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bizarre Who Remembers

chewbok said:
Talk about opening memory lane. I was born in 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower was president and I have lived to see the first man launched in space, the assassination of both John F and Robert Kennedy as well as Dr Martin Luther King. I remember the drills in case of nuclear attack. I remember the first time I saw a calculator and digital watch. I remember Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I remember having 8 other families on our phone line, then dial phones, then push button.

I remember when everyone smoked and drank, even driving. I remember our first color TV, first microwave. I remember when I had to literally program a computer using Cobal, Fortran and Basic, then type punch cards to run a computer. It took up the entire basement of the college student Union.

I remember DOS, the first portable computer with floppy 320k discs. The first digital phone. First digital camera. Days before seatbelts. $.25 gallon gasoline. Days when the internet was only used by geeks and the US Govt.

I recall all of the American conflicts, big and small. And I’m still kicking. I feel 30 ish but my children, grandchildren and hairline remind me I’m not.

There is so much more, much I have forgotten. I can’t imagine what a person born today will have seen by their 65th birthday.
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Yes it sounds a little melancholy to say , the closer I get to the end of this life I have become ridiculously sentimental and just sad about what no longer exists. I used to see people be like it and not understand why it seemed to matter so much to them but now I 100% understand it.
Sadly it happens so far along in life that it's too late and impossible to go back in time to correct poor decisions, change things where I can see all the forks in the road that I went left instead of right, or to visit my Dad who never heard a lot of things that were in my head but I never said before he died.
I don't think I'll ever stop trying to figure out the meaning of life and why we are all here and what it's all for, and why it needs to be so darn sad.
Thanks for writing that, I really liked that.
 
I remember before the food Karens came out and ruined everything. There were so many really good treats and drinks out there. Now not only are half of those things gone the ones that remain are nowhere near as good but cost 5 times as much as well as half as big. When I worked at Taco Bell in '99-'00 tacos were $0.59 and were ten times better. If someone made a $20 order it was like two big bags of food. $20 today will barley feed one guy.
 
Gone crazy back soon said:
I remember before the food Karens came out and ruined everything. There were so many really good treats and drinks out there. Now not only are half of those things gone the ones that remain are nowhere near as good but cost 5 times as much as well as half as big. When I worked at Taco Bell in '99-'00 tacos were $0.59 and were ten times better. If someone made a $20 order it was like two big bags of food. $20 today will barley feed one guy.
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Twice the price, for half the box. Thats why grape-nuts doesn't even exist anymore. lol




( It prolly does.. jk
 
chewbok said:
Talk about opening memory lane. I was born in 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower was president and I have lived to see the first man launched in space, the assassination of both John F and Robert Kennedy as well as Dr Martin Luther King. I remember the drills in case of nuclear attack. I remember the first time I saw a calculator and digital watch. I remember Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I remember having 8 other families on our phone line, then dial phones, then push button.

I remember when everyone smoked and drank, even driving. I remember our first color TV, first microwave. I remember when I had to literally program a computer using Cobal, Fortran and Basic, then type punch cards to run a computer. It took up the entire basement of the college student Union.

I remember DOS, the first portable computer with floppy 320k discs. The first digital phone. First digital camera. Days before seatbelts. $.25 gallon gasoline. Days when the internet was only used by geeks and the US Govt.

I recall all of the American conflicts, big and small. And I’m still kicking. I feel 30 ish but my children, grandchildren and hairline remind me I’m not.

There is so much more, much I have forgotten. I can’t imagine what a person born today will have seen by their 65th birthday.
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You are very lucky. Modern leftists work hard to mitigate that Moon achievement.
 
djdeeds said:
Back when I was a young teenager I could skip school, jump on a train to the city and have a good ole time playing pinball and arcade machines, maybe go to a movie, gorge on junk food .. all with a pocket full of saved up lunch money from the week before! Now when I go to the supermarket I strangely morph into "grumpy old cunt" and mutter things under my breath at how ridiculous the prices are. I have become KING of the "Well back in MY day" stories.
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Very same where im from. Times that never comes back. Sad.
 
Bender41 said:
Hahaha that one i didnt had, got a ps3 though and the first xbox :lulz:
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I had the first xbox for Halo, and PS2 For Socom. Socom ended with PS3, and haven't owned one since. lol I have a One S. Dont really play much anymore. PS3's had some heating problems. Was glad to sell sony out. haha
 
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