An Open Letter To Those Born Before 1978 (the rest of you will appreciate this, too)

[Lestat]

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great post

 

[Razorguns]

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I can't believe I finally had a chance to say Fidonet on the board!

r

 

[NEO1]

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Anyone else remember how glorious cassette tapes were? I remember my commodore 64, erector sets and of course my $600 cd changer when they first came out LOL

 

[snacky cake]

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I received this in e-mail, I pass along it's wisdom for your consideration:

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up, what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill ... barefoot ... BOTH ways ... yadda, yadda, yadda ...

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it.

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog.

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen! ... then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the damn mailbox and it would take like a week to get there.

There were no MP3's, no Napster. You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself. Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up.

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, tough shit. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collection agent, you just didn't know. You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister.

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With cutting edge games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square. You actually had to use your imagination. And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever. And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died. Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. Forget channel surfing. You had to get up off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either. You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! Can you imagine this?!? We actually had to wait ALL WEEK ... for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards ...

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove. Can you imagine that?

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 ...

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

hahahahahhahahaha....we had a phone on a "party line" which meant everyone in the little town was on the same phone line. They could pick up and hear your conversation. Every time I tried to talk on the phone to one of my little girlfriends, Mrs. Elam, that old hag, would pick up the phone and yell at me to get off the phone because she had an important call to make...LOL.

 

[redguru]

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I can't believe I finally had a chance to say Fidonet on the board!

r

I've said FidoNet before. I used to run a Cnet Amiga BBS with a Fido and UUCP feed. It cost me buku bucks to run 8 phone lines into my house that rang down, Only two had 14.4 modems, all the rest were chat lines at 2400.

You'd have 1 or two guys downloading files, one or two reading the feeds, 1 playing on-line games like TradeWars and the rest on-line messaging or in chat.

 

[Hengst]

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Yes and a 1/4 oz of weed really did cost 5 dollars and a 1/2 oz cost 10. They were called a nickle and dime bag for a reason, damn it!

 

[snacky cake]

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I miss yard darts! lol.

 

[txbondsman]

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Yes and a 1/4 oz of weed really did cost 5 dollars and a 1/2 oz cost 10. They were called a nickle and dime bag for a reason, damn it!

LOL, I was born in 59', weed in the 70's was generally called a "lid" for some reason, maybe to was regional idk, but it wasn't measured in oz's, it was a 4 finger lid, or 3 finger, which was how many fingers high it was in a baggie. Most cost 10 bucks...

 

[LoneTree]

Re: An Open Letter To Those Born Before 1978 (the rest of you will appreciate this, t

I received this in e-mail, I pass along it's wisdom for your consideration:

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up, what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill ... barefoot ... BOTH ways ... yadda, yadda, yadda ...

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it.

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog.

There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen! ... then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the damn mailbox and it would take like a week to get there.

There were no MP3's, no Napster. You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself. Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up.

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, tough shit. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collection agent, you just didn't know. You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister.

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With cutting edge games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square. You actually had to use your imagination. And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever. And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died. Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. Forget channel surfing. You had to get up off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either. You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! Can you imagine this?!? We actually had to wait ALL WEEK ... for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards ...

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove. Can you imagine that?

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 ...

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

Been there, done that.

 

[Creepusmaximus]

Re: An Open Letter To Those Born Before 1978 (the rest of you will appreciate this, t

LOL, I was born in 59', weed in the 70's was generally called a "lid" for some reason, maybe to was regional idk, but it wasn't measured in oz's, it was a 4 finger lid, or 3 finger, which was how many fingers high it was in a baggie. Most cost 10 bucks...

I remember a lid. Think it was something like 3/4 of an oz. You're right about a 3 or 4 finger bag. It really wasn't measured very close. From what I've heard weed is expensive now.