(Update to previous post: BBC's iPlayer is alllllmost everything I want in Olympics coverage. All the events, organized neatly, in their entirety, ready for viewing. Huzzah!)
Maybe it's all the nostalgia brought on by the Olympics, but I feel a pressing need to document the following things.
In my formative years, it cost $3.25 to see a first-run movie in the theater. There was another theater in town (Valley Theater!) that showed almost-to-VHS movies for $1.00.
When I was in elementary school, a few days before school started we would walk to the school to check out the class lists posted on the front windows. That was how we found out what class we were in.
I did not own a crappy digital camera until college and I didn't own a nice one until 2004. This means that for all the years before then, if I took a picture, I had to wait a minimum of one hour to see the result. This concept is so completely foreign to my children (and even myself - how quickly we forget).
When I was in elementary school, we had time in the computer lab starting in 3rd or 4th grade (so 1990-1991) and these are the games I remember playing besides the really simple line-based ones: Oregon Trail, Lemonade Stand, and something about catching fish.
In third grade, we had two pet rats as a class and we voted on their names and the names we chose were Bart and Itchy.
There were payphones in the basement of my high school. When I needed a ride home after track practice, I would call my house collect and state my name as "MomComePickMeUp." Then she would decline the call. An actual phone call cost 25 cents and then 35 cents by the time I graduated.
During my formative years, there was something called a video game arcade. I explained this to my kids the other day and they were fascinated.
When I was in college, you could reliably get candy bars and Yoplait yogurt, 4/$1.
That is all.
