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Tone Loc.

funky cold medina

bun-nuh-nuh chii-haa-haa

 

[Shins]

 

[NGAMER9]

Very interesting. The biggest celebrity thing was just sad, though.

And the video itself is painful to watch. It kills my eyes.

 

[Whimsical Phil]

The story of Bloody Mary was making the rounds at the elementary school that I was teaching at last year. The 4th/5th graders were spreading the story around, and it was really starting to scare the K-3 kids. It was getting to the point where some of the younger kids were afraid to go into the bathrooms (which was where Mary strikes, you see).

Eventually, the principal had to get on the school intercom to dispel the myth and warn the older kids to stop spreading the rumors.

 

[Dabookerman]

The story of Bloody Mary was making the rounds at the elementary school that I was teaching at last year. The 4th/5th graders were spreading the story around, and it was really starting to scare the K-3 kids. It was getting to the point where some of the younger kids were afraid to go into the bathrooms (which was where Mary strikes, you see).

Eventually, the principal had to get on the school intercom to dispel the myth and warn the older kids to stop spreading the rumors.

Do these kids know who Bloody Mary is?

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Do these kids know who Bloody Mary is?

Did any of us really know back when we first heard about it in elementary school?

 

[Nemo]

Christ is it something wrong with my computer? That video is so damn annoying, the pictures fade in, but then immediately flash away. Hurts my fucking eyes.

edit: Dog that walks on legs like a human and kills like a murderer :lol

OMG I'm still laughing about this :lol :lol

 

[dejay]

My 9 year old nephew has been into music for a while, mostly top 20. He didn't even know who Michael Jackson was until he died, now he's obsessed with him and does a pretty good moonwalk. Of course the media opened his eyes a little and listening to his mum's CD a few times hooked him.

Just goes to show how impressionable kids are to the media and how blind they can be to anything older than two months ago.

 

[RevoDS]

Let's start lobbying for classes on the History of the Internet in elementary school! Not knowing Napster and dial-up is unacceptable.

 

[whitehawk]

My 9 year old nephew has been into music for a while, mostly top 20. He didn't even know who Michael Jackson was until he died, now he's obsessed with him and does a pretty good moonwalk. Of course the media opened his eyes a little and listening to his mum's CD a few times hooked him.

Just goes to show how impressionable kids are to the media and how blind they can be to anything older than two months ago.

I really hate the media sometimes. I started 'listening to music' in grade 4-5 I suppose (maybe 3), which means that I pretty much knew MJ as some freak who bleached his skin, sleeps in an oxygen chamber and molests kids. I knew his big hits (thriller, Billie Jean etc) but never really listened to him. It wasn't until he did that I decided to listen to all of his albums, and HOLY SHIT. He is amazing. Some of my favourite MJ songs weren't singles. I'm still listening to him non-stop since this summer.

Sure, Lady Gaga has some catchy songs, but it's not even in the same league as Michael.

 

[McBacon]

Hit Me Baby One More Time - isn't that from Robots?

:lol

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

:lol
"Being green is to use the four Rs: Reuse, umm....and I forgot the other two."

 

[wenis]

yeah i feel old now...

 

[McBacon]

 

[speedpop]

I AM SO OLD. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.

 

[Rlan]

Saying "I was born...2000" sounds SO weird.

Just wait another nine years when people will say "I was born in 2010".

I'm with the Giant Bomb crew on this one - 2010 sounds like the future. It sounds like I should have a flying car and living in the sky, 2010 sounds so far away but it's just less than a month :lol

 

[Android18a]

More than the answers, the start of the vid was crazy. What are people naming their kids these days??

 

[Mabase]

Hahaha!
"Britney Spears? Isn't that the girl who shaved her hair bald??"

Man I feel old.

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

I was 9 when this decade started. So scary.

 

[Stencil]

Damn... Napster... Glad to have been a part of that. Heh, napster and 56k, a one-two punch.

Holy hell. And I'm barely 20.

 

[Puck]

I'm 21 next year and I feel quite old now after watching that. I got used to seeing people born in the 1990's and thinking how young they are (like someones forum username or gametag ends with "91", whatever). Now it's so weird.

 

[Tristam]

Just wait another nine years when people will say "I was born in 2010".

I'm with the Giant Bomb crew on this one - 2010 sounds like the future. It sounds like I should have a flying car and living in the sky, 2010 sounds so far away but it's just less than a month :lol

This is how I remember people thinking about the year 2000. Like, after the Big Apple dropped then everyone would be living in disinfected biospheres.

 

[Dabookerman]

Did any of us really know back when we first heard about it in elementary school?

Queen Mary 1st?

I mean I'm from the UK, so I always assumed that. Plus that was her nickname as well.

People always mistook her for Mary Queen of Scots though.

 

[Fox the Sly]

Good stuff. :lol

 

[painey]

man i havent heard that dial up sound in so long.. i remember feeling like a genius when i worked out how to get my BT 56k to automatically re-dial after the 2hour cut off so i would be back online ASAP..

 

[Earthstrike]

Why not choose an age where the kids would have actually experience the decade somewhat. Choose the age where long term memory starts becoming significant. Say 13 years old probably would've been a better choice.

 

[shanshan310]

i think it would be really cool to do this every ten years or so and ask the same questions to 9 year olds. I'd like to see the differences.

I'm only 17 and its making ME feel old. But also kinda nostalgic. Britney Spears was the first album i ever bought. *is ashamed*
When i was nine i was saving up for Pokemon Crystal, and these kids have psps and ipods. My god, and they don't even realise how lucky they are. Today my kid brother was throwing a tantrum because he wanted an iphone. Apparently all his friends have them... What on earth do primary school kids want with an iphone?!

 

[industrian]

Recording songs onto my cassette from the radio and playing them on my shitty walkman. Good times.

I put my cassette recorder next to my TV and recorded the entire Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack using the sound test. Those were the days.

 

[jamesinclair]

I sure did, 1987 is me..

Audio Galaxy anyone?

That shit was awesome.

WinMX anyone?

"I download music to my psp, ipod, or my phone"

goddamn. Digital age indeed. When I was 9, I was still impressed by my cassette walkman and the old-school gameboy.

Back in my day, we stuck a single compressed song on a floppy disk and listened to it on repeat, and we loved it!

So I got this ad when I was watching the video:

WTF?

:lol

 

[eLGee]

Back in my day, we stuck a single compressed song on a floppy disk and listened to it on repeat, and we loved it!

My brother had done the same to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWb7r_v40k
on a Amiga. Not the full song, if I remember correctly it was just the first verse and the refrain.

 

[OMG Aero]

Oh God, it's terrifying to hear someone say they were born in the year 2000.

 

[DrEvil]

I hail from 1985 and this video made me feel old

The dialup and napster stuff is insane too, even to think that it was in the 00's really blurs the 'internet history' over the last ten years...

To think, the web went from napster to twitter in less than ten years, it's an insane evolution of what I first logged onto in '94

 

[Concept17]

I hail from 1985 and this video made me feel old

The dialup and napster stuff is insane too, even to think that it was in the 00's really blurs the 'internet history' over the last ten years...

To think, the web went from napster to twitter in less than ten years, it's an insane evolution of what I first logged onto in '94

'85 here too. Fuck we're old. Guess we had a good run...

 

[-PXG-]

I turn 21 in two weeks. I feel so fucking old right now.

 

[RiskyChris]

This video gives me a wicked headache.

 

[soul creator]

I put my cassette recorder next to my TV and recorded the entire Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack using the sound test. Those were the days.

I thought I was the only one who did that :lol

Also, you know you're old when you actually remember games having "sound tests"

 

[Zeliard]

These damn threads make me feel old at the ripe age of 25.

 

[whitehawk]

I thought I was the only one who did that :lol

Also, you know you're old when you actually remember games having "sound tests"

Smash Bros Brawl has a sound test.

 

[Zoramon089]

I remember when Real Player was the shit and it was my first experience with streaming internet video. It was incredible

I never had a tape recorder but I did have a TalkBoy which I got for Christmas after seeing Home Alone and which I used to record stuff. I would always get pissed if I accidentally taped over the end of a previous song if I didn't stop it in the right place

 

[Count Dookkake]

Ha ha. Now you are all old!

 

[Dachande]

Another from '85 here. I remember using Napster here in the UK after being shown it by my uncle and how hard it was to get full albums that were all the same quality, or finding songs that weren't cut short or anything. Also used to get songs for my friends at school - friends used to come round to my house, and I'd download loads of songs for them and burn them to CD. It was definitely relatively popular in Europe, or at least in the UK. I was the only geeky tech-kid around who used it regularly though.

 

[SpeedySwaf]

I was born in '86. Never got into Napster, but I remember having dial up and listening to those sounds every time I got online. Also remember how we had to sign off every time we wanted to use the phone or wait for a call.

 

[POWERSPHERE]

"But mum told me that bloody mary is just a drink"

Go mum!

 

[POWERSPHERE]

I AM SO OLD. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.

You've got the disease of not dying.

 

[NekoFever]

God that video makes me feel old. This whole decade is still so vivid to me, and it's strange that there are such developed individuals who have never existed outside the 21st Century.

Remember when MS took heat for not allowing Dial-up with XBL? Yeah, they had these kids in mind.

I was talking about this with someone yesterday. I wonder how many of those people are the same ones saying that digital distribution will never take off because connections can't handle it.

 

[G-Bus]

:lol The dial up sound. That brings back some memories.

 

[industrian]

I turn 21 in two weeks. I feel so fucking old right now.

Fuck you, I just turned 25 on Friday. >:|

:lol The dial up sound. That brings back some memories.

I remember having my mind blown when someone told me you could turn the noise off. Shit son, that made my 3am porn browsing a lot easier.

 

[cashman]

these little fuckers are downloading music and shit, and internet at 2 years old?? shit I was only born in 93 and that shit made me feel kinda old.

 

[Forceatowulf]

Holy shit they don't know what dial-up sounds like?! You spoiled little fuckers... you truly know not the cruelty of the world...........

And holy crap@ that kid who was talking about Downloading music and videos to his PSP and Iphone. Remember when Walkman/Gameboy was considered pretty badass high tech? Shit is a joke.

 

[BocoDragon]

Well the cycle of pain will continue.. In 2020 these same kids will gasp as people ask 9 year olds what McDonalds is... How could they know? They grew up in the era after the Franchise Wars destroyed all but Taco Bell, leaving it alone as the last remaining restaurant...