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These are awesome. :clap:

I recall my baseball team going to away games and arriving in 2 cars.  Coach and asst coach drove and we'd fit 6-7 players in each car.  Smallest kids in the back window ledge.

Also,

Wired remote controllers.

 
Discounted party lines where a few homes share the same telephone line. Different numbers but the houses couldn't use the phone at the same time or you would hear the other person's conversation. 

Full service gas station

Local bank (F&M for those of you in the Twin Cities) would come  to school each Friday and you could put your spare change in an envelope for your savings account.

 
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...we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, la te da
(Bit by bit, by bit, by bit, by bit, by bit)
(Sha la la la la la la, la te da, la te da
Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da, la te da
(La te da, da da da da da da da da)

 
Having a TV antenna before cable and getting maybe 5-6 channels. We were high tech and had a rotor on the antenna and a small control box on the end table next to the couch. Come home from school, turn to the channel you wanted, and fine tune the picture by turning the antenna with the control box.

 
Only having 24 hours a month of internet access with AOL.

Actually "surfing the web" where you'd find a website, go to their "links" page, click on something interesting, go to that pages "links" page and so on and so on until you have no idea how you got to where you were. 

 
GStrot said:
I remember when Fox was “the fourth network channel”.  I think we had ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS   May have been channel 26 as well    
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In the North we were lucky, we got CBC too which meant Hockey Night in Canada, Mr. Dress Up and sometimes late night movies with boobies. 

 
Connecting an antenna to my receiver and walking around the house with it to try and get signal here in NY for when the Dolphins played in New England.

 
Rigging up 2 VCRs (Beta at that) to record movies I rented, having a blank tape in my stereo cued up at all times looking to record my favorite new songs off of the radio and trying to set my VCR to record WWF Saturday Night Main Events when I wasn't sllowed to stay up that late (and I swear it only worked 25% of the time). 

 
Anyone remember “party lines”. Sometimes you’d pick up your phone and you could listen and speak to others having a conversation. 

 
Calling 844-(any four numbers) to get the time (can still call the navy to get time at 202-762-1401)

Also calling the local weather... forgot the first 3 for that one 

OK this thread is just sad and depressing now. We’re you’re a bunch of old people reminiscing. Eeeew!!

 
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Scoresman said:
Dirty, sticky porn mags hidden under a rock in the backyard.  Finding and hiding good material was hard back in the day.  Now you just open your browser or phone.  
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Shortly after we moved into our house 34 years ago, I found a few ~1950/1960'ish girlie magazines on top of the duct work in the basement.  These were old enough that the, um, good parts were hidden by rectangular black boxes.  And yes, those magazines are still there.  :bag:  

 
Having to go to the bank and wait in line for a teller...just to get cash. Pre-ATM days. 

Was just telling my kids about that...and also needing to research something meant going to the library, not googling.

And of course- you had to go when they were open (bank or library), which meant having to schedule and wait...two skills that have disappeared.

 
cap'n grunge said:
Having a TV antenna before cable and getting maybe 5-6 channels. We were high tech and had a rotor on the antenna and a small control box on the end table next to the couch. Come home from school, turn to the channel you wanted, and fine tune the picture by turning the antenna with the control box.
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Watching a football game and there were 44 players on the field depending on ther reception. :lol:

 
In the mid 80s with call waiting - you could tell your friend to call at a certain time. You would call time or the weather a minute or two before they called so the phone didn’t ring and wake your parents up. 

Of course when you were done you had to be a pro and remember to hang up/click the phone back over the other line to hang up a second time otherwise the phone would ring with the weather or time still going. 

 
MS DOS prompts

Car phones

Usenet groups

Having to program the VCR

Hypercolor shirts

Funny answering machine messages "Believe it or not... George isn't at home...."

Calling the pager phone number and telling a live person to send so and so a crank message.

Picking up the phone only to hear the fax screeching noise

Being disconnected off the internet when an incoming call came in

Fast forwarding and rewinding cassettes over and over to get to the song you wanted to hear

 
gianmarco said:
I was thinking about how we used to pay for long distance calls.  As kids, you weren't allowed to make them unless it was an 800 toll free number.  Or, you had to wait until a certain time and then it would cost less.  And, IIRC, that first minute was always more expensive than the others.

What are some other quirky things from growing up you remember that don't really exist anymore?
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In the late 90s 16 year old me went to Portugal in the summer. Met a French girl. Fell in love. We wrote to each other and i would tell her what time and date i planned to call her. I would save up money for the call and had about 6 weeks of preperation before calling.

I'd call at like 5am my time, dad would pick up...I was like wtf! I sent ya a letter 3 weeks ago telling you to be at the phone at at 11:25 your time? Well...europe has daylight savings time at different times apparently. 

We would chat for like 38min on my sisters phone. Then i would get the bill the next month and settle up with her. I mean it was worth the $112.35 at the time. 

Today, i could just send her 23 dic picks and facetime her for 6 hours a day.

 
Jayrok said:
I remember having only 3 channels (ABC, NBC, CBS).  And your dad made you get up and go turn the channel knob.  Cable and the remote control were a huge break through.  

Also remember the tv being out and the repair man came to get behind the big cabinet and try to fix it.  Could be 3 days without the tube unless you heard the dreaded:  "Gotta send off fer a part." 
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Checking the TV tubes at the machine in the supermarket.  The last time I saw one of those was in about 1975.

 
We used to get the TV Guide. That's how you knew when shows were on.  That, or the newspaper. There was no "guide" on the TV.

And answering machines were a big deal. Who got to check the messages when you got home. Did you rewind the tape before you left? 

Trying to listen to other phone conversations by picking up another phone in secret. Except it always made a click.

 
Going to video stores on a Saturday night and renting new releases, nintendo and sega games.  The movies and games were due back Monday night.  Always crowded at the store, but when I got my movie/games.....jackpot!!!!!!

 
gianmarco said:
We used to get the TV Guide. That's how you knew when shows were on.  That, or the newspaper. There was no "guide" on the TV.

And answering machines were a big deal. Who got to check the messages when you got home. Did you rewind the tape before you left? 

Trying to listen to other phone conversations by picking up another phone in secret. Except it always made a click.
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The fall preview TV Guide was the best.  I also remember looking at the TV Guide every week, starting at Thanksgiving, looking to see when the Christmas specials were on.  

 
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Christo said:
How about when they finally came out with tape decks that could play both side of the tape without you having to flip it yourself? And record players that you could stack up the records to play one after the other?
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Best day ever was when I found an 8 track converter tape you stuck your cassettes in for sale so I could finally listen to cassettes in my first car.

Followed by a decade or so later getting a 6 cd changer put under the seat of my then car. I kept the same damn 6 cd's in that thing all the time because I was too lazy to change them out.

Edit: I remember a friend dropped a ton of dough on a 100 cd changer for his home stereo. I was so jealous.

 
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gianmarco said:
I was thinking about how we used to pay for long distance calls.  As kids, you weren't allowed to make them unless it was an 800 toll free number.  Or, you had to wait until a certain time and then it would cost less.  And, IIRC, that first minute was always more expensive than the others.

What are some other quirky things from growing up you remember that don't really exist anymore?
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I remember in college (late 80s) having a card (from Sprint) with an number 800 number and an account # that I would call in order to get long distance calls charged back to my folks. That's how I would call them.

Quint said:
The sound of metal golf spikes on asphalt and concrete. 
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How about a driver made from wood?

 
Long distance and pay phones! 

When I was in high school (mid to late 80’s), my girlfriend lived in the next county over and it was  a long distance call. I would drive two miles to cross the county line every night and call her on a pay phone, talk 30 minutes and head back home. 

 
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