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I remember when I used to play Plug and Play games on my old Magnavox CRT TV set.

8" floppy disks
When the "computer room" had to be below 60F otherwise the machines would overheat.

I remember the days when there were no video games at all.

We played pinball instead.

I was a kid before CDs were a thing and we never had neither cassette tapes, portable CD player or even radio in our first car (which wasn't old at the time) so I was bereft of that memory despite having lived then.

I remember the time up until Wednesday when my mom could listen to the radio in her current car, before our dumb authorities forced through DAB + and having the FM net shut down. They're always quick to enforce stupidity.

I remember Lørdagsbarnetimen and all the exciting stories I listened to.

I remember Halvsju, Blikkbåx and Midt I Smørøyet.

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^ De var fine programmer for sin tid

I remember that well. It wasn't that long ago. I also remember smoking was usual on planes.

I remember was the NES was new. It was such a novel thing. I dreamed, thought and played SMB for a few months!

I remember when the cordless came, and how strange it was not to have a particular place to stand when talking in the phone. It was freer but also strange.

I remember when things generally lasted way longer than their expected time.

I remember when kneippbrød cost 5 NOK. It wasn't that many years ago either.

I remember when I got my first DS for Christmas back in 2008.

i remember when there were no games at all. in fact the very concept of game wasn't invented yet and i (as well as my 79 siblings) entertained ourselves by staring at the black and grey walls of our mammothskin hut, because the world was still in black and white back then.

our car had no AC, radio, casette, CD, radio, power windows, central locking, automatic transmission or even an engine. we had to use our feet, and it was terrible when we had to go to the schoolhouse in december (there were only 4 months back then) we pedaled 88 kilometers uphill both ways and we had to avoid mastodon and pterodactyl and giant trilobites on the way there. our car did however have an ENIAC computer. signed by elvis of course.

one day our dad bought a TV but it was useless since back then there were negative 44 channels, so we signed up for a service where actors would come to our house, go INSIDE the TV and act out the programs.

there were 8 planets because pluto hadn't formed yet.

world history wasn't taught in our schools because there was only about 45 minutes of it to make a course from, so why bother. our schools used blackboards and since chalk wasn't invented yet they wrote on the boards using the calcium from the bones of the aforementioned mastodon.

later we got computers and i remember using really early floppy discs that were 9 meteres across. i remember "russia" being called kievan rus and hearing about the latest mongol raids on the 11 o clock news.

later when i was in my 30s i met a man who called himself....william shake-a-spear (can't bother to remember the name) he was very meek and i only met him once, i don't think he ever amounted to anything honestly.


those were the days.....

I remember when this thread was fun for us nostalgics

I remember when Sega did video game consoles.

I remember when there were 2 new television networks, which no-longer exist, called United Paramount Network and Warner Brothers network.

I remember when I had the old iPhone.

I remember they used to sell turkish delight in individual packets without being coated in chocolate, now you just find them in a big box or in small packets coated in chocolate which is annoying as chocolate just spoils the flavour

and long sticks of sherbert, maybe they still do them but in smaller convenience stores, probably cracked down on them since a bill for lowering sugar in products etc. but wouldn't dare have one with my diabetes

LOL...Kip is just kidding, of course.

But I did have a black-and-white TV in my room in the 1970s.

I remember when there were no remotes, and we had to get up to change the channel.

We also had to stamp our foot at a certain point in the floor to get good reception sometimes. Reception became invariably good in the 1980s, with the proliferation of cable TV.

In the 1970s, most cars had radios, and most had air-conditioning. Many people didn't like power windows because they used to malfunction. They were much bigger than cars today, just like 1950's cars were much bigger than even the 1970s cars. They had lousy gas mileage. Gas/petrol was leaded most of the time.

I remember memory cards for video game consoles.

I remember video game cartridges and needing to get the dust out of the cartridge for the game to work.

I remember when the thing you plugged a cell phone charger into in a car was referred to as a cigarette lighter instead of an outlet.

LOL....because they were actually cigarette lighters in the old days.