Be sure to rip the tracks off the side and fold them across each other into a long, useless, boingy thing to play with until you stretched it just a bit too far and it rips. If you know, you know.
Tearing off the edges of the paper from the dot matrix printer when I finished typing a paper in middle school 8th grade was incredibly satisfying. It beat the heck out of using the typewriter in 6th grade. The typewriter frustrated me to tears.
I haven't heard one of those in decades but I can hear it in my head. Super distinctive sound. Oh, you never heard one kid? Imagine a cartoon bird eating corn on the cob super fast, just mowing it down.
@shanester1832, it's such a distinct sound, and again, it means you completed a typically long (10-page) assignment. Ben Burtt, the sound designer for Star Wars, should have a sound clip of that with his other 10,000+ cataloged sounds.
back when i was a kid in the early 80's. i had a 13" tv that wasn't cable ready. so, i had to screw the switch box to my tv so i can use my computer or my Atari 2600. once when i get bored with my computer or the Atari. i reach behind the tv flip the switch & watch some tv.
Im 44 so Iim old enough to remember the old film strip projectors that the teachers would use during science class. Every time the film promectors made a beep, you had to turn the dial to flip to the next film screen shot of whatever subject you were watching about for science class. I miss those old things
I was born in 1971 and had a bicycle with mag wheels and bike pads on the V bars ( handle bars ) and frame pad😮s as well . The 80's were some cool times
@tperson8347 by God it is. Much as the food pyramid and belts failed them, the Disorderlies movie will surely fail to bring modern me the joy it once brought to my 10 yr old self.
The fat boys are back, you can know that they'll never be wack. They have a nice bit in the Sun City protest song. Everyone wanted to rap like them for a bit.
6:17 I felt like I had grown a little when I received a printout like that for homework in the 1st grade, because I had seen older kids with their homework assignments like those printouts, too. The school phased those out in favor of computer printouts because computers were supposed to be "the future".
We had one of those overhead projectors in elementary school well into the late 90’s-early 2000’s. They were loud and they got really hot too because it threw off a lot of heat.
the boom box reminded me of the mighty 690 am radio from san diego, their heavy rotation play darling was Blondie ( the song where the alien eats cars)..
@@scottgeorge4760 my friends older brother worked at radio shack and had all the high tech 80s stereo equipment but they would just play rap through it
When I was a kid, the cable guy installed a clicker box for my dad, which we quickly nicknamed the "Thunderbox" because the clicker box had buttons that made a horrendously loud click-snap. Dad, being a viciously violent channel surfer, would CLICK-SNAP through the channels with that box until we nearly developed PTSD. Rather than pushing the button that coordinated with the channel, dad would sweep the trenches and CLICK-SNAP CLICK-SNAP CLICK-SNAP through every button. Prior to that, I had been the remote control that changed the channels. Mom eventually got so frustrated with dad's CLICK-SNAP channel surfing that she saved up and bought a TV with a remote (silent little buttons) and made the cable guy get rid of the thunderbox. 🤣 At 7:00 we bought that exact furniture set, exact, and nobody was allowed to hold their drinks on the wooden arms or it left water rings on the wood.
4:32 loved The Shamen and Fatboy Slim! 😃 I miss the clocks as well, but these phones do it all and... better 😮 And film and overhead projectors... kids would love to look right into the light while listening to dot matrix printers going bzzzzzz and tearing off the edges ❤ 7:06 add shoulder pads to THOSE 😅😅
That Mongoose looked pretty sweet. I preferred the GT Pro Performer, never had one though. Had a Torker 2/360 AIR, loaded freestyle bike. Had all the pegs and rotor etc, but it was no GT….
Being the tail end of the boomers I remember stuff older than this stuff didn't even have video game consoles at home We used to have to sneek into old pool halls to play pinball machines 5 balls for a dime. our pones were in one place a hallway kitchen or living room and made of black Bakelite. We had three speeds on out record players 33,45 and 78 sometimes 16.Black and white TV's if you were lucky a colour TV in the living room and the old black and white down the basement maybe that wood paneling on the walls and some wild hippy crap or maybe a glow in the dark poster and a lava lamp or unfinished. Calculators were big old mechanicals it was a huge thing when the small pocket calculators came out6 or 7 digits and four functions .We were barely out of the stone age I got to take a nap now.
junkman i never saw that reptillian, maybe it was only on your tv, when i was in grade school i checked a book out and it was called Lizard music, and in the book, the same thing happened to a kid, instead he was watching tv late , and he stumbled upon a channel that showed a bunch of reptilan humanoids? playing music , and i forget what happened in the rest of the book, but i think he had accidentally tuned into another dimension or something i forget
@futuramayeah Victor, an ordinary boy who discovers a hidden world of mysterious lizards playing jazz music on a secret television broadcast. After his parents leave on vacation and his older sister shirks her babysitting duties, Victor stumbles upon strange happenings in his small town. He befriends an eccentric character known as the Chicken Man, and together they unravel the mystery of the lizard musicians. Far out. I bet the author did not abstain from unconventional medications. I did look into the image he showed thinking it was a troll. Look up 'snake head alien' psa.
@tperson8347 I got into records after the fact. .25-.75 cents an album at flea markets & garage sales was a great way to flesh out a collection. They all got water damaged in a 1" flood. Paper warped but play fine. Killed my enthusiasm for the hunt.
@shanester1832 That blows. Stuff like that makes me sick, people's stuff getting ruined. I got a George Jones record where the sleeve was warped, but the record was still fine. I need to go record shopping, it's been such a long time. There was a Doors record in PERFECT condition close to where I live. Still mad at myself for not grabbing it. I do crap like that all the time.
@tperson8347 an issue now is that they've slipped into a desirable collectible mode and are priced as such. For a long stretch, they were people's old junk taking up space and others were switching over to CDs. It was also an era where you had to buy something to hear it, no typing it in and instantly listening to it. In my day if you wanted some 50s Hawaiian music, you had to walk on dirt floored markets and haggle with peasant peddlers for vinyl. Now kids just wanna do tiktok dances, charge they phone and eat microplastics.
@@shanester1832 I still collect physical media. Even VHS still gets me off. Where I go is like a second-hand store for all things media. They've even got some old comics, some posters, and on the rare occasion, musical instruments. I sold a few of my guitar pedals there. They once had a Chips figure still on the card for $10, I couldn't believe it. :) Yet another thing I passed on. 😡
That one thing you showed us was where you could turn the antenna from inside the house they have power that went up to a motor on the antenna pole and turn that dial and it would move the antenna up on the roof
We had one funny teacher who would be showing us math problems on the overhead and then he'd start doing caricatures of the popular kids in class. He was quotable
When we had the tv and the vcr on the cart come into the room it was all chained up. Actual chains and padlocks on it. I also remember those Bible Story books. Always saw them at the doctor's office. My mom actually ordered them. We only got vols. 1 through 5. I still have them in box. I'm missing vol. 4. Don't know what happened to it. Tried look for a replacement online but the only ones I keep finding are the reproductions with new art. It's the same pictures in it but the art has been completely redone. Can't find the original.
The plain cable box. The diddo copier with the purple ink that would give you a minor high. The RF switch with the fragile prongs that would always break off from the screws on the back of the tv. I did not recognize the first item.
Yup I had a all chrome Predator with white mag rims back in the early 90s that thing had no foam protection lol miss that bike I called the damn thing the lightning rod on wheels. It was the best bike I ever owned 😢
I had the complete Bible Stories books. Yes my mom was very Christian and bought my sister and I all things Christian. Even my clothes made me look like a good Christian kid, compliments of K Mart and Gemco
That box on the TV throw me off. A chanal changer? A extremely simple radio? An sort of antenna? I cant remember seeing one of those. Has to be a american thing only 😄😉
The cool people know what that is? 😂 I know what that is! Looks like Wall E, but, way before that! I’ll give you a hint…when that was being pulled out, the projection screen was being pulled down with it…right underneath where we used to pull down the flat map!
By the way....When a Scientist creates a DNA crossed animal ( Glow in the dark mice )..The scientist is not Thier father ..So creating something like Dr Frankenstein created...Dose not make him the monsters father !?!?
6:42 My uncle & aunt had that exact sofa & leg rest. I lost the blaster to my Optimus Prime somewhere under the thing that was never found. 12:49 All t.v. stations legally had to air psa's for x amount of minutes or times a day. Since nobody wanted to watch the psa's, station managers decided to air them during the time when the audience was at time lowest point.
6:12 That paper was great. You could print out the entire code of a program on one continuous page or a banner wishing someone a happy birthday.
Be sure to rip the tracks off the side and fold them across each other into a long, useless, boingy thing to play with until you stretched it just a bit too far and it rips. If you know, you know.
Tearing off the edges of the paper from the dot matrix printer when I finished typing a paper in middle school 8th grade was incredibly satisfying. It beat the heck out of using the typewriter in 6th grade. The typewriter frustrated me to tears.
I haven't heard one of those in decades but I can hear it in my head. Super distinctive sound.
Oh, you never heard one kid? Imagine a cartoon bird eating corn on the cob super fast, just mowing it down.
@shanester1832, it's such a distinct sound, and again, it means you completed a typically long (10-page) assignment. Ben Burtt, the sound designer for Star Wars, should have a sound clip of that with his other 10,000+ cataloged sounds.
back when i was a kid in the early 80's. i had a 13" tv that wasn't cable ready. so, i had to screw the switch box to my tv so i can use my computer or my Atari 2600. once when i get bored with my computer or the Atari. i reach behind the tv flip the switch & watch some tv.
Im 44 so Iim old enough to remember the old film strip projectors that the teachers would use during science class. Every time the film promectors made a beep, you had to turn the dial to flip to the next film screen shot of whatever subject you were watching about for science class. I miss those old things
The Green Machine was so cool because it it didn’t have a steering wheel just those two stick shifts. Fun to drive!
Mine was stolen within a month
I was born in 1971 and had a bicycle with mag wheels and bike pads on the V bars ( handle bars ) and frame pad😮s as well . The 80's were some cool times
@@scottgeorge4760 yes they were Scotty I pine for those days
I was 10. My sister was 5 we had friends up and down the street. So many memories
The Fat boys movie is a classic. Had t thought about that in a long time. I think it was called the Disorderlies.
I've looked that DVD up on ebay more than once. I doubt it will hold up but I'll eventually revisit it.
@@shanester1832
Won't hold up?
Is that a phat joke? :)
@tperson8347 by God it is. Much as the food pyramid and belts failed them, the Disorderlies movie will surely fail to bring modern me the joy it once brought to my 10 yr old self.
The fat boys are back, you can know that they'll never be wack. They have a nice bit in the Sun City protest song. Everyone wanted to rap like them for a bit.
6:17 I felt like I had grown a little when I received a printout like that for homework in the 1st grade, because I had seen older kids with their homework assignments like those printouts, too. The school phased those out in favor of computer printouts because computers were supposed to be "the future".
😂 when you said can you smell the projector I totally could in my head, we used to watch Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
@trtledave3079 the cartoon? Wow, haven't thought of that in years. This one teacher used to show that regularly in 8th grade for some reason.
@shanester1832 Loved that cartoon, it was so ahead of its time with the animation and mature story
Thanks for the walk-back through childhood, buddy. That was actually a treat. I'd forgotten about a lot of that stuff.🤔😎
We had one of those overhead projectors in elementary school well into the late 90’s-early 2000’s. They were loud and they got really hot too because it threw off a lot of heat.
They got really hot, because they threw off alot of heat. :)
Makes sense to me. :)
I was able to acquire one I haven't really messed with it yet but it's in good condition and it's going to be fun when I do 👍
@Joshua-l7g
I really want one of those
@@tperson8347 I got it from my step mom who got it from a school that was closing
@@tperson8347 I got it from my step mom who got it from a school that was closing down
we used to play video games on channel 3.
Gen z- what's a channel 3? is that on tik tok?
Ain't nuthin' gonna be on tik tok soon. Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
Expect in Cleveland or Philadelphia
the boom box reminded me of the mighty 690 am radio from san diego, their heavy rotation play darling was Blondie ( the song where the alien eats cars)..
That's "Rapture."
@@3Storms unh hunh. THX
I used to listen to Ozzy Osborne after school with my friend on his brother's stacked stereo system . His brother worked at a stereo store .
@@scottgeorge4760 my friends older brother worked at radio shack and had all the high tech 80s stereo equipment but they would just play rap through it
When I was a kid, the cable guy installed a clicker box for my dad, which we quickly nicknamed the "Thunderbox" because the clicker box had buttons that made a horrendously loud click-snap. Dad, being a viciously violent channel surfer, would CLICK-SNAP through the channels with that box until we nearly developed PTSD. Rather than pushing the button that coordinated with the channel, dad would sweep the trenches and CLICK-SNAP CLICK-SNAP CLICK-SNAP through every button. Prior to that, I had been the remote control that changed the channels. Mom eventually got so frustrated with dad's CLICK-SNAP channel surfing that she saved up and bought a TV with a remote (silent little buttons) and made the cable guy get rid of the thunderbox. 🤣
At 7:00 we bought that exact furniture set, exact, and nobody was allowed to hold their drinks on the wooden arms or it left water rings on the wood.
I hade the cakster
4:32 loved The Shamen and Fatboy Slim! 😃 I miss the clocks as well, but these phones do it all and... better 😮
And film and overhead projectors... kids would love to look right into the light while listening to dot matrix printers going bzzzzzz and tearing off the edges ❤
7:06 add shoulder pads to THOSE 😅😅
Playing Zork on 5"! Good times...Until Grus ate you!
That Mongoose looked pretty sweet. I preferred the GT Pro Performer, never had one though. Had a Torker 2/360 AIR, loaded freestyle bike. Had all the pegs and rotor etc, but it was no GT….
Gen X computer games prepared us for real life. Like dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. 🤣
I wonder how many gen-Z kids even know how to ride a bike. I can't imagine that it's a lot.
My car's got a stick-shift. I see it as an anti-theft device.
I ride a bike, I’m 14
@@jaydenarchive shouldn't you have a driver license by now?🙄
They can get on a bike but there are no pedals it's all electric 😂
Being the tail end of the boomers I remember stuff older than this stuff didn't even have video game consoles at home We used to have to sneek into old pool halls to play pinball machines 5 balls for a dime. our pones were in one place a hallway kitchen or living room and made of black Bakelite. We had three speeds on out record players 33,45 and 78 sometimes 16.Black and white TV's if you were lucky a colour TV in the living room and the old black and white down the basement maybe that wood paneling on the walls and some wild hippy crap or maybe a glow in the dark poster and a lava lamp or unfinished. Calculators were big old mechanicals it was a huge thing when the small pocket calculators came out6 or 7 digits and four functions .We were barely out of the stone age I got to take a nap now.
It blew my mind several years ago to find out they don't have those overhead projectors in school anymore from my kid.
Ghettobaster or a boom box, and I still have an alarm clock
junkman i never saw that reptillian, maybe it was only on your tv, when i was in grade school i checked a book out and it was called Lizard music, and in the book, the same thing happened to a kid, instead he was watching tv late , and he stumbled upon a channel that showed a bunch of reptilan humanoids? playing music , and i forget what happened in the rest of the book, but i think he had accidentally tuned into another dimension or something i forget
@futuramayeah Victor, an ordinary boy who discovers a hidden world of mysterious lizards playing jazz music on a secret television broadcast. After his parents leave on vacation and his older sister shirks her babysitting duties, Victor stumbles upon strange happenings in his small town. He befriends an eccentric character known as the Chicken Man, and together they unravel the mystery of the lizard musicians.
Far out. I bet the author did not abstain from unconventional medications.
I did look into the image he showed thinking it was a troll. Look up 'snake head alien' psa.
I had half of or experienced most of this stuff as a kid.
I've got a record stand FULL of records. Some need to go. :)
Thanks for the video
@tperson8347 I got into records after the fact. .25-.75 cents an album at flea markets & garage sales was a great way to flesh out a collection.
They all got water damaged in a 1" flood. Paper warped but play fine. Killed my enthusiasm for the hunt.
@shanester1832
That blows. Stuff like that makes me sick, people's stuff getting ruined.
I got a George Jones record where the sleeve was warped, but the record was still fine.
I need to go record shopping, it's been such a long time.
There was a Doors record in PERFECT condition close to where I live.
Still mad at myself for not grabbing it.
I do crap like that all the time.
@tperson8347 an issue now is that they've slipped into a desirable collectible mode and are priced as such. For a long stretch, they were people's old junk taking up space and others were switching over to CDs.
It was also an era where you had to buy something to hear it, no typing it in and instantly listening to it.
In my day if you wanted some 50s Hawaiian music, you had to walk on dirt floored markets and haggle with peasant peddlers for vinyl. Now kids just wanna do tiktok dances, charge they phone and eat microplastics.
@@shanester1832
I still collect physical media.
Even VHS still gets me off.
Where I go is like a second-hand store for all things media.
They've even got some old comics, some posters, and on the rare occasion, musical instruments.
I sold a few of my guitar pedals there.
They once had a Chips figure still on the card for $10, I couldn't believe it. :)
Yet another thing I passed on. 😡
That one thing you showed us was where you could turn the antenna from inside the house they have power that went up to a motor on the antenna pole and turn that dial and it would move the antenna up on the roof
I used to do my moms copying for school on a hand cranked ditto machine. My mom would let me use the inserts as tracing paper
That’s our old couch and foot rest
We had one funny teacher who would be showing us math problems on the overhead and then he'd start doing caricatures of the popular kids in class. He was quotable
We played karateka. And yes I had most of what you showed.
Speaking of smell dont forget scratch and sniff stickers or markers.
When we had the tv and the vcr on the cart come into the room it was all chained up. Actual chains and padlocks on it.
I also remember those Bible Story books. Always saw them at the doctor's office. My mom actually ordered them. We only got vols. 1 through 5. I still have them in box. I'm missing vol. 4. Don't know what happened to it. Tried look for a replacement online but the only ones I keep finding are the reproductions with new art. It's the same pictures in it but the art has been completely redone. Can't find the original.
Oh it's a cable box!... ours was digital with up and down buttons!😂
Modern sofa 😂glued and stapled together 😂 guaranteed to break in a week 😂 and only 1000 dollars😂😂😂😂😂
The plain cable box. The diddo copier with the purple ink that would give you a minor high. The RF switch with the fragile prongs that would always break off from the screws on the back of the tv. I did not recognize the first item.
Yup I had a all chrome Predator with white mag rims back in the early 90s that thing had no foam protection lol miss that bike I called the damn thing the lightning rod on wheels. It was the best bike I ever owned 😢
What Gen Z Stands for:
Gen X
Gen Y (Millennial)
Gen Z
13:09 needs to be timestamped forever.
9:50 - Mymother had gotten that full set. She's religious. Me and my brother had to hear those stories get read to us all the time.
The kid in the thumbnail isn’t gen z, he’s gen alpha
We had that exact cable box in the early 80s.
We had the HDTV (Heavy Damn TV) back in the day.
The z in gen z stands for zzzzzzzzz😴😴😴😴cos they asleep 😂😂😂
Looks like some fella by the name of Tupac Shakur checked that Young actors workbook back in February 1985….
I had the complete Bible Stories books. Yes my mom was very Christian and bought my sister and I all things Christian. Even my clothes made me look like a good Christian kid, compliments of K Mart and Gemco
RF Modulator
That box on the TV throw me off. A chanal changer? A extremely simple radio? An sort of antenna?
I cant remember seeing one of those. Has to be a american thing only 😄😉
Mongooses had the lightest frame. if you were going to take a jump off your bike you wanted to do it on one of those
There is an awesome old comic old Testament bible that I had. The art was from the 1940s or something
Junkman, I was like you suggested, jealous of a neighbor kid who had a green machine.
Have you ever seen the adult sized green machines/ drift trikes?
Yep looks cool
The cool people know what that is? 😂 I know what that is! Looks like Wall E, but, way before that! I’ll give you a hint…when that was being pulled out, the projection screen was being pulled down with it…right underneath where we used to pull down the flat map!
Junk man some them pics from Reddit. I know becuz i am on reddit LOL
Ahhhhh brings back memories of 1984
Walk around?? Junkman what does that mean? What is this "walk around"you speak of?? You're scaring me...😱
I Knew what almost all of those were, and I'm a Gen Z because my mom and Dad had all of those Electronics when I was growing up
LOL my dad wouldn't hook up my nes to the wood console TV because he thought it would mess up the tv.
Many of parents feared it would burn a image into the screen. It would but it would have to stay on one image for days
If you set your game system to channel 4, you could use the cheat codes. ;)
By the way....When a Scientist creates a DNA crossed animal ( Glow in the dark mice )..The scientist is not Thier father ..So creating something like Dr Frankenstein created...Dose not make him the monsters father !?!?
9:14 Tupac Shakur?
😂
This was your pure "memberberry" episode.
Be careful or you'll turn into Dave Sundstrom or Dan Monroe. But then again, pity subs are still subs.
That brown box with single dial nob🤔 is that an American device 🤔
Yep
@@ThatJunkman I wonder if 🇬🇧 had a similar device 🤔
Is it a TV reception selector junkman 🤔🤔🤔🤔
I didn't get a heart Darin WTF? You know I love you guys
6+4=7..
Great video, Junkman. My mom always had the Erasermate pens and good mints in her purse.
Good mints. :)
@9:40 I read them at the laundry mat 😅
6:42 My uncle & aunt had that exact sofa & leg rest. I lost the blaster to my Optimus Prime somewhere under the thing that was never found.
12:49 All t.v. stations legally had to air psa's for x amount of minutes or times a day. Since nobody wanted to watch the psa's, station managers decided to air them during the time when the audience was at time lowest point.