I feel so old.....

Darcy Baldwin

Darcy Baldwin

Just a Scrapper
I was just talking to Karah Fredricks about her daughter watching Cinderella and being cute. I admitted that I'd never seen it. She said, I thought you would've seen it as a kid!".

I replied that it is WAY too girlie for me to have ever seen (I'm SOOOO not a girl), and then realized and said, "Besides, they didn't have videos when I was a kid." :unsure: Man - that made me feel SOOOOOOOO old LOLOLOL
 
I remember when my Dad was one of the first people we knew to get a Betamax. He really didn't see the writing on the wall there! :D
 
Me too! I tried to explain to my 4 year old that we couldn't just make something appear on TV when I was a kid and actually had to watch scheduled programs or go to the theatre .... the concept was completely lost on him. I don't think we got a VCR until I was 10-11 years old.
 
My kids think I can just turn on anything at anytime. The concept of TiVO is really lost on them. It's not magic. LOL
 
Right there with you! I think we got a VCR when I was a teenager. The only reason I think I saw that movie when I was a kid is they must have run it on one of the Disney movie nights (I think it was on Sunday nights on one of the networks).
 
It's amazing how something like that can change so quickly from one generation to the next. Like my kids can't imagine a world without computers, but I remember the first computer my Dad got for his business. We turned it on, and it was just a black screen with a green cursor going blink . . . blink . . .blink. We were like "ok, now what do we do?" :D I mean you actually had to go and program the thing in DOS for it to do anything!
 
bwahahahaha Darcy *ducks*

I was of the generation that had the first DOS-based computers (at like 5 or 6)
 
How many are old enough to remember when just getting a color tv was a big deal,lol? Or more than just the 3 networks and PBS,lol?
At least I'm not old enough to've seen the original Cinderella when it came out.lol.
We live in a world where people expect instant everything. It's rather a shame, really, imo. Except for cake mixes, instant pudding, steaming veggies in a bag in the nuke, etc,etc,lol.
 
ROFL Darcy!! I think we're about the same age and that would've been my response too. I remember my mom buying us a VCR for a wedding gift in 1988 and it cost her $500. LOL
 
Yep that was me too!! My dad was in the TV repair business and I remember when I was 12 him getting a Beta Max machine!! We thought we were HOT!!!!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Okay off to take my geritol now.
 
I remember dad buying a VCR when I was about 10, and it was a Panasonic...it was about $500 like Paula said. It lasted FOREVER though, it was one tough machine LOL.

I remember having 2 channels and no cable. I remember having to actually GO to the movies, to see a movie. We don't have a DVR or TiVo, but we do have a satellite. So if I miss the show at 9:30, usually I can watch it at 10:30 when it's in another time zone LOL.
 
Emmy said:
That is the saddest story I've ever heard.........:p
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Hey - you better watch it - more cracks like that and I might have to fire you! :p

I remember getting the VCR, too - thankfully we were HIP and got VHS :) The only time in my life I was EVER hip. I remember the old computers, too - we even had one of the old atari computers. We used to play a text based game every Sunday night in the corner of our dining room called Tai Pei. It was the only thing that my brother and I did together after we were 6 ROFL. We were young teens by then, maybe? Dad still has his first computer in storage. He doesn't want to give it up - he's convinced it'll be worth money one day.
 
Yep, no VCR until I was either a teen or an adult. No DVD player until I needed one for my DD a few years ago. Still no cable, TIVO, DVR, HDTV, etc.

We were at a hotel last month and my DD (6yo) got to watch the Disney channel. When we got back, she couldn't understand why we couldn't get the same shows on our TV :rolleyes:

Helen
 
1985 was a big year for our family--I was in 4th grade, and we got cable television and our first computer. Some friends and I were talking about those old computers today and learning to program them to do things like scroll our names across the screen.

I can't remember when we got our first VCR. Maybe when I was about 11? We got rid of our last VCR last year, but I still can't get out of the habit of telling my kids "We'll tape it."
 
SeattleSheri said:
Me too! I tried to explain to my 4 year old that we couldn't just make something appear on TV when I was a kid and actually had to watch scheduled programs or go to the theatre .... the concept was completely lost on him. I don't think we got a VCR until I was 10-11 years old.
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I totally remember renting a VCR when I was in 6th grade...the first movie I saw was Old Yeller. I didn't go to an indoor theatre until I was 16. Wow will my kids ever know the hardships?!..lol...
 
Tee hee.....did anyone else have PONG?
We used to play this all the time hahaha!
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Bah I was like in High School during the BETA thing.

I'm about to go soak my dentures while I sit in my rocker.
 
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