I can remember when..................................

[Analog]

I can remember when:

- Mobil 1 Motor Oil came out of the bottle black.

- They still had commercials on TV for cigarettes.

- I could buy a slice of pizza for a quarter.

- When there was a gunsmithing vocational class in high school.

- When political conventions weren't infomercials..

 

[Crono]

-A slice of pizza cost $1. Well, it still costs $1 at some of the pizza places around here, but you know what I mean.

- When we had a surplus, and a certain someone wanted to put it into a "lock box". Man, we should have done that.

 

[JohnCU]

when it cost like a dollar a minute for a cell phone call

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

When a candy bar cost $.50

When penny candy stores existed.

 

[waggy]

-when gas was $.75 a gallon
-when you had ot use payphones

 

[dquan97]

- when I filled up my car for $20
- when a cell phone came in a bag
- only having 60 channels to choose from

 

[OCGuy]

- When meat could be purchased in bulk online

- When pancakes were more popular than waffles

- When everyone agreed that Cheesecake is CAKE

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: dquan97
- when I filled up my car for $20
- when a cell phone came in a bag
- only having 60 channels to choose from

-having 60 channels and trying to get playboy channnel to come in clear!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: dquan97
- when I filled up my car for $20
- when a cell phone came in a bag
- only having 60 channels to choose from

-having 60 channels and trying to get playboy channnel to come in clear!

free HBO/showtime weekends and trying to tape any movie that i thought might possibly have nudity in it and then fast forwarding through it until i found it

 

[jjones]

... gas was under 30 cents on sale and candy bars were a nickel.

... most families had one TV and it was black and white.

... electronics all had tubes.

... kids went outside and played without adult supervision not long after they learned to walk.

... we were taught to duck and cover to protect ourselves from a nuclear blast.

... JFK was shot and killed.

... Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon.

 

[Cogman]

- channel 3, 6, and 8 came in clear. But that was enough for us.
- School didn't really give homework/you had time to do homework in class.
- Printers were really expensive and color printers where a rich mans game.
- 56k was Uber fast.
- Many websites had two versions a High quality version that had *gasp* Pictures and the low quality one that had plain text.
- google didn't exist.

 

[joesmoke]

-when mileage wasn't something to consider when choosing a car
-when a pack of cigs were a little less that 2 bucks
-when the freeway was still useful during the day

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: dquan97
- when I filled up my car for $20
- when a cell phone came in a bag
- only having 60 channels to choose from

-having 60 channels and trying to get playboy channnel to come in clear!

Why is that channel always fuzzy?!!?!

 

[ChaoZ]

people still used walkmans
Power Rangers was the shit
there were no reality shows. Oh those were the days.

 

[JohnCU]

when mtv actually had music videos

 

[imported_Imp]

- when gas was $0.48/L and it was 'high'.
- they still sold pre-made/frozen burger and fries ready to eat (microwave)
- I woke up to G.I. Joe at 8am... and Hello Kitty, Keropi and Sailor Moon on later. (ya, I watched 'em, eat me)
- Much Music ran music videos all day long.
- Kids didn't ho out at school. A tank top was 'risque'.

 

[AlienCraft]

- Bulk Beef was sold on TV. It really was.
- Krispy Kremes could only be had in the South East US.
- The thought of gasoline being over $1.00 was "in the future".
- Batman was a show for kids, not rated R.
- You actually got a raise when your productivity went up.

 

[KaOTiK]

When magazines were the most up to date source of info for many things.
Arcades were easy to find.
Women weren't shaved in pornos

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: KaOTiK

Women weren't shaved in pornos

Thank gawd for progress!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: KaOTiK

Women weren't shaved in pornos

Thank gawd for progress!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so glad i wasn't around for the hairy days

 

[skyking]

Watching star trek the first time around.

 

[Squisher]

<---51

TVs only had 4 channels (2,4,7,9) and 9 was Canadian.

Gas was $.19/gal.

You had to pierce the top of an oil can with your spout.

You never knocked on the door, during nice weather, of a friends house to call him out to play. You always started shouting when you got within 50 feet of the house in a sing song voice, "So and So, come out to plaaaayaaa."

 

[kranky]

Kids could spontaneously play outside without adult supervision or being organized by adults.
You picked your bank based on which one you could get to on a Friday before 6 PM so you could cash your paycheck.
All computer-generated output was printed in a fixed-width font.
You would pick up a penny if you saw one on the sidewalk.
Nobody cared or had any way to tell what brand of clothes you wore.
Almost everyone subscribed to the newspaper.
Neighbors helped each other out in tough times, even if they weren't necesssarily close friends.
You only used credit for a house, a car, and appliances.
Rotary phones. On party lines.
The convenience store was the place of last resort, as their prices were astronomical.
Typewriters and white-out.
Test patterns on TV followed the national anthem.
There were rich areas, middle income areas and poor areas of town, but no bad areas of town.

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
- When everyone agreed that Cheesecake is PIE

:thumbsup:

 

[NetGuySC]

When it's cost $12 an hour (off peak hours) to be on the internet with Compuserve