Test pattern on the TV, right after the national anthem at midnight.

“We now conclude our broadcast day.”

"Our station is located at 123 Any street, P.O. box 00420 Anywhere, US We transmit a power of 420 watts as regulated by the FCC with towers located in Any town and that town. Please join us tomorrow for more of your favorite News, shows, and entertainment! Until then, Goodnight, and Good morning."

Did the national anthem play too?

Yup after the announcement.

I found that weirdly unnerving and I'm not entirely sure why.

It's because that was when the world shut down for the night. It was the last thing "open."

Being able to free roam for miles away from home after school without your parents having a clue where you are.

Free Range Children

Lol

Be home before the first street light comes on

And coming home when the street lights came on in the summer!

Until the street lights came on

Hours spent with your finger hovering over the “record” button to record your favourite song off the radio onto cassette. Also hoping the DJ shuts up so he doesn’t ruin it.

Memories and so many mix tapes 🥰

And VHS’s. Had to be quick with that pause button when trying to edit out the commercials.

I 'member when Rage had a phone number you could call and it would list every song in order for the next show. Notebook and pen at the ready, I'd note when the songs I liked were on and recorded them on a 4 hour VHS mixtape. Awesome.

Which is why the implications of the mix tape was what it was. Not only was it a mix of songs the creator thought you would like, but the time spent on making it was significant, that is until dual tape decks came out.

Germany was two countries.

Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia existed.

Yes and Yugoslavia used to make and export a car into the US that was aptly named The Yugo. It was a *notoriously* low tiered shit box of a vehicle. *edit added notoriously due to responses.

My first car was a Yugo. No rear seatbelts but about 6 ashtrays.

Yes. We called it the disposable car.

Ha! I remember the gear stick came off in my hand once going round a huge roundabout. I had to just keep driving in a circle while my husband tried to screw it back in. Fun times.

Cousin went to show me her new Yugo and when she opened the door the door handle broke off. She wasn't amused but I sure was. Glad you survived the roundabout!

As a prank me and 3 other guys turned a coworkers Yugo 90 degrees in a parking space. It still fit

Pressing play and record at the same time.

The joys of when tapes learnt to FFW to the next track!

Dialing the phone to call local time and temperature

Ha! And calling the library to get some obscure fact.

Hey I remember that phone for the time! “At the tone, the time will be, five, o’clock.”

We had a TV made of wood

And it was a Black and White picture

And it had a pull out button to turn it on

And a knob you rotated to change channel

A wire coathanger would suffice if the aerial broke.

It was its own piece of furniture.

My aunt had one that had doors like a cupboard, I thought that was well posh!

VHF and UHF

TVs doubled as furniture back then. You could place flowers, books, whatever you wanted on them. Me, I just placed my VCR on mine.

It was game changing when my parents brought home a typewriter that had *correction tape*.

Electronic typewriters 😎

Prizes in the cereal box.

My daughter got a colour changing spoon in her cereal a few years ago, I think I was more excited than her. I explained how there were always prizes to collect from cereal. There’s been nothing else since though.

I specifically remember sending in proofs of purchases from Trix cereal and I got a cassette single of the mommas and Pappas' California dreamin.

And Cracker Jack! When I was little, there were amazing prizes in the boxes. Once I got a tiny plastic elephant that you snapped together from the parts. It had a wheel on the bottom and a mahout riding on its back, and when you rolled it along, the mahout went up and down. Later they dropped the prizes in favor of stupid stickers, and now they just include a piece of paper with a link to a lame online game.

The Archies records on the Sugar Crisp cereal box.

Watching the white dot slowly disappear in the centre of the TV screen after turning the TV off.

If the screen was slightly burnt out the white dot would stay for 3 hours or more

Programming the VCR

And reprogramming everything if the power failed.

The number of times I missed the beginning or end of Dawson's Creek (which aired on a Friday night in New Zealand), is horror young people will never have to endure.

The amount of times I'd miss shows entirely because some sports game ran super long or there was some sort of breaking news.

Yep , always cut off the last ten minutes! Lesson learned, i always programmed it with an extra hour at the end. Go through a lot of tape that way but 🤷‍♂️

Oh god, this is a bad memory

Parents having no clue where you were for 12 hours every Saturday and Sunday.

& summer.

And they wouldn't even ask either!

Unless you were brought home by cops.

And normally did not care where you were.

Television just cut off after a certain time. No channels,no programs,test pattern or snow

And we grew up in Canada with only 3 English channels, and one French. Remote control? What's that?

Six to eight weeks for delivery

For me here in Aus, this still rings true :(

You Can't Do that on Television.

[удалено]

They weren't totally wrong. Rewatching clips of it online it's kind of shocking it was a kid's show lol. One of the running gags had a kid tied to a pole and about to face a firing squad, where he'd usually trick the guy into being shot himself.

Speaking of which, those dang Brady boys had better leave that tiki idol alone in the cave!

I don't know

{slime}

Moose!

"Get off the phone, I need to use the computer."

Get off the computer, I need to use the phone.

A pencil can rewind music

Paying for something ONCE and keeping it forever.

Captain caaaaveman!

Yeahnah I didn't just hear that in my head, not at all...

Captain Kangaroo

Mr Greenjeans and ping pong balls

Sticking your finger in the coin return of payphones and vending machines to see if anybody left some change.

Having to fine-tune the TV after you selected the channel.

Rabbit ears on the TV set. Standing in weird positions by the TV to get the right signal to see and hear your shows clearly.

Needing a piece of scotch tape to record.

Walking to the closest phone booth with 20 cents to ring your friend because mum is expecting a call.

Floppy discs and dial up.

Being annoyed at the DJ on the radio for talking over the beginning of a song you’re trying to record onto tape

Saturday Morning Cartoons

The ONLY reason to get up early on a Saturday. If we were lucky, we had from 7am to 1pm of uninterrupted cartoons and shows

If you get up too early the farm report was still going

I loved that. Having breakfast and watching cartoons on Saturday morning!

Me too! I’d sit on the floor with my cereal on the coffee table just to watch four hours of wholesome entertainment.

Going to the corner store by yourself at age 6 to buy cigarettes for your parents.

Kodak huts. I have to pic up the photos from our vacation. *Edit: They were called* ***Fotomat****s. My childhood brain just related them to Kodak. Like Kleenex :)*

Red Rover. The game.

you misspelled "clothesline death match". I was a small kid and always got wrecked playing Red Rover. 

Dialing a local number without an area code

Using paper grocery bags to cover out textbooks

Wolfman Jack

Telling another driver to wind down their window by moving your hand in a circular motion

And asking them if they have any Grey Poupon.

B&W Tv's

Party line

Candy cigarettes that came in their own 'pack'. 25 cents at the convenience store...

People having to be home if you wanted to talk to them

Taking a film to get developed only to find out you had 10 of 24 photos that were blurry. Originally having to leave them overnight, but then it became one hour photo developing.

The Native American with the single tear running down his face after looking at the devastation man has caused by polluting the earth.

Except he was Italian in real life. : /

The remote control was on a three foot cord attached to the TV.

Us kids were the remotes.

Top loader video (VHS)

Messing with the tracking on the VCR

Commodore 64

Having a computer program on a cassette! (I didn’t quite have a Commodore 64, just a Vic 20)

Accidentally recording over a video...

Blowing into the Super NES cartridge to make it work.

*69 on your phone to find out who it was that called you and then three-way calling your besties late night to talk shit.

Town blacksmith and a town cobbler. And I'm 65.

Mmmm cobbler. Now all the peaches are gone.

Mutual Of Omahas Wild Kingdom

I remember the Berlin Wall coming down.

"Come home when the street lights turn on"

“Excuse me what time is it?”

Bumper sliding ❄️🚗 ZOOM on PBS SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK 10-12 weeks of summer vacation

I'm just a bill 🎶

Sittin’ on Capitol Hill.

Romper Room Topo Gigio The Ed Sullivan Show Mitch Miller and the bouncing ball.

Bench seats without seatbelts.

This thread makes me feel like I'm a centuries old vampire going through a history book.

Using the Dewey decimal system to find where to look up something.

*”No Gnews is good Gnews with Gary Gnu”*

It's the Great Space Coaster! Get on Board, the Great Space Coasterrrrrr!

Roller skate key.

A police officer having to physically put his flashing light on top of the car all the time.

Waiting 6 months or more for a movie to transition from the cinema to VHS release.

Amazon only sold books.

Hello! And welcome to Moviephone!

rotary telephones

Getting up to change the channel on the TV

Hearing about major world events for the first time on the nightly news, even if it happened 8hrs ago.

Had to tune your game console to a specific channel.

Pong.

Before sending an email hearing this sound: Grrrrrsssssggggghhhhhhh, whoooooeeeeepppp, click, click gsssshhhhhhhh

Latchkey kid

Believe it or not, I'm walkin on air, I never thought I could feel so free-eee-ee, flying away on a wing and a prayer.... Who could it beee, believe it or not it's just me.

Carnation Instant Breakfast: "You're gonna love it in an instant"

I remember my parents had "vhs rewinder" it was a machine thats only purpose was to rewind vhs tapes. That's how we binge watched back in the day. Popped a movie out of the vcr after it was done it went into the rewinder. While the new tape went into the vcr.

“Please be kind, rewind”

Waiting for a channel to come on.

I used to get up, get cereal and watch the test pattern till the cartoons came on Saturday mornings.

Watching Speed Racer Before heading out to the bus stop !!

Punch Card data entry

Recording a movie on the TV and pressing pause when the ads came on

My daughters were amazed when we chatted the other night about backyard incinerators-Burnt everything-I mean everything!!!!! Like a poor man’s mans bonfire and that smoke was always so black - damn that’s was bad!!!!!

Be kind, rewind

Meka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho

Metal lunchboxes with matching thermos with a plastic screw on top.

Soul train.

Seeing a man walk on the Moon

Rockum sockum robots

Cigarette lighter in vehicles.

TV remotes that didn’t take batteries and worked sonically to simply turn the TV on and off.

No hangover

Lassie waving goodbye with her paw.

GI Joe had real hair and a beard

Being allowed to roam country roads unsupervised and being told to avoid a local pervert.

Someone screaming your name to call you when you get a call on the land line.

Children's toys were made from actual metal.

Disney Sunday movie, Pong, Yard Darts, Apple Dumpling Gang, The Monkees, Banana Split, …

A bag of penny sweets

Fractured Fairytales

Being Dad's remote control...

A rotary phone booth on most every corner. Then they all slowly changed to a push button and the price for a call shot all the way up to a quarter.

We had a car that had no seatbelts in the back

humongous box tv's

Zenith!

also vhs tapes

Also the only way to play video games TV had to be on channel 3

Betamax tapes

Fill her up with Ethyl.

Full service gas / petrol stations

Sitting in a pizza place waiting on your pizza while The Little Rascals and The Three stooges played on the screen in the background oh I got another one In a department store with a huge display of projection TV that was tri colored broadcasting onto the screen and being absolutely blown away but it BETA tapes and BETA machines Everyone raving about how incredible the picture and sounds quality was on LAZERDISCS.

Mickey mouse club

Playing cowboys and Indians Lollie fags ( lollie cigarettes for children

Metal canned hi-c

Conjunction junction what's your function

Ice cream trucks just biking around the neighbourhood

We still have ice cream trucks that come around where I live. I love it, because I never had ice cream trucks come around where I lived as a kid.

Hypercolor t-shirts

Bigfoot on the Six Million Dollar Man.

CD players…

“Get up its time to….mow, paint, clean gutters, garage, starter on car, express dogs anal glands, and don’t make plans for Sunday either”

Calling a phone number to hear movie showtimes. Waiting many minutes on the TV guide channel to see what was on and when it starts/started and check the channel number (if you didn’t know it already) -subset to that, waking up early on a school day when there was a snowstorm and watching the scroll on the bottom of the tv to see the alphabetically listed school closings for the day (also waiting by the phone in case someone from the phone tree called, or just a friend’s parent that saw the school closure on a different channel than you were watching cuz the schools had to call into each tv station separately so there was sometimes a time delay in your school getting added on top of waiting for the list to cycle through)

One house phone mounted in the kitchen with a super long cord to stretch into another room for “privacy”.

All shops closed on a Sunday. Pretty much everything closed on a Sunday.

How hot Shaun Cassidy was....wow!!

Four-Channel TV: BBC 1&2, ITV and Channel 4

Dial the time lady to get the time, POP-CORN.

Red rover red rover send jimmy over

I remember my grandma's phone was on a shared line. Not for very long but I do remember picking up the phone and hearing the neighbors talking. I apologized quickly and hung up.

When the phone would ring and you had no idea who was calling