charlie the Cat 2 years ago
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, is traditionally credited with originating the frankfurter. However, this claim is disputed by those who assert that the popular sausage - known as a "dachshund" or "little-dog" sausage - was created in the late 1600's by Johann Georghehner, a butcher, living in Coburg, Germany.
Squiffle Noses 2 years ago
Around the age of 14 i took to keeping my weekly questions in a notebook and cycling 25 min to the local library on a saturday to seek answers!
#39
Raves. Real ones. Calling an info line which gave you the location of a map point where a guy in a car gave you the location of the party. Then driving around in the worst parts of Detroit with the windows down listening for the bass thump until you found the party.
Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Or in the UK likely the middle of a farmers field somewhere. Squat parties were much better, Brixton was brilliant for squat parties, CoolTan, the Button Factory, the Bunker, shout out to Pixie for always being on the door.
SleepSycho 2 years ago
Drove 2 hrs to Minneapolis one time to make the call (cuz that’s where the area code of the number was) and the rave turned out to be right back near where we started from in a barn. Worth it. Sick DJ set!
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
It was so good, I went to some great ones out in the middle of nowhere
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago (edited)
Hidden raves in Golden Gate Park San Francisco. Being young in the 90s...😢
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
That sounds like an urban thing or maybe just a Detroit thing... We just went straight to the party
#40
Long-distance phone calls.
#41
Not mine but my sister
"You have a collect call from *momi'matthemoviespickmeupat5please*, would you like to accept the charges?"
Michael Largey 2 years ago
How often do you go to a movie so far away that a call home is long distance?
#42
Meeting at the arcade
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
And going there with only $1.00 ... Figuring out how to play half a day on .50¢, priceless
Squiffle Noses 2 years ago
There ware ALWAYS loads of coins dropped on the floor and the odd machine with a coin or two left in the payout bowl!
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Brainmas 2 years ago
Calling the theater and listening to the recording to tell you the times, or looking in the newspaper. Also, post internet, pre smartphone, writing down or printing MapQuest directions before leaving the house.
PE is me 2 years ago
I was bullied as a kid and I still seemed to have had a better time than kids these days are having.
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Sky Render 2 years ago
I remember the days of wood chip "bark dust" playgrounds, where the safest thing you could do was walk about the outer edge because all of the stuff on the playground was pretty much designed to make you hurt yourself badly if you fell off (and the jerks always made sure you did fall).
V 2 years ago
I remember even further back when our playgrounds had gravel for 'soft fall.' So many broken bones and bloody noses. And now we all have issues with arthritis. So I am glad younger generations don't have to deal with that.
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Philenzortia 2 years ago
A few days ago I had to explain to a 15 year old girl how a cassette worked, then an LP, suddenly I was talking about the struggling of having a discman and the blessing of using an iPod. She didn’t know what where ANY of these devices……I really felt old 🤭
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I was obsessed over American Girl/Pleasant Company. You can still order the catalogues but nothing like they used to be. I got an American Girl of Today for my Santa gift when I was 9. I chose her because I really just wanted the 6 blank books she came with. I wrote an entire series about Rebecca Springer, age 9. I used the catalogues for inspiration and when they came out with new outfits I got inspired for new stories. Was anyone else a member of The American Girl Historical Society? I still have my book and certificates for each time period. Also wanted to join the Marykate and Ashley fan club because they were my other obsession but never did cause it was like $35. My friend Betsy was a member so I got to look at all her stuff.
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
My oldest daughter had an American Girl identical twin, Molly. Btw ... American Girl used to be Holly Hobby 😁
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Urbangirlatl 2 years ago
Not knowing about every.single.tragedy that happens anywhere in the country.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Plenty of Taylor Swift fans have been doing that still in Australia in recent weeks!
Load More Replies... Brainmas 2 years ago
Calling the theater and listening to the recording to tell you the times, or looking in the newspaper. Also, post internet, pre smartphone, writing down or printing MapQuest directions before leaving the house.
PE is me 2 years ago
I was bullied as a kid and I still seemed to have had a better time than kids these days are having.
Load More Replies... Sky Render 2 years ago
I remember the days of wood chip "bark dust" playgrounds, where the safest thing you could do was walk about the outer edge because all of the stuff on the playground was pretty much designed to make you hurt yourself badly if you fell off (and the jerks always made sure you did fall).
V 2 years ago
I remember even further back when our playgrounds had gravel for 'soft fall.' So many broken bones and bloody noses. And now we all have issues with arthritis. So I am glad younger generations don't have to deal with that.
Load More Replies... Philenzortia 2 years ago
A few days ago I had to explain to a 15 year old girl how a cassette worked, then an LP, suddenly I was talking about the struggling of having a discman and the blessing of using an iPod. She didn’t know what where ANY of these devices……I really felt old 🤭
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I was obsessed over American Girl/Pleasant Company. You can still order the catalogues but nothing like they used to be. I got an American Girl of Today for my Santa gift when I was 9. I chose her because I really just wanted the 6 blank books she came with. I wrote an entire series about Rebecca Springer, age 9. I used the catalogues for inspiration and when they came out with new outfits I got inspired for new stories. Was anyone else a member of The American Girl Historical Society? I still have my book and certificates for each time period. Also wanted to join the Marykate and Ashley fan club because they were my other obsession but never did cause it was like $35. My friend Betsy was a member so I got to look at all her stuff.
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
My oldest daughter had an American Girl identical twin, Molly. Btw ... American Girl used to be Holly Hobby 😁
Load More Replies... Urbangirlatl 2 years ago
Not knowing about every.single.tragedy that happens anywhere in the country.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Plenty of Taylor Swift fans have been doing that still in Australia in recent weeks!
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