For all those born in the 70s and 80s...

HA!! Try 300 baud! That's what the Adam modem was. I also had a 900 baud modem before we went high tech with a 14.4 then 28.8-56K was a pipe dream that never was a real reality.Instead they had 2 28.8 switching to fake 56k and one of the companies,I think it was US Robotics, had a software version of 56k ( oh come on now!).

I had the first Zaxxon in the town I lived. In the early 80s (when the commercial video game boom hit) I had 22 arcade games.Oh how I wish I still had them now.

They had cell phones,but they weren't called that back then,they were called bag phones.

I have to agree with whoever said no seat belts in the 60s.I'm pretty sure it was the 70s that required them,in the back seat that is.
And the no Suday shopping was very big. They were called "Blue Laws". And the change was gradual. They were first relaxed to allow those that needed to to grocery shop and such,but as demand grew more vocal ( read drunks) the laws got changed where you not only could shop,but you could also buy beer and wine,which the Blue laws prohibited.

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It all started going downhill about the time we started to be forced to piss for them for a job. I'm sorry if that sounds rough - but I feel it's in-dignifying to have to hand them a cup of our urine to be allowed to hold a job. We didn't make a loud enough noise about that. It seemed to many like a good thing at the time. Safe. One of the stupidest gateways that we've ever left open. Remember it well. We're the last to know it.

Yeah that's right.
I miss the old times! it's quite unbelievable by new generation but we did it all before.

Hey Guys
I did not write the flash back myself, it's just something floating around the net that i picked up.
I'm sure it's not 100% accurate but hey i thought i'd share it anyway

Every generation looks back at their "wonder years" with nostalgia that's just the way it is...

I'm not sure what you are considering a 'video' game...

In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially sold, coin-operated video game. It used a black-and-white television for its display, and the computer system was made of 74 series TTL chips.[8] The game was featured in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green. Computer Space was followed in 1972 by the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console. Modeled after a late 1960s prototype console developed by Ralph H. Baer called the "Brown Box", it also used a standard television.[4][9] These were followed by two versions of Atari's Pong; an arcade version in 1972 and a home version in 1975 that dramatically increased video game popularity.[10] The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, spawning the video game industry.[11]

This is the first home video game:

In 1974 Atari employees Bob Brown and Harold Lee propose a home version of PONG, able to be hooked up to any TV set. Lee, Brown and Alcorn produce the system, giving it the codename Darlene and starting a long Atari engineering department tradition of naming systems after female co-workers. However, retailers are skittish over the short life of Magnavox's TV-based Odyssey game and the system languishes in the Atari labs. In 1975 they cut a deal with Tom Quinn, head purchaser for the sporting goods department at national retailer Sears, to sell the system under the Sears Tele-Games label. The order is for 150,000 units. Bushnell has nowhere near the facilities to produce that many in the time Sears wants them, so he taps venture capitalist Don Valentine for a $10 million line-of-credit to expand. ByChristmas, Atari's US$100 home PONG console becomes Sears biggest selling item, with reports of people waiting outside stores for hours to get one. And once again dozens of manufacturers swarm out of the woodwork, this time with myriad versions of home PONG games. Almost all of these machines are based on the new "PONG-on-a-chip" circuit developed by General Instruments, but the rush on these chips is so intense that only Coleco receives their shipment in time for the 1976 Christmas season. The release of its Telstar video table tennis unit, retailing for half as much as Atari's console, increases the company's overall sales by 65 percent. By 1975 Atari is making 40 million dollars annually, drawing attention from huge media conglomerate Warner Communications. In 1976, under pressure from Valentine, Nolan Bushnell sells Atari to Warner for $28 million, with Joe Keenan as President and Bushnell pocketing $16 million and the title of CEO. With this new infusion of capital, Atari starts development on a project that will revolutionize the way people play games. It will soon launch the videogame industry into the mainstream and make the name Atari as ubiquitous as Coke and Kleenex. The project's code name: Stella.

As for surround sound...we called it 'Quad' It caused a lot of 'Brain Salad Surgery'...

You can play it on your 8-track tape deck

LOL, we had no had no TV's until middle-late 70,s and zero Sunday shopping until late 80's. My first cell phone had an antenna almost as long as the field radio i carried around in the Army and weighed as much...

Sorry, I don't think any of those bands were considered Goth,and I really think Goth was more of a 90s thing.
Joy Division was part of the punk movement, as was Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Sisters of Mercy was considered a rock band when they started and Dead Can Dance,while I am only familiar with the band's name, I have never heard them refered to as Goth.
Bauhaus is the only band you mentioned that I have never heard of period,so I can't comment either way.

And...I had to walk across the room both ways wearing bell bottom jeans just to change a channel or adjust the volume.

And then it seemed that the one channel I wanted to watch required I become a contortion artist while touching the rabbit ears just to get a picture clear enough to make out what was going on.

Ahhh the good old days.

I wish I ease your mind but sadly glam rock, punk, ska and goth are so subjective and someone had to come up with a name.

Rhapsody considers punk a derivative of glam rock and goth a derivative of punk. So we have our glam/punk/ goth.

Being a teenager in the 80's I learned to love my glam/punk/ goth - Alt/punk/grunge music.

In addition to the "artistry" were woman's panties, a zippered "fly" and a huge rolling paper.

Not to mention all the Little Feat album covers done by Neon Park.

Party Pooper!:p

Terra

It's gotten so bad that when I decided to start my own business I made myself take a drug test to make sure I was the right guy for the job!

You have to admit, that's a pretty damn clever piece of packaging...