The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Kida now a days won't ever have the joy of watching cheezy simplistic kids shows...Amazon is going to revamp Sigmund and the Seamonsters. I loved that show as a kid, along with Land of the Lost...in all its cheezy silly glory.
I don't expect much from the new show, but I suddenly felt really old when I saw this.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
My brother had a Commodore 64 computer and we used to buy computer magazines with game codes. I would sit there and type 50 pages of code in just to be able to play a simple game of pong. Kids these days don't know our struggles of the 80's!!
My brother had a Commodore 64 computer and we used to buy computer magazines with game codes. I would sit there and type 50 pages of code in just to be able to play a simple game of pong. Kids these days don't know our struggles of the 80's!!
Hahaha! I remember the first computer I used was a Commodore PET, it was just a big expensive word processor.
I learned coding on an Apple IIe
I even coded the pixellated pictures in color despite the screen being in phosphorus green. When the school finally was able to afford 4 Apple IIgs computers (for the entire school to share) I got to see my pics in color, I was so excited. They even required the kids to earn a 'computer licence' to have the privilege of touching/using the new compunters...I spent way too much time playing ' The Oregon Trail'.
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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
My dad used to have me ride behind him and my brother in front of him on this motorcycle when he had to go to the liquor store to get another 6 pack. I would hold it against my side so tight so I didn't drop it. One arm holding my dad, one arm holding the beer. What were helmets?
My brother had a Commodore 64 computer and we used to buy computer magazines with game codes. I would sit there and type 50 pages of code in just to be able to play a simple game of pong. Kids these days don't know our struggles of the 80's!!
Hahaha! I remember the first computer I used was a Commodore PET, it was just a big expensive word processor.
I learned coding on an Apple IIe
I even coded the pixellated pictures in color despite the screen being in phosphorus green. When the school finally was able to afford 4 Apple IIgs computers (for the entire school to share) I got to see my pics in color, I was so excited. They even required the kids to earn a 'computer licence' to have the privilege of touching/using the new compunters...I spent way too much time playing ' The Oregon Trail'.
Haha! That's so cute!! This is what we had, it didn't even have a disk drive but had a tape deck thingy instead. Soooo futuristic haha
Did anyone else have one of these? It was a crafty thing to make wooly worm things. I remember I was trying to pull the wool through it to thread it one day and couldn't get it so decided to try and suck it through. I sucked it halfway down my throat and my mum had to gently pull it out while I was gagging all the way. Yes I was THAT kid
Did anyone else have one of these? It was a crafty thing to make wooly worm things. I remember I was trying to pull the wool through it to thread it one day and couldn't get it so decided to try and suck it through. I sucked it halfway down my throat and my mum had to gently pull it out while I was gagging all the way. Yes I was THAT kid
My dad used to have me ride behind him and my brother in front of him on this motorcycle when he had to go to the liquor store to get another 6 pack. I would hold it against my side so tight so I didn't drop it. One arm holding my dad, one arm holding the beer. What were helmets?
Kida now a days won't ever have the joy of watching cheezy simplistic kids shows...Amazon is going to revamp Sigmund and the Seamonsters. I loved that show as a kid, along with Land of the Lost...in all its cheezy silly glory.
I don't expect much from the new show, but I suddenly felt really old when I saw this.
http://youtu.be/s8VmJXcTTmk sleestaks.... i remember in '93 i worked with these guys redoing a flooded house. the boss called one of the guys a sleestak as i guess he resembled one
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I know somewhere in the house there is a set of Jarts. One of these days I will do an archeological dig and find it.
And...I was the kid that had the cast. Broke my left arm, twice. Both times at school.
I had jarts, rode my bike without a helmet, rode my bike to 7-11 by myself on a busy road with no shoulder or sidewalk, and learned to cook in first grade...cuz that's what latchey kids do.
I didn't get killed, I learned how to watch out for cars...too bad kids these days don't know how to do that. hahahahahahhhaa!
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I don't consider myself an 80s kid cuz I was born in the 80s. But all the stuff in the first post still applied to me. Most of the stuff in the ebaumsworld link didnt but that's mostly cuz I wasn't a surburbs kid. I'd never heard of Jarts before. What the difference between Jarts and darts? I used to shoot regular darts as a kid. I kept score too. That's actually how I learned to do tallies. I also didn't need to be told twice how to read a multiplication table cuz it was the same thing as the football pool. From my experience there were still plenty of latchkey kids in the 90s. The first time I saw a grade school kid with a cell phone it made me so sad lol.
I don't consider myself an 80s kid cuz I was born in the 80s. But all the stuff in the first post still applied to me. Most of the stuff in the ebaumsworld link didnt but that's mostly cuz I wasn't a surburbs kid. I'd never heard of Jarts before. What the difference between Jarts and darts? I used to shoot regular darts as a kid. I kept score too. That's actually how I learned to do tallies. I also didn't need to be told twice how to read a multiplication table cuz it was the same thing as the football pool. From my experience there were still plenty of latchkey kids in the 90s. The first time I saw a grade school kid with a cell phone it made me so sad lol.
Jarts were basically lawn darts, same concept as darts, it came with plastic hoops for targets, the darts were bigger, like the size of a football (maybe a little bigger)...and heavy. I guess a couple of kids got their eyes poked out despite the huge warning on the box that said 'NOT FOR USE BY CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 10' or something. Now they are super illegal to sell. Wish I still had mine, they were fun.
Sure there were latchey kids in the 90s, but I don't think there were as many that were really young like I was...I was in first grade. At leas in my state, it was a law by then that no one under 14 was allowed to be home alone.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Yea I guess youre right. I have a hard time remembering that far back. I guess it's different too depending on the region. I was always left to my own devices, especially in summer. But back to like first grade I can only remember playing on the block. I can't remember my first set of keys, but back then you didn't even need em cuz you could open the front door with a library card. That much I very distinctly remember, no clue how I got into the apt though.
Omg,I used to register in my Name ,my moms, my brothers and sisters and I would get like 80 cassettes for 1 dollar.Then all I had to do was buy 8 more per name over 24 months.Easy peesy.
My dad used to have me ride behind him and my brother in front of him on this motorcycle when he had to go to the liquor store to get another 6 pack. I would hold it against my side so tight so I didn't drop it. One arm holding my dad, one arm holding the beer. What were helmets?
I'd stand on the front seat...car had a metal dash....while my dad blew cigarette smoke in my face.
(actually, this probably pre-dates the 70s/80s)
If I had known then what I know now...
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Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
My dad used to have me ride behind him and my brother in front of him on this motorcycle when he had to go to the liquor store to get another 6 pack. I would hold it against my side so tight so I didn't drop it. One arm holding my dad, one arm holding the beer. What were helmets?
I'd stand on the front seat...car had a metal dash....while my dad blew cigarette smoke in my face.
(actually, this probably pre-dates the 70s/80s)
yeah...ol' robbie is ancient...
*snicker*
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
My dad used to have me ride behind him and my brother in front of him on this motorcycle when he had to go to the liquor store to get another 6 pack. I would hold it against my side so tight so I didn't drop it. One arm holding my dad, one arm holding the beer. What were helmets?
I'd stand on the front seat...car had a metal dash....while my dad blew cigarette smoke in my face.
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10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
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https://tv.yahoo.com/news/amazon-pacts-with-tv-kidvid-producers-sid-and-marty-krofft-for--sigmund-and-the-sea-monsters--reboot-162420391.html
I don't expect much from the new show, but I suddenly felt really old when I saw this.
- Christopher McCandless
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly
I learned coding on an Apple IIe
I even coded the pixellated pictures in color despite the screen being in phosphorus green. When the school finally was able to afford 4 Apple IIgs computers (for the entire school to share) I got to see my pics in color, I was so excited. They even required the kids to earn a 'computer licence' to have the privilege of touching/using the new compunters...I spent way too much time playing ' The Oregon Trail'.
- Christopher McCandless
Haha! That's so cute!! This is what we had, it didn't even have a disk drive but had a tape deck thingy instead. Soooo futuristic haha
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
sleestaks.... i remember in '93 i worked with these guys redoing a flooded house. the boss called one of the guys a sleestak as i guess he resembled one
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
- Christopher McCandless
And...I was the kid that had the cast. Broke my left arm, twice. Both times at school.
I didn't get killed, I learned how to watch out for cars...too bad kids these days don't know how to do that. hahahahahahhhaa!
- Christopher McCandless
I used to shoot regular darts as a kid. I kept score too. That's actually how I learned to do tallies. I also didn't need to be told twice how to read a multiplication table cuz it was the same thing as the football pool.
From my experience there were still plenty of latchkey kids in the 90s. The first time I saw a grade school kid with a cell phone it made me so sad lol.
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Sure there were latchey kids in the 90s, but I don't think there were as many that were really young like I was...I was in first grade. At leas in my state, it was a law by then that no one under 14 was allowed to be home alone.
- Christopher McCandless
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We didn't need no stinking Madden.
(actually, this probably pre-dates the 70s/80s)
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
*snicker*
- Christopher McCandless
even if I look and act really crazy.