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Back when I was a lad, Chuck E Cheese was tons of fun. These days...it’s still fun I guess, just different.

Lucky! Chuck E Cheese wasn't in my home town. Back in my day we had "Romp N' Roam"... One of those germ infested plastic jungle gyms where they also served pizza for birthday parties.

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Lucky! Chuck E Cheese wasn't in my home town. Back in my day we had "Romp N' Roam"... One of those germ infested plastic jungle gyms where they also served pizza for birthday parties.

Back in my day we had birthday parties at home. We didn't go to germ-infested places for parties ... the kids all brought their germs to their friends' homes.

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Okay ... I tried to hold off, because it's not in my day ... but it's more fun to do it this way ...

 

Back in Chief's day, games at birthday parties consisted of drawing on the cave walls and playing pin the rock on the rock.

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Back in my day we had air raid drills in school. You had to sit legs crossed under your desks with your head down. You recited the pledge to the flag and sang "My Country 'tis of Thee" afterwards. You played "Kill the Ball Carrier" during recess and made forts in the woods

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I remember when we won the gold in hockey. I lived only about 100 miles from where it happened and didn't get to know about the results until hours later.

 

Crazy how that stuff didn't leak. My friends and I couldn't even find anything on the radio. We had to watch the tape delay

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Back in Chief's day, games at birthday parties consisted of drawing on the cave walls and playing pin the rock on the rock.

Rare photo of Chief in middle school, back in the day:

 

http://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED139/5603133e4054e.jpeg

 

i have a feeling this isn't what Van was asking for.

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Back in my day coach would tell you to bunt.

 

 

Change is good.

Yup. And I disobeyed and grounded into a force out. Had the 3rd highest BA on the team but didn't get a whole lot of at bats after that. Got chewed out pretty good ....I had a Gardy-like coach

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Back in my day we had goth kids in high school with TOOL t-shirts. I was a preppy kid wearing Hollister shirts that were way too tight. I thought they were scary.

 

Now I know the goth kids were right... TOOL is a badass band!!!

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Funny thread. I worked for the highway department in my town one summer when I was in college. One of the old timers there always went on about "back in my day" and all the college temps would mimic him (not to be disrespectful)

 

He was part of the WW2 generation

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Funny thread. I worked for the highway department in my town one summer when I was in college. One of the old timers there always went on about "back in my day" and all the college temps would mimic him (not to be disrespectful)

 

He was part of the WW2 generation

Yeah, I was at a bbq over the weekend with a bunch of younger programming types, and they were politely attentive as I regaled them about the days when a Megabyte was an unattainably large amount of memory and a Microsecond was a remarkably short amount of time. Then I pulled out my cellphone with the telescoping antenna, and really wowed them with the fact that the Old Days aren't truly gone for some.

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Back in my day there was no World Wide Web, so we used Telnet, WAIS, Usenet, FTP, and Gopher.

 

When I was in high school we used PLATO, and when I worked for Honeywell we were on ARPANet.

 

Expert Systems were supposed to be the next big thing, powered by Japan’s Fifth Generation supercomputers.

 

I had a Class C Internet subnet for our home-based business running over a 28.8 modem connection with a Windows NT Server functioning as the router. Then we became early adopters of ISDN.

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Back in my day there was no World Wide Web, so we used Telnet, WAIS, Usenet, FTP, and Gopher.

 

When I was in high school we used PLATO, and when I worked for Honeywell we were on ARPANet.

 

Expert Systems were supposed to be the next big thing, powered by Japan’s Fifth Generation supercomputers.

 

I had a Class C Internet subnet for our home-based business running over a 28.8 modem connection with a Windows NT Server functioning as the router. Then we became early adopters of ISDN.

I remember when I was taking statitics in college my professor made a big deal about a program called RPG Minitab. A year or two later I discovered Excel.

 

Computing made a huge leap when I was in college. I wasn't computer savvy at all my first year at school. I typed reports on a Smith Corona. My sophomore year was when Windows came out and when that happened I jumped all over it.

 

(Was never a Mac guy)

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Yeah, I was at a bbq over the weekend with a bunch of younger programming types, and they were politely attentive as I regaled them about the days when a Megabyte was an unattainably large amount of memory and a Microsecond was a remarkably short amount of time. Then I pulled out my cellphone with the telescoping antenna, and really wowed them with the fact that the Old Days aren't truly gone for some.

Not expecting to be invited back I assume?

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In my day I bought albums and wore concert t-shirts. The first band I saw was the Kinks. Then I saw Rush a couple of months later (right when Tom Sawyer and Limelight came out).

 

Those monster tours just don't happen anymore and that is a shame

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