Pretty much this. I sorta understand why kids today do nothing but play with cell phones and Facebook. I could not imagine being stuck at home when not at school.
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Nostalgic things that new generation will miss out on?
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Pretty much this. I sorta understand why kids today do nothing but play with cell phones and Facebook. I could not imagine being stuck at home when not at school.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Rewinding.
I'm 28 and my dad and older brother had records and showed me how they worked. I always thought it was neat putting the needle on the edge of the LP and hearing the pops and hiss right before the song started.
For me, video stores were a cool thing. Going to Blockbuster to rent a VHS was a cool thing when I was a kid. You could ask the people that worked there what movies you should watch. Most recently, a few years ago before Hollywood Video went belly up I really enjoyed renting movies there. Their staff were actually intelligent about the movies they owned and made great recommendations.
For me, video stores were a cool thing. Going to Blockbuster to rent a VHS was a cool thing when I was a kid. You could ask the people that worked there what movies you should watch. Most recently, a few years ago before Hollywood Video went belly up I really enjoyed renting movies there. Their staff were actually intelligent about the movies they owned and made great recommendations.
Host Samurai
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Ill never get nostalgic from blowing on NES cartridges. That shit sucked ass and even worse when the NES would freeze when I would finally get past a seemingly impossible part in a game. I do however get nostalgic over NES games. That feeling of accomplishment after beating a game is lost these days.
ViperVisor
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There is some truth to the 'kids these days' thing.
People born pre 90s could only acquire so much of most things you liked. It was super special back then to have something that hit the board.
That does mean mediocre or bad things have nostalgia along with the great.
And in those days things disappeared from culture and even if you had kept it on your mind after time went by you could never find it or much of it. It was left to ripen in the back of your mind.
Today it seems kids will just burn through culture. The specialness of something being rare is gone. You can't really form true nostalgia when you can keep going back over stuff with a finer and finer comb. Kids will become super specialized at a younger age and shun the rest.
People born pre 90s could only acquire so much of most things you liked. It was super special back then to have something that hit the board.
That does mean mediocre or bad things have nostalgia along with the great.
And in those days things disappeared from culture and even if you had kept it on your mind after time went by you could never find it or much of it. It was left to ripen in the back of your mind.
Today it seems kids will just burn through culture. The specialness of something being rare is gone. You can't really form true nostalgia when you can keep going back over stuff with a finer and finer comb. Kids will become super specialized at a younger age and shun the rest.
Oh, also this.
Syracuse022
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Shadow of the BEAST
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how can people who where born in 84 not have seen an vinyl player?
Well, I don't know any girl that has a tape deck... Cd, iPod, etc.
No fun anymore.
Hmm I'm 35 I'll mention some:
1). Party line phones, we actually still had these up to the late 90s. For those of you who don't know what these are, in rural areas you basically shared a phone connection. You could be talking to someone and a neighbor a mile away picks up their phone and can hear and talk to you. Many times they would even start dialing over you(rotary phone of course). Basically like in todays world if someone is talking on the kitchen phone and you pick up the bedroom phone. Only its your neighbor.. and they are an asshole and are always on the phone when you need it. So you had to pick up, hear their voice, put it down etc and check back every 10min or so till they are done.
2). No cellphones. You get stuck somewhere, run out of gas, car breaks down etc your walking. Hope you can find a friendly strangers house to make a phone call from. I still remember the excitement when my spoiled friend got a cell phone around 1993/94 ish, we called from the lobby of a movie theatre. So thrilling "No mom I'm in the lobby talking on a phone." Amazing.
3). Video game related - corpse runs.. ala EQ. Playing SWTOR now and it 'oops you died.. would you like to respawn here?'. Thinking of EQ and the dreaded corpse run, so much content not explored due to dieing and not being able to get your stuff back. Days of playtime could be lost. Never forget the time I glitched off the boat in the middle of Timultours Deep ocean on the way to the expansion islands while using the bathroom. There I was everything gone, a customer rep dragged by body to 'an island in the ocean' and then gave me a loc number.. that was it. It took me 30min of swimming to reach a end level zone island and hunt down my shit. Stuff of nightmares.
1). Party line phones, we actually still had these up to the late 90s. For those of you who don't know what these are, in rural areas you basically shared a phone connection. You could be talking to someone and a neighbor a mile away picks up their phone and can hear and talk to you. Many times they would even start dialing over you(rotary phone of course). Basically like in todays world if someone is talking on the kitchen phone and you pick up the bedroom phone. Only its your neighbor.. and they are an asshole and are always on the phone when you need it. So you had to pick up, hear their voice, put it down etc and check back every 10min or so till they are done.
2). No cellphones. You get stuck somewhere, run out of gas, car breaks down etc your walking. Hope you can find a friendly strangers house to make a phone call from. I still remember the excitement when my spoiled friend got a cell phone around 1993/94 ish, we called from the lobby of a movie theatre. So thrilling "No mom I'm in the lobby talking on a phone." Amazing.
3). Video game related - corpse runs.. ala EQ. Playing SWTOR now and it 'oops you died.. would you like to respawn here?'. Thinking of EQ and the dreaded corpse run, so much content not explored due to dieing and not being able to get your stuff back. Days of playtime could be lost. Never forget the time I glitched off the boat in the middle of Timultours Deep ocean on the way to the expansion islands while using the bathroom. There I was everything gone, a customer rep dragged by body to 'an island in the ocean' and then gave me a loc number.. that was it. It took me 30min of swimming to reach a end level zone island and hunt down my shit. Stuff of nightmares.
I have fond memories of building stuff as a kid. I don't mean Legos either. My dad and I built a skateboard and assembled bicycles in the garage. My friends and I constructed tree houses and forts in the local woods. I'd take apart clocks, figure out how all the gears worked, then reassemble them. When something broke, we took it apart to find what could be fixed inside.
The whole idea of user-serviceable hardware is quickly disappearing and warranties are strictly forbidding tampering with anything inside a device you've purchased.
So I'll miss the joy of creating stuff out of other stuff. I'll miss destroying stuff with fireworks. I'll miss running around with realistic looking toy guns. Or riding my bike down a huge hill without worrying about safety equipment. I'll miss the super tall jungle gyms we used to climb. I'll miss all the dangerous stuff we had access to as kids. It really helped to develop our courage and weed out the inferior minded or feeble bodied kids from the rest.
Watch "Stand By Me" and compare the world those kids lived in to what we have now. It's like night and day.
The whole idea of user-serviceable hardware is quickly disappearing and warranties are strictly forbidding tampering with anything inside a device you've purchased.
So I'll miss the joy of creating stuff out of other stuff. I'll miss destroying stuff with fireworks. I'll miss running around with realistic looking toy guns. Or riding my bike down a huge hill without worrying about safety equipment. I'll miss the super tall jungle gyms we used to climb. I'll miss all the dangerous stuff we had access to as kids. It really helped to develop our courage and weed out the inferior minded or feeble bodied kids from the rest.
Watch "Stand By Me" and compare the world those kids lived in to what we have now. It's like night and day.
Rubbish King
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A 16 year old would have been born in 95-96.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
It's the impatience and boredom that worries me. When you have everything available like it is now - and let's not mess around here, you can find almost anything in less than 10 mins of Google searching - it breeds a really big entitlement complex and in the long term will make people bored with having simply too many options available.
Shadow of the BEAST
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i was refering to people in this thread.
Syracuse022
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I still enjoy it - making songs flow together and convey a certain tone or emotion is a lot of fun to me. I've made both .mp3 and CD mixtapes this year. ¯\(°_o)/¯ That said, the extent of my true mix "tape" days was copying the songs I liked from the radio so I could play them back whenever I wanted. I never really worked on the same things I do when I make a mix nowadays.
I'm 28 and not only do I own a hand-me-down phonograph with a preamp, but I still use it once in a while and steadfastly refuse to sell it.
And heck, I'm 16 years old.
I'm 21 and have no idea what this means.
brightsons
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Kinda surprised this wasn't posted yet, watch with annotations on....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c
teruterubozu
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The kids in my neighborhood still do this, but I live in the woods.
Darth Pinche
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Sye d'Burns
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I miss software stores that actually sold software and were more than glorified pawn shops.
Kids will miss the earlier years of the internet. It was, of course, a very different place before comment boxes, good search engines, commercialization, modern site design, broadband, and social networking. I have no idea if someone beginning to use the internet today can have the same sense of excitement and adventure.
I own some wax cylinders and I'd know how to play them if I didn't have to sell a kidney to get a cylinder phonograph. My family never owned a record player, but when I did encounter them they were intuitive enough that I could easily get a record playing, even as a kid.
Might have had something to do that I was mostly brought up on television from the 50s - 70s, though. Kids need to watch more TV Land!
I own some wax cylinders and I'd know how to play them if I didn't have to sell a kidney to get a cylinder phonograph. My family never owned a record player, but when I did encounter them they were intuitive enough that I could easily get a record playing, even as a kid.
Might have had something to do that I was mostly brought up on television from the 50s - 70s, though. Kids need to watch more TV Land!
megashock5
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teruterubozu
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flexi-disc
45 single adapter
whiteout
visiting the cockpit
pushbutton transmission
sf2fanatic
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...I miss those days...Going places,walking to class with my walkman on
Also playing football in the streets...
Admiral Bone to Pick
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There are kids being born now who will have missed out on things as recent as 90s/early 00s Cartoon Network lineup (Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly Dog, etc.), Toonami, and early RTS and MMO games. But they'll also have access to incredible new technology and advancements that 90s kids never had when growing up. Not really sure that they're missing out on anything.
Not sure how common these things are today:
-Messing with the TV antenna every so often... the picture was sooooo terrible.
-Requiring friends at your house to play multiplayer games... Sure this still goes on but I remember being so damn excited to have a multiplayer day scheduled a few days in advance.
-Recording things with your VCR/owning a VCR player.
-Messing with the TV antenna every so often... the picture was sooooo terrible.
-Requiring friends at your house to play multiplayer games... Sure this still goes on but I remember being so damn excited to have a multiplayer day scheduled a few days in advance.
-Recording things with your VCR/owning a VCR player.
Darth Pinche
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This is the 45 adapter I remember:
teruterubozu
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that's the post-CD era DJ version
Weird. Why not just do it normally?
teruterubozu
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Because another tape would already be playing in the deck. It's what you had to do for non-stop music. LOL
Seriously though, the pencil was the best tool to use when the cassette got jammed and the tape got twisted inside. You poke around with the pointy part of the pencil to "fish" the tape out then you straighten it, then use the pencil to wind it back into the housing.
Listening to music was a LABOR OF LOVE back then.
megashock5
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Precisely. The tape deck was already otherwise occupied.
perfectnight
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Hahaha this is awesome
perfectnight
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Yound wind the tape back by those little hinges. I used to do it with my pinky though
Host Samurai
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I understand the reasoning, but i always used my pinky finger
AdventureMike
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The weight of carrying a CRT monitor up a flight of stairs. (I kid)
I think the alarmist in me is frightened that my future children (if/when I have any) will not know the feeling of holding a tangible book.
I think the alarmist in me is frightened that my future children (if/when I have any) will not know the feeling of holding a tangible book.
Well, I won't be playing bingo, that's for damn sure.
Count Dookkake
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The pencil/cassette thing isn't about rewinding so much as it is about repairing.
Plinko
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Came in to post this. Video stores were awesome as a kid.
As for the guy who had students who couldn't believe the concept of dial-up internet:
My parents still live in an area where all you can get is dial-up internet. I'm still shocked at how many areas in the U.S. are like that.
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