Children of the 80's and 90's.... Prepare to feel old - Page 4

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Posted: 6/22/2012 3:29:10 PM EDT

[#1]

I watched Die Hard 2 last night on NutFlix I tried to watch Rum Diaries but couldn't get into it. I started to feel old during the scene where McClain and his wife( pre hijacking she's on the plane ) were talking about technology like air phones and fax machines. " Isn't technology great, welcome to the 90s "

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:39:23 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Quoted:

They should remake Back To The Future.

Honestly that wouldn't be that bad of an idea.

You shut your whore mouth.

No way, it'd be cool for them to go back to 1985, this time.

What car would they use though? I don't think we really have anything as cool and shortlived as a deLorean nowadays.

Maybe a Pontiac G8 GT?

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:47:43 PM EDT

[#3]

If anyone comes across Salute Your Shorts or Hey, Dude on DVD let me know. I feel for my kids that they don't have any quality tv nowadays (except Phineas and Ferb).

Just bought the first 3 seasons of Ducktales... for the kids of course.

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:48:19 PM EDT

[#4]

You know, way back in the early '80s there were waves of Baby Boomer nostalgia of the '60s to the point of self-parody (The Starship, I am looking at you!) How many farewell and reunion tours of '60s acts were there, just to pad their retirement plan a little more? And remember Freedom Rock music collection infomercial? Pepsi even did a commercial where a Boomer couple was at Woodstock location and wondering about turning it into a condo project while their teenage son looked on. At the time I, being a teenager, thought it was kinda odd and sad.

And here we are (I'll be 44 in August) I can legally buy a woman half my age drinks.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

eta: remember the clear cola craze, like Crystal Pepsi?

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:52:15 PM EDT

[#5]

Damn.... That went by in the blink of an eye.

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:55:20 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
I also felt icky when I saw the grown up picture of Mara Wilson and noticed that she's got breasts now.

My mind wants to remember her as a little girl in a show that my kids still enjoy watching.

Speaking of young girls that grew up to be women with boobies... Soleil Moon Frye.

Posted: 6/22/2012 3:55:56 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I remember Ecto Cooler. Anyone remember Surge?

I remember both. Does anyone here remember in '89, I think, when Ghostbusters 2 came out, and Hardee's had that "Slimer" sundae, with the green, goey topping? I used to love those things.

And I seem to remember that was also about the time that Hardee's went "healthy", and started using peanut oil or something to fry their crappy food, and the shit was always dry as an old ladys vagina

Batman came out around the same time. They had this special drink lid promotion of batman lids IIRC. I had a ton of those.

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:01:27 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:04:55 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
You know, way back in the early '80s there were waves of Baby Boomer nostalgia of the '60s to the point of self-parody (The Starship, I am looking at you!) How many farewell and reunion tours of '60s acts were there, just to pad their retirement plan a little more? And remember Freedom Rock music collection infomercial? Pepsi even did a commercial where a Boomer couple was at Woodstock location and wondering about turning it into a condo project while their teenage son looked on. At the time I, being a teenager, thought it was kinda odd and sad.

And here we are (I'll be 44 in August) I can legally buy a woman half my age drinks.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

eta: remember the clear cola craze, like Crystal Pepsi?

"Hey man, is that freedom rock?"

"Yea"

"Well turn it up man!"

HHAHAHHHAHHAHHAA.

Old

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:12:32 PM EDT

[#10]

This should be added to that list:

The TV show "Happy Days" was set in the late 50s and filmed in the late 70s, or about 20 years in the past.

If the show had continued to be produced and moved through time one year per season, then right now, Happy Days

would be set in the year 1992, roughly.

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:15:20 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

eta: remember the clear cola craze, like Crystal Pepsi?

I still remember this commercial like it was yesterday, but the Pepsi was a flop.

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:17:19 PM EDT

[#12]

I'm old..... But I can still whoop my weight in honey badgers.

Posted: 6/22/2012 4:26:14 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Damn.... That went by in the blink of an eye.

It was last week wasn't it?

Posted: 6/22/2012 5:00:04 PM EDT

[#14]

You feel old looking at this list ??

Try this .... My children were the children of the 80 -90's !

Posted: 6/22/2012 7:31:29 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
They should remake Back To The Future.

"You go to HELL. You go to HELL and you die!"

Posted: 6/22/2012 8:04:04 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
19 is what did me in...damn.
:(

+1

Posted: 6/22/2012 8:15:51 PM EDT

[#17]

be right back, I must go drown myself in the shitter..

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:02:05 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Yep, and I was born in 87.

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:16:53 PM EDT

[#19]

FU.

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:17:05 PM EDT

[#20]

oh boy

#16 - how far this stuff has come is unbelievable - I still remember my 1st Walkman and than the 1st portable Cd player I got.

there are a few others where I had a WTF moment

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:26:31 PM EDT

[#21]

i remember my mom taking me to see jurassic park when it came out and i guess i started crying or something and the manager came out and let us go see some tom and jerry movie. And my mom didnt bitch at all. I miss my mom

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:27:19 PM EDT

[#22]

#22 is wrong, it's Eureeka's CASTLE. Allegra's Window? WTF?! Clearly, whoever made that was not a product of the 80s or 90s. I spent all February of '96 at home with chicken pox and after Eureeka's Castle, I would then flip on Jenny Jones. Also, Are You Afraid of the Dark came on at 9pm EST, that was back before they had happy endings for all the sissy kids. I think their time block is screwy because I also think Doug ran right after Rugrats in the morning.

#47 is ROTFLMAO worthy.

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:34:05 PM EDT

[#23]

I remember making little projects with early top hat germanium transistors.

Posted: 6/22/2012 9:56:11 PM EDT

[#24]

Damn, I'm 33 and feel old as shit now, thanks.

Posted: 6/22/2012 10:14:31 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I like the post it note comment, and miss those 3.5" disks

Could you imagine showing a 64GB microSD card to somebody in the early 90s and telling them what it was and how much data it could store?

Yeah this holds 44,444 of those. It's also a lot faster and about 1000 times more durable.

It still holds nothing to the power that is my ZIP disk.

I felt old after #3/#4.

Posted: 6/23/2012 3:41:40 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

I remember Ecto Cooler. Anyone remember Surge?

My school banned Surge from the drink machines because of some stupid rumor about the caffeine content or something.

Posted: 6/23/2012 3:47:01 AM EDT

[#27]

Good grief –– that stuff's still recent history. Wait until you get a few more decades under your belt, and then you can talk about feeling old.

Exactly.

Posted: 6/23/2012 4:35:44 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
If anyone comes across Salute Your Shorts or Hey, Dude on DVD let me know. I feel for my kids that they don't have any quality tv nowadays (except Phineas and Ferb).

Just bought the first 3 seasons of Ducktales... for the kids of course.

I don't even have kids and I'd buy Ducktales.

I have the first 2 seasons on a hard drive somewhere I think. Totally going to order the DVD now.
That and The Real Ghostbusters were such good cartoons.

It's cool how many little jokes in the Ghostbusters cartoon that were way over my head as a kid that amuse the hell out of me now. They have an episode called "Collect Call of Cthulhu"

Posted: 6/23/2012 4:41:50 AM EDT

[#29]

You kids of the 80's 90's are NOT old YET . Wait another 20-30 years to really feel the weight of time on ya ,

'K

That Floppy disk was not actually the real floppy disk. It flopped for real.

Source
Computer history cool link

Punch card

Best Regards,
TDK

Old enough to be you dad

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. and The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

Punch card writer

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

Posted: 6/23/2012 4:51:55 AM EDT

[#30]

Well, the nice thing is that I really didn't know any of the things of back then.....so they are today is just as meaningless.

And we still use floppies from time to time, not much, but sometimes.
______________________________________________________________________
("No, I'm serious. I mean, I have a job now and that's good. But, you know, I'm still living at home, I'm still single. The only real difference is that I'm five years older. I need to use more expensive night cream."––Phoebe, (w,stte), Charmed "Cat House")

Posted: 6/23/2012 4:54:00 AM EDT

[#31]

Meh

Posted: 6/23/2012 4:54:18 AM EDT

[#32]

thanks alot, i'm going to be depressed the rest of the day

Posted: 6/23/2012 5:43:06 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

You kids of the 80's 90's are NOT old YET . Wait another 20-30 years to really feel the weight of time on ya ,

'K

That Floppy disk was not actually the real floppy disk. It flopped for real.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/2397460125_2764a1f8a6_o.jpg

Source

Computer history cool link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2398292022_d3e8a53bf3_o.jpg

Punch card

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2397460077_f3cfface77_o.jpg
Best Regards,

TDK

Old enough to be you dad

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2398291986_8ac48b17f4_o.jpg

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. and The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

Punch card writer

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2398292066_5bdce51007_o.jpg

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

I still have a stack of 5.25" Floppy's from my C64 full of pirated games at my mother's house somewhere and my father went to "computer school" in the late 70's where he learned how to use punch cards

Speed

Posted: 6/23/2012 5:47:12 AM EDT

[#34]

I had to do my work on punch cards in college; it was amazing how many errors one typo could generate!

Posted: 6/23/2012 6:24:16 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

You kids of the 80's 90's are NOT old YET . Wait another 20-30 years to really feel the weight of time on ya ,

'K

That Floppy disk was not actually the real floppy disk. It flopped for real.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/2397460125_2764a1f8a6_o.jpg

Source

Computer history cool link

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2398292022_d3e8a53bf3_o.jpg

Punch card

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2397460077_f3cfface77_o.jpg
Best Regards,

TDK

Old enough to be you dad

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2398291986_8ac48b17f4_o.jpg

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. and The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

Punch card writer

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2398292066_5bdce51007_o.jpg

A 250 MB hard disk drive from 1979. Above right: The IBM 3380 from 1980, the first gigabyte-capacity hard disk drive.

My programming professor likes to tell stories about his days writing (and debugging) programs back in those days, carrying stacks of punch cards down to the computer gods who actually got to get near the machine.

Posted: 6/23/2012 6:26:18 AM EDT

[#36]

Posted: 6/23/2012 6:42:56 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
I remember making little projects with early top hat germanium transistors.

http://semiconductormuseum.com/PhotoGallery/PhotoGallery_2N167_files/image002.gif

"The damn Germans ain't got nothin to do with it"

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:14:55 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
I remember what ecto cooler tasted like

My mommy would pack that in my lunch......way back in the day

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:26:08 AM EDT

[#39]

Fuck

#9 got me

Kids born in 1995 just graduated high school

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:36:46 AM EDT

[#40]

Jesus Christ im only 23 and that makes me feel old

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:43:42 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Fuck

#9 got me

Kids born in 1995 just graduated high school

Yeah, that one makes you pause for a minute.

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:50:01 AM EDT

[#42]

That list was clearly made by a child of the 90's, not so much the 80's.

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:52:20 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

That list was clearly made by a child of the 90's, not so much the 80's.

It does lean more 90s than anything else. I was 11 in 1990, so it's probably fair to say that "my decade" was the 90s. I don't remember much prior to 1984 - just a few things, here and there.

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:53:03 AM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
19 is what did me in...damn.
:(

I have to agree with you on this one.

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:54:08 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
I'm only 21, and most of those on that list still apply to me...wow.

I never even noticed that butterfinger bb's went away. Those were awesome.

Wow is right! I shouldn't feel old I was only born in 1990!

When I have children I worry what they'll say...

"Wow dad, you were around before Al Gore created the interwebz!"

Posted: 6/23/2012 7:55:20 AM EDT

[#46]

Eminem's daughter is gorgeous.

edited, that's just a really good photo of her.

Posted: 6/23/2012 8:01:54 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'm only 21, and most of those on that list still apply to me...wow.

I never even noticed that butterfinger bb's went away. Those were awesome.

Wow is right! I shouldn't feel old I was only born in 1990!

When I have children I worry what they'll say...

"Wow dad, you were around before Al Gore created the interwebz!"

I have a rotary phone (it works!), that I had to explain to my 10 year old daughter. Also, maybe two years ago, my wife had to demonstrate cassette tapes. She had never seen one.

She is the only one in her class who knows how to play and properly care for vinyl records.

Posted: 6/23/2012 8:17:54 AM EDT

[#48]

Fuck off and die OP.

I'll be 29 next month.

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Posted: 6/23/2012 8:20:28 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:

That list was clearly made by a child of the 90's, not so much the 80's.

It does lean more 90s than anything else. I was 11 in 1990, so it's probably fair to say that "my decade" was the 90s. I don't remember much prior to 1984 - just a few things, here and there.

Yep.

The Jurassic Park and Back To The Future ones really smacked me!

And the Nevermind baby kinda caught me too though.

Posted: 6/23/2012 8:31:36 AM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'm only 21, and most of those on that list still apply to me...wow.

I never even noticed that butterfinger bb's went away. Those were awesome.

Wow is right! I shouldn't feel old I was only born in 1990!

When I have children I worry what they'll say...

"Wow dad, you were around before Al Gore created the interwebz!"

I have a rotary phone (it works!), that I had to explain to my 10 year old daughter. Also, maybe two years ago, my wife had to demonstrate cassette tapes. She had never seen one.

She is the only one in her class who knows how to play and properly care for vinyl records.

I'm right there with you.

I have a 7 year old cousin that thought I was joking when I told her to crank the handle on her door to roll the window down. That was her first time being inside a car that didn't have power windows. Last month I had to explain to her what a "payphone" was.

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