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Retro nostalgy
Posted by Mrs. Kite | Posted in articles | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010
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100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
is an article I found a couple months ago... MindyR: (via: Wired-GeekDad)
(it's a great article)
the ones I feel the most nostalgic about:
Audio-Visual Entertainment
# Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
# Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.
# Betamax tapes.
# 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
Computers and Videogaming
# The scream of a modem connecting.
# 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
# Counting in kilobytes.
# Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
Gadgets
# Typewriters.
# Putting film in your camera
# Sending that film away to be processed.
# Rotary-dial telephones.
# Answering machines.
# Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Everything Else
# Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
# LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
# “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
# Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to today’s teenager. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control. High-speed dubbing. 8-track cartridges. Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD. Betamax tapes. MiniDisc. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.) Shortwave radio. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’
is an article I found a couple months ago... MindyR: (via: Wired-GeekDad)
(it's a great article)
the ones I feel the most nostalgic about:
Audio-Visual Entertainment
# Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
# Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo.
# Betamax tapes.
# 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
Computers and Videogaming
# The scream of a modem connecting.
# 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage.
# Counting in kilobytes.
# Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
Gadgets
# Typewriters.
# Putting film in your camera
# Sending that film away to be processed.
# Rotary-dial telephones.
# Answering machines.
# Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.
Everything Else
# Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
# LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
# “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise.
# Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
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