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The_Batman 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 876	The other day I looked around and started just really noticing all the high tech stuff around me...and I wa slike when the hell did all this happen? I started thinking about what it was like before everyone had a cell phone, no mp3 players and flats screens. Video game controllers were plugged into the console. We had to sit and rewind our VHS tapes. 3-d was a pair of cardboard glassess with a red and blue lens. What happen to those days?
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System 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 74809	Yeah back in my day we had to walk 10 miles to the arcade for videogames! Uphill both ways in the snow, consarn it!

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OutaTime1987 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 38	Yeah back when we weren't hooked on phones and social networking meant actually talking face to face with people

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jitteryjewel 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 168	I remember when I was a kid parents didn't need to buy cellphones for their kids so they would know where they were. They would stand on the front porch and yell for you, if you didn't hear them within 5 minutes one of your friends would come by and tell you "Your mama is looking for you!" and you were on your bike and home before she actually came looking for you! Also who needed watches as soon as the streetlight started to flicker on you knew you had about a minute to get home lol!

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The_Batman 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 876	jitteryjewel wrote: I remember when I was a kid parents didn't need to buy cellphones for their kids so they would know where they were. They would stand on the front porch and yell for you, if you didn't hear them within 5 minutes one of your friends would come by and tell you "Your mama is looking for you!" and you were on your bike and home before she actually came looking for you! Also who needed watches as soon as the streetlight started to flicker on you knew you had about a minute to get home lol! Ha..yeah that damn that streetlight was a warning signal
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bassman21 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 4553	Or your mom would call the kids house you were at looking for you. You found that she got their number by calling another friends house first that she found in the phone book. My mom always found a way to hunt me down. We lived in the county with no homeowners association and didn't have street lights

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thecrow174 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 9805	This thread makes me feel old. I guess this mean I'll start using words like "whippersnappers".
	There is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most. http://unbelievableyou.com/a-native-american-cherokee-story-two-wolves/
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Dyzfunk7ional 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 3942	If it wasn't for this "fancy technology" many people will be dead by now. Tech advances are not always plastic gimmicks.

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thecrow174 3 years 2 months ago Posts: 9805	Dyzfunk7ional wrote: If it wasn't for this "fancy technology" many people will be dead by now. Tech advances are not always plastic gimmicks. That's true. This "fancy technology" can actually be beneficial.
	There is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most. http://unbelievableyou.com/a-native-american-cherokee-story-two-wolves/
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I think my NES was the most advanced piece of tech in our house gowing up.
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ActionBastard 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 1481	Dyzfunk7ional wrote: If it wasn't for this "fancy technology" many people will be dead by now. Tech advances are not always plastic gimmicks. Thats true but it will eventually lead to a bunch of plastic gimmicky rip-offs.
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Lottech96 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 1250	Cel Phones are Now a requirement!! It used to be both a luxury and a Cancer giver... Don't get me started about the toy version.... People meet online killing each other in FPS games Back then You met a stranger at a Cade and challenge them to some SF2 or MK!! People use new technology called Blue tooth... I have Blueteeth and soon to get rid of them.
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Guild_Navigator 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 2009	I've alwaus been around technology,mostly because my older brother was a huge tech geek. If you want a trip down tech memory lane just go here like I do every once in a while: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

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pikachulover 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 2932	I remember when the only radios were the analog ones. I'm young enough to remember FM radio. Dot matrix printers.
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jadedoz 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 710	I remember having only a landline phone when I was young. We had no computer until I was 8 which was a commodore 64. I also remember playing with the other kids in my street, hell I can even remember getting bread and milk delivered by the bakery and milkman, to the bread box down the side of our house. The milk bottles were glass and had a foil top.

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mlauzon 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 148	The only tech we had in my foster parents house, my foster brother had FOOTBALL I by Mattel & a racing game I believe, I don't remember. Then my foster brother got high technology when he bought a Commodore VIC-20, and then a year or so later he bought the C64, and I've been playing video games and using computers for over 30 years now!
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System 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 74809	jitteryjewel wrote: I remember when I was a kid parents didn't need to buy cellphones for their kids so they would know where they were. They would stand on the front porch and yell for you, if you didn't hear them within 5 minutes one of your friends would come by and tell you "Your mama is looking for you!" and you were on your bike and home before she actually came looking for you! Also who needed watches as soon as the streetlight started to flicker on you knew you had about a minute to get home lol! There was a family who lived in our neighborhood who actually would call their kids home with a loud fog horn they had attached to their roof. I kid you not! I used to hear that horn go off at least once or twice a day. I remember I hung out with the kid who lived there a couple of times, and we would be outside somewhere and the horn would go off...then he'd tell me he had to go cause his mom was calling him home.

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Yepitspat 2 years 8 months ago Posts: 34	Man the memories, I remember the first time I saw a computer, it was a beast of a thing and the floppy disk was actually floppy I still remember how to run the prompts through dos to play Oregon trail, and that was at school. I didn't get a computer till 98, anytime I needed to use a computer I had to go to the library or my grandparent's house who had bought one for some crazy new fad called "electronic mail" I couldn't be bothered by that stuff though, I was too busy hanging around the neighborhood playing stickball, handball, catch, or building a soapbox car with all my friends. Everyone in the neighborhood knew each other, and I was able to get all the way to school without even touching the stree or sidewalk, we all just walked through each others backyards meeting up with more people as we went along. Those days were really carefree and fun, I know this newer technology has made life easier and longer, but not exactly more fun in my opinion.

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jango52577 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 2806	-No internet -No Facebook -Movies were on VHS -No cell phones -Sega and SNES were the best game systems -My family's Macintosh was a strange and wonderful thing -Not every little girl acted like a whore to get attention -Kids used to play outside and hide in the woods and scrap their knees.

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randomuser2349 2 years 7 months ago Posts: 578	My household was pretty outdated until recently. I used Windows 98 and dial up until 2006, didn't have an MP3 player until 2007, no cell phone until 2011 and no smartphone until this year. I do admit that I'm losing discipline because of this technology. Remember when camcorders were usually bulky and used tape instead of digital space. Quality looked much smoother back then.

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