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well fine then.. apparently I am the only person who doesn't have an ice cream truck.. not that we have much of anything where i live (but i kinda like it that way lol) :P
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My SO said our child will probably not know what newspapers are when he gets older because they might stop printing them.
I wish I had a record player. I had one when I was a child and used to play my nursery rhyme records and as I got older, Grease soundtrack and 45's! Books??? By the time he is a teen books might be obsolete! Playing outside until the the night time and it being ok because everyone was friendly and watched out for everyone. My neighbors in my new house are not that friendly or outside..ever?! Polaroid cameras Talking to people, like face to face! ROFL
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And now I'll really be dating myself, *blush* How about pumping the gas pedal to start the car? Watching TV in black & white? The playing of the National Anthem and the fly over of the military jets when the television stations signed off for the evening? (No 24 hour TV)
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Mmmm, those ditto sheets were awesome. Those were the first "inhalants", I guess.
 And I do remember when TVs had no remotes and the main "family" TV was like a giant piece of furniture -- a screen in this huge wood cabinet.We don't have an ice-cream truck here either.
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I remember when we got our very first Target in town (across town) and the wide selection they had for everything! (Wal-Mart and Costco were not around yet.)
Prior to that, we bought all of our shampoo, etc. at the drug store, paying outrageous prices (compared to what Target sold it for)! ETA: Our current neighborhood never gets an ice cream truck driving into it but our former neighborhood had 5 trucks a day. Seriously, I counted them!
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Using a phone service to type your term papers. Keyless entry cars. I can still remember my mom's friend that had the "hot" car that was a Nissan Maxima where you manually entered a code to open the car doors. Battery chargers. It used to be that when you were out of C batteries, you had to wait until your parents went out and bought you more. Not knowing the what the weather would be like 10 days from now, or even what it the temperture was in a different part of the country. Car trips vs. airplane trips. Not needing ID to fly or needing a passport to go to canada or mexico
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limits on how much internet you could use. remember those days before unlimited internet?
having to go to a brick and mortar store. Now you can just order it all online. washing dishes by hand. making ice in ice cube trays. and cursing the person that took the last cube and didn't fill them. watching "musical" variety tv shows... like Donnie and Marie, The Mandrell Sisters... watching shows about dancing... American Bandstand, Solid Gold...
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 We were over the moon.Before, we had those little digi-players, there were three types all from Russia and the most common was a wolf catching eggs (Adri, remember? LOL). It was a figure from a Russian cartoon we had here (wolf and bunny, it wasn't bad actually). Hm, and when my mom and dad wanted to visit their friends in Western Germany or my dad's uncle in Toronto, they weren't allowed to take us kids with them. We had to stay in Czechoslovakia so that there was smaller chance my parents would emmigrate. And their suitcases were looked through not for drugs or anything like that but for forbidden books (they still got one through, in the jacket pocket). And when in Toronto, they spent half the time not discovering the beauties there, but reading the books from Czech authors that were forbidden at home. Totality sucks.
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We still have icecream trucks and phone cells. The back windows in our car are still to roll down (front windows are electrical) and we still make our popcorn in a pan.
@Pomi: I can't even imagine what it must have been like in former Chechoslovakia... Not having the liberty to read or watch or go what/where you want... I realize how good we had and still have it here in Belgium (even though our country now holds the record of being without a gouvernment for the longest time, it really doesn't affect us personally (yet!) ) It's good you have freedom now. Sadly there are still countries where people, especially women, don't have any freedom. 
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some of this sort of stuff I remember from the 90's here in New Zealand
Rabbit Ear Antennas & static on the tv dial up internet (although in defence my grandmother who I live with had dial up internet up unitl Feb this year) bank deposit book 3 burner stove going to mcdonalds etc was a rare treat choosing to use public transport (still do as I don't drive)
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When ever Nan is feeling bored she always likes to remind me about how much easier things are now, her favourite ones to mention are no hanging out washing on a line and not being able to take pushchairs on buses, both of which I would be kind of screwed without lol. Actually don't think we would leave the house if I had to walk everywhere and fold the pushchair down the bottom of it is always loaded with stuff the kids need for the day and all the shopping. Hugs Crystal xx
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having to feed change into a pay phone. i don't even see any pay phones around here any more.
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making crank phone calls (now with caller ID, thank god the crank calls have stopped!)
solicitors calling every night (now with Do Not Call lists, those are a thing of the past)
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Sleeping with the windows open and the doors unlocked...we didn't even have a lock on our back door til I was in Jr. High school!
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I thought of some good things last night as I was falling asleep. My kids will never think its weird to see a black doctor or a black person walking down our street. My kids will grow up in a culture where everyone knows that racial prejudice is wrong (or at least shameful). Hopefully their kids will grow up in a world where it doesn't exist at all.
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In addition Jen, my daughter thinks it's weird that her dad and I are still married and live together and that she has no other siblings from either one. That's what she finds weird... the fact that we're an interacial couple... not at all.
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AND like others have said, snail mail pen pals . . writing letters to friends (we actually had exercise books that we'd write eachother letters in too) Also: - the joys of running through the sprinkler in summer, water restrictions are always in place now to some degree . . - handwritten report cards - plug in remotes for VCR with the cord everyone tripped over - researching family history on microfiche (all going digital)
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When I first came here I was used to the 7/7 opening hours, but I admit that I kind of enjoy the Sundays off... It's annoying if you run out of something, true enough, but other than that, it's actually a relief NOT to be able to shop once a week, LOL. Anyway, there are ups and downs to anything, and this is no exception. :-) However, I very much like they discontinued the lunch break in the shops (when I came here it was still a usual practice), and I would very much love if the shops in town stayed open until 20:00 instead of 18:00 - if I work until six, which I usually do, I have no possibility to catch the shops still open during the working week.
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We have seeds in our watermelons lol..but we grow our own down here
Writing your name on the little card when you checked a book out from the library and having the librarian stamp the due date. When cokes had pull off tabs... riding in the back of a pickup truck without ever worrying that it wasn't safe playing outside unattended for HOURS without our parents ever even wondering where we were or if we were okay...
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Polaroid instamatics and instant photos! That apparently fade away after 25+ years.
 Rabbit ears and trying to set the vertical hold to stop the screen rolling on the TV. Rec Rooms Fake wood paneling in rec rooms Speakers that took up 1/4 of the rec room that had fake wood paneling
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The sad thing is, the little white seeds that are in watermelons still (that are safe to eat?) My brother refuses to eat watermelons because he "hates seeds" and those are seeds and he won't eat them. ...dude, you don't know how "good" you have it!
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another thing - REAL sample bags - remember when you could get a a sample bag and it actually had cool stuff in it and was FREE??? Dont see that often anymore
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