Walk Like an Egyptian was also 1 the year I was born and was one of my favorite songs growing up. We had a record player in my basement and I used to listen to that, The Locomotion, Hey Mickey and the Grease soundtrack non stop while playing Math Blaster on our DOS computer. I am so not impressed Lo can use my phone, pssh. I'd love to see E using an old school computer and loading continuous paper on a dot matrix printer.
Re: S/O Shiz that dates you
Things that date me:
-I call most music players Jam Boxes and all video game consoles are Nintendos
-I still have my Hot 9 at 9 cassette tapes...you know from when I recorded the music from the radio. Only problem is that I have nothing to listen to them on ;-)
-The fact that neon and boat shoes are in style... gag me with a spoon. If worn once, never again.
-I really miss regular home phones w/answering machines...and Ecto Cooler Hi-C boxes.
Ecto coolers were the shiz.
I remember buying my first cd at age 12.
We had "computer" session in my elementary school where we had to program using DOS on Apple IIes - make a little turtle go around the screen.
Stuff that dates me:
1.) My Mom had an 8-track deck in the car and on our stereo at home so I grew up with that and owned some of my own 8-track tapes.
2.) I owned a Sony Walkman and I think I may still have it in my basement somewhere.
3.)When I was a manager at a restaurant I had to carry a pager to be reached. Cell phones were just coming on the market and were extremely expensive (and large).
4.) The high beam light switch in the car was on the floor. When I was a teenager I drove cars with the switch still on the floor.
5.) My family had a slide projector and we would pull it out to look at family pictures when my brother and I were young. We also had a home movie projector.
Oh the memories!
Yum! I found this recipe:
1 Packet Flavor Aid Orange1 Packet Flavor Aid Tangerine3/4 Cup Orange Juice (No Pulp)3/4 Cup Tangerine Juice1/3 scoop Countrytime Lemonade1 3/4 Cups SugarGreen and blue food coloring.
I may try a boozy version this summer
A few more things...
1.) I was 17-18 when the Berlin wall fell and Germany was reunified. My childhood was during the Cold War era. The USSR existed until I was an adult.
2.) AIDS wasn't known/identified until I was 12 yo. I remember the health department shutting down the bath houses in San Francisco.
The first video game I played was Frogger on the Atari.
I loved jellies.
Punky Brewster was my idol. (Actually, I really wanted to be her pretty blonde friend Margaux)
I remember when my parents got a cell phone for the car and it came in a little briefcase. I thought I was cool using it anyway. We didn't get a VCR until I was in middle school I think and I loved going to the video store to rent movies! Remember "Be Kind, Rewind"? I don't think I ever had to sit in a carseat!
Girl Talk! Agh! That was our thing for slumber parties! I'd forgotten!
My first job was at Little Caesars! I totally remember the rectangle pizzas!
I bought this patch set and made a shirt for C as a gift to my gamer geek husband and she wore it to school this week. I joked that we should ask all of the college aged aides if they knew what it was - only a handful did. *cry*
I'm so excited....I'm so scared
My mom started swing shifts for Desert Storm on my 5 birthday.
My mom and dad has a nasty divorce when I was 1012, but my mom still lives in the house they lived in together.
DD is the same age now that I was when we moved in to the house. My mom keeps telling me how hard it is to watch her where her and my dad had so many issues.
I don't know how I feel about this.
I was 8 when the wall came down but I was there. Walked the protests, saw the tanks and all. Not in Berlin, but Leipzig. Crazy.
And you cannot have been 17 at that point....really?
We still own the original Nintendo. I took Oliver to a place called Chatterbox a few years ago for an event. It is like a pub that specializes in nostalgiac games and video games. He impressed all the 20 year olds playing Mario Bros two (the one with Peach) They could not believe he knew all the secrets.
Nita, that would have been even more amazing to witness IRL rather than just on TV. That was such a historic moment! Yeah, unfortunately I was 17...I was born in '72 and the wall fell late '89-'90. I am a really old fart.
Oh no, not the exploding Pinto!
You don't look it, though. At all.
I am impressed.
Thanks so much! That is so very kind of you and just made my day!
How about now?
The first house I lived in had bright yellow shag carpet. I'm pretty sure that learning to crawl on that sh!t is why I now have issues about fluff getting in my mouth and never liked stuffed animals growing up.
I also still have the original Nintendo (complete with Duck Hunt and gun) and Game Boy.
I still feel left out that I never had one of the hypercolour shirts that changed colours. I thought they were the coolest thing ever.
The sound of a modem connecting reminds me of late night ICQ chats with friends in high school.
I played computer games like Lemmings with a joystick.
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BFP #2: January 30 ,2011 Born: September 29, 2011
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I got my own stereo when I was seven or eight and it had a record player and double cassette deck. My first record was Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
I had a waterbed for most of my childhood-it was supposed to be good for allergies and asthma.
I pegged my pants and wore loafers with the twisty shoe laces.
We had a wood-paneled station wagon that I hated.
I had a perm for a large part of my adolescence.
PUFFY PAINT!!!11!!111!!!
I remember how exciting it was to have Oregon Trail days at school. I lived for those days.
I remember mastering the fine art of making a mix tape. However, I hated it when my favorite song came on, I was ready to record, and the DJ wouldn't shut the eff up until the very start of the song! Then you had to wait forever to hear the song again and record it.
I used to buy single songs on cassette at the record store in the mall. Going through my tapes the other day, I see that I still have Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' and Roberta Flack's 'Set The Night To Music'. Have I mentioned that my music tastes are very diverse?
ETA:
Another thing that our kids won't have the pleasure of doing. The fine art of note folding! I was a pro...
My mom wouldn't allow me to have a hyper-color shirt because she said "who would want a shirt that turns colors under the arm pits"...deprived I was.
I remember Oregon Trail and Nintendo too.
Without reading the other posts...
I'm sure I have a million more!
Oh, my goodness, yes! I loved Puffy Paint!
And I wanted to start my own version of The Babysitters Club, but didn't have enough friends who wanted to babysit by the time we were old enough.
Also, my best friend's dad had a portable car phone before there were cell phones. I thought it was very high tech.
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BFP #2: January 30 ,2011 Born: September 29, 2011
BFP #3: January 5, 2013 Born: August 25, 2013
I had a pager when I was a senior in high school. I thought it was so cool because it had a voicemail attached.
I always carried dimes in my shoes/pockets in case I missed the bus and needed my mom to pick me up.
I am seriously considering getting DD a fisher-price record player like the one I had,
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
LOVED that thing!
BFP #1: July 12, 2010 Natural M/C: July 26, 2010
BFP #2: January 30 ,2011 Born: September 29, 2011
BFP #3: January 5, 2013 Born: August 25, 2013
I always dreamed about going on that show. My brother and I would practice the ping pong bucket game at home with whatever we could find.
Slap bracelets are cool again. My 10 y/o SD has two of them!
Here's a blast from the past. Does anybody remember this show??
Cap'n Kangaroo!
I too loved the Babysitters Club, and Sweet Valley High books.
I got my first CD player when I was almost 13, my first CD was Hanson... with Mmmbop! I also had a grease soundtrack that I played to death and then my Step Dad ended up breaking it in half
My friends and I would pass notes but made up nicknames for each other so if they were found nobody would know who they were to/from.
My first typing class was on an old school mac with a blue screen, but in Jr. High we still typed on old typewriters, my teacher was a wench who gave me more than enough detentions for talking, and used to put strips of tacks under our wrists to keep us in the "proper typing position". We also had oregon trail - LOVED game days in computer class!