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Post by cosmo on Dec 5, 2023 21:14:00 GMT -5
I was the first person in my social circle that had a DVD player. Whenever someone I knew wanted to own a copy of a movie but only had a VCR, I'd rent the movie from Blockbuster, hook the DVD player up to a VCR with a blank tape in it, and hit "record."
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 5, 2023 22:18:46 GMT -5
For me, it's the Sears catalog not just the Christmas edition. You found what you wanted, filled out a form and mailed it in with a check, then waited 1-2 weeks for it to arrive at the local Sears catalog office for pick up. No home delivery. That was no less than 40 years ago as a business model. We also got 5 bees for a quarter. Yes, I am that old. Sears Canada did that pretty much right up until the end. My mum was still going to the Sears Depot to place and pick up orders well into the 2000's
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 5, 2023 23:07:41 GMT -5
I was the first person in my social circle that had a DVD player. Whenever someone I knew wanted to own a copy of a movie but only had a VCR, I'd rent the movie from Blockbuster, hook the DVD player up to a VCR with a blank tape in it, and hit "record." I did that but rented from Hollywood Video and Hastings. I can still tell you the numbers of the 8 over the air channels I got growing up. 3 was ABC out of Mobile AL. 5 was CBS out of Mobile,10 was NBC(back then it is FOX now) out of Mobile,13 was ABC out of Biloxi MS,15 was FOX out of Mobile(now it is NBC),19 was PBS out of Hattiesburg,25 was FOX out of Hattiesburg and 44 was an indy channel out of Pensacola FL.
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Post by Soultastic on Dec 5, 2023 23:54:04 GMT -5
That feeling when you would tune into a channel to watch your favorite show and some other bullshit is on instead. There was no website to check. No TV Guide listing. Your show was just gone. Forever. The pain... Semi-related. In Peru we got WWF shows and PPVs on free TV, but like 6 months after the fact. I vividly remember watching Survivor Series 2000 as Austin and Triple H brawled backstage. Then the show got cut by an urgent message to the nation from the then transitional president. He pretty much just said "elections are coming" but took like 10 minutes to do it. The speech ended and we went back to the show, to a shot of an upside down car and everyone panicking. Little me was so mad lmao, I hated that president for years.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 6, 2023 0:08:01 GMT -5
For me, it's the Sears catalog not just the Christmas edition. You found what you wanted, filled out a form and mailed it in with a check, then waited 1-2 weeks for it to arrive at the local Sears catalog office for pick up. No home delivery. That was no less than 40 years ago as a business model. We also got 5 bees for a quarter. Yes, I am that old. Sears Canada did that pretty much right up until the end. My mum was still going to the Sears Depot to place and pick up orders well into the 2000's Can't remember the last time I would have ever went to the Sears Depot, maybe like early 90's. Our Sears was in the mall, so once I got old enough to be at the mall by myself or old enough to wander the mall by myself, no sense being in Sears...I would assume my mom would have stopped sometime around 1993...that's just a guess.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Dec 6, 2023 9:34:01 GMT -5
For me, it's the Sears catalog not just the Christmas edition. You found what you wanted, filled out a form and mailed it in with a check, then waited 1-2 weeks for it to arrive at the local Sears catalog office for pick up. No home delivery. That was no less than 40 years ago as a business model. We also got 5 bees for a quarter. Yes, I am that old. ...wait...there was a form to fill out and mail in? I was actually at an estate sale a few months ago, and the Sears Winter catalog was legitimately one of the more expensive items in the house, albeit in pristine shape...but nonetheless. I may be misremembering if you filled out the form and mailed the check in yourself OR if you went to the Sears catalog office and filled it out/clerk filled in out and handed your money over there. I do remember that was the way I got the GI Joe hovercraft W.H.A.L.E. at the end of the school year because it took forever to get the phone call that it had come in.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 6, 2023 10:45:35 GMT -5
Speaking of home taping memories, ever tape something and then a news report comes in, interrupting the program you were taping?
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 6, 2023 11:20:16 GMT -5
I have a large scar on my head from a Lawn Dart.
Not because somebody threw it, but because I was getting ready to throw it and slipped in the wet grass and felt onto the point.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 6, 2023 11:38:26 GMT -5
Taping 1/2 a song off the radio and being happy you even got that much.
It is still weird to me to be able to listen to whatever song you want whenever you want.
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Post by dirtyoldman on Dec 6, 2023 13:13:50 GMT -5
And not having to pay for it either.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Dec 6, 2023 19:01:20 GMT -5
I remember when burned CDs were a new thing. There was only a couple kids at my high school that could do it. You gave them $5 and a list of the songs you wanted, and they came back the next day with your CD.
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Post by tirtefaa on Dec 6, 2023 20:25:39 GMT -5
Here's a few more random things;
The 2 for $8 or the 3 for $9 bin at Kay Bee Toys. Granted, these were typically toy lines like Pirates of the Dark Water, but you would buy these as the jabronis to job to your other action figures. Or at least I did. I had a DragonHeart figure who "died" every time I played with him.
Blockbuster Video was how we would see movies since the theater was way too expensive. To get our money's worth, it wasn't uncommon to watch the movie 2 or 3 times before returning it. There were always the same movies that were on "display" that stood out to me; Unnecessary Roughness, Dead Alive and Friday the 13th Part IX.
Hostess stores were AWESOME! Since they were so finicky about the product going bad, you could go into one of these and get still very fresh stuff for super cheap, like those little pies, 3 for a dollar. Heat those suckers up for 30 seconds in the microwave, along with a glass of milk was pure bliss. These stores also carry cookies called "Jelly Tops" which were made by a company called Mrs. Allison's...which eventually went out of business. And instead of anyone deciding to make these, they have been obsolete for years...and no, I guarantee they don't exist because all the "copycats" aren't the same, either the cookies don't taste the same, or the jelly isn't sticky or hard enough.
Around the time Surge came out, there was another drink called Orbit that had these little balls floating in it. No idea why, but I was obsessed with this stuff, thinking it was the drink of the future. I think it disappeared after 6 months.
I know pogs were a fad, but I got into them very much during the short time they were a thing. And you know what? Some were actually pretty cool. There was one brand called Slug, that had that flicker lenticular gimmick, but with designs that looked like they were drawn by Ed Roth or Basil Wolverton. Those really deserved to have continued to get made despite the progress market being overrun with mostly garbage.
Kind of ties into pogs, but just about every cheap 90's vending product had a skull, 8 ball, peace sign, yellow smiley or green alien assigned to it.
Do kids still get class photos? I moved 2 states away, and by mid elementary school, it seemed like they decided not to do it there. It's too bad considering the yearbooks weren't as cool, since it was scanned black and white photos. Only thing I hated about school photos, I was a short kid...so it meant I stood in the front row.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Dec 6, 2023 21:01:02 GMT -5
All of my 20s.
No one lasted into my 30s and I haven't heard from many since I was 28, about to hit 33.
Waste of life.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 11, 2023 3:46:32 GMT -5
For me, it's the Sears catalog not just the Christmas edition. You found what you wanted, filled out a form and mailed it in with a check, then waited 1-2 weeks for it to arrive at the local Sears catalog office for pick up. No home delivery. That was no less than 40 years ago as a business model. We also got 5 bees for a quarter. Yes, I am that old. ...wait...there was a form to fill out and mail in? I was actually at an estate sale a few months ago, and the Sears Winter catalog was legitimately one of the more expensive items in the house, albeit in pristine shape...but nonetheless. From what I remember,mid to late 70s thru about late 80s. You filled out a form in the catalog and either mailed it in or took it to the nears Sears store. I am pretty sure you didnt have to pay for whatever you ordered until it arrived at the store. Also am I the only one to remember how GIJoes and Kenner Star Wars figures came uncarded from sears and JC pennys? Like you would see in the catalog a lot of 5 gi joes,usually 3 good guys and 2 heels from whatever the newest wave was. And when you got it in they were in a baggie,the weapons and file card in another. Not sure why but as a kid I hated this. I wanted to rid that bubble off the backing card. We had a Sears store in town until they all closed what earlier this year. I never went in there. Was told all it was was appliances Had this odd worthless memory come up. As a kid I couldn't get to the comic shop every week,sometimes I was lucky to get in there every other month. So cant miss titles from Marvel or DC I would subscribe thru the mail. For years they came with a brown paper wrapper around them. Address label on that wrapper. Guesss what else also came in a brown wrapper through the mail,any and all porn mags back then. So a few times I would be sent out to get the mail. See that brown wrapper and thinking I got the newest Defenders,New Teeen Titans or Uncanny X-men in,rip it open as I wallk in and nope it is Dad's copy of Playboy.
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Post by rainandlava on Dec 11, 2023 13:11:49 GMT -5
While I wouldn't call them so much pointless, I do remember seeing a lot of humorous commercials in the Early-Late 2000s down here in Hawaii that promoted either local stores or chains from the continent that were in the islands. Man, those were good stuff.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Dec 11, 2023 17:29:36 GMT -5
...wait...there was a form to fill out and mail in? I was actually at an estate sale a few months ago, and the Sears Winter catalog was legitimately one of the more expensive items in the house, albeit in pristine shape...but nonetheless. From what I remember,mid to late 70s thru about late 80s. You filled out a form in the catalog and either mailed it in or took it to the nears Sears store. I am pretty sure you didnt have to pay for whatever you ordered until it arrived at the store. Also am I the only one to remember how GIJoes and Kenner Star Wars figures came uncarded from sears and JC pennys? Like you would see in the catalog a lot of 5 gi joes,usually 3 good guys and 2 heels from whatever the newest wave was. And when you got it in they were in a baggie,the weapons and file card in another. Not sure why but as a kid I hated this. I wanted to rid that bubble off the backing card. We had a Sears store in town until they all closed what earlier this year. I never went in there. Was told all it was was appliances Had this odd worthless memory come up. As a kid I couldn't get to the comic shop every week,sometimes I was lucky to get in there every other month. So cant miss titles from Marvel or DC I would subscribe thru the mail. For years they came with a brown paper wrapper around them. Address label on that wrapper. Guesss what else also came in a brown wrapper through the mail,any and all porn mags back then. So a few times I would be sent out to get the mail. See that brown wrapper and thinking I got the newest Defenders,New Teeen Titans or Uncanny X-men in,rip it open as I wallk in and nope it is Dad's copy of Playboy. Re: Kenner Star Wars lineup, this is what gave us the blue Snaggletooth. Least that's how I got mine, and still have.
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Post by fg on Dec 11, 2023 19:45:30 GMT -5
Recording a lost episode of an old TV show that hasn’t been seen in decades knowing full well that it very well could be the only time in your lifetime you would be able to see it or you would have to wait A VERY LONG TIME to see it again.
Same thing applies if it’s a B&W show that will be shown colorized and the same thing applies if it’s a show that is being shown uncut and/or with the original music.
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Post by cosmo on Dec 11, 2023 22:25:04 GMT -5
I was the first person in my social circle that had a DVD player. Whenever someone I knew wanted to own a copy of a movie but only had a VCR, I'd rent the movie from Blockbuster, hook the DVD player up to a VCR with a blank tape in it, and hit "record."
Following up on this, I remember DVDs being sold in both widescreen and full-screen formats. Since 16:9 televisions weren't so common at the time (at least in my area, anyway), I knew quite a few people with 4:3 TVs who would complain about the black bars on the widescreen versions.
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Post by schma on Dec 12, 2023 4:27:01 GMT -5
I was the first person in my social circle that had a DVD player. Whenever someone I knew wanted to own a copy of a movie but only had a VCR, I'd rent the movie from Blockbuster, hook the DVD player up to a VCR with a blank tape in it, and hit "record." I did that but rented from Hollywood Video and Hastings. I can still tell you the numbers of the 8 over the air channels I got growing up. 3 was ABC out of Mobile AL. 5 was CBS out of Mobile,10 was NBC(back then it is FOX now) out of Mobile,13 was ABC out of Biloxi MS,15 was FOX out of Mobile(now it is NBC),19 was PBS out of Hattiesburg,25 was FOX out of Hattiesburg and 44 was an indy channel out of Pensacola FL. We got 3, sometimes 4 channels if the weather was clear. CBC, some French channel from Quebec, a channel from the Ottawa Valley and sometimes if we were lucky, global from Toronto.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 12, 2023 8:23:07 GMT -5
That feeling when you would tune into a channel to watch your favorite show and some other bullshit is on instead. There was no website to check. No TV Guide listing. Your show was just gone. Forever. The pain... "Wait... Why isn't Mighty Max on?" - Elementary School Me.
Speaking of. I was used to syndicated cartoons, every episode self contained, in any order etc. The novelty of Mighty Max even having an ending episode, it was the first cartoon I remember having one, plus the ending was him losing, everyone dying and having to start over again, blew my mind.
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