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Back in my day, the computers were slow as ****.

Back in my day... well, it's still my day.

prowl123 wrote:Back in my day, the computers were slow as ****.

Back in my day... well, it's still my day.

Kid, I first used the internet way back in '95. You don't know what slow is.

Shadowman wrote:

prowl123 wrote:Back in my day, the computers were slow as ****.

Back in my day... well, it's still my day.

Kid, I first used the internet way back in '95. You don't know what slow is.

But I know what dial-up sounds like.

Back in my day we didn't have Generation One. I mean yeah, we had Generation One, but we didn't call it that. We just called it Transformers, until Marvel and Hasbro decided to stick us with a bunch of re-releases and repaints and reruns surrounded by a space cube.

And we only had one continuity for Transformers, and that's all we needed..... Well okay, we actually had two with the cartoon and the comics..... all right, three if you want to get all nitpicky with the UK comics, but that's all we needed AND WE LIKED IT!

GEE-WUN 4-EVER!

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:

Doubledealer93 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Moonlight wrote:ha ha ha, you feel old?? My son is two years older then the child who started the back in my day thread. LOL.

/thread

i am no child! im almost 18!

I'm 33. Yes, you are.

Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

prowl123 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

prowl123 wrote:Back in my day, the computers were slow as ****.

Back in my day... well, it's still my day.

Kid, I first used the internet way back in '95. You don't know what slow is.

But I know what dial-up sounds like.

You have no idea what dial-up sounds like until you're actually forced to use it.

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

I keep giving you pointers on how to fix that but you keep ignoring them.

Doubledealer93 wrote:back in my day we had to get play boys for porn!!

I'm kinda scarred to ask what this means or refers to.

Tidalwavex wrote:

Doubledealer93 wrote:back in my day we had to get play boys for porn!!

I'm kinda scarred to ask what this means or refers to.

Play Boy is probably the most well known pornographic magazine in North America.

Back in my day, everyone knew what an issue of Play Boy was.

I used dial-up, so yeah.

Shadowman wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

I keep giving you pointers on how to fix that but you keep ignoring them.

It's out of my hands.

Back in my day, we didn't have flying cars, teleportation devices, or REAL Internet.

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

Are you emo or something? Goth? World-domination-plotting?

SlyTF1 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

I keep giving you pointers on how to fix that but you keep ignoring them.

It's out of my hands.

Back in my day, we didn't have flying cars, teleportation devices, or REAL Internet.

We don't have that in this day either.

And I am very glad we don't have flying cars. People have enough trouble driving cars on roads!

prowl123 wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

I keep giving you pointers on how to fix that but you keep ignoring them.

It's out of my hands.

Back in my day, we didn't have flying cars, teleportation devices, or REAL Internet.

We don't have that in this day either.

This is my day.

prowl123 wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

Are you emo or something? Goth? World-domination-plotting?

No, not really...

prowl123 wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

Are you emo or something? Goth? World-domination-plotting?

hey my years have been pretty good! and i am almost 18 good sir.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:And I am very glad we don't have flying cars. People have enough trouble driving cars on roads!

Flying is the safest way to travel...

prowl123 wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:And I am very glad we don't have flying cars. People have enough trouble driving cars on roads!

Flying is the safest way to travel...

Yeah, that's with well maintained aircraft, flown by highly trained pilots; and even they have their bad days:


How bad you think it's gonna be when 300 million idiots who can't signal a turn or change their oil try to fly?

Back in my day, Youtube didn't give in to the corporate BS of Viacom, and now they're pulling random laws out of their asses! Laws that counter previous laws that protect the rights to use copyrighted material as long as it's non-profit. What the hell do they expect me do do? Compose my own damn music, CG, and have me record myself running around doing stupid crap ALL BY MYSELF that people probably won't watch anyway? Hell no. I hate YouTube now and I quit it; therefore, I quit life. I wouldn't have to quit if YouTube went back to the way it used to be, now would I? I'm sorry, but I'm so pissed at YT right now.

SlyTF1 wrote:Back in my day, Youtube didn't give in to the corporate BS of Viacom

They always did that. They give in to anyone who complains about their copyrighted material being used.

SlyTF1 wrote:Laws that counter previous laws that protect the rights to use copyrighted material as long as it's non-profit.

That's not a law. In fact, that's the opposite of copyright law. The laws protect the copyright holder, not the kid who's trying to give it away for free.

SlyTF1 wrote:What the hell do they expect me do do? Compose my own damn music, CG, and have me record myself running around doing stupid crap ALL BY MYSELF that people probably won't watch anyway?

That's why they made YouTube.

SlyTF1 wrote:Hell no. I hate YouTube now and I quit it; therefore, I quit life.

You really do love exaggerating how bad your life is.

SlyTF1 wrote:I wouldn't have to quit if YouTube went back to the way it used to be, now would I?

It never changed.

Doubledealer93 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Moonlight wrote:ha ha ha, you feel old?? My son is two years older then the child who started the back in my day thread. LOL.

/thread

i am no child! im almost 18!

Oh my I remember those days when I felt so much older because I was almost an adult. You are a child and do yourself a favor and enjoy every second of it, you will never get it back.

I remember the day we first got dial up internet access. We thought it was so neat how we could instantly email someone. We heard rumors of a new type of internet that was super fast but laughed at it saying yeah right.

I can remember as a kid one of my uncles being so excited to turn 18 and be able to legally drink. We still lived in Chicago then so I am not sure if the US government or the state government changed the law to make the legal drinking age 21. I just remember he was so upset he would not be grandfathered in and my 19 year old uncle making fun of him because he would be and therefore still able to legally drink.

Skyfire77 wrote:

prowl123 wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:And I am very glad we don't have flying cars. People have enough trouble driving cars on roads!

Flying is the safest way to travel...

Yeah, that's with well maintained aircraft, flown by highly trained pilots; and even they have their bad days:


How bad you think it's gonna be when 300 million idiots who can't signal a turn or change their oil try to fly?

for me, a plane crash registers as:

Wreck 'n Rule wrote:Back in my day you could follow a woman home quietly without her knowing and watch her in her house for days without getting a restraining order and being called a stalker.

I just laughed a little harder than is socially acceptable.

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

Awww bless your little heart.

Unless your parents are arseholes, enjoy those years, free board, free food, you don't have to think for yourself, you go where you're told when you're told, you can wag and the worst that happens is your parents get a phone call from the principal - do it too much as an adult and loose your job, speaking of which, you dn't have to kiss your principal's arse, and you don't have to work 40+ hours a week, sometimes for poopy pay and as shift rotations, and the only bills you have to worry about is the five bucks you spent on some questionable phone service.

Just wait till you notice grey hairs, stiff joints and bills that are clocking up interest in the hundreds each month.

Of course, blowing your disposable income on toys from your childhood is a plus... of course, come 20 years, I doubt you'll want a spongebob re-issue.

Just Negare wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Yeah, until you actually turn 18, you're still a child. I have a few years to go. Too bad those years be filled with pain and torment.

Awww bless your little heart.

Unless your parents are arseholes, enjoy those years, free board, free food, you don't have to think for yourself, you go where you're told when you're told, you can wag and the worst that happens is your parents get a phone call from the principal - do it too much as an adult and loose your job, speaking of which, you dn't have to kiss your principal's arse, and you don't have to work 40+ hours a week, sometimes for poopy pay and as shift rotations, and the only bills you have to worry about is the five bucks you spent on some questionable phone service.

Just wait till you notice grey hairs, stiff joints and bills that are clocking up interest in the hundreds each month.

Of course, blowing your disposable income on toys from your childhood is a plus... of course, come 20 years, I doubt you'll want a spongebob re-issue.

I already want a Spongebob reissue.

ps. SlyTF1 is baiting. Hook, line, sinker.

This is what I'll rant about 20 years from now:

Back in my day...

-the music was so bad that I only listened to music 15+ years older than I was.

-Kit Kats and Hershey bars were wrapped in foil.

-gasoline was less than $0.90 a gallon, then all of a sudden it was $3.50

-Cartoon Network was only worth watching for several years...then it went downhill

-there was dial-up internet

-Apple computers only had several colors and very pixelated imagery

-NASCAR was actually entertaining. Then Jimmie Johnson and Kyle Busch happened...

-Cleveland sports teams still sucked

-we had a TV with antennas and no colors

-I wouldn't have to explain what an antenna TV was

-we used fax machines

-I also would not have to explain what a fax machine was