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GAME: 1980s vs 2010s
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:54 am
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:54 am
Saturday morning:
Wake up to FM 102, turn off clock radio, pick up newspaper to look for a job at the bookstore in the mall so i can get my hands on the latest STARLOG or FANGORIA and an Avalon Hill WWII strategy bookcase game.
Put my Kmart 3-for-$1 cassette tapes into my bookshelf boombox, pick up the phone, dial my best friend and tell him to grab his kodak camera so we can sneak into the movies and take pictures of that new movie that just came out whose ad takes up a FULL PAGE of the newspaper with images.
Read the high school football scores, scan the baseball stats, chuckle at Peanuts & wince at Garfield and Family Circus. Try to solve the JUMBLE without figuring out all the words.
Look over at the typewriter with a piece of paper with only 2 paragraphs typed of my term paper due on Monday and decide to blow that off and instead go to the gas station with the 3 quarters I earned from picking up coke bottles to play Space Invaders & the Playboy pinball machine.
HOW MANY OBSOLETE THINGS/INDUSTRIES CAN YOU FIND?
Wake up to FM 102, turn off clock radio, pick up newspaper to look for a job at the bookstore in the mall so i can get my hands on the latest STARLOG or FANGORIA and an Avalon Hill WWII strategy bookcase game.
Put my Kmart 3-for-$1 cassette tapes into my bookshelf boombox, pick up the phone, dial my best friend and tell him to grab his kodak camera so we can sneak into the movies and take pictures of that new movie that just came out whose ad takes up a FULL PAGE of the newspaper with images.
Read the high school football scores, scan the baseball stats, chuckle at Peanuts & wince at Garfield and Family Circus. Try to solve the JUMBLE without figuring out all the words.
Look over at the typewriter with a piece of paper with only 2 paragraphs typed of my term paper due on Monday and decide to blow that off and instead go to the gas station with the 3 quarters I earned from picking up coke bottles to play Space Invaders & the Playboy pinball machine.
HOW MANY OBSOLETE THINGS/INDUSTRIES CAN YOU FIND?
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Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:56 am to CAD703X
quote:
Peanuts & wince at Garfield and Family Circus
those are all still in my morning papers
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:57 am to Nimbus2000
almost all of that shite is still available.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:57 am to CAD703X
I laughed.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:57 am to Displaced
quote:
almost all of that shite is still available.
available <> obsolete
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:58 am to CAD703X
Well let's see... FM radio, clock radios, newspapers, bookstores, and malls all still exist.
No clue about that nerdy game shite.
Cassettes... HA. Boombox, HA! Landline phone... I guess those are still around.
Okay I'm bored with this game.
Family Circus still sucks.
No clue about that nerdy game shite.
Cassettes... HA. Boombox, HA! Landline phone... I guess those are still around.
Okay I'm bored with this game.
Family Circus still sucks.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 9:58 am to CAD703X
quote:
play Space Invaders & the Playboy pinball machine.
you can still find this.
and jumble still exists.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
quote:
STARLOG or FANGORIA and an Avalon Hill WWII strategy bookcase game
the only thing i would consider obsolete is maybe this shite (because i have no idea what it is) and the typrwriter.
the rest is still in use
Maybe Casset tapes/walkman too.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
For me:
1980s: Watch us beat Florida State then lose to Navy the next week.
2010s: Watch us beat Alabama then lose to Kentucky the next week.
ETA: sorry, I misunderstood the title of this thread
1980s: Watch us beat Florida State then lose to Navy the next week.
2010s: Watch us beat Alabama then lose to Kentucky the next week.
ETA: sorry, I misunderstood the title of this thread
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 10:02 am
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:01 am to Hawkeye95
quote:
you can still find this.
y'all have missed the point of this entirely.
guess what? you can still find Model T Fords for sale. :shocker:
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:02 am to CAD703X
if people still make it, and others still use it, it isn't obsolete.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:03 am to CAD703X
quote:
Look over at the typewriter with a piece of paper with only 2 paragraphs typed of my term paper
We're the same age..I used a PC for my term papers...
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:04 am to CAD703X
lol damn...
FM Radio-> satelite radio
clock radio-> Iphones
newspaper-> NOLA.COM
job at bookstore-> teenagers can't find jobs anymore
starlog, fangoria, Avalon Hill-> video games
Kmart
cassette tapes-> Itunes
bookshelf boombox-> Beats pill
pick up the phone-> slide the unlock bar
Kodak camera-> do they still exist?
take pictures of movie-> google it
reading HS football scores-> twitter... I get them as they happen
baseball stats-> ESPN.COM
typewriter-> laptop
gas station video games-> XBox, PS4
FM Radio-> satelite radio
clock radio-> Iphones
newspaper-> NOLA.COM
job at bookstore-> teenagers can't find jobs anymore
starlog, fangoria, Avalon Hill-> video games
Kmart
cassette tapes-> Itunes
bookshelf boombox-> Beats pill
pick up the phone-> slide the unlock bar
Kodak camera-> do they still exist?
take pictures of movie-> google it
reading HS football scores-> twitter... I get them as they happen
baseball stats-> ESPN.COM
typewriter-> laptop
gas station video games-> XBox, PS4
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 10:07 am
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:05 am to CAD703X
quote:
you can still find this.
y'all have missed the point of this entirely.
its not obsolete. They even make new space invader game and there are bars dedicated to pinball.
at least where I live.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:07 am to LSUBoo
quote:
Family Circus
And it's always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:12 am to Hawkeye95
the point being these things are still around, but just don't know that they're dead already
> newspapers
> home phones
> full page movie ads in newspapers
> newspapers as a source of entertainment as opposed to TD.com or reddit or fark
> JUMBLE vs flappy bird, angry birds, tetris, etc
> calling your friend vs texting
> going to a movie vs NETFLIX on your phone sitting in your bed
> film
> going to an arcade to play video games
> cassette tapes
> FM/AM radio
> typewriters
> bookstores
> books
> magazines
> newspapers used to find mcdonalds jobs
> clock radio
> alarm clock
> newspaper sports page vs watching LSU play baseball on justinTV on your phone
> making money from recycling glass bottles
> newspapers
> home phones
> full page movie ads in newspapers
> newspapers as a source of entertainment as opposed to TD.com or reddit or fark
> JUMBLE vs flappy bird, angry birds, tetris, etc
> calling your friend vs texting
> going to a movie vs NETFLIX on your phone sitting in your bed
> film
> going to an arcade to play video games
> cassette tapes
> FM/AM radio
> typewriters
> bookstores
> books
> magazines
> newspapers used to find mcdonalds jobs
> clock radio
> alarm clock
> newspaper sports page vs watching LSU play baseball on justinTV on your phone
> making money from recycling glass bottles
This post was edited on 3/20/14 at 10:28 am
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:21 am to CAD703X
Life has changed in many seemingly minor ways, but they add up to some significant cultural shifts which are hard to define.
Your point is well taken and mildly entertaining.
Shake off the literalists in this thread. The internet, especially the OT, is full of wannabe, know-it-all, douchebags.
Your point is well taken and mildly entertaining.
Shake off the literalists in this thread. The internet, especially the OT, is full of wannabe, know-it-all, douchebags.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:24 am to CAD703X
Myspace
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:29 am to Jimbeaux
quote:
they add up to some significant cultural shifts which are hard to define.
yep. you would be a fool to open a bookstore, invest in a newspaper company and quite honestly, i don't think the local TV news is much longer for this world.
newspapers around the country are running on skeleton staff these days.
Posted on 3/20/14 at 10:34 am to Displaced
quote:
if people still make it, and others still use it, it isn't obsolete.
Send him to PEG to learn about obsolesence. LOL!
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