LMAO with that horrible noise!!

I used to do that on payphones as a kid. I forgot all about that. Thanks

Until now, that is.

Nope it's the 30's + crowd. I agree kids now a days are spoiled.

Just goes to show you there is loss in gain. No matter how much further gets progressed, we lose as people because of it.

Who thought the Wizard of Oz was scarier in Black and White compared to technicolor? I personally thought it was way scarier.

You think that was bad. When I was a kid all we had was AM and black and white TV!

oh, but then came The Midnight Special... it saved us.
I miss my 8 track collection.

ummm i still have my commador 64 atari was to expensive

If you have kids HIDE the remotes lol it will drive them batty!!
anyone remember the cable box with the A ans B switch and a dial with 100 numbers and only 3 actual wrked

I remember those days!! The Atari which was about $200 and every game had the same graphics...who remembers blowing in the cartridges to make them work?

We had Pong before Atari and Colecovision with donkey Kong after Atari!

I had parents that would beat you...and made you go out back and cut your own switch!!

We didn't have microwaves until I was about 11 or 12...we had a toaster oven....

Whatever happened to the typewriter?

We had a computer...the first was a Commodore PET computer with 2k of memory and a tape drive that took two hours to load a 5 second program written in BASIC.

Then we 'upgraded' to an Apple IIe with a whopping 64k of memory!! My watch has more memory than that now.

Ok so im in my 20s and i never really had video games or a computer to play on. I didnt have a phone to talk on and so forth. So i mean i had a bike a radio books barbies and a lot of imagination. My favorite thing to do was color. So its not an age thing hun but still funny.

I wasn't raised with alot but I got REALLY good at what I did have, a push mower (my uncles), an axe (also my uncles), and my own 2 hands. When the lawn mower broke down I learned how to fix it because money was tight, that mower lasted years over any of our neighbors that seemed to buy 1 every year. The axe I got surgical with by the age of 8 and with that as well was maintaned, sharpened when dull, replaced handle with 1 that was widdled with a hatchet and knife if handle broke. Finally... my own 2 hands have kept me out of trouble when I was little (for the most part), done everything from trying to dig to china (the neighbors dog was my only competition at that) to drawing. Oh yeah 1 more thing, when your mother sends you to the plumb tree to get a switch...don't bring back a leaf...it made things WORSE!

I'm amazed that they even had 'real' toilet tissue back in the 8o's??? :) I don't mean the nice, soft delicately fragranced toilet paper you get these days...!? The stuff I'm talking about when I was a child was smooth as glass on one side and like sandpaper on the other... not the most thrilling stuff to use? Yes, people today just don't know that they've got it easy...! But then, when they too grow up - they'll be screaming about their awfully hard deprived lives only having the internet, apple iphones, Jacuzzis and 2d playboy magazines.... no 3d yet..... sadly.

Yea, I will never forget, "Son, go out and turn the antennae," my mom would holler out the door when my dad said STOP. but then I went too far and had to turn it back the other way. The cars they built back then, you could get in a fender bender and keep on going, now days, your car is totaled. CD's were the bomb, cause now you could go straight to the song you wanted to listen too instead of rewind and fast forward. How about the BIG CHIEF writing tablets we always had to have for school, Do they make them anymore? How about the single door refrigerator that sounded like a car engine and when you opened it, the freezer was on the top with a little tiny door that was big enough for one ice tray, and the ice trays were metal and had metal dividers inside that separated the water and after it was frozen you had to grab the handle and pull up on to crack the ice free.
LOL the old banana seat bicycles...
The little fans with the BIG motors that had metal blades and the guard around it had spaces big enough to put you finger in it, man you didn't do that but once.

I despised going outside at night, my Aunts had me terrrified of the Boogie Man. I thought he was just waiting outside to get me, man!! OMG, they terrible things we did to one another just because we were bored!!

Yea, my dad used to put panty hose over his head and look into the windows and scare us.

Soooo, not nice!!