Hitchhikers and the 70's

[speedhighway46]

Remember when you had to pay for AOL. Or before Windows and DOS there was CP/M! 1979 seems like yesterday! ?

 

[IanC]

Shoot, I'm 'nostalgic' for remembering when YouTube videos started right up WITHOUT COMMERCIALS!! lol

Speaking of Youtube. Back then, there were so few people uploading videos that each one was screened by a real person and videos on the homepage were shown in the order of how many views and comments they got. On weekend nights and holidays they must have been short staffed so  immature idiots (like me) would upload porn clips and run up their views and ratings and other similar fools would join in to keep reloading and adding comments . It was a hell of a challenge to see if you could get to the top before the screeners busted you. Honest to God, I once uploaded the number one viewed video (very mild porn ) - it was up there for almost an hour and got many thousands of comments. And no - I've never lived in mom's basement :-/

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

Every generation thinks the generation they grew up in was the best.  It's not that it was or wasn't it's the stage of life you were in.  They are the carefree years before being bogged down with responsibilities.  It's the first period in your life where you are no longer a child and free to make your own decisions but it's before all the obligations of life take over. It's when your body is in its peak, you're full of energy, nothing hurts. Your friends are all still around and free to come and go with you at a moments notice.  So it's perfectly natural to think of those times as the good old days.  There is a large group of young men and women in that stage right now and in 30 years they are going to be saying "remember when" and "I don't know how kids do it these days, I'm sure glad I'm not a kid right now" 

And thus, that's why this lifestyle is so attractive and it's why we are all here.  Going this route is in essence going back to a simpler life, the point in time we grew up in that afforded us more freedom, less responsibility and more life experiences.

 

[IanC]

Every generation thinks the generation they grew up in was the best.  

Very true - my parents waxed nostalgic about their era, but to me their era didn't seem that great.

My biggest nostalgia hits when the music icons of my youth, like Joe Cocker, pass on. Plus considering that, given my family longevity, I'd be lucky to have another 10 years left. Every friend or aqaintences, my age or younger, who dies drives it home that my generation is coming to an end. So , like every old fart in the history of the world, I remember the 'good old days'