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Microsoft internet Browser sold  a dozen hours of browser time for $10  AOL had yet to offer unlimited time and when they did everyone followed suit.

Like Bodo  I used nothing but V-3 and M-3   and then M4 and V4   remember Victoria reduced resolution and stephi-3 

Mc Donalds still sold a burger fries and drink for .99 cents.  Movies Theaters still had double features,  Hbo only displayed new movies on the weekend and then repeated them during the week,  VH1 only showed music Videos

56 K baud modems that for some reason never went beyond 48 baud  and computer Monitors were only VGA  

regards shado

Another thing about life in the last century (not to mention forever before that) was that you could have sex outside in a grassy field or in a public setting like a drive-in, and you didn’t get recorded and put on the Internets forevermore.

Originally Posted by: shadoman

anyone care to add to the list..

Music was worth listening too, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, The Temptations, Paul Simon, Kate Bush! Politics was a hard-ass game, but it made sense; the politicians behaved like adults! Women liked to be sexy! Folks could take a joke. I even remember dancing till dawn!

Yes good music back them  personally I enjoyed music from the 60-70's and some 80's music myself.. 

Remember the Mini skirts..  pantyhose had yet to be invented and girls could not wear stockings without showing the garters..  so lots of bare legs back then..  I've always been a leg man 

I had one of the first VCR's ever made  cost me $800 and came with  $100 in free tapes  but back then that was 3 T-120's and 1 T-60 and they included a T-60 in the box  Mine was made by RCA    You could program it to turn on  but then it had to run till it ran out of tape and it only had SP and LP  2 or 4 hrs.  I had just subscribed to cable TV and it came with free HBO   Used up the tapes in one weekend. 

Kids today do have it soft..  back then  no time out and your butt got spanked if you did something wrongs and no one reported the adult to child services..  Kids are so spoiled today and by the age of 7 they are already using the "F" word.  Hell I did not start cursing till I was like 13  Sorry  Catholic upbringing.. crap  had to go to mass everyday but Saturday till I got out of 8th grade.  

shado

Originally Posted by: contedesfees

[Adolescent years are the hardest years of life. Gotta figure out who you are, what you want to do, how to fit in, choose a career, learn how to get along with difficult people, how to manage with the opposite sex, and listen to silly old farts tell you that you've got it soft. And from one silly old fart to another: YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!!!
Be fair. Live long and render. (Who can forget mini skirts?)

The fact still remains that nowadays,teens have less an excuse to fuck up than we had. They can't use the excuse of "how could I know that", for example. They've got the most amazing knowledge repository of all human history at the tip of their fingers and still either choose to ignore it (boooring) , follow fads instead or get all worked up about causes without digging deeper, because it's the thing that's "in". I know that some of them actually mean it when they adhere to a cause. Otherwise mankind would be just a waste. Still, technically speaking... they do have it soft, in almost every way that matters. As for learning to get along with difficult people, who is more difficult to live with that... oh le'ts say... a teenager? :) Having to find oneself isn't an excuse. What really saddens me though is how every generation thinks they know better when in fact they just repeat the errors of their elders in just more creative ways. They learn from us and we learned from our folks. So of course, mistakes get done again and again. We don't learn.

One thing about the eighties/nineties: we had some really wicked candies back then.

Originally Posted by: Finister

Yeah - like said above, I remember drive-in theaters and the playgrounds up near the big screens.

What were those restaurants called with rollerskating waitresses and you put the food tray on the car window? I think A&W was one.

They were also called drive-ins, or at least that is all I ever heard them called, and the waitresses were called carhops. And they are still around in some areas. Back where I used to live in Indiana there is B-K East and B-K West in one of the towns a county over and we had a B-K in our county as well (Though I was informed that at one time it had been a A&W). Though I don't recall if the waitresses still used roller skates, it was a big deal when they opened each year in the Spring. (I didn't care much though as the main draw was coney dogs, and other types of hotdogs, and I'm not a big hot dog fan, for a time B-K East had some decent nachos, but it was only a few years before they changed to cheap cheese that was rather nasty, and they stopped putting the coney sauce on them, so in the end it was just tortilla chips with watery cheese sauce and jalapenos on them.) Also around here we have the Sonic chain drive-ins still around (Though the menu varies greatly from one Sonic to the next, the local Sonic had some really good jalapeno poppers, and decent burgers, the ones up in Kentucky however,  the burgers are crap and the rest of the menu sucked) 

Originally Posted by: contedesfees

Originally Posted by: BrotherHades

(Though the menu varies greatly from one Sonic to the next, the local Sonic had some really good jalapeno poppers, and decent burgers, the ones up in Kentucky however,  the burgers are crap and the rest of the menu sucked)

The best burgers ever are made by a company called Harvey's. I don't know if the franchise operates in the U.S., but it's pretty popular in Eastern Canada. Charcoal broiled with all the toppings; mustard, relish, peppers, onions, tomatoes, the works! $8.95 with a large fries. McDonalds and BurgerKing can't compete. I miss Harvey's. But whatcha gonna do?

Not a restaurant I have heard of. Though best burger and fries I ever had was a small restaurant in Sumter, SC, called Cruisers. I couldn't say if it is even still there or if so if the food would be anywhere near as good as it was then. (Would have been late 80's when it opened, and it probably wasn't more than a couple years after that we moved, but I have to say the food left an impression.)

Shado, did you 57 Fairlane have the 312 dual 4bbl Y block engine?

Best burgers in Fort Worth were a coin toss between Kincaid's and Charlies Old Fashioned Hamburgers.  Kincaid's was on Camp Bowie and used to be a small grocer that had a grill in back.  Charlies Old Fashioned Hamburgers is a little hole in the wall place on Old Granbury Road.  Train Crews would stop their train to go eat at Charlies.  Now they have both gotten famous and opened additional bigger venues.  The new location's burgers don't seem as good as the original locations.

@simontemplar, @BrotherHades, @shadoman, & @billyben:
It would be my pleasure, if we're ever together in Montréal, Québec, to take you all to Harvey's for lunch. I'd love to see your faces when you take that first magical bite. Their jingle claims that "Harvey's makes a hamburger a beautiful thing!" That's truth in advertising, believe it or not. It's a great idea, but, alas, I rather think it's not to be. (Sigh.)
Smile, and do what good you can; live long and render.