This is a thread for the cranky, the old, and even just the cranky and old at heart. Post something you remember from your youth that is too awesome for young people to understand, rate agree if you know what they're talking about. Easy.
I'll start slow. In my day, you got fined if you returned videos to the store without rewinding them.
In my day, you rented videos from the store.
Back in my day, seeing that AOL logo after the glorious beep beep beep beep beep beep beep...tzzz. iiiiiIIIiiII. ERRRKRKRKRKRKRKRKRKEKRREKRREKRRRRRRRRTZZZZzzzz they call dial-up.
And then it was cut off when someone called.
In my day, there was this:
[img]http://www.yummly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wonder-balls-kenziness.jpg[/img]
More that I think of it, it's not the oldest thing ever, still though, they were awesome.
In my day, Windows looked like this:
[img]http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/firstrun/win31-1-1.png[/img]
Remember when a bowl of soup was a nickel? Your Coca-Cola doesn't taste the same as it used to.
[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2znn19w.jpg[/IMG]
...owning a game meant you could play it whenever
[img]http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/1538/411201112511pm.jpg[/img]
[sp]I know, offline mode, but that was buggy sometimes.[/sp]
[QUOTE=MazerRackham;41403610]In my day, Windows looked like this:
[t]http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/firstrun/win31-1-1.png[/t][/QUOTE]
Back in MY day, windows looked like this:
[img]http://afhimelfarb.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/window.jpg[/img]
Back when I was your age, Edinburgh was a decent city.
[sp]No it wasn't[/sp]
[QUOTE=ElectroMagnet;41403734]Back in MY day, windows looked like this:
[img]http://afhimelfarb.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/window.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Canada is way more tropical than I'd expected.
90's nick thread
In my day every desktop computer was beige.
[QUOTE=hunterNormandy;41403873]i remember when [t]http://images01.olx.com/ui/1/56/00/13295600_1.jpg[/t] + [t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Doom_cover_art.jpg[/t] was the most fucking amazing ever.[/QUOTE]
b-but it still is.
In my day, you could go to a BlockBuster and rent two games and a movie until you brought it back in with a fee of 90 cents per extra week past one.
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In my day, Smithers was black.
Behold.
[img]http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/c/c5/Smithers-black.jpg[/img]
In my day, mobile phones actually had buttons, weren't light as a feather, and were harder to break.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;41404372]In my day, mobile phones actually had buttons, weren't light as a feather, and were harder to break.[/QUOTE]
So, like 5 years ago.
I remember the price of stuff pre-Euro, knowing vaguely you'd have to do mandatory military service sometime in the future and being relieved when they abolished it. Actually being cognizant of 9/11 as it happened. And not having any internet whatsoever, when it was still making it's way into the household.
Kids like myself, when I was back in my day, would actually want to go outside and play in the park instead of being on the computer all day.
in my day you had to be at least a somewhat intelligent to survive on facepunch
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;41404820]in my day you had to be at least a somewhat intelligent to survive on facepunch[/QUOTE]
I feel like this is directed at someone.
When i didn't have any responsibility's or have to think about my future
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;41404820]in my day you had to be at least a somewhat intelligent to survive on facepunch[/QUOTE]
That's genuinely surprising. It's good to know that capitalization and punctuation were never a factor though.
In my day, people embedded midi files in their geospace websites that mixed aurally with whatever you were listening to with winamp and the result melted your brain with random noise.
Back in my day videogames were fun
Back in my day music didn't sound like robots fucking
[QUOTE=Karmah;41405267]Back in my day videogames were fun[/QUOTE]
Back in my day people played video games for fun.
Back in my day everyone would say "gg" at the end of the match and nobody would get offended.
Back in my day people were good sports and had fun regardless of whether they won or lost.
Back in my day Stonehenge was still under construction.
[QUOTE=StarmanSuper;41403490]In my day, there was this:
[img]http://www.yummly.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wonder-balls-kenziness.jpg[/img]
More that I think of it, it's not the oldest thing ever, still though, they were awesome.[/QUOTE]
Fuck I remember those as a young kid those were kid chocolate ballz. Back in my day we had blockbuster until it got shutdown :( I was 12 or 13 when they closed.
Back in my day there were only 150 pokemon.
[sp]Fuck Mew.[/sp]
Back in my day game consoles never broke.
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