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

[SpyWizard]

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oh man.. now i do feel old today.. when i was a kid, we had a "party Line" phone, so we lived at the end of a street with 7 other houses, if you wanted to make a call, you'd pick up the phone, and hope no one else was on, or you could just listen to their conversation.

I remember my 1st desktop computer too.. it was cutting edge, and cost over $10,000 (thanks to the USAF) I got to use it with 6 other people. It was very advanced, it had 2 floppy drives, no hard drive..

 

[Smurfy]

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Lotta old folks on this thread
just sayin

 

[AAP]

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Coleco Vision video games - had the controller big as a fucking phone and with a key pad of numbers at the bottom.

Who remembers the electronic game MERLIN where you could play 7 different games at once.

The Green Machine

Nehi Orange and Grape drinks.

Staying up to midnight to see Michael Jackson's Thriller video because it was "too intense" for regular tv programming.

The USA channel always played kung fu movies all day Saturday.

 

[snacky cake]

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Coleco Vision video games - had the controller big as a fucking phone and with a key pad of numbers at the bottom.

Who remembers the electronic game MERLIN where you could play 7 different games at once.

The Green Machine

Nehi Orange and Grape drinks.

Staying up to midnight to see Michael Jackson's Thriller video because it was "too intense" for regular tv programming.

The USA channel always played kung fu movies all day Saturday.

hahahahahha...MTV didn't even come out until I was 13.

I had 3 channels as a kid and one was PBS...lol.

 

[walliwalibus]

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I remember all this stuff. Memories...............

 

[Creepusmaximus]

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Coleco Vision video games - had the controller big as a fucking phone and with a key pad of numbers at the bottom.

Who remembers the electronic game MERLIN where you could play 7 different games at once.

The Green Machine

Nehi Orange and Grape drinks.

Staying up to midnight to see Michael Jackson's Thriller video because it was "too intense" for regular tv programming.





The USA channel always played kung fu movies all day Saturday.

I had a Merlin and wanted a coleco vision. I had an intellivision. I thought thriller was to long and that's why they played it a night???

 

[ponyfitness]

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Nice.

I had a Commodore Vic 20 with an old tape drive.

My sister and I built a fort in our neighbours yard with sheet metal and barbed wire all over the place. Nobody cared and we never got hurt.

We had a Betamax until probably 1990.

Anyone remember the station wagons with the 3rd row of seats that faced backwards? We had one with wood paneling. It also had an 8 track player installed.

 

[txbondsman]

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I remember those station wagons, we had one, that was too cool at the time, I must have been 8-9. Pong was the first game, nobody had a clue as to how it worked.

 

[jnevin]

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Internet??? Hell I had one phone in my house and no answering machine becuase they were expensive back then.

I had a TV in my room because I grabbed it on garbage night. It was a 19 inch Black and White. Use to watch the orginal Saturday night live on it. Was to young to be running the streets at 11:30on Sat. night.

Cell phones, Please. Never saw one until the 90's.

CD's? Hell no. We had to clean our records or they sounded like crap.

Sorround sound? My first car had an AM radio and one speaker.

Did parents think we were going to get molested? Hell no, they sent you out the door and said good luck>LOL.

I did walk to school up hill both ways. There was a valley in the middle. Lol

lol

I grew up in the middle of Philly and as long as I didn't go past the busy streets which were a few blocks away I was fine. I'd take the subway into center city and walk around the parks like it was no big deal all day. Nothing ever happened.

 

[snacky cake]

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They use to send us out on Haloween night with masks that we could hardly see to walk. They handed us a flashlight because we didn't have street lights. We would take off walking down the road at night with a flashlight and wouldn't come home until after midnight...lol. Now, NO parent would let their kids wander like that.