Cool trends that faded out

[frankfrank]

RushRooms. These were public spaces, usually in restaurants or bars, which got taken over by cliques who would eat or drink their lunch while having the Rush Limbaugh radio show piped in. Of course there was a lot of hootin' and hollerin' to whatever points were made on his show. These were popular enough for nearly every big city (probably of 1/4 million or more) to have at least one of these spaces, and they peaked around 1994. Interestingly, there is ALMOST NOTHING on the Internet which describes this phenomenon.

Sorry to derail this thread and get so off-topic because, after all, RushRooms were ANYTHING BUT cool.

 

[wonderwort]

Web Tv

When webtv first came out. I spent five hundred dollars for a console. Webtv couldn't save any files and was able to play very very few files but was all the rage.

The VCR

The vhs tape

Remember a time when you went into a video rental place and saw a sea of vhs tapes?

 

[AussieGuy91]

I remember yo-yo's being pretty popular a few times

 

[Chip12414]

Originally posted by gsdx:

I used to love that stuff. It was my favourite. I haven't seen it up here in many decades. Is it still available?

Nope ... TAB was a victim of the Saccharin scare (some claimed the sweetener caused cancer, which was later disproven).

 

[ozguy]

Kaftans for men. They were popular in the 70's and I had several that I used to wear regularly (only at home, though). They were comfy to wear, and you could get around quite happily with nothing on underneath!

 

[gsdx]

The electronic typewriter

I'll see your electronic and raise you a manual.

This is the typewriter I typed all of my university essays back- in the early 70s. My brother used it in the mid 60s to type all of his college papers.

(I tried to type my name and date on it, but the ribbon is dryer than the Sahara.)

Originally posted by gsdx:

Nope ... TAB was a victim of the Saccharin scare (some claimed the sweetener caused cancer, which was later disproven).

Thanks for that.

 

[gsdx]

Here's one for my generation. The younger folks don't know the joy of this:

Sniffing mimeograph paper in school.

(Seriously, can you smell it in your mind? )

 

[LilBit]

^I wasn't particularly fond of the smell, actually. And I had a teacher in high school who was still using old mimeographed handouts in the mid 90's. (They had long since stopped smelling, of course.)

 

[frankfrank]

Remember a time when you went into a video rental place and saw a sea of vhs tapes?

Nowadays you can go to a thrift shop, and see the same "transplanted" sea of VHS tapes.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Dating before fucking.

 

[gsdx]

@GDSX:

Class smells the ditto paper

Exactly as I remember it. Thanks.

 

[wonderwort]

Camera film

An article about Kodak impending doom for all you nostalgia buffs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/us-kodak-history-idUSTRE79000720111001

Daniel Carp took over as CEO in 2000, right around the time that digital cameras started to become an affordable alternative to film cameras. Taking pictures without the use of film and the option to forgo printing proved a crippling blow to the company, which sold film, photo paper, and the systems that develop film into prints.

Scratch and Sniff stickers.

I used to love these in elementary in the eighties.

 

[ozguy]

Fondue dinner parties. So popular back in the seventies ....

 

[gsdx]

Fondue dinner parties. So popular back in the seventies ....

So were those sweaters/jumpers. They were ubiquitous in those days.

 

[wonderwort]

Big Red Gum

Big Red commercial



Salem Cigarettes Men

I always thought the rugged outdoorsmen of the salem ciggarette ads were so hot.

 

[ozguy]

So were those sweaters/jumpers. They were ubiquitous in those days.

Haha yep ... I owned quite a few of them!

 

[RonR18]

The once ubiquitous ant farm: http://www.insectkits.com/contents/en-us/d48_ant-farm-history.html

 

[wonderwort]

The once ubiquitous ant farm: http://www.insectkits.com/contents/en-us/d48_ant-farm-history.html

I've always wanted one but never got around to getting one.

 

[bankside]

SEA MONKEYS!!!!!!!

 

[ButtFlute]

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