Experiences and stuff that won't happen again....

B.A._Baracus

You know, the dumb or random things.

• Like missing a movie when it was in the cinema. So you go to Xtra-Vision on the Friday it comes out on VHS but you left it too late in the day. All the copies are rented out. So you go balls I wanted to watch that tonight and either go home empty handed or rent something else.
• Going to the local shop to buy your ma smokes. They wouldn't sell them to you if you are a teenager but something like 5? sure here's 20 Rothmans for you. lol.
• Recording stuff off the tele on blank videos. You would jump up to hit stop when the ads started and be on a razors edge ready to hit record when it should be coming back off the ads.
• Dial up internet. Looking at a celebrities nude picture as each line draws on the screen.. one line... after the other. lol.

https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/janeway%2Bsimpsons

Ah memories. Time is a harsh mistress. Care to add any?

silliussoddius

Using a fax machine or paper map.

Mister Vain

Decent music.

The Woke Man Bun

A dominant or uniform culture that everyone can adapt to and participate in.

Archeron

Agreed on the fax machine, used to work in sales and the horrible brrrrr noise of the fax usually meant a purchase order so was a good unpleasant noise.

Waiting for cassette based video games to load, like the spectrum and commodore 64. Some games had more loading on later levels and you'd be bricking it that it might crash.

Handing over your money to buy a plastic card to use in a small plastic phone cabin on the street in order to talk to somebody.

BrianD3

"Watching" football games on Ceefax on a Saturday afternoon. Also flicking between Sports Stadium and Grandstand.

In areas without cable "piped" TV, having a massive aerial in the back garden or on the roof of the house to go from 2 channel land to 6 channel land (with sh*te reception)

silliussoddius

Getting off the couch to change the television station.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854317#Comment_119854317

And using Function, 6, 6 & Set to make sure the bloody thing was sent!

Engaging in an act of self-help while watching Eurotrash on Channel 4 on a Friday night.

Allinall

I got married.

That certainly won’t be happening again.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854359#Comment_119854359

You didn't have a TV stick?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854430#Comment_119854430

We only had a wireless stick.

Sardonicat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854440#Comment_119854440

Bloody luxury! We just has a stick.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854440#Comment_119854440

Ladi-feckin-da.

knucklehead6

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854455#Comment_119854455

In our house I was the stick

TooTired123

Making arrangements to meet someone maybe a week or more in advance and having to stick to it because you had no way of letting them know that you wouldn’t be able to make it.

KilOit

Kids allowed to be kids without helicopter parents. I was out at 11am till near midnight when I was 8-12 during the summer months.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854253#Comment_119854253

Stay away from Japan in that case, they're still mad for fax machines over there apparently

A friend of mine was over there a few years ago and he was telling me that immigration in the airport wouldn't accept a printout of the hotel booking and had to get it faxed over

Also in the US they still fax prescriptions apparently

the_amazing_raisin

Programming the video recorder with the video plus codes from the TV guide

And then realising that the football match went into extra time, so the movie was delayed and you failed to record the last 30 mins of Star Trek 2

I was really f**king confused when I saw the start of Star Trek 3 😂

Travelling through US customs and immigration December 26 1996.

The only phrase I remember from the single official at the desk is"Have a nice trip" with a smile on his face.

y0ssar1an22

blowing into the old video game cartridge's.

making mix tapes from atlantic 252, raging when they would start talking as the song winded down

checking scores on teletext.

my 1st date had to call their landline (number gotten from phone book of course) and speak to the auld fella 1st before he would let me speak with the girl.

god be with the days

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854590#Comment_119854590

Sellotape to allow you record over previous recorded films on vhs tapes!

Feisar

The likes of Feeky McGee.

recording playing the piano on tape recorder cassette tape: poor output.

Changing the tv channels by pressing the buttons to the right hand side of the tv screen.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854518#Comment_119854518

Some places still use faxes here for prescriptions too. It's because faxes can't be hacked.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854359#Comment_119854359

To this day I still feel the remote control for a tv is history’s greatest invention.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854720#Comment_119854720

I feel like there's a division of Russian hackers who are saying "challenge accepted" right now 😁

But yes, faxes are generally secure enough to be used for things like medical data.

I think there's also a lot of legacy thinking involved in that, like there's other methods of communication that are secure but pharmacies and doctors don't see any reason to use anything newer

If it ain't broken then don't fix it, and continue to torture anyone using it 😂

standardg60

Boiling milk over/kettle boiling dry cos you'd forgotten to keep an eye on them.

Manually tuning in TV stations and the video recorder.

Copying tapes on twin decks.

Waking up and seeing your breath on Winter mornings.

Neighbours calling in to use the phone cos they didn't have one.

Piling into a friend's parents car for a lift home after they'd been lucky enough to have been collected from school on a wet day, at least six doubled up on laps in the back seat.

BrianD3

Having a file on a floppy disk and getting the dreaded "the disk is not formatted" error when trying to read from it.

Or if using DOS, the dreaded "Abort Retry Ignore Fail" error message.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854723#Comment_119854723

Greatest joke ever.

'I bought a universal remote control'

'I said this changes everything'

Atlantic Dawn

Every weekend in 4th class we had to write a summary of a news related story that occured over the weekend. I was lucky enough to have got a TV with teletext on it early on, I would pretty much just copy a story word for word off Aertel at 8.55pm of a Sunday, never was sussed out by anyone, how I loved that TV 😁

Renting non-legit/replica/pirated videos from a man who would arrive in to the estate once a week with a van and 'rent' these videos for £1.50 for the week...This was at a time when a blank tape would cost £1, I could never figure out why he didn't go the next level and sell the the recording for £4 and flog lots at once.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854773#Comment_119854773

I don't mean to get fierce modern on you, but dat drives. Mini discs maybe a step too far for this thread.

Rothko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854303#Comment_119854303

Loads of fantastic music still being made and very easy to find if you want to.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854502#Comment_119854502

The strangest part of that is that it's those kids who were allowed to run wild and free who have become the helicopter parents. Pendulum has swung the other direction.

standardg60

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854801#Comment_119854801

Reminds me, actually renting a TV or video recorder by the week for a pound or £1.50 cos they were so expensive!

riclad

Recording movies using vcr timers , renting vhs tapes, renting illegal xx videos from a local video shop,loading games on a pc using 4 cdrom discs .people in a rented house using a payphone in the hallway.people having 4 or 5 children.most people nowadays have 1 or 2 children or else none.listening to bbc radio 1 ,radio luxembourg at night before 2fm, 104 fm started broadcasting. Listening to local pirate radio stations.renting games on cartridge .loading console games from tape .buying music albums on audio cassette tape.

people installing aerials on the roof just to get itv and bbc tv stations .spending 15 minutes looking at movies in xtravision before you rented one out

Watching top of the pops on tv.xmas tv specials , many uk programs used to have a special xmas edition.its not the same now, with 100s of tv stations and netflix being avaidable

Ubbquittious

Visiting people, hanging around for a few hour while parents talked sh1te around a coffee table with a branded ashtray. Then it would be time to leave and they'd stand there another half an hour chatting by the front door or by the car

corner of hells

Driving to Courtown in an old Renault, with 6 kids in the back , no need for seat belts and half a ton of food strapped to the roof of the car.

the_amazing_raisin

Buying a PC and it came with 20 floppy discs with all the drivers. And the manual had all the circuit schematics for the motherboard in case a repair shop needed to replace one of the components

Also, trying to figure out what IRQ address your sound card is on, and getting it wrong so every time you pressed a key the sound got interrupted

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855165#Comment_119855165

That basically happened to me last weekend, took 6 attempts to leave my mum's gaff

Didn't have the ashtray I'll concede, she finally quit a few years ago

anewme

MT Usa on a Sunday afternoon.

On second thoughts, accepting that job in Facebook Dublin wasn't a great career move.

ThePentagon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854617#Comment_119854617

Adjusting the "tracking" in a vain attempt to improve the visual quality of an old VHS tape.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855476#Comment_119855476

They probably won't fire you twice, but I guess it has to be something that no-one is likely to experience again, and Facebook still exists

However I think "working at Twitter" might make the list in the next year or so...

Markus Antonius

-Collecting the fyffes banana stickers to send off for some **** toy

-A ring in the barm brack at halloween

-An actual toy in the cereal box that you wouldn't have to download an app for

-All the effort of cutting the token off the milk carton, having thousands saved up in the cupboard only to be too afraid to spend them

-No seatbelts in the backseat

-Not realising someone was a raging alcoholic

-Being in the sacristy alone with the local priest (nowhere safer than there..)

Noble Korhedron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854253#Comment_119854253

I'll have you know the family business that my parents recently retired from used a fax, and I've used paper maps myself; and I do mean actual paper maps, not just for RPGs.

StupidLikeAFox

I remember when boards wasnt 24 hours - it shut down for an hour in the middle of the night (possibly for a backup or something)

editorsean

Checking all your computers and electronics are Y2K compliant and celebrating the turn of the millennium

Favourite mixtapes getting chewed in a cassette player, then having to free the mechanism

Paying by credit card where the shop uses a manual sliding card imprinter, then signing the transaction

Making a reverse charge call via a telephone operator while on holiday to call home

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854817#Comment_119854817

All now, I still use minidiscs.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854801#Comment_119854801

Haha I remember the “video man” as well.

Purple Mountain

This thread should be called

"Being a 90s teenager" 😁