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Remember when........? (mainly for us old folk)

Remember when your mum would tell you to go outside and play and you actually wanted to do it, rather than see it as a punishment having to turn off a screen.
 
Remember when you would wait hours for a single picture or gif to download. You know the sort you didn't want your parents to know you were looking at.

Or remember when moving a single square on a computer screen as it slowly descended onto some lines and other squares was the absolute latest in games to play.

I saw an add in an old computer mag a year or two back, and realised the hard drive on my computer sitting on my desk would have cost more than $8,000,000 if I had bought it back when the magazine was published. So somethings improve some things get worse.
 
sense the hurricane this past year I have had to tear down some old sheds I have on the property and found an old box full of 8 track tapes from the 70s. :eek: and two pioneer super tuner three cassette decks . slide mounts
 
Anyone remember seeing ozzy bite a live bat mid concert, not realizing that it wasnt a prop? One could swear the sound of angry activists was heard round the world that night... Good times, a shame about the bat, but still good times.
 
HugDoggy said:
I saw an add in an old computer mag a year or two back, and realised the hard drive on my computer sitting on my desk would have cost more than $8,000,000 if I had bought it back when the magazine was published. So somethings improve some things get worse.
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Late 90s HDDs were basically $10 per gig. My 30 gig HD in my 1st Dell was pretty damn big and that was a $300 HD, had a friend down the hall who had a massive 60 gig... that he accidentally bricked using Linux, $600 paperweight.
 
swampy said:
Remember when you used to have to bring your roll of film to a store that developed them and you had to wait a couple of weeks then go there and check to see if they were ready.
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I do....although I dont remember it taking weeks. Remember taking a roll of Plus X pan to the Drugstore, where you could smell developer? Or the little deckle~~~~~ edges on the returned prints?

Oh....didja ever get one back, just the neg, with "Illegal" bannered across it?
 
ShoutySuitman said:
Anyone remember seeing ozzy bite a live bat mid concert, not realizing that it wasnt a prop? One could swear the sound of angry activists was heard round the world that night... Good times, a shame about the bat, but still good times.
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Yea, during some of the early concerts in late 60s, the sound systems were like two 12" speakers., or some like the PA system of the building.

But seeing Pink Floyd, and others were pretty great.

I would think concerts pretty much have not changed that much except for what you could legally bring in to the venue.
 
saddlebum66 said:
I do....although I dont remember it taking weeks. Remember taking a roll of Plus X pan to the Drugstore, where you could smell developer? Or the little deckle~~~~~ edges on the returned prints?

Oh....didja ever get one back, just the neg, with "Illegal" bannered across it?
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I got a couple large boxes of old photos in my attic. Recently went to look at old memories, and the pictures were all stuck together.

I remember seeing a movie staring Robin Williams about a photo store where something was banned.

But I remember getting animal stuff back from the developer. Probably now days, the police would be at your door.
 
PonyLove said:
I got a couple large boxes of old photos in my attic. Recently went to look at old memories, and the pictures were all stuck together.

I remember seeing a movie staring Robin Williams about a photo store where something was banned.

But I remember getting animal stuff back from the developer. Probably now days, the police would be at your door.
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yeah they would, even though developing is done blind in machine tubs.

You could try soaking the photos in plain water, then clothespinning them singly to a line to dry. it may allow you to salvage them. Add a drop of photo wetting agent if they dont come apart easily.
 
I remember when there was no internet and thought I would never meet another zoo.

Also, my porn collection consisted of about 8 pics cut out of horse magazines or encyclopedias
 
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dartel said:
Late 90s HDDs were basically $10 per gig. My 30 gig HD in my 1st Dell was pretty damn big and that was a $300 HD, had a friend down the hall who had a massive 60 gig... that he accidentally bricked using Linux, $600 paperweight.
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My first hard drive was 20 MB. Files were a bit smaller back then. :gsd_laughing:
 
Farmhand640 said:
I remember when the raciest thing around was the latest Playboy magazine, and almost everyone had a smut book under the bathroom sink.
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True...first place anyone would look, too.

Remember when Supermarkets took over from Grocery Stores? First one I ever saw was an A&P. Sometime in 1959, I think.
 
Farmhand640 said:
I remember when the raciest thing around was the latest Playboy magazine, and almost everyone had a smut book under the bathroom sink.
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They often had animal sex jokes too. I always looked for them. The guy coming home from work catching his wife in bed with their big dog with some caption.
 
saddlebum66 said:
Been there too. How about using a toilet bowl wrench to reach the distrib bolt to reset timing?
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Ford Y-block comes to mind as one of the hardest to reach I've experienced, still have the wrench I heated and bent in a couple extra places just for setting timing on them.

Double clutching non synchronized transmissions, or manual transmissions in general these days.
 
fatheroblivion1017 said:
I was born in ‘85, and I remember that.
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lol......my statement was a DIRECT quote from my mom. She didn't fuck around. At ALL. Ever. And, if I fucked up, ever, she'd whack me with whatever happened to be in her hand at the time. feather-duster, heavy glass ashtray, ham sandwich basically everything that wasn't my baby sister. Evidently, that bitch was special and not to be used to bludgeon me into submission, lol.
 
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