Post by Cooper, the Golden Retriever on Jan 3, 2020 4:37:51 GMT
RUbik's Cube Arcade Neon Airplane! -Don't call me Shirley. -When Kramer hears about thism, the s--t'll hit the fan (then guess what happens.) Above remains an UNDERRATEDM, and not alweays mentioned movie of the year, despite its huge status..
Remember the Golden Rule. Whoever has the most gold makes the rules. Golden Retrievers have the most gold, therefore they make the rules.
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This is my favorite decade next to the 90s. Definitely the music, hairstyles, fashion (yes, fashion), comedy shows, dramas, and movies.
Not perms though
"These matches are sanctioned by the NWA, the National Wrestling Alliance. Wherever you see that banner, you know you're seeing the finest in professional wrestling."
Yeah, but I think one could pretty much make that claim about the 1990's to (obviously not as much but close enough) as given my observations I would say that general computers/internet never really went more mainstream til about 1998-2000 (or if one is going to say when the internet(and computers) was really mainstream, by a decade basis... it's definitely the 2000's as the 1990's was still more of the pre-modern tech era (although one could argue the 1990's had it to some degree but it was at the end area of it)).
for example... high speed internet was not available in my area til the year 2000 as when I got mine installed the person who installed it said I was one of the earlier people to get it etc. so that should be a rough estimate of things even though I realize those who live in cities/big cities might have gotten it a bit earlier but this should get the gist of it across with the 1998-2000 estimate as I got to be pretty close if not exact.
hell, I would pretty much say that was about the same time frame for general cell phones to as while people did have cell phones pre-2000's it was not much before that for the more common person which is why I just tend to say the 2000's was more of the more legitimate cell phone/computer/internet era. sort of like... post-2000 = modern tech. pre-2000 = more of the old days if your splitting things on a decade-to-decade basis.
p.s. I was alive in all of the 1980's but I was pretty much single digits (age wise) for nearly all of it. so I don't really claim much about the 1980's as I was basically too young to remember it really well but the 1990's I can basically since I was a teenager for most of it til the end of the decade.
Nobody stared at their phone for hours
Yeah, I sort of miss the old days a bit in this regard. like modern tech is great in many ways, since information is at our fingertips nice and easy, but at the same time many of us spend too much time on it as I think many of us have technology addiction to some degree
but as far as that stuff goes... my best guesstimate is that crap has probably been going about 10 years or so now(?) because I think 2007 was the first smart phone and it would have taken a while after that before things were saturated into the masses.
p.s. personally I could not stand looking at a smart phone for hours as they are a pain in the ass to use vs a desktop computer as desktop computers are just quicker/easier to do stuff on and you get a much larger screen to look at. typing on a smart phone is a chore vs a keyboard.
I've always had a computer on my desk everywhere I've worked. But it wasn't until the early 2000's that I bought my own and surfed the internet.
As for looking at the computer on my phone, I'm spoiled by my laptop and can't bear to use the internet on such a small screen.
One big 80's word that has yet to be mentioned......
Atari
Nah screw that, Colecovision was better.
I had a ColecoVision, but still loved my Atari. I did get the expansion module for the Coleco that let you play Atari games, that way I didn't have a huge amount of clutter with 3 systems (I had an Intellivision too). I also had the roller expansion that came with "Slither" but I don't think I used it with any other games. The Coleco was great for a massive amount of arcade translations but they didn't have a lot of original games. The Intellivision had a ton of very interesting original games like Utopia and the Dungeons and Dragons adaptions in particular. Later on I even picked up an Odyssey 2 second hand at a garage sale so I was pretty well covered with early '80s videogames.
I've always pretended to fly a space ship during HBO intros
I think I still have this on a VHS tape when my Dad recorded Ghostbusters off of HBO back in the day, although at the end it said "HBO Feature Presentation" instead of "HBO music". That was a really cool opening logo!
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