Nostalgia Thread

[KittiesKorner]

Pinball, Street Fighter, and discount smokes at the gas station after school before having a driver's license. I also ended up buying a sweet Fender Concert amp from the gas station attendant that I own to this day.

 

[airtime143]

Oh man- I forgot the item that almost ended my life on many occasions...
The rickety-ass death trap bike ramps.

a 3/4 inch piece of plywood and a stack of cinderblocks and bricks.

We made quarter pipes as we got older, but those were actually designed and well built... so much less fun.

 

[Ares]

Let's see...

I was a child of the 90s, but we still played outside quite a bit.

Ghost in the Graveyard or Kick the Can, played evening/night with kids in the neighborhood.

Shaved Ice, I know it is still a thing in some places, but a spot that did it opened like 5 mins from my house and for a couple summers we did this instead of ice cream. Ice and flavored sugar syrup... lol

Sega Genesis and N64 when I was a kid and started to enjoy video games.

Xbox (original) and going to my buddy's house to play on a LAN connection on two separate TVs

Building my first PC at 13 with my Uncle's help.... yes @Crystallas I am a snap-together pleb, I never learned nor soldered any of my own components. It was still a fun gaming/learning experience... first time I added a new hard drive.... first time I added memory.... first time I replaced a CPU... the quest for cooling that would keep my CPU/GPU temps below surface-of-the-Sun.... first (and last) water cooling system.

The days when I thought it was so f***ing cool I could burn video files to a CD or DVD, stick it in my DVD player and it could play DivX/XVID codec files without me needing to transcode/burn a DVD. Later same thing when I figured out I could put show files on a flash drive and play stuff off my flash drive.

Watching AHL hockey on public access channel because I figured out I liked hockey, but the Blackhawks were not on TV.

Oh and I miss Josh Beekman

 

[Dragon Slayer]

I mostly just miss hanging out with my friends after school and going on random adventures or doing random shit and never knowing where you'd end up at the end of the day.

Sounds like my college experience

I miss going to 3 hours of classes and going back to your apartment and watching an episode of ESPN and taking a nap in the middle of week. Fuck. I never get to watch an episode of ESPN in the middle of the day anymore. Or take naps. Instead I have to work and read CCS. This is bullshit.

 

[dweebs19]

Sounds like my college experience

I miss going to 3 hours of classes and going back to your apartment and watching an episode of ESPN and taking a nap in the middle of week. Fuck. I never get to watch an episode of ESPN in the middle of the day anymore. Or take naps. Instead I have to work and read CCS. This is bullshit.

ah see, with college, I had more real responsibilities. I enjoyed the Thursday parties bc I'd set my schedule up where I had no Friday classes, but it still wasn't that great of a feeling to me as when I was in middle/high school and had no responsibilities.

As a kid, I thought about nothing else but playing with my friends as long as I was done with homework/violin practice. Go out to the bball court or baseball field or just ride bikes around the neighborhood with those fake babies from HomeEc class that we have to carry around. After doing all that, come back home when the street lights turn on, and sit around the tv for WWF and see what Triple H/Steph McMahon/The Rock/The Undertaker/Kane are up to that night. After that, go to bed and repeat the same shit the next day with maybe a different adventure.

 

[truthbedamned]

Leaving your house at 8AM to go play with your friends and ride your bike and being told to be home by dinnertime.

But that was in the 60's. Does that count.

 

[Tater]

Rectangle school lunch pizza.

Being excited to go to Blockbuster on a Friday night to pick out some movies.

Switchblade combs.

Hanging out at the arcade. Aladdin's Castle.

Buying dumb shit at Spencer's. Fake vomit, whoopee cushions, etc. And most likely the previously mentioned switchblade comb.

Waiting for hours to hear a specific song on the radio so I could unpause record and get it on tape on my trusty boombox. Also putting scotch tape over those notches of previously recorded cassettes so I could reuse them when I ran out.

John Hughes movies.

Coming home when the streetlights came on.

(I might be editing this one for awhile).

I can relate to almost all of those.

 

[Crystallas]

Harry Caray calling ball games drunk.
Local teams on actual local broadcast over-the-air TV.
When some company like Burger King would fear getting found out for selling fake beef, not embrace it like its some break through.
Bench front seats in cars. I like buckets too, admit they are better, but something is just really great about a well designed vehicle with bench seats.
Glass usage for storage containers. Even PET plastic and silicone leave a little something extra. We traded quality for convenience there. Wish there was more compromise, but plastic has won, with it's mighty polluting glory.
Drive In movies on a clear summer day.


I miss a lot of people who were alive during WW1. Their attitude was so much different than ANY generation after. And it did not matter where they came from in the world. Kind of like growing up before the fear of an atomic bomb, building those neurolinguistic connections and having such a different way of thinking about life. This is the hardest thing for me to explain to younger generations, but most of us know the difference between knowing good people from the old world. Yeah, yeah, I know some people are just stubborn fogeys, probably live in lingering pain, and are just asses to anyone regardless of era. I'm not talking about them.

 

[DC]

Like others have said, adventuring.
Not "knowing" everything.
First boners and first kiss and makeout session.
Hung over watching PTI and around the horn after working oh so hard in my two classes in College.
Playing poker until 5 in the morning while drinking Russians and smoking cigars with my best friends. Talking shit and laughing all night long.

 

[SilentLurker]

Harry Carey and day baseball at old wrigley.

 

[SilentLurker]

 

[KittiesKorner]

Harry Caray calling ball games drunk.
Local teams on actual local broadcast over-the-air TV.
When some company like Burger King would fear getting found out for selling fake beef, not embrace it like its some break through.
Bench front seats in cars. I like buckets too, admit they are better, but something is just really great about a well designed vehicle with bench seats.
Glass usage for storage containers. Even PET plastic and silicone leave a little something extra. We traded quality for convenience there. Wish there was more compromise, but plastic has won, with it's mighty polluting glory.
Drive In movies on a clear summer day.


I miss a lot of people who were alive during WW1. Their attitude was so much different than ANY generation after. And it did not matter where they came from in the world. Kind of like growing up before the fear of an atomic bomb, building those neurolinguistic connections and having such a different way of thinking about life. This is the hardest thing for me to explain to younger generations, but most of us know the difference between knowing good people from the old world. Yeah, yeah, I know some people are just stubborn fogeys, probably live in lingering pain, and are just asses to anyone regardless of era. I'm not talking about them.

I am speechless. Crystallas and Trump kinda show the same mindset.

The narcissism knows no bounds.

Waiting to see if Crystallas still has the power to delete this post or perma-ban me again.

 

[Tater]

 

[KittiesKorner]

sorry to bother you

 

[SilenceS]

SNICK( Nickelodeon Saturday night lineup)
WCW(Wrestling)
Smell of your hand from a baseball glove from playing all day.
WGN(When the Cubs were on across the country)
First taste of booze, cigs, and pussy.(Man, it was exciting times hiding all that. Then, they all become just a bad habit)
Driving around town with girls in the car playing cockeye with 20 bucks in your pocket living like a king.
Going to your friends all summer and never getting tired of it.
Playstation
Cops not bothering you
The thought of being invincible
Snack and a nap after school

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

I can probably name allot more things I don’t miss cause tech has been such a great replacement lol

besides the some of the stuff already mentioned I used to have that part of you that wasn’t scared of shit. When I was younger I would do stuff like bunjee jump and sky dive etc. there is no way in hell you can get me to do that now.

I miss being able going a week with no sleep partying on vacation. I definitely can’t do that now so my vacations aren’t geared to parting anymore lol

Obviously miss a few friends that I grew up with that passed away

I’m definitely going to second @Burque with loose fitting jeans and other normal clothing. This tight shit era isn’t for me

 

[nvanprooyen]

Sit down Pizza Huts

With those red cups

 

[Omeletpants]

First boners and first kiss and makeout session.

What was his name?

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Leaving your house at 8AM to go play with your friends and ride your bike and being told to be home by dinnertime.

But that was in the 60's. Does that count.

The 90s were like that as well. Except it was be home by the time the street lights come on. And if you missed 'supper' (Were my parents the only people who say this word?) then you just didn't eat that night.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

What was his name?

You are going to die of old age alone and miserable lololololoooolollll