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We didn't have Google Maps to dictate directions when we had to drive somewhere unfamiliar, we had to plot out our directions using paper-rear end maps. Everyone had a Thomas Guide in their car and hopefully it wasn't too out of date because unexpected road changes could be a real bitch.
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Plastic Pal posted:We didn't have Google Maps to dictate directions when we had to drive somewhere unfamiliar, we had to plot out our directions using paper-rear end maps. Everyone had a Thomas Guide in their car and hopefully it wasn't too out of date because unexpected road changes could be a real bitch. It was also very important to remember this was a time when all roads lead to Rome, so if you were going to Rome your best bet was to pick a direction to drive down which ever road you were on and just not stop, praying you got the right direction.
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i had sex and did drugs in the 20th century. owned much OP
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In the 90s we had archery during gym class, using actual bows and arrows. And we had rubber dodgeballs (dodgeball doesn't even exist at all anymore in the school I work for).
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Jul 25, 2023 12:26
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Das Boo posted:I'm pretty sure every kid played in a sewer.  could argue that the city was one giant sewer I suppose
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Jul 25, 2023 17:15
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I farted 29,592 times in the 20th century, it was real good times
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Jul 25, 2023 17:42
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terrible weed, excellent lsd
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Jul 25, 2023 17:44
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:terrible weed, excellent lsd Acid was cheap, too. $5-$10 a hit is a paltry price to pay for a journey to the edge of the universe.
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Jul 25, 2023 18:01
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Weed was super illegal everywhere, like basically if you had weed (and were not wealthy/white) then it was straight to pound me in the rear end prison. Like imagine the situation in the shittiest states today, except it was like that everywhere. Being against this made you a weirdo hippy Also most adults had no loving clue what the internet was, and at one point it was like a private digital space for mostly teenagers on their parents computers and a smaller group of pioneering adults. The kids had to basically teach the entire population of adults what a computer was and how INTERNET worked
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Jul 25, 2023 18:39
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Weed was super illegal everywhere, like basically if you had weed (and were not wealthy/white) then it was straight to pound me in the rear end prison. also in many places it was hard to get at various times, certain towns/regions would "go dry" from time to time, and in a lot of places when it was around it was dry, brown, full of stems and seeds, and compressed from being in a brick. you'd have to shell out a lot more for "kind bud" that actually resembles the weed sold in stores today. if you look at the weed in like a cheech and chong movie it looks like a bunch of twigs and poo poo.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:14
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The population was lower because we named ladies Ethel and Mildred and Gertrude and no man could pop good boners with such ladies.
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Jul 25, 2023 23:36
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MonkeyHate posted:The population was lower because we named ladies Ethel and Mildred and Gertrude and no man could pop good boners with such ladies. i think that might be more of a “you” problem 
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Jul 25, 2023 23:43
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Plastic Pal posted:We didn't have Google Maps to dictate directions when we had to drive somewhere unfamiliar, we had to plot out our directions using paper-rear end maps. Everyone had a Thomas Guide in their car and hopefully it wasn't too out of date because unexpected road changes could be a real bitch. Not just a 20th century problem. This happened to me. Today! Fuckin Google maps didn't have that an intersection was now an overpass and kept trying to send me to this non-existent 4 way stop. Anoka, you changed. It used to be about recklessly cutting onto highway 10.
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Jul 26, 2023 00:02
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I did not have crippling anxiety
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Jul 26, 2023 00:04
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If you had a random question that just popped into your head you had to ask an old person who looked like they might know the answer (they often didn't, and gave you an incorrect answer, but you wouldn't know anyways), or drive to the library and check Encyclopedia Britannica or some such other paperbound book. It was awful.
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Jul 26, 2023 00:11
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Das Boo posted:I ate a bunch of candy cigarettes and played in a sewer. I'm pretty sure every kid played in a sewer. Does a construction site with a pond full of probably sickly frogs count
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Jul 26, 2023 00:13
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No active shooter drills in elementary school Fireflies were 3x more common
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Jul 26, 2023 00:31
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internet looked like this, op https://anlucas.neocities.org/88x31Buttons
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Jul 26, 2023 00:48
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crispix posted:internet looked like this, op https://anlucas.neocities.org/88x31Buttons how did we allow internet buttons turn into infinite scrolling articles with advertising and stop trying to stop us advertising popups 
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Jul 26, 2023 00:50
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Dick Fontaine posted:i think that might be more of a “you” problem  
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Jul 26, 2023 01:32
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Eclipse12 posted:In the 90s we had archery during gym class, using actual bows and arrows. We had archery, fencing, and riflery as well. They stopped riflery after this hippy chick shot a hole in the ceiling because shooting a gun offended her pacifist principles. The rifle range was underneath the pool, so it made a real big mess real quick. Another big difference was that public gay sex was a way bigger problem with public bathrooms than drug use. There would regularly be fresh jizz on the dividers of the men's room at my University, and they had to put plexiglass over them to prevent guys from drilling glory holes in them. There's an old-school website with information on public sex that starts in like 1996 and then basically trails off quickly after like 2002.
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There was this team of teenagers with attitude who fought these weird-rear end alien monsters. They used to hang out at the local juice bar and were pretty cool.
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