<table id="post3118402" class="tborder" width="100%" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td class="alt1" id="td_post_3118402" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(9, 37, 54);">I got this from a friend thought it would make a good discussion. (and when i look at my daughter i think about it) thought i'd post it here. (1976 here!)
I had a chat with some friends about this recently, I'm not sure if I'm just biased or that this actually seems like the best decade to have been born in when it comes to your childhood.
If you were born in these years, you probably remember going from watching movies on TV to the amazement of your first VCR, then DVD and online streaming.
You went from vinyl to audio cassettes to CDs to mp3s. You grew up around computers so you weren't technophobic like older generations and were more appreciative of the new technology than younger generations are.
If you were born in these years, you had a good mix between the parents that really didn't give a crap from earlier generations and the helicopter parents of later generations. Your parents (assuming they were GOOD parents, kind of a prerequisite) probably had a good mix between being actively interested in your life and knowing when to back the ____ off.
Movies and TV shows started to be geared towards younger kids in a much stronger way. Star Wars, The Goonies, Rambo, John Hughes' stuff when you were a bit older, etc. I could literally list off hundreds of big movies from my childhood that are still regularly referenced today. As for TV, as much as TV sucks, when was the last time you tried to watch ____ with your kids on Saturday mornings? Saturday mornings suck ____ing ass nowadays. Back then, Saturday mornings were a ____ing event.
Video games were the ____ing ____. Kids born in those years went from Atari to Nintendo to 16-bit systems and onwards and upwards. Think about the first video game system you had as a kid and the most current one you own now. That's a ____ing insane amount of progress in such a short time. Computers were the same thing, I'm sure loads of you guys remember playing Oregon Trail in your school's computer lab and now you're talking with strangers and a professional sports commentator/comedian on a regular basis. That's pretty ____ing ridiculous. Kids of younger generations don't remember the dark ages of the pre-Internet era, kids from these years remember them very clearly and it gives you a nice mix of growing up with the technology so that it's second-nature while also making you appreciate how great it can be.
You could actually enjoy junk food! Going to the local convenience store with five bucks in your pocket meant unadulterated indulgence without any of the bull____ shoved down kids' throats today. There also weren't that many fat kids, oddly enough.
I'm not trying to make this a "these kids today don't appreciate anything" rant, I'm also trying to prevent this from sounding overly sentimental.
Granted, the 80s materialism definitely trickled down to us (see my Reagan reference there? That was awesome!) and we were all caught up in that anti-USSR propaganda as kids (even up here in Canada) because of the WWF, Red Dawn, all kinds of wacky stuff.
It's just a really interesting time frame when you look back on it. Feel free to support or counter my points with a good-natured discussion.
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Google killed wonder. nobody "wonders" anymore. if they do wonder about anything they Google it and instantly have a definition of it, a Wikipedia article about it, any recent news stories about it, a million pictures of it, a message board with people talking/_____ing about it, and probably a video of somebody ____ing it.
we are the last generation to know what it is like not to have that at our fingertips
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I had a chat with some friends about this recently, I'm not sure if I'm just biased or that this actually seems like the best decade to have been born in when it comes to your childhood.
If you were born in these years, you probably remember going from watching movies on TV to the amazement of your first VCR, then DVD and online streaming.
You went from vinyl to audio cassettes to CDs to mp3s. You grew up around computers so you weren't technophobic like older generations and were more appreciative of the new technology than younger generations are.
If you were born in these years, you had a good mix between the parents that really didn't give a crap from earlier generations and the helicopter parents of later generations. Your parents (assuming they were GOOD parents, kind of a prerequisite) probably had a good mix between being actively interested in your life and knowing when to back the ____ off.
Movies and TV shows started to be geared towards younger kids in a much stronger way. Star Wars, The Goonies, Rambo, John Hughes' stuff when you were a bit older, etc. I could literally list off hundreds of big movies from my childhood that are still regularly referenced today. As for TV, as much as TV sucks, when was the last time you tried to watch ____ with your kids on Saturday mornings? Saturday mornings suck ____ing ass nowadays. Back then, Saturday mornings were a ____ing event.
Video games were the ____ing ____. Kids born in those years went from Atari to Nintendo to 16-bit systems and onwards and upwards. Think about the first video game system you had as a kid and the most current one you own now. That's a ____ing insane amount of progress in such a short time. Computers were the same thing, I'm sure loads of you guys remember playing Oregon Trail in your school's computer lab and now you're talking with strangers and a professional sports commentator/comedian on a regular basis. That's pretty ____ing ridiculous. Kids of younger generations don't remember the dark ages of the pre-Internet era, kids from these years remember them very clearly and it gives you a nice mix of growing up with the technology so that it's second-nature while also making you appreciate how great it can be.
You could actually enjoy junk food! Going to the local convenience store with five bucks in your pocket meant unadulterated indulgence without any of the bull____ shoved down kids' throats today. There also weren't that many fat kids, oddly enough.
I'm not trying to make this a "these kids today don't appreciate anything" rant, I'm also trying to prevent this from sounding overly sentimental.
Granted, the 80s materialism definitely trickled down to us (see my Reagan reference there? That was awesome!) and we were all caught up in that anti-USSR propaganda as kids (even up here in Canada) because of the WWF, Red Dawn, all kinds of wacky stuff.
It's just a really interesting time frame when you look back on it. Feel free to support or counter my points with a good-natured discussion.
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Google killed wonder. nobody "wonders" anymore. if they do wonder about anything they Google it and instantly have a definition of it, a Wikipedia article about it, any recent news stories about it, a million pictures of it, a message board with people talking/_____ing about it, and probably a video of somebody ____ing it.
we are the last generation to know what it is like not to have that at our fingertips
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