The first video game I ever owned. "Montezuma's Revenge". I had no clue what I was doing.

 

Edited January 4, 201016 yr by Brian

But Jim, the VIC-20 was endorsed by the Shat . . .

 

when AOL 3.0/4.0/5.0/etc would come out and it would take 3 hours to install it.

ah, the good ol days of a/s/l? & whatnot.

Yessir!

when AOL 3.0/4.0/5.0/etc would come out and it would take 3 hours to install it.

 

But AOL was a never ending source of floppies!

I remember in 1995 when I first signed up for AOL. It was so awesome to hear, "Welcome!"

 

My first IM was from someone I didn't know typing, "m/f?". I replied with, "Up Yours!" I thought someone was calling me a Mother F*****.

 

I made some stupid, stupid decisions because of AOL.

I had been on GEnie and CompuServe prior to AOL starting. I was around when they would do Road Tours, real world events. I remember the celebration when they reached 1,000,000 subscribers. Which was an amazing number at the time. Prior to GEnie, I racked up some huge long distance bills logging into ExecPC in Milwaukee and The Well in San Francisco.

Remember when you had to go to the ballpark to get tickets to a game?

Remember when you had to go to the ballpark to get tickets to a game?

 

Or wait in long lines for concert tickets

Street signs. Unless you're in Atlanta, that's the only place that doesn't have enough street signs.

Well, clearly you've never been to Washington DC. There's street signs but it doesn't matter, because none of them actually lead anywhere. But Atlanta's layout looks like it was planned by a drunken ass redneck with a crayon, and has been pointed out, all of them are named Peach-something.

Remember when you had to go to the ballpark to get tickets to a game?

Remember when you would fly somewhere and you'd physically carry a ticket to the gate?

Remember when AOL would send you spam by snail mail of CDs that promised ever-increasing numbers of free hours for a month, to the point where they'd promise more hours than were actually IN a month?

 

Remember when AOL used to be the undisputed leader when it came to internet access? (I never had it, first it was AT&T dial-up to avoid all that crap AOL puts on the computer, then it was AT&T cable internet)

People would call you, leave a message and actually wait for you to call them back without getting angry? Now its "where were you? I texted you, then fb'ed you and you didnt respond for 20 min!!!!"

People would call you, leave a message and actually wait for you to call them back without getting angry? Now its "where were you? I texted you, then fb'ed you and you didnt respond for 20 min!!!!"

winner

I totally did that to my friend earlier today but I was trying to get on her nerves on purpose.

Well, clearly you've never been to Washington DC. There's street signs but it doesn't matter, because none of them actually lead anywhere. But Atlanta's layout looks like it was planned by a drunken ass redneck with a crayon, and has been pointed out, all of them are named Peach-something.

 

Nope, I don't want to get shot. And, yes.

Two things stand out to me. One, it's so easy to get music today. When I was a freshman in college (1990), one of my friends used to call the local UofI Urbana oldies station and request "Brown Eyed Girl." Then he'd add, "I'm taping it, so please don't talk over the beginning music." I bet he recorded it ten times with the guy talking up the song right up to the first lyric. I guess that's a little better than me watching Friday Night Videos and taping songs by holding my little radio with the cassetted player up to the tv speakers.

 

The other thing that really stands out is porn. It was unavailable to me as a kid. I bet kids today don't even glance at the bra and underwear ads, and I'm sure they wouldn't watch scrambled movies just hoping to catch a glimpse of some nudity. One time, a few of my friends and I were walking down the street (this is early 1980s), and we stumbled upon the Holy Grail of porn. I guess some guy had found God or something because he threw out a garbage can full of magazines. We grabbed a bunch, and then we headed over to the nearby public school to look at them. It was great, but then the problem became, what do we do with them now? We couldn't bring them home, so we had to stash them. We found a spot, but when we came back, they were gone. I imagine the scene of another group of tweens finding them, having the same reaction we did, and losing them in the same way we did being played over and over.

Two things stand out to me. One, it's so easy to get music today. When I was a freshman in college (1990), one of my friends used to call the local UofI Urbana oldies station and request "Brown Eyed Girl." Then he'd add, "I'm taping it, so please don't talk over the beginning music." I bet he recorded it ten times with the guy talking up the song right up to the first lyric. I guess that's a little better than me watching Friday Night Videos and taping songs by holding my little radio with the cassetted player up to the tv speakers.

 

That's called the intro, DJ's talk over the music until the lyrics start. It's actually very hard to perfect. When I was a DJ, I could never do it right.

Nope, I don't want to get shot. And, yes.

DC really isn't like that anymore.

remember with the original NES, after a few years you had to blow in your game, blow in the console, put the game in, click it down, slide it over to the side, then hit the power button and HOPEFULLY your nintendo would work? if not, repeat until it worked.

Edited January 5, 201016 yr by KyYlE23

remember with the original NES, after a few years you had to blow in your game, blow in the console, put the game in, click it down, slide it over to the side, then hit the power button and HOPEFULLY your nintendo would work? if not, repeat until it worked.

I don't know if it took a few years to get like that!

I don't know if it took a few years to get like that!

 

Yeah, you are right. Originally I put a couple of months, but i changed it. Its been such a long time since I played an NES. Mine was actually in good shape for a while, I had one of those cleaner cartridges for the console and the alcohol swabs for the cartridges. Whenever i rented a game I cleaned the game before I put it in my NES and 9 times out of 10 it was dirty as hell

I remember playing Pong when it was bad-assed.

Yeah, you are right. Originally I put a couple of months, but i changed it. Its been such a long time since I played an NES. Mine was actually in good shape for a while, I had one of those cleaner cartridges for the console and the alcohol swabs for the cartridges. Whenever i rented a game I cleaned the game before I put it in my NES and 9 times out of 10 it was dirty as hell

I used to use regular Q-tips and alcohol swabs, rented games or ones from my buddies tended to be filthy. The Q-tip would come out looking dark grey.

 

On a similar note I HATE when I let someone borrow a game and I get it back all scratched up, nothing like the condition I gave it to them in.