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This fun little thread is to remember those times you had fun back in the day when you thought life was simple...

I remember when big hair was cool

i remember when i went to the beach with my mom back when i was a little girl i had so much fun spending time with my mom it was something i really enjoyed.

I remember going to find a apartment and you could get one for 300.00 a month compared to now when you can pay 1,200.00 a month

I remember when VHS movies was popular

I remember when we used cassettes to listen to music

I remember when you could ride in the back of the pick up truck.

I, remember when this place wasn't so dividing.

When a stamp cost 1 cent

I remember Vidal Sassoon was the thing back then

when going to the drive inn in my pjys

I remember dial phones with the twisty cords to get tangled in

Loud Make up colours

when mp3 players was popular.

I remember when there was no internet

i remember when my bestfriend and i would walk the streets late at night well my mom was at her girlfriends that she had a thing with back in the day it was so much fun cause we had no worries back then and we were in our teens

I,Remember when the world was more kind.

I remember microwaves were colossal back when they came out

I remember when leg warmers and sweaters

i remember smokes used to be less than 2 bucks

I remember the 2 antennas on back of TV.

I remember MASH was on TV

MSN chats were the thing

I remember the bars that played good tunes to dance too

I remember when people cared about me.

I remember when I Harlequin came to my highschool for a concert

I remember when things weren't so difficult

I remember when this place was fun

I remember when I hit sire the first time

I remember when there was no computers

I remember when cell phones just came out...lmao big bulky things

omg like bricks right? LOL

I remember when hand written letters were so amazing. So is it a bad thing to say that Henry and I still write those to each other even tho we are together? LOL. We are both old fashioned:)

Nope it the best so I am going to remember this too.

Handwritten notes and love notes, and talking to one another at the dinner table and in restaurants spending quality time with one another.

I remember when things where cool

I remember when hamburgers were 79 cents

..buying candy with one penny.

I remember when there were G rated movies (even Disney lately has been PG)

I remember when you had to use a dial phone

I remember when cigarettes were 50 cents

I remember not having to work 80 hours a week just to scrape by...

I remember when country music was country music

I remember as kids we didn't have any worries of the world

I remember coming on line and your welcomed by your fellow members not have shit in your inbox or in your journal

I remember dial up internet

I remember when it was fun

People were afraid of Vampires.

I remember when Web tv was a social media yes I had one guess IM and old fart lol.

Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced a new and improved WebTV, the interactive TV service it had purchased from internet TV pioneer Steve Perlman a few months earlier.
A predecessor to today’s smart TVs, the pioneering service (later renamed MSN TV) used a set-top box to bring internet access, interactive digital TV, digital video recording, and games to the television. The product is considered to be the first true convergence product.

As Motherboard observed in the 2016 post The Story of WebTV, the Smart TV of the 90s, “WebTV's dream of couch surfing the internet on your TV with a remote never really took off... but it never really died, either.”

Excerpts from that post:

Two decades ago, WebTV launched a bold idea into the mainstream… and caught the fringes. What can we learn about the internet from this noble failure?
Terrible product ideas are a dime a dozen, but what about ideas that are fascinating, and perhaps executionally sound, but conceptually flawed?

How often do they come about? And how often is it that they stick around the market for 17 years, despite fairly limited public interest?

Such is the case of WebTV, the set-top device that allowed you to surf a television-optimized version of the web. On September 18, 1996 — 20 years ago this week — a startup firm released a device that meant to bring the internet to the living room. It was a bet that people didn't want to use a computer set up at a desk to get online — a bet that turned out to be half-right, because ultimately people didn't want to be tethered at all….

Despite being heavily hyped, WebTV struggled to gain traction during its early years.

The technology itself, first conceptualized by a startup of the same name and distributed by tech giants Sony and Philips, was impressive and forward-thinking at the time, taking advantage of a budding mainstream interest in the web....

But the web was simply not designed for reading 10 feet away from the screen, despite changes made by Perlman and other developers that specifically focused on television readability. [Note: The web was text-based in those days.] They made the text bigger, worked hard on the typography, and made it easy to scroll through links with a remote control. But it was still a slog.

Perhaps one telling sign of the challenges of selling the public on WebTV comes from the roadshow clip. Cofounder Bruce Leak, as he showed off the capabilities of the system while searching for the television show Friends, had to stall a bit when the 1996-era website for NBC's Friends, a fairly primitive site by today's standards, struggled to load. The issue was two-fold: [Dial-up!] Modems are slow, but the page, additionally, was not optimized to work effectively on WebTV. There were a lot of pages like that at the time.

The solution to this issue, of course, is not unlike what we see happening today on mobile platforms: responsive websites, dedicated apps, and progressive approaches designed to take advantage of the small screen so that content is readable anywhere. But unlike mobile phones, where the user bases simply couldn't be ignored, WebTV for much of its history was the only company doing any of this stuff, and they didn't have enough subscribers to be taken seriously, so the idea of selling developers on creating a television-formatted version of their website was a nonstarter.

I remember when nerds were outcasts

gas was less than a dollar

I remember when flirting was just a game

Computers had DOS

I remember when neighbors used to be like family.

movies were less than 5 to get in

I remember when you had to use a payphone that were set up on every other corner. (Gosh I'm old...LOL))

Omg payphones those were the days LOL (you are so NOT old LOL)

I remember going to the zoo and staying for hours. I used to sketch the animals. It was relaxing when i was a kid.

I remember rotary phones

I remember when rent was not insane

I remember when I felt young lol

I remember when the rockers used to fight the disco boys....LOL...I'm not that old but I did hear about it....LOL

I remember getting a glass Coca Cola bottle out of an old vending machine for .25.

omg T that is too damn funny LMAO!!!

I remember not having to lock the doors in the neighborhood. Fortunately this is still true as everyone in my neighborhood is old school honor system type peeps:)

Dial up was sooo slow

I remember when they raked the beaches in NY.

I remember hairspray, the mega hold kind was the thing

I remember when I could remember things.

When I saw more activity here lol

Me an mom went to Florida

I remember the vamp box and webcams back in the day. So fun!

When I first played Solitaire in '97 :)

I remember Apple computers would be those translucent colored types in the schools for students to use.

Drama didn't exist. ;D

people got along on here

I used to listen to the Pet Shop Boys while roller skating in the garage! LOL!

I remember when my friends and I would meet up at the lake to hang out everyday...at least ten people showed up each day, sometimes 30

Life was easier

the vamp box and web cams were a thing here

I went camping with my granpa

I remember when 20.00 would get you piss ass drunk and that is all you needed at the bar. 1.00 a drink OMG I AM SO FRICKING OLD!!!!!! Up here the legal age to drink is 18 even when I was 18. DAMN IT ALL TO HELL.

I remember starting here 11 years ago. It's been a long time.

I remember hearing the sounds of kids playing in the streets of my neighborhood

People didn't get hot headed by adding there referals

i went camping with my kids

When people didn't care about a full 10 rating score

When certain individuals did not care as much as drama and writing journals

I remember when people didn't call other people names on this site back in 06.

when we had a good time at the park walking

People left me alone about grammar

things havent been the same since the pandemic sighs,

I loved leveling

Love talking to people without being judged

didn't harasse my family.

drama and more drama I wish it will stop is pathetic and getting old,

I agree with the post above.

feeling loved by family

I miss my old coven Existere. Moons was an amazing CM. Good times:) Oh Bones. Ya really need to come back!

I remember when there as no cell phones or internet

I remember black and white dial tv LOL

I remember when people cared.

True dat tho...


I remember late nights studying for school how mentally exhausted I'd be. Looks like I'm about do that again but for 4 years this time:)

remember when girls were treated like people instead of abused

The Pet Shop Boys were popular

I remember when people knew how to hold conversations in person

I remember when gas was 57 cents a gallon

I remember when we smoked cigarettes all night in Dennys.

I remember when we stayed up all night talking on the phone.

Watching the stars

I remember when roller skating in the garage was super cool.

we had fun talking on skype

I remember the good days when friends and I would chill at the lake and all around town all day

I remember when I didn't have to wear a mask in public

I remember when life for me was carefree....

I remember when cigs were less than 2 dollars a pack to get.

I remember when the street lights came on at night it was time to come home

I remember when "mall bangs" were a thing.

I remember being in Moonie's coven Existere ❤ It was kick ass:) She was the best dayum CM ever hehehe!

I remember when the first cell phone was introduced

I remember when I was skinny.

I remember when people were nicer