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[–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You kids with your fancy “tapes!” In my day we had to watch whatever the hell was on the three or four channels we could pick up with the rabbit ears, and we were damn glad to have it!

Once a year they’d show a Bond movie or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or maybe even that Willie Wonka movie. Such an event!

VCRs didn’t exist until I was a young adult. Doggone spoiled kids!

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I vividly remember being a teenager and channel 5 coming out. It was a huge deal

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?

Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.

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We had to get a VCR in order to get our fifth channel - it was on UHF which our National Panacolor TV could not receive.

[–] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

I was so confused when i found out not everyone had channel 5. And we had the vhs tuned to 5 on the tv so channel 5 was on 6...

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[–] javasux@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Children of the DVD era also know this life

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm in-between both. As a little kid I watched Bambi and Winnie the Pooh etc on tape and then later we hired all kinds of dvd's in the library and that's how I discovered Star Wars. Good times.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

That's pre-streaming as well. I recently volunteered on a film festival and was surprised how many people still watch DVDs when I worked at the merchandize.

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

The Robots DVD radicalized me

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[–] passepartout@feddit.org 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I had a friend that recorded every single episode of the power rangers on VHS from pay tv.

Also, borrowing DVDs from the library was a thing back then (probably still is but noone does it).

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Borrowing DVDs is absolutely still a thing. Hell, now you can even borrow console games from your library. I do it all the time.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some let you straight up borrow consoles, kitchen supplies, tools, etc. The central library in Los Angeles has a 3D printer and podcasting studio, among others.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My library doesn't do console loans but it does have a dedicated maker's space with 3D printers, a laser cutter, sewing machines, and other assorted stations. No real heavy stuff though, so no power tools or wood-working stuff sadly. It does have an HTC Vive complete with full lightbox set up for people to use, though.

Libraries are the fucking best.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I recorded the entirety of Star Trek TNG on VHS from local network broadcast. It turns out that its the commercials that are priceless now.

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[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

I grew up with The Legend of Zelda. "Well excuuuuuuse me, princess"

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We had Spaceballs. It's still awesome!

[–] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Us too! That and Innerspace.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Enemy Mine. That's the movie.

Such a great movie. You aren’t human if you didn’t shed a tear during that film.

On a side note, the book is amazing, too. One of the rare instances where both are excellent.

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who ever saw that flick. Concur there's some lasting life lessons in there. And space turtles!

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Indian in the cupboard.

Though even as a child I remember thinking how annoying the main kid was and how bad he was at acting

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[–] trslim@pawb.social 17 points 1 week ago

The Last Unicorn and Titan A.E. loved those movies.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You know what I think is missing more? Complete lack of context.

Digital cable that had the menu of what was playing was a novelty even in the 2000s so television used to be "you turned it on and what was playing was playing." You'd catch a movie halfway in and not know what the hell it is and that was all you could learn. Even if you had an internet connection you wouldn't think to use it to look up what this movie was, and if you did, IMDB and such didn't exist yet. Maybe Yahoo! would turn something up, probably not.

Then the file sharing days were wild. There are people convinced to this day that System of a Down did a song about The Legend of Zelda.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

System of a Down did the Zelda song, Arrogant Worms did The War of 1812, Weird Al did everything else.

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, kids today certainly won't watch the same shit over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

like a monkey with a miniature cymbal

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zoomer here. I had this with random YouTube videos. We had cult classics like asdf, and YouTubers were special.

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[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Owned on tape" was for rich people. "Taped from NBC or ABC, or, if the weather was just right, CBS and you tried to pause the recording during the commercials and that's why 8 minutes are missing from the middle of the movie" is more like it.

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Children definitely still experience something similar via small/unknown YouTube channels, games, Roblox games, fandoms, etc. Sure everyone knows the big famous stuff, but that's the same as pre-2000s kids too.

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[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Master of Disguise.

I uhh, can't really say its good tbh.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was he not turtley enough for you?

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Little Rascals (1994)

So many quotes burned into my brain, particularly from buckeheat and porky. To this day, I sing "We got a dollar" and "I got two pickles", ask "Quick! What's the number for 911?", and recite Alfalfa's "Dear Darla" letter.

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[–] Nangijala 9 points 1 week ago

Oh man, we had so many weird movies.

While my mom was in charge of nurturing a broad taste in music, my dad was in charge of taping movies of all kinds and showing them to us.

He waited for me to turn 13 to watch Seven Samurai and several other Kurosawa movies. We watched all the old Pink Panther movies, a couple of Jacques Tati films (Mon Uncle being our favourite when we had the flu), Le Ballon Rouge, multiple Soviet animated movies, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush, Gloria, The Blues Brothers and on and on and on.

I owe a lot to my parents for instilling a broad music and movie taste in me super early.

I'm sure kids of today form their own valuable memories, but their reality is so foreign to us that we only see it as a threat.

I'm a pretty big fan of the podcast Creepcast on youtube and one of the cohosts grew up on creepypastas online which is very interesting to listen to whenever he talks about the nostalgia for him and many others. I was already in my 20s when creepypastas became a thing online so to me, it is interesting to hear what childhood was like for the 20somethings of today, who all grew up on the internet and have fond memories of it.

The kids of today will have their stories too and they will also be interesting to listen to, I'm sure. It is differnet than growing up on worn out cassette and VHS tapes, but it doesn't make it all bad. Things just change over time.

on saturdays the local station would broadcast scifi b movies. we'd record them and keep the good ones.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Or, what movie you dubbed from a rented VHS tape and watch 200 times until The quality had degraded so bad that it was almost unwatchable. I'm looking at you Short Circuit.

Mom: why do you want to rent that You've watched 500 times at home Me: our slp copy's looking pretty bad. Mom: grrrr

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The animated Robin Hood with the animals. Maid Marion probably cracked my egg lol, just wish I broken all the way out sooner

This is also kind of the beauty of physical media. Or at least “private collections”. Like even if you digitize stuff you really only have the drive space you are willing to commit. Back when mp3 players could only fit a few hundred songs, I had to be really sure I liked those songs. I’ve gotten back into this a bit with ditching streaming services. I’m ripping my own cds and movies again, streaming them from my home server. It’s the combo of the tech we have now, and the curation we had to do then.

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Swiss Family Robinson

Nobody remembers Swiss Family Robinson

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Ah yes, Harry and the Hendersons.

Also The Great Outdoors

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That’s parental failing for not torrenting

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Erik the Viking. I think it came with petrol coupons or something. Never seen it mentioned anywhere since.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

We had a lot of VHS tapes that got worn out over time because they got watched so many times. My little brothers watched chitty chitty bang bang so much that the quality of the entire film was noticably worse by the time the tape got accidentally stepped on and destroyed.

Also mysteriously all the sex scenes with the incredibly attractive women in the Pierce Brosnan James bond films were worn out too. I wouldn't know anything about that nor does it have anything to do with why I'm now a masochist whos into women that bite, scratch and even stab me from time to time... No correlation whatsoever.

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Chronicles of Riddick, and Titan A.E

I had a great childhood

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Transformers (the animated movie)

Still good today and I rewatch it from time to time.

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[–] Karjapuskuri@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Canonball run 2 It was the shit back in the day

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not obscure but shout out to milo and otis. I must have watched that movie hundreds of times then a hundred more when my sister started watching things.

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