Children of the 70s and 80s

Gillycw

RKCNDY said:

Gillycw said:

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

Gillycw

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

chadwick

Horos said:

When we got in trouble we got our asses whooped.



You could smoke anywhere like in the supermarket.

funny stuff

Gillycw

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

chadwick

Last-12-Exit said:

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?

hilarious

chadwick

Jason P said:

The shit ....

damn!!!

chadwick

RKCNDY said:

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.

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.

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

RKCNDY

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/84492149/

SD48277

RKCNDY said:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/84492149/

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.

RKCNDY

SD48277 said:

RKCNDY said:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/84492149/

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!

ldent42

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.

RKCNDY

ldent42 said:

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.

ldent42

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.

rr165892

We didn't need no stinking Madden.

rr165892

RKCNDY said:

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.

rr165892

Wobbie

Last-12-Exit said:

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)

RKCNDY

imalive said:

Last-12-Exit said:

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*

rr165892

imalive said:

Last-12-Exit said:

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)

Now sit down boy and hand me that beer...

Malroth

on long car trips, there were three kids, one would sleep on the floorboard, one on the seat, the other on the ledge in the back window.