Pepsi Clear, Green River, Pop Rocks, Dr. Demento, Break Dancing, New Wave, (Terms like the Stoners, the Breakers, the Preps, the Jocks) (Cars like Yugo, Pinto, King Cobra, Maverick, Arrow, Gremlin and Pacer) when cable first came about, when there was no internet but there where bbs to dial into (AOL, Prodigy and Compuserve were the only services and you could not communicate with any other service from one to the other) 64k and 9600buad was impressive, Pong was awesome, they built a space shuttle and damn it flew, ICBM was common talk, cashiers could add, it did not take a computer to fix a car, tp-ing a house was not a crime, could crank call without then calling you back, police were freindly, McDonalds was a treat not a food group, you actually had to do something wrong to be sued, stupid people were just that, you knew who lived by you, you left your windows open and keys in the car.
electro ambient glacial coolness, lava lamps, bean bag chairs, psychodelic posters and clothing (other then tie die shirts, as in carnaby street). MELLOWNESS! and mellowness being what we were about! immagination and using it. treasures artisticly crafted from junk. (and NOT about trying to con a bunch of little green pieces of paper either!) informal coed skinnidipping in rural but otherwise public places. streakers. 103 baud dial up bbs's for sure. not everyone having cable. even when there wasn't yet such a thing as cable (tv)! my first computer that worked, an ohio scientific c1p. when computer stores were places nerds hung out to play text based star trek and bizdroids hadn't yet discouvered or addopted pc's! the s100 bus BEFORE ibm jumped in the game and chainged all the rules with its isa buss. "and it's chin up me boys, never doubt never fuss, when you're intigratin systems on the s100 bus" there was even a (filk) song! buchla and paia analog synthasizer module kits, before digital sampling or even the arp oddesy and later fairlight 9000. coffee houses with open mike hours, filled with the smoke of incense, and perhapse other things. with rooms TO draw/paint/scribble on the walls! and everyone's 'art' hanging on the walls in the rest of the place. spotlights made out of 3lb coffee cans! bongo's. and tamborenes. and buskers who didn't give you dirty looks if you couldn't afford to give them anything. and yes, putting flowers in each other's hair. =^^= .../\...
I miss roller rinks, when MTV actually played music vidoes and sunbathing by my pool without having to worry about the dangers of ultraviolet rays.
I miss Pepsi clear because you could make fun of those who bought it. I miss the Yugo because it was the only car I knew that to add a radio you had to mount it under the dash, lol no factory spot. I miss break dancing because I actually could do it, not look like Im having some sort of medical problem.
every city worth calling one had p.c.c. trolleys, those kind of 50s streamlined ones, and often a few older ones with the wooden mutilfold doors and the wooden step that flopped down to get on and off with. and of course you could get there on trains and bussess and there were local ones that would stop everywhere as well as ones with names that went through. then there was an era that ended just one little decade before i was born, when there were interurbans (trolleys that ran between towns just like the big railroads) and narrow gauge (where there wasn't the economic base or whatever other reason, not to build the railroad full size). in a perfect world we would have already had computers when i was born and we'd still have interurbans and narrow gauge now. like i guess in some parts of europe you do, and had lots of in the 70s and 80s. though even there there was more before computers. =^^= .../\...
