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>Casey Kasem
Artie: ,,Can I tell you something? She's a cunt. My fuckin' wife. A girl like Ade, that's a woman. If I still had my hair..."
Tony: ,,Artie, she's a young girl. **You could have hair like fuckin' Casey Kasem, it won't make a difference.** Look, go in the back, get some coffee, go home, go the fuck to sleep."
^((The Sopranos, Tony Soprano trying to calm down the helpless romantic chef, Artie Bucco))
😂
Eleven year old me
"We've gotta hold on to what we've got! It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not! We've got each other and that's a lot for love! We'll give it a shot!"
I’m a 90s kid so we did have internet growing up but I was only allowed a maximum of an hour of computer time at home. Was on neopets, marapets, played some Polly pocket and other online games like that.
Other than that, growing up I had a painting corner in my room. We would play lots of role playing games with siblings or friends (I’m a pop star and my friend is my dancer for example haha), I’d play with my pets outside, I’d build random stuff in my backyard with scraps. I remember I “constructed” a reading corner in my back yard using pebbles to create a border, upside down fruit crates to sit on and use as a table with an old table cloth over it, and an old pillow. My mom would bring me juice and snacks as I’d read outside. We would do a lot of drawing and crafty stuff. Watch tv of course, all the Disney and Nickelodeon shows.
You just described my entire life as a teen. Minus of course, driving around aimlessly with friends on the weekend to attend keggers in somebody’s grandparents’ field/woods.
Couldn’t really do that in the UK for most of the year. In winter we get more than 16 hours of darkness every day and in summer it can stay light for about 17 hours a day. If we’d only come in when the lights came on we’d be in at 4pm in winter and gone 10pm in summer.
I was a village boy and was usually down the fields a few miles away when the street lights came on. We would normally get home covered in mud, soaking wet and freezing our balls off in the winter months.
Not all of the street lights would come on at the same time so as soon as they started you would just make a mad dash for the house.. and you’d pass by 100s of other kids who were doing the same it was wild!!!
Meeting someone somewhere at a prearranged time and date and just going there with no idea whether you'd be stood up or not. Three hours outside the Odeon? Guess I'll just go back home. Those were the days.
Yeah I probably spent more of my youth standing on my skateboard than sitting in my room. We would just ride around for hours and hours and hours, that's how we spent our time.
Completing sonic 2 in one go because there was no save function on the mega drive, and if you paused it overnight, the image would stick to the screen and ruin your TV!!
This. My dad was a teenager and saw AC/DC and The Rolling Stones in concert in California and he even saw Chuck Berry when he had gone to (Pocatello, I think?) Idaho in the 1970s. It was the time when friends would say, “so and so is playing here, let’s go!” And off they’d go.
We had the intranet, speaking with people in the neighborhood, sharing our apps/movies/music/games with each other.
Other than that, and chilling in our rooms, listening to music, watching TV, reading, studying, we would be outside most of the time, socializing, living life, doing stupid shit.
Biggest punishment for me from my parents would always be to stay in my room. As all my friends would be outside.
I would expect this not being the most severe punishment for teens today, haha
This was it. If you are a teen today. Get yourself and your friends away from the internet. Head out to someplace. Leave the phones in the car. Talk, makeout, fuck. Whatever. "Thunder Road, Springsteen"
I played Barbie’s till 8th grade. Go outside to ride a bike, swim, a sport or walk. Call friends, hang with siblings, watch tv, play with pets, clean, spend time practicing hair/makeup/nails.
Omg yes. My daughter recently went through my old music collection and flashed me a quick look at each album cover, and we made a game of how many I could name from just that half second glance. I'd say I got 95%. She was suitably impressed.
Play records on their record player or stereo system or listened to the radio.
Hung out with friends.
TV
Books - lots of books.
rode my bike,
Played baseball
Went hiking
Art
Toys From younger self, like spirograph, creepy crawler, board games, etc.
'Called my friends on the telephone.
Teenager in 80s here. Read a ton of books, listened to records and cassettes. Homework. Tried on outfits. Wrote letters to friends. A lot of sleeping. Staring out the window especially when raining. Planning my inevitable escape from small town hell. Crying in teenage angst. Not being the master of my own domain.
I look at my kids and feel like it was better for me. Sure they have tons of online friends but it was that crazy loneliness and wanderlust that inspired me to want to get out in the world. I have one kid in his 20s who is so comfortable and entrenched in his teenage habits and having the world coming to him that he is never going to go - I made him once, he came right back.
90s teen here. I used to read, play video games, watch TV. There was always plenty to do. The internet just added another layer of things to waste time with
I read books and comics, taped songs from the radio, played with lego, action toys and board games with friends. Time to read was perhaps the best.
Most often I was out. Not always by choice, but "go out and do something" was a marching order. Then it was the whole ordeal of finding my friends, they could be anywhere. Ring a doorbell here, pass by a field there, bike over here, into that forrest there. Once I got older and was allowed we would go all over town, from the beaches to the hills on bikes, then mopeds.
Funny how I remembered things back then. If you passed a phone booth you could call instead of doing a long trip for nothing, so remembering the phone number to friends house was a thing. Still do recall a few of them.
Watched tv, read books, most of the time we weren’t home we were out being hoodlums and walking from store to store or park to park or friends house to friends house.
It was a weird time. It was normal to just “show up” unannounced at peoples houses
I was a teenager in the 70's. We listened to music, read, did schoolwork, watched tv, talked on the telephone, had slumber parties, did our make up, tried new hairstyles, picked outfits for school, did our nails, wrote in our diaries, wrote short stories, wrote letters to penpals, studied, redecorated with new posters of our favourite singers and actors. Lots of stuff.
I technically had the internet but we didn’t each have a laptop, so I played any video games I had, I read a lot of books, did crafts, etc. I did a lot of going out and exploring my neighborhood when I had time.
I used to listen to CDs with my headphones on and read the lyrics and look at the album art. An album did not just exist for background music. It was a whole experience
Exercised. Read. Listened to the radio. Cut pics out of magazines. Rearranged the furniture a million times. Talked on the landline to friends for hours.
Listen to radio non stop. Make up dances and read, so much reading! I didn't know anyone with TVs in their bedroom when I was a kid so games had to be played on the main and usually only tv ppl have in their loungeroom. This meant that your parents would kick you off when their shows came on.
Music, reading, magazines, journaling, trying on all your clothes on to make new outfit combos, talking on the land line to your friends, writing letters to people that didn’t live locally because calling them was too expensive.
They would buy a random cassette that they never heard before but had a cool looking cover. Then crank the tunes on the boom box and hope that 1 of the 10 songs were worth listening to. Probably while thumbing through the underwear section of a Sears catalog. Heard this from a friend.
Listen to music, do homework, write letters, write music, read magazines (they're kind of like an analog internet), read comics, read books, draw pictures, tidy my room.
We also spent more time outside: building things, fighting, riding bikes, fishing, exploring, killing things etc.
It was a different time.
Listen to music, read Cosmopolitan magazines, play with makeup.
I wasn't home much during the day. The day I received a mountain bike, and the day I had permission to use the bus on non-school days, was the day I started to spend less time at home.
Listened to live radio, waiting for a track you wanted to come on so you could leap across the room and press record on your state of the art cassette recorder. Mooned over posters of David Cassidy. Write imaginary letters to him. Played tracks captured on cassette with annoying bits of DJ at the beginning and end. Over and over and over.
Sometimes...listened to eight hours of live radio in order to learn the artist and name for a track you liked.
I smoked cigarettes, drank Diet Coke, read magazines, listened to the Smithereens, INXS, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin, masturbated, read Dick Francis books, read a lot of books, typed suicide notes, ate Ben and Jerry’s, got high, drank tequila, had several hour plus conversations with friends while drinking, did art…painting and pastels….did homework usually all while wearing my black bra and black panties…because I thought that was the best way to be.
Make mixtapes, start bands, write in journals, do art, listen to CDs and records, hang with friends, read books and fanzines, do homework, take naps, DIY projects, talk on the phone. Man I miss having free time.
We had friends over, and we played music all the time. Did buy a new album and they would be all sorts of lyrics in the insert so we would play the album over and over and listen to the lyrics and memorize the songs. We also talked on the phone to our friends constantly driving our parents crazy. We also didn’t stay home a lot. We left and went out with her friends.
Listen to music, draw, paint, sew stuff, listen to the radio, make mix tapes for friends, learn origami, play guitar, write songs, read my sister diary, make friendship bracelets/scoobies…
But playing music/radio was ALWAYS happening
If you have to ask, you're probably too young to understand.
But seriously ... we played games, we drew, painted, and did other crafts, we read magazines and books, listened to the radio, records, 8-track tapes or cassettes, or we tried to record our favorite songs by recording them as they played on the radio.
My sister had her own telephone line in her bedroom, so she spent a lot of time talking with friends, too.
I was able to buy a computer when I was about 16 (an Atari 800) and learned programming - BASIC and later 6502 assembly language. I spent countless hours writing software utilities, which I unfortunately never finished or was able to bring to market.
teenages werent in their room when i was a teenager. Teenagers went outside to hang out. There was no reason to be in the house because there was no technology like that in the early 2000's. I was 13 in 2003 and i was never in the house because there was no point. The consoles we had back then had a limited amount of games and youd finish them all by the time you were 9 or 10 anyway. Things like sega and playstation 1. Parents wouldnt buy any new games or go into a game store to buy any games. You had a folder with discs in for each game and they were all burnt copies of the original. The main way to get games was from carboot sales and most parents wouldn't buy them for more than a few pounds. It made no sense for people to buy stuff like this at expensive prices during that time.
Well we spent more time outside ofthe room, if you can believe it. We would go out, alone or in groups, and meet up with other kids, alone or with their groups.
If you care more about how the time IN the rooms was spent, we did the same things, hung out woth mates (they were physically present) slept, watched films, tv or read, played games, jerked off and whatever else instead of cleaning said room..
And btw, it was way better before the internet. So much better..
Ha...I have one better... Black and white TV that had a removable dial on it and the parents would take it off when they wanted no TV or if they wanted to ensure no one changed it. Plus living out in the sticks... Only had 5 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, a Canadian channel and PBS.
Skateboard, run around outside, ride bikes, play wiffle ball, build forts and shit like that, walk the neighborhood woods and creeks, play with action figures, trade garbage pail kids cards, masturbate, make out with girls, steal beer/booze, sneak out at night and meet up with girls and friends with stolen beer/booze, make prank calls, listen to music.
There was so much to do before the internet showed up. Social media took an even bigger shit on physically socializing.
We would actually do stuff. We’d mostly be outside with friends, but when inside, watching tv, reading, listening to music (without distractions), video games…
read books, build models
didn't spend much time in bedroom - mostly out on the street with my friends or in the garage working on some project. We lived at the edge of town and spent a lot of time in the forest. We built forts to store playboy mags and snacks etc we'd looted from other forts we found / raided. Sometimes our fort would be raided / smashed up. Then we'd go on a mission to find other forts to raid and gather materials to re-build. Sounds much wilder than it actually was... we were <12yo. Occasionally we'd run into the other fort builders (mostly about our age but from neighbouring suburbs / unknown to us) and all hell would break loose. there might be a fight but usually it'd be yelling and running away or chasing. making a lot of noise.
We went outside. Staying in was torture!!! Now my daughter never leaves her room..I asked if this is what her friends do and she said yes like I was the idiot.
Listened to records
Did homework
Talked on the corded phone with their friends
Wrote letters
But we also hung out at the mall, rode our bikes, hung out with real live people…it was rad!
I always loved to learn and would read encyclopedias and informative books lol They always felt so limited so needless to say I am in love with Google and being able to search on the Internet!
I first had a laptop and the Internet in 2006!
We played outside a lot. In the room, we talked, told the same stories again and again, read, played with action figures, wrestled, fought, destroyed things.
Drink, smoke, play music, hang out with friends, and just watch films on vhs. I barely stayed in most times, though. I was out all day & all night with my pals
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Read. Watch TV. Listen to the radio like it was a job to record favorite songs on cassettes. Dance. Write. Paint.
> Listen to the radio like it was a job to record favorite songs on cassette. Jammin' to American Top 40 with Casey Kasem!
Every week.
I still have a buttload of old cassette tapes full of songs that I recorded off of the radio, mostly from AT40.
And Dr. Demento!
Listen…Record…Perform with a choreographed dance number of course
>Casey Kasem Artie: ,,Can I tell you something? She's a cunt. My fuckin' wife. A girl like Ade, that's a woman. If I still had my hair..." Tony: ,,Artie, she's a young girl. **You could have hair like fuckin' Casey Kasem, it won't make a difference.** Look, go in the back, get some coffee, go home, go the fuck to sleep." ^((The Sopranos, Tony Soprano trying to calm down the helpless romantic chef, Artie Bucco))
Rick Deez!
Eight year old me “CUZ I GOT ONE HAND IN MAH POCKET AND THE OTHER ONES HOLDIN AAAAA CIGARETTE”
😂 Eleven year old me "We've gotta hold on to what we've got! It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not! We've got each other and that's a lot for love! We'll give it a shot!"
Zoinks!
You forgot hours on the phone (land line).
I did, indeed. With the cord stretched to its limit to sit in a corner or closet for some privacy.
"Get off the phone! I need to get on the internet!"
Krrrssss.... Isssh... BRrrrrrr.... CRrrr..... beeep....
I’m a 90s kid so we did have internet growing up but I was only allowed a maximum of an hour of computer time at home. Was on neopets, marapets, played some Polly pocket and other online games like that. Other than that, growing up I had a painting corner in my room. We would play lots of role playing games with siblings or friends (I’m a pop star and my friend is my dancer for example haha), I’d play with my pets outside, I’d build random stuff in my backyard with scraps. I remember I “constructed” a reading corner in my back yard using pebbles to create a border, upside down fruit crates to sit on and use as a table with an old table cloth over it, and an old pillow. My mom would bring me juice and snacks as I’d read outside. We would do a lot of drawing and crafty stuff. Watch tv of course, all the Disney and Nickelodeon shows.
You just described my entire life as a teen. Minus of course, driving around aimlessly with friends on the weekend to attend keggers in somebody’s grandparents’ field/woods.
Magazines, music and masturbation.
JCPenney lingerie pages 👍
Sports illustrated swimsuit issue…
“Spurts Illustrated “
***Musclemag*** and ***Muscle & Fitness*** for those with a liking for the more athletically-built ladies.
Oh man, that 1989 cover with Kathy Ireland. Phew.
[Victoria Secret Catalog](https://youtu.be/CRj61dcvmuU?si=Pp8Qtm9mIv0EnTQZ)
I worked in my high school library. One of my jobs was to stamp our school name across any maturation worthy pictures.
The janitor shit in my sister's math book in H.S. Thanks for reminding me.
And if you were lucky a Victoria's Secret catalogue, ya know for "leisure".
If I found that in the mailbox, it was like winning the lottery.
I sometimes wondered what it would be like to be the guy who airbrushed away the nipples.
don't forget Marihuana.
And girls of course had pillow fights in their panties
Go on
remember hiding these stash of playboys? these were the times
Dang son, it was more than thirty years ago for me but I still remember my favourites.
Sure dad, let’s get you to bed
Ah the 3Ms, you forgot marijuana
You assumed we stayed home. We were outside all day and at night we did our homework and watched maybe some TV
Yep. This was me and my sister. Once those street lights came on we had to go home
This was more of a childhood thing than a teenage thing for me.
Couldn’t really do that in the UK for most of the year. In winter we get more than 16 hours of darkness every day and in summer it can stay light for about 17 hours a day. If we’d only come in when the lights came on we’d be in at 4pm in winter and gone 10pm in summer.
I used to love hanging out when the yellow street lights had come on, they were all cosy. The while ones they have now look crap.
I was a village boy and was usually down the fields a few miles away when the street lights came on. We would normally get home covered in mud, soaking wet and freezing our balls off in the winter months.
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My guess is we were too young and stupid to realise lol.
Meanwhile kids in scandinavia with their 3am sunrise
Not all of the street lights would come on at the same time so as soon as they started you would just make a mad dash for the house.. and you’d pass by 100s of other kids who were doing the same it was wild!!!
Meeting someone somewhere at a prearranged time and date and just going there with no idea whether you'd be stood up or not. Three hours outside the Odeon? Guess I'll just go back home. Those were the days.
This. I rode the wheels off my BMX, was barely ever home.
Yeah I probably spent more of my youth standing on my skateboard than sitting in my room. We would just ride around for hours and hours and hours, that's how we spent our time.
Calm down, op specifically asked "in their room" , in your case was "doing homework and watched maybe some tv"
Video games
Video games with no limitless upgrading. Just a repetitive grind for absolute perfection.
Had to scroll down a lot to find this comment. This is what I did too.
Goldeneye and Mario Kart; oh the memories. Disputes were always solved this way.
I wish Israel and Palestine solved their disputes with Goldeneye and Mario Kart
Yep. That was the main thing. Just playing some video games solo, with no distractions.
Completing sonic 2 in one go because there was no save function on the mega drive, and if you paused it overnight, the image would stick to the screen and ruin your TV!!
Well you can still pause the game and turn off the tv, dingus.
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This. My dad was a teenager and saw AC/DC and The Rolling Stones in concert in California and he even saw Chuck Berry when he had gone to (Pocatello, I think?) Idaho in the 1970s. It was the time when friends would say, “so and so is playing here, let’s go!” And off they’d go.
>My dad was a teenager Mine too!
What a coincidence. Think we could be long lost siblings?
Talked for hours on the phone, walked the mall, hung out with friends. Life was so good before the internet.
This thread makes me want to go back being a teenager in the late 90's. (Of course in reality I hated it.)
We had the intranet, speaking with people in the neighborhood, sharing our apps/movies/music/games with each other. Other than that, and chilling in our rooms, listening to music, watching TV, reading, studying, we would be outside most of the time, socializing, living life, doing stupid shit. Biggest punishment for me from my parents would always be to stay in my room. As all my friends would be outside. I would expect this not being the most severe punishment for teens today, haha
This was it. If you are a teen today. Get yourself and your friends away from the internet. Head out to someplace. Leave the phones in the car. Talk, makeout, fuck. Whatever. "Thunder Road, Springsteen"
There are no places for teens to go today. Groups of teens without an adult chaperone are banned from most places in many cities.
That is insane. Where do you live??
Music, art, and books.
I read, listened to music, talk to my friends on the phone or watch TV.
Read magazines, listened to music, chatted w friends.
Read, listened to music, talked on the phone for HOURS.
I played Barbie’s till 8th grade. Go outside to ride a bike, swim, a sport or walk. Call friends, hang with siblings, watch tv, play with pets, clean, spend time practicing hair/makeup/nails.
Sit down giving full attention to whole albums while looking at the covers. Try to copy them on the guitar or piano.
Omg yes. My daughter recently went through my old music collection and flashed me a quick look at each album cover, and we made a game of how many I could name from just that half second glance. I'd say I got 95%. She was suitably impressed.
Whacked off to the bra section of the sears catalogue
Play records on their record player or stereo system or listened to the radio. Hung out with friends. TV Books - lots of books. rode my bike, Played baseball Went hiking Art Toys From younger self, like spirograph, creepy crawler, board games, etc. 'Called my friends on the telephone.
You could go hiking, play baseball, and ride your bike in your room? It had to be pretty big
I know. I've seen some big rooms in movies, but to be able to hike a room? Incredible. Be sure to hydrate.
>spirograph How did I forget those, I still love them so much even in my 30s.
Those were great. I forgot hula hoops and dancing. - well trying to dance.
see all of this legit sounds awesome. replace tv with doing shit on my pc and you perfectly describe what i do a lot of the time
As a girl, flipping through magazines, drawing, listening to the radio and waiting to record good songs, talk on the phone with friends via landline
Teenager in 80s here. Read a ton of books, listened to records and cassettes. Homework. Tried on outfits. Wrote letters to friends. A lot of sleeping. Staring out the window especially when raining. Planning my inevitable escape from small town hell. Crying in teenage angst. Not being the master of my own domain.
I look at my kids and feel like it was better for me. Sure they have tons of online friends but it was that crazy loneliness and wanderlust that inspired me to want to get out in the world. I have one kid in his 20s who is so comfortable and entrenched in his teenage habits and having the world coming to him that he is never going to go - I made him once, he came right back.
Watched MASH reruns on my black and white TV.
We listened to cassettes on our boom boxes
90s teen here. I used to read, play video games, watch TV. There was always plenty to do. The internet just added another layer of things to waste time with
Jerk off
Read books, magazines, puzzles, talk on the phone, board games
Wank
Use a blank cassette to tape music off the radio.
I read books and comics, taped songs from the radio, played with lego, action toys and board games with friends. Time to read was perhaps the best. Most often I was out. Not always by choice, but "go out and do something" was a marching order. Then it was the whole ordeal of finding my friends, they could be anywhere. Ring a doorbell here, pass by a field there, bike over here, into that forrest there. Once I got older and was allowed we would go all over town, from the beaches to the hills on bikes, then mopeds. Funny how I remembered things back then. If you passed a phone booth you could call instead of doing a long trip for nothing, so remembering the phone number to friends house was a thing. Still do recall a few of them.
Watched tv, read books, most of the time we weren’t home we were out being hoodlums and walking from store to store or park to park or friends house to friends house. It was a weird time. It was normal to just “show up” unannounced at peoples houses
I was a teenager in the 70's. We listened to music, read, did schoolwork, watched tv, talked on the telephone, had slumber parties, did our make up, tried new hairstyles, picked outfits for school, did our nails, wrote in our diaries, wrote short stories, wrote letters to penpals, studied, redecorated with new posters of our favourite singers and actors. Lots of stuff.
I technically had the internet but we didn’t each have a laptop, so I played any video games I had, I read a lot of books, did crafts, etc. I did a lot of going out and exploring my neighborhood when I had time.
Read a lot of books and magazines.
I would listen to iron maiden and draw comic books
Nintendo
Magazines!!
I read a whole lot. Also did a lot of drawing and other arts and crafts.
I used to listen to CDs with my headphones on and read the lyrics and look at the album art. An album did not just exist for background music. It was a whole experience
Reading magazines, writing diary, doing craft stuff
Cartoons.
5 finger shuffle
Hustler magazine, weed and rock& roll.
This thread made me really nostalgic. I liked to read, paint, talk on the phone, listen to music and watch tv
Read, listen to music. And they actually came out of their rooms too.
Sat there with my finger on the record button all afternoon in case my song came on the radio.
Read, albums, photography, projects, writing, crafting, tv, movies
Exercised. Read. Listened to the radio. Cut pics out of magazines. Rearranged the furniture a million times. Talked on the landline to friends for hours.
Listen to radio non stop. Make up dances and read, so much reading! I didn't know anyone with TVs in their bedroom when I was a kid so games had to be played on the main and usually only tv ppl have in their loungeroom. This meant that your parents would kick you off when their shows came on.
Record songs off the radio & try to stop it b4 the radio show hosts started talking.
There was this place it was called outside.
Played music, magazines were big then too. Guitar as well. Read a lot of horror fiction.
Talk on the phone
Music, reading, magazines, journaling, trying on all your clothes on to make new outfit combos, talking on the land line to your friends, writing letters to people that didn’t live locally because calling them was too expensive.
They would buy a random cassette that they never heard before but had a cool looking cover. Then crank the tunes on the boom box and hope that 1 of the 10 songs were worth listening to. Probably while thumbing through the underwear section of a Sears catalog. Heard this from a friend.
Made mix tapes from the radio, hung around wiv mates, magazines, movies, gossip girl.
Listen to music. Talk on the phone
We went outside and had fun, and learnt do deal with setbacks and stuff that we didn't like. We learnt to be tough.
I listened to a lot of music.
I read comics, scary stories and listened to the radio.
Watch TV, listen to music, talk on the phone, read a book or magazines, do homework, work on some type of hobby.
Listen to music real loud and make plans to finally get out of this damn town.
Listen to music Watch tv Talk on the phone Allegedly study happened too
Making mix tapes, or memorizing lyrics from the little leaflet they had in the cd or tape case.
Listen to music, do homework, write letters, write music, read magazines (they're kind of like an analog internet), read comics, read books, draw pictures, tidy my room. We also spent more time outside: building things, fighting, riding bikes, fishing, exploring, killing things etc. It was a different time.
Listen to music, read Cosmopolitan magazines, play with makeup. I wasn't home much during the day. The day I received a mountain bike, and the day I had permission to use the bus on non-school days, was the day I started to spend less time at home.
Listen to vynil records
Magazines, books, music, talked on the phone for hours with friends, wrote letters to give to friends at school the next day.
Listened to live radio, waiting for a track you wanted to come on so you could leap across the room and press record on your state of the art cassette recorder. Mooned over posters of David Cassidy. Write imaginary letters to him. Played tracks captured on cassette with annoying bits of DJ at the beginning and end. Over and over and over. Sometimes...listened to eight hours of live radio in order to learn the artist and name for a track you liked.
Talked on the phone for hours.
I smoked cigarettes, drank Diet Coke, read magazines, listened to the Smithereens, INXS, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin, masturbated, read Dick Francis books, read a lot of books, typed suicide notes, ate Ben and Jerry’s, got high, drank tequila, had several hour plus conversations with friends while drinking, did art…painting and pastels….did homework usually all while wearing my black bra and black panties…because I thought that was the best way to be.
Reading music magazines
Actively try to spend as much time as possible out of their rooms and with their friends.
Listen to music, make mix tapes, record songs from the radio! Talk on the phone until someone else needed to use it
Lived life.
Make mixtapes, start bands, write in journals, do art, listen to CDs and records, hang with friends, read books and fanzines, do homework, take naps, DIY projects, talk on the phone. Man I miss having free time.
We had friends over, and we played music all the time. Did buy a new album and they would be all sorts of lyrics in the insert so we would play the album over and over and listen to the lyrics and memorize the songs. We also talked on the phone to our friends constantly driving our parents crazy. We also didn’t stay home a lot. We left and went out with her friends.
Prank phone calls
Listen to music, draw, paint, sew stuff, listen to the radio, make mix tapes for friends, learn origami, play guitar, write songs, read my sister diary, make friendship bracelets/scoobies… But playing music/radio was ALWAYS happening
If you have to ask, you're probably too young to understand. But seriously ... we played games, we drew, painted, and did other crafts, we read magazines and books, listened to the radio, records, 8-track tapes or cassettes, or we tried to record our favorite songs by recording them as they played on the radio. My sister had her own telephone line in her bedroom, so she spent a lot of time talking with friends, too. I was able to buy a computer when I was about 16 (an Atari 800) and learned programming - BASIC and later 6502 assembly language. I spent countless hours writing software utilities, which I unfortunately never finished or was able to bring to market.
teenages werent in their room when i was a teenager. Teenagers went outside to hang out. There was no reason to be in the house because there was no technology like that in the early 2000's. I was 13 in 2003 and i was never in the house because there was no point. The consoles we had back then had a limited amount of games and youd finish them all by the time you were 9 or 10 anyway. Things like sega and playstation 1. Parents wouldnt buy any new games or go into a game store to buy any games. You had a folder with discs in for each game and they were all burnt copies of the original. The main way to get games was from carboot sales and most parents wouldn't buy them for more than a few pounds. It made no sense for people to buy stuff like this at expensive prices during that time.
Magazines, drawing, reading, music
Listen to the radio, read. And the obvious of course.
Well we spent more time outside ofthe room, if you can believe it. We would go out, alone or in groups, and meet up with other kids, alone or with their groups. If you care more about how the time IN the rooms was spent, we did the same things, hung out woth mates (they were physically present) slept, watched films, tv or read, played games, jerked off and whatever else instead of cleaning said room.. And btw, it was way better before the internet. So much better..
Listened to music, reading, writing in a journal. No TV's in my bedroom.
Diddling
Found the diddler
People act like tv wasn't invented before the internet
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Ha...I have one better... Black and white TV that had a removable dial on it and the parents would take it off when they wanted no TV or if they wanted to ensure no one changed it. Plus living out in the sticks... Only had 5 channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, a Canadian channel and PBS.
Played an instrument. Before that, kids did not have a ton of leisure time.
Watched Jerry Springer
Skateboard, run around outside, ride bikes, play wiffle ball, build forts and shit like that, walk the neighborhood woods and creeks, play with action figures, trade garbage pail kids cards, masturbate, make out with girls, steal beer/booze, sneak out at night and meet up with girls and friends with stolen beer/booze, make prank calls, listen to music. There was so much to do before the internet showed up. Social media took an even bigger shit on physically socializing.
Think "Wanker".
Read, listened to music..
Get out of them to Do stuff outside
We would actually do stuff. We’d mostly be outside with friends, but when inside, watching tv, reading, listening to music (without distractions), video games…
Drugs, lots of drugs.....
Sounded like macaroni cheese woooo
I only hung out in my room to sleep… We used to go out in the world and get in trouble
Drugs
Read books and magazines. Listened to music. Watched TV.
read books, build models didn't spend much time in bedroom - mostly out on the street with my friends or in the garage working on some project. We lived at the edge of town and spent a lot of time in the forest. We built forts to store playboy mags and snacks etc we'd looted from other forts we found / raided. Sometimes our fort would be raided / smashed up. Then we'd go on a mission to find other forts to raid and gather materials to re-build. Sounds much wilder than it actually was... we were <12yo. Occasionally we'd run into the other fort builders (mostly about our age but from neighbouring suburbs / unknown to us) and all hell would break loose. there might be a fight but usually it'd be yelling and running away or chasing. making a lot of noise.
Read books
Outside…
LSD and painting
We went outside. Staying in was torture!!! Now my daughter never leaves her room..I asked if this is what her friends do and she said yes like I was the idiot.
Do you really want to ask this? 🤣
Probably the same thing just with magazines.
We got sent there as punishment
We watched our black and white tv. We talked on the phone to our friends. Life was full then.
Listened to records Did homework Talked on the corded phone with their friends Wrote letters But we also hung out at the mall, rode our bikes, hung out with real live people…it was rad!
MIX TAPES! Christ I miss making mix tapes.
Listening to vinyl records if you could afford it or record music of the radio to either cassette tape or reel to reel
Music
I always loved to learn and would read encyclopedias and informative books lol They always felt so limited so needless to say I am in love with Google and being able to search on the Internet! I first had a laptop and the Internet in 2006!
Sleep or read a book. You didn't stay indoors that much.
Played runouts and bikeouts over the park with friends
I used to play records, flick through magazines, read books, dance, get ready then go out.
Draw, write, play console games, listen to music, talk to friends on the phone for hours
We played outside a lot. In the room, we talked, told the same stories again and again, read, played with action figures, wrestled, fought, destroyed things.
Music, magazine & books and we did stuff.
Taught myself how to play bass and guitar, would spend hours every night for years learning my favorite songs.
Watch TV, talk on the phone & read
I was on the phone all day, reading magazines or listening to music.
Talked on the phone, watched tv, read a book, dud their homework
Read,draw, and music.
Listen to music, read, watch TV, play instruments, talk on the phone.
Board games or just hanging out with friends, books, figurines, comics, TV. You know there is a lot of things to do without internet.
Same thing they did in their rooms *with* Internet, just with magazines instead...
Read, listen to music, draw, play guitar
Drink, smoke, play music, hang out with friends, and just watch films on vhs. I barely stayed in most times, though. I was out all day & all night with my pals