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re: Kids don't know the struggle, that was portable music before mp3 and streaming
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:50 am to oleyeller
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:50 am to oleyeller
When I was a kid the radio stations (we had one rock AM station in Lafayette, one rock FM) would sign off at midnight.
After that you'd hope that the weather was right for you to pick up KAAY in Little Rock.
After that you'd hope that the weather was right for you to pick up KAAY in Little Rock.
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Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:51 am to Fewer Kilometers
remember when tv stations used to do that? it almost doesn't seem real now but, i remember seeing the picture just change to "snow".
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:52 am to MorbidTheClown
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remember when tv stations used to do that? it almost doesn't seem real now but, i remember seeing the picture just change to "snow".
Yep. They'd play the Star Spangled Banner and then that was it, no TV.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:53 am to Darth_Vader
wow forgot that
and what cocksucker downvoted my op
and what cocksucker downvoted my op
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:53 am to Darth_Vader
could you imagine he outrage if that happened today? 
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:55 am to MorbidTheClown
I don't think these overentertained kids nowadays could handle it. There would be a "triggering" of Biblical proportions.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:55 am to MorbidTheClown
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could you imagine he outrage if that happened today?
Today people want to draw blood when the cable goes out and they're reduced to watching from their antenna, streaming, and DVDs.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 10:58 am to Kracka
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That is where the term "mix tape" orginated from. The ability to put whatever songs you wanted on a cassette tape. I had 2 tape boxes filled with tapes. Those were the days....
I have a bunch I made from 6th-9th grade that are AWESOME.
ETA:
I thought I was in heaven when I moved from Virginia to Louisiana after 2nd grade because the school buses had SPEAKERS in them and we listened to music to and from.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 10:59 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:00 am to yurintroubl
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:04 am to yurintroubl
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I thought I was in heaven when I moved from Virginia to Louisiana after 2nd grade because the school buses had SPEAKERS in them and we listened to music to and from.
Damn. We had an old bus with no air and fiberglass seats. Most of the windows were stuck and would not go down. The bus driver was this old WWII vet who was missing his left hand. He had a prosthetic hook in it's place. If you messed up he'd move you to the front seat over on the right hand side of the bus. If you messed up again, he had a 2' long sawed off broom handle with a 3' long piece of garden hose attached to the end. He'd drive the bus with his prosthetic hook and wear you out using that stick and hose in his right hand. That damn thing hurt like hell.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 11:05 am
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:34 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:36 am to Darth_Vader
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At the start of every school year I'd get five brand new pair of Toughskins, one for every day of the school week.
Damn, y'all must have been rich. We got a couple of pairs and mom was a wiz with the patches.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:38 am to Darth_Vader
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Yep. They'd play the Star Spangled Banner and then that was it, no TV.
The girlfriend and I watched Poltergeist the other day. I had to explain that to her(27 yr old and has had a cell phone since she was 13 so....)
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:39 am to Bama and Beer
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FrostWire
Oh the joys of thinking you were downloading the latest Eminem song and it turned out to be Asian arse porn
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:43 am to Darth_Vader
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remember when tv stations used to do that? it almost doesn't seem real now but, i remember seeing the picture just change to "snow". Yep. They'd play the Star Spangled Banner and then that was it, no TV.
Growing up WDSU was the only station we got. At 10 o'clock they'd play the SSB and sign off and show a test pattern the rest of the night.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 11:53 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Damn, y'all must have been rich. We got a couple of pairs and mom was a wiz with the patches.
Rich? No. But looking back we were actually pretty well off. The woman I called "momma" was actually my maternal grandmother. She was a widow who drew my grandfather's SS and pension from Republic Steel. She also had her own SS and retirement from her days of selling Insurance for Independent Life Ins Co. And then on top of that she got SS checks for both me and my brother because both our parents were dead.
She used it all except the SS checks she got for us. She never touched those. Instead they were deposited into CD's at the bank every month. Those were supposed to be used for our college. But when she died her brother (my great uncle), who was the executor of her her estate took all the money from the bank and spent it. In fact, counting the CD's and all her other assets, she left us a pretty solid nest egg to get us each started out pretty well in life. We never saw the first dime of it. Hope that son of a bitch is burning in hell.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 12:22 pm to oleyeller
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ahh napster.. nothing like having dialup and downloading the song before bed only to wake up the next morning to see it still hasnt finished or failed
We were the first in our neighborhood to get dsl. Changed my life forever. Was dl songs within minutes.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 12:22 pm to Darth_Vader
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And then on top of that she got SS checks for both me and my brother because both our parents were dead.
damn...how old were you guys when you lost your folks?!
Posted on 2/17/16 at 12:45 pm to retired trucker
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damn...how old were you guys when you lost your folks?!
They were both killed in a car accident two weeks after my first birthday. At that time my brother was a couple months shy of two years old.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 12:58 pm to oleyeller
I remember when I got booted from Napster for downloading "no leaf clover" from Metallica
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