Back in my day we had Ren and Stimpy
Back in my day, we had Inspector Gadget.
“Go go gadget existential crisis!”
Omg yes and reboot
You misspelt beavis and butthead
(oh shit is ren and stimpy even older?)
Back in my day we didn’t have youtube, we downloaded 2 girls 1 cup through kazaa.
Emule was my tool for sketchy stuff like that. And oh boy was there some sketchy stuff in there…
Kids these days read books about romance and knights, and that sort of frivolous waste of time will corrupt the youth into idleness and vanity. They need to work harder in the field, milk the cows and feed the chickens. A book never yet grew a bushel of wheat.
-GoodwifeConstance1648
Get off my Farmville lawn!
boy am i glad that we’re out here and he’s frozen in there and we’re out here and he’s THE SHERIFF
Zelda, Duke Onkled is under attack by the evil forces of Ganon.
I’m going to Gamalon to aid him.
Back in my day we watched shows made to sell toys. Some of them, for example TMNT, actually turned out pretty good, but a lot of them do not hold up at all.
I’m trying to think of the equivalent when I was a kid. Dial-up was a thing (some universities and companies and probably some rich folks had better, but the average person that even cared about getting online didn’t), but just getting images involved downloading multiple parts of the data from newsgroups and stitching it together.
My first thought was maybe watching home videos or AFHV for that media or something like MAD magazine, though neither really seems to fit.
We played text based adventures and liked it! Such enrichment. I crawled in the dumb waiter… The Count (1979)
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Also Icton and DMGaina. Source War is the poop back in the day.
“we”
And before that, TV.
people who worry about “kids these days” are invariably the mediocre kids of yesteryear.
We had to make those stupid paper mache puppet heads and glue cloth to it for our hands and then put on a puppet show while not one single person went off and worked on a good script!
