snippets of history through the eyes of litsters.
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pleasantville
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home computer, color tv, cable, cell phones
morewickedfun
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cd's dvd players ohhhh and the iphone.
pleasantville
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8 track tapes, cassette tapes, cd's mp3's, VHS, beta DVD's
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lol you forgot gramaphonepleasantville said:
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What about atari?SeanH said:
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nothing, i was born yesterday
pleasantville
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the gramaphone, I did forget that. That reminds me
78's 33's 45's. I love vinyl
78's 33's 45's. I love vinyl
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This is something that was most likely more profound as experience during the "old days," like prior to 1975.dolf said:
These days, everything that can be seen as an history-making invention that causes sea changes in the world is more or less an "event" that is marketed to death, leeched of special significance due to overhype and lost in an competitive ocean of similar-function inventions.
I mean, I could say "the invention of the iPod," but that wasn't the first MP3 player. It wasn't even an invention per se, more like a better version of the actual MP3 player as tech concept.
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They told us it would be revolutionary. They told us it would surpass the original. They told us it would be tasty.
They lied.
New Coke. Like rancid in a bottle.
They lied.
New Coke. Like rancid in a bottle.
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I remember decimalisation. Just after decimilisation Tudor crisps cost 2 new pence and Golden Wonder cost 2 and a half new pence (yes, I remember half pennies too). Ridiculous because Tudor were a much nicer flavour and they had a cartoon on the bag!
But I suppose you were looking for something with sex in it.
But I suppose you were looking for something with sex in it.
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i remember 1/2p!!!allium said:I remember decimalisation. Just after decimilisation Tudor crisps cost 2 new pence and Golden Wonder cost 2 and a half new pence (yes, I remember half pennies too). Ridiculous because Tudor were a much nicer flavour and they had a cartoon on the bag!
But I suppose you were looking for something with sex in it.
a remember when they stopped selling 1/2p sweets too
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I used to listen to my AM radio on my front doorstep. All the neighbors would be outside. As a kid you never had to worry. I would ride my bike 5 miles to go to the store and not worry about being molested or kidnapped. I used to deliver the Sunday Tribune outside of Chicaho. After I finished I would walk to the Rootbeer stand and buy a gallon glass jug of rootbeer for 50 cents!
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dolf said:i remember 1/2p!!!
a remember when they stopped selling 1/2p sweets too
So do I. *sniffles*
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yeah, record albums. I actually had to explain it to a young person once.
Oh and how about the car cigarette lighter? I think they're called accessory ports now.
Oh and how about the car cigarette lighter? I think they're called accessory ports now.
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dgreen said:
Hey, I also have a chunk of the Berlin wall.
When I was a kid, we had THREE television stations (that PBS shit didn't count), during the summertime, it was all soap operas, the only talk show was Mike Douglas. We had no VCR, or video games. So we were always outside. We played a shit ton of army men, baseball, basketball, football, or just hung out in someone's garage, talking. The baseball fields at the local playground were always in use, now I see them mostly empty.
In high school, when I had to write my term paper for pre-college composition, or other classes, I had to use my sisters old manual typewriter, resulting in cut up fingers because you really had to bang on the keys. If you wanted a copy, you put in a sheet of carbon paper.
In school we got handouts on mimeographed paper. Which everyone sniffed.
If we wanted to find a book in the library, we used the card catalog. A drawer system with every book listed on little index cards.
We had vinyl albums, with cool cover art. If we wanted to skip ahead to another song, we would have to go move the needle, and sometimes have to flip the album over to the other side.
We didn't have all season tires, every fall and spring we would have to put on or take off the snow tires.
The worst STD you could get was herpes, but syphilis and gonorrhea were more common, you just had to go get a shot to clear it up. All STD's were just called VD. No one knew what AIDS was, and in college, if you wanted to get laid, all you basically had to do was go to a bar. Condoms were not used as much as now, women usually just let you know if they were on the pill.
The car I learned to drive in didn't have power steering, you really had to crank the wheel to turn, plus it had manual transmission.
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Great Dolf.
Great way to gather the old people.
Great way to gather the old people.
