ktbi
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Saw this on a site and thought I'd share. I don't remember all of them, but there are memories there.Hope you enjoy.....Ron
Audio-Visual Entertainment [ol][*]Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.[*]Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.[*]Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.[*]The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.[*]Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.[*]Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.[*]High-speed dubbing.[*]8-track cartridges.[*]Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.[*]Betamax tapes.[*]MiniDisc.[*]Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.[*]Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)[*]Shortwave radio.[*]3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.[*]Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.[*]That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’ Photo credit: smin via flickr[/align]Computers and Videogaming[*]Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long[*]The scream of a modem connecting.[*]The buzz of a dot-matrix printer[*]5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.[*]Using jumpers to set IRQs.[*]DOS.[*]Terminals accessing the mainframe.[*]Screens being just green (or orange) on black.[*]Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.[*]Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.[*]Counting in kilobytes.[*]Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.[*]Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.[*]Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.[*]Joysticks.[*]Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.[*]Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.[*]Recording a song in a studio. Photo credit: ghbrett via flickr[/align]The Internet[*]NCSA Mosaic.[*]Finding out information from an encyclopedia.[*]Using a road atlas to get from A to B.[*]Doing bank business only when the bank is open.[*]Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.[*]Phone books and Yellow Pages.[*]Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.[*]Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.[*]Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.[*]Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.[*]Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.[*]Archie searches.[*]Gopher searches.[*]Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.[*]Privacy.[*]The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.[*]Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.[*]Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.[*]The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs[*]The time before PC networks.[*]When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch. Photo credit: Chris Devers via flickr[/align]Gadgets[*]Typewriters.[*]Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?[*]Sending that film away to be processed.[*]Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.[*]CB radios.[*]Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.[*]Rotary-dial telephones.[*]Answering machines.[*]Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart[*]Pay phones.[*]Phones with actual bells in them.[*]Fax machines.[*]Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
[/align]Everything Else[*]Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.[*]Remembering someone’s phone number.[*]Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.[*]Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.[*]Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.[*]LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.[*]Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.[*]Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.[*]Neat handwriting.[*]The days before the nanny state.[*]Starbuck being a man.[*]Han shoots first.[*]“Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.†But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.[*]Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.[*]Trig tables and log tables.[*]“Don’t know what a slide rule is for …â€[*]Finding books in a card catalog at the library.[*]Swimming pools with diving boards.[*]Hershey bars in silver wrappers.[*]Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger[*]A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).[*]Having to manually unlock a car door.[*]Writing a check.[*]Looking out the window during a long drive.[*]Roller skates, as opposed to blades.[*]Cash.[*]Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.[*]Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.[*]Omni Magazine[*]A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.[*]When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.[/ol]
Audio-Visual Entertainment [ol][*]Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.[*]Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds.[*]Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager.[*]The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel.[*]Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room.[*]Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.[*]High-speed dubbing.[*]8-track cartridges.[*]Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD.[*]Betamax tapes.[*]MiniDisc.[*]Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.[*]Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)[*]Shortwave radio.[*]3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.[*]Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one.[*]That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’ Photo credit: smin via flickr[/align]Computers and Videogaming[*]Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long[*]The scream of a modem connecting.[*]The buzz of a dot-matrix printer[*]5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.[*]Using jumpers to set IRQs.[*]DOS.[*]Terminals accessing the mainframe.[*]Screens being just green (or orange) on black.[*]Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.[*]Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they’ve all got a different ID.[*]Counting in kilobytes.[*]Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.[*]Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.[*]Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.[*]Joysticks.[*]Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.[*]Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.[*]Recording a song in a studio. Photo credit: ghbrett via flickr[/align]The Internet[*]NCSA Mosaic.[*]Finding out information from an encyclopedia.[*]Using a road atlas to get from A to B.[*]Doing bank business only when the bank is open.[*]Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.[*]Phone books and Yellow Pages.[*]Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.[*]Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.[*]Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.[*]Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.[*]Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.[*]Archie searches.[*]Gopher searches.[*]Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.[*]Privacy.[*]The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them.[*]Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.[*]Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.[*]The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs[*]The time before PC networks.[*]When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch. Photo credit: Chris Devers via flickr[/align]Gadgets[*]Typewriters.[*]Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?[*]Sending that film away to be processed.[*]Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.[*]CB radios.[*]Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.[*]Rotary-dial telephones.[*]Answering machines.[*]Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart[*]Pay phones.[*]Phones with actual bells in them.[*]Fax machines.[*]Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
[/align]Everything Else[*]Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.[*]Remembering someone’s phone number.[*]Not knowing who was calling you on the phone.[*]Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie.[*]Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.[*]LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.[*]Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater.[*]Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.[*]Neat handwriting.[*]The days before the nanny state.[*]Starbuck being a man.[*]Han shoots first.[*]“Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.†But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.[*]Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC.[*]Trig tables and log tables.[*]“Don’t know what a slide rule is for …â€[*]Finding books in a card catalog at the library.[*]Swimming pools with diving boards.[*]Hershey bars in silver wrappers.[*]Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil to break off the first finger[*]A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).[*]Having to manually unlock a car door.[*]Writing a check.[*]Looking out the window during a long drive.[*]Roller skates, as opposed to blades.[*]Cash.[*]Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet.[*]Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.[*]Omni Magazine[*]A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions.[*]When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same.[/ol]