Do You Remember When...
 

computer screens weren't in color?
rappers smiled (has anyone seen Lloyd Banks smile?)

continue
:)

Re: Do You Remeber When...
 

When the first time newspapera had colored pictures. :)
When Sega Genesis had the first talking game.

Kirk Gibson hit his home run off of the Eck in the Series?

George Bush said "No new taxes?"

Michael Dukakis had the photo op in the tank?

... there was no World Wide Web?
... 640K was enough memory for anybody? :p
... floppy disks were 5-1/4" - or 8" - in diameter?
... nobody except the very wealthy had cell phones?
... cars didn't have ABS or air bags?

You let the telephone ring about 10 times, and you did not get upset if you could not reach someone right then....you just assumed they were not home.....

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The "I'm falling and I can't get up" commercial aired on every commercial break!

Life before Caller ID?

before the Geico commercials?

When pagers were COOL!

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Commodor 64 computers...
Car phones...
'pegging' your pants...

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And when you thought ORAL sex was the same thing as deep kissing? :o

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When SNL was funny?

The Disney afterschool specials on TV?

when Head of The Class aired?

When My Little Ponies were THE cool toy?

When Four-Wheel Drive was only available on trucks & Jeeps?

When thongs were worn on your feet?

You tought Mario Brother's had really good graphics.

You spent days with your buddies playing Techmo Bowl. And you thought those graphics were pretty good.

When NO one had cell phones...and it was hard to actually reach people

MTV played videos?

so did VH1

You brought back some memories!!!:D I remember the first time I beat Mario Brothers! Oh Happy Day!

oh i thats sad that i still can't beat mario brothers on the old school 8 bit nintendo. i cant even get past level 4-1, and thats bc i warp into it from 1-2!
i did beat Zelda though!

When you told your parents you were going out, that meant out in the neighborhood to play some game or ride on your big wheel (mine was rainbow brite:D )

And if for some reason your parents needed you before dark (b/c everyone went home then) they could just yell from your porch and you would hear them.

It's still kinda funny...wish Will Farrell would come back.

Computers didn't use Windows

You had to type in almost an entire page of code to send an e mail and even then it could only go to someone else in your company

It was really cool to layer a sweater over a button down shirt which was in turn over a turtleneck

Remote controls had a cord that connected them to the television

A new show called The Real World consisted of cameras following a group of people 24/7. What a weird concept! It'll never catch on...

People used typewriters and if you made a mistake you needed either white out or correction tape. Or, if you were really cutting edge, you had a correction ribbin in the typewriter.

KillarneyRose wore a size 4 :eek:

WOW! When was this?

Atari was the video game system to own.

No, that's Super Mario Brothers. I'm talking about the first Mario Brothers. :D

You wanted to have the same game WarGames was showing at the movie.

Tron had the best effects ever.

Dial telephone modem was the coolest thing ever.

High-Test Gasoline
WIN buttons (Whip Inflation Now) or turn it upside down NIM (No Immediate Miracles)
"Tiger Beat" magazine
Gloria Vanderbilt stretch jeans
4 button purses
"Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" shampoo
Panasonic "donut" radios
rotary phones
VCRs costing $1,000
S&H green stamps
banana bicycle seats
PF Flyers
Olga Korbut
terrariums
cigarette ads
creepy crawlers
Clutch Cargo
"Dark Shadows"

I have some more...

... TVs didn't have remotes
... Cable wasn't offered in your area
... TVs could tune channels 2-13, and maybe you could pull in a UHF station or two if you had a good antenna
... Black and white TVs (!)
... A 300-baud modem was fast
... You wanted to buy a home computer, and your choices were IBM or Apple ... or, there was no such thing as a home computer
... You picked up a pay phone to make a collect call, and a human operator handled the call
... Pay phone calls cost a dime
... You called any business (utility, etc) and a human being instead of an IVR system answered the phone
... Phone numbers started with two letters: HUnter 6-1234
... Having to make sure you were putting UNleaded gas in your car

gas cost less than a dollar!

My Little Pony's ARE the cool toy--for the current batch of 4-7 year olds.

http://images.hasbro.com/common/imag...ageMain400.jpg

33 1/3 ablums and 45's were around
Listening to American top 40's with Casey Kasem every Sunday Morning ( as well as watching America's Top Ten T.V. Show)
Hip-Hop was starting to catch on
Watching American Bandstand every Saturday Afternoon
Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscipo(sp) were the Dynamic Duo to watch on SNL
ABC, NBC, and CBS were the only Stations showing Saturday morning Cartoons

remember the days of transformers and he-man

Don't forget about Tandy computers.

I think the Orignial "He-Man" Cartoon show was a little better than Cartoon Network's Updated Version.

Umm there were IBM compatibles I think right from when IBM was selling PCs to families.

I had a Vic 20 to start with. Strange little system. Before the Commodore there were a couple small little computer companies too.

Tandy was the brand that Radioshack bought I believe.

-Rudey

If there weren't, they followed soon thereafter. A lot of people in the mid-80s still felt that if they were going to get an IBM-compatible computer, they should just buy from IBM. Some of the clones were better, and some were cheaper, and some were more geared toward families' computing needs rather than businesses' needs (IBM is not called International Business Machines for nothing), but you really had to know what was out there.

Anyone else remember the TRS-80? (Trash-80)

I had a TRS-80 attached to a color TV from the store "TG&Y." I thought that I was cool stuff because I knew some BASIC.
:)
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Teen Spirit Deoderant (forget that you had to use a REAL unscented deoderant with it...you just HAD to smell like Teen Spirit)

and to accompany:

Smells Like Teen Spirit-when bands had talent, were about the music and weren't manufactured


Snap Bracelts/those colorful rubber bracelets that I can't see on a girl younger then 18 anymore without shuddering....

SHE-RA!