Nostalgia thread for grown-ups. You can only post in this thread if you remember:
- Dialling a telephone - Busy signals - Waiting in line at the bank on payday - Usenet before AOL/WebTV and Eternal Autumn - 110 baud, 300 baud, or 1200 baud - Waiting for the TV set to warm up - Pong consoles - Smoking on buses, in the supermarket, at restaurants, and after every meal - "Who shot JR?" - Jean jackets with metal bands on the back - Leather fringe - "Avon calling!" - Where you were when Elvis died
How about it, am I the last grown-up on Sup Forums? Anyone else out there old enough to order a beer without being carded?
your definition of grown up seems to be 40+ op. that's fairly specific.
>also it was the eternal september you newfag
Dominic Jackson
>taking the bait
Gavin Garcia
I remember all that old shit. What about it?
Hudson Lewis
Go to bed, kids. This is the grown-up table.
Isaiah Butler
Wow, I'd forgotten about those. Do you remember the giant reverse directory on a chain they always had at the pharmacy too?
Noah Nelson
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Jayden Edwards
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Sebastian Thomas
Ah, the good ol' days.
Mason Cruz
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Jack Brooks
For Houston fags. If this fucker marched into your place of business with a microphone, you done fucked up.
Joseph Murphy
was 12 when elvis died. Immediately call Mom's office, talk mundane shit, casually as afterthought work in Elvis news. Mom repeats my words with a question mark. Office behind her hears and office hens explode into greifgasm.
Colton Carter
What's a baud Does that coin at the top say dog? That's gay lol
Brandon Ross
I loved those. Flicking them across the room is a joy kids today will never know. Do they have a 78 setting on modern turntables?
Jeremiah Cox
Or this guy.
Jayden Bell
that was for a 45. 78 had a small hole like an LP
Adrian Wilson
You guys are fags
Jordan Cruz
I know. It just made me wonder whether there's still a 78 setting on modern stereos. They were phasing them out even when I was young. Not every turntable had them.
Ryan Russell
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David Walker
Was 7 when Elvis died. Heard it laying in the neighbors hammok.
I would add:
>getting an Atari >first digital porn on 300 baud (playboy scan) >smoking on fucking planes >having a student smoking area in high school >where's the beef >Simon & Simon >beating Dragon's Lair in the arcade
>smoking on planes lol are you grey hair? What about smoking in hospitals?
Cameron Howard
this little faggot
David Campbell
life was a lot more enjoyable before cellphones
Julian Johnson
>porn on 300 baud I remember downloading 4-colour CGA GIFs of Samantha Fox by Kermit and feeling like I was living in the future.
William Harris
this was the shit
Joseph Ward
Oh man, I wanted one so badly, but my parents bought me the Six Million Dollar Man instead, the one where you could look through his eye.
Caleb Morris
I can vouch for that
Christian Long
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Ayden Mitchell
Wacky Packages
Xavier Moore
hivemind
Sebastian Ramirez
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Leo Martinez
Fuckin magapedes
Aiden Clark
Dam OP I'm 40 and some of this shit outdates me
Brandon Adams
Sup Forumstards, 100% retard.
Adam Bailey
fuck off back to Sup Forums, dipshit faggot.
Anthony Gray
going to summer camp
Cameron Butler
i was 3 when elvis died.
Ryder Richardson
>smoking on fucking planes I miss the days when you could smoke almost anywhere: movie theatres, buses and taxis, stores, arcades, everywhere. They recently banned smoking here even on outdoor patios, in public parks, near bus stops, or on beaches. I was sitting smoking my pipe on the sidewalk recently near a park when some some fucking soccer mom marched a half block down and told me I shouldn't be smoking because there are CHILDREN nearby, like my smoke was going to drag little Timmy into the bushes and touch him in the bad place.
Hudson Cook
the op must be 50+ going on 60 if he remembers when elvis died
Logan Cox
mmmmmm! the smell of burning dead shitzis! dead, failed, defeated shitzis!
Aiden Young
my wheelz
Austin White
ha ha, dead pussy faggots! what fucking pussies!
LMAO
Sebastian Hill
i was on the shitter when the king died so was he
Lucas Long
My wheelz.
Carson Sanchez
never had to wait for the TV to warm up, but I remember having to search for the channels manually with a little dial. I remember my dad bought a VCR and we were like kings of the world, but we spent a lot of time searching the channel before it could work, then he bought me an atari VCS
Lucas Parker
when did Elvis die?
Robert Turner
retard detected
Camden Rodriguez
you weren't the brightest student in math class i take it?
David Morris
1982 fag here... Was on the tail end of all that shit
Robert Jackson
Slime in the ice machine
Nicholas Cox
Fuck Yeah, we called that a Mustang
Brayden Morales
>VCR Our family was always on the wrong side of history. First we had Betamax, then we switched to Laser Disc. We got an Intellivision instead of a 2600, and my first computer was a Coleco Adam instead of a VIC-20 or a C=64. And my father had a reel-to-reel because he felt it would replace the tape cassette.
Grayson Jenkins
When I was young I only knew Elvis because I always watched his movies. I had no idea he was a singer until I got a bit older. I'm also black.
Charles Walker
Murdered just now across the street... I'm watching the detectives
Brody Lewis
This Bicentennial moment was brought to you by Snickers- the official candybar of the Bicentennial.
Brody Carter
my smart tv warms up now,cant launch apps for like a min and half so fucking annoying
Adrian Jackson
If you remember Elvis, then you ought to remember not having to dial your phone.
Zachary Gonzalez
I'm 45 and I never cared about elvis, I was 5 when he died
Julian Taylor
Ordering stuff out of the Sears catalog They had a smaller specialized catalog for almost any department. My favorite one to browse through as a kid was the offroad and RV ones.
Ryan Morris
Quints young fag
Ryan Cooper
FAPPING to stuff in the Sears catalog.
Dylan Phillips
party line anyone? one ring or two? mine was 2 rings
Jaxson Kelly
Holy shit dude, nice quints
Lincoln Clark
Shotgun modems baby
Asher Hughes
>FAPPING to stuff in the Sears catalog. when the sears catalog was the only source of porn easily available.
Lincoln Rodriguez
Lol your family were hipsters almost 40 yrs ago
Austin Gonzalez
Indeed.
Easton Bell
Odd/even gas days... late 1970s. The streets were empty and belonged to us skateboarders...back when a skateboard was just something to have fun on and not an entire culture.
Gabriel Ross
Ordering specific Lego blocks from the back of the instructions... Raped my parents for hundreds because I "needed them"
Matthew Carter
I remember when these were thick as phone books
Michael Richardson
we used it for asswipe in the outhouse you got to wrinkle it up and roll it to make the glossy worth a wipe!
Luis Foster
Does anyone remember this thing?
Henry Fisher
Racist
Jaxon Rogers
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Ryan Nelson
Oh christ, do you remember pay toilets and having to wipe your ass with little squares of slick, waxed paper that just slid the shit around?
Justin Richardson
Eurofag detected
Charles Williams
Speaking of Sears catalogs... anyone remember "The man on 602"?
Adrian Hernandez
My high school had a smoking section
Carter Foster
I remember them in a western NY Woolworths...circa early 1970s. Not the wax paper though. That just sounds weird.
Ryan Diaz
Super Slider Snow Skates Quadruple the alliteration, quadruple the concussions
Christopher Fisher
This
Jaxon Phillips
Nope, modern turntables only have settings for 33 and 45
Brandon Murphy
Us, too... the "DSA" Designated Smoking Area.
Adrian Gonzalez
No, but I remember this...
Joshua Fisher
we didnt get out to the city much back then i do remember getting our first flush toilet lol
Alexander Gray
Fuck off millenial
Leo Bailey
Still got mine, with the action stunt van too.
William Moore
A lot of modern turntables do 78. Stanton st150 does. Comes with the spacer toi
Wyatt Nguyen
8 AA batteries. Soooo expensive. Even with your....
wait for it....
Radio Shack Battery of the Month Club card!
Adrian Hill
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Adam Gutierrez
remeber when galactica wasn't some pseudo-philosophical gay shit?
Hudson Gonzalez
Apparently this is coming to DVD soon
Jayden Barnes
what could possibly go wrong and will it really take 30 yrs to figure it out
Jose Morris
Shit, I forgot completely about that. And those shitty Radio Shack batteries that cost about 10% less and lasted about 25% as long.
Cameron Murphy
Learning how to repair TVs in high school vocational electronics class. > "I am your grandfather Luke"
Daniel Hughes
Mine had one of the first no smoking sections. >tfw the gradeschool teacher smoked 3 packs a day in class.
Jaxon Perry
already got it
Nolan Russell
And you could roll the skin up on his arm and see the fake electronics.