What would you include in your list?

Sorry. Great question. I’m sure there will be tons of answers. But angst over pop “culture” just ain’t my thing.

That is a funny list!

“Where’s a payphone? I have to answer this page. ”

You would get up extra early on Saturday to watch cartoons.

If you missed a movie – you had to wait until they played it on a network channel, which you could listen in stereo by tuning in the correct radio station.

Cable boxes rested on top of the ginormous TV and you had to get up to change the channel – which clacked loudly.

You heard a song on the radio first instead of seeing the video.

School House Rock.

After school specials.

We did sit ups not crunches.

You would call for the time and temperature.

We had a set of encyclopedias that spanned an entire book shelf.

Microwave popcorn was kept in the freezer.

My first joystick only had one button and my first GameBoy was in black and white.

The card catalog and the Dewey decimal system.

@SimpleSimonette I remember situps. What century? Oh, and welcome to Fluther.

I grew up mainly in the 80s.

No cable TV, no remote control. My mom would call me out of my bedroom to change the damn channel on the TV in the living room, just so she didn’t have to get up! No microwave til the late 80s, so no microwave popcorn. Making popcorn was sort of a big deal, so you didn’t have it at home very often. Hardly anyone had a computer in their home, but there were a few at school. No such thing as a cell phone. Very rich people might have had a car phone, which was actually attached to the car and required a special antennae. You had to make sure you always carried enough change to use a pay phone. That reminds me: no debit cards! You pretty much always had to carry some cash.

I played vinyl records, including 45s bought for the single, and cassette tapes were just coming into vogue. Boomboxes were the thing to have, and a Sony Walkman (which played cassettes on the go) if you were lucky. CDs and DVDs were unheard of.

@augustlan Talk about remote control!

Party lines.
I am 53 now, grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, used to drive me crazy as a kid when you would pick up the phone to call a friend and the party line person was babbling away for an hour. Bah! lol

Door to door salesmen were everywhere, Fuller Brush guys, scissor sharpener guy, the Kirby vacuum guy and a whole list of peddlers that no longer exist.
Always some salesman at your door.

Anonymous prank calls were fun before caller id.

@Coloma One of my first jobs was as a Filter Queen vacuum cleaner salesman. I sold Great Books of the Western World too.

I was a teen in the nineties, so I’ll use that. Except as a teen, I was not a social person. I am not one now either, nor shall I be in 300 years after I rule everything. And that I shall.
I did not give much fuck about technology’s advent, or what was in, or not cool anymore. plus that whole list in the details is based off of not having the Internet, except number 10

So this list comes from someone who spent all her time playing games, not doing good in school and climbing on church roofs and billboards.

I WAS ALL ASSASSIN’S CREED BEFORE IT WAS ANYTHING. Heathens.

Mortal Kombat. This game was revolutionary. It changed the face of gaming…by destroying your characters to no end when you won the fight.

…yet, we lived in an age of controversy. The Super Nintendo version had the blood taken out of the game. I’m just glad, for once, that my dad was poor, and couldn’t buy me that atrocity. Arcades for the WIN, man!

The Simpsons was at its peak. Family Guy is way more offending than the Simpsons ever was…but then, The Simpsons weren’t trying to be offending.

Killer Instinct; the game for people who didn’t know how to play games. Just mash some buttons. Fuck you, Street Fighter! And Mortal Kombat. ’‘points’’ And fuck j000000000. ULTRAAAA ULTRAA ULTRA…

Listening to the radio for hours on end with the hopes to catch a song you really liked, if you didn’t own the album, which you usually didn’t, if it was a new release.
What if God was one of us…just some stranger on the bus…without a smaaaartphoooone…

Dragonlance fantasy novels. Or at least, whichever ones were writ in the nineties.

Grunge music. Note; Smashing Pumpkins is not grunge.
Also, Nine Inch Nails. Industrial, hella yeah.

Beavis & Butthead. Fucking loved that show. I own the three box sets, and I love them to hell. But they were still funnier back then than now. You know, pop culture and shit.
Lol…I said shit.

Xena Warrior Princess. I really shouldn’t have to say anything else, but I will add, I wish my name was Gabrielle.

Cargo pants. Those big baggy pants with all the pockets on the sides. I always loved those, and if I was some kinda gangster from the 90’s, I would totally sport that shit. I actually own a cargo skirt though. I’m serious, those exist. Shut up, they do.

Slurpees.
I know those still exist, but like slasher movies were only good in the eighties, slurpees were only good in the nineties. By mixing them together.

The only way to get porn was to buy a magazine, or stumble across some kid who wanted to impress you by showing you the one he stole from his dad. Gladly, I only got interested in porn when the Internet was starting to get all epic up in this bitch. plus that kid should just have stole his dad’s beer and given it to me, fuck porn

Bush X. Whatever the fuck that was.

The Rona at Night radio show. ProTip; don’t call in if you have problems with your vagina. She’ll just tell you to fuck off and see a doctor. Like Fluther.

Backstreets Boys; I love that one video where they’re all Goth and one of them wears an Alice Cooper hat. Viva Foreveeeer…

GamePro video game magazine ruled the stands. ProTip; press B to jump, you dumb bastard. The only way to figure everything out on Final Fantasy VI if you weren’t willing to do it yourself was to wait for the next issue to give you the next quarter of its randomly selected walkthrough. Plus, RPG Realm. And The Sports Page. I always skipped it. But other than Gamefan, it’s the only magazine I know that ever had special section for certain game genres. Better have fucking had an RPG section…also, all hail Slasher Quan!

Slangs. The 90’s rule. They rule.

They rule.

Hmm, US first world woes of the sixties and seventies from a child’s perspective…
* The Wizard of Oz is on tonight, and we only have a black and white TV.
* I’d like to channel-surf, but that means sitting in front of the television and turning the knob.
* My friend and I can’t attend the same school because she is black and I am white.
* Why do girls have to wear dresses to school?
* It’s over 90F outside, and the school has no central AC.
* On road trips, being jostled around in the car because interstates were still few and far between. Plus, there weren’t seat belt laws. I don’t think car seats for children existed yet either.
* It took forever to talk Mom into buying Pop Tarts and Tang.
* Straws would get soggy and stop working because they were made out of paper.
* Divorce was unheard of, even if one partner was abusive.
* Many parents didn’t educate their children on sex, or just gave the minimal information. It was a taboo topic. We learned about it from our peers.
* Having to lick stamps. When you are pasting them in a Green Stamp collection book in order to save up for something in their catalog, it takes a lot of saliva.
* Milk/dairy products were delivered to the house and left in an insulated box by the doorstep. If you forget to bring it inside…whoops!
* We used to be able to eat any Halloween goodies given out by neighbors. Then came the razor in the apple incident. From then on, fruit was tossed, and all homemade items were considered potentially poisoned.

@Coloma Yeah, the door-to-door sales reps. When the Avon Lady stopped by, that was a big deal. Mom probably still has a few of those little white plastic-cased lipstick samples in the house somewhere.

@Pied_Pfeffer Oh man…my mother and her friend were Avon addicts….I still remember some of their products too. Those funky marbled green vases and basins that were full of buybble bath or something. haha

Oh Avon… My stepmother always bought Avon and she bought me some of their perfume. I wore it to school and everyone kept saying ‘Can you smell petrol?’ Never wore that scent again!