What's your "Back in my day..."

Anyone here remember how popular slide pictures were back in the ‘60’s n ‘70’s. And going to your friends house or have them over to show slide pictures projected onto a wall.

A friend would go on vacation. The family would go over to their house to visit and look at all their pictures projected onto a wall. Everyone would excitedly make comments / ask questions about the trip, the scenery, and the people in the pictures.

It was a great way of socializing back them. You were actually face-to-face sharing about trips instead of just dumping all your pictures onto a website and have random strangers look at your pictures and hit a button for LIKE of DISLIKE.

 

And I remember, anytime you’d go to one of these get togethers, there was always at least one picture put into the slide projector upside down or backwards.

 

I'm a little young for that but i still know what you're talking about. My family had one when i was a kid and we used to look at pictures on it. Actually we still have it and whip it out from time to time. Ky Grandparents have one too and we sometimes go over their house to look at them. I used to love the sound it made when you pressed the button for the next slide.

 

I liked that sound too.

 

I still have a slide projector. It still works. The photo record of my 6 months in New Zealand from the 1980's is still loaded in the carousels.

 

Back in my day you would be trying to tell someone something and got a fact wrong and someone would call bullshit but they couldn't prove it real time. So they would have to wait until they got home and could look it up on a desktop PC, print out the fact and being it to you the next day at school. Then it was too late the bullshit had already spread. It was the first fake news.

 

And they just keep evolving.

 

All that work for ID4 huh? That's dedication.

 

Nice

 

Back in my day...

A hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
Crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes

A screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said "I'm down with that"
Well it meant you had the flu

 

All the clocks flashed 00:00

There were less than 100 channels.

You could watch porn by turning to the filtered channels on the TV and looking through the distorted lines.

The school bus refused to drop us off in front of our house.

Beepers were a thing.

Music wasn’t crap.

CD players in a car were useful.

We all had our own “awesome mix” tapes.

Computers had hard drives less than 1Gb.

Dial-up internet.

Reality TV wasn’t a thing yet.

Maps wasn’t an app.

TVs were more squarish, and 40in was considered huge.

Napster.

Queen Elizabeth still reigned. I guess some things haven’t changed.

 

Back in my day we used paper maps, and we had to learn to properly fold them.

Wait now, that's me today.

 

Back in my day Google had a video platform to compete with YouTube.

 

Keepin on rollin.

Back in my day we used Trumpet Winsock, Alta Vista and something I just forgot.

 

My "Back in the day" vid

 

I love paper maps. They work where there is no wifi or other coverage and even when the battery is dead.

 

Back in my days you didn't need to schedule a month in advance to see your friends. You just went in, because there were no doors locked. There was no crime, not as much narcissism as now. Back in my days you lived the 'now' and not in an external world.

 

I have a friend who lives in a rural area that never locks his house door. I won’t say where since I don’t want anyone getting any ideas, no telling who swings by the site.

When I visit I always leave my key in the car’s ignition the whole time I’m there, never locking the car door. It’s a wonderful place to visit. So relaxing. No it’s not perfect there, there’s plenty of other human issues, but crime isn’t one of them. I love being there.

 

I get what you mean.. Nowadays you just can't imagine that anymore. For example, I left my bike alone for less then a minute at my front door at night. Was coming back from a party and it was 2:30 already. Went inside just to take the guys of the garage, I come outside and the bike is gone.. Things have changed obliviously, but none for the best.

 

Back in my day:

Teen Titans was on cartoon Network

Games didn't have microtransactions

You couldn't call your friends while they were on the internet

We didn't have the MCU, we had spider Man and an x men movie

Venture brothers was a new thing on TV

Family Guy episodes were funnier

You couldn't order quisp online. You had to hope to find it at a store. For anyone who doesn't know what quisp is it's basically a better version of captain crunch.
https://amp.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/why-quisp-is-the-greatest-cereal-of-all-time