The nostalgia thread.

[cybrxkhan]

Link to video.

Watch it and feel old.

I just watched the entire darn thing, and do I feel old. And I mean I didn't even use cassettes and much because they were already going out of fashion by the time I was old enough to use them, I was already using those big clunky CD players (which I still preferred to use up until the late 2000s instead of more portable devices, even though my dad made fun of me for being so old fashioned).

The fact that the older kids (and I suppose the younger ones who were sharper?) had different reactions compared to the younger kids (i.e. it appears the older ones were able to sort of figure it out more easily than the younger ones, but still had difficulty) makes me feel even older. And I mean I'm not that old compared to some of you folks here...

 

[IAM]

Anyone own a vehicle that only had an AM radio or got one of those newfangled 8 tracks?

8 tracks in case someone doesn't know what they are. https://www.google.com/search?q=8+t...i4DABg&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=759

 

[IglooDame]

Anyone own a vehicle that only had an AM radio or got one of those newfangled 8 tracks?

Own, no, but remember riding in my parents' car with only AM? Yep. And my mom driving around looking for 58cents/gallon gas, because she didn't want to pay 59cents/gallon.

 

[Kyriakos]

The era of the Discman (early 90s) was also distinctive:

I used to own one of those. It was my only needed device for music-playing, so even took it to London with me to play CD's in.

Regular cassette players obviously would not allow you to start the next track automatically, so the cd-tech was quite usefull at first.
Now it is another relic of the past.

 

[Kyriakos]

I miss coming home from school and watching this.

The "pot is bad" episode appears to have had no impact on me whatsoever.

It was obviously a very popular show at the time. Afaik only the black-haired white girl was in any other known show later on (and ironically in the antagonistic one, BH 90210).

Screetch, well, was into something too, but i'd rather not look into it :\

Btw, was the other white girl in that Stripers (edit: it appears its name was Showgirls) movie? I think she was (or someone who looked a lot like her).

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The first portable music player that I owned was a Mini-Disc player. I got it for Christmas one year with a collection of Mini-Discs. This was just before mp3 players started to became popular.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Watch it and feel old.

So kids can't figure out how to release a catch, or even figure out that something goes in the thing? What do they think "eject" means?

My Walkman saved my sanity when I spent 5 weeks in the hospital many years ago. I asked my dad to bring it, some extra batteries, and my music tapes.

Those "kids react" videos are awesome. I loved the one where they asked kids how you could text on a rotary phone.

Some adults are like that, too, if they haven't encountered the older/different tech before. A friend once asked me how I could possibly save anything if I only had an Amiga 500 and no internet connection.

She finally got it when I explained that the information was saved to plastic disks, which were put in/removed from the disk drive... kinda like VHS tapes in a VCR.

Anyone own a vehicle that only had an AM radio or got one of those newfangled 8 tracks?

8 tracks in case someone doesn't know what they are. https://www.google.com/search?q=8+t...i4DABg&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=759

I still have an 8-track recording of one of William Shatner's Star Trek appearances. Mind you, I don't have anything to play it on anymore...


You can still buy a Discman. London Drugs sells them. The Staples website advertises them, but try going into a store and asking for them? When I did that last year, the salesclerk looked at me blankly, then snottily told me, "They haven't made those in YEARS. You have to go to a pawn shop." She had no answer when I asked, "Then why did I see a couple of models advertised on your website YESTERDAY?"

So I informed her she'd just lost a sale (I do not accept attitude like that from store employees; she could have just said politely that she didn't know, and asked a manager to help me). Then I ordered from London Drugs (a bit more expensive, but without the snotty attitude). The next day I called the Staples manager and told him that one of his employees needed a bit of a refresher in customer service.

 

[Commodore]

Oooo, oooo, oooo, I know this one! You use the pen to wind the tape back into the cassette when your cassette player invariably "eats" the tape.

 

[Commodore]

It was obviously a very popular show at the time. Afaik only the black-haired white girl was in any other known show later on (and ironically in the antagonistic one, BH 90210).

Screetch, well, was into something too, but i'd rather not look into it :\

Btw, was the other white girl in that Stripers (edit: it appears its name was Showgirls) movie? I think she was (or someone who looked a lot like her).

Mark Paul Gossler (the blond white dude) has been pretty active recently; nothing major but still active. And you are correct, Elizabeth Berkley (the other white girl) was in 'Showgirls'. It was here attempt to show how grown up she was and distance herself from her character on 'Saved By The Bell', but it just ended up ruining her career.

 

[timtofly]

Anyone own a vehicle that only had an AM radio or got one of those newfangled 8 tracks?

I started out with a transitor AM portable radio. Then came FM. Next the Walkman cassette player. Then the Walkman DVD. My last portable was a SanDisk MP3

 

[Zack]

I sure am nostalgic for when technology was objectively worse. Those were the days!

 

[Farm Boy]

Actually, I do rather miss the total lack of expectation that you would be accessible by telephone 24/7 while you were out. You could actually do something and focus on it rather than the "whole world" being in your pocket all the time. Even if that's objectively worse.

 

[Zack]

Actually, I do rather miss the total lack of expectation that you would be accessible by telephone 24/7 while you were out. You could actually do something and focus on it rather than the "whole world" being in your pocket all the time. Even if that's objectively worse.

I was poking fun at the people in the thread saying, "remember cassette tapes and VHS?"

 

[Farm Boy]

I still use those things? VHS is a little crappier than a DVD in standard use, but I can take apart and splice a VHS tape that breaks with a screwdriver, scissors, and scotch tape and it works again. A scratched DVD is useless.

 

[shadowplay]

Mark Paul Gossler (the blond white dude) has been pretty active recently; nothing major but still active. And you are correct, Elizabeth Berkley (the other white girl) was in 'Showgirls'. It was here attempt to show how grown up she was and distance herself from her character on 'Saved By The Bell', but it just ended up ruining her career.

Lark Voorhies, the actress who played Lisa, has done creepy things to her appearance. She seems to have serious issues with her self-image.

 

[Commodore]

Lark Voorhies, the actress who played Lisa, has done creepy things to her appearance. She seems to have serious issues with her self-image.

I know right? I used to think she was actually the prettiest out of the three main girls on the show, but now she is just scary looking.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Some months ago there was an article on yahoo about 'Principal Belding" going into WWF. But, of course, he was just playing a judge there. And he is twice as fat now.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Actually, I do rather miss the total lack of expectation that you would be accessible by telephone 24/7 while you were out. You could actually do something and focus on it rather than the "whole world" being in your pocket all the time. Even if that's objectively worse.

A lot of people in my offline life can't wrap their minds around the fact that I don't own a cell phone and my landline doesn't have an answering machine/service. It's a lot easier and faster to reach me by email than by phone, since that way there actually is a message I can reply to.

I still use those things? VHS is a little crappier than a DVD in standard use, but I can take apart and splice a VHS tape that breaks with a screwdriver, scissors, and scotch tape and it works again. A scratched DVD is useless.

You can always use them for an art project.

 

[CavLancer]

Incredible...

https://www.youtube.com/v/J55S38xwxnQ

 

[JollyRoger]

Letterman's NBC show (before CBS and the new timeslot ruined his edge)


Link to video.