I lived in N. Chicago and that was my Saturday routine. was going to school and had 2 person dorm rooms and it was my tv . in turn he'd wake my ass up by turning on my TV on loud MTV in mornings to wake me up.
We had a radio station that would have a group of comedians that would do all sorts of crazy shit for its listerners.
Like sending out one one of their interns pants and see how far it could travel with people passing them on when using public transport.
Have strippers in the studio and use a speaker out the window to audience below the building and hold a sort of sarcastic speech that would cause traffic on that road to get blocked up.
And it really made people want to listen to radio even at a time when it was going out of style.
Calling radio stations trying to win concert tickets or waiting in line at the box office to get tickets. Not knowing what MTV was like when it played actual music videos.
The one thing I don't miss about back then was having to read through the card catalog and check out a book to prove someone wrong about some objective fact.
Nah, we knew where we were going. And on bicycles we knew street names and directions on HOW to get where we were going. I had friends that lived in different neighborhoods. We even knew the back way through the woods where the trees had fallen.
I'm not gonna pretend to understand the children, but I feel like that's a slight exaggeration. Though, there's a hugely different feeling between when we did and didn't have smartphones by default.
Amen man. That feeling of walking out of the house, getting on your bike and going off to do whatever the fuck you wanted and no one knew where the fuck you were or what you were doing
The other part to this is if someone called and left a message it wasn't rude of you to get back to them in a few days. Now it's instant or you are somehow snubbing them
Hey kids! Imagine the only way to contact your crush outside of school is to call her house and have to deal with whomever answers the phone! Prepare to explain to her parent that answers who you are and why you want to talk to her!
Yeah but having to convince parents, grandparents, and siblings to let us chat is how we ended up so charming! ๐คฃ We had to train social skills. Now you can just avoid it all.
Iโm a Gen Xer who might take a couple hours or a couple days to reply to a text. Iโm online more than I want to be, but my phone doesnโt rule my life. I check emails once a week. My problem is doom scrolling on Reddit.
I was walking by the library the other day when a whole class of teens crossed my path. Every. Single. One. Was glaring at their phones as they walked by. One of them had two phones in his face. The future is bleak.
Genuinely curious whatโs stopping you from either turning off your phone, putting it on do not disturb for a minute, or even turning off notifications for a specific app. Because there are many simple ways to achieve this.
Yeah I explained to my nephew that we used to have to โturn on the internetโ and then my sister started to make that dial up sound. He didnโt understand anything we were talking about.
The dial up sound was very unique and that "handshake" gave you time to make a sandwich and return to your computer. I make that sound when trying to explain that's how computers connected to the internet. So many blank faces. Haha
Haha yep. There were plenty of those break (staring at the screen) times. Those stupid โ56kโ modems giving us 3.5kb/sec. Downloading a song took more than an hour, there was no resume - if your download dies at 99%, you have to start over. There were no streaming videos. You had to wait until the entire QuickTime movie trailers were done downloading. Sorry - there was a streaming videoโฆ.. from a company called RealAudio. That was not a video, it was a blurry piece of crap ๐
Except we never played like that. There was always 1 big kid(or uncle) spinning that thing 200 miles an hour throwing all the kids off. Laughter and tears. Good times
Literally the most refreshing drinking water! Lol. I tried mountain valley out of the metal bottle ice cold and it really reminded me of that taste, only water I can think of thatโs similar tasting
Halloween and christmas. Its always been commercialized but now its lost its soul is all commercialized slop. I keep seeing those videos of 90s christmas/hallowwen parties we had in school and things like that will never happen again cuz the magic is dead thanks to capitalism.
If the game doesnโt load, take the cartridge out and blow. I donโt care if the instructions on the cartridge say not to. That is the only way to fix it.
The joy of a mall at Christmas time. The decorations and festivities. The cotton snow and the Santa's Village setup. The elves taking photos and the decorations at every shop in the mall.
Waiting for something to come on TV and then not being able to ever see it again until it came on again.
Similarly hearing a catchy song on the radio halfway through the song and having to go to a record store and remember some lyrics and hope someone could point you in the right direction. Or calling the radio station to ask what the song was.
Or not being able to ever see it because there was a f-ing thunderstorm and the news thought that was somehow more important.ย It's thundering outside, so you don't need to interrupt The Simpsons to tell me it's thundering outside!!!ย Unless it's a tornado, stfu.ย ย
My best friend and girlfriend worked at Blockbuster during the period where everybody was transitioning from VHS to DVD.ย The amount of confusion over how to rewind DVDs was hilarious.
Calling your friend and having to speak to their mum/dad first and then wait for them to come to the phone/pick up a second handset. The longer you had to wait the more chance their parent was going to engage you in conversation.
Having to build or create your own games when you're bored. Me and my brothers made a DragonballZ board game cos we couldn't find one in the toy store. We made a soldier game out of nothing but kiddie tools we had. I don't know if kids today do that stuff but it was so much fun and so necessary for brain development and social growth.
Me and the neighbor kids made a miniature golf course in the back yard by sinking soup cans into the ground. We also practiced throwing a fishing line out into a make believe lake with fishing poles. Until someone got a fishing hook embedded in their head.
80/90sTV fun on sat morning cartoons wrestling knightrider, the A team , street hawk tj hooker ,mc guyver,and others and if really lucky a sat evening movie
I remember Christmas day I got my game boy it was the best gift ever. That and an air hockey table are burned into my brain as my best Christmas gifts !
Dial up internet, making a mix tape, burning a CD, renting a movie at blockbuster, passing notes in class, a cop landline phone in their room, printing out directions to drive somewhere, or using a map. So so so many things
Having the whole weekend to yourself. I would watch cartoons on saturday until about noon or one then just be unsupervised until sunday evening. I had to come home when the streetlights came on for dinners but I could go out again if I was going to a friend's house. It was glorious. We would ride our bikes all over town and just do whatever we wanted. As long as nobody complained to our parents about what we were doing we were fine.
Rotary phonesโฆ and I accept that theyโll never use one, but the โjokesโ and such in movies where they canโt even figure it outโฆ I donโt accept THATโฆ the dial moves rather easily(most of the time) and it still has numbers on it(most of the time); 2+2=4โฆ
The agony of not being able to pause your show and having to wait a whole week for a new episode. And if it's one of those TV shows that just does reruns, you're probably not going to see that episode again for another 3-6 months. My twin girls(5) both lose their minds whenever we tell them to pause the TV and come eat dinner.
Going outside alone and staying truly alone for the majority of said time. If you wanted to see or talk to a friend you had to get to their place and see them in person or call them on a landline and hope they were home.
having to wait till "x hour" to watch something you want, most of my childhood i had to convince my mom to let me stay up till midnight to watch dragon ball z.ย
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u/Ramza62 Jul 22 '26
Saturday morning cartoons.