100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About

[KSoD]

Hey there is still drive in movies. There is one about 5 miles from me. Busy as can be in the summer as well.

Manual Transmission was the ONLY option
Going outside and using your imagination to play CoD
Coming home before the street lights came on
USA Muscle Cars rules the street and not "Rice Burners"
Everyone had jobs
Regan-omics
Watergate
NASA and the Space Program meant something

 

[Kharn]

• Party-line telephones - Phone phreaking
• Pay phones costing a nickel - Not if you had a blue box
• Gas for less than a buck a gallon - Never happened.
• Drive-in movies - Not in the UK.
• A time before video games - Dead rat conkers.
• Bookmobile visits at school - Pre networking wikipedia.
• Smallpox vaccinations - FDR envies you.
• Teachers being shown the respect they deserve due to their position - Sadly missing.
• Marriages that lasted over ten years - very true.
• Politics that were really "of the people, by the people, and for the people" - Oh boy.
• Morning milkman deliveries - I still have that by mine
• Foot push-button starters - The choke handle.

Adjusted for the old amongst you

 

[Trotter]

Got a drive-in around here, too, but they are the exception and not the rule. Welcome to the Midway Drive-In Theatre!

Your last three are perfect examples, Mak.

FDR had polio, you bloody Scouser, not smallpox.

 

[Harper]

Pretty much new them all. There is a few that I have never used, but I have know of them

55. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.

They forgot to included having your ISP complain to you about using 30% of their non-commercial bandwidth for 3 months straight.

I should also included the following
Logging on to Private BBS for chat rooms, forums and pirated software.

 

[zedman3d]

I know of more than 80% of those and im only 16.

 

[S0ULphIRE]

I only know about 60% of them, I mean I've never daisy chained SCSI drives and never counted in kilobytes.

 

[Muffin Man]

30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it'll load this time.

when i was but a younger lad, this was my only concern.

 

[wafflehammer]

I know a lot of these too..maybe 15-20ish that I don't...To be honest I think it's kind of over dramatic lol...like a lot of this stuff is still around and I'm sure it still will be when we have kids. (and yes I know they use the phrase "may never know" )

 

[synergy]

The funny thing is that most this stuff was "high tech" for its time, and sad that most of it isn't more than like 15-20 years ago. It makes me wonder what will be mainstream in the next 15-20 years.

 

[Harper]

I know of more than 80% of those and im only 16.

That because you are living in that Technological Back Water called Australia.