Back in my day we had Ren and Stimpy
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Back in my day, we had Inspector Gadget.
“Go go gadget existential crisis!”
Omg yes and reboot
You misspelt beavis and butthead
(oh shit is ren and stimpy even older?)
Yes, its two years older than Beavis & Butthead (which released in 1993)
That's really interesting, because in Germany we didn't have nickelodeon back then. But mtv and beavis and butthead.
Beavis and Butthead: 1993-97
Ren and Stimpy: 1991-95
Ren and Stimpy is older
Amateurs. Back in my day we didn't have videos at all, we just ate dirt, and had lead in the air and water.
Listen to this hairless bipedal whipper-snapper. Back in MY day we THREW poop at one another. 🐒
You children emerged from the ocean? Terrible idea as you can well see.
Pfft listen to this young’un with multiple cells over here.
Big talk coming from a greenhorn with a nucleus. In my day we didn't even have membrane-bound organelles and we did just fine!
Look at this guy with a cell membrane!
Back in my day we had to wrangle ribozymes without the luxury of a lipid bilayer. Yet we still managed to replicate RNA.
Kids these days read books about romance and knights, and that sort of frivolous waste of time will corrupt the youth into idleness and vanity. They need to work harder in the field, milk the cows and feed the chickens. A book never yet grew a bushel of wheat.
-GoodwifeConstance1648
Back in my day we didn't have youtube, we downloaded 2 girls 1 cup through kazaa.
Link! He comes to town! He comes to save the princess Zelda!
Emule was my tool for sketchy stuff like that. And oh boy was there some sketchy stuff in there..
Back in my day we watched shows made to sell toys. Some of them, for example TMNT, actually turned out pretty good, but a lot of them do not hold up at all.
And before that, TV.
"we"
Get off my Farmville lawn!
boy am i glad that we're out here and he's frozen in there and we're out here and he's THE SHERIFF
Zelda, Duke Onkled is under attack by the evil forces of Ganon.
I’m going to Gamalon to aid him.
We had to make those stupid paper mache puppet heads and glue cloth to it for our hands and then put on a puppet show while not one single person went off and worked on a good script!
I'm trying to think of the equivalent when I was a kid. Dial-up was a thing (some universities and companies and probably some rich folks had better, but the average person that even cared about getting online didn't), but just getting images involved downloading multiple parts of the data from newsgroups and stitching it together.
My first thought was maybe watching home videos or AFHV for that media or something like MAD magazine, though neither really seems to fit.
We played text based adventures and liked it! Such enrichment. I crawled in the dumb waiter.... The Count (1979)
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Also Icton and DMGaina. Source War is the poop back in the day.
people who worry about "kids these days" are invariably the mediocre kids of yesteryear.