11 Nostalgic Activities Kids Today Will Never Experience

[warrior1]

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[Odin2005]

1. OMG, I hated having to blow in NES games to get them to work!

"DAMN YOU, Final Fantasy, GET WORKING!!!"

[Hardrada]

2. I still tape stuff. Classical music and especially Christmas music.

[blue neen]

3. Going to the library to get information, rather than just using Google.

Doing research used to be a big ordeal!

[csziggy]

6. Doing genealogy by uncovering tombstones in forgotten graveyards

Or digging through old dusty books in courthouse basements - been there, done that. And now I LOVE Ancestry! I've found more documentation for my family tree in the last four months than my grandmother did in her fifty years of researching and my mother in her twenty years of researching the old fashioned way. I've got all their notes and pictures of tombstones they took - I'm thinking of posting the old photos on Find A Grave to contrast how they used to look compared to now.

[madinmaryland]

16. Find-a-Grave is great! They still have a long way to go to get

most death, birth, and marriage records on line. Pennsylvania is really dragging their feet on this one.

[csziggy]

20. Yes, they are like US Gen Web - reliant on volunteers

So if there are people who will get out there and do the work, that area or graveyard will be covered. If not, oh well.

I found the grave of a great-great-grandmother in Iron River, Michigan. And I was able to contribute from a distance since the person who had posted the photo did not know the relationships. It turns out gggrandma was buried in the family plot of her daughter's husband, as were two children who died young (and who must have been originally buried elsewhere and moved) and a grown son who seems to have had a very messy family life.

I sent the person who had posted the tombstone images the genealogy of the family so they could clarify the family ties. Then they pointed me to a photo that was of the family and probably includes g-grandma, though no one is identified individually. So I sent some photos of the family with members identified - hopefully we can confirm who is who in the other picture!

[bikebloke]

17. A good source.

I biked way out in the sticks to photograph family headstones. Later, I found Find-A-Grave. Turns out I missed the headstone of my great-grandparents when I was out there.

Some couple had kindly photographed the entire cemetery, posting the headstones at Find-A-Grave.

[csziggy]

21. Back in the late 50s and early 60s we spent a lot of time in Alabama graveyards

During the summer with the heat and the bugs. We've got some mediocre black and white snapshots of many of the tombstones - many of which are not on Find A Grave. Some of the graveyards have been improved, some have since been damaged, so whatever we can post will give a view of what it was like fifty years ago, whether or not there are newer or better pictures already.

I just have to get organized - and every time I get close, I get another load of data dumped on me. This past week, I visited Mom & Dad and Mom lent me all her original research - two large file boxes. My little sister lent me the genealogical information on the family of her first (now deceased) husband. And now hubby's Mom wants to give me her 8 to 10 file boxes of information on his family tree. I still have a boatload of photos to scan, sort edit and identify so I can hook them to the correct individuals.

On one level it is great that most of the research is done. But just organizing and collating may take me the rest of my life, even if I do live to 90 or more. That is not unrealistic - Mom will be 90 in March!

[MorningGlow]

11. That was the first thing I thought of

Asking for spools of microfiche--! Whirrrrrrrrrrrrr....

[jobycom]

4. Lucky for them. I don't remember my parents being saddened I'd never face polio.

I can't imagine feeling anything but pride that my kids will have a better life than me. :)

[Richardo]

12. You make a good point, but I read your subject line 3 times as "...never had face polio"

"face polio?" :dunce:

[MrScorpio]

5. Let's see...

I didn't have an NES, didn't play Oregon Trail and didn't have any dope dealing friends with beepers.

But I totally can identify with the rest.

[sakabatou]

7. Yeah, I've experienced some of it.

[Darth_Kitten]

8. Trying to tape record your fav song off the radio, and cursing the DJ who won't shut up.

I miss those days. :)

[Arugula Latte]

9. And then you'd get a snippet of commercial on either end.

Good times, good times.

[Darth_Kitten]

13. (((((sigh))))))))

those were the days. ;)

[bikebloke]

22. Not when listening now.

Now hearing the annoying DJ on my old tapes is kind of fun. I'll sometimes dig out my old radio mixer tapes to see if there are any old songs I've forgotten that I can find in digital version after they've fallen off the back of a truck. ;)

[pitohui]

10. oh holy cow, nostalgia for the 80s now?

those experiences are a little sad, they're not even worth being nostalgic about -- writing in cursive? recording something on cassette? who cares?

i pity kids because they can no longer have the experience of hiking alone in the woods, of finding and climbing a treehouse belonging to who knows who, of discovering the foundations of a disappeared old farm house, of searching for buried treasure by digging around in various areas...even the simple thing of walking to and from school by yourself, at a single digit age, without an adult around...i can't imagine the depressing programmed life that kids lead now, it's an indoor life, for i realize good and sound legal reasons, if you leave a kid alone outside it's now a crime (child neglect) but that is truly losing something good and magical when you lose your opportunity to wander the outdoors

sure, kids got into trouble, sure, i had to get a tetanus shot, sure, i prob. didn't need to be wandering around some unfinished abandoned construction site or climbing into a teen-ager's tree house where he'd hidden his dirty magazines...but jesus, to lose the whole outdoors because of the off-chance that some pervert is really going to chase you up a tree...it's just sad, truly sad

kids don't even have a sense of privacy or a sense of boundaries, walking and texting as you go, you're always linked to somebody else, it's just a different kind of person i guess

maybe it's just as well, the outdoors is mostly going to be lost anyway in these kids' lifetimes, privacy is already gone, maybe it's better they don't know what they lost if they're going to be living in a goldfish bowl anyway

the kids in the 80s had already lost most of the good about childhood, this list of 11 things is just so sad, cheap, depressing, comparing stealing songs off the radio and putting them on a cassette tape to the adventure of sneaking into some abandoned property to smoke dope and the 70s were just a different world from the 80s, we might have done a lot of stupid shit but at least we got outdoors and did it!!!

[realisticphish]

14. Uh, yeah, nostalgia for when we grew up

why would I have nostalgia for a decade that ended 5 years before I was born?

[HERVEPA]

15. Playing halfball, boxball, stickball, wireball

[Swede]

18. I got 2 virus alerts from that page.

Anyone else?

[Kaleva]

19. Looking at the bra and pantie section of the Sears catalog

Now they can just go on line and see everything imaginable.

[caitxrawks]

23. HAHA

I love it!

[meow2u3]

24. The good, old-fashioned LP

Personally, I'd pick up an old-fashioned record player and some 33 1/3 rpm vinyl records and listen to them. The only trouble with record players is that it's damn near impossible to find a stylus to replace one that's worn out.

Now, they have record players that hook up onto your computer and allow you to rip your old vinyl faves onto your puter to convert them into mp3's.