...growing up through your first decade of life, it was so great. I was born in 1988 so the early 90's is special to me. Back when your that young you barely if ever have any worries or troubles, you are easily fascinated with things and more easily entertained. It was exciting back being young, going to a friends sleepover, playing computer games for hours on end and watching adult rated movies. As you grow older, and in your teenage years its sad to see growing out of things you once loved, and not as easily entertained as you once were, ah those were the days...
God , you make me feel old, When I was a pre-teen J.F.K. was taking the oath of office. Which we watched on our black and white T.V. Color T.V. was out, but didn't know anyone that owned one. Computers were in the developing stages. Univac was sorting punch cards and was the size of a large grocery store. Now the lap top I'm now on has 5000 times the power and can do everything. We looked forward to Scout O Rama. Where all us Boy Scouts would get together, all weekend. Adult Movies, hadn't come out yet. The term was "Stag Films", heard about them, 8 mm film, mailed in a plain brown envelope. Like I said, heard about them but never saw one... Ah, those were the days...
Pre-teens used to play with those paper computer punch cards, like make wreaths out of them and such. .
I don't know what the hell is wrong with you but I am still easily entertained. But when I was a pre-teen I played with barbies, drew crazy things, and played outside for hours. I didn't start goofing around on the computer until I was 18 - and unfortunately I got hooked because that was back when I became a member of the hipforums.
like alaskan, i was in my 30s before you could go to a store and bring home a trs-80 or a vic-20 and just plug it in and start playing with it. i too watched live coverage, for the first time ever, of the nomination of kennidy, on our black and white sears silvertone. isenhour's golf and mccarthyism. and the i.g.y. sputnik, and then eagle has landed. well of course i was born in 1948, so a lot of what i remember growing up is pretty remote now. doctors making house calls and grocery stores delivering, because not everyone had a car yet. lots of bussess and trains. well my dad worked for the railroad and that was pretty much the main thing in my life too. because what jobs you got on the railroad, where you worked, depended on seniority. and when i was little my dad didn't have very much yet. so untill i was in the third grade, about halfway through it, when we moved to colfax (california) and stayed there until the year i graduated highschool, we'd never lived more then a couple of years in any one place. electronics was almost all vacume tubes and almost entirely about radio. what industrial electronics there were was about relays and servos, and the occasional oddity like thystrons. even when i was in the air force we still had magnitron beam switching tubes and nixi tubes for digital displays. though by then transisters had become common and even the first few ttl ic's. the dec pdp 8e could house a complete system in a single rack the size of a refrigerator. still beyond the means of the average mortal, but exciting stuff, with dreams of the someday that finaly began comming real when the first altair circuit boards and the kim-1 started to appear in the pages of popular electronix in the mid 70s (which by then i was already an adult and out living on my own, with my honorable discharge which ment i no longer had to worry about being drafted) oh but more about my preteen years. well my friends and i, what we collected and played with were matchbox miniature vehicules. i remember we used to be able to get those at the local drugstore that had the only magazene rack in town also. there were tonka trucks and construction equipment for the back yard. living where we were, kind of half way out in the country, little towns up in the mountains and forrests, we used to go for long walks by ourselves out in the woods. my dad had taught me how to walk quiet, that was the big thing, so you could actualy see deer and all sorts of other wild natural creatures. and not to be scared of them, just be careful not to get to close and always give them a chance to get away from you and they always would instead of hurting you like city folks always thought they would. we used to pick wild black berries and miner's lettice and pine nuts and filberts and wallnuts and other things like that. and always carried a canteen of water and a snake bite kit. and sometimes a sandwidge for lunch. =^^= .../\...
i was born in 88 too I dont glorify my childhood, it wasnt that great I least i wasnt so weighed down by things adults insist on making important then though
Yea those years for me were terrible. I will go to the first highschool reunion just to show a selected few i made it. Bunch of punks. Only reason is because i know they wont make it. Instinct's are always right.
