You had to wait about a year for a movie to come to video after it's theatre run?

 

You had to look in an actual newspaper for movie theatre times?

 

Carry on...

You had to wait about a year for a movie to come to video after it's theatre run?

 

You had to look in an actual newspaper for movie theatre times?

 

Carry on...

 

that sucked! I hated it!

You had to wait until the next day to read about the White Sox...

You had to go to a video store...

Once you left your house you couldn't contact your friends about where you were or how you would meet them at a certain place because there were no cell phones?

Remember back when a movie would come out, and you would have no idea what the movie was about until you actually walked into the theatre and watched it?

Reality Television consisted of one show - The Real World.

Remember when MTV actually showed music videos?

Looked forward to the new issue of Baseball Weekly.

Once you left your house you couldn't contact your friends about where you were or how you would meet them at a certain place because there were no cell phones?

This is what immediately came to my mind as well. It's strange to think I'm not even that old and I can speak of a time as recent as eight years ago that any teenager today probably couldn't imagine living in.

 

Additional items:

 

Arcades, and always anticipating new ones

 

Dollar cinemas (none around where I live, anymore) and drive ins.

 

Copying videos by hooking up two VCRs to each other

 

AOL

 

Mom and pop video stores (most notably those within a neighborhood where the owner lived above the store

 

 

 

 

 

You played fantasy sports by mail and made transactions over the phone.

Cars were built like steel and not plastic

You played fantasy sports by mail and made transactions over the phone.

 

And you had to check the stats in the newspaper the next day

When gas was cheap as hell in Indiana when Chicago's went up.

When gas was cheap as hell in Indiana when Chicago's went up.

That's still true.

 

Remember when you thought you were awesome when you played computer games off your floppy disk?

You thought you knew where in the world Carmen Sandiego was.

The fascination that everyone had when they not only got to see for the first time,....... but fought over who would be the next player to play the first video game that came out (PONG) on your television set. No one could believe how cool it was!

You couldn't even drink a can of pop if the hand-held pointed can opener was missing!

You could actually buy pop in glass bottles.

You could actually buy pop in glass bottles.

. . . and you had to return the bottles to the Jewel to get your deposit back?

When you were headed to an unfamiliar place and you had to call a friend and use their crappy ass directions instead of looking it up online or plugging it into a GPS, and there was a chance you'd get lost and have to find a pay phone.

When you had to rewind or fast forward a tape to find your favorite song.

Reality Television consisted of one show - The Real World.

 

Reality Television consisted of two shows - "Real People" and "That's Incredible".

 

Reality Television consisted of two shows - "Real People" and "That's Incredible".

 

 

OMG, I remember that show... yikes. "THAAAAT'S INCREDIBLE"

the Cubs won the World Series