The Nostalgia Thread

[baradar_jackson 8,076]

i'm sorry but Naruto is not really qualified to be nostalgic. It's great and all, but it is not old enough to be nostalgic yet. We may as well be nostalgic for LOLcats or myspace.

 

 

Even if you weren't around in the (13)60's (solar hijri... foolz), this nasheed can't help but strike something within you:

 

[apofomysback 53]

 

[baradar_jackson 8,076]

^ I love floppy disks. Although the ones I have the most memories with are the 3 and a half or 3 and a quarter inch variety.

 

Darth Vader made fun of me for wanting to get a floppy drive for the computer I want to buy. I bet he feels really bad about that now.

[apofomysback 53]

^ I love floppy disks. Although the ones I have the most memories with are the 3 and a half or 3 and a quarter inch variety.

 

Darth Vader made fun of me for wanting to get a floppy drive for the computer I want to buy. I bet he feels really bad about that now.

those were the 'in' thing back in my days. every kid blessed with a game on these was the richest kid in town who everyone else envied  :lol:

[StarryNight 1,229]

My first cellphone at the age of 13.......

 

Edited August 18, 2015 by StarryNight

[apofomysback 53]

that reminded me of my first phone - i couldn't find the exact one, but the nearest one is:

 

 

it cost my dad a fortune btw  :lol:

[Al-Hassan 2,671]

Although, not as old as the ones above but this is my first phone at age 13. It was the first Nokia flip phone. I still have it and despite the hundreds of scratches on it, crack on it's mini front screen and the numerous times that I dropped it throughout the years, it still functions well up until now, lol.

 

 

Let's see if my iphone will survive that long the same way 10 years from now. :lol:

[notme 20,979]

These were not comfortable, but for some reason all the girls wore them:

The boys wore these:

And EVERYONE wore these:

My little sister liked the jelly shoes and owned them in all colors. I owned a pink pair, but didn't much like them, especially on cold days when they stiffened up.

It was a couple years later that I inherited several pairs of chucks from my stepsister. I had purple, red, blue, and black. I wore those shoes daily, wore them until their soles fell off, glued them back on, and kept wearing them. I think the last pair finally passed all possibility of repair shortly after I went to university.

Oh, and since everyone else is showing their video games, I didn't own this, but some of my friends did and I was pretty good at it:

One more, the phones reminded me! My parents like to listen to their police scanner. Next street over there lived a couple, Ron and Nancy. I don't know if they had an early mobile phone, or just a cordless, but their calls could be picked up on the scanner. Ron called Nancy several times a day, and usually they argued. It became like a radio soap opera. My parents would try to be sure they were home during times that there were usually calls. This went on for well over a year. I didn't live with my folks anymore at that time, but I visited a lot and caught regular Ron and Nancy updates.

Edited August 18, 2015 by notme

[Wahdat 1,641]

[Ruq 6,264]

(salam)

 

 

 

Wassalam

 

 

:O!!! I LOVED THAT SHOW!! ...aw gosh...im going to write to channel 4 right now and ask them to bring it back.

And EVERYONE wore these:

 

 

I remember having my eye on some blue steel coloured high tops for ages, but i ended up getting patent yellow Doc martens with red laces :P about the same time there was an Adidas explosion in the UK and these became ubiquitous:

 

[Guest silasun]

I send baradar jackson 3 e-cheek kisses for posted fusen bubble gum. My mum calls it "ilich meeeyaaawa" (meeeyaaawa is a cat sound of iraqis, I think lol).

[baradar_jackson 8,076]

I send baradar jackson 3 e-cheek kisses for posted fusen bubble gum. My mum calls it "ilich meeeyaaawa" (meeeyaaawa is a cat sound of iraqis, I think lol).

 

Wait it's called fusen? So it's Japanese, then?

 

We call it "adams khersi" (bear gum). We are kind of dumb though. I mean we call coca cola "black soda" and Fanta "yellow soda" (yes, yellow, not orange... don't ask me why). 

[apofomysback 53]

Wait it's called fusen? So it's Japanese, then?

 

We call it "adams khersi" (bear gum). We are kind of dumb though. I mean we call coca cola "black soda" and Fanta "yellow soda" (yes, yellow, not orange... don't ask me why). 

its called Fusen in Pakistan too - there used to be a tattoo like thing in these too - inside the wrapper if i remember right. we have it here now as well  :D

Edited August 18, 2015 by apofomysback

[Guest silasun]

^yes those weird monster pictures on the inside! We get them in england at a turkish shop and my mum saw them in a moment of nostalgia!

[StarryNight 1,229]

Although, not as old as the ones above but this is my first phone at age 13. It was the first Nokia flip phone. I still have it and despite the hundreds of scratches on it, crack on it's mini front screen and the numerous times that I dropped it throughout the years, it still functions well up until now, lol.

 

 

Let's see if my iphone will survive that long the same way 10 years from now. :lol:

 

So are you suggesting that we may be too old bc your phone is not as old as the ones above :p ?

 

Btw, I've had my iphone for 3 years and it was in perfect condition, I was proud of myself because almost anyone else I know had a cracked screen or scratches or something..... and the day came..... yesterday it fell and cracked my screen :'( I hate getting new phones or new anything when mine still works, I'm glad the phone had mercy on me and only cracked the bottom left corner so I can still read everything but it's sad anyway :( I'm gonna preserve until its last breath and keep it for many years to come.

[Hameedeh 20,102]

Awesome topic, baradar! Before broadband, there was a sound when we used the dial-up connection to the Internet.

[notme 20,979]

I remember having my eye on some blue steel coloured high tops for ages, but i ended up getting patent yellow Doc martens with red laces :P

I never could afford Docs. When my mohawked, pink haired, leather jacketed friends were sporting Docs, I wore real, genuine army boots.

Anyone old enough to remember getting free trial of AOL in the junk mail at least monthly? And also along with just about any software you bought.

My first computer had a 30 MB hard drive, and people didn't even talk about RAM back then. It was super high tech, because it also had a "math co-processor". It ran DOS and Windows 3.1. Most of my programs were DOS based. If you wanted to run Windows, you had to start it up.

[Chaotic Muslem 5,780]

You are all a canned kids

 

Using magnifying lens, we used to concentrate the sun rays on those bugs and they blew up really, it was out fun.

 

Many scars on my legs still till today from climbing trees and walking on high walls then jumping down or low walls but sometimes the jump isn't wide enough to avoid scratching the wall, specially in a hit and run game.

We climbed up pretty much anything!

In war games, it is the water baloons

 

the live act and recitation of jin stories by the moon light

Whatever was that angered them, JUST RUN, lol run until the air is out of your chest and laugh loud at it lol and enjoy the moment before it is time of punishment.

[apofomysback 53]

[Gaius I. Caesar 8,771]

And EVERYONE wore these:

Converses, they destroyed my feet, literally changed the shape of my feet. Wore from the time I was 12 to the time I was 15, after that I wore Merrell.

[baradar_jackson 8,076]

CM

Why torture the ants? Did they do anything to you?

Also, bro: I am sure all of us played outside, too. It's just that grass and dirty aren't nostalgic because... uh... grass and dirt are all around us.

More memories for you dirty majoos:

These plastic "gol koochik" balls were very cruddy. So to make them last longer we would cut open one of them and put it into the other. Little kids = engineers

[apofomysback 53]

On 8/20/2015 at 12:43 AM, Chaotic Muslem said:

Using magnifying lens, we used to concentrate the sun rays on those bugs and they blew up really, it was out fun.

umm i was wondering - like baradar - why torture these poor things?  :unsure:

[El-shia 81]

Because bugs are genetically inferior and they deserve to die ! *19th centrury pseudo science nostalgia*

[Tonks 769]

The red tricycle used to be the police and the blue BMX bicycles the thief. 

Paper planes.

 

We used to use bottle tops and fix them with strings ..some type of toy that makes the tops spin. 

[Wahdat 1,641]

we used to use buttons + strings wrapped around fingers

[notme 20,979]

I used to collect up a batch of frog eggs in the spring, find a shady spot in my backyard to set up a tank, and grow them to tadpoles, then to frogs.

We also brought home rock lizards, turtles, salamanders, praying mantises, fireflies (of course!), the occasional cat, and one friendly dog which my parents wouldn't let us keep. Except for the praying mantises, which we once kept all summer, and the annual frogs, which we kept until they hopped away, we always kept them for a day or two then released them.

So far my own kids have only brought home flowers, and my husband once found a colorful turtle :wub: which we ooohed and aahed over, then released.

Kids don't really go outside much anymore. My 13 year old says he was born in the wrong decade. He would have loved any time between the 40s and the 80s.

Edited August 20, 2015 by notme

[Tonks 769]

On 8/20/2015 at 8:47 AM, Wahdat said:

we used to use buttons + strings wrapped around fingers

Yes! That is what I was talking about

[StarryNight 1,229]

Omg I had a lot of fun with this game: 

[Tonks 769]

 

 

WWF Trump cards and ofcourse UNO!

 

[Chaotic Muslem 5,780]

On 8/20/2015 at 12:46 PM, Tonks said:

 

 

lol love that game, we still teach it to kids.

Night sun.

It was less festive than this but pretty much as fun as it:

On 8/20/2015 at 7:28 AM, Tonks said:

 

Paper planes.

we used to make various forms of them, some war crafts, some water planes lol 

[Tonks 769]

On 8/20/2015 at 12:51 PM, Chaotic Muslem said:

we used to make various forms of them, some war crafts, some water planes lol 

Really? Show me! Especially the water one

[Chaotic Muslem 5,780]

On 8/20/2015 at 2:36 AM, baradar_jackson said:

CM

Why torture the ants? Did they do anything to you?

Also, bro: I am sure all of us played outside, too. It's just that grass and dirty aren't nostalgic because... uh... grass and dirt are all around us.

Bradar, because i hanged up mostly with boys (since they were my age) and boys used to just torture anything that moves from blowing up bugs \9and it is a scene to remember, you should try it) to cutting tails of cats ...

One of them used to collect a good number of flies in a glass bottle then add some sticky fruits , sealed the bottle then send it up to sky until the bottle is only a dot (it was one of the challenges played, how good is your throw)

then when the bottle comes down to earth, we would laugh at the art work of flies sticking on fruit pie...

i guess you won't find it funny now anyways, but we were kids and anything cracked us up with laughter.

[starlight 14,919]

I was 6 when father returned from a trip. It was late at night and he woke us up to show something he had brought for us. It was this ^. We are were all quite excited since it was rare to find Fisher price toys in Pakistan back then. It's prefect, it had moats, secret passages, hidden rooms, scary beasts. We had hours of fun playing with it all through our childhood. Father passed away soon afterwards. The castle been with us for almost a quarter of century now and my kids love playing with it the same way I did...  Thank you Abbu! 

P.S : it dosen't strictly fit into the 'nostalgia' category since I still have it but I just thought I would share a childhood memory

CM, Name place ,animal , thing, yesssssssss.......... I had  totally forgotten about it.

 

Did anyone else play cat's cradle ? I am going to teach it my daughter

[The Green Knight 8,417]

On 8/18/2015 at 1:15 AM, baradar_jackson said:

Darth Vader made fun of me for wanting to get a floppy drive for the computer I want to buy. I bet he feels really bad about that now.

Not at all.

My nostalgia is all my friends, scattered to the winds. And this:

I still keep that student card in my purse.

[Brained 1,937]

prepaid internet cards. 1 hour for PKR. 10!

PITTU GARAMM!