Growing up without a cell phone

[Dallas Bueller]

nigga even if we didnt have the box,.....i would try my best to watch the shit through all the squiggly lines with just the sound
a nigga would get all happy and shit if u were able to see a tit for a split second....

lol. true. shit that first time I saw Goodfellas was on a scrambled screen. goes to show how good that movie is, I couldn't even see much of shit and was still enthralled

 

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[Blu Diablo]

No sir we didn't have either.

Cartoons was a big deal they used to have shows previewing what was coming out in Sept.

There were certain cartoons that came on like WPIX during the week

But we didn't have microwaves in the crib.....


I think she may have used a cut off age that is to yuoung for some of her list......

Cartoons came on during the week on WNEW (5) & WPIX (11), we had a microwave in the crib since like 80-somethin'. I remember my niece almost blowing that muhfugga up trying to heat up something in aluminum foil.

 

[stretchwallz]

I'm 38 and this thread making me feel old...but remember playing those electronic handheld games and trying to record a song from the radio and hoping the DJ wouldn't talk at the beginning or end?

 

[Mixd]

speaking of cartoons:

and no matter what the fuck you were doing playing on the block on a Saturday, EVERYONE was inside at 3:00pm watching Saturday Afternoon at the Kung Fu Theater.

Crazy Eddie commercials, Allan Carpet commercials. Brooklyn things, some of y'all may not understand LOL

 

[Brother Blues]

Aluminum on the tv antennas. And worked best when you touched the antennas.

And if the antennae broke off...you stick a wire clothes hanger in it.

Joan Crawford be damned...

 

[ballscout1]

Cartoons came on during the week on WNEW (5) & WPIX (11), we had a microwave in the crib since like 80-somethin'. I remember my niece almost blowing that muhfugga up trying to heat up something in aluminum foil.

yeah thats correct..

remember Gigantor ?

yeah microwaves were in the mid 80's thats why i said i think for some of that stuff her cut off age was to young...


yeah throwing something with aluminum foil in a mocrowave

 

[ballscout1]

I'm 38 and this thread making me feel old...but remember playing those electronic handheld games and trying to record a song from the radio and hoping the DJ wouldn't talk at the beginning or end?

that looks like my old stereo

remember those vobrating football games ?

hot wheel and the tracks that doubles to get a whooping with ?

AFX slot cars

 

[ballscout1]

speaking of cartoons:

and no matter what the fuck you were doing playing on the block on a Saturday, EVERYONE was inside at 3:00pm watching Saturday Afternoon at the Kung Fu Theater.

Crazy Eddie commercials, Allan Carpet commercials. Brooklyn things, some of y'all may not understand LOL

saturdays was cartoons early...then soul train then king fu theater then creature feature and at night chiller theater.


crazy eddie can't be beat then that mofokr got got by the feds.

carvel ice cream commercials with that mofokrs voice sound like he chain smoked north carolina

kung fu movies all day on 42nd street smoking section was the balcony but that was the weed heads..regular cigarettes was downstairs .

after the movies sparring with your boys like you knew that shit

 

[playahaitian]

speaking of cartoons:

and no matter what the fuck you were doing playing on the block on a Saturday, EVERYONE was inside at 3:00pm watching Saturday Afternoon at the Kung Fu Theater.

Crazy Eddie commercials, Allan Carpet commercials. Brooklyn things, some of y'all may not understand LOL

and the Wiz, Rolling Roaster...

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they dont hear you fam...

I'm 38 and this thread making me feel old...but remember playing those electronic handheld games and trying to record a song from the radio and hoping the DJ wouldn't talk at the beginning or end?

if you had this back in the day it was like getting a PS4 NOW!!!

And if the antennae broke off...you stick a wire clothes hanger in it.

Joan Crawford be damned...

^^^

if anyone on bgol under 25 even gets that reference I'd be stunned

ya'll KILLING me...

Don't make me go Solid Gold, Dance Fever, Friday Night Hot Traxx video show with Carlos DeJesus and Colecovision on ya'll

had hide this in school

 

[ballscout1]

And if the antennae broke off...you stick a wire clothes hanger in it.

Joan Crawford be damned...

remember cars had antennae on them and you would snatch them mofokrs off and beat a dog or a mofokr with them.....?

 

[Mixd]

Who remember taping Mr Magic Rap Attack on WBLS and saving them TDK 120's for the show

 

[Coldchi]

tha fuck yall know about watchin Street Frogs on Sunday before church nigga?

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or bored as fuck when there was nothin else to look at on tv and end up watchin Grizzly Adams......

 

[ballscout1]

Who remember taping Mr Magic Rap Attack on WBLS and saving them TDK 120's for the show

Mr Magic and Red Alert..

falling asleep with your finger on the pause button.

mofokrs talking at the start of the track and fucking the tape up..

WBLS WKTU and KISS-FM

WBLS played MFSB ecery morning and told you the color of the day to wear

 

[ballscout1]

tha fuck yall know about watchin Street Frogs on Sunday before church nigga?

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or bored as fuck when there was nothin else to look at on tv and end up watchin Grizzly Adams......

Nah used to watch Wonder-rama on sunday before church on channel 5

or Davey and Goliath

 

[playahaitian]

what ya'll know about entertech water gun with the extra clip

 

[biggboye5000]

Who else had the old cable box with the dial? If you set that dial just right in between, let's say, channels 200 and 201 you could unscramble the picture and see all the nasty shit on Cinemax late nights, even if your folks didn't have Cinemax.

Now that I think about it, even the old cable remotes had a dial on it. Goddamn my old ass is gettin old.

nigga even if we didnt have the box,.....i would try my best to watch the shit through all the squiggly lines with just the sound
a nigga would get all happy and shit if u were able to see a tit for a split second....

Yeah I used to sneak and watch HBO or Emmanuelle on Cinemax.

In Arkansas we used to climb up the pole and turn on free cable before they revamped the whole system years later. That was like early 80s.

And dont forget the Playboy Channel. I saw many many squiggly PBC movies. They were softcore of course so no penetration but you could still get a few frontal muff shots in squiggly formation.

You used to be able to order those old cable boxes from classifieds back in the day but I never did so I have no idea if they actually worked or not.

And of course let's not forget those gigantic Earth satellite stations. I think they used to cost like 5 grand a pop. Never actually saw the channels on any real tv just the ads and the occasional house with those expensive dishes.

 

[Heavenlywings77]

11 & 12 are wrong, and we had the dopest cereal lineup of ANY generation.

I pull up youtube vids all the time to show my kids what they missed.

70's baby, 80's kid!

MOTHER FUCKING RIGHT DOG!!!

Pussies!!!!

 

[Heavenlywings77]

Yeah I used to sneak and watch HBO or Emmanuelle on Cinemax.

In Arkansas we used to climb up the pole and turn on free cable before they revamped the whole system years later. That was like early 80s.

And dont forget the Playboy Channel. I saw many many squiggly PBC movies. They were softcore of course so no penetration but you could still get a few frontal muff shots in squiggly formation.

You used to be able to order those old cable boxes from classifieds back in the day but I never did so I have no idea if they actually worked or not.

And of course let's not forget those gigantic Earth satellite stations. I think they used to cost like 5 grand a pop. Never actually saw the channels on any real tv just the ads and the occasional house with those expensive dishes.

Dream On,Pimps up hoes down,Hookers at the point,Taxi Cab Confessions,Real Sex,HBO was the shit

 

[stretchwallz]

Who remember taping Mr Magic Rap Attack on WBLS and saving them TDK 120's for the show

I remember waiting on the mailman to deliver my cassette from my cousin in Patterson NJ, he would tape all that rap stuff that NO ONE heard of in Wisconsin! When I heard Sucker MC's I played it for everyone and I was the man

 

[biggboye5000]

I remember waiting on the mailman to deliver my cassette from my cousin in Patterson NJ, he would tape all that rap stuff that NO ONE heard of in Wisconsin! When I heard Sucker MC's I played it for everyone and I was the man

Peeps may not know but Sucker MCs was a landmark game changer. That song and It's Like That was blowing minds back then. Run DMC were kings of the game back then.

I was in Arkansas listening to BMX mix tapes from my homeboy's brother who stayed in the Chi who came down south during the summer. We were all geeked. They used to play mixtapes straight off of BMX down here in Arkansas at the lil juke joint clubs down here. You could hear the radio announcer voices and everything.

That was back when we sported 5 foot boom boxes like Radio Raheem.

 

[kes1111]

If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious!
7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!!

We had cell phones back in the day.

 

[Mixd]

what ya'll know about entertech water gun with the extra clip

hells yeah I had one!

Dream On,Pimps up hoes down,Hookers at the point,Taxi Cab Confessions,Real Sex,HBO was the shit

wrong era bro, all that shit was not around when I was a kid. That's all from the late 90's to 2000's

I remember waiting on the mailman to deliver my cassette from my cousin in Patterson NJ, he would tape all that rap stuff that NO ONE heard of in Wisconsin! When I heard Sucker MC's I played it for everyone and I was the man

mail? we used to run up to ChinaTown to buy them shits cause Flatbush NEVER had the 120's, they were always sold out LOL

 

[biggboye5000]

wrong era bro, all that shit was not around when I was a kid. That's all from the late 90's to 2000's



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From what I remember HBO slowly begin to blow up during the early 80s. The only original programming I remember they had back then was Inside Sports or Inside The NFL football highlights, maybe some boxing and Fraggle Rock the Jim Henson muppets type show which I never actually watched.

They also had their own little monthly TV guide they would send out in the mail.

Other than that from what I remember they pretty much just showed movies. HBO brought Cinemax out I think later in the 80s.

 

[EchoCrash]

Who else had the old cable box with the dial? If you set that dial just right in between, let's say, channels 200 and 201 you could unscramble the picture and see all the nasty shit on Cinemax late nights, even if your folks didn't have Cinemax.

Now that I think about it, even the old cable remotes had a dial on it. Goddamn my old ass is gettin old.

And the best issue of the TV Guide was the one that showcased all of the new shows that were coming out during the Fall season. Ah, the good old days.

H was showtime and J was Nickelodeon. That's all I remember. There was "static smut" late at night that was priceless.
This thread brings back GREAT memories. we used to play "Manhunt" for hours or until dudes fought over that sh*t. Basketball in monkey bars, brooms for baseball bats - poor fly sh*t!!

Yessir

 

[God's Gift]

Sheeeiiiittt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Best video game ever was trying to reach Ch.11 NYC WPIX so you could yell pix,pix, pix, pix into the phone that was either attached to the wall or trailing a long ass cord so you could shoot aliens in the cross hairs. Funny, them kids they chose never sounded like me.

2.

3. My first computer. The Tandy TRS-80. Mom's didnt know enough to buy the "cassette tape" drive or couldnt afford it, so I programmed in basic all day and when I turned it off, all my work was lost until tommorrow.

 

[Mentor B]

I'm only 30 years old, but even us 80's babies really didn't have cell phones poppin' like that. More of an early 2000's era when it was starting to be mandatory to have one.

Junior high/High School in the 90's

 

[Coldchi]

2.

nigga u done brought back so many memories......
that cartoon was the shit.......

 

[LutherVanDrawlz]

...and porn.. we didn't have easy access to porn... these lil' fuckers can now just type some shit and it magically appears now... just real images of tits & ass everywhere

if it weren't for lingerie sections in Sears & JC Penney catalogs & the Jet Beauty of the Week I probably wouldn't have seen no real skin til I was in HS

and let's not talk about how my underage ass used to walk up to the liquor store and buy Playboy & Penthouse magazines... these youngins will never know that pain and pressure of hoping they aint get carded just to see images of a woman's naked body..... but finding out about Players magazine & Players Pictorial changed my life

 

[jblaque]

Living in apartment buildings in Brooklyn,

we used to splice the cable line to the lines going down to other apartments. No cable box needed LOL.

WHT and HBO late night was the shit when I was a kid!

Two yrs ago I took my some to Liberty Science Center. They had this on display and he was like "What is that??"

how many times trying to sneak a call to some girl and you had to start over dialing cause your finger didnt go all the way around..

People actually had to trust people to pick them up at the airport before cell phones.



My ex at 30 didn't know how a turntable worked.

my grandma didnt get Call Waitin til 2002.....lol.
to this day, she got a brand new dryer sittin in the laundry room and she's never used it.
she's one of the few that still has a clothes line in the back yard.
i couldnt stand hangin up clothes back in the day nigga. shit felt like back breakin work. especially when you wanted to go play with your friends.

Yeah but those clothes off the line always smelled and felt better..

these lil niggaz dont know nuttin bout that.....

my mama had one of these......my brother tore it up.
he received the worse ass whoopin i ever seen a human being receive in life.
made Michael Fay's caning look like a bunch of love taps.

we didnt have to wear watches to know what time it was to see if we were out past curfew..........when them street lights come on, yo ass better be within yelling distance or on that front fuckin porch.

werd

 

[Problematic]

Good list. She hit a lot of stuff right on.

That last one NO car seat. She should have included no seat belts either. You just got in the car and sat.

or not having enough room & just sitting on laps

tha fuck yall know about watchin Street Frogs on Sunday before church nigga?

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"who can do hip hop better than a frog can?" - dr. slick

dope thread

 

[Notorious P.I.M.P.]

 

[Djmarkxr7]

Living in apartment buildings in Brooklyn,

we used to splice the cable line to the lines going down to other apartments. No cable box needed LOL.

WHT and HBO late night was the shit when I was a kid!

My Dad used to live in a building several blocks up from the school, right behind Bishop Loughlin & the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, I can remember when he got the antenna to get HBO and put it on the fire escape, luckily his apartment was on the back side of the building so he had a clear view of the Williamsburg Bank clock, and more importantly, Manhattan, that's where HBO's signal came from back then, they didn't come on till 3PM every day & went off @ 12 except weekends when they showed HBO late night & those single X rated films, I remember staying up real late one night when I was there to see "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" starring Diane Keaton & Richard Gere, pretty tame by today's standards, but to a 12/13 year old who had never seen porn, that shit was like WOW!!!

That movie made me want to check out the bar/club scene in NYC, LOL!!!!!

 

[Djmarkxr7]

Sheeeiiiittt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. Best video game ever was trying to reach Ch.11 NYC WPIX so you could yell pix,pix, pix, pix into the phone that was either attached to the wall or trailing a long ass cord so you could shoot aliens in the cross hairs. Funny, them kids they chose never sounded like me.

2.

3. My first computer. The Tandy TRS-80. Mom's didnt know enough to buy the "cassette tape" drive or couldnt afford it, so I programmed in basic all day and when I turned it off, all my work was lost until tommorrow.

Yoooooo, the live action movie "Starblazers" aka Space Battleship Yamato was actually pretty good, did you get to peep it when it was posted in the Movie section?!?

 

[Djmarkxr7]

We had cell phones back in the day.

LOL, yeah, but exactly how much did this ish cost, and more importantly, just how good do you think reception was on those things!