Remember When?

What makes me laugh is when Manchester, a city in the middle of England, calls itself 'northern'. You aren't really in the North until you leave civilization, and are in the unknown, haunted lands of Durham and Northumberland.

 

Remember when every Radio Shack, and even some drugstores, had tube tester stations? You' look up the part number of the (radio/vacuum) tube on the chart, plug the tube in the indicated socket, set a couple selector knobs, wait half a minute for the tube to heat up, then press the test button. If the needle moved into the green, the tube was good. Otherwise, you'd open the cabinet underneath and pick our the boxed replacement, if it was in stock.

 

My sister gave me one! Far too big to ever wear though. I have no idea where it is now...

Remember when tamagotchi was the coolest must-have?

 

Remember when drinks cans were made from steel, and the ring-pulls came off?

 

Not long before that, there were no pull tabs.

 

Jamming out to Tubthumping on the way up to state volleyball with the pep band.

Watching the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS.

Big Legos before they became Duplo...before there were pink Legos, they were just green, blue, yellow, and red.

M&M's when they were tan, dark brown, green, yellow, red, and orange. There was no blue in those days.

 

Singing along to the Cranberries and Savage Garden on the radio while doing Saturday morning chores before swim team.

 

I was walking down the street in Victoria, BC, when two young girls (maybe 14 to 15 years old) came along. They asked me what time it was. I didn't say anything; I just showed them my watch. They turned a bit red and said, "I can't read that! What does it say?"

Never before have I met anybody who can't tell time from an analog clock. This happened in the early 90s - there's no excuse.

Remember when EVERYBODY could tell time?

 

*dies* (Q=Q)

 

Remember when college graduates weren't expected to intern for no pay for almost a year for just a chance at a full-time job afterward?

 

Remember when college graduates were expected to construct complete, correctly spelled and punctuated sentences with no assistance other than a good dictionary?

 

Nerd alert!: Remember when the first wave of Bionicle came out and life was good?

 

Remember when Harry Potter was everywhere?
Remember when the Hunger Games was everywhere? Those were the days man......

 

With the first one, those were the bad days of darkness and misery, and when the Potter-Twilight war started no one won, because both sides were wrong. And then Stephen King came down on one said, saying Twilight was rubbish and Potter was brilliant, in which my laughing was so loud the shockwave circled the earth at least 4 times - like the Tzar Bomba. It was a dark time, a very dark time.

When Hunger Games was everywhere it was thankfully much happier times, and it was much less annoying as a fan.

 

Remember when movies like Braveheart and Last of the Mohicans were still being made?


WOAH NO WAY THOSE GUYS ARE WAY TOO OLD, TOO MASCULINE, AND NO CGI. PLUS THE SETTING IS HISTORICAL AND THAT'S BAD. WE ALSO HATE GOOD SOUNDTRACKS TODAY.

 

God I remember the film Braveheart. What a great big, steaming pile of cow dung.

 

Remember when you were twelve and thought that 1982 was totally, 100%, like a whole universe different than 1979? And then decades later you looked back and realized they were almost identical.

 

But 1982 was closer to 1984 - and there was a point here but I've forgot it.

 

For the 1st Gen Computer kids...

Remember when you would painstakingly hand-type programs (we called them programs back in the day) out of computer magazines in Atari/Apple/Commodore/Tandy Basic?

 

Like the cards that if you dropped, your life was over?

 

Not quite that old. Program cards never made it to the first gen of mass marketed home computers... that I am aware of. One has to be careful of such statements. There's always some nerd who needs to outnerd you with their example of how epically wrong you are. The programming code was printed, hardcopy, in magazines like Compute! and they usually had the same program written in Basic for several different computer platforms. You would type the code as you saw it in the magazine and the little program would run and that was squee for nerdy boys like me in 1983.

 

That's just cause you're British. Trust me.

 

Ah. I have heard from a few "older" teachers in my school about those program cards. But now, I know something new.

 

I honestly need to know why you hate Harry Potter so much! (it would be entertaining anyway). I think Harry Potter is a little overrated because of *nostalgia*

I miss the Hunger Games era. Now we have crap like "The Selection" which is basically the Bachelor but in another world...why is this marketed as dystopian fiction?

 

It's half that ... also the battle of Sterling Bridge took place on a bridge. But you know, hollywood.

Honestly, it's just a joke by this point. I don't care enough to keep hating a series after all but it's most die-hard fans still bother to talk about it.