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bearkatkitten

ah, 30....

Apr 12, 2007 10:58

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... through year 'round blizzards. Carrying their younger siblings on their backs ... to their one-room schoolhouse, where they maintained ( Read more... )

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And there's more.... she_flies April 12 2007, 16:35:10 UTC

And while we're on the subject of computers....

There certainly wasn't any such thing as a laptop! If you needed to move your computer somewhere else you had to lift the whole 15 pounds yourself.

We didn't have all these choices of makes and models and colors. You got a Commodore 64, a Tandy or an Apple IIe. And you got to pick from beige or beige.

Sure we had computer games. We had Dig Dug, Math Blaster and Lemodade Stand. The first two had crappy ASCII graphics with NO COLOR, the last didn't even bother to have graphics.

Our word processors didn't have fancy things like adjustable margins and spell check (you actually had to learn how to spell for youself!). And when you wanted to print something out the printer took 5 excrutiatingly LOUD minutes per page. Then you had to carefully tear the perferated feeder strips off without ripping your document.

Re: And there's more.... bearkatkitten April 12 2007, 16:41:10 UTC

I remember my parents bought this keyboard you could hook up to the tv... we still have it somewhere. And the only people that really had computers had to be rich. And they weren't these tiny things... they would take up an entire room.

Re: And there's more.... she_flies April 12 2007, 17:50:08 UTC

yeah, I guess I came from a family of some means. In 1980 we had a microwave and 2 computers (one that was for the kids and one for the adults). Not to mention some seriously GREEN carpet...I can't fathom what that was about.

But, yeah...computers were by no means as nearly ubiquitous as they are now.

octoberdreaming April 12 2007, 16:43:57 UTC

Thankfully, the world has improved since you and I were kids (hell if I would ever go back to a world without the internet), but I wouldn't exactly call it Utopia...

wow.. john_story April 12 2007, 19:19:56 UTC

Its so true. Though, there is one thing the 80's cant compete with.
Transformers LOL. Man those 80's Transformers were way cooler than no days :D

Re: wow.. bearkatkitten April 13 2007, 01:24:05 UTC

I remember that cartoons didn't become an afternoon thing.... like starting at 3pm, 'til the mid 80's. Like 1985, I believe, or remember.

Re: wow.. she_flies April 13 2007, 01:44:23 UTC

And Voltron! We don't need no stinkin' Power Rangers!

sabriel_charmer April 13 2007, 01:56:52 UTC

I actually liked those Jiffy Pop thingies. Mostly because we pretended we were in that house at the end of Real Genuis (you know where Val Kilmer and all the nerdy kids explode a house with popcorn and a laser?) Cause we had imaginations dammit!

Whatever! oldmanyohan April 13 2007, 06:23:11 UTC

stop yer bitchin, I'm still older than you. :P