Back in my day...

[WilsonFourTwo]

BIMD, you had to leave your house to meet a girl.

[JohnnyB]

BIMD people didn't have portable music devices, so some people would actually walk around holding whole stereos on their shoulders. We called them ghetto blasters.

[gargamel]

Back in my day, if you didn't see a sporting event live, you'd have to wait until the last 5 minutes of the 11 o'clock news and hope that they'd show a clip or at least flash the score on the screen. If they didn't show it, you'd have to wait until the next day to check the box score in the newspaper to find out whether your team won.

[Huntingwhale]

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?

Then, they started upgrading to Compaq PC's (can't remember the model) and all of a sudden Nibbles became all the rage, before we discovered gorillas, and wait for it..........IT WAS IN COLOR!!!

Oregon trail

That is hilarious. I remember back in elementry school the challenge was to basically struggle through the week until thursday's computer day and we would get to play Oregon Trail in green. We had 1 computer that had color. Our computers also had the 'turbo' button on it that increased the CPU from 33mhz to I think 66mhz. Aaaah good times that game. Always start out as the banker, hunt 900lbs worth of food and only take 100lbs, and have at least 4 family members die on the way. Classic.

[Hemi-Cuda]

BIMD your game controller only had 4 buttons. A, B, Start, and Select. and that was good enough

[BloodFetish]

BIMD you needed a BBS server to download porn. It took about 5 minutes per picture, and the resulting image was usually a 360 dpi scan of a homely girl with vast tracts of pubes.

That, and waaaay further BIMD we could buy lethal weapons at department stores. They came with a ring which you'd place on the turf over yonder, and you'd attempt to launch these weapons in the air and land them in the ring. Sometimes you hit your buddies, or other picnicers, and that was fun too.

[Free Ben Hur!]

BIMD (junior high) At Killarney pool they had a chip vending machine that I recall being about eight feet tall that I'm certain had to be craned into place before the roof was completed. It vended bags of Old Dutch chips that had three times the volume of todays 'snack size' chips bags for a dime. We rode our Mustang bikes (high rise handle bars and banana seats) even in the winter.

Later, in high school, a Friday or Saturday night was pretty much set if you had a fin, because a case of beer (12) was $4.75 and a pack of smokes was .75 cents. The only colour of make up girls seemed to wear was blue and almost everyone felt compelled to get their hair permed. We all hated disco music (although I sense we'd gladly exhange it for much today's crapola) and jeans, T shirts (preferably with a Led Zeppelin logo) and woods down-filled jackets were the 'uniform'.

[Devils'Advocate]

I always hear how "back in the day" teachers were able to use corporal punishment and how students actually behaved. However here is a list of stories my dad told us about his school years:
- they would smoke so much in the bathroom that you could see smoke haze coming out from under the door
- the math teacher's car, like clockwork, would have a slashed tire every Friday
- on Friday afternoons, after most of the teachers went home, fish were left in their desks
- after a win, the school hockey team would show up for class still buzzed from an entire night out drinking
- on days of major exams, they wouldn't just pull the fire alarm - they would set actual fires!!

And my father's school was given the nickname of "Switchblade High" because just about every student carried one for "protection".

So, from where I sit, kids have always misbehaved. Always have, always do and always will.

[Devils'Advocate]

Sorry to go off topic there.

BIMD - I worked with my supervisor at Kmart to work my shifts around when my favorite TV shows were playing

BIMD - If I wanted to play video games, I had to beg my parents for a roll of quarters

BIMD - When bowling, you had to bring someone who knew how to keep score

[Stay Golden]

BIMD

A fight was only a fist fight and 1 on 1, not like the cowards of today that can't settle things like a man and resort to swarming and stomping someone.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

BIMD your game controller only had 4 buttons. A, B, Start, and Select. and that was good enough

BIMD, your controller had 1 button.



You punks with your 4 button controllers.

Also, we tied an onion to our belts.

[pylon]

CC pretty much covers my list.

But to me, this is the biggest one:

BIMD, parents had to force you to come inside, not beg you to go outside.

By the time the summer ended, we looked like a crew of Natives our skin was so dark. I would go through at least 2 sets of BMX tires every summer. I probably logged 5000 kms a summer on that '83 Diamond Back pacer 500. My favorite ride, pedal or motor power... ever.

[North East Goon]

Kuwahara is where it was at!

[pylon]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

Kuwahara is where it was at!

No... only ET fanboys rode Kuwie's.

Diamond Back was the totally radical choice for the discerning BMX rider. It still boggles my mind, my old man forked over $450 for a BMX bike in 1983. But man, were they built awesome. I would go just short of killing a man, to get my hands on one of these in factory condition. The day mine was handed down to a nephew, was one of my saddest days ever.

[North East Goon]

www.bmxmuseum.com

One may pop up, you never know.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

I'm sure this has been mentioned.

BIMD you had to sit around and watch muchmusic for hours hoping the video you wanted to see would be played. I'd often have the VCR ready so I could tape it and watch it over and over.

BIMD muchmusic played music videos. MOD played actual far out requests, not just the countdown over and over.

BIMD when your favorite song came on CJ or Rock 107 you had to scramble to get to the tape deck and hit record because I'd have the tape perfectly positioned at the end of the last song that I scrambled to record. Inevitably I'd actually have it in the wrong place and cut off half the previous song, or I'd forget to stop it after and I'd tape like an hour of the radio after the song I wanted.

BIMD FFW on a tape player to find your favorite song was like an art. You knew that from song 1 to song 5 was exactly 18 seconds.

[macker]

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?

Then, they started upgrading to Compaq PC's (can't remember the model) and all of a sudden Nibbles became all the rage, before we discovered gorillas, and wait for it..........IT WAS IN COLOR!!!

Oregon trail



Gorillas

Oh No! Yoko - 90's Kid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNvtrBrHPyo


We are from the 90's with our faded sweaters
Our favourite song is "Who Let The Dogs Out"?
We played Oregon trail on our Macintosh and Windows 93
My cousin Geo bought me all my clothes.

It's a bonfire a very big bonfire

We are from the 90's with our faded sweaters
Our favourite song is "Who Let The Dogs Out"?
We played Oregon trail on our Macintosh and Windows 93

We are from the 90's









Nope........played Artillery Dual on the Commodore 64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbT7OrvOvhs
and my faded sweaters were made by Raglan, Beaver Canoe and Northern Reflections

[macker]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

www.bmxmuseum.com

One may pop up, you never know.

1988 White Dyno Compe was where it was at
http://bmxmuseum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=44993

[Dentoman]

BIMD if you were fortunate enough to live on the bald, flat prairie southeast of Lethbridge you could put up a tall iron pole, attach an antenna, pull some wire to your TV ...... and voila, UHF channels from Great Falls - KFBB, KRTV and some snowy one I can't remember.

BIMD, winter Saturdays at 3 pm were reserved for Stampede Wrestling and the great Ed Whalen.

[macker]

Or your pick of a Tony Hawk, Chris Miller, Christian Hosoi, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero board which we trashed not knowing that a vintage could have made us a small fortune today. Well worth it. Snowboard Shop, Free Wheelin, West Beach, The Attic etc. etc....wherever we could get our hands on these boards/stickers etc.

Back before we'd all forgoten
about the little man
The little man
Long live the little man