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Saw this on another forum and thought I'd bring it over here for a try. A guy on grippermania said he hired an 18 year old girl to do some work for him. She couldn't figure out how to put paper in a typewriter because she had only worked on computers. What do you remember that used to be common or cool or important that isn't even around anymore or has dropped off the cool charts today?

I've got some:

stuff: phones with dials on them
food: fizzies candies
social: women's lib
entertainment: drive-in movies
martial arts: almost all weapons were legal, almost none are now, in many places
fiction: people by and large liked the good guys, not the bad guys

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fiction: people by and large liked the good guys, not the bad guys

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I blame Stone Cold Steve Austin.

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He's long gone too.

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fiction: people by and large liked the good guys, not the bad guys

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I blame Stone Cold Steve Austin.

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1972
The Getaway
Steve McQueen
Ali MacGraw

First time, I believe, for a movie to depict the bad guy "getting away with it."

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Cars: raising the hood and making simple repairs yourself with parts you got at Sears

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I've got some:

phones with dials on them

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Phones with cords

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fizzies candies

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Fozzie Bear

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drive-in movies

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Drive-in restaurants

and...

Pong on black and white TV

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Walkmans. I still have mine somewhere around here actually. Related are cassette tapes for taping your favourite songs so you can listen to them.

Movies. Back in the day, movies like Star Wars and Alien dazzled us with their incredible special effects - I mean lightsabres were just WOW, how DO they pull that off? These days though, there are a lot of movies that are just a huge conglomeration of special effects. They aren't really that 'special' anymore, they're so commonplace. There's no WOW factor.

Similar theme - Computer games. Some truly awesome, revolutionary games were created a decade ago or so. Lucasarts with its X-Wing / TIE Fighter and adventure games, Sierra with their adventure games, Microprose with their simulation games, iD software with their FPS games, to name just a few. If you look around at the games that are available today, none of them really have that WOW factor, at least for me. None of them seem to have anywhere near as much immersion as the old games, despite having much better graphics (which should actually make immersion easier). Doom is a great example. Doom was just mindblowingly awesome. Doom 3 was more of a 'meh, it's okay, done it all before though'.

Ahh, the good old days...

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Fast food: ordering burger, fries, soft drink or applicable items separately

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Fast food: ordering burger, fries, soft drink or applicable items separately

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[censored], when was the last time you went to a fast food emporium? If recently, may I politely (don't wanna get banned! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]) suggest you look beyond the "meal deals" or whatever the planned assortment is called. I do, and I usually make my own assortment. The choices, in some places, is extensive.

But, when straying into these "independent thinker's waters," take heed. You are going to be subjected to the ubiqutous "You want fries with that?"

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Gapping your points.