Just Trying to Graduate

reblog this and tag it with what you collected as a kid

Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?

Staying up late waiting for the really good shows to come on is more emotionally rewarding than being able to watch whatever you want whenever you want.

Having to be on Channel 3 to play videogames.

Rewinding a VHS tape and watching the characters jump about crazily in reverse to rewatch a show, instead of restarting like a DVD.

Begging your parents to get cable so you can watch high school musical on disney channel and stop being a social outcast at school

Not being able to watch Doctor Who because BBC America only showed the specials and SyFy only played Series 4 on a loop, so having to watch it in pieces on YouTube quickly before YouTube found it and took it down.

Being able to fill my tank for $5. 

Passive-aggressive AIM away messages.

Also? Napster. So much Napster.

Not being able to watch Doctor Who because PBS was running a FUCKING PLEDGE DRIVE, and they moved it to 0200 Monday from 1600 Sunday.

Getting hooked on All Creatures Great and Small (and Peter Davidson as Tristan) as a consequence.

Only being able to watch cartoons on Saturday morning - that animated opening for Soul Train meant they were over for the week!

Missing an episode of a show and not knowing when or even if it would be repeated.

Video rental stores with $50 annual membership fees (on top of rental fees).

Friday Night Videos.

The excitement of being connected to the Real Internet and not just a local BBS.

The pain of having to wait for someone’s really complicated customized myspace page load on a dial-up modem. 

Also that horrible feeling when you hear the VCR make a HORRIBLE noise. You are never watching that tape again and no amount of trying to put the innards of the tape back will save it.

Vampire Clamps.

Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start.

the sound of the computer connecting to the internet scared the shit out of me the first ten times I heard it

Being completely let down by this product

Having to go to the video store and renting a VCR along with whatever VHS movie you wanted to watch on it because VCRs were so expensive.

Breathing in the fumes of your parents getting Leaded gas bc Unleaded was newfangled nonsense.

Having to work out which complicated line of emoticons and song lyrics was the friend you wanted to talk to on msn in the 20 minute slot that you were allowed to use the one clunky pc in the house.

Through the arcane magic of HitClips, you could recreate the experience of having only this one part of a song stuck in your head, only it would be on your OWN terms

Also if you had any more than one or two of the song clip cartridge things attached to the music player at a time, the whole situation would be comically bulky and hard to deal with… it was like the precursor to those people that put way too many charms on their cell phones

Pausing and rewinding casettes so you can write the lyrics down. Pen pals. The feeling of handling your family’s first mobile phone that was big and bulky and probably weight like 0.5kg

Dia projectors at school, dad’s electric typing machine thing that had green screen and saved to floppy discks. Printed and badly translated internet conspiracies friends sent for dad via normal mail since internet was nonexistant behind large cities. First movable modems, the search for good connection hot spot so we could use youtube (only when the weather was nice and we were on top of a hill).

Those fucking goddamn wind jackets everyone had. Home joga videos. Barbies you can take clothes off.

Paying $25 ($40ish today) for a VHS tape that contained two anime episodes.

Physical chain letters. The giant ass computer that could take 5-10 minutes to load pages. Lisa Frank, Lisa Frank everywhere. Nickolodeon was a great network with a huge variety of programs that catered to a wide audience.

Typing in Video-Plus codes into your VCR to record stuff off one of the five free channels you got if you didn’t have satellite. (Sometimes it was only four if you didn’t get the signal in your area).

Having to constantly readjust your external tv aerial to get the best signal in bad weather.

C:\> run.exe

Parking the hard drive.

The Smurfs used to be on for 90 minutes and they were a real cartoon and not that weird computer animation.  Also, the television used to go off at night, there werent 400 channels to find something to watch.

you had to unroll the car window with basically a crank. and you lock the car door with your elbow.

Hoping a radio DJ didn’t interrupt the last 30 seconds of a song you were trying to record on a tape.

Begging my parents to buy me Oregon Trail 5 to play because my old CD-ROM went all buggy, and anyway, we replaced our Windows 95, so bugs shouldn’t be a problem anymore.

It once took me eight months to download a CD’s worth of arcane mp3s. Thanks, Kazaa…

Lunch at the Woolworth counter, right next to the pet department.

Not knowing who was on the other end of the phone before you picked it up. 

Making polite conversation with your friends’ parents when you called their houses.

People avoiding the red M&M’s.

Diving for the radio as fast as you could, tape in hand (or already in the cassette player if you were smart) so you could record your favorite song. Missing the beginning of it anyway.

Flipping over laserdiscs to watch the second half of the movie.

Shaking your Polaroid photos to make them develop faster.

No cell phones 📱

Not being allowed to touch the bag that held my grandfather’s expensive (and large) mobile phone.

Spending every other Friday night in blockbuster.

Being jealous of everyone that had those clear neon blow up chairs.

Blockbuster. The dial up tone. Rewinding cassettes with a number 2 pencil

Silly Bandz and the sacredness of the webkinz toy

1-800-I-FEEL-OK

The sensation of your soul leaving the mortal plane when your portable CD player started to fuck up your disks for no goddamn reason, and the inexplicable ecstasy of finding a hoodie with a huge enough pocket to keep it in.

Pirating movies by renting one from Blockbuster and using two VCRs hooked up to each other to record it onto another VHS tape

Having the url of the game I liked to play on barbie.com on a sticky note stuck to the computer tower so I could type it in exactly like it says and hit enter so maybe, just maybe it would be ready an hour later on the family computer with awful dial up. (Fun fact: I made my tumblr the day my house got DSL, which woud be… 2013)

Getting a video game from blockbuster and furiously trying to finish it before your parents had to return it

Never being able to play on webkinz or club penguin because our computer wouldn't load. At all.

That fish swimming background being more fun than anything else.

coolmathgames.com

That screen on some Mario games on the GameCube where you could move around mario's face. Omg I loved it

Tony hawk pro skater playing ring of fire 🔥

someone draw me a teletubby fighting a boobah 

who remembers the movie osmosis jones 

I can’t believe I actually lived though the full transition from VHS to DVD. Like there are people alive who have never seen a VHS tape….I remember when we were still tryna figure out how the fuck they got a full movie onto a cd. 

How old are you?

I’m 17 and the fact that my little brother uses iPads in elementary school while when I was in first grade getting announcements in color was exciting because in kindergarten they had been in black and white until the tv’s were replaced

I’m 19 and I remember how much I looked forward to visiting Blockbuster every other week when I was little, and the struggle of opening a VHS case but the VHS tape not being inside and having to look everywhere for it and open every other case just to be sure

18, and remember the pain of rewinding a VHS but having to decide between seeing the screen and ruining the movie or making it blue and not knowing when to stop to skip the commercials? Plus everybody going, “Turn it blue or you’ll wreck the tape!” or, “It’ll go faster that way!” but always kind of doubting it

i just remembered that the disney movie g-force exists. the one with all the animated guinea pigs. holy shit. i forgot about it like completely forgot. they played jump by flo-rida like 8 times during that movie

im about to cry it looks even more ridiculous now than it did back then 

sigh this movie

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Brenda Song and Raven Symone run into each other at the gym and exchange numbers while Trace Cryus looks on. June, 2014

MY FUCKIN JAM

Don Bluth only knew how to draw one man, but dammit he wasn’t gonna let that stop him.

I just noticed I never uploaded these.. was done quite a while ago!