I’m so old I remember…

[Milflvr13]

Adult book stores that sold adult magazines

 

[AlexBailey]

I remember when mTV was showing Michael Jackson’s latest video ’Thriller’ every hour on the hour.

 

[lacandy]

Sunday popcorn night

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
followed by
The Wonderful World of Disney

Gah!!! So much nostalgia! Vivid memories of Sunday nights.

 

[AlexBailey]

Sunday popcorn night

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
followed by
The Wonderful World of Disney

I was recently telling my kids about the days when if you missed a movie in the theater you had to wait for it to come out on TV.

The Wonderful World of Disney was huge, but I can’t remember…did WWoD show whole movies or just parts?

 

[loquere]

I remember blockbuster

 

[Dribble]

I was recently telling my kids about the days when if you missed a movie in the theater you had to wait for it to come out on TV.

The Wonderful World of Disney was huge, but I can’t remember…did WWoD show whole movies or just parts?

It showed whole movies but they covered 2 weeks...so they stopped at a part that drove you nuts...what will happen? However, the big attractions...only came out once a decade. The build up was months in advanced. But Disney had so many shows made for TV....like Ol Yeller and the sled dogs from the Yukon. One of the first chapter books I read was 101 Dalmatians. Still a classic today

 

[jaF0]

I'm so old I remember you tube without adverts.

That wasn't very long ago.

"YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, ..."

 

[Deleted member 3041612]

I remember where 1•900 phone numbers were popular. This or that companies that were pissed off with the amount of pornographic phone calls that were made on company phones.

 

[Taegul]

I remember being ferried in the back of pickup trucks praying to be spared any potholes or speedbumps.

 

[cuppatea]

Buying international calling cards ... knowing which ones gave the best rates per minute.

Then along came MSN messenger!

 

[Taegul]

Trying to watch squiggly SHOWTIME at night when we weren't subscribed...LOL!

Ok, so I did this with the Spice channel (among others). Then one day, I went on AOL to see if the Spice channel had any online content I could peruse. My search discovered a website promoting some musical group called The Spice Girls and the site was saying how they were going to invade America's radio waves and MTV and be "the next big thing." I rolled my eyes at the obvious bullshit, and I closed AOL in disgust at not finding any free Spice channel smut online.

Within the month....I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want. The invasion had begun.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I have a Garfield the cat scrapbook in my closet. It's full of Michael Jackson trading cards, and tons of 80s stuff. My sister made it in the early 80s..

 

[cuppatea]

@Inthesewalls posted about Garbage Pail Kids ... I remember buying the packs of trading cards, then covering a folder in the stickers ...

Panini sticker albums. I remember the Transformers one (G1!), Thundercats ... and Smash Hits!

 

[Milflvr13]

Pop tops on soda and beer cans

 

[willlph]

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[jaF0]

... watching George Carlin in his early days on The Tonight Show.


Richard Pryor too.


And a whole crapload of others that went on to become household names.

 

[HarryHill]

Howdy Doody on a huge tv w/a tiny screen. Did I win?

 

[ydahecnot]

 

[Taegul]

Damn creepy Sleestak! Land of the Lost was dope.

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[jaF0]

Finding out that Walking Tall was mostly a true story.

 

[Inthesewalls]

I remember where 1•900 phone numbers were popular. This or that companies that were pissed off with the amount of pornographic phone calls that were made on company phones.
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This was a 90s thing...but does anyone remember miss cleo the psychic readings on those pay numbers? or catch the doc on her on hbo max? My parents dont remember those commercials but my friends do...

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[jaF0]

Pop tops on soda and beer cans

We have pop-tops now. What you remember is pull tabs that were removable and caused all sorts of problems.

 

[Milflvr13]

We have pop-tops now. What you remember is pull tabs that were removable and caused all sorts of problems.

Don’t know where you are from, but where I come from, they were called pop tops. As in, “blew out my flip flop, stepped on a pop top”

Rock the casbah

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Did anyone remember when pop (soda) came in glass bottles?
My grandma drank RC COLA, and is grandkids had to carry the bottles back to the store to cash them in for candy

 

[Milflvr13]

Did anyone remember when pop (soda) came in glass bottles?
My grandma drank RC COLA, and is grandkids had to carry the bottles back to the store to cash them in for candy

There used to be a Coca Cola bottling plant near where I grew up. From the street, you could watch the bottles going down the conveyor belt.