Feeling Old (Off-Topic)

by Kahzgul, Thursday, August 13, 2015, 19:07 (3477 days ago) @ Durandal

- My first computer was (iirc) a Commodore Pet with no disc drive or hard drive, such that every time you turned it on you had to write the program that you wanted it to run. In BASIC. There was a magazine we got delivered every month that contained programs for you to retype. I spent all day writing hangman (which only had 3 words built into it) and then the power went out for 2 seconds and I lost it and had to start over.

- Our TV came in a box that had COLOR written on it with each letter in a different color, I assume in case you didn't know what the heck the word "color" meant.

- We had duck and cover drills in elementary school in case the Russians bombed us.

- My mom took me to a Dukakis rally.

- I saw the Challenger explode, live on TV. :(

- No one knew baseball players did steroids.

- Everyone loved Bill Cosby.

- Mike Tyson was going to be the next champ, we just knew it!

- We read 1984 and thought "Ha, look how the people in the past had baseless worries about the future."

- I had complete sets of Garbage Pail Kids series 1 and 2.

- Tom Cruise was younger than the romantic female lead in his latest movie, which also had this hilarious scene where he danced around in his underwear.

- Tupac was alive.

- Rambo helped the Taliban.

- No one in Predator was a governor yet.

So many more. Lordy.