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

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" 😁

Purple Mountain

My tuppence worth...

•The boy you fancy making you a cassette tape of love songs recorded from 2fm or Atlantic 252.

•Communicating by letter with your school friends during summer holidays.

•Getting drunk on £10.

•A box of ten cigarettes could be got for £1.50 or twenty for £3.20.

•Rural pubs hopping every Friday and Saturday night and all day sessions every Sunday.

•School lunches of bovril in a flask, a carton of milk and jam sandwiches.

The goonies and movies like it being made and shown to kids like me in the late 80's wouldn't happen. You had what? a faux suicide, fat shaming, a penis and drugs joke and a sex dungeon mentioned in the first 10 minutes ! ! ! I'd easily let my girls watch that vs the shite thats being made these days.

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854847#Comment_119854847

There might be some good stuff about if you search. Not like the 70's,80's or even 90's when we were bombarded with trend setting,sometimes society changing bands.

Soon as music became free production values were lost and nobody was there to nurture those weird kids who could sing and play the banjo.

freshpopcorn

Buying Pirate DVD's from the back of a van.

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119854532#Comment_119854532

I'm sure videoplus codes are still a thing, the Christmas RTE Guide was probably the last time i saw one, but still...

also, the ring in the brack hasn't gone anywhere, yet. (probably only a matter of time)

bodhrandude

That original Electric Picnic vibe from 2005 to about 2014/15, we'll never get that back now.

Be right back

People sitting through a film, concert or any public event and actually watching it instead of recording it on their phones.

One recent example being..

Quantum Erasure

god save our gracious memes

Running memmaker 10 times in a row in DOS just to eek out the 10k EMS RAM that was the difference between your new computer game running and not.

BrenMar

Full churches at Sunday Masses.