Stuff that makes you feel old

Croan Çhiollee said:
I saw The Empire Strikes Back in the cinema.
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I watched A New Hope wearing pyjamas, slippers and a garish dressing gown at a local rec center because the sole twin cinema in town was playing it from 9am till 10pm and there were still 3-4 hour waits. So they got prints sent to pretty much anywhere that had a projector.
My dad took me and let me stay up past my bedtime and as a seven year old I watched with wonder. The rec center was cold and echoey but I was warm and happy and dad’s undiagnosed and untreated Vietnam PTSD hadn’t yet torn our family apart.
But we can never go back.
 
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The first movie i remember seeing in theaters was The Little Mermaid when I was 5

I remember when The Simpsons was seen as edgy and controversial and my parents forbade me from watching it. Had to be discreet and watch it at the neighborhood kid’s house.

I remember calling radio stations to request the DJ play a specific song so I could record it on a cassette tape.

Seeing people call the PS2/GameCube/Xbox their childhood consoles when I was in the middle of high school when they came out.

It’s kind of a meme now but yes I was heavily into pogs in the early/mid 90s and yes my school banned them because it was seen as a form of gambling
 
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I have a habit of calling a local home depot I go to Scotty's since its in the same building.

Its been at least 20 years since I seen that winking scotsman.
 
This, someone in my family bootlegged this in East Germany and did so much shit to transfer it into a VHS I used to watch all the damn time. Here's a fragment of the movie.
 
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snailslime said:
the first movie i ever saw in a theater was the bee movie
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I think mine was The Care Bears Movie. That movie with all the scary spirit possessions. Then the next year I saw the sequel. With the kid that is literally Satan who kills his friend. But that's ok because he chants "I care" and she's brought back to life by Care Bear magic and her family adopts him. They adopt Satan. This is what passed for kiddie films in the 80s. Kids today get Pixar puke. We got kids being murdered by Satan then revived by magic bears. I say we lucked out. :biggrin:
 
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A couple of months ago, I was walking down my street. There's a basketball hoop in like some sort of "park". I saw some kids playing, riding bikes and playong with the stray dogs that people on that street take care of.

I cried on my way home, because it reminded me of how my childhood used to be, and I was also glad to see kids out playing.
 
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Flavius Anthemius said:
I never see people ever read or touch a newspaper anymore, like for instance, I got a newspaper delivered to my door for a market research survey a few months ago, I completely forgot about what sections of a newspaper are where on what pages.

I used to get the newspaper every few weeks from my father, he'd often bring them home after work and I'd be excited since the paper might have came with football or soccer stickers on Sundays, I liked to read the comics and look at the weekly weather as well.

Since I was a kid, I didn't really notice that newspapers where slowly becoming a dieing form of media, but it just seems kinda surreal and sad in a way that newspapers have been apart of my life and many others for decades and some kids and teenagers are alive today that have probably never even touched or read one, let alone know they exist.
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You just blew my mind. I, a 32 year old man, cannot remember the last time I intentionally read a newspaper, outside of attempting to decipher one in Paris out of interest about 5 years back. Gotta be close to a decade at least.

I also can't remember seeing anyone reading one in a cafe/bar for a few years. They seem to be truly dead at this stage.
 
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