Thread: Does anybody remember when ...

All but atari. And I'm not even that old.

Is there anything you do remember:
example 80's




90's
Those pictures you had to stare at until you became cross-eyed like these

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ulle/gallery/glubsch.gif
like this one:
http://www.ctadirect.co.uk/download/objects/Acorn.jpg


Anything you remember? Music,movies, fashion,cartoons?

Originally Posted by Infinityecho

Those pictures you had to stare at until you became cross-eyed like these

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ulle/gallery/glubsch.gif
like this one:
http://www.ctadirect.co.uk/download/objects/Acorn.jpg

Uh... those were crap (and I could never do them).

Talking of Acorns, when I was at school every class had it's own BBC Micro and we had a mighty Acorn Archimedes in the hallway. Anyone remember them?

10 PRINT "POO"
20 GOTO 10
REM LOL
RUN

Originally Posted by Infinityecho

Things like:

when we had cassettes?
<-- This avatar
atari
when joysticks were used instead of controllers?
56K modem connection sound

I remember well the days of VHS and music cassettes. Atari, not so much, but I remember my old Tandy computer that ran Windows 3.1 and had Commander Keen. And I still hear that 56K modem every time I connect to the internet.

Remember when...

Cokes came in glass bottles?

You could take a pocketknife to school?

Kids played marbles in the dirt, without any fancy Leapfrog or iPod?

The Cosby Show was good TV?

Renting a movie on Saturday night meant an old western, like The Outlaw Josey Wales?

They played good music on the radio?

Johnny Cash was The Man In Black?

Beanie babies!

Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny and Road Runner...

Really annoying girls screaming about the Backstreet boys.

My very small apple computer which played this really nice tune at startup. Looked like a box.

Originally Posted by Infinityecho

Things like:

when we had cassettes?
<-- This avatar
atari
when joysticks were used instead of controllers?
56K modem connection sound

I remember the sound of 1.2K modems and 45 RPM records... when color TV was a novelty and my dad grumbling when gasoline went up from .23 to .24 cents per gallon on weekends.

Heh.

My parents still listen to cassettes. Lol We still have a car that only has a cassetee player. He he

I used to be obsessed in the Back Street Boys and Britney Spears.

Anyone else remember that hairstyle? You know, that hairstyle. (I'll find a pick and post it later.)

How about Furby's and ring pops?

Originally Posted by Xox

How about Furby's and ring pops?

I loved both!! Although I never actually got a Furby. They weren't even particularly expensive.

I remember when the Atari first came out. My brother and I went to the Sears to play one in the store. Later he bought one. Tanks rocked!

When this song lyric made sense:



I love rock 'n' roll
So put another dime
In the jukebox, baby

We had Pong. On a black and white TV. And eight-tracks. They sucked because the song would quit in the middle to pick up on anther track.

Originally Posted by Infinityecho

90's
Those pictures you had to stare at until you became cross-eyed like these

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~ulle/gallery/glubsch.gif
like this one:
http://www.ctadirect.co.uk/download/objects/Acorn.jpg

The first one's a star-thing and the second one is some weird egg-shaped thing, I can't tell

I loved those things - I can do them really easily... I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing though...

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

I remember my old Tandy computer that ran Windows 3.1 and had Commander Keen.

Wow that brings back memories! haha

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny and Road Runner...

ooh yeah good one, my sister and I loved those cartoons.

Originally Posted by Xox

Anyone else remember that hairstyle? You know, that hairstyle. (I'll find a pick and post it later.)

Hmm, I think I know what you mean...



"French-rolling" your pants at the bottom so they were super-tapered leg Also paracute pants, and stonewashed jeans with zippers up the leg.

Feathered hair or crimped hair. With big bows.

Friendship bracelets you braided with cross-stitch "floss"

British Knights shoes and Jordache jeans.

DOOM was high end 3D graphics
Everyone had AOL
Hey there is a new show on called The Simpsons!

I also remember a very long time ago, George Bush was president, gas prices were continually rising, and we at war with Iraq. Ah the 90's thank go we came to our senses.

Oh, that is good, ninja.

Originally Posted by Burns

The first one's a star-thing and the second one is some weird egg-shaped thing, I can't tell

I loved those things - I can do them really easily... I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing though...

The second one is an upside-down acorn.

Yay! I made her signature.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

The second one is an upside-down acorn.

ahhh I see now. Thanks, I had no idea what I was looking at, lol

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Really annoying girls screaming about the Backstreet boys.

Actually, it's a life goal to completely forget them

How about the Commidore 64.... As a five year-old, that thing was awesome! You even had to know some basic DOS commands in order to use it

Originally Posted by Amethyst Star

How about the Commidore 64.... As a five year-old, that thing was awesome! You even had to know some basic DOS commands in order to use it

5.25" floppy disk drives! And yet the system is still available on Fleabay.
To think how amazed people were at the quality those games in its day!

How about shows like:
Dawson's Creek
90210

Felicity?

How about Furby's and ring pops?

i HATED furbys. they wouldnt ever shut up. one time i was at my friends house and we woke it up after abour 6 months. it wouldnt be quiet so he threw it on the ground as hard as he could. It started twitching. we were laughing so hard! it wouldnt stop twitching its eyes and beak so we stuffed it under some blankets under his bed. 3 days later, still twitching

Originally Posted by freefire

i HATED furbys. they wouldnt ever shut up.

yeah furby's.... Like fingernails on a chalkboard....

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Felicity?

Great until Felicity slept with Eli, art student. Oh and the hair thing too.



Godzilla!

& Wonder woman

Felicity was great until those points yeah. I think the whole time traveling thing at the end was a veeeerryyy desperate attempt on the writers' part to save the show. Ouch.

House of Pain's "Jump Around?"

The Ozone

MSG<- (not the DV member)


Happy Gillmore


I really liked this one:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ht=banned+game