how the times have changed

[Xivii]

Indeed they have.

 

[Jim Morrison]

So true.

I love VHS, we just dont have a VCR anymore
I could hook up my own movies at age 5 :D

 

[Sucumbio]

LOL That's an awesome story, zen. I still have VHSs and a good 4-head VCR, w/auto tracking, even can use the programmable "quick codes" they tried to implement in TV guides way back when, so you could just type in the code and your VCR would automatically know when to start/stop the recording. The only feature it doesn't have which I loved on the later ones, was the auto-commercial skip. Even today's DVRs don't have that, and I think it'd be awesome if it were implemented somehow.

Haha I didn't have a cell phone until after I graduated college in 99. Pagers were the rage back in my day, in HS and college.

My folks are still arguably way behind. They literally refuse to own a computer, so they can say they're one of America's households that DON'T have one. No internet. Anytime I suggest it, "nope, not going to, we're an internet-free household." lol. They didn't change the rotary phones until 97 or so... didn't have a microwave until 96... They still had a viable 8-track player until about 92, and they still have a decent record players in the basement, though most of their good LPs have been confiscated by my sister as collector's items.

EDIT: o.0;; the site's laggin like a mofo

 

[Teran]

I have a VCR in my bedroom.

My collection of Disney movies, Pink Panther, and Tom & Jerry cartoons is all VCR. It's an awesome medium, the whirr of the VCR as it rewinds the tape has this nostalgic timbre to it. It's great.

 

[Jim Morrison]

OMG, rewinding tapes.
Rewinding Pokemon movie 1 and disney movies.

NEVAR FORGET.

 

[Isatis]

I should photograph 3 bookcases worth of VHS tapes

 

[Xivii]

LOL That's an awesome story, zen. I still have VHSs and a good 4-head VCR, w/auto tracking, even can use the programmable "quick codes" they tried to implement in TV guides way back when, so you could just type in the code and your VCR would automatically know when to start/stop the recording. The only feature it doesn't have which I loved on the later ones, was the auto-commercial skip. Even today's DVRs don't have that, and I think it'd be awesome if it were implemented somehow.

Haha I didn't have a cell phone until after I graduated college in 99. Pagers were the rage back in my day, in HS and college.

My folks are still arguably way behind. They literally refuse to own a computer, so they can say they're one of America's households that DON'T have one. No internet. Anytime I suggest it, "nope, not going to, we're an internet-free household." lol. They didn't change the rotary phones until 97 or so... didn't have a microwave until 96... They still had a viable 8-track player until about 92, and they still have a decent record players in the basement, though most of their good LPs have been confiscated by my sister as collector's items.

EDIT: o.0;; the site's laggin like a mofo

Wow I didn't realize they made VCRs so advanced! Mine just does the 4 basic functions. I think it can record stuff too, not sure. I have a few relatives that are the same way as your parents. Only the reason they don't update is because they think the internet is witchcraft...

I have a VCR in my bedroom.

My collection of Disney movies, Pink Panther, and Tom & Jerry cartoons is all VCR. It's an awesome medium, the whirr of the VCR as it rewinds the tape has this nostalgic timbre to it. It's great.

lol I remember my syblings and I used to watch the same movies over and over in one day. Ihad to have seen The Lion King at least 30 times. I used to hate having to rewind a tape that someone didn't rewind! It took forever. It was even more annoying trying to fast forward through the previews, ending up halfway into the movie, and having to rewind it again.

I have some some of the first season pokemon episodes on VHS. The ones with 3 episodes each. Most of the videos we owned were given away though. =/

 

[saviorslegacy]

I can beat all of you!
I was recording Mighty Morphen Power Rangers at age 4 with a VCR!!!! wahahaha

*sigh* Good times... I <3 MMPR

ps MY family owns close to 1,500 VHS's.
Flea Market, death's in the family and auctions baby.

 

[Airgemini]

That's pretty crazy.
Most of my VHS collection consists of Disney movies, and the first season of Pokemon.

I actually don't own that many DVDs.. probably around 12 or so.

 

[highfive]

Ah! I remember I saw two little kids talking. One had asked the other if they watched some movie or other on Blue Ray (Spelling?) I never felt so old.

VHS forever!

 

[Paladin77]

Cool story, bro.

Yeah, this brings me back to the good ol' days, where instead of T-Vo or whatever you used A vcr to record stuff.

 

[pitskeyblade]

Ah, so true. Nowadays I feel like such a fossil because I have issues figuring out how to text on some of these new cell phones. I can still remember the old-school Nintendo systems and Sega Genesis. Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog were my best friends growing up. I miss the way the older video games made me feel...

 

[El Nino]

I wouldn't be surprised if most kids these days didn't know how to operate a manual can opener.

When I moved, I tried to give up my VCR. I really, really tried. But I couldn't. So I crammed it into the car along with the Gamecube.

Pagers were the rage back in my day, in HS and college.

I know. They were banned at my school because all the drug dealers used them.

I can beat all of you!
I was recording Mighty Morphen Power Rangers at age 4 with a VCR!!!! wahahaha

At four, I was playing with my grandparents' rotary phone.

We had a TV that you operated with a dial.

And I walked ten miles through the snow uphill to get to school everyday.

Kids these days.

 

[PassWurD]

I miss the old school Tony Hawk games, does that count?

 

[Firus]

It makes me feel so old thinking of how many kids these days wouldn't know what to do if they got an 8-track tape or a VHS tape.

8-track tapes were awesome. Not as convenient as CDs (with tracks and whatnot), but for one thing I had so much fun recording on those things. Recording to a CD is not only complicated and (I think) has to involve a computer, but it's permanent. None of the recording and re-recording I did.

I don't have much trouble adapting to new technology (although I loathe texting with a passion), but I prefer the old stuff so much more. Same goes for video games.

Not to mention this obnoxious digital age. Before you know it, everything's going to become digital. We're already headed that way with video games, music, movies...even BOOKS, for crying out loud (I refuse to EVER buy a Kindle or something similar, convenience isn't a substitute for reading a real book). When Judgment Day comes and Skynet takes over the world we're not going to have anything left because everything's going to be on the stupid computers.

 

[Teran]

God's meteors and fireballs on Judgment Day will really be packets of code that kill mother brain in our future society.

 

[Yink]

I should photograph 3 bookcases worth of VHS tapes

WOW, you sound like me. We had so many Disney movies and then lots of other movies my parents owned.

Seriously though, it is rather strange to think about how this stuff has changed over time:

TV > VHS > DVD > BLU-RAY
Radio > Cassette Tapes > CDs > MP3 players
Computer > Laptop
(Video Games) 8 bit > 16 bit > All the other stuff I'm too lazy to type out

I know I'm missing a lot from that (or that it's just not true) but it's not just the technology, it's HOW it looks now too not just how it runs. Things are getting smaller, thinner. From pushing buttons to touch screens!

I still own a Pokemon: The First Movie on VHS and that wasn't TERRIBLY long ago. Long enough though. It's crazy how fast all of this is happening.

 

[Sucumbio]

Not to mention this obnoxious digital age.

THIS THIS THIS.

"Why I can't download Usher??" <-- Some bratty teenager on the phone w/me when I worked customer service. What I -wanted- to say? "Because you're not smart enough to use that cell phone your parents saw fit to grant you, and it knows that." >< I mean seriously, 10 year olds w/iphones? Insane. I was lucky I got to take a special class in 2nd grade to learn Basic and LOGO (anyone remember LOGO? hahaha). But we ended up spending most our time playing moon patrol and Montezuma's Revenge.

Now I guess El Nino's in his 30's as am I, but how old are you??? I mean, ... I didn't get a chance to USE an 8-track, I just remember my dad had a bunch and used his, so it was technically in the house when I was a kid, and it didn't break until '93 or so but ****, yo, you actually used one! And for recording! I didn't even realize you could use them like that... heh.

Cassettes. GOD I miss my cassette collection. I had all the Iron Maiden albums on tape (up until Fear of the Dark), most of the Moody Blues collection, and tons of mix tapes ranging from Ugly Kid Joe to Black Box. I had 1984, Appetite for Destruction... some good tapes, all lost in a move. And my VHSs, shoot I had about 100 or so, but they all got stolen >< I had them in a giant box, and one day I come home to find it, and my PS2 Mem card GONE. And that mem card had my 99.7% completion of MGS2: Substance. Still irks me to think about that.

 

[Lurker guy]

about the digital age:

Seriously. The iPhone is more like a portable computer that happens to include a phone.

 

[momochuu]

I don't think I know how to use a VHS...thingy anymore. ><

 

[superyoshi888]

I used to have a bunch of Godzilla movies on VHS...but they got ruined. I'm hoping to get some DVDs this Christmas(particularly KKvsG, haven't seen it for like a decade).

Still, it's kinda sad to see VHS go. I doubt I'll ever get a Blu-ray player unless I get a PS3 sometime.

DVDs are more convient, but the break to easily. They get scratched up and all plus they're thin and fragile.

And seeing the oldish looks and the various scratches and other distortions that a VHS would have would be like nostalgia for me.

 

[mountain_tiger]

I don't recall ever setting up a VCR by myself, and I doubt I'd be able to do it now. We don't have one anymore regardless, and my dad converted all the family tapes we had into digital format.

I remember when I was 11, I was the only person in my class who didn't have a mobile phone, so I ended up bugging my parents for one so I wouldn't be the odd one out. Nowadays you see kids as young as four or five using mobile phones.

It's amazing to think that, in the course of my lifetime, the internet has gone from a niche, almost text-only luxury to a huge network of all sorts of information that's critical for the healthy running of society that almost anyone has access to.

 

[Deleted member]

Man, does this bring back memories. It's weird to think, that in 10 years or so, when we show our kids a DVD player, they'll be clueless.

It's unbelievable that the Internet didn't exist until I was a teenager, and I didn't get it until I was 17. Most of you guys have had it for basically your entire lives.

 

[Flawless Fan]

I like remembering how many game system "eras" I've seen, and I'm not even 19 yet.
SNES was cool when I was in elementary school. Then the 64, the PS1, the PS2, gamecube, Wii... not in that order. And that's ignoring the portable systems.
And I could live without internet back then. I just hopped on a couple times a week and signed into our super cool AOL internet and randomly looked at pretty pictures of kittens and dragons, and occasionally went into the chats.

I love watching our VHS's that we still have. We've got a ton of Disney movies on VHS, and a bunch of other movies that I've never cared to watch.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Ahhh the good old daysss.
I still have my good old VCR sitting in my room
It is used because my TV is around 20+ years old (give or take a few years). Its one of those TVs that require the cable hookons instead of the input cables.
The VCR is needed to plug in the PS2...for it has my input cable stuff.
THANK YOU OLD TECHNOLOGY!!

 

[SharkAttack]

I remember renting movies on VHS that weren't rewound so I had to do it myself with a rewind machine near my television. Sometimes it would take a good deal of time for the tape to rewind itself. Now with DVD's nobody has to worry about that anymore.

 

[Mota]

Great nostalgic blog.

Most of my vidoes are Disney and recordings of Pokemon.
Omg the way you could record stuff onto by plugging up those gaps on the video tapes with tissue haha.

The rewinding was awesome, I always imagined it was a car speeding up and slowing down.

 

[Sucumbio]

The rewinding was awesome, I always imagined it was a car speeding up and slowing down.

That's funny cause our rewinder was in fact, a car, lol

 

[Neo Exdeath]

(I refuse to EVER buy a Kindle or something similar, convenience isn't a substitute for reading a real book)

I 100% agree with this.

 

[sammy p]

i could hook up a nintendo 64 on my own at the age of 4-5 lol
the only VHS we ever watch anymore is "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"! hahah
such a good musical. but my mom wants it for DVD, so once we get it, we can throw away all of our VHS's and VCR's

 

[Sucumbio]

or sell them on eBay for some collector to drool over... if they're not falling apart that is (tape and box).

 

[PhoenixoKaZe]

those days seemed like yesterday, internet take-over o-o

 

[wowoduend]

I still have a VCR in my room and its still working fine. Oh god, i don't how old is it, 14?

RIP VCR
You will be missed.....

 

[Mota]

That's funny cause our rewinder was in fact, a car, lol

O_O SNAP! you're right, I completely forgot... I've got one too, but I never used it. I hope it's stored somewhere in the house.

Mine was red though, possibly a diffrent car model then the one the vid shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYfPPJLQcM

 

[StealthyGunnar]

So, unbelievably, true.

Whenever something goes wrong with the TV, computer, DVD player, or anything with technology for that matter, he always asks me to 'fix it.'

 

[Sucumbio]

O_O SNAP! you're right, I completely forgot... I've got one too, but I never used it. I hope it's stored somewhere in the house.

Mine was red though, possibly a diffrent car model then the one the vid shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGYfPPJLQcM

Yeah!!!! I had the red one too! That's awesome, yah I do believe it was a different car model than the one in that vid, I believe ours was a corvette or camero or something...

Aku Aku? Now I know that must mean something, but it just so happens to be one of my favorite Polynesian restaurants out in Fresh Pond Parkway, next to Lanes -n- Games. Good times, GOD I wish people knew how to make that kinda food outside of the NE, living in the MW and SE there's literally no comparison, and every time I go for take-out I'm always pumped to get some good chinese but it just pales in comparison. Especially the pork fried rice, what's up w/that!? Everywhere else in the country they think pork fried rice is just rice w/pork added, no no no it's gotta be dark brown, and saturated in that awesome flavor. /rant

 

[Mota]

Haha, I know what you mean^
The meaing of Aku Aku to islanders is 'spiritual guide'

The Aku Aku I was thinking of was:

I brought out the Ps1 and played some Crash (bandicoot) team racing. So much fun.

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

Nostalgia, Some times I miss the old days. Just makes me think what sort of technology will be common when my twin nephews grow up to?