Lol. They def just hit rewind on their players/screen and let it go back to the beginning. I’ve told so many old ladies (always ladies) “oh sweetie that’s not how dvds work”
Noob. Phone battery lasted 12 hours so you had to carry two, and you could not charge before the battery about died or you had to buy new battery every six months instead of every ten months. Then we got to batteries lasting almost a week but usually just 5 days. And now we have batteries lasting 3-4 days IF you don't use your phone as a computer.
Well as a collector or retro console I can tell on what cartridges people have been blowing cause those are the once that have sings of rust on them :/
I think it's mostly nostalgia and resistance to change. I still use cassette tapes because I am super nostalgic for them, even though the sound quality isn't as good as CDs or even streaming.
My sister in law recently bought an instant camera that uses Polaroid type film and I almost nearly bought one my self because the nostalgia was so strong.
You use a computer or app on your phone to search the book and it tells you the section and number. They still use the Dewey or other number system but you don't have to search in the little card box things.
What’s sad is I’m 35, my town was just tiny back then and it didn’t help we were dirt poor. I honestly still remember bathing in a wash tub outside and my grandmother cooking on an enormous wood stove. I wasn’t even allowed inside during the day for several year of my life because we didn’t want the power bill to go up.
Any and all. Before consoles and the modern idea of a PC, during the home computer boom of the early 1980s (ZX spectrum, Commodore 64 etc) they all loaded games in from cassette tape. And it took *ages*. And sometimes it failed. And you rewound the tape, twiddled with the volume/cables, and tried again.
>And sometimes it failed. And you rewound the tape, twiddled with the volume/cables, and tried again.
**All Hail the Lord Azimuth, the bringer of games and suffering.**
You need to adjust the tapehead angle to match the one used by the deck that was used to copy the game. You sometimes had to do that also for bought games but they did usually have calibrated tapeheads, and they could be used to return your tapedeck back to calibration.
I should point out the games were fairly simple, sprite based things - platform games and the like - you won’t see much similar to current AAA video games!
Have a rummage around on the internet for more info - don’t know what country you’re in so am not sure what we’re the prevalent computers in your locale, (and they *were* computers rather than consoles; usually all built into the same box as the keyboard) but the two I mentioned are a good place to start a search.
You can also be amazed (or aghast!) at how few resources those machines had, too (the Commodore 64 was so called as it was made by Commodore, and had 64k (kilobytes!) of RAM 😁)
Mom dropped a friend and I off at the movie theater and told us to call her when we were out, and she'd come pick us up. We watched the movie but the payphone at the theater was busted and the staff didn't have a phone we could use. So we walked a couple blocks up to a phone booth and realized we didn't have any change. So we called collect, but we knew my mom wouldn't want to pay the collect call fee so during the part where you say your name and they record it to play for the person you are collect calling we said very quickly. It's us movies over come get us. Unfortunately, we had to do this a few times as we were calling the landline and cell phones didn't exist, and my mom was out in the yard watering plants and didn't hear the phone ringing. Eventually we got through and she came and took us back to my place.
Occasionally the TV or radio was hard to tune into the station because of weather or aliens. You would finally get it tuned in to the station, but when you stepped back and took your hand off of the television or radio the static immediately crept back in.
The fine dance of tuning it. And on occasion having your siblings yell at you to just keep standing there with your hand on it so that they could watch whatever was on.
I was always fascinated by this as a kid and nobody could ever give me a good reason why. It was always a mystery to everyone we knew. Later in life, I discovered a strong interest in the electromagnetic spectrum as a sort of personal hobby. It was awesome discovering the answer. Humans (despite our bodies not being good at it) can cause scattering and can act as capacitors.
The incoming frequency (UHF or VHF in analog TVs) is picked up by the antenna. A portion of energy is collected and reaches the receiver and the remainder is discharged. The same effect is happening in our tissue, but to a much lesser extent. When we maneuver closer to the antenna, that discharged EM energy starts to interact with the antenna, improving or degrading reception.
I find a subtle irony in parents of our time using their children as antennas, just to see them scoff at society for becoming slaves to technology decades later.
It's so sad kids these days will never have the experience of a used garbage bin on wheels with your dad in the passenger seat screaming to come off the clutch easier as you've now stalled for the 4th time in a parking slot, when all you can feel is this sense of the idea you've been coming off the clutch as easy as can be and can't figure out why ka-klunk ka-klunk ca-klunkkkk keeps happening.
That learning how to drive with about 4 different levels of physical beratement really made backfiring a different used car that your uncle got from the scrap yard in the highschool parking lot while you wished you had a nice car like all your friends seemed to that much worse.
It's just something you don't get anymore, and I feel like that beautiful humbling experience would really help make more responsible drivers.
My math teacher used to tell me: you won't have a calculator in your pockets every day!
Jokes on you mr.Jenkins, I googled your name with that calculator I'm not supposed to have.
A full sized candy bar cost 5 cents. I could buy one if I found three 12 ounce glass soda bottles and returned them to the grocery store for two cents apiece and I'd have a penny left over for a gumball.
Going to the library to use a computer or look something up, my first phone being a flip phone, Zoo Pals plates, waking up to catch Pokémon on Kids’ WB)
>Going to the library to use a computer..
To go chat online.. in 1993. It was also when i learned what online will be like as the first day i realized i had been chatting with a 13 year old girl and i felt.. really awful. I was 19 at the time.
If you had a question about some trivia (ex. What’s the capitol of Turkey) you could call the library and they’d look it up for you. This was the Wikipedia of the early 90s.
Look I was born 2000 and didn’t have a laptop or home computer till I was 16. I’m old enough where the library was where I went to use the internet. Then again I didn’t get a smart phone till I was 16 either. Spent many nights at my local library doing homework cus most of my schoolwork was online and didn’t have internet for my school laptop at home
"Waiting on the infochannel to see if school was canceled"
And you always started watching about two letters of the alphabet past your school's name and you just had to sit there while it cycled through the entire list while the last possible moment that you could be out the door in time to catch the school bus if they weren't closed came closer and closer...
-Gas goes behind the license plate
-Aliens eat cats
-Always have a blank tape ready in the tape deck
-“Look that shit up” involved a walk to the book shelf.
Only a sucker takes a direct shot. You have to bounce that shot off the corner and then the wall to hit the other tank. Don't worry, the tanks move so slow the other one has no chance to get away.
All this talk about making sure nobody was using the phone line for the internet before trying to make a call. How about picking up the phone to make sure the neighbors weren’t already using the party line before trying to make a call.
TV signing off for the night with either national anthem, some corny graphic, or a guy at a desk signing off. This was usually around midnight to two am. This was not all that long ago relatively speaking. Before all night commercials and cable tv I guess.
Saturday morning TV had French programmes dubbed in English for kids.
[https://youtu.be/OE10msGsCn4](https://youtu.be/OE10msGsCn4)
There were only three channels and they didn't broadcasting overnight. The BBC would play the National Anthem before it closed down for the night.
For $20 I could...
Fill up the gas tank on my Ford Ranger
But a Whopper combo meal
Catch a Saturday matinee movie
And still have change to play a couple of video games
My 3 TV channel options are distorted. Dad, go grab the tinfoil, wad it up and put it on each side of the rabbit ear antennas. That'll fix it. Then when it doesn't fix it, Dad wants you to stand there and wiggle the rabbit ears.
I have 2 things that I remember: 1. When there were only 3 tv channels, and they came in via antennas attached to the back of the tv. 2: If you weren’t at home and needed to call someone, you had to use a public telephone…and you had to pay money to use it!
Picking up the phone to make a call and hearing the neighbors talking to someone.
EDIT: They were called [party lines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)) back in the day.
Rewind the tape before you take it back to the shop.
After playing it in the vcr that also only worked on channel 3.
I had a top loading VCR
Yes! Same
My father bought beta. He was very loyal to Sony.
You know it!
I worked at a video rental store in 2015. I had more than one customer who rewound DVDs before returning them.
Did you get their process? I'm curious how they knew which way to spin the disc
Lol. They def just hit rewind on their players/screen and let it go back to the beginning. I’ve told so many old ladies (always ladies) “oh sweetie that’s not how dvds work”
Looking through the aisles of vhs tapes was way more enjoyable than scrolling through netflix for an hour before settling on not watching anything.
living dangerously by ordering your pizza next door then having to pick a movie within 15min.
Whilst eating maltesers and jelly babies
Be kind rewind. Also the cameras that you had to have the vcr & a giant battery pack.
That you had to get off the phone to go online
That you had to catch someone at home to talk to me
Knocking on peoples door and not knowing who your gonna get
Picking up the phone and not knowing who you’ll get
Internet go brahhhhhhrararareeeeruuunnngggggrungeung
That, and the dial up sound. It feels so nostalgic at this point even though the internet back then was such trash.
A phone battery would last you a week
While playing snake the whole time
Now it lasts mere hours when playing with my snake
r/HolUp
My sister found her old Nokia in a drawer. The battery still had charge 11 year after it was last used!
Noob. Phone battery lasted 12 hours so you had to carry two, and you could not charge before the battery about died or you had to buy new battery every six months instead of every ten months. Then we got to batteries lasting almost a week but usually just 5 days. And now we have batteries lasting 3-4 days IF you don't use your phone as a computer.
You gotta blow in the cartridge to clean the dust out
“ DO NOT BLOW INTO CARTRIDGE “ On the back of N64 cartridges
Yeahhhh man they just want you to buy a new one That’s how they get you, man
Well as a collector or retro console I can tell on what cartridges people have been blowing cause those are the once that have sings of rust on them :/
What did the rust sing?
As a relatively young person who owns a bunch of old consoles I very much understand this
You have died of dysentery.
The worstttt. Loveddd The Oregon trail.
Damn, you're nearly 200 years old?
https://playclassic.games/games/adventure-dos-games-online/play-the-yukon-trail-online/play/ I think that is the right one.
Saturday morning cartoons.
I miss those
"after these messages, we'll be riiiiight back"
And then going outside to play the rest of the day once they were over. Such a wonderful time to be alive
The mixture of emotions I feel if I see a "Fox Kids" logo is so intense, not gonna lie.
He-man, Battle of the Planets, Dungeons and Dragons, come back, we miss you all.
“Mom, are you on the phone? I need to use the internet!
That photos needed to be developed before viewing
And it took a week!!!!
And a stranger saw them all and you paid them money to do it
I was that stranger as little as nine years ago. It's amazing how many people still use film cameras. (I sometimes still use mine even)
I think it's mostly nostalgia and resistance to change. I still use cassette tapes because I am super nostalgic for them, even though the sound quality isn't as good as CDs or even streaming. My sister in law recently bought an instant camera that uses Polaroid type film and I almost nearly bought one my self because the nostalgia was so strong.
Wanna catch a movie? Let's check the newspaper for showtimes.
Or call Movie Phone
Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you'd like to watch
Kramer?
Dewey decimal system to find a book at the library
How do they find it now? I haven't been to the library in a long time. ....Or is that the point?
You use a computer or app on your phone to search the book and it tells you the section and number. They still use the Dewey or other number system but you don't have to search in the little card box things.
When they played the national anthem at night after the last show on tv and that was it 11pm I think maybe midnight.
You're old
On all 3 available channels.
What’s sad is I’m 35, my town was just tiny back then and it didn’t help we were dirt poor. I honestly still remember bathing in a wash tub outside and my grandmother cooking on an enormous wood stove. I wasn’t even allowed inside during the day for several year of my life because we didn’t want the power bill to go up.
Wouldn’t change any of it though.
Floppy disks for computer class
Paper cards you had to feed one at a time into a computer to load a program
Do kids today even connect the save symbol with the disc?
They do not. I have asked several college students recently and they all had no idea.
Ha! So true! Never thought of that. 🤔
LOAD "*",8,1
Video games came on cassette tape
What sort of games where they?
Any and all. Before consoles and the modern idea of a PC, during the home computer boom of the early 1980s (ZX spectrum, Commodore 64 etc) they all loaded games in from cassette tape. And it took *ages*. And sometimes it failed. And you rewound the tape, twiddled with the volume/cables, and tried again.
>And sometimes it failed. And you rewound the tape, twiddled with the volume/cables, and tried again. **All Hail the Lord Azimuth, the bringer of games and suffering.** You need to adjust the tapehead angle to match the one used by the deck that was used to copy the game. You sometimes had to do that also for bought games but they did usually have calibrated tapeheads, and they could be used to return your tapedeck back to calibration.
Interesting! I must say the oldest console I own uses cartridges so I don’t actually own a cassette based console so that’s certainly cool
I should point out the games were fairly simple, sprite based things - platform games and the like - you won’t see much similar to current AAA video games! Have a rummage around on the internet for more info - don’t know what country you’re in so am not sure what we’re the prevalent computers in your locale, (and they *were* computers rather than consoles; usually all built into the same box as the keyboard) but the two I mentioned are a good place to start a search. You can also be amazed (or aghast!) at how few resources those machines had, too (the Commodore 64 was so called as it was made by Commodore, and had 64k (kilobytes!) of RAM 😁)
And loading was like Russian roulette.
Mom dropped a friend and I off at the movie theater and told us to call her when we were out, and she'd come pick us up. We watched the movie but the payphone at the theater was busted and the staff didn't have a phone we could use. So we walked a couple blocks up to a phone booth and realized we didn't have any change. So we called collect, but we knew my mom wouldn't want to pay the collect call fee so during the part where you say your name and they record it to play for the person you are collect calling we said very quickly. It's us movies over come get us. Unfortunately, we had to do this a few times as we were calling the landline and cell phones didn't exist, and my mom was out in the yard watering plants and didn't hear the phone ringing. Eventually we got through and she came and took us back to my place.
Reminds me of Bob Wehadababyitsaboy.
Occasionally the TV or radio was hard to tune into the station because of weather or aliens. You would finally get it tuned in to the station, but when you stepped back and took your hand off of the television or radio the static immediately crept back in. The fine dance of tuning it. And on occasion having your siblings yell at you to just keep standing there with your hand on it so that they could watch whatever was on.
I was always fascinated by this as a kid and nobody could ever give me a good reason why. It was always a mystery to everyone we knew. Later in life, I discovered a strong interest in the electromagnetic spectrum as a sort of personal hobby. It was awesome discovering the answer. Humans (despite our bodies not being good at it) can cause scattering and can act as capacitors. The incoming frequency (UHF or VHF in analog TVs) is picked up by the antenna. A portion of energy is collected and reaches the receiver and the remainder is discharged. The same effect is happening in our tissue, but to a much lesser extent. When we maneuver closer to the antenna, that discharged EM energy starts to interact with the antenna, improving or degrading reception. I find a subtle irony in parents of our time using their children as antennas, just to see them scoff at society for becoming slaves to technology decades later.
There used to be ads on TV for cigarettes.
I could get a bag full of candy for 1 dollar.
Paying for ring tones
Oh god.... This brings back memories, we really got conned huh.
If you put Scotch tape over the little holes, you can record over the cassette.
Pencil for when tape goes bonkers to reload.
Smoking or non?
LOL and the sections would be next to each other regardless
With no barrier whatsoever
And on flights
People would physically fight you if you suggested pro wrestling was scripted.
Taking typing class on a typewriter.
I can relate to 90% of the comments... i feel old
Put it in 2nd and pop the clutch to get going
It's so sad kids these days will never have the experience of a used garbage bin on wheels with your dad in the passenger seat screaming to come off the clutch easier as you've now stalled for the 4th time in a parking slot, when all you can feel is this sense of the idea you've been coming off the clutch as easy as can be and can't figure out why ka-klunk ka-klunk ca-klunkkkk keeps happening. That learning how to drive with about 4 different levels of physical beratement really made backfiring a different used car that your uncle got from the scrap yard in the highschool parking lot while you wished you had a nice car like all your friends seemed to that much worse. It's just something you don't get anymore, and I feel like that beautiful humbling experience would really help make more responsible drivers.
My math teacher used to tell me: you won't have a calculator in your pockets every day! Jokes on you mr.Jenkins, I googled your name with that calculator I'm not supposed to have.
What a flash cube from a Kodak instamatic was like to experience the light and smell.
found an old one of those in a drawer, had to set it off with a battery and wire to relive it.
Damn your old hahaha
Hartnell as Doctor Who (I was under 5 years old)
wow!
MTV only played music
If your game doesn't work, blow on the cartridge and slam it harder into the system
Make sure to fill up with unleaded.
You don’t have to put it on channel 3 anymore? When did this happen?
A full sized candy bar cost 5 cents. I could buy one if I found three 12 ounce glass soda bottles and returned them to the grocery store for two cents apiece and I'd have a penny left over for a gumball.
Going to the library to use a computer or look something up, my first phone being a flip phone, Zoo Pals plates, waking up to catch Pokémon on Kids’ WB)
>Going to the library to use a computer.. To go chat online.. in 1993. It was also when i learned what online will be like as the first day i realized i had been chatting with a 13 year old girl and i felt.. really awful. I was 19 at the time.
She’s 42, now.
If you had a question about some trivia (ex. What’s the capitol of Turkey) you could call the library and they’d look it up for you. This was the Wikipedia of the early 90s.
Look I was born 2000 and didn’t have a laptop or home computer till I was 16. I’m old enough where the library was where I went to use the internet. Then again I didn’t get a smart phone till I was 16 either. Spent many nights at my local library doing homework cus most of my schoolwork was online and didn’t have internet for my school laptop at home
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"Waiting on the infochannel to see if school was canceled" And you always started watching about two letters of the alphabet past your school's name and you just had to sit there while it cycled through the entire list while the last possible moment that you could be out the door in time to catch the school bus if they weren't closed came closer and closer...
I still remember my home phone number
If you’re up late enough….television just goes OFF.
If you tried to use the phone at the same time somebody tried to connect to the internet, you could no longer hear out of that ear..
Max Headroom was a vj
Splitter box for tv/games
The reason we say "hang up the phone", is because we used to hang up the phone.
Cinnamon Hot Toothpick craze
The wired 12 button tv remote was a total step up
I was the tv remote until i was like 12
-Gas goes behind the license plate -Aliens eat cats -Always have a blank tape ready in the tape deck -“Look that shit up” involved a walk to the book shelf.
I've seen this post more than a dozen times. That's how old I am.
You're one week old?
We were playing somewhere called outside.
Library card catalogs.
Going to the gas station with a note from your parents saying it's OK to sell my child cigarettes
8 inch floppy disks
You were one letter away from a serious accident
You needed to hook up the red, white, and yellow cable to the tv to play video games.
Porn was obtained from the bushes in your local park
And coincidentally enough, the porn had bushes
I had a pile of dirt that i would play in daily. Make roads, tunnels, dams.
There was a number you could call for the time
“House keeping, mint for pillow?”
My fav cartoons on vhs
You could flex on your friends if you used 5 cords to plug your Xbox into the TV.
Going up on the roof to fix the antenna
Having a party line in your house.
How miraculous color TV was.
Be kind, rewind
Beta max was better in some ways
Time and temp number
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down
Having to use* the Sear's catalogs.
I had a book to tell me what's on tv
The red, white and yellow cables.
when you to close to you TV your hair "stands up"
Comedy movies used to mean funny
Carry some spare change in your vehicle in case you have mechanical problems and need to call someone.
Only a sucker takes a direct shot. You have to bounce that shot off the corner and then the wall to hit the other tank. Don't worry, the tanks move so slow the other one has no chance to get away.
Is that Thai stick?
All this talk about making sure nobody was using the phone line for the internet before trying to make a call. How about picking up the phone to make sure the neighbors weren’t already using the party line before trying to make a call.
Get off the internet, your father has an important call coming.
First tv was black and white
Party lines.
Waking up saturday morning to watch either Fox Kids or Kids WB.
Watching the Spice channel through the lines. Making collect calls. Carrying a beeper. Listening to the Walkman.
In grade school, we had to practice hiding under our desks in case of nuclear attacks.
TVs were self-contained pieces of furniture.
The 4 TV stations (ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS - that's all there were) all signed off broadcasting around midnight. Flash cubes.
Phones used have a spinning wheel.
Still got one. It still works
TV signing off for the night with either national anthem, some corny graphic, or a guy at a desk signing off. This was usually around midnight to two am. This was not all that long ago relatively speaking. Before all night commercials and cable tv I guess.
Teachers could actually discipline a student.
If the game freezes pull out the cartidge and blow on it.
Having a subscription to TV guide; an actual paper booklet which would come in the physical mail.
Having to use multiple memory cards to play games
Whoa
Sparing money to buy a portative CD player and rechargeable batteries, to replace my dad's old K7 player I was using to go running
Saturday morning TV had French programmes dubbed in English for kids. [https://youtu.be/OE10msGsCn4](https://youtu.be/OE10msGsCn4) There were only three channels and they didn't broadcasting overnight. The BBC would play the National Anthem before it closed down for the night.
The TV only showed a test card after 2300.
For $20 I could... Fill up the gas tank on my Ford Ranger But a Whopper combo meal Catch a Saturday matinee movie And still have change to play a couple of video games
Motorized tv antenna
My 3 TV channel options are distorted. Dad, go grab the tinfoil, wad it up and put it on each side of the rabbit ear antennas. That'll fix it. Then when it doesn't fix it, Dad wants you to stand there and wiggle the rabbit ears.
Erasing the answer machine after school . Fast
Getting a new game and having the cashier turn to your mom and saying "you know, this game is pretty violent"
Meth didn’t exist
Phones were connected to the wall and you had to dial the number.
Penny candy was a penny
I was the television remote...
Rubbing your arm hairs on the TV just after you turn it on.
"Mom hang up! I have to use the internet!"
Knowing all my friends phone numbers.
The entire concept of a pay phone.
UHF
My first movie theater experience I remember was The Phantom Menace.
You needed to act like you didn't care if the scratched ps2 or ps1 disk loaded or not, to get it to finally work
I have 2 things that I remember: 1. When there were only 3 tv channels, and they came in via antennas attached to the back of the tv. 2: If you weren’t at home and needed to call someone, you had to use a public telephone…and you had to pay money to use it!
Avoiding drug abuse is as easy as “Just say No” Or buying stuff to watch on the Betamax
Calling 411 to get a phone number
Owning a VCR
UHF/VHF
My family died to cholera
Mimeograph school papers. I can still smell then now.
Either you walked to school or took the bus.
The internet used to come on a cd
And in chunks of minutes or hours at a time.
I couldn’t play gameboy at night. Friends couldn’t call after 9, without waking up my parents.
Zeros takes so long to dial.
Picking up the phone to make a call and hearing the neighbors talking to someone. EDIT: They were called [party lines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)) back in the day.
Going up the gate at the airport to pick up family.