Blog Share – Full Circle
Posted By Kristabella on November 5, 2009
It’s that time again, time for another Blog Share!
For those of you who don’t know, this is the brain child of -R- from And You Know What Else. It’s basically a day where people all over the internet get a chance to post anonymously on someone else’s site about anything they’d like to share.
This post here is not my post. (Although, let’s be honest, I so could have written it.) It is from some person who is the writer at one of the blogs below. I don’t even actually know who it is! (But I would like to! I like the way he/she thinks!)
So please be nice to my visitor and leave lots of comments!
Below is a list of all the participants of today’s Blog Share. Please go click, read and share the love. (Which means that the post I wrote is on one of the sites listed below.)
Not the Daddy
O is for Olson
Red Red Whine
Rediscovering Me
Reflections in the Snow-covered Hills
The Reluctant Grownup
Sauntering Soul
Serendipity Now
Snarke
So, This Is a Treadmill
Thinking Some More
Time for Change
Together They Come
Wondering and Pondering
And You Know What Else
Andrea Unplugged
Arctic-ulate
Bright Yellow World
Bwildered
Catheroominations
Did I Say That Outloud?
Dispatches from the Failed Mommy Club
Full of Snark
Heidikins
Hot Chicks Dig Smart Men
Just Below 63
The Little Goat
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Do you ever find yourself saying “Back in my day…” and laugh a little because you realize that is what your parents said…and your parents parents..everything comes full circle, and it’s all starting to hit a lot harder lately. It’s amazing to me how far everything has come in the 3+ decades I’ve been around. I can imagine how my family felt….
Back in my day, I had to walk to work, uphill both ways….
Sometimes I just feel old. (and I’m only 32)
Back in my day, we had to go to the library to do research.
We knew what microfiche was.
We used ditto machines that would stain your hands if you touched the copy before it was dry.
We had to know how to spell, and a mistake made on a typewriter was time wasted.
We had to make phone calls, read gamer magazines, or just figure it out in order to complete video games. There were no walk thrus mapped out for you on the internet.
We made mix tapes, and couldn’t just buy a song on a whim.
We used to have tape making parties, and didn’t illegally download torrents to complete our collections.
We had to buy movie tickets at the movie theater, and had to wait in line at Ticketmaster outlet locations to secure good concert tickets.
Our cell phones, if we had one, didn’t fit into our back pockets
Our Dungeons and Dragons games were played on paper.
If we were making plans to go out, we had to make sure we were at home to receive the call, and no one else was on the phone otherwise the caller would get a busy signal.
Everyone had cash at all times because no one took debit cards.
You had to set your VCR, and hope the tape didn’t run out, or a family member didn’t record over your favorite shows (e.g. the day I lost Ren & Stimpy to my mothers soap opera).
Saturday Night Live was funny.
Celebrities were a mystery, and we knew little about them, and what we did know was interesting…not what they had for dinner.
Action movies used actual fire, not CGI
Yoda was a puppet.
Hot rods were muscle cars, and not Honda Civics.
You actually had to call your friends to find out how they were, not just read it on Facebook/Twitter/Myspace.
The only reality TV was The Real World and daytime talk shows like Sally Jesse Raphael.
Def Leopard > Britney Spears
We only had 8 bits.
Cartoons were hand drawn.
The video store was a hot spot on a Friday night.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor.
Jesse Ventura was a wrestler.
Al Franken was Stuart Smalley, and gosh darn it people liked him.
Michael Jordan didn’t just sell shoes.
Jennifer Lopez was a Fly Girl.
Paula Abdul was a Laker Girl
Gas was $0.93 a gallon
Porn came in magazines, or tapes that you got from your friend who stole it from their dad.
Your friends living room was your chat room.
I think that my generation had a lot more patience than the current one. We had to work for information. It wasn’t just handed to us in a Google search box. Kids these days….
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About the author
My favorite one of these is the one about Honda Civics.
.-= -R-´s last blog ..It’s Time For Blog Share =-.
Too funny. I find myself saying “when I was young” a lot too and I’m only 32! It makes me feel so old to know that I remember my first time using e-mail. The kids nowadays have no idea what it was like pre-email!
All very true.
That is so funny! And true. And I am fearful to think of what my kids’ will be ranting over in another 20 years… (Back in MY day we had to TYPE our messages to friends, not just send telepathic messages! Back in MY day we had to DRIVE to a friend’s house; there weren’t any teleporters!) Yikes.
.-= tracey´s last blog ..When I get down, I bake a pie. And eat the #$@% out of it… =-.
I’m 41 and say “back in the day” all the time! The cell phone one cracked me up! My first mobile phone came in a big box thing that sat in the floorboard of my car, had a cord connecting it to the box, and had to be plugged into my cigarette lighter. Geez, I’m old.
I took a class in college on how to use the library. And, I spent HOURS there.
Microfiche! Ha!! That’s a throwback. I would venture to say that most early 30somethings DO NOT remember microfiche. That would be reserved for the library lovers and nerds among us!
Sigh. Kids these days.
SO TRUE! to do a research paper, we had to use a card catelogue to find potential books, which we then had to search through for pertinent passages. (although to be fair, google searching / online research actually seems like a VAST improvement)
.-= Alice´s last blog ..handwritten: you may or may not be able to read this post =-.
Oooh, ooh: an addition
Back in my day VH1 and MTV actually played Music Videos and had very little to no “real” programming.
Or!
Fast food joints had full menus not just value meal plans
I could have so much fun with this. 🙂
.-= Erin´s last blog ..Blog Share November 2009 =-.
oh, goodness!!
Yes! Yes! Yes!!!
–particularly the part about doing work for research in a library. YES!
-K
I totally remember using my unix login on my college computer, and do you all remember LOGO? that weird triangle that they called a turtle? you would give it random commands and it would move? Now you can just touch a screen.
Crazy
.-= lauren´s last blog ..Blog Share =-.
This is a great post. I think about this kind of thing almost weekly. Although I am not even 30 yet, I work with younger students and see how different their experiences theirs were compared to mine. I had dial up internet in my dorm room, where I may or may not have remained connected all night to download songs. I also had a cell phone plan that had 90 minutes a month…no free nights or weekends, and texting wasn’t even invented yet. Kids these days!
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.