shakin steak wrote :

Getting up and walking across the room to change the channel
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being the  remote for your parents yeah

echidna64 wrote :

I remember wondering things for days... how the universe worked, how to invent something, etc. 

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I know. If you needed information on something it was far more laborious a task than it would ever be today. You had book stores, libraries, the encyclopedia, and teachers/loved ones. That was it.

I do think that we were more content with "not knowing" then as well. It was just a fact of life that some things were going to be difficult to find out, and we were content to not bother if it were something not of the utmost importance.

echidna64 wrote :

Calling a girl's home phone number and then her dad picks up the line.

Also, having to write down everyone's phone number in an address book. 

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Yeah that's a big one. I don't remember people's phone numbers like I used to. Even had trouble dialing my wife when using the house phone haha due to storing numbers as contacts on my cell phone. 

vkimo wrote :

I got one,  seeing how a picture came out only when you got the envelope back from the drug store photo lab. 

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Unless you had a Polaroid instant camera. Taking out your photo... flapping it around in the air, waiting for it to show up.

These days kids just don't seem as imaginative. When we were kids we played games with limited or minimalistic graphics and we sort of had to go with the flow and pretend what we were doing. Nowadays kids are accustomed to these highly detailed graphics which leaves nothing to the imagination or play of it. Also it's like kids don't even play with toys anymore they just fiddle around on phones. Takes a lot out of the childhood.

When I have kids, you bet I'm going to ban the use of smart phones and let them grow up on NES/SNES until they get much older. Although not too much games though. There'll be lots of books and reading involved too!

^ That's kind of what I meant with my "joy of outdoors" post. Kids would rather play video games and mess around on their cell phones indoors than play outdoors.

I plan to raise my daughter on the SNES so much so she'll think the N64 I get her is the latest in gaming. I just hope she can find friends as she grows up that are real kids and not miniature teenagers.

vkimo wrote :

I plan to raise my daughter on the SNES so much so she'll think the N64 I get her is the latest in gaming. I just hope she can find friends as she grows up that are real kids and not miniature teenagers.
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Yeah. "Actual" kids are becoming a thing of the past. Just keep the social media/phone use to a minimum. I blame those two things for a lot. Just a change in culture that seems to be stealing the youth from our children.