Am I the last grown-up on /b/? Let's see. You can ONLY post in this thread if you remember ALL of the following:
- the little white dot in the middle of the screen when you turned on your TV, waiting for it to warm up
- cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
- the TV/GAME slider-box on the back of the TV set so you could play Pong by switching to channel 3: bipbipBOOP... bipbipbipBOOP...
- standing in line at the bank with your paycheque and a deposit slip
- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
- dialling a phone
- stubby beer bottles
My prediction is this comment will 404 without a single response.
it isn't a comment though
Your prediction is wrong.
>>709773869
>>709773876
Shitposting by 12 year olds don't count as legitimate responses.
>>709773760
>cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
You couldn't find a picture of this because they probably weren't that common, plus Red Stripe still comes in a stubby bottle.
>>709774302
Samefag here - we did have one of these, though.
>>709773760
>using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
>>709774302
This is literally the first image which popped up when I searched for "cut glass ashtray". SO RARE. RARER THAN A RARE PEPE. DO NOT SAVE. DO NOT COPY.
OP is retarded
>>709773760
Oh yes such adult. What about having to switch your TV channels by turning a thing like a microwave timing thingy?
>>709773760
Who /pornfoundinthewoods/ here?
Who used to call it "porno"?
>>709774451
Forgot to post picture.
>>709774667
Yes. And sitting in front of the TV, playing with the UHF dial to listen to the airport tower transmissions, police radio, and the taxis.
>>709774527
I was talking about the wedges for pipes and cigars.
>>709774835
The entire rim has small wedges cut for cigarettes. Those large wedges are there to fit cigars and pipes. which is why there's only four of them.
>adaptor
its adapter, britard
>>709774977
>Adapter vs. adaptor
>
>It would be nice to be able to draw a distinction between adapter and adaptor, but they are used interchangeably in all varieties of English and in all their meanings, which include (1) a device that enables normally incompatible devices to work together, (2) one who adapts to new conditions, and (3) one who adapts a work of art for a different style or medium. Searching the web, we find all sorts of claims about the differences between the words, but these seem to reflect the writers’ own preferences rather than any examination of how the words are actually used. In real-world usage, including in edited news publications, both words are often used for people, and both are often used for electric devices.
http://grammarist.com/spelling/adapter-adaptor/
>>709773760
>You need to be born in the early 70s to have witnessed all of ops things
>Am I the last grown-up
By now you should have passed your second midlife crises - that doesn't qualify as grown up anymore.
>>709775407
I was born in the late 60s and remember all those things.
>>709775407
I tend to think that anyone who really hangs out here is probably looked-upon by their peers as "not grown up", even if they don't know you're on /b/.
>I know this cuz I am.
>tfw I'm a bigger memelord than any of the twentysomethings at work
My first computer
>>709775840
I can beat that. This was my first computer.
![New_Zealand_Rotary_Telephone[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AuSqxqv.jpg "New_Zealand_Rotary_Telephone[1].jpg")
>>709773760
rotary phone
>>709773760
no niggers in school
>>709775933
>that's not older
Also, if you took a pocket comb and wedged it behind the dial on your cable box, you could get the dial to stick between channels. This would descramble a channel you didn't pay for. Watched lots of beautiful soft core movies on HBO like this back in the day.
>>709775563
Well of course you can be born earlier to witness all of it.
And if you remove the Pong thing you can probably have witnessed everything else when you were born in the 80s
>>709775816
I honestly believe a 50+ year old wouldn't call himself a grownup - well of course he is... but the last time that mattered to him would be 20-somewhat years ago.
>>709776019
But it is *better*. The Adam had random-access tape drives. And it could play Colecovision games, which were a shit-tonne better than 2600 games.
i'm 12 and what is this
>>709776092
You could do the same thing just by messing with the tuning dial. It would roll, but you could use v-hold to reduce the rolling to a slow enough rate you could see the boobies.
![6105349802_40c10f9e02_o[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZnqQ7Xr.jpg "6105349802_40c10f9e02_o[1].jpg")
>>709773760
<--------porn
>>709776105
I'm 48 and I'm no grownup. I'll be an angry teenager for the rest of my life. But with the benefit that I can wear a fedora legitimately without looking like a dork.
>>709773760
Born 1960.
I remember my childhood DR smoking in his office.
Bomb shelters.
Duck & cover drills in school.
>>709776092
Are you serious? See if the Internet were around back then I could have found this out.
I had one of the Cox cable boxes with the remote and the keypad from about 1982 that would show it for a second and then show static or black out - I can't remember which. So I'd switch to that channel over and over trying to watch something, though I didn't do it for long.
>>709776352
How old were you when you discovered that there were legit naked boobies in National Geographic and Cosmopolitan?
All we had to play with growing up was drugs
>>709776512
>childhood DR smoking in his office
Ahh, I remember when everyone pulled out their smokes after a meal. You could smoke in restaurants, while shopping in the grocery store, and even sitting in theatres before the movie.
>>709776413
No, you still will. Some old guy at work started wearing him and stopped when he sensed me laughing internally though he didn't know why.
>>709776810
Honestly, I look good in a fedora. I've posted pictures of myself occasionally on /b/ and even the kids here usually grudgingly admit a fedora looks good on me.
>>709776706
They brought this back in West Virginia. I miss it. Nothing like hanging out in a buffet all day getting stoned in the bathroom, drunk at your table, smoking down. When I go out now people want to go outside to smoke it's odd leaving my table & coming back in.
>>709776911
>48
>on /b/
>wears fedora to work
>values the opinion of kids on /b/ who think fedoras are cool
Jesus just kill urself already
TV's encased in wooden cabinets.
Adjusting tracking on a VCR.
Scramblevision porn.
The tel-text channels that seemed so futuristic (pic related).
I remember going to the Drug store and testing your tv's tubes to see if they were good.
Also they mixed coke syrup and soda water for your drink.
>>709776942
Pot is now officially more legal here than tobacco. There's a marijuana bar here, but you have to drop your ashes on the floor because it's illegal to have an ashtray in a bar. Fucking anti-tobacco hysteria is everywhere. They've made it illegal to smoke near bus stops, on the beach, in public parks, and in any place open to the public (such as any business). They just made it illegal to smoke on patios too. When I sit down on a bench to smoke my pipe, people will sometimes sit down next to me and start coughing at me.
>>709777370
Do you remember when every neighbourhood had a repair shop where you brought your toaster or kettle or radio when it broke? Or the cobbler, where they'd mend tears in leather and resole your shoes? You didn't toss stuff in the trash if you could avoid it.
I remember getting one of these as an xmas present.
>>709774734
Yes on both counts
They were porno mags and always found in the woods for some reason
Ah they were the days
>>709777567
>Or the cobbler, where they'd mend tears in leather and resole your shoes?
Fuck YEAH!
We used to get the old heels and pelt each other with them when we played WAR.
Also any parent could smack your ass if they felt you needed it.
>>709777288
Yeah, but they looked more like this. The text would scroll slowly upward, and there would be some kind of tone every 15 minutes and a longer one on the hour,
>>709773760
Everything except.
>using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
How about using a bic pen to respool your cassettes after the fucking Walkman ate them?
Milkmen and getting a case of beer delivered to your house.
Sawdust on the butcher shop floor.
>>709773760
So what you're saying is: You're way too old to still be using 4chan?
>>709778146
We didn't have Walkmans until much later. This was the only way to listen to tapes outside your home until they invented ghetto blasters.
>>709775840
>>709775933
My first computer.
>>709778400
The walkman came out in '79.
>>709778400
And recording songs off the radio with the mic.
>>709776352
Yep. Sears catalog.
>>709778283
Or every store keeping a pad of paper and a pen by the cash register. They'd run a tab for you until the end of the month, when everyone got their paycheque. When you went to the store to get a pack of Players or Camels for your parents, they'd just mark it down on the pad of what you owed.
>>709778630
>Sears catalog
BEAT ME TO IT LOL
>>709778488
They were too expensive for a kid. It was an adult only device.
>>709773760
nice
>>709776512
ducks drills?
>>709778818
Yeah, kids got Hit Clips. They sold the single-song cartridges on the counter at convenience stores.
So im not an adult because im not 50?
>>709778636
Yep.
No credit cards back then. And getting Lucky Strikes for my dad.
Was that back when the US was mostly white?
>>709773760
Your not a grown up, your an aging father.
>>709773760
im grownup and didn experience that, youre ancient
>>709778940
We had to waddle in a row down to the basement or hide under your desk.
In the basement you put your hands behind your head and brought your arms to your face - which was on the kid in front of you's back.
>serious shit then
>>709773760
Ooo, I 'member!
>>709779200
My father smoked Export A, my mother smoked Players Regular. When she finally quit, my mother smoked four packs a day. The instant she woke up, she'd light up, and she'd light one of the previous cigarette all day long. Sometimes she'd forget and have a cigarette burning in each room.
>>709779313
Oh, there's always been people for you bigots to hate on. It was the Irish and then the Chinese and then the Italians and then the Pakistanis and Indians and then the Viet Namese, and so on and so on. You idiot hatemongers have been screaming about the death of your glorious white empire for centuries.
Oldfag here. I not only remember all of that, bit I can add a few extras to it:
-Full service fuel island at the service (gas/petrol) station
- Manual cash registers at the grocery store (no scanners)
- Getting a long drink from the garden hose on a hot day
- Collecting glass Coke/Pepsi bottles to get money to buy more Coke & candy
- Changing the TV channels manually
- 1976 fuel shortage (USA) and having to wait in long lines of cars to buy gas
- When McDonald's hamburger sales had just reached one million
- When Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers were the biggest porn stars
>>709779547
like Simon says
>>709779561
'Member Carl Sagans Cosmos?
Yeah, I 'member!
'Member All In The Family?
Ooo, I 'member!
>>709773760
telstar was the first vidya i ever played
it was at grandmas house, it belonged to my dad and his siblings
fuck you for inflicting these feels upon me
>>709776911
Post pic
>>709779699
Yeah, I remember when McDonalds would update the "served" number on their signs regularly. Do you remember going to A&W and getting served by a woman on roller skates, and having your order hooked onto your window? We had one right into the mid-80s here.
>>709779651
look at population statistics in 1950 almost 90% of the US was white non hispanic today it's a little above 60%
>>709777288
Who here had one of these "Atari Video Music" things that you see @ 1:03 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acrhylVKXSY
It was a component you hooked up to your stereo and your TV and it would show "visualizations" of the music which were computer patterns that were like the ones you see on media players. It was in this movie called "Over The Edge" like it was an example of how far gone kids were getting, staring at screens showing meaningless patterns.
>>709780151
Fine. This is me smoking my Brigham Voyageur. The hat is a real 50s vintage fedora.
>>709780212
Yep! Had the "car hop" A & W
>>709773760
i am literally 18 yo and remember all of this. Don't be so smug
>mnfw when 3rd world country
>>709780382
Tbh I didn't expect it to be that passable.
I think the age and the beard+pipe help alot.
Id look like a douche in a fedora.
>>709780382
do people drop coins in your hat?
>>709780382
you need a ship captain cap lol
>>709780558
They do! I'm a union organizer with the IWW, and I actually unionize people who make their living on the street, like buskers, scrappers, pickers, and panhandlers. I do tarot readings on a little folding table, myself.
>>709779787
kek
You didn't play around like that in Catholic School. Those fucking Nuns were ruthless - they'd beat your ass in front of the class for anything.
>poor penmanship? how about you hold your hands out in front of you and get a couple of whacks with a ruler - more if you pulled back
My older /b/ro had his appendix burst and wasn't allowed to go home until lunch time ( a lot of kids walked home for lunch then).
Your mom ever take you to those Disney movies with the bad sound because of the cheap-ass microphones they used?
>>709773760
>using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
No,why would I use it as a Frisbee? Also I had the small white 3 prong insert instead
Also I'm pretty sure 80%of this thread is just kids trying to look cool
>>709780325
haha at the first scene in that video
>>709780726
Do the pickpockets have a union yet?
>>709780784
Yeah, I remember The Stap. It always hung on a hook at the front of the classroom as a theat and warning, officially issued by the school board for use in punishment. And we started each day by singing O Canada and God Save the Queen, then did the Gideon's version of the Lord's Prayer and a reading from the Bible -- and this was in public school. Kids whose parents sent notes exempting them from prayer and Bible reading had to go stand in the hall.
>>709780784
did anyone ever call them penguins?
>>709780823
>small white 3 prong insert
That was for stacking 45's.
Flipping the needle from 33 1/3.
Taping a nickle on top of the arm head when the needle wore out.
>>709780911
It was one of my favorite movies - if you are a millenial it will show you the extent to which Gen Xers were IRL edgelords. Before the Internet if you were a /b/-tard type you'd be bored as fuck and vandalize things for fun. And listen to heavy metal and shit, play with guns, etcetera.
Still have 2 of these left. Stopped smoking after the kids. I miss cigars.
>>709780990
o canada, that's the hockey game song right?
>>709780804
No, but I remember going online before the Internet existed. My friend had a TTY terminal with a 110 baud modem with an acoustic coupler for the phone receiver. We'd call the university mainframe to play Maze of the Minotaur. When we wanted to use a different program, we'd have to call up the computer science department and have them change the reel on the mainframe.
>>709781166
I still do that shit, cept for vandalizing
>>709781062
You know what would happen then.
>inb4 Sister Mary Elephant
>>709781149
We must be thinking of 2 different things because the thing I meant was used to fit 45s on 33 1/3 players
Way to small to be a Frisbee
Women with bush and they were not hippies
>>709781166
I was a phreaker. I still remember when we cracked Mattel's voice mail and every phone phreak in North America had their own voicemail box at Mattel accessible from a Watts line. That brings back memories. You'd call up the operator, then send a blast of 2600 hertz to knock her off her own trunk line and hijack it. (In those days, most lines were still xbar, and the only way you could be guaranteed to get an actual phreakable trunk was to connect to the operator and bluebox her.)
>>709781302
Actually here's something as an example - text files from BBS systems in the 80s:
http://textfiles.com/directory.html
>>709781179
How's being a father anon? I'd love to bring positive influence and happiness to a child, but I don't know if I'll feel selfless enough by 25+ to do so
>>709781433
Yeah we are.
Video of it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QesSNU8bSfk
>>709781433
Those things make *amazing* frisbees. You could hook them on a finger and flick them incredible distances. Or more usually, with painful speed right into the head of anyone who happened to be in the room with you.
>>709773760
Not so much the white dot. But I remember the image shrinking when you turned it off. Had to install a game switch on the screws. Had a record player that only played 45s on at one point(kid). It was the one with a pop up adapter.
>>709781433
the toy star trek guns worked shooting little disks so that probably would too
>>709781149
playing 45's on 78 just because
>>709781581
PARTY LINES TOO
>>709774734
always seemed to find mine in a ditch. it was like winning the lotto.
>>709781721
Remember when the Aerobe came out? Much later, but still. It was a big deal where I was.
>>709774527
I had exactly that same one
I had a squirt gun that looked so
Much like a mac10 it even had the slide out brace.
>>709773760
Yeah mate, I feel you. How old were you when you got your first mobile? I was 22 and it was pretty cutting-edge.
>>709773760
>>709774734
Hahahahha I found too porn pages cut randomly ...
It was jackpot! I was 12 at that time
>>709773760
>- the little white dot in the middle of the screen when you turned on your TV, waiting for it to warm up
PALs did never have that, except in the 50's
i'm old, but not that old.
>- cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
yeah
>- the TV/GAME slider-box on the back of the TV set so you could play Pong by switching to channel 3: bipbipBOOP... bipbipbipBOOP...
our consoles had a "thru" connector and inserted a signal on an unused channel.
living in a non retarded country had its perks i see.
>- standing in line at the bank with your paycheque and a deposit slip
-paycheck?
we're in the 20th century, money gets wired.
>- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
yup
>- dialling a phone
i worked with turn dials. that's a while ago...
>- stubby beer bottles
yep
>>709782069
Not Op, but I was 22. I had such an awesome teen life because phones weren't a thing.
Lawn darts aka JARTS.
>>709782047
mac10's are squirt guns
>>709777108
>Jesus just kill urself already
no need to. the heart attack will get him soon.
>>709781581
Did you figure out that you could call 900 numbers with a pay phone for free? I used to call sex lines but they were just ones with recorded "stories" with women reading them, or recordings of women going "oh yes, I feel your cum splashing in my pussy" and all that.
But yeah I do remember that phreakers had voice mailboxes with cards on them, though I don't remember using any. I used to know one from some guy named Venom. Some other guy posted these recordings of some.
http://audio.textfiles.com/conferences/PHREAKYBOYS/
I just lol at how edgy people were back then. I remember Venom going like "All these guys leaving messages to me - what do I got? The hot warez. If you don't like it? Tough shit!" Ha ha ha ha ha.
We used to do shit like pull up to rolling trash cans, have the passenger side guy grab the handles, roll with them and let them go in peoples' yards ha ha.
It was just like this thing, you'd do all this bad shit because you felt like you had nothing to do that excited you. I think vidya and the Internet and fandom kind of assuages that nowadays for most except for the seriously troubled.
>>709782069
Never had one. Never will. I don't own a cellphone. In fact, I've never even used one. I fucking hate them. I'm now required to start every conversation with a warning. I tell people that they're either talking to me or they're using their cellphone. Not both. They are not to make calls, take calls, play games, send or check their texts, or otherwise interact with their devices. If I catch them darting glances at their phones, they get one warning. After that, I just walk away.
>>709777370
Holy, Hell! I'd forgotten about those little 'Test Consoles'! lol 'Thrifty' drug stores had 'em. (along with those nifty .05/.10/.15 per scoop ice creams with what seemed a gajillion flavours to choose from!)
Adding to the nostalgia-
I remember there being only '3' channels to watch on your rabbit-eared (or roof antenna), television. And EVERY ONE of 'em were off the air at midnight! That 'Test Tone' baby! Put more babies to sleep than a wind-up clock
Tobacco. Yes, the lovely cigarettes. I recall being handed a quarter, and gleefully trotting off to the cigarette vending machine (located pretty much EVERYWHERE but the grocery store (and every grocery/drug store sold cigarettes back then), and pulling the handle to retrieve the product that fell down onto the open tray at the bottom. A quarter/pack. My, how times have changed!
The 70's fuel crisis, and waiting in line for HOURS, just to get 5 gallons (max. allowed/purchase), of the beloved petrol.
Disco. Yes, that! lol I recall it being 'New', and the greatest thing evah! Oh, and dancing on skates. That seemed to be a hot item too, though I never truly understood why?
My, my, my. So many decayed roads, travelling down that nostalgia.
>>709773760
>- the little white dot in the middle of the
>screen when you turned on your TV, waiting for it to warm up
I remember it when you turn the TV off. Also the remember the static on the screen when you ran your hand across it?
>- cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
Check.
>- the TV/GAME slider-box on the back of the TV set so you could play Pong by switching to channel 3: bipbipBOOP... bipbipbipBOOP...
Yep, still have some RF adapters laying around...
>- standing in line at the bank with your paycheque and a deposit slip
Fuck yes. Thank God for direct deposit.
>- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
My record player had an adaptor that fit over the spindle so you didn't need to buy those inserts.
>- dialling a phone
Yep. In fact, first modem I ever used was connected to a four pin jack via adaptor because our wiring was so old. Thought we were the shit when we got our first touch tone phone
>- stubby beer bottles
Yep.
>>709782069
how long the battery last? not actually too new an idea since they had carphones ages ago just bulk and power stopped tyem from being more portable
>>709775933
I think this trumps yours
>>709773760
Born 1972. I remember all this. Good nostalgia feelings.
>>709782106
Me and my friend found a stack of mags in the bushes. I forgot about that. It was a rush, I was 8.
>>709773760
>>709773760
Yup, another oldfag checking in.
> Telling my friends I'd had a ride in my cousins Honda car, and ALL of them calling B.S.
None of these kiddies know how fortunate they are to have personal electronics and internet access.
>Only having one TV set in the house.
>Having to wake up at 4:00 a.m. to see a movie on HBO with a little bit of T & A.
>Get caught by my mother
>>709782223
those were fun
>>709780212
>Do you remember going to A&W and getting served by a woman on roller skates, and having your order hooked onto your window?
and you'd get the root beer in actual icy frosted mugs. that was like heaven in summer.
>>709774667
Or the fact that you had a separate dial for VHF and UHF. Don't forget the tin foil on the rabbit ears. Or the old UHF loop.
>>709782164
I know, right? I mean, I hate the knee-jerk "oh it was better in the old days" when by literally every measurable metric life is much better now than it ever has been...
But I'll say this, I had a way better fucking teenage life without phones than I would've had with one.
>>709782537
Remember Clackers? And kids wearing eye patches...
And trying to pick up mercury with your fingers.
>>709782633
I miss the frosted mugs.
>>709782329
Fucking good man.
>>709782386
>Disco
I spent the late 70s and early 80s with a home perm. I wore corduroy pants and a sky-blue satin shirt with mother-of-pearly snaps. And I had platform cowboy boots with a zip on the side. And I'd borrow my dad's gold capricorn medallion when I went to the discotheque. I was a happenin' dude.
>>709782443
The battery lasted at least 5 days, not even slightly kidding.
>>709776092
Had one of these when I was 20-something. The Tuxedo network was *free* baby! Porn galore.
remember staying up late to watch movies on at 2AM because "What's a VCR?"
>>709778630
>Yep. Sears catalog.
Ah yes. The old Wishbook
>>709782523
I did this shit when we first got Showtime. I don't know how I thought I could get away with it. My mother caught me too but didn't yell at me for porn (because seriously those movies would have less than a two minutes out of 90 with nudity) but for getting out of bed and watching TV - my excuse was that I couldn't sleep. I'm thinking she probably knew what I was doing, though.
>>709782523
Ha! Ohh, I feel your pain mate...the tension of the late-night sneak-down, or worse, the hiding of the porn VHS/magazine borrowed from your friend's big brother.
>>709782803
never seemed to be able to get a hold of it
>>709782783
I know the reason we all had such luck with girls wasn't us, as much as no social media. We were hard enough on each other without it. It's the distraction that ruins more than just conversations.
>>709783038
Yes yes fucking yes.
I teach 16-18-year-olds, and I look at these lads striking out time & again, and I think "well, you're no worse looking than us, and no fucking dafter than we were, but how the hell do you break through that girl's 'using my phone' shield to even talk?"
>>709777370
Yep. Remember going with my dad to test and buy new tubes for our old Zenith TV. 27 inch on legs.
>>709782892
ripped jeans, flannels or tees and levi or leather with hair to shoulders, no disco
>>709783259
I remember when we got our first instant-on colour TV set and it felt like I was living in the future, like Star Trek.
>>709782106
>>709782493
I keep thinking that pedos used to put them out there. They wouldn't really be hidden in the same way that you would hide them if you really were trying to keep someone from finding them, they way you'd hide your own stash. They'd instead be in places where they could be found by kids who'd wander into vacant lots and play near bushes but unnoticed by adults who wouldn't.
>>709773760
You should be fucking embarrassed if you remember all those things and you're posting on this site.
>>709783381
With the clicker remote? Or was it hard wired?
>>709782523
half the fuckers can't even write cursive lol
>>709782086
Gary ganue. (Spelling) Great Space Coaster.
>>709783183
We were awkward. And cringe worthy. But got laid, and had much more fun. It's not a good thing to have this kind of access before you have any idea how to live in the first place. Because they were so expensive(phones and internet as well) there was a larger amount of room to grow up in. Now it's harder to tell who your talking too. Older people get called pathetic instead of relying on them for insight. This is how we did it when I was younger, and respect for us a lot. An older person was wiser. Not pathetic. They've missed out on a ton of real experience.
>>709783662
Respect got us a lot more. Connections and experiences.
>>709783567
I was using long division to divide a bill at a restaurant and one of the younger guys at the table asked me what I was doing. He was completely mystified. He didn't even know what long division was. Apparently they don't teach it in schools any more.
>>709776512
Also born in '60.
Remember standing in line in elementary school, waiting on the school nurse for vaccinations.
>>709773760
Holy fuck! I had one of these when I was a kid! We thought we were cool!!!!!
>>709783535
You should be ashamed to talk to your elders & betters this way. Don't forget, if weren't already fully grown on September 11...you are eternally and irrevocably a newfag at life, as far as we're concerned.
>>709775407
>>709775563
I was born in 1989, and I remember all of these things. I was kind of poor, growing up.
Poor people live slightly in the past.
No idea what they teach but I know some can't read cursive. What happens if their phone's out and have no calculator? I loved my old 48sx but I didn't need it.
>>709783662
Rare to find a person of discernment & wisdom on here.
>>709782047
Had one of these as a kid. Back when guns were OK
>>709783662
Yeah, check out this >>709783535 edgy toddler. I was on a bus a while back and a bunch of middle schoolers got on. This 13 year old kid looked at me and said, loudly, "What do you eat to get so fat?" and smirked at his friends.
I told him, "Mouthy little kids."
He and all his friends thought he was hilarious. Thirty years ago, any kid who said something like that could expect a beating and being thrown physically off the bus. I remember mouthing off to someone bigger and older than me and getting hanged off the top of a fence by the collar of my jacket so I was stuck until a kind adult came and got me down. But today, if I'd given that kid the belt in the chops he deserved, I'd probably end up in prison and possibly even the evening news.
>>709783868
I remember getting checked for a hernia too.
>turn your head and cough
>>709778400
The tape player my parents had was a reel-to-reel.
>>709783662
nah. The whole 60's counterculture Bullshit was largely based on we don't want to listen to old people
>>709784312
People lost basic things that keep them from looking like total morons. But you won't get very far being O'Doyle. They always end in stupidity. Don't take it to heart if it comes from the heartless, or the braindead.
>>709784586
But basic respect was there.
>>709784554
My father swore by reel to reel, but it was hard to get tapes for them. One thing I don't miss is tapes, DATs, records, and 8-tracks. CDs and digital audio are the best thing about living in the future.
Listening to music in Mono.
Then Stereo became the rage.
In my teen years Quadraphonic tried to take over but didn't last.
>>709783982
>You should be ashamed to talk to your elders & betters this way.
Fuck off mate, respect is something you earn.
I wonder if any newfags will even recognize this....
>>709784947
Do you even Dolby?
>>709784777
trips can't be wrong but.... There's a 60's movie on tonight about sticking old people in camps and making them take acid, not really respectful
>>709784312
>This 13 year old kid looked at me and said, loudly, "What do you eat to get so fat?" and smirked at his friends.
Haha fucking lard ass.
>>709773760
adult? you mean grandpa?
im 28 and dont remember any of this archaic shit
>>709785014
Oh fuck, I remember the sinking feeling of dread when this thing came out and you knew you were doomed to spend the next hour looking at slides of My Last Trip To Crete.
Do you remember watching filmstrips in school? BEEEEEP.
>>709785040
Ever since I could.
I remember when MTV started.
At the time a bunch of us were sitting around smoking weed and I had the idea of a channel that would play cartoons only.
Many keks were had by them at how absurd that idea was.
>>709785213
No! Another slide show?! I remember when we converted ours to digital. I did it. So much fun.
>>709774734
i saw a video once where this guy was basically following old fags/pedos in the park. at one point this guy went back to the woods where these kids had a "clubhouse" type of thing (they weren't there at the time) and he left a porno mag there for them with a note that asked if they were interested in what they saw.
fucking creepy.
>>709785417
Yeah, I remember when rollerskates were huge and I started suggesting to people that you could replace the four wheels on each boot with one big wheel -- and everyone laughed at me and said no one would ever be able to balance on that.
>>709782447
Yep
I think if kids today could travel back to the 70s, the biggest shock for them would be how totally universal smoking and drinking were. EVERYONE smoked. More than 80% of the population smoked, and it was just constantly there, everywhere. If you didn't smoke you were some kind of long-hair, granola-eating, hippy health freak.
And alcoholism was considered perfectly normal. You had a few hard drinks when you got home every night and got through a few beers the rest of the night. You got hammered drunk every weekend and did a few lines of coke as a treat once in a while. You never had any kind of gathering without a couple of cases of beer and some bottles of rye onhand.
>>709786190
more subtle would be the relative freedom.
>>709786587
Well... sort of. I mean, for example, in those days it was understood that cops could just drag you into an alley and apply a beating if you got lippy with them. It was always yes-sir and no-sir and any kind of disobedience was treated with a nightstick across the head.
And drawing a weapon on the cops just meant death. Instant and guaranteed. There were no inquiries, there were no inquests. The cop said "he drew a gun" and that was the end of it. And every cop carried a "throwaway piece" so they could murder someone if they felt it was necessary.
So yes, there was more freedom, but it was a very odd kind of freedom. There were fewer *official* rules, but a lot more unofficial ones.
>>709786190
Drinking and driving wan't much of an issue either.
Now checkpoints are an accepted thing even though more people get busted for other things than being over the limit.
>>709782453
I was married and got my BS in 1972. The image is relevant: I am a hippie.
My childhood milkman had a horse, but, tbh, that was unusual in the city.
I remember all that. I remember seat buckles that branded you in summer, and vinyl seat covers that burned your legs if you wore shorts
>>709787280
I remember when the tinker would come around in his van, sharpening scissors and knives and making small repairs like putting handles back on pots and pans. He had bells on his truck which he'd ring, and all the stay-at-home moms would come out with an armload of cutlery and cookware.
>>709787280
Dude! Check out that Fu Manchu!
>>709773760
Im 19 and I remember all this stuff, OP. I dont remember when they were new, of course, but I grew up with all of them.
>>709787280
> I am a hippie
Kids today don't think we tried to change things then.
Abbie Hoffman - Steal this book
>>709781581
hell yes brother! I remember going to school and leaving my 300 baud modem on my C-64 war dialing for MCI codes. I remember finding 3 in one day and thinking I had hit the lottery. Used them to dial up some cheesy ass pirate bulletin board. I remember teaching my dad how to punch the opposite side of a floppy disk and make it double sided.
>>709787422
Yeah, and bench seats, and some cars didn't even have seat belts. People carried babies in their laps. And cars were all made of steel, so you'd see an accident where the cars had a crumpled fender but there were bodies and body parts everywhere -- unlike today, where even minor accidents look like the cars involved get sent through a wood chipper, but no one is even injured.
Crumple zone? What's that? Is that where I toss the empty cigarette packs?
FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS motherfuckers.
>>709787120
I should've been more specific. I don't buy your whole argument, too much hyperbole. Police weren't armed & armored like soldiers then either.
This is what teachers would use to show the page of a book to the class on a screen.
>>709782086
no gnews is good gnews
>>709788019
Lighters in cars.
Now they're charging ports.
>>709773760
>- the little white dot in the middle of the screen when you turned on your TV, waiting for it to warm up
Kids, that's the electron gun turning on before the control plates activated. It also fades out slower than the control plates, so you get on power-off too. If you see the screen get flattened and then a dot, that's because one plate de-energizes before the other one.
>- cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
Yep.
>- the TV/GAME slider-box on the back of the TV set so you could play Pong by switching to channel 3: bipbipBOOP... bipbipbipBOOP...
Yep. Man in the middle injection. Although I remember the one for the Nintendo more.
>- standing in line at the bank with your paycheque and a deposit slip
Sure.
>- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
Nope. Dad had a real-to-real and a record player, but they were "not toys" and sacred.
Kids, you know how iphones and androids have different power cables? Standards were just as fucked back in the day. Adapters were everywhere.
>- dialling a phone
Kids, this is because rotary phones used a round DIAL to make numbers. this thing would spin around and literally make clicking noises over the line. You spin it and it spins back making clicks. 8 clicks, you dialed the number 8. This is before cellphones. This is before touch-tone phones. But everyone still "dials" phone numbers.
>- stubby beer bottles
Nope. Too young for this.
I member watching scramblevision porn and hoping to get a glimpse of the porn hidden behind it. My dick was ready.
>>709787982
I once got into a military system with a war dialer. They didn't even have any password protection on it. I sent "KGB WAS HERE" to all their printers. Then I discovered I could telnet from that system to every other system because it assumed you were an authenticated user if you were coming from that site, so I started surfing through government servers until an sysop noticed me and sent a message asking who the hell I was. When I didn't answer he kicked me off. The next day the site had password protection. I guess I'm lucky I didn't get v&, but in those days no one much cared about stuff like that.
>>709778416
HAHA, I got one of those in the basement. Got it to play Oregon Trail a couple years ago.
>>709788517
A taste of spice lmao
>>709783535
You should be fucking embarrassed if you're posting on this site.
>>709788852
I am from central europe and we had a satellite dish, was a fucking holiday for me when dad wasnt home on saturday nights when all those shitty german erotic movies were shown.
>>709785014
I actually enjoyed my grandpa breaking this bad boy out every family event, maybe I was weird
>>709788570
No you fucking didn't - they have their own phone system.
>>709788517
I lived in Ottawa, which is right on the border with Quebec. Nudity in Quebec was legal after a certain time, and on Saturday nights the local Quebec-based station would play a softcore porn movie. Every kid in the entire fucking city tuned into Bleu Nuit, "Porno Night." We saw every Emanuelle porno sequel ever made.
>>709780382
You look like Harley's older unmotivated brother.
>>709788517
Oh man, I remember that. Horny kids and porn. A powerful and pathetic force.
>>709789181
First off, I don't think you live in the same country I do, so you wouldn't fucking know. And secondly, since it actually happened to me, I know for a fact that it's possible.
>>709789183
haha same here... those fucking emanulle movies man
>>709773760
I remember all those things.
I also remember the TV show Dark Shadows and the bike called the "Orange Crate". Google it
>>709773760
I'm with ya, anon. But I got to ask... Stubbies? Are you a Canucklehead?
>>709788570
Fuck yeah - Seems like at least half the systems you would access were unsecured. Problem then was just finding them.
>>709787544
And us kids who though it was the ice cream truck coming just to be disappointed.
>>709788238
Nice contribution. Slide and film strip projectors probably got more use, but the opaque projector was a weird ass machine whenever it was used.
>>709789511
I watched Dark Shadows when it was still in black and white.
>>709789183
>We saw every Emanuelle porno sequel ever made.
No you fucking didn't because one of them has bestiality and fake snuff with guys ripping off a woman's tits with pliers and they'd never show that.
Pic related.
>>709773760
RF switch boxes
>>709789511
>bike called the "Orange Crate"
God damn that was awesome!
5 speed shifter, banana seat, butterfly handle bars.
Dark Shadows was on after school.
>>709788517
Sometimes the image would stabilize but the colours would be reversed like a photo negative (another thing kids probably know nothing about). Felt like I won the lottery!
>>709790083
Everyone had either a Green Machine or a Big Wheel when I was growing up. Kids who got an off-brand Red Devil or something were POOR, and probably smelled bad, and no one wanted to play with them.
>>709773760
you can be a "grown-up" without having great-grandchildren you elitist old fuck. shouldn't you be posting political rants on facebook?
>>709785014
Actually had a couple of these
>>709790171
Hmm. Are those RS-232 cables?
>>709790495
the infamous SCART cable.
>>709774734
I'll go one better. We used to look at nudist magazines. Full nudity, male and female, kids and adults. I think since nudism had some "redeeming social value", it wasn't illegal to have pictures of nude kids.
>>709790443
My parents had an old Brownie Super-8, and they liked to haul out old films of me naked in the tub or getting my hands and chubby face pushed into the birthday cake on my first birthday whenever it was especially embarassing and humiliating to do so.
>>709776706
I remember smoking on planes.
this movie had a religious value for us kids in the 80s.
>>709790703
Ah, yes. Parental revenge.
>>709790868
We had a stand-up ashtray in the bathroom so my chainsmoking mother could smoke while taking a shit or having a shower. And that wasn't even regarded as particularly weird.
>>709786190
And how you could sip from a beer can in front of a cop while driving and be ignored, nowadays a road soda will get your teeth kicked in by 4 cops while you're handcuffed face down on the road.
>>709774789
Mine was woodgrain... I believe Pong was the name. Got a 2600 when they came out.
E.T. did suck, by the way.
>>709790987
Stand-ups were handy. The spinners were fun to play with.
>pic related
>>709779651
>My father smoked Export A, my mother smoked Players Regular. When she finally quit, my mother smoked four packs a day. The instant she woke up, she'd light up, and she'd light one of the previous cigarette all day long. Sometimes she'd forget and have a cigarette burning in each room.
I remember walking down to the little grocery store for my mother. Loaf of bread, pound of lean ground beef and two packs of Tareyton cigarettes (29 cents per pack)
>>709775933
Trash-80 master race.
>>709789183
City TV in Toronto started that. Friday nights after midnight was "Baby Blue Movies".
CFMT 47 would also play Italian movies with a lot of nudity. Couldn't understand fuck all but I was too busy masturbating.
>>709791026
>beer can
PULL TABS LITTERED EVERYWHERE.
Then Coors came out with this top.
Pic related.
>>709779699
Yes, all of those things. And Captain Kangaroo, and the Moon Landing, and tv stations signing off at night.
Sad when the dubs are also one's age.
got this from my dad in 86. Happiest days of my life.
>>709773760
I remember all but the 45 adapter
Also... Muh dubs
>>709779189
shut up kid
Does anyone else remember ringer-washers? There were two tubs (one with soapy water, one with clean water for rinsing), and you'd crank the clothes through the ringer to dry them. My grandmother had one and did all her laundry in it until she died in the mid-70s.
>>709779699
that water from the garden hose had a fantastic taste. I still drink it sometimes when watering my garden, taste is the same.
>>709791533
And washboards too.
Mom kept her's in the kitchen.
>>709780212
I remember "Howdy's" hamburgers. There was a Howdy's in my town before McDonalds.
>>709791533
Yep, my grandma had one too. Origin of the phrase "put through the wringer."
>>709778400
when my brother got a ghetto blaster for christmas, we were very impressed that we didn't have to be quiet while it was recording songs off the radio.
>>709791352
Haha, yeah, I remember getting my finger stuck in one of those. Every kid probably did. Your finger went in just fine, but the rim turned into a fucking razor blade when you tried to pull it back out.
Do you remember when the only diet drink on the market was Tab, and it tasted like fucking toxic waste? (And caused cancer...)
Rate my setup
I remember when my Dad brought home this badboy brand new.
The thing was built to last too. It didn't actually die until the late 90's.
>>709774734
i found porn in the woods behind a hotel when i was like 10 or somewhere around that, and when i got back to the hotel where my family was staying at, i cried to my grandma when i told her that i found it
>>709791841
>Tab
Yep. They still make it w/a different formula now.
>saccharine was the devil
>>709791564
Do kids still play in sprinklers? In the summer, only rich people had air conditioners so as kids we would spend all summer playing in the sprinklers. If you hauled out the hose and turned on a sprinkler, every kid in the neighbourhood would materialize in a bathing suit and turn into shrieking maniacs on your lawn. I don't think I'd seen that in a long time.
Born in 47 here, Land of Oz. My memory is a bit of an old dog now, but here's what I remember from each decade or so.
I remember paying 4 pounds for my drivers licence at the Orange Post Office way back in about 1965 when I turned 18. The licence covered every single vehicle from motorbikes to what we'd now call HR (Heavy-rigid / Trucks).
I remember in about 66 things were pretty cool. Had a brief job at Thales Lithgow building rifles which our men eventually took over to the Kokoda Trail.
I remember watching a Crawfords cop series called Bluey in the 70s, as well as driving around in my Morris Minor and listening to a the Alan Parsons projec. British cars were still super common in Australia around then.
Not long after, we switched from the pound to the Australian Dollar. A lot of other things changed too. Eventually in about the late 70s, we started going metric.
The interesting part is that you just lost the game.
>>709791993
The Odyssey2 was amazing. I loved that console so much. They had the best games for it. They even had a Lord of the Rings game which combined a board strategy game with little combat mini-games on the console.
>>709788258
>Lighters in cars.
>Now they're charging ports.
And built-in ash trays in cars
>>709791841
Saccharine didn't cause cancer, that was just the popular misinterpretation of the fucked up experiment. Still ruined saccharine as a sweetener, though. (Sodas sweetened with real sugar were the best - HFCS is one of the reasons Americans are so obese now.)
p.s. The saccharine toxicology did find renal cancer in the rats, but the was because the idiot researchers were pumping the rats full of so much saccharine (a person would have to drink hundreds of cans of pop a day to reach that level) that the saccharine was crystallizing in the rats' kidneys, and the crystals were inducing an asbestosis-like cancer.
>>709792248
yeah, we did the same thing. I don't see it anymore, kids are too sheltered nowadays, probably thats why they are idiots.
>>709792057
We were on the wrong side of every battle. We started with a Betamax, and when we couldn't rent new movies for it any more, my father bought a Laserdisc player...
>>709792057
Reminds me of betamax.
Wiki says they stopped making movies for it in March of this year.
Wow.
>>709790083
>banana seat, butterfly handle bars.
that's some good old shit right there.
>>709775840
My first computer.
>>709778630
JC Penny's mah nigga... Had chicks with bigger tits back in the 70's
>>709792498
And they replaced saccharine with cyclamate...
>>709779084
>hit clips
>thread for old fags
beat it sonny, and get off my lawn!
>>709789511
Not just the "Orange Crate" - Schwinn had different names for all the colors too (e.g. "Apple Crate" for the green one). I lusted after one for years, especially because of the top-tube-mounted stick shift for the 5-speed.
*sigh*
>>709773760
>- the little white dot in the middle of the screen when you turned on your TV, waiting for it to warm up
no
>- cut glass and ceramic ash trays with the little wedges for cigarettes and the big wedges for cigars and pipes
why is that an old thing?
>- the TV/GAME slider-box on the back of the TV set so you could play Pong by switching to channel 3: bipbipBOOP... bipbipbipBOOP...
still have a tv like that
>- standing in line at the bank with your paycheque and a deposit slip
yeah, i remember that
>- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
haha, yes
>- dialling a phone
even a fucking rotary dial plate!
>- stubby beer bottles
again: why is that an old thing?
>>709792871
I guarantee you none of the middle school teenyboppers who make up most of 4chan's demographic these days knows what the fuck a Hit Clip is.
>>709773760
I'm only 22 and I have witnessed most of these things
still remember party lines when I was growing up.
also if you're in the US, addresses without zip codes. so instead of
>Boston MA 02132
it would be
>Boston, 32, Mass
And here's the saddest part of all. I bet every last one of you old fucks (53 here) remember when you were a kid that every goddamn place you went was happy and prosperous. Big cities to little towns, it was all the same: everyone had a job, everyone owned a house and a car, all the stores were the mom & pop variety, it was like heaven. There were no fucking WalMarts, no cheap plastic chink shit, no goddamn beaners anywhere, niggers knew their place in society, etc. And just look around today. This is NOT progress. Fuck I miss my childhood in the 60s.
I am 38 and I remember such a world existed.
>>709793286
>addresses without zip codes
Yeah, I remember the TV ads for zip codes when everyone switched over. Do you remember when you didn't have to give your area code when you listed your phone number because everyone you knew had the same one?
>>709793141
dude, by the time hit clips came out I was married with kids.
>>709793360
I don't think that's the case.
When I was growing up (I'm 63), my father got laid off ( as did a few guys on my street), I lived in an apartment, not a house we owned, everything was being made in China or Japan and there were plenty of minorities around, but they weren't the minorities of today. They worked, were respectful, their kids were respectful. But I agree that a lot of what we see today isn't progress.
>>709787721
Were your family poor? Most of what OP is talking about disappeared in the 90s.
>>709793360
Yes, I remember when there was casual racism everywhere and bigots like you were commonplace. When I had to listen to "nigger jokes" and "paki jokes" and "wop jokes" at parties. One of the best things about getting old and seeing the world change is watching people like you being put in YOUR fucking place for a change.
>>709793578
I do. Our state had one area code and it was a big deal when it went to three (everyone wanted to be in the capital city area code). Now there's 6-7 area codes.
>>709793360
dude (late 40's here), "Made In Taiwan" was yesteryear's "Made in China". Surely you remember that, right?
Woolworth's, Montgomery Ward, Service Merchandise showrooms... Shit I miss that stuff.
>>709773760
>- using the yellow 45 adaptor for your record player as a frisbee
I remember them, never occurred to me to use them as a Frisbee, they were so small.
>Typewriter with moving ball.
>Typewriter with moving carriage taking the paper back and forth, ljke in cartoons about eating corn like a type-writer, which kids do not get any more.
>Candy cigarettes.
>>709793902
Don't forget S&H Green Stamps. I can still taste the glue.
>>709774667
Switching past all the empty channels to get to the three that were active in your area.
>>709794080
VHF and UHF, oh man.
>>709793909
>Candy cigarettes
You can still buy Popeye "candy sticks." They just took the red colouring off the end and stopped calling them cigarettes. I think they stopped selling Big League Chew too. I know they were forced to stop selling black licorice pipes at some point too. They still sell black licorice "nigger babies" but they obviously don't call them that any more.
>>709774734
Some of the best porn I ever saw was found in the woods. No idea where it came from, it would have been illegal as fuck in that time and place.
Fap to the memory to this day.
>>709794080
And thinking how great it was when UHF came in. Now we had **5** channels.
>>709793909
Look at the richfag here with the electric typewriter.
In my days we had strike keys and ribbons you had to re-wind by hand.
>>709793902
47 here.
I remember "Made in Japan" was quite poor quality here. We had a lot of things made in Australia since we were living in a rural area (this was Penrith in about the 1960s-1970s). I remember we used to actually make our own furniture here locally down in Caringbah.
Now it's all chinese junk that falls apart the moment you sit on it.
