The Nostalgia Thread

[Alice-Bee]

I get all nostalgic about music, like when I hear a song I used to listen to at college...12 years ago!

And video games. My sister and I still use our 'system' we invented to beat Bubble Bobble on commodore 64, although now we play it on PS2.
No one else can play that game with either of us because we have a plan!

Hotwater bottles remind me of when I was very young and stayed at my Grans on weekends. The smell of a HWB takes me right back there!

 

[beancounter]

Doing research before Google and Wikipedia were invented.

Not fun.

 

[thefadedone]

Doing research before Google and Wikipedia were invented.

Not fun.

Dewey decimal system can suck it.

 

[ledboots]

Doing research before Google and Wikipedia were invented.

Not fun.

Except I do love libraries and actual books.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Doing research before Google and Wikipedia were invented.

Not fun.

Good old card catalog and encyclopedias.

 

[Amy SF]

Good old card catalog and encyclopedias.

When the main branch of the Santa Monica Public Library switched from the old fashioned card catalog to a digital catalog, they put the catalog furniture up for sale. My parents bought several of them. Some of them are in my mother's house and one is in my sister's house. They're used as decorative end tables. They're pretty nice looking.

 

[das_nut]

Dewey decimal system can suck it.

Dewey Decimal rocks compared to LoC.

 

[Envy]

 

[Alice-Bee]

Doing research before Google and Wikipedia were invented.

Not fun.

I used to use Encarta...and played the games on it too...Pcs were so much fun. I think my USB drive has more memory than my first PC did.

 

[Amy SF]

I used to use Encarta...and played the games on it too...Pcs were so much fun. I think my USB drive has more memory than my first PC did.

Same here. I loved playing the Encarta games.

 

[thefadedone]

I remember when you didn't have to bother getting your ears pierced because we had these:

Spoiler

 

[Danielle]

No one thought to label them?

 

[Amy SF]

No one thought to label them?

Very few people did. My father did (I helped him) because he was seriously anal about it. But my father, I think, was the exception to the rule.

He also insisted on setting the VCR display so it wouldn't keep flashing 12:00. But again, he was the exception.

 

[Danielle]

I remember labeling them. But I don't remember setting the clock. x3

 

[KLS52]

I did (and still do) both, lol.

 

[beancounter]

Remember when people were expected to dess up for holidays or attending religious services?

Or for that matter, before casual Fridays, or business casual attire?

Dry cleaners are probably the only people who hate societies move toward casual clothing.

 

[Amy SF]

Remember when people were expected to dess up for holoidays or attending religious srervices?

Or for that matter, before casual Fridays, or business casual attire?

Dry cleaners are probably the only people who hate societies move toward casual clothing.

I remember reading a newspaper article some time ago in which shoe shiners were declared obsolete because most men no longer wear shoes that need to be shined, even for dressy events. I'm not sure that's entirely true, but I have noticed the trend towards casual shoes for all types of events, for men. Women's shoes, that's a different story. We women continue to buy and wear a million different types of shoes for a million different types of events.

 

[beancounter]

I remember reading a newspaper article some time ago in which shoe shiners were declared obsolete because most men no longer wear shoes that need to be shined, even for dressy events. I'm not sure that's entirely true, but I have noticed the trend towards casual shoes for all types of events, for men. Women's shoes, that's a different story. We women continue to buy and wear a million different types of shoes for a million different types of events.

My (business casual) shoes still need to be shined, I just don't do it...

 

[Alice-Bee]

Very few people did. My father did (I helped him) because he was seriously anal about it. But my father, I think, was the exception to the rule.

He also insisted on setting the VCR display so it wouldn't keep flashing 12:00. But again, he was the exception.

Even if they were labelled in my house there was no telling if thats what was actually on them, as things got re-recorded all the time.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I get all nostalgic about music, like when I hear a song I used to listen to at college...12 years ago!

And video games. My sister and I still use our 'system' we invented to beat Bubble Bobble on commodore 64, although now we play it on PS2.
No one else can play that game with either of us because we have a plan!

Hotwater bottles remind me of when I was very young and stayed at my Grans on weekends. The smell of a HWB takes me right back there!

The smell of hot water bottles always reminds me of Christmas Eve and listening for Father Christmas getting stuck down the chimney.