The nostalgia thread.
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CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
Watched My Favorite Martian which was a childhood favorite. It was really bad... I miss Walter Cronkite. I wonder what he would make of the news these days. First step on the moon, my father brought my brother and I out of our rooms to the TV to watch. When I went into the army I stored all my wargames in the attic. When I got back everything up there was gone. My mother had my stepfather clean everything out up there. Garbage... I remember tube testers in every 7-11, and TVs which liked to roll the picture. You also had to play with the rabbit ears to get a picture. My mother told me the world was much simpler when she was young, I can say the same. During the depression she worked at a White Castle Hamburger shop. She made tomato soup out of the ketchup. During WW2 she built bombers. Smoking didn't hurt you, the Marlboro man was still alive, the NFL was formed from the AFC and NFC. Joe Namath was a hero and Heidi much maligned. Someone at the network flipped a switch during an incredible game on the proverbial 9 yard line or some such and next thing the game was gone and we were watching a musical, Heidi. The Empire State Building was the tallest in New York, the Twin Towers were building however and everyone hated them. Two large boxes marring the New York skyline. When they finished them my family went up to the observation deck and had a wonderful downward night view of the Chrysler Building, all lit up. Now that's a building. Our Chevrolet car had wings as did the future.
IAM
Emperor
I miss the Soviet Union.
Perfection
The Great Head.
I miss amniotic fluid
IAM
Emperor
I could hold you underwater in a bathtub full of jello if that would help.
edit: men spend one day of their life getting out and the rest of their lives trying to get back in one.
Perfection
The Great Head.
Just not the same
Those crazy nights, I do remember in my youth
I do recall those were the best times, most of all
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin' love comes once in a lifetime
She found me singing by the rail road track
Took me home, we danced by moonlight
Those summer nights are callin', stone in love
Can't help myself, I'm fallin', stone in love
Old dusty roads, led to the river, runnin' slow
She pulled me down, ooh, and in clover we'd go 'round
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin' love comes once in a lifetime
Oh, the memories never fade away
Golden girl, I'll keep you forever
Those summer nights are callin', stone in love
Can't help myself, I'm fallin', stone in love
I do recall those were the best times, most of all
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin' love comes once in a lifetime
She found me singing by the rail road track
Took me home, we danced by moonlight
Those summer nights are callin', stone in love
Can't help myself, I'm fallin', stone in love
Old dusty roads, led to the river, runnin' slow
She pulled me down, ooh, and in clover we'd go 'round
In the heat with a blue jean girl
Burnin' love comes once in a lifetime
Oh, the memories never fade away
Golden girl, I'll keep you forever
Those summer nights are callin', stone in love
Can't help myself, I'm fallin', stone in love
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Twisted Sister ?
Ps. Why don't You tell everyone what do You want to do with Your life ....
Ps.2 I knew it was Journey , just tesing Yah ! hahaha ! xD
Ps. Why don't You tell everyone what do You want to do with Your life ....
Ps.2 I knew it was Journey , just tesing Yah ! hahaha ! xD
I wasn't raised in the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or Arkansas where that sort of thing is encouraged.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
Remember when you didn't carry a phone around with you, and in a pinch you needed a dime for the nearest payphone? 
And you had to trudge uphill through ten feet of snow to change the tv to one of the other 2 channels?
Perfection
The Great Head.
I miss Fifty
Tahuti
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I miss the 1990s. Fortunately, you can still listen to its music and play its video games, among other things.
Link to video.
Link to video.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Music can evoke nostalgia for me, and powerfully so.
Including new music I just recently picked up.
I like this thread. Nostalgia is an interesting emotion for me, related to bittersweetness, and something I've been trying to explore since at least middle school or early high school, if my records are right.
A year ago I used to teach a few of my (second) cousins piano. There were four of them, ranging in age from 4-12 (I think). The oldest one didn't make me feel too old, partly because she wasn't acting like a silly little kid like the other ones. The other ones... oh yes. Seeing them play on their parents' tablets and phones... ha! I remember when I was their age, going on the computer for ten minutes was a rare and extraordinary activity! Actually when I was talking about kids using technology with another parent whose kids I also used to teach piano, she was a bit surprised at how strict my parents were with technology for me - but I suppose that was because this was during the 90s when it was just new so parents were understandably more strict. Well, then again my parents were pretty strict anyways, though in high school their strictness - at least with regards to computers - suddenly evaporated for me mysteriously.
Anyhow, I'm still glad to see my cousins watching spongebob and playing with legos. Things haven't changed that much. But the fact that I'm more likely to have a decent conversation with their parents rather than the kids themselves makes me old.
Including new music I just recently picked up.
I like this thread. Nostalgia is an interesting emotion for me, related to bittersweetness, and something I've been trying to explore since at least middle school or early high school, if my records are right.
A year ago I used to teach a few of my (second) cousins piano. There were four of them, ranging in age from 4-12 (I think). The oldest one didn't make me feel too old, partly because she wasn't acting like a silly little kid like the other ones. The other ones... oh yes. Seeing them play on their parents' tablets and phones... ha! I remember when I was their age, going on the computer for ten minutes was a rare and extraordinary activity! Actually when I was talking about kids using technology with another parent whose kids I also used to teach piano, she was a bit surprised at how strict my parents were with technology for me - but I suppose that was because this was during the 90s when it was just new so parents were understandably more strict. Well, then again my parents were pretty strict anyways, though in high school their strictness - at least with regards to computers - suddenly evaporated for me mysteriously.
Anyhow, I'm still glad to see my cousins watching spongebob and playing with legos. Things haven't changed that much. But the fact that I'm more likely to have a decent conversation with their parents rather than the kids themselves makes me old.
In the late 80s there were a number of one-game pocket electronic devices. I had a few of them (three iirc).
Octopus was the one i played the most, although not the more advanced for its time:
I suppose the most popular of the lot was the Mario game (the original Mario, by Nintendo, was a handheld with this sort of light-effect-based images. Basically the screen had already all of the inked images on it, but they would only be lit when you moved to their position).
Octopus was the one i played the most, although not the more advanced for its time:
I suppose the most popular of the lot was the Mario game (the original Mario, by Nintendo, was a handheld with this sort of light-effect-based images. Basically the screen had already all of the inked images on it, but they would only be lit when you moved to their position).
