[Father Chris Mouse]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I love the whole nostalgia of it, same with the IT remake. the 80's were a brilliant time for kids/teen TV and films

Yep, that's a huge draw. I was a 90's kid, but i was heavily influenced by 80's music, tv and films. I still am now.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Swan

Yep, that's a huge draw. I was a 90's kid, but i was heavily influenced by 80's music, tv and films. I still am now.

I was an 80's kid/90's teen

[Father Chris Mouse]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was an 80's kid/90's teen

I was born in 87. Me and one of my gaming friends (she's 37) were saying how lucky we were to have grown up with the best of both, physical media, catalogues, going to the video shop every friday being aloud ONE film to rent, and maybe a game, and that would have to last you all weekend. Or buying a CD album and discovering songs, not being able to try before you buy, hoping there were some real gems in the album etc. And also now where everything is there the second you want it.

Like you say, Stranger Things really taps into that nostalgia.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Swan

I was born in 87. Me and one of my gaming friends (she's 37) were saying how lucky we were to have grown up with the best of both, physical media, catalogues, going to the video shop every friday being aloud ONE film to rent, and maybe a game, and that would have to last you all weekend. Or buying a CD album and discovering songs, not being able to try before you buy, hoping there were some real gems in the album etc. And also now where everything is there the second you want it.

Like you say, Stranger Things really taps into that nostalgia.

Ahh same age as my baby brother then

Yes, I absolutely agree with you, I'm also so grateful for the time I was born into. Not having everything at your finger tips instantly makes the world more........mysterious and fun imo

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Swan

I was born in 87. Me and one of my gaming friends (she's 37) were saying how lucky we were to have grown up with the best of both, physical media, catalogues, going to the video shop every friday being aloud ONE film to rent, and maybe a game, and that would have to last you all weekend. Or buying a CD album and discovering songs, not being able to try before you buy, hoping there were some real gems in the album etc. And also now where everything is there the second you want it.

Like you say, Stranger Things really taps into that nostalgia.

We're a definite bridging generation, it's an odd place to be I think. Remembering renting videos from Blockbuster and recording songs off the radio, but ALSO the birth of MP3 downloads, the internet in general, etc.

Gaming is a good example too; within the span of what I'd consider my childhood I played games like this:



Which I rented on cassette tape from the library, right through to this;



Which came out when I was 20.


It's been 17 years since the latter and really, games haven't changed all that much in that time at all. We defintiely grew up during a 20 year span (mid-80's - early 2000's) that encompassed an absolutely massive shift that you don't really see in any other similar short time span. Certainly not in the last 20 years . The huge leaps forwards in tech, entertainment, the internet, smartphones etc.

[michael21]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was an 80's kid/90's teen

So your life is like a movie set in the future with all the changes

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by michael21

So your life is like a movie set in the future with all the changes

me on my lunch break

[michael21]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

me on my lunch break

That cool 😎

That a classic movie I seen it

[Father Chris Mouse]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

me on my lunch break

Niamh on her lunch break in style, breaking many men's hearts along the way with her awesomeness

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Swan

Niamh on her lunch break in style, breaking many men's hearts along the way with her awesomeness

I know the floppy hair and short stature can be confusing, but that is actually Michael J Fox, or if you prefer (and don't we all), "Marty McFly" from the Back To The Future series.

[Father Chris Mouse]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I know the floppy hair and short stature can be confusing, but that is actually Michael J Fox, or if you prefer (and don't we all), "Marty McFly" from the Back To The Future series.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

We were early internet adopters; I joined my first vBulletin forum in 1999 (believe it or not, TiBB is in fact my FOURTH long term forum home )

But yeah, in the early days not only did it use the phone line, but there were no monthly unlimited options so it cost 1p/minute in the evening and something shocking like 5p/minute during the day. I remember when we first got "unlimited internet" (it was in fact only free from 6pm - 6am, so I used to wait with baited breath until after dinner to get online and catch up with forum drama )...

...and eventually my mum got so sick of people telling her they'd tried to call and the line was busy all night that they got a 2nd phone line put in just for the internet .

SO much nostalgia from this sound:

Youtube video

I remember chat rooms, really basic ones being a thing, probably my first toe dips into communicating with strangers online, they were odd. I think TiBB was probably my first Forum though and i only stumbled across TiBB when i was looking for Big Brother opinions as none of my r/l friends watched BB anymore by 2009.

Oh god, the dial up sound gives me PTSD vibes

Originally Posted by Swan

Niamh on her lunch break in style, breaking many men's hearts along the way with her awesomeness

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Swan

Yep, that's a huge draw. I was a 90's kid, but i was heavily influenced by 80's music, tv and films. I still am now.

I was only 5 in 1990 but honestly most of the stuff from my childhood is still 80's... the "big kids movies" (and a lot of cartoons etc.) in the early 90's were mainly still 80's stuff. Kids were still obsessed with things like Karate Kid, Back To The Future etc. in the early 90's... I suspect maybe because most people just had the basic 4-TV-channels back then and a lot of the movies that were shown regularly would have been made in the 80's, there was a MUCH longer cinema - video - TV cycle back then, I doubt they showed many movies that were less than 5 years old on the telly.

Not going to lie though, the 90's had some epic stuff too, very different vibe of course.