When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears With their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning. Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, There was no way in hell I was going to lay A bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it And how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of Thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my Childhood, you live in a d**n Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you Don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If wewanted to know something,
We had to go to the d**n library and Look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write Somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to Steal music, you had to hitchhike to the d**n record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting ! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you Just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 ! With games Like ' Space Invaders ' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You Actually had to use your I mag ination!! And there were no multiple levels or Screens, it was just one screen Forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting Harder and harder and Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what was On! You were screwed when it Came to channel surfing! You had to get off Your ass and walk over to the TV to change the Channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning . Do you Hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK For cartoons, you spoiled Little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat Something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids Today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, The over 30 Crowd
Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
Why is the word "damn" censored? Is that also still from the 80s?
quote: We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600 ! With games Like ' Space Invaders ' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You Actually had to use your I mag ination!! And there were no multiple levels or Screens, it was just one screen Forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting Harder and harder and Faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
So true...but I loved Atari.
-Hal-
Posted by Robotron2084 (Member # 33263) on :
Thundercracker I've had this conversation more than I wish to count. And like you and Hal mentioned games today (like toys) are lacking in playbility.
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
Someone sent me this in an e-mail a little while back too.
My favorite thing to talk about to the 20 somethings I work with are computers and games. They are in shock to hear that we actually had personal computers with modems that you would call into BBS boards back in the 1980s. The fact that you had to take the receiver off the hook and put it on the modem was the best thing for them to ponder.
I can remember my mom working on a word processor in her home office using 8" floppy drives to store information kind of like this...
I just remember using the 5 1/2" floppies on my Apple 2e.
Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
Haha, yeah...I remember 8" disks. My dad had those and even still IBM punch cards.
And those "acoustic coupler"-modems were cool...although I could never afford one in the 80s.
-Hal-
Posted by Cain (Member # 8492) on :
ha ha This an awesome post it is so true but i am rolling on the floor laughing at the same time...
Posted by FootLongSub Zero (Member # 19380) on :
lol... Just seems to get easier with each generation.... Wonder where it will go from here? Check out this vid if you hadn't already seen it... It's the intro to the Movie "Idiocracy" .. http://www.livevideo.com.com/media/playvideo_fs.aspx Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
Great movie by Mike Judge. Very underrated compared to "Office Space."
I never had a modem for my computer back then, but my best friend did and was always on BBS boards chatting with hackers and pirating software of that time as a teenager. Also brings back memories of my old monochrome monitor which I used until I bought the Commodore color monitor for my Apple in the mid 80s.
Jeeze, a little search found exactly what my first system looked like...
This is the system we used back in my high school computer literacy class. TRS 80 anyone? Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
^ Over here in Germany I´ve seen people selling TRS-80 software on Ebay for loads of money....old Infocom text-adventures and stuff...for 200 Euros and more.
-Hal-
Posted by Athena K (Member # 33809) on :
im not saying kids today arent spoilt, coz the majority are... but being of generation y myself all i can say is - you raised us!
Posted by Hal (Member # 3484) on :
^ I guess we (= people over 30) were already spoiled compared to our parents. My parents were both born during WW II (in Germany) and were basically raised in a bombed out country with nothing to eat. Their childhood years were definitely much harder than my comfortable years in the 1970s/80s.
-Hal-
Posted by Ophillia (Member # 29787) on :
i LOVED my atari! also i am convinced that i would never have survived were i born in a earlier time. lol
i remember setting the alarm clock so we could get up on saturday to watch our weekly cartoons.
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hal: ^ I guess we (= people over 30) were already spoiled compared to our parents. My parents were both born during WW II (in Germany) and were basically raised in a bombed out country with nothing to eat. Their childhood years were definitely much harder than my comfortable years in the 1970s/80s.
-Hal-
You're English?
Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
Dude, Hal's a kraut! Posted by LeDaemon (Member # 198) on :
That is one of the funniest things I´ve seen in a long time.
-Hal-
Posted by Thundercracker (Member # 7778) on :
That is one hilarious video! Just goes to show how quickly we sometimes take things for granted.
quote:Originally posted by Athena K: im not saying kids today arent spoilt, coz the majority are... but being of generation y myself all i can say is - you raised us!
Ah, this is not bashing your generation Athena. This is poking fun at GEN X for becoming hypocrites and old fogeys Posted by Athena K (Member # 33809) on :
hahaha ok thundercracker
i get cranky when older generations make sweeping generalisations about 'kids these days'
truth at GenX's hypocrisy tho lol
Posted by Andy-Laa (Member # 31511) on :
quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: Dude, Hal's a kraut!
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