Nostalgia thread for grown-ups. You can only post in this thread if you remember:

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?

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your definition of grown up seems to be 40+ op. that's fairly specific.

>also it was the eternal september you newfag

>taking the bait

I remember all that old shit. What about it?

Go to bed, kids. This is the grown-up table.

Wow, I'd forgotten about those. Do you remember the giant reverse directory on a chain they always had at the pharmacy too?

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Ah, the good ol' days.

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For Houston fags. If this fucker marched into your place of business with a microphone, you done fucked up.

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.

What's a baud
Does that coin at the top say dog? That's gay lol

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?

Or this guy.

that was for a 45. 78 had a small hole like an LP

You guys are fags

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.

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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

Fuck man. Just had an Erector Set flashback...

youtube.com/watch?v=QAC3nYraKpM

>smoking on planes
lol are you grey hair?
What about smoking in hospitals?

this little faggot

life was a lot more enjoyable before cellphones

>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.

this was the shit

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.

I can vouch for that

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Wacky Packages

hivemind

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Fuckin magapedes

Dam OP I'm 40 and some of this shit outdates me

Sup Forumstards, 100% retard.

fuck off back to Sup Forums, dipshit faggot.

going to summer camp

i was 3 when elvis died.

>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.

the op must be 50+ going on 60 if he remembers when elvis died

mmmmmm! the smell of burning dead shitzis! dead, failed, defeated shitzis!

my wheelz

ha ha, dead pussy faggots! what fucking pussies!

LMAO

i was on the shitter when the king died
so was he

My wheelz.

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

when did Elvis die?

retard detected

you weren't the brightest student in math class i take it?

1982 fag here... Was on the tail end of all that shit

Slime in the ice machine

Fuck Yeah, we called that a Mustang

>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.

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.

Murdered just now across the street...
I'm watching the detectives

This Bicentennial moment was brought to you by Snickers- the official candybar of the Bicentennial.

my smart tv warms up now,cant launch apps for like a min and half so fucking annoying

If you remember Elvis, then you ought to remember not having to dial your phone.

I'm 45 and I never cared about elvis, I was 5 when he died

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.

Quints young fag

FAPPING to stuff in the Sears catalog.

party line anyone?
one ring or two?
mine was 2 rings

Holy shit dude, nice quints

Shotgun modems baby

>FAPPING to stuff in the Sears catalog.
when the sears catalog was the only source of porn easily available.

Lol your family were hipsters almost 40 yrs ago

Indeed.

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.

Ordering specific Lego blocks from the back of the instructions... Raped my parents for hundreds because I "needed them"

I remember when these were thick as phone books

we used it for asswipe in the outhouse
you got to wrinkle it up and roll it to make the glossy worth a wipe!

Does anyone remember this thing?

Racist

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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?

Eurofag detected

Speaking of Sears catalogs... anyone remember "The man on 602"?

My high school had a smoking section

I remember them in a western NY Woolworths...circa early 1970s. Not the wax paper though. That just sounds weird.

Super Slider Snow Skates
Quadruple the alliteration,
quadruple the concussions

This

Nope, modern turntables only have settings for 33 and 45

Us, too... the "DSA" Designated Smoking Area.

No, but I remember this...

we didnt get out to the city much back then
i do remember getting our first flush toilet lol

Fuck off millenial

Still got mine, with the action stunt van too.

A lot of modern turntables do 78. Stanton st150 does. Comes with the spacer toi

8 AA batteries. Soooo expensive. Even with your....

wait for it....

Radio Shack Battery of the Month Club card!

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remeber when galactica wasn't some pseudo-philosophical gay shit?

Apparently this is coming to DVD soon

what could possibly go wrong and will it
really take 30 yrs to figure it out

Shit, I forgot completely about that. And those shitty Radio Shack batteries that cost about 10% less and lasted about 25% as long.

Learning how to repair TVs in high school vocational electronics class.
> "I am your grandfather Luke"

Mine had one of the first no smoking sections.
>tfw the gradeschool teacher smoked 3 packs a day in class.

already got it

And you could roll the skin up on his arm and see the fake electronics.