Something our grandkids won’t believe we had/did?
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Freedom
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Not during my time but my Great, Great Grandmother paid no Federal income taxes, spoke to me about the Spanish American war and told me horror stories about the Great Depression.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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Don't drop that bad boy in your lap- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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An outhouse, no indoor plumbing and a well pump (with the handle) for drinking water and washing with.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
I could go on this topic for days.
Just in my life alone I've had the following happen in just the last 5 years:
- My friend's son who is now working for a NASCAR Cup team on the pit crew, he and his friend had no idea what a carb was or what a distributor was because all the stuff they messed around with was EFI and coil-on-plug ignition. When they saw my stack of carbs in the garage and a few boxes of rebuild kits it was like they saw a real life wizard or something and had no idea how it worked. What the hell are they teaching you in mechanic school, guys? Geez!
- My step kids...absolutely floored that I was able to take a bunch of AVI videos from the internet, convert them to a DVD compatible format and then burn them to a disc to play in the DVD player. Jaw on the floor gobsmacked is what they were. The boy thought I was going to actually light them on fire. He thought I stole the DVD blanks too. Dude...you can still buy a spindle of 100 at WALMART. How do you think the bootleggers make them? Geez!
- Removable USB thumb drives - this one isn't even that old but handing the kid a downloaded software package for graphics editing that was 20 GB and wouldn't fit on even a dual layer Blu-Ray disc and she just looked at me and asked "What's that?" C'mon, really? I thought you were computer savvy and knew everything? Didn't even know what a USB port was or that there's, like, 10 different kinds now.
- The first time either of them saw a turntable when they came to the old house with mom for movie night in the basement theater. Absolutely astounded that a plastic disk could do that.
- The console stereo I get not understanding that, it looks like furniture and since many had a "bar" incorporated in them, they really are. But they were stunned that the thing had a radio and a record player in it.
- Speaking of audio, speakers bigger than a shoebox. Even the SDA 2Bs were mind blowing and the sound they produced vs the empty sounding, tininess with the fharty bass of the small speakers or earbuds was all they knew.
- Incandescent light bulbs. LED and CFL lights still get hot at the base because of the ballast resistors in them but nothing like an incandescent. You learn that lesson the hard way sometimes!
- Non-powered windows and locks in cars. UGH! I have to reach ALL THE WAY OVER THERE! Why does your truck have two keys?
- Analog radio tuners - How do you find what station you want to listen to? Why can't I skip bad music?
I'm not even that old.
There was just a line, somewhere, in the late 90's and early 2000's where everything got obsolete very quickly and not even because it wasn't useful or something. Just because it was old and "out of date". Not trendy.
The thing I remember most about it was when I was graduating high school and a bunch of kids had gotten new cars from their parents. They weren't bought, though, they were leased. That was the mid-90's and prior to that point, the only people I knew who had leased cars were my dad and he didn't even lease it, TRW did and gave it to him to drive to service calls, my aunt who had a fancypants Acura that the pharmaceutical company leased for her to go on customer visits and sales meetings and Mr. Trazynski who had a car that the company he owned leased for his business purposed. Consumer-level leasing was not really a thing. Only business leased cars and they leased fleets of them for employees to have a company car.
That point in the mid-90's, though, when it became easy to get the newest ride and show up everyone on the block, that was when I, still a veritable kid fresh out of high school, noticed things changing. Hell, I got laughed at by friends in college because we still had a corded phone on the wall, no caller ID and no answering machine when everyone else had the all-in-one wireless phones with digital base units and incorporated caller ID and answering machines. But, then again, we weren't rich or at least we weren't drowning in debt so there's that.Expert Moron Extraordinaire
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The USB stick thing. My children had to have one for school in the early 90's. A 65mb ( I think) was stupid expensive for the time, now I can buy a 65gb stick for way less than the 65mb stick cost.
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How old are you? I thought you were younger than I, but we had cable TV here since the late 60's. There were only 13 channels on the dial though. And the remote was wired. Dad was a stereo/electronics nut.
These days I use an antenna though. Nothing to watch on cable worth the cost, so I cancelled in 2014.
If you have a newer tv, get it on the internet and add plex, pluto, or Samsung plus tv. There are others too.
You'll have 75% of what's on cable for free. With a Samsung tv, when it searches for on air channels and
Is connected to internet, it will automatically add Samsung plus channels starting on channel 1000.
As a kid on the farm, when my hands got greasy working on something, we would wash our hands with
Leaded gas. We also would have to wash up outside at the hydrant before we were allowed in.
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson -
MTV that actually played music 🎶 videos..
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sucks2beme wrote: »If you have a newer tv, get it on the internet and add plex, pluto, or Samsung plus tv. There are others too.
You'll have 75% of what's on cable for free. With a Samsung tv, when it searches for on air channels and
Is connected to internet, it will automatically add Samsung plus channels starting on channel 1000.
I'm aware, I was just pointing out that cable isn't a new thing. It started about 1950.
As far as the rest, you don't even need a newer TV, just a PC, Roku, or similar device. The antenna was originally for local stations, but now I get about 30 channels.
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Freedom
IF you are wondering what I mean; getting up in the morning, eating some crappy sugary cereal, watching cartoons, then get on my bike and not be back until god knows when. Drinking water from neighbor's hoses and eating carrots picked from their gardens (I can still feel the grit and crunching from the dirt that wasn't fully cleaned). Now days, don't go here, don't do that. It's too dark, it's too sunny out. (Not what we do with our kids but so many parents do with theirs). That's the type of freedom kids now days will never understand. Being outside all day, getting yelled at by an old lady because we decided to run under her sprinkler when it was hot. Playing video games on our C64 when it rained but the moment it stopped, outside. Using our imaginations. Something kids these days will never understand. That's the freedom I'm talking about. -
Manual transmissionsExpert Moron Extraordinaire
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^^^ Ours were kind of similar to this one. Pretty crude.
As a 10 year old in 1965, I remember finding scrap lumber, old wagon and tricycle wheels, nails, screws, misc. bolts and some rope for steering your unpowered go-kart. The neighborhood boys would race them down a less-trafficked hilly side street. For many of us this was our first foray into tools and assembly skills. It was fun, kept us busy, but could be frustrating for a kid at times. -
This thread brings back so many great memories.
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IF you are wondering what I mean; getting up in the morning, eating some crappy sugary cereal, watching cartoons, then get on my bike and not be back until god knows when. Drinking water from neighbor's hoses and eating carrots picked from their gardens (I can still feel the grit and crunching from the dirt that wasn't fully cleaned). Now days, don't go here, don't do that. It's too dark, it's too sunny out. (Not what we do with our kids but so many parents do with theirs). That's the type of freedom kids now days will never understand. Being outside all day, getting yelled at by an old lady because we decided to run under her sprinkler when it was hot. Playing video games on our C64 when it rained but the moment it stopped, outside. Using our imaginations. Something kids these days will never understand. That's the freedom I'm talking about.
Don't forget playing outside during thunder/lightning storms while your mom is yelling for you to get inside!
