Ok, so I came across this tonight as I was browsing walls on facebook. I thought 'Wow! This is really interesting.' So I copied, adapted and then pasted it here.
Please feel free to copy and repost where-ever you like. I have marked wiht an 'X' what I remember from my childhood. Please when you repost, delete my X's and mark with an 'X' the ones you remember from your childhood.
thanks, Trisha
Audio-Visual Entertainment
[X ] Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
[ ] Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.
[X ] The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.
[X ] Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.
[X ] Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
[X ] High-speed dubbing.
[ ] 8-track cartridges.
[X ] Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.
[ ] Betamax tapes.
[X ] MiniDisc.
[ ] Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
[X ] Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations.
[X ] Shortwave radio.
[X ] 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
[X ] Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.
[X ] That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’
Computers and Videogaming
[X ] Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long.
[X ] The scream of a modem connecting.
[X ] The buzz of a dot-matrix printer.
[ ] Using jumpers to set IRQs.
[X ] DOS.
[X ] Terminals accessing the mainframe.
[X ] Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
[ ] Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
[ ] Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.
[ ] Counting in kilobytes.
[X ] Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
[X ] Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
[ ] Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.
[X ] Joysticks.
[ ] Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
[X ] Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
[[X ] Recording a song in a studio.
The Internet
[ ] NCSA Mosaic.
[X ] Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
[X ] Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
[X ] Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
[ ] Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
[X ] Phone books and Yellow Pages.
[X ] Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
[ ] Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.
[X ] Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
[X ] Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
[X ] Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
[ ] Archie searches.
[ ] Gopher searches.
[ ] Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
[X ] Privacy.
[X ] The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.
[X ] Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
[X ] Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.
[ ] The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs.
[X ] The time before PC networks.
[X ] When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
Gadgets
[X ] Typewriters.
[X ] Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?
[X ] Sending that film away to be processed.
[X ] Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
[X ] CB radios.
[X ] Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
[X ] Rotary-dial telephones.
[X ] Answering machines.
[X ] Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart.
[X ] Pay phones.
[ ] Phones with actual bells in them.
[X ] Fax machines.
[X ] Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Everything Else
[X ] Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
[X ] Remembering someone’s phone number.
[X ] Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.
[X ] Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.
[X ] Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
[X ] LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
[X ] Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.
[X ] Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
[X ] Neat handwriting.
[X ] The days before the nanny state.
[X ] Starbuck being a man.
[X ] Han shoots first.
[X ] “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen Episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
[X ] Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.
[ ] Trig tables and log tables.
[X ] “Don’t know what a slide rule is for …”
[X ] Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
[X ] Swimming pools with diving boards.
[ ] Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
[ ] Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger.
[ ] A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
[X ] Having to manually unlock a car door.
[X ] Writing a check.
[X ] Looking out the window during a long drive.
[X ] Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
[X ] Cash.
[X ] Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.
[X ] Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.
[ ] Omni Magazine.
[X ] A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.
[X ] When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same. ok. ok. ok... now I feel so outdated!!!! Even though I am only 38 right now I feel like this shows I m in my 60's!!! lmbo!!! It was fun though. Enjoy! I got a 76 out 100. Holy cow I feel old!!!
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