I look forward to telling them that once upon a time Daddy had a phone for calling, a computer for the internet, a camera for photos, and a credit card for buying things. Really, there was no one device that did all of them. No, you had to carry it on a rope around your neck and you looked like a tourist.
You gotta get yourself some marble columns
Once upon a time, darling hellspawn, fucking around on the computer wasn't how you talked to your friends, it was the opposite of talking to your friends.
The child is father to the man —Oedipus
Bulletin Board Systems (no, it wasn't 'the Internet before there was Internet'... actually, wait, no, it was), life before everything that ever happened ended up on Youtube ten minutes later, why people still watch reality TV when it became obvious twenty years ago that everyone that ended up on those shows was a capering imbecile, why anyone cared what a bunch of overpaid entertainers thought...
Along with the previous stuff, of course- film cameras, rotary phones, 8-Bit (or older) gaming, imagination, going outside, what 'the sun' is...
Writer of horse words
I think Pacman might be around in some form or another still. Granted the character doesn't have the crazy marketing campaigns that Sonic or Mario has, but he still pops up in popular culture.
edited 25th Apr '11 2:34:19 PM by Justice4243
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.
Why we don't live closer to grandma.
BTW, I'm a chick.
What is in Grandma's cooking
Happily enough, who Osama Bin Laden was, followed rapidly by why they should give a crap.
BTW, I'm a chick.
Fledging Supervillian
"Hey Dad. What's a Television schedule?"
edited 4th May '11 12:21:48 PM by CannonGerbil
ALL HAIL THE WARGERBIL!
I see the Awesomeness.
Beepers if they haven't been mentioned yet. Probably land lines as well.
Fight smart, not fair.
'80s TV Action Hero
Given the way things look after last night's election, 'what the United Kingdom was'.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
What a television did.
Я очень рад
Life with frigging huge CRT monitors.
Gristknife
What that sound that comes from grandma's TV when the sound's off is.
Charlie Tunoku is a lover and a fighter.
'80s TV Action Hero
Life before Netflix.
'80s TV Action Hero
What's Netflix?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
Neptunia Ichiban
If I ever adopt some little bastards for whatever reason, Id tell that for a long time, there was no Youtube.
Also, video games with pixel sprites.
For a while, Animutations were the most awesome things on the net, along with All Your Base.
edited 8th Jun '11 2:36:15 AM by Zanreo
shouldn't his favorite genre be RPG and not point and click though
- Where I was during 9/11 and why it was a big deal.
- You used to be able to bring all sorts of things with you on a plane and used to be able to wait right at the gate entrance.
- Why Barack Obama getting elected president was such a big deal.
- Why George W. Bush was such a polarizing figure as the president.
- That the reason we were all scared shitless over HIV/AIDS was because we had no idea what the Hell it was at first.
- What life was like before the Internet.
- Yes, that means we didn't have Facebook, Twitter or You Tube.
- What the Y2K bug was and why everyone was so scared of it.
- Why everyone was completely terrified of the Michelangelo computer virus.
- Why the prevalent belief according to pop culture said that the world going going to end in 2012.
- Not only what life was like before cellphones, but what life was like when cellphones where just phones you carried around and not a 'hub device' that had all your information in it.
- Phones used to have cords.
- There was no such thing as texting.
- What video games were like when I was a child.
- Children's films used to be 2D animation instead of 3D animated.
- That I used plastic squares called floppy disks to back up my computer data as a child and that they the things could only store 1.44 MB of information on it.
edited 11th Jun '11 11:16:46 AM by RedViking
Lord of Flapdoodle
I'm looking forward to trying to explain what the Postal Service was for.
the pronoun system in Cherokee is just better. Need Scion GM.
"Parental Guardian? What's a Democracy?"
"I shouldn't really be answering that. The corporostate will have my neck."
Also
- The idea of postal mail
- The world before txt spk
- What a book was
- What a My Space was (there are kids who are 14, and don't know what one was)
- How one needed to exchange money for music in stores
- What a War was (hopefully)
edited 13th Jun '11 3:34:40 AM by Inhopelessguy
'80s TV Action Hero
I find it quite funny that people think Facebook, Twitter or Youtube will stil be around by the time they have kids. Even if the internet simply carries on the way it has thus far, all three will be forgotten by the end of the decade.
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
The Shadows Devour You.
Well, y'see kid, we used to have these big clunky consoles. And they used to play these games, see, just like the ones you play on your phone today... of course, you couldn't carry them around with you, no, they were always plugged into the TV, just like you sometimes do at home so you can play on the big screen!
The term "Great Man" is disturbingly interchangeable with "mass murderer" in history books.
Samurai Troper
The concept of going to the library to borrow books.
The concept of video game hint magazines, before Game FA Qs came around.
Swordplay and writing blog. Purveyor of weeaboo fightin' magic.
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