Back in My Day...

[Vanimal46]

A thread to discuss the ever changing world...

[Vanimal46]

Back in my day Pizza Huts were dine-in restaurants that offered lunch buffets!

 

This will no longer be the case. And let's be honest, Pizza Hut Express is terrible.

 

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/pizza-hut-set-to-close-500-dine-in-locations-nationwide

[Craig Arko]

Back in my day we went to Shakey’s or Cicero’s for pizza.

[Pardon My Dinger]

This is some kinda pizza forum?

[Pardon My Dinger]

Back when I was a lad, Chuck E Cheese was tons of fun. These days...it’s still fun I guess, just different.

[Squirrel]

Back in my day there were neighborhood bars on every corner.

 

<looks around>

 

Guess they are still there, just under different ownership.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

The Domino’s Pizza “30 minutes or Less guarantee” was a kind of a sensation when they rolled it out, then a pizza driver killed someone and it was like top 10 o’clock news story for a couple days. I guess Domino’s survived ok.

[Craig Arko]

Back in my day we went to the Moon.

[Craig Arko]

Hahaha! Back in my day, Pepsi was briefly the 6th most powerful military force on Earth.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2018-7?f

[Vanimal46]

Back when I was a lad, Chuck E Cheese was tons of fun. These days...it’s still fun I guess, just different.

Lucky! Chuck E Cheese wasn't in my home town. Back in my day we had "Romp N' Roam"... One of those germ infested plastic jungle gyms where they also served pizza for birthday parties.

[Squirrel]

 

Lucky! Chuck E Cheese wasn't in my home town. Back in my day we had "Romp N' Roam"... One of those germ infested plastic jungle gyms where they also served pizza for birthday parties.

Back in my day we had birthday parties at home. We didn't go to germ-infested places for parties ... the kids all brought their germs to their friends' homes.

[Squirrel]

Okay ... I tried to hold off, because it's not in my day ... but it's more fun to do it this way ...

 

Back in Chief's day, games at birthday parties consisted of drawing on the cave walls and playing pin the rock on the rock.

[ewen21]

In my day you had to get off the couch to turn the channels

[twinsnorth49]

Back in my day people used to actually talk to each other. 

[ewen21]

Back in my day we had air raid drills in school. You had to sit legs crossed under your desks with your head down. You recited the pledge to the flag and sang "My Country 'tis of Thee" afterwards. You played "Kill the Ball Carrier" during recess and made forts in the woods

[ewen21]

Back in my day people used to actually talk to each other.

And boys occasionally used their fists to settle scores

[ewen21]

I remember when we won the gold in hockey. I lived only about 100 miles from where it happened and didn't get to know about the results until hours later.

 

Crazy how that stuff didn't leak. My friends and I couldn't even find anything on the radio. We had to watch the tape delay

[twinsnorth49]

Back in my day coach would tell you to bunt. 

 

 

Change is good. 

[ashbury]

Back in Chief's day, games at birthday parties consisted of drawing on the cave walls and playing pin the rock on the rock.

Rare photo of Chief in middle school, back in the day:

 

http://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED139/5603133e4054e.jpeg

 

i have a feeling this isn't what Van was asking for.

[ewen21]

Back in my day coach would tell you to bunt.

 

 

Change is good.

Yup. And I disobeyed and grounded into a force out. Had the 3rd highest BA on the team but didn't get a whole lot of at bats after that. Got chewed out pretty good ....I had a Gardy-like coach

[Vanimal46]

Back in my day we had goth kids in high school with TOOL t-shirts. I was a preppy kid wearing Hollister shirts that were way too tight. I thought they were scary.

 

Now I know the goth kids were right... TOOL is a badass band!!!

[ewen21]

Funny thread. I worked for the highway department in my town one summer when I was in college. One of the old timers there always went on about "back in my day" and all the college temps would mimic him (not to be disrespectful)

 

He was part of the WW2 generation

[ashbury]

Funny thread. I worked for the highway department in my town one summer when I was in college. One of the old timers there always went on about "back in my day" and all the college temps would mimic him (not to be disrespectful)

 

He was part of the WW2 generation

Yeah, I was at a bbq over the weekend with a bunch of younger programming types, and they were politely attentive as I regaled them about the days when a Megabyte was an unattainably large amount of memory and a Microsecond was a remarkably short amount of time. Then I pulled out my cellphone with the telescoping antenna, and really wowed them with the fact that the Old Days aren't truly gone for some.

[ewen21]

When I was in high school my town got cable TV. We also got a garage door opener and a microwave. MTV came on the scene and hippies were not cool (neither was MTV I my opinion)

[Craig Arko]

Back in my day there was no World Wide Web, so we used Telnet, WAIS, Usenet, FTP, and Gopher.

 

When I was in high school we used PLATO, and when I worked for Honeywell we were on ARPANet.

 

Expert Systems were supposed to be the next big thing, powered by Japan’s Fifth Generation supercomputers.

 

I had a Class C Internet subnet for our home-based business running over a 28.8 modem connection with a Windows NT Server functioning as the router. Then we became early adopters of ISDN.

[Vanimal46]

Back in my day my mom would get upset if my brother and I were on dial up internet when she was expecting a call from her sister or mom.

[ewen21]

Back in my day there was no World Wide Web, so we used Telnet, WAIS, Usenet, FTP, and Gopher.

 

When I was in high school we used PLATO, and when I worked for Honeywell we were on ARPANet.

 

Expert Systems were supposed to be the next big thing, powered by Japan’s Fifth Generation supercomputers.

 

I had a Class C Internet subnet for our home-based business running over a 28.8 modem connection with a Windows NT Server functioning as the router. Then we became early adopters of ISDN.

I remember when I was taking statitics in college my professor made a big deal about a program called RPG Minitab. A year or two later I discovered Excel.

 

Computing made a huge leap when I was in college. I wasn't computer savvy at all my first year at school. I typed reports on a Smith Corona. My sophomore year was when Windows came out and when that happened I jumped all over it.

 

(Was never a Mac guy)

[twinsnorth49]

 

Yeah, I was at a bbq over the weekend with a bunch of younger programming types, and they were politely attentive as I regaled them about the days when a Megabyte was an unattainably large amount of memory and a Microsecond was a remarkably short amount of time. Then I pulled out my cellphone with the telescoping antenna, and really wowed them with the fact that the Old Days aren't truly gone for some.

Not expecting to be invited back I assume?

[ewen21]

In my day I bought albums and wore concert t-shirts. The first band I saw was the Kinks. Then I saw Rush a couple of months later (right when Tom Sawyer and Limelight came out).

 

Those monster tours just don't happen anymore and that is a shame

[twinsnorth49]

Back in my day you could take peanut butter sandwiches to school without risking lives.