OT: I Remember When

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Gandalph:
I remember going to the corner store with a nickel and coming home with a large candy bar and 3 pieces of bubble gum.

I can rember going to th movies with $.25 to get in ang another for pop and pop corn! and I'm not REALLY that old

[sachmo]

I remeber twisting a knob on the tv to change the channel.

I remember my dads Betamax.

I remember Pong.

I remember playing Atari Pacman for 12 hours once.

I remember dancing to the theme of "CHiPs". In my underwear.

I remember buying the first Choose Your Own Adventure books. My favorite was either the Race Forever or Space Patrol.

[geoschmo]

I remember our first TV with a remote control. It was literaly a "Clicker". It had a mettallic thing in it when you pressed a button that made a noise, similer to the "crickets" the allied troops used during the D-Day invasion to keep from shooting each other in the dark. When ever the TV heard the click it would change the channel up by one. You couldn't change the volume, or turn the tv on or off IIRC, just change the channel up by one. Was pretty cool at the time though. What was really funny was our dog had these big metal dog tags and when he'd scratch the jingling was close to the sound the remote made and the TV would start flipping channels.

[mottlee]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I remember our first TV with a remote control. It was literaly a "Clicker". It had a mettallic thing in it when you pressed a button that made a noise, similer to the "crickets" the allied troops used during the D-Day invasion to keep from shooting each other in the dark. When ever the TV heard the click it would change the channel up by one. You couldn't change the volume, or turn the tv on or off IIRC, just change the channel up by one. Was pretty cool at the time though. What was really funny was our dog had these big metal dog tags and when he'd scratch the jingling was close to the sound the remote made and the TV would start flipping channels.

I remeber those too! LOL on your dog penny candy was like 5 for it .10 for Snickers bar (bigger too) Ahhh those were the days

No offence, but...

Surely I can't be the only person here who having read four pages of this stuff, is starting to feel a little sick?

[TerranC]

Sick as in sick at people reminicing about the old days and what seems to be saying screw the future:

Or

Sick as in look at what our world has turned into in short little 100 years?

*sigh* Nobody even knows the answer anymore.

[Pax]

Originally posted by capnq:
I remember seeing _Star Wars_ in a first-run theater, before it was called Episode IV.

I was only 5 or 6 at the time, and *I* remember doing that, too! About a week after Openign Day for the film; I barely remember much formt eh first viewing, just leaving the theater with a clear picture of Darth Vader's helmet in my wee mind, and an impression of "that was the most awesomest coolest bestest movie in the world!".

I saw it with my father, my FIRST-ever trip to the theater (my mother was peeved she didn't get included, but I didn't know about that angle for another 5 years or so, heh).