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since there are some really old people on this forum, would you mind telling what life was like in the last century did you use a "telephone" to "call" people? did watch a "television"? when you first saw a computer, did the blinking lights and strange noises scare you?
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Jul 22, 2023 11:51
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Burger King made good burgers then
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Jul 22, 2023 11:55
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idk op your "QCS" crew tag makes me thing youre a narc and a poser. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 22, 2023 12:08
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There were these things called "pogs"No. 6 posted:Burger King made good burgers then Yeah!
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Jul 22, 2023 12:22
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You had to get your sister off the phone to dial up AOL. A real struggle.
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Jul 22, 2023 12:27
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baggy jeans
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Jul 22, 2023 12:34
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New York had these 2 towers you see
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Jul 22, 2023 12:37
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It was dark times, literally with light globes being invented sometime about 2001. Most of us didn't survive obviously and those that did mostly do not like to talk about the horror that we saw. I mean the horror that we saw in the day time. At night it was obviously to dark to see any of the many horrors of the 20th century.
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Jul 22, 2023 12:43
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Short, brutish and filled with lead
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Jul 22, 2023 13:10
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Everyone smoked, and 7-11 closed at 11.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:12
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hoses were the only things you could drink from apparently
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Jul 22, 2023 13:16
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I didn't own a pair of non-rollerblade footwear until I was 24.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:20
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Every neighborhood had this totem, or perhaps suburb gods, known collectively as The Joneses. They represented greed, gluttony and consumption and were the primary cultural driver as every citizen tried to "keep up" with them at any cost lest they were exiled.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:22
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We had no contact with the other idiot masses on the planet, so stupidity was partially contained.
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Jul 22, 2023 13:41
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Everything got way worse after videogames, anime and internet were invented. In a way they became the four horsemen of legend of our times... what do you think was the fourth one?
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Jul 22, 2023 13:47
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Colonel Cancer posted:Every neighborhood had this totem, or perhaps suburb gods, known collectively as The Joneses. They represented greed, gluttony and consumption and were the primary cultural driver as every citizen tried to "keep up" with them at any cost lest they were exiled. LOL I drive by this old couple's house, and they are "The Joneses", and they have an inground pool and 3 car garage and go all out decorating for every holiday - like even St. Patricks Day. And a super cute bus mailbox with "The Joneses" proudly written in cursive. And they put any nearby house to shame, and I bet all their neighbors are like "we can't keep up with The Joneses", and yet some of them try. I can't hate them though, they are like 100 years old and wave when you drive by.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:12
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What part of the 20th century are you talking about OP because that can range from "the N64 was the hottest poo poo ever" to "you were going to die from either nazis, trench foot, or both in about 20 minutes"
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Jul 22, 2023 14:29
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EorayMel posted:What part of the 20th century are you talking about OP because that can range from "the N64 was the hottest poo poo ever" to "you were going to die from either nazis, trench foot, or both in about 20 minutes" Yeah, very non-specific. I'd say n64 was hot, but I didn't shoot nazis in a trench.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:31
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EorayMel posted:What part of the 20th century are you talking about OP because that can range from "the N64 was the hottest poo poo ever" to "you were going to die from either nazis, trench foot, or both in about 20 minutes" Woodrow Wilson sucks!
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Jul 22, 2023 14:32
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Grey Cat posted:Yeah, very non-specific. I'd say n64 was hot, but I didn't shoot nazis in a trench. If you'd just shot some nazis in a trench maybe they wouldn't of won ya jerk.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:38
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Satan used a lot pen names to write these
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Jul 22, 2023 14:39
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I was shooting Germans in trenches before they were NAZI's.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:39
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redshirt posted:I was shooting Germans in trenches before they were NAZI's. I never stopped.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:45
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I used a “telephone” to call my dad at work. You’d pick it up, and listen for a dial tone, and if there was one, you’d dial the number. The dial was a big donut lookin thing with holes around it, and you’d jam your finger in the hole next to a number, rotate the donut thing and let the dial rotate itself back, seven times (one rotate and return for each digit in the phone number), and then the ear peice would go BRR BRR. BRR BRR. BRR BRR. Until dad picked up his end, or didn’t and you gave up. If there wasn’t a dial tone, you’d listen to the house over the road having a conversation until they noticed and told you to hang up and stop listening to them talking. We got a new fangled phone with buttons and a line that was just ours in 1988 (I was 8 years old), and it was cool because each button made a different pitch so I’d press lots of different combinations trying to make a tune, and sometimes I’d accidentally call someone. I have a telephone now, but it’s also a computer that fits in my pockets and I’m using it right now to post on these here forums for old farts.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:46
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You couldn't easily look up the answers to things. If the specific document wasn't accessible to you, you just had to live with your ignorance. If you scheduled a date or get together, you had to arrive at the right time and place. You couldn't text to say you were running late, after a certain point you had to trust you'd all arrive. If you didn't, you had no idea why and the whlole thing could fall apart
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Jul 22, 2023 14:46
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Wikipedia wasn't around so nobody except nerds had any real grasp on when any historical events happened anyway. Like if you wanted to dunk on your dumbass friends you'd have to rollerblade across town to the library, track down a source, spend 50 cents on a photocopy and then come back hoping they hadn't left in the 2 hours it took you to produce hard evidence that Napoleon wasn't the one who shot Franz Ferdinand.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:49
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Shithouse Dave posted:I used a “telephone” to call my dad at work. You’d pick it up, and listen for a dial tone, and if there was one, you’d dial the number. The dial was a big donut lookin thing with holes around it, and you’d jam your finger in the hole next to a number, rotate the donut thing and let the dial rotate itself back, seven times (one rotate and return for each digit in the phone number), and then the ear peice would go BRR BRR. BRR BRR. BRR BRR. Until dad picked up his end, or didn’t and you gave up. While rotary phones were a little before my time, I've still used them, and they are a very satisfying tactile experience. I also think mentioning filters for phone lines is funny. Picking up the phone and getting an earfull of grrrrrrskskshhhhhhhhrhkkkk.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:50
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Testikles posted:You couldn't easily look up the answers to things. If the specific document wasn't accessible to you, you just had to live with your ignorance. I had many encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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Jul 22, 2023 14:51
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Snackula posted:Wikipedia wasn't around so nobody except nerds had any real grasp on when any historical events happened anyway. Like if you wanted to dunk on your dumbass friends you'd have to rollerblade across town to the library, track down a source, spend 50 cents on a photocopy and then come back hoping they hadn't left in the 2 hours it took you to produce hard evidence that Napoleon wasn't the one who shot Franz Ferdinand. Roller blades??? You mean roller skates?
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Jul 22, 2023 14:52
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if we had to go to school we needed to walk to the school bus
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Jul 22, 2023 15:13
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EorayMel posted:What part of the 20th century are you talking about OP because that can range from "the N64 was the hottest poo poo ever" to "you were going to die from either nazis, trench foot, or both in about 20 minutes" i was talking about the 20th not the 21th century moran
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Jul 22, 2023 15:15
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Grey Cat posted:While rotary phones were a little before my time, I've still used them, and they are a very satisfying tactile experience. Agreed, I always liked calling my grandmother from my great-grandmother's apartment because her number had a 9 and a 0 in a row. 
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Jul 22, 2023 15:29
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we used to eat a food called pizza, it’s hard to describe it’s like a circle but you eat it as a triangle or sometimes a rectangle if that makes sense, also they can be thin or very deep
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Jul 22, 2023 15:40
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photography was still very primitive and we mostly took reverse selfies back then, we just didn’t know better
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Jul 22, 2023 15:42
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Kids would get high at school on the mimeograph machine
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Jul 22, 2023 15:51
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Schools were not a place to get shot at.
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Jul 22, 2023 16:01
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Getting a real good sniff of your report card that was printed on a dot matrix printer.
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Jul 22, 2023 16:08
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Personal computers had big power switches that made a solid clack when you flipped them. None of these wimpy soft power buttons where you don't know if you pushed it or not.
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Jul 22, 2023 16:16
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panorama_change posted:Getting a real good sniff of your report card that was printed on a dot matrix printer. This but a page from a ditto machine.
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Presto posted:Personal computers had big power switches that made a solid clack when you flipped them. None of these wimpy soft power buttons where you don't know if you pushed it or not. 
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