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The "In my day" thread.....
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sole seeker
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I can remember when McDonalds signs indicated Almost 1 million sold! (Heck, I can even remember when there were no fast food restaurants.) HeBeGeeBee, I need to borrow your "grumpy old man" logo.
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ShiningIce
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Amen! DOWN WITH SHITTY GAMES!
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Do I hear Atari?
OK, let's see if we can get back on track here....
In my day there was still such a thing as penny candy. We stole it half the time. But, it was still only a penny! 😛
In my day, there was no online anything. (scarey thought!)
In my day, people felt safe leaving their doors and windows unlocked.
In my day, if you had an elderly neighbor, you knew their name AND their children's names AND their physician's names...and you watched out for them.
Ann
OK, let's see if we can get back on track here....
In my day there was still such a thing as penny candy. We stole it half the time. But, it was still only a penny! 😛
In my day, there was no online anything. (scarey thought!)
In my day, people felt safe leaving their doors and windows unlocked.
In my day, if you had an elderly neighbor, you knew their name AND their children's names AND their physician's names...and you watched out for them.
Ann
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ok well in my day
we stay up late at night, we go out, we play playstation and all the 3 D stuff, we go out party and get drunk (well some people do not me, i only be drunk once) and we go to the cinema to hang out.
well what can i say i'm only 18 i'm a mordern adult 😀
we stay up late at night, we go out, we play playstation and all the 3 D stuff, we go out party and get drunk (well some people do not me, i only be drunk once) and we go to the cinema to hang out.
well what can i say i'm only 18 i'm a mordern adult 😀
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In my day....
you had to do everything in DOS!!!!!
you had to do everything in DOS!!!!!
sole seeker
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I remember (as a kid) when Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. The fact that he swung his hips while performing was a scandal! Some of you guys can probably relate to that. Check out VH1 lately? Wow... 
On second thought... WOW!
On second thought... WOW!
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Hmp back in my day, there were no CD's! It was all cassettes, and we still had 45's but they were getting ready to stop making them.
Ha! forget about MTV, I wasn't allowed to watch that on TV! It was too vulgar 
Nintendo was the game, Mario Brothers was hot. Things like Donkey Kong, Dig dug, The adventures of Zelda, Pitfall, Tetris, and Metroid which was my favorite next to the adventures of Zelda!
No DVD's
LOL I thought we had cool toys then, till I see what they have out today!🙄
But hearing stories from my parents, back in their day
we had it made in the shade!!!!😎
😀
Ha! forget about MTV, I wasn't allowed to watch that on TV! It was too vulgar
Nintendo was the game, Mario Brothers was hot. Things like Donkey Kong, Dig dug, The adventures of Zelda, Pitfall, Tetris, and Metroid which was my favorite next to the adventures of Zelda!
No DVD's
LOL I thought we had cool toys then, till I see what they have out today!🙄
But hearing stories from my parents, back in their day
we had it made in the shade!!!!😎 😀
In my day...
Ya did Saturday Morning chores (every Saturday) while ya "keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
Yo-yos were popular. The shoes with the hole in the heel. How I loved my yo-yos.
There was that cool NEW place called Disney World that we wanted to go to.
Green apple bubble gum in the twist-on-each-end wrappers were a penny a piece. God how my mom HATED the smell of green apple! Must have been that fancy green apple perfume that Avon was selling in the bottle SHAPED like an apple.
Banana seats on the Schwinn.
Plaid in shades of brown were COOL! Especially if you wore them tucked inside your knee high brown leather boots.
Just a few things that pop to mind.
Joby 😀
Ya did Saturday Morning chores (every Saturday) while ya "keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
Yo-yos were popular. The shoes with the hole in the heel. How I loved my yo-yos.
There was that cool NEW place called Disney World that we wanted to go to.
Green apple bubble gum in the twist-on-each-end wrappers were a penny a piece. God how my mom HATED the smell of green apple! Must have been that fancy green apple perfume that Avon was selling in the bottle SHAPED like an apple.
Banana seats on the Schwinn.
Plaid in shades of brown were COOL! Especially if you wore them tucked inside your knee high brown leather boots.
Just a few things that pop to mind.
Joby 😀
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In my day 🙂blaugh🙂 greed and corruption ruled. Anything to make a quick buck, from insider trading to 
Texas_Tickle
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In My Day
Back when I was a kid (early 70s), we did not have the stuff the kids of today have. No Nintendo, We did not have 3 different versions of the Sega gaming systems, no X-Box, no 10 MTV channels to choose from.
You know what we had to play? The Atari 2600! And back then, we thought that was the greatest! Hell, I still have mine, somewhere. And we also had "pong". If you were around in the 60's and 70's you know what I am talking about....with that square-looking "ball" bouncing from one end of the TV to the other.
HDTV? Cable? Satallite dish? Forget it. You were doing good if you had a working color-TV.
We did not have 10,000 CDs. No sir! We had to wait for the damn radio station to play a song, so we could tape it with the cassette player, hoping the DJ didn't keep yapping 1/2 way into the song. Either that go thru our stash of records and hope that they weren't so scratched that they would not play.
Computers? Back then, computers were only for the filthy-rolling-around-in-money-rich-people. The "ordinary folk" couldn't afford such luxuary as a 186.
In fact for Christmas, back in 81, I got a Commodore 64 computer and back then you could not get any more "state of the art" than that and I still wonder how my parents managed to afford it, because those things did not come cheap.
We did not have on-line gaming either ***gasp***. No EverQuest. No Ultima Online. No MMORPGs of any kind. You know what I did? I got my AD&D books and a local book store let us play, in the back with some other friends.
We didn't have e-mail. We actually had to march our ass to the post office, plop down a 25 cent stamp and mail the letter, hoping that it will reach, where-ever it was going, in time.
We didn't have cell phones either. If we were out and about and were supposed to check in with our parents at such-and-such time, we had to pull somewhere and use a pay phone.
We didn't have the Internet for porn, and since we were under-age, we could not buy Playboy or Penthouse. We had to rely on the panty ads in the Dillard's catalog.
No $40.00 video games to keep us kids entertained. You know what we did? We played football and baseball, and since we did not have a field near us, we usually had to settle for playing in the streets or some abandoned lot.
If there was a video game we wanted, we could not "pirate" it like the kids of today can with Aimster/Master, Kazaa or Mirc. No sir. We had to march our ass down to the store and plop down our money for it.
As for TV? Well we didn't watch all that much as either my mother or grandmother made sure we were occupied...."TV'll rot your brain" is what my grandmother (or "grans" as we called her) would tell us.
But when we did watch TV, we did not have 24 hours of the Cartoon Network, nor did we have 24 hours of Nick. Cartoons came on at 4pm and went off a 5:30pm, just in time for the evening news.
We didn't have The Simpsons or Rug-Rats, or even Pokemon. No sir. We had He-Man. We had Transformers. We had G.I. Joe.
We even watched educational TV such as Zoom and "The Electric Company".
Back when I was a kid (early 70s), we did not have the stuff the kids of today have. No Nintendo, We did not have 3 different versions of the Sega gaming systems, no X-Box, no 10 MTV channels to choose from.
You know what we had to play? The Atari 2600! And back then, we thought that was the greatest! Hell, I still have mine, somewhere. And we also had "pong". If you were around in the 60's and 70's you know what I am talking about....with that square-looking "ball" bouncing from one end of the TV to the other.
HDTV? Cable? Satallite dish? Forget it. You were doing good if you had a working color-TV.
We did not have 10,000 CDs. No sir! We had to wait for the damn radio station to play a song, so we could tape it with the cassette player, hoping the DJ didn't keep yapping 1/2 way into the song. Either that go thru our stash of records and hope that they weren't so scratched that they would not play.
Computers? Back then, computers were only for the filthy-rolling-around-in-money-rich-people. The "ordinary folk" couldn't afford such luxuary as a 186.
In fact for Christmas, back in 81, I got a Commodore 64 computer and back then you could not get any more "state of the art" than that and I still wonder how my parents managed to afford it, because those things did not come cheap.
We did not have on-line gaming either ***gasp***. No EverQuest. No Ultima Online. No MMORPGs of any kind. You know what I did? I got my AD&D books and a local book store let us play, in the back with some other friends.
We didn't have e-mail. We actually had to march our ass to the post office, plop down a 25 cent stamp and mail the letter, hoping that it will reach, where-ever it was going, in time.
We didn't have cell phones either. If we were out and about and were supposed to check in with our parents at such-and-such time, we had to pull somewhere and use a pay phone.
We didn't have the Internet for porn, and since we were under-age, we could not buy Playboy or Penthouse. We had to rely on the panty ads in the Dillard's catalog.
No $40.00 video games to keep us kids entertained. You know what we did? We played football and baseball, and since we did not have a field near us, we usually had to settle for playing in the streets or some abandoned lot.
If there was a video game we wanted, we could not "pirate" it like the kids of today can with Aimster/Master, Kazaa or Mirc. No sir. We had to march our ass down to the store and plop down our money for it.
As for TV? Well we didn't watch all that much as either my mother or grandmother made sure we were occupied...."TV'll rot your brain" is what my grandmother (or "grans" as we called her) would tell us.
But when we did watch TV, we did not have 24 hours of the Cartoon Network, nor did we have 24 hours of Nick. Cartoons came on at 4pm and went off a 5:30pm, just in time for the evening news.
We didn't have The Simpsons or Rug-Rats, or even Pokemon. No sir. We had He-Man. We had Transformers. We had G.I. Joe.
We even watched educational TV such as Zoom and "The Electric Company".
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milagros317
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When I first became aware of the world around me, mid-1950's:
First class postage was 3 cents.
The subway cost 15 cents.
There were exactly 7 television stations available in NY City. This was the most available anywhere in the world. All television sets ran on vacuum tubes. Nobody but the rich had color television. There was no way to record a program.
Music recordings could be purchased on vinyl records, or reel-to-reel tapes. Period. Records turned at 78RPM, and were monophonic.
Computers existed in the offices of large corporations or in government offices only. A computer ran on vacuum tubes, weighed tons, and had to be programmed in assembly language. (The first scientific programming language, FORTRAN, came along in a few years.)
The beloved Dodgers were in Brooklyn, and the hated jints played in Manhattan.
First class postage was 3 cents.
The subway cost 15 cents.
There were exactly 7 television stations available in NY City. This was the most available anywhere in the world. All television sets ran on vacuum tubes. Nobody but the rich had color television. There was no way to record a program.
Music recordings could be purchased on vinyl records, or reel-to-reel tapes. Period. Records turned at 78RPM, and were monophonic.
Computers existed in the offices of large corporations or in government offices only. A computer ran on vacuum tubes, weighed tons, and had to be programmed in assembly language. (The first scientific programming language, FORTRAN, came along in a few years.)
The beloved Dodgers were in Brooklyn, and the hated jints played in Manhattan.
