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LOL from the 30-something crowd ...
Gorair
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(reposted from SWG forums) ...
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning .. uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog...
There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances...
There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music,you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up
And talk of about hardship? You couldn't just download porn! You had to steal it from your brother or bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of "Hustler" at the 7-11! Those were your options! We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances...
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! .. Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You
had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-**edit**!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like
an idiot.
an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,
The 30 Something crowd
The 30 Something crowd
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I' ll add a bit to that
We went to church on sunday sat at the table for dinner every night
We played out side when growing up from hide and seek, to kick the can remember scavenger hunts?
to sports in the street or play ground
We knew our neighbors by name and had neighborhood gatherings often
Handi downs did not mean name brand knock offs but stuff your brother or sister out grew
Arcade was the place to be if one wasn't working as a teenager
Back then we had trampoline parks, rollerscating rings , drive in theaters
Saying Merry Christmas wasn't a problem
Our first car was a volkswagon bug or another ole beat up car that when it ran we were glad of it
transistor radio with Fm big thing so were Cb raidos back then
First Mc Donalds to open in our area was 1964ish and a burger was 25 cents
I know you either
1. don't belive me
2. Think I'm an idiot
But..
I always wanted to be born in the 1950's instead of the 1980's
MMO Addict
- We had to run everywhere. No speeders.
- We had to wait 10 minutes for shuttles.
- The most powerful item you could have was a melon!
Gotta love the old days!
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But then you would have either been a hippie and gone to woodstock, been an "spoiled" college kid, or gone to Vietnam. And, actually, you would have been your own father.
You would have been part of the generation that made the changes in our society that we have now. Political correctness and eco-friendly would have been your battle cry, but you never would actually practice it. You would have been the generation of excess that led society to find it necessary to have words like DIncs (dual income families), SUV, Soccer Mom, etc. You would have been the generation of parents that through a "better than the Joneses" mentality led to absentee parenting, children that called themselves X and Y generation because they feel nothing defines them, etc. Your generation, the baby boomers, would be the most influential peacetime generation in the history of the US, and not necessarily in a good way. The first presidents from your generation were named Clinton and Bush, enuff said, I just wonder who your generation will produce as their next "leader".
The reality is that life is always more difficult for the person behind the eyes that see it. What will you say when you reach 40? 50? 60? What will this generation say when they reach 30? My grandmother was 20 during the depression, she has some real hardship stories, does that make her feel the past was better? It certainly was harder, but was it better? Is she a better person because she had to lose family in WWI, the depression, WWII, Korea, Vietnam? I think she might contend that the era from April 29, 1975 to September 11, 2001 was a pretty nice time to be an American regardless of the conveniences you did or did not have.
long live the Melon
I'm a old time geek here, and i must remeber things differently we had telecomunications just not as sophisticated as today, i remeber using my old 1200bps modem too log onto local chat systems running at 300bauds.. lol
The internet was still there and accessable if you went to collage or had a friend who did, we used to play mmorpg's too only thing is they where text based and in many respects actually more fun then alot of mmo's out today. infact there still out there and thriving. just look up muds or check out the mud connector when you get a chance. long before everquest 1 came along i played a mud exactly like it based on forgotten realms. toril or sojourn, i believe it was called. infact im pretty sure members of varent actually came from that mud.
What was actually great is back then there was no worry's about compitition people just set out to make a great peice of fiction.. there wasnt any wow, and as for cookie cutter mmo's people would actually reprogram the oringinal diku code or mush code to create something different and those muds stood out.. the source code for most muds are free and people are encouraged to modify it as long as they didnt sell the code. kind of like the game nethack, which has alot of variations.
as for games yes there was the atari 2600 but there was also atari 400-800 computer systems and then later the 600-800xl and the cd64 and if you had the cash the apple2+ then the 8088 based ibm clones.. i owned a atari 800 and the games where generally more sophisticated then the atari 2600 which is like 4k expanable thru the cartrage slot too 6 or 8? the 800 started with 48k later it went up too 64 and had a 360k hard-drive..
i remeber playing excellent games on it such as electronic arts (before they where a super corp.) mule or brodobunds(sp?) jumpman or origins ULTIMA 1-3 then after came 4 which i believe was the best int he series... or the original bards tale or epyx's Temple of apshi.
As for local communications pre internet for me we had chat systems called ddials if we wanted to post or views or play AD&D or download software we had local BBS's. infact the great thing about the communcated locally is that you can actually meet the people you typed too online infact we had what we called geek meets, lol and some where interesting to say the least..
yeah there wasnt mp3's but there where always friends too share copies of albums with or listen too infact if you wanted to hear "new music" or find out about a new click thats what your friends older brothers and sisters where for. if it wasnt for my friends sister i dont think i would have gotten into great groups like zepplin - doors - hendrix - beatles - dead or good metal like iron madien - judas preist - blackasabbath.
I know this sorta went a little off topic but i dont remeber things being quite as bad as the orignal poster stated. well not for the psudo-dork crowd like myself..
/cheer to original poster
i still remember the first porn mag my friend and i found in the bushes behind his house....wowwhat a great day
we had an atari 2600 and i think the first game we got was superman. was kinda a cool game.
Jeebus, I feel old now...
I actually remember when there was no Internet, no home computers, heck, no games machines, not even PONG... Even if ther ehad been there'd have been no online gaming as most houses shared a 'party line' (one phone line serviced more than one house, so you'd pick the phone up and get a neighbour yacking on about her hairdo... if ther'd been some sort of screetching bleeping noise we'd have taken that as s sign ether aliens or the Russians were coming)
We used to record The Old Grey Whistle Test onto a reel-to-reel tape recorder as those new fangled 'cassete' things would never catch on.
You had to watch the one or two 'pop music' shows when they were on because there were no video recorders and virtually no repeats of that sort of teenage nonsense. OTOH we got to watch Monty Python, Spike Milligan and The Last of the Goon Shows more or leass 'as they happened'
Also got to watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon as it happened. Awesome.
Oh yeah, my neighbours were all called Mr this or Mrs that, I didn't know folk over 30 actually HAD first names. Confused me when I heard somebody call my Dad by his first name...
but you tell young folk that these days and do they believe you? eee, don't know they're alive, lol.
LOL, that brought back many memories.
I must've been duped into the brat-ish mentality cause if my internet browser takes longer than 2 seconds to refresh the screen or if my PC takes longer than 15 seconds to load and start up Windows, generally get really irritated.
I think what has happened over the many years is that we've become accustomed to instant gratification for everything in life. We have instant-everything now. Food, movies, sports, games on the internet
, instant dating and marriage now via internet. Everything we own and use is almost always push button functioning or based on saving time yet we live in a society that claims that we have no time to spare. Everything is rush rush... just stop for a second during the Christmas season and notice everyone rushing around like idiots.
My parents and grandparents acquired their house and everything in it over a life time or hard work and savings, however now when ppl graduate from college they usually buy the same amount of stuff in one year or less...granted that some do it with credit and loans.
.... I could go on and on, but I will decline and listen to the rest of your great comments and responses.
Eve-Online, EQ2, DnL, SWG (Dead), Guild Wars, Anarchy Online, EQ, DAoC, Planet Side, WoW, LOTR, Tabula Rasa.
ROFLMAO! Kudos from a 35 year old.
Ah yes, I remember the old days when my brother and I were the remote control for the TV set. Dad would say, "turn the knob to channel 2." And it would be so.... channel surfing sucked back then.
haha
I remember when there wasn't no Kleenex and you had to pick your nose!
I remember when I upgraded my computer to a 80 MB hard drive and my friend chewed me out because I would NEVER be able to fill that thing up. oh and BTW I had 4 MB of CGA graphics before any else as well.
"The man who exchanges Liberty for Iconic classes is a fool deserving of neither." - Me and Ben Franklin
I miss what we all used to have with the game....i really do...
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Ill second that.
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Hey, i didnt get broadband until i was 15, before that it was MODEM surfing, imagine downloading porn on a modem man. Tis a hard life we live.
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I was a poor Detroit boy in the late 70's... I had to walk up hill on a sheet of Ice with aluminum foil for shoes to a freinds house that had HBO so I could see boobies...
It was worth it!!!
HAHAHA! And I thought I was the poor bastard...
funny stuff my friend.