Back in my day...

[VladtheImpaler]

Watching New Music and re-runs of the Prisoner in my room as a kid on my 3" (that's right - THREE INCH SCREEN) portable B&W TV.... It was awesome.

[CampbellsTransgressions]

BIMD grade 9 kids weren't allowed to go white water rafting due to pussification
BIMD everything cost just a little bit less
BIMD we had these bulky flip phones that could only text message, call, or take pictures, with limited internet capabilities.
BIMD we had to illegally download songs through napster and burn them to CD's

[CaptainCrunch]

BIMD we had 3 channels and one of them was french. console T.V.'s with wooden cabinets were the rage, the channels were on a dial, there was no remote, and the youngest kid had to be the channel changer.

BIMD families sat for dinner, children were seen and not heard, after dinner the parents went into the living room and the kids did the dishes by hand.

bimd the first home pc's saved programs to tape cassettes, games took a good hour to load.

New games would come in gamer magazine, you had to write a compiler then enter in a endless stream of numbers.

Back in our day all kids did homework when you got home from school or right after dinner, you usually went outside to play until bed time.

BIMD calculators could add subtract, multiply and divide, they had a max of 9 digits, had the red led readouts and a tape roll.

Cars had carburetors pre set stations were reached with a manual button and tuner, cassettes were rare as 8 tracks were the rage.

Girls wore tight jeans that went up to their belly buttons, the concept of muffin tops hadn't been invented.

BIMD you could buy smokes at 7-11 no matter what you're age as long as you had a note from someone over 18.

BIMD comics were a quarter.

Teachers could paddle you, and classes were well behaved.

BIMD you could smoke on school property, at hockey games and in restaurants and bars.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by woob

Best Commodore64 game was Barbarian. Decapitating your oponent and then seeing the little green guy kick the head away and haul off the body was epic. California Games was a close second, for me anyways.

Screw that, you haven't lived until you played forbidden forest.

[flylock shox]

Here's one that's pretty much current:

BIMD, if you wanted to watch a movie at home, there were these stores that would rent movies to you. And if they didn't have the movie you wanted in stock, you had to wait for it to come in or go to another store to look for it. And if you did rent it, you had a couple of days to watch it, but if you didn't get it back in time, they'd fine you. And some of them would even fine you if you didn't rewind the tape. What's "rewind" you ask..?

Seems like only yesterday...

[troutman]

BIMD men had not walked on the moon

BIMD Jimi Hendrix was alive

BIMD children played outside all day

BIMD my father used a slide rule

BIMD I was invincible

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

BIMD you could smoke on school property, at hockey games and in restaurants and bars.

I imagine this will seem as unbelievable to today's kids as the idea of smoking on planes seems to people my age.

[CaptainCrunch]

And they weren't huge massive video stores, they were little corner neighbourhood stores with curtained off areas in the back that were off limit to kids. But the video boxes were a lot bigger then the normal movies, so everyone would know what you were renting.

[topfiverecords]

BIMD it wasn't cool to ditch out on a custom cake order.

[JohnnyB]

BIMD you were allowed to smoke inside a restaurant or bar, but you'd get a fine if you were smoking on the patio.

BIMD we used to have the machines that kids could play with to see pictures of far away places. You would put a white cardboard disk with tiny little plastic pictures around the edge into it, hold it up to a light and then look into it like a pair of binoculars. Slide a lever on it and you could see all these amazing places.

BIMD we had these machines at school where you would put a clear sheet of plastic with writing on it onto a sheet of glass with a light underneath and it would shine up through a mirror and reflect the shadow of the writing onto a wall or a screen. Everytime you wanted to do a presentation you would have to get these special sheets of clear plastic paper to print on, or you could use special pens to write on the paper. You had to be careful to use the right pens though, cause if you used the wrong ones it would ruin the paper and that stuff was expensive!

[JohnnyB]

BIMD people used to take these little paper tubes full of dried leaves from one kind of plant, light 'em on fire and suck the smoke right into their lungs. They would keep on doing it until the whole thing was burned, and lots of people would just light up another one after that. That smoke gave people all kinds of problems and killed lots of folk, but lots of people still spent their money on them. Made 'em look cool in those days.

[afc wimbledon]

Back in my day women had pubic hair, vast forests of it.

[CaptainCrunch]

NIMD there were only 2 positions in the joy of sex and one of them was doggie.

[Kipperriffic]

A Sharpener and an Eraser were very important.

(mechanical pencils were used by elitists)

[JohnnyB]

BIMD if you wanted to take a picture of something you would have to go buy a roll of this special kind of plastic. It would come in a little closed case that you could fit into the back of your camera and you had to be careful that it never got out into the light, cause if it did it would ruin all your pictures. Also, you couldn't see what any of your pictures looked like until you'd finished using up the whole roll. Even then, you'd have to take that roll to a special store where people working in a dark room would put that plastic into some kind of chemicals. A few days later you could go pick up prints of your pictures in whichever sizes you had told them you wanted and it would be exciting to look through all the pictures for the first time to see which ones were good and which weren't. Then, we would take those pictures and stick them into these special books we used to buy just for holding printed pictures and we would keep those books somewhere safe so those pictures wouldn't get lost.

[Dion]

BIMD the strap was used to punish bad behaviour in school.

BIMD we used fake ID to get into bars

BIMD we movie theatres that showed strickly porn movies.

BIMD a bunch of would sneak into the drive in theatre by hiding in the trunk of a buddies car. Was also a great place to take your date for a little bump and grind in the backseat

BIMD Soda pop came in glass bottles.

[JohnnyB]

Back in my day if you wanted to send written message or some document to someone you would put that message on real paper, stick it in some other folded paper, write a street address on it, stick on a special sticker you could buy and go drop it in a box outside. For just a few cents somebody would come pick that letter up and take it to whichever address you wrote on it, even to the other side of the country for you.

[FiftyBelow]

BIMD people used to live in a terrible place called Edmonton where people enjoyed the mullet hairstyle and married their cousins.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Did anyone else here go to elementary school at a time when playing oregon trail on a macintosh was the best part of the day?

Oregon trail

Wow, blast from the past! It's grade 1 all over again. You're right, that was the best part of the school day. I was thinking about this a couple years ago but had no idea the name or even what it was, memory was too foggy.

I was terrible at that game, would always choose the Ox because I thought the horns were cool, then it'd die in the desert and my party would be up s*** creek. Would usually be game over before the class was even half done.

[drewboy12]

BIMD people did not sit around on internet based forums discussing things from back in the day.