Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

Do you remember when they used to give you those AOL trials at the mall? I may be misremembering because I can't find anything online about it but I have a clear memory of them handing them out for free when I was like 8-11 or something.

Also, another thing kids these days won't understand is home videos. Back in the day before you had cell phone cameras that were basically Hollywood Tier you would only have special occasions recorded when your old man pulled out his VHS Camcorder, it's not like today where kids have their entire lives documented and put on their parent's facebook pages. And honestly kids these days are missing out, sure we didn't have every nanosecond of our lives recorded but it made it special when you would go back and look at old home movies knowing how rare of an occurrence they were.
Yeah my local Pizza Hut would give away AOL trials as well. I 100% agree about camcorders, my dad would record us playing football in the back yard, or tournaments we were in. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch them since my brother and dad passed away.
 
In the next 2 years Anyone born when the last time there was a conker game out. (Live and reloaded for the Xbox not the n64 original) will actually be old enough to legally drink.
 
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In the next 2 years Anyone born when the last time there was a conker game out. (Live and reloaded for the Xbox not the n64 original) will actually be old enough to legally drink.
Seeing what year we're on in restaurants and gas stations on the "If you were born on or after this date in [21 Years Ago] you may not purchase alcohol stickers" always makes me feel old.
 
Watching a renovation show (with my grandparents no less, I don't touch TV) and one of the presenters is a pooner

God, TV sucks.
I feel ya. Granted you'd expect these channels and shows to evolve with the time. Or else they'd been canceled because of low ratings. For example I recall the Food Network being a dull channel of plain jane Western dishes such as French or Southern dishes. But today you have Gordon Ramsey inspecting gross restaurants or that fat guy with the spikey hair reviewing food. It's a far cry from Julia Child or even Martha Stewart.
 
I got a new computer and was blown away that hard drives/disks today are basically like sticks, like sticks of RAM you just clip onto your motherboard. As well as the fact there is no inbuilt CD drive. The case is just one big black box with a bunch of USB ports.
had maintenance done on a laptop and fund it insane that the hard drive was the size of a coin battery
 
Yeah my local Pizza Hut would give away AOL trials as well. I 100% agree about camcorders, my dad would record us playing football in the back yard, or tournaments we were in. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch them since my brother and dad passed away.
I am no one to tell you what to do, but when I saw photos of old time's and people that were here then and gone now ( for various reasons ), I just decided to throw them away. I really benefited from it just being gone in general. Alot of those people I had a reason to not interact with in life anymore even though they were alive but the mental burden is something you shouldn't have to deal with.
 
When they say tiktokers are now more famous than movie stars and I don't know a single one and I never will because it's a Chinese commie app and kids don't know about them either.
Isn't it wild to grow up in a day and age when being a celebrity was a rather wild thing? Now the traditional celebrity is almost a minority in the entertainment sphere cause all you need to be one is...what 100k followers? Their are old titans like Tom Cruise or R.D.J but they are even about to be relics of a bygone era in and of them self's.
 
A kid asked me the other day what 9/11 was like.
I can still recall when airport security consisted of walking through a metal detector as luggage went through an X-ray machine. That was all there was to it. None of that TSA patdown and body scan stuff, or all those new security regulations. And family and friends could wait right at that dock-like thing for boarding planes for passengers.
 
Went on a hike on a park trail yesterday in a state forest with my daughter, first time on this trail for both of us. We thought we were doing a quick 3.5-mile hike, a fun jaunt through the woods, but then we took a right instead of a left at a fork on the trail, not knowing going right meant we would do the whole nine miles on high hills with a church steeple pitch. By the time we realized our mistake, we were over halfway done and committed. Fucking hills, man. Goddamn but I'm out of shape. Goddamn but I'm old.
 
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