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re: Was the best time ever to be a kid in the 80’s?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:55 pm to SquatchDawg
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:55 pm to SquatchDawg
Summers in the 80s were amazing.
I say quite often that i wish my kids could experience the stuff i did as a kid
I say quite often that i wish my kids could experience the stuff i did as a kid
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Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:02 pm to Fat and Happy
The 90s was a pretty solid decade as well. Those were my HS and LSU days. When did things really start to change for kids and teens? Early 2000s?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:27 pm to Rebel
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Best part of being a Gen Xer is not belonging to the boomers or millennials.
PREACH!
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:29 pm to SquatchDawg
A much simpler time and I agree.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:40 pm to SquatchDawg
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The 90s were great, don’t get me wrong. But as a kid born in 1971 I had a front row seat to the invention of video games. Riding your bike to the local arcade the pump quarters into an astroid machine. Donkey Kong and PAC Man. Having a friend who just got the new Nintendo.
We went from using a cassette recorder to record your favorite that song just so happened to come on the radio to going to to buying CDs. We saw the advent of home computers.
A lot of shite went down during that decade.
Yeah, I really wish I could have experienced the arcade era like that. I was born 16 years after you. But even at that age I had the original Nintendo (because of my big sister) and also experienced the 16-bit Nintendo vs. Genesis wars on the playground. I experienced video games jumping from 2D to 3D as a child. I also grew up with a cassette recorder and recording radio and ditched that for CDs when the PlayStation came out. And my family got its first computer when I was 6 and I learned to use MS-DOS but also was dazzled by the Windows 95 launch and the rise of GUI computing.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 2:04 pm to SquatchDawg
I was 10 in 1972; man that was great! I had a paper route; I could ride my bike anywhere.
Those were great times, but so are these. Every stage of my life has been a blast, and I’m looking forward to my 60’s and beyond.
Now, if I was you I’d be depressed! J/k
Those were great times, but so are these. Every stage of my life has been a blast, and I’m looking forward to my 60’s and beyond.
Now, if I was you I’d be depressed! J/k
Posted on 6/27/21 at 3:21 pm to Mr Clean
Back in the day...
Only in my dreams.
She did give nice hand jobs though.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 3:46 pm to SquatchDawg
No doubt!!! Born in 73 and enjoyed my childhood and teenage years more than any other time in my life. Same gang still hangs out today, drink around a fire, and talk about those times.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 5:21 pm to LSUAngelHere1
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remember my Momma getting the 25th Anniversary Corvette
My friend's dad had one in the mid 80's. Said friend ran into a brick mailbox with it. He is probably still grounded.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:24 pm to SquatchDawg
1996 baby here. Late 1998-Mid 2006 was the best time to be a kid. The Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! crazes. Everybody being entrenched in Powerpuff fever. Homestar Runner's improbable spread in popularity through pure word of mouth. SpongeBob's golden age. Raising virtual pets/villages in Neopets, Sonic Adventure 2's Chao Garden, and the original Animal Crossing. Nintendo's peak with the Nintendo 64 and the GameCube. Turner/Time Warner's utter dominance with Cartoon Network and Kids' WB. Rushing home from school to watch Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, and the other anime on Toonami. And one of the greatest operating systems of all-time: Windows 98.
To those who were tweens and older in the early 2000s, your memories of that time have been clouded by 9/11, but for those fortunate enough to have been of single-digit age in that era, there was no better time to be a kid. It will never be topped.
Here is a taste of what we experienced.
To those who were tweens and older in the early 2000s, your memories of that time have been clouded by 9/11, but for those fortunate enough to have been of single-digit age in that era, there was no better time to be a kid. It will never be topped.
Here is a taste of what we experienced.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 6:25 pm
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:27 pm to karmew32
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Late 1998-Mid 2006 was the best time to be a kid
Nah. I lived in both time periods and remember each of them well. The 80s were better by a wide margin. The conveniences gained by the explosion of technology and the internet don't offset the negative aspects they created for kids.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 6:28 pm
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:30 pm to fallguy_1978
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I got up early enough to watch Kids Incorporated.
I had no intention of replying, I was just enjoying the flashbacks, but I've had the Kids Inc. theme song in my head for the past 30 minutes thank to you. Born in '78, 80s were the best for all the reasons noted in this thread.
This post was edited on 6/27/21 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:53 pm to SquatchDawg
70s weren’t bad either.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 6:58 pm to calcotron
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I had no intention of replying, I was just enjoying the flashbacks, but I've had the Kids Inc. theme song in my head for the past 30 minutes thank to you. Born in '78, 80s were the best for all the reasons noted in this thread.
I still remember the intro music pretty well too. We'd watch that when the sun wasn't even up yet waiting on Saturday morning cartoons.
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