A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.
They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.
Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.
If you got one question wrong in Bamboozle, you had to start all the way from the beginning.
Picking up the phone to make a call, and getting yelled at by the neighbor for not checking for a dialtone before dialling. Alternatively, learning how to screw out the mouth piece (muting the handset) and pick up the receiver without making a noise so I could listen to the neighbour gossip.
My favorite if you really wanted to mess with somebody you'd call them and just not hang up since it was a physical actual switch and connections that were made they were never broken untilbothh hung up
How old are you that you remember party lines? My mom doesn't even remember them and I'm in my late 40s
I still dream in black and white.
Jogging sucked because my music would stutter with every step.
I stood on a sawhorse and touched the light bulb's base. My brother stood on the ground, touched the light bulb base, and shocked himself silly. It hung from the ceiling, just the way it was.
You could get kicked off the internet if someone picked up the phone.
Connecting to the internet was loud and took a few minutes at best.
Oh how I loved my 28kbit... He was making sounds like some alien insect, all clicks and clacks. Pretty stylish too, all black and blocky with red accents.
Better phased as, "I lost my internet connection and knew my flatmate picked up the phone."
My first console was the Nintendo DS. My first PC was a Windows XP one. We still used VHS, CDs and DVDs at my parents place
There were red pages in the phone book that had a number you could call and enter a four-digit code to hear movie showtimes or the Joke of the Day.
I remember looking up Spiderman 1 showtimes this way...
I remember listening to showtimes this way because I was the oldest kid in my family and my mom would rarely take us to the movies, and even when she did it was always some rated G film to cater to the youngest sibling, and listening to the showtimes let me imagine a day when I'd have a job and could go to the movies any time I wanted.
Now I have that. I can go to the movies any time I want. And yet... gestures broadly at the garbage that passes for films today...
That sounds made up.
It definitely wasn't. There were different codes for all sorts of shit...different types of legal advice, gardening tips, mental health issues, you name it. There was no internet available, at least no internet any non-academic civilians had access to. Moviephone was still a couple years away when I remember discovering the red pages. We're talking mid-to-late 1980s here.
Now that I am trying to look up anyone else referencing the red pages, I am not really finding anything tbph. I know I didn't imagine them. Maybe it was just a DFW thing? idk