I remember pogs and ...

I remember when my book didn't run on batteries.

I remember my koosh, pogo-ball, trolls (and of course, the ones with the jewels on their bellies), Teddy Ruxpin and glow worms...scrunchies!

I remember not having air conditioning.

I remember sitting in front of a big floor fan to get cool.

I remember opening windows in the car by hand, including the "wings" or side vents. You always wanted to open your side vent if you had the main window down, to regulate how much breeze blew into your face.

I remember saddle shoes!

I remember playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego through Prodigy.

I remember when you went into an EB games and the entire store was filled with computer game boxes that were 5x bigger than the game disc inside them.

I remember the easter egg to play pinball on Word '97.

A lot of my childhood memories involve games...

I remember when a person walking down the street and talking to themselves was scary, and not just someone on the phone.

I remember having to copy the professor's posted homework solutions down, laboriously, by hand instead of just photographing them with my cell.

Hoplite said:

I remember when my book didn't run on batteries.

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haha love this

Crap... I can't even remember where I put my keys!

iLion said:

Crap... I can't even remember where I put my keys!

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Did you check the clovebox? D I remember that pun!)

Just kidding!

I remember taking my new Smith-Corona typewriter off to school and feeling so proud about it.

Do any remember when seat belts were first mandated? First we had to have them available in our cars, but then.... omg... we were required to actually WEAR them! People (including me!) were so incensed about that.

I remember when my sister and I, between us, owned every original My Little Pony that came out. Including the 12 "birth month flower" ponies and the first baby ponies, that you had to mail in "horseshoe points" from the packages to get.

I remember how annoying Capri-Suns were to open. (And still are, dang it!)

I remember after-school specials on TV.

I remember watching CBS Storybook Playhouse (most of which, frankly, weren't spectacular, IIRC. And they ran The Red Room Riddle every other freakin' week, I swear... though I only ever saw the animated Pit Dragon one once.)

I remember how good a Jello Pudding Pop tasted on a warm day.

I remember how utterly awesome the Commodore computer system was.

I remember when video games were about fun and imagination, not cloning the latest hit or rooking the general public.

I remember staying up all night - literally - to write my first finished short story in Speedscript 3.2... and having to break it across two files because it maxxed out the memory.

I remember having to enter printer codes to do fancy stuff in word processors... and how Dad sat down and, by trial and error, charted them all out on a cheat sheet.

I remember typing in the code, line by line, to draw a picture on the Tandy computers at school... and mostly being impatient until I finished the assignment and could goof off in Meteor Mission.

I remember laughing at the cowardly green tiger in He-Man... though I don't remember anything else about the show.

I remember seeing the report of the Challenger disaster interrupt the morning cartoons before I went to school.

I remember the wavy-line pattern as the Timex-Sinclair 1000 loaded games via tape cassette.

I also remember tape cassettes.

iLion said:

Do any remember when seat belts were first mandated? First we had to have them available in our cars, but then.... omg... we were required to actually WEAR them! People (including me!) were so incensed about that.

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Yes. How dare they?

Yes! And freezers that didn't defrost themselves!

I remember when a NYC subway token was a dollar. Hell, I remember NYC subway tokens.

MacAllister said:

I remember when you pulled up to a pump and there was an attendant who would ask you "Leaded or unleaded?" -- then he checked your oil and washed your windshield.

And when gas hit a dollar a gallon and my dad stomped around swearing that if people just refused to pay that much, they'd have to back down on the price.

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I remember being able to fill up a whole tank of gas on $10. It was only 10 years ago.

I remember turning a knob on the tv to turn it on, and then waiting for the image to gradually appear.

I remember listening to my 45s on the portable record player that came in a little suitcase.

I remember banana seats on bikes, with a fox tail hanging off the back and a rabbit's foot on my key chain.

I remember lying in bed at night listening to the top 40 on AM radio (transistor), which was balanced on a metal folding chair--background sounds of the handball players in the park across the street, and of course, the metal whir and click of the box fan.

I remember stoop ball and stick ball.

Manual typewriters, and the scrape you'd get when your finger slipped between the keys, or you'd go too fast and the type bars would get jammed together on the paper--somehow, they'd unstick at the wrong time and your index finger would get hammered.

I remember when a pack of cigarettes was $0.20.

I remember when an aqua Princess phone was the apex of cool.

I learned typing on an ASR-33, so get off my lawn!

iLion said:

Do any remember when seat belts were first mandated?

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Mid-late 1960s?

First we had to have them available in our cars, but then.... omg... we were required to actually WEAR them! People (including me!) were so incensed about that.

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The Georgia must-wear seat belt law went into effect about 1988-1990, don't remember exactly. I had quit drinking a couple months or years earlier, and I ALWAYS wore my seatbelt, even when driving drunk (yeah - that one time, when I was arrested for DUI).

Even so, I was also angry at the new law, and I didn't even know what libertarian meant.

AndreF said:

I remember when having 415 megabytes on your computer meant you were a bad ass.
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So what are some the things you remember?

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I remember paying $300 for a USED 20 megabyte disk drive.

I remember color bars and only having four tv channels.
I remember when my grandparents finally got running water.