The Remember when thread (Page 3)

Posted by hydorah

I know this route and I'm amazed at how much of it HASN'T changed. :/

Parts of it, mostly the 10 interchange from LA, is fucktastic now.

The Westco Mall is amazingly 80s haha.

I had a friend who lived in that area where the video ended, too.

Mr. Movie Phone

Oregon Trail

Actual Saturday morning cartoons

An entire season of a TV series was 583959 VHS tapes long.

Recording shows off the TV

Recording music off the radio player with a cassette deck

Laser disk was a thing

Overhead projectors were used by teachers everywhere

Milk money was a thing

The FIRST time hoodies were a thing

Snoopy ice cream bars of the ice cream truck

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Posted by hydorah

No traffic!!!

I was 21 days old when the first video was taken!!!

when i was a toddler in the early 90s it used to take only 20 minutes to get to most areas within LA

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I had just turned 5 and was just about to move from Cali when this was taken.

Dude, they didn't have to stop ONCE. It was like driving on a street with average use!

That area of the 10 just after the 605 has been a shit show for years because of construction. Prior to construction, it was a shit show because it was this route trying to handle 578438x more traffic.

Remember 1990s when kids were actually dressed like kids and 12yr olds looked like 12yr olds and not like whores?

Posted by AquaNextDoor
Remember 1990s when kids were actually dressed like kids and 12yr olds looked like 12yr olds and not like whores?

I noticed this heavily 'cuz of that Flipagram commercial. I was trying to figure out that song & when I found it, I thought the cops were gonna arrest me for looking at prostatots.

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Posted by AquaNextDoor
Remember 1990s when kids were actually dressed like kids and 12yr olds looked like 12yr olds and not like whores?

I noticed this heavily 'cuz of that Flipagram commercial. I was trying to figure out that song & when I found it, I thought the cops were gonna arrest me for looking at prostatots.

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Yeh.... it's so sad!

Posted by AquaNextDoor
Remember 1990s when kids were actually dressed like kids and 12yr olds looked like 12yr olds and not like whores?

Posted by hydorah

Posted by AquaNextDoor
Remember 1990s when kids were actually dressed like kids and 12yr olds looked like 12yr olds and not like whores?

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Thats from a kids model contest. I talk about regular kids

Posted by justagirl
What about 8 track tapes decks in a car...

LOL yeah. My bro had one in his Olds 98 we'd roll up to parties with about 9 people in it and 1200 bong hits cause you got a better high with the windows up, and something like "In A Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly cranking. Good times!

Then along came cassette tapes, remember spending hours making the perfect mix tape? And then the player would eat it and you had to rewind it with a pencil eraser...

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I remember when Trump was a Democrat.

Yayyyy!!! You're back 😄

Mostly LOL

Well I'm glad. Not the same without ya!

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Me too, missed your snarkiness...

Posted by blvckphase
I'm just gonna leave this here..

Reminded me of this.

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Posted by Adreamuponwaking
You had dial up internet and you didn't want to wake your family members when you logged on at 2am to look at porn.lol

Collecting AOL disks for free internet.

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Oh sh+t I totally forgot about that lol!!

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Oregon Trail

Did you ever not die of dysentery and finish the game?

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I remember dial-up internet. It sucked. Technology, thank you for advancing.

I remember cassette tapes.

i still wish we could still undo some stuff

like atomic weapons

guns

facebook , twitter , internet on phones

tinder

lol

What if there's a kid in Africa who can only access DXP on a smartphone? That would be incredibly unfair. 😛 Actually, 85% of the world will access the internet from a phone. A smart phone is literally their computer. This will be a boon to underdeveloped countries. I'm not trying to be an ass, just a nerd.

Atomic weapons are bad, mmmkay.

you'd also know that the technology industry is heavily dependent upon the exploitation of said African children to mine for precious minerals that our cellphones and other devices use

There is exploitation of children in Africa. They are being exploited in diamond and gold mining. They are also being exploited in mining for cheap cobalt, which happens to be a resource used in cell phone and laptop batteries. No argument there. I hope to see that change. I believe it will change.

The irony is that the standard of living will change through the advent of technology. Technology will offer under developed countries access to education that they don't currently have. People will have better access to to employment opportunities. All this will be easier and cheaper to implement through technology, which is here and will continue to proliferate anyway.

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The irony is that most of the stuff you said is actually a lie.

Africa is a continent first of all and what you see on tv and other media outlets is just a small representation.

Just take the economic diversity and living conditions in the U.S which is just a country...

now can you imagine the diversity within Africa?

There are doctors , lawyers , CEOS etc in numerous "countries" within Africa

people also live in houses

they have malls

people go to college and grad school etc



#2 Development = Neocolinialism

a lot of parts of Africa are already "developed" hence some places have shopping malls that our comparable to ours

other parts again didn't need to be.

we really should leave Africa alone.

we should have left Africa alone.

we've destroyed more within African nations through paternalistic intervention than we've helped

and again it was all for money and not because we really wanted to "help those backward savages".

I used the example of Africa because that's what I'm used to hearing in examples of underdeveloped nations The truth being, it could be any lesser developed nation in the world.

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If you have free time I think you should take an African history class. That might clear things up a bit.

The main issue I had was that you were reiterating a political view that should be contested more.

People here in the U.S don't have access to technology , clean water, health care and other things , I wish people bring that up more instead of places abroad that actually have their own separate governments and cultural customs.

Also if some indigenous communities want to live without technology we shouldn't push that on them.

We have to respect the sovereignty of other nations and also understand that technological advancement does not always make things better.

I remember putting tape over vcr videos to record over them.

Also having 2 vcrs to record a rented video onto a blank video. Or just used an old video I owned using said tape trick to record over it.

Remember me?

Posted by Librasetting
Blowing into Nintendo games to make them work lol

I did that the other day with my phone when my phone wasn’t charging, lol. Brought back the memory 🤓

Remember when someone you knew had a phone in there car with a cord?

Totally baffled and wondered where they hid the mini telephone pole in the vehicle.

Posted by Soul
I remember putting tape over vcr videos to record over them.

Also having 2 vcrs to record a rented video onto a blank video. Or just used an old video I owned using said tape trick to record over it.

Yes, I remember that haha. Some family member always got mad when you recorded over there show or movie