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[Edmond Dantès]

Teletext.

 

[LProtag]

Yeah, as has been said before, there will be different things to be nostalgic about.

I'm sure our parents though the things we thought were nostalgic were rubbish and we would never look back fondly on them, or they thought there couldn't be anything newer than what was out there.

There's going to be some crazy new technology that the new generation will have that we can't even conceive of yet, and the 'simple' days of iPhones and the such will be nostalgic to them.

 

[Deeas]

Well.. I don't know if it will be missed or not.. But Pogs.. Always loved played pogs when it became popular..

 

[kruis]

I don't think anyone who didn't grow up in the eighties would be able to understand these cryptic names: cassette tapes with labels like I Ferro, II Chrome or III Metal.

TDK for ever. I hated the cheap regular cassette tapes (and I never could afford the metal kind).

Or what about computer games on tape?

 

[besada]

I was telling some kids about a thing that happened to me in the past and mentioned that I couldn't afford a long distance call, and they looked at me bewildered. I had to explain to them that it once cost more money to call people who weren't geographically close to you. They couldn't understand it.

 

[industrian]

Teletext.

Ok, this got me.

 

[Hilbert]

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.

My dad has dial up out out in the woods. We were trying to look up something on google maps and I just about pulled my hair out.

 

[Snkfanatic]

This is awesome

 

[friskykillface]

I really miss arcades those were so much fun

 

[Frost_Ace]

megaupload

 

[Emitan]

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.

I never had any of these issues when listening to music. What a spoiled childhood I had!

 

[weekend_warrior]

Kids today have no idea what the "64" in Super Mario 64 DS is for.

 

[The Lamonster]

Kids today have no idea what the "64" in Super Mario 64 DS is for.

and they could probably give 64 fucks

 

[Koodo]

My parents had vinyls when I was a kid. Used to have a blast rolling them on the floor. :lol

Strangely, they didn't have a record player so I never did the whole process of playing them.

 

[Borgnine]

My dad has dial up out out in the woods. We were trying to look up something on google maps and I just about pulled my hair out.

Should have used MAPQUEST bro. Oh that's another one: Thompson Guides. Let's see the street I'm looking for is on page 193 grid section A7.... ah there it is, let me follow it down to the edge of the page. For next map see page 237 fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[revolverjgw]

Finding porn in the woods

 

[The Incarnation]

Memory recall.


Google creates a bad habit of the mind.

 

[Hilbert]

Should have used MAPQUEST bro.

Ha, I haven't used mapquest in forever. Did recently look up altavista though.

I am 32 this year, and I used to listen to a lot of records as a kid. Kind of surprised there are people my age that didn't have them. We had a whole big collection of sesame street and disney records, and I used to have a ton of classical music on records.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Although, to be fair, I barely remember that one. Those things were hot for like a week.

 

[joeyjoejoeshabadoo]

Although, to be fair, I barely remember that one. Those things were hot for like a week.

We need to go older.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Finding porn in the woods

Or a bush! I found a garbage bag full of porno in a bush when I was in 5i5th grade.

 

[ascii42]

pushbutton transmission

Something that hasn't existed since, what, the 60's? Though actually it may make a comeback.

 

[ReBurn]

• Home ownership
• Retirement

 

[DrFunk]

DOOM

 

[malingenie]

 

[flyover]

- being able to stay alone for some time without someone searching you (leave you phone at home and your gf will complain)

Yeah, two related things are fading from modern existence (for both adults and kids): boredom and isolation. I think both are essential, too. Boredom breeds creativity, and isolation increases creative productivity.

I'm with the OP on bookstores, too. I'm afraid they (and libraries as we know them) will become rarer over time -- though they won't go away entirely. One of the first things I do when I go on vacation to a new city is seek out the best used bookstores.

 

[Anticitizen One]

 

[jmdajr]

I'm afraid I won't be able to game when I'm old because of arthritis

 

[lil smoke]

haha I always felt these were TOO clean compared to the hissy old basic cassettes. I still have a lot of these still in wrapping. I still listen to old cassettes, as some of the music I listen to was only recorded to tape at that time, and it still sounds just how I like it!

 

[deadhorse32]

MUSICVISION PHOENIX http://vimeo.com/6943466 Just guy listening to LP and talking

 

[Woz]

Finding porn in the woods

AHAHAH! Good times!

 

[Harry Dresden]

 

[Particle Physicist]

Rewind. Particularly, threading the pencil through the reel and then (holding the pencil) twirl rapidly in a small circular motion.

Older tape players would also sometimes pull out the reel for some reason, so the pencil also came in handy for fixing that.

 

[industrian]

I'm afraid I won't be able to game when I'm old because of arthritis

Don't worry. You'll have Kinect.

Spoiler

 

[Einchy]

When I was 8 years old I found 2-3 boxes full of records. I spent the next couple of months playing frisbee with all of them till I broke them.

I wish I could time travel sometimes...

 

[industrian]

• Home ownership
• Retirement

You forgot: Owning games/music/video instead of just having a protracted rental period.

 

[okdakor]

Precisely. The tape deck was already otherwise occupied.

We also did it to save battery life on the walkman...

 

[HylianTom]

Yeah, two related things are fading from modern existence (for both adults and kids): boredom and isolation. I think both are essential, too. Boredom breeds creativity, and isolation increases creative productivity.

I think this outweighs everything in the thread. The idea of always being accessible is nauseating to me, and friends & family always take offense when I don't take some form of communication device with me.

 

[IceCold]

 

[Particle Physicist]

I think this outweighs everything in the thread. The idea of always being accessible is nauseating to me, and friends & family always take offense when I don't take some form of communication device with me.

I resisted buying a cellphone for the longest time because of this.

 

[HylianTom]

I resisted buying a cellphone for the longest time because of this.

Same here. I finally got one in 2007 (at parental & work insistence), and I still hate it. If I could go back in time and limit cellular communication technology to the "heavy-cord-attached-to-cinder-block-sized-case" level, I would do so without hesitation.

 

[okdakor]

Between the theater release and the VHS release, you could have the story, narrated by a very famous tv-host, with samples from the movie, on a 45rpm vinyl. The cover was also a book with the story illustrated... you turned the page when the litlle bell rang. And you had the main title too.

 

[mt1200]

Great 90's cartoons / animes

Recording porn in your VHS

 

[Seep]

Getting off your arse to turn the channel on the T.V. over.

Damn I'm old.

 

[CassSept]

this generation doesnt even have nostalgia. Whats there to get nostalgic about? shitty cartoons and call of duty?

That's what we think. I once mentioned Power Rangers around my mom and she replied something along the lines of "Oh yeah, THAT", with negative collocation and all. Yet for my generation this thing is one of earliest and most precious memories of our childhood that nearly everyone can relate to. Next generations will surely find something they can relate too, as ridiculous as it will sound to us. We're just getting old, sigh.

Or a bush! I found a garbage bag full of porno in a bush when I was in 5i5th grade.

Along with a couple of my buddies we once found a dead mauled cat in a trash bag. I never went back to that place. Never will.

 

[cajunator]

How about the simple joy you get of opening a physical boxed cd/video game/dvd etc.

Everything seems to be going digital now.

Goddamnit this.
LEAVE MY PHYSICAL COPIES ALONE AND GET OFF MY FUCKING LAWN.