Things Kids Today Will Never Understand (1 Viewer)

[Mojo1312]

Sad to see the community basketball courts sitting vacant during the summer. Same with the tennis courts, where I spent hours. Maintaining them today is a waste of taxpayers money. I am blessed to have grown up without the internet and endless channels of nothing.

 

[BarrieJ3]

1s and 2s. No doubt. Win by 2? Should be standard, but if it’s 5s with a bunch of folks waiting, straight up.

First game 15? All games 15? 11? 21? Sure.

But I ain’t never in my life seen a game to 20, that’s blasphemous.

 

[Mojo1312]

1s and 2s. No doubt. Win by 2? Should be standard, but if it’s 5s with a bunch of folks waiting, straight up.

First game 15? All games 15? 11? 21? Sure.

But I ain’t never in my life seen a game to 20, that’s blasphemous.

We played to 20 because no one in our group had 21 toes and fingers.

 

[EmptyPocs]

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I've never seen a RadioShack before. What does it do?

 

[GreatWhiteDope]

I've never seen a RadioShack before. What does it do?

Oh bite me

 

[upNdown]

I've never seen a RadioShack before. What does it do?

It asks you for your zip code when you buy batteries.

 

[ekricket]

I've never seen a RadioShack before. What does it do?

It was as at the forefront of personal computing once. We had a Tandy 1000 with two floppy drives. $2300 1985 dollars, a grant from T. Boone Pickens, another name you’ve never heard of, lol.

It was heaven for a teenage nerd. I would spend afternoons in our local store just reading packages, and watching computer demos on cassette tapes, it was TECHNOLOGY!!! You could buy raw electronic components. They had music KEYBOARDS. I built my first set of speakers using components from The Shack.

 

[upNdown]

watching computer demos on cassette tapes

I'm not even THAT old, but I bet most people here don't remember that before floppy disks, we used to use audio cassette tapes for computer data storage. In the early to mid '80s, I had a texas instruments computer, a TI994a, and I remember writing simple programs in BASIC and saving them to cassette tapes.

 

[EmptyPocs]

It was as at the forefront of personal computing once. We had a Tandy 1000 with two floppy drives. $2300 1985 dollars, a grant from T. Boone Pickens, another name you’ve never heard of, lol.

It was heaven for a teenage nerd. I would spend afternoons in our local store just reading packages, and watching computer demos on cassette tapes, it was TECHNOLOGY!!! You could buy raw electronic components. They had music KEYBOARDS. I built my first set of speakers using components from The Shack.

that was tongue-in-cheek
kids won't know a 'RadioShack' from a 'Cassette'; especially a cassette labeled as a 'RadioShack'

 

[EmptyPocs]