Things your children may never know about

[ncdrifter]

Meat. cheese, sugar, gasoline rationing during WWII. Rotary phone dials, no dials "operator, give 34,,,," 8 cent trolley tokens to go to the Sat mattenee staring Hoot Gibson. No airconditioning. A  ride in the country, if your dad was lucky to have a car. Stickball in the street,very little traffic, horse drawn wagons for the milkman and breadman. I've witnessed these and much more in person. Oh, and scrap and paper drives during the war.

[Inimicus]

A healthy respect for the value of the creative efforts of others.

Kids these days don't think twice about pirating software, music, movies, or anything else they can download.

[iamcline]

The fact that the Panthers nearly won a Super Bowl.

[Guest]

Scratching/popping noises when listening to music. I was listening to Classic Vinyl channel on XM and sometimes between songs they have the noise that is the sound the needle made when you put in on the LP.  My kids were in the car and asked "what's that noise"? 

 

I used to walk over a mile to school.  In Kindergarten.

 

We had four or five channels on the TV.  Cartoons were only on in the afternoons and on Saturday morning.

 

 

 

[Hotsauce]

"Cheap" gasoline

Legit rap music

Y2k

The Wire

The Sopranos

Any movie made in the 70's, 80's, and 90's

Classic rock (pink Floyd, Led Zepplain, the doors [yeah, believe it or not, these bands will fade out]

Ever Clear 190 proof

What it was like to go somewhere and not be "reachable" I.e. a cell phone

Answering machines

Ninja turtles

Star Wars

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

"Cheap" gasoline

Legit rap music

Y2k

The Wire

The Sopranos

Any movie made in the 70's, 80's, and 90's

Classic rock (pink Floyd, Led Zepplain, the doors [yeah, believe it or not, these bands will fade out]

Ever Clear 190 proof

What it was like to go somewhere and not be "reachable" I.e. a cell phone

Answering machines

Ninja turtles

Star Wars

My 11 year old listens to Led Zep, Sabbath, classic rap(my play list dominates the car but she loves it) TMninja turtles(which is still being made..new cartoons) and we have spent all summer watching most all my Blu Rays..From Pulp Fiction and all QT movies to Memento, Evil Dead triliogy, Blair Witch Project, menace to Society, Juice and a lot of other typically inapproiate movies for an 11year old.

I censor a few obvious scenes as they come as we watch together so I am there to explain any graphic parts or things she is confused by.

Now she still watches nick and disney and likes awful pop music but she is peppered with music and movie history which makes her awesome!!

[TANTRIC-NINJA]

Making a mix tape for that special someone.

really wanting my mom to buy the Thriller jacket for me.

[LifeisaGarden]

If you want your kids to know about this stuff, show them. We still have a vcr, and you can get vhs at nearly any thrift shop. My 12 yr old gets a kick out of watching them. Also thinks its great that she can get 5-10 vhs for a buck. 

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

Kids these days don't think twice about pirating software, music, movies, or anything else they can download.

 

I don't think that's just limited to kids haha.

 

Granted, I do somewhat miss only being able to get music by actually buying the CD, because you'd have to do a little research to make sure you're making the right purchase rather than just downloading it and then deleting it with no charge if you don't like it.

[Zaximus]

There was something cool about getting a CD before you could download.  Since you couldn't get a ton of them, it sort of meant more.  But I don't feel bad for the music industry.  They overcharged for years and years for CDs and it finally caught up with them.  15-20$ on some new cds, you kidding me?   People got tired of spending that AND having the album have 1-2 good songs (hence why buying singles is now huge in itunes etc).  Besides, artists hardly make anything off the music itself, it's all about touring and other things.  If they were selling CD's for what they are now (mostly 6-10 bucks) they wouldn't have ran into an issue as fast and big as piracy.  If they would have embraced technology from the get go instead of fighting it, that could have also helped their cause.  They made bad decision after bad decision and it didn't work out.  And there is still the debate that most stuff that is pirated wasn't going to be bought in the first place, so they really aren't "losing" anything.

 

And no, I doubt VHS will make a come back, why would it?  There is no advantage of it over DVD/Blu-ray whereas vinyl has a better sound than CD or digital hence why it's making a comeback.  

 

 

[dos poptarts]

How to develop patience, since instant gratification is the norm now.

 

Want a song - click...dload

Want a movie - Netflix, Itunes, Amazon.....click.

News - web/twitter

Need to call someone, kids have their own phones now....don't need to wait on mom to get off the phone. 

 

[natty]

A healthy respect for the value of the creative efforts of others.

Kids these days don't think twice about pirating software, music, movies, or anything else they can download.

 

Yeah when I was a kid we had to steal them they old analog way.  

[Guest]

The joy of listening to phone conversations by picking up the other phone ninja style. Also fear of vicious beat down if you got caught.

[pstall]

haha. i agree on ninja style with the phone. before caller id it was like Russian roulette because you had absolutely no clue who was on the other line and what it may be about.

 

 

phone booths

tube tv's

P.E.