Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 03, 2024

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    Astronut  9 months ago

    What’s a buggy?

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    Bilan  9 months ago

    They got rid of dvds so they can charge you every time you watch the movie.

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    syzygy47  9 months ago

    The kids are making her hoarse and buggy.

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    GreasyOldTam  9 months ago

    Sorry, Pam, you are officially Old.

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    ekke  9 months ago

    Ah, yes, the early days when computer traffic went over phone lines!

    Of course, now, VOIP means that phone traffic goes over what are now network lines.

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    Algolei I  9 months ago

    “Yes, it was delivered by horse and it was buggy.”

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    SameAsOldFfred  9 months ago

    Originally the DVDs arrived by mail from California. That was at best a two or three day service, Then, a distribution center opened up in Phoenix AZ, and life for me in Flagstaff was overnight turnover and heaven on earth! Then came Trump, DeJoy, and digital streaming, and all the movies I used to be able to rent vanished into thin air. DVDs became a thing of the past, and if any movie I used to be able to rent was no longer available, tough coprolites. To be fair, I shouldn’t blame everything on Trump, but times are times.

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    davidob  9 months ago

    See Dark Side of the Horse for horse-drawn phenomena.

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    Gent  9 months ago

    Whaaat? DVD? You gots to be kidding. We is used to goes to cinema theatres to watches em movies. Ain’t no steenky multiplex back then. Beautiful standalone theatres with beeg screens. Those was the days. Standing in queues for tickets and all. And sometimes they used to plays movies on TV later on and with lotsa pesky ads in between later on.

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    Melki Premium Member 9 months ago

    Can I tell them about the getting all of four channels and cartoons only on Saturday morning thing to watch their heads explode?

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    cdward  9 months ago

    It doesn’t take very long for things to get old fashioned, does it?

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    Kroykali  9 months ago

    Don’t tell them about VHS tapes, Pam.

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    Alys France  9 months ago

    Sadly, these kids can’t go outside and play.

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    Differentname  9 months ago

    It’s strange to realize there are movie fans who have never sat in a theater.

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    Serial Pedant  9 months ago

    Mine was delivered by a guy in gray shorts and short-sleeved shirt on a one speed girls’ bike with fat tires.

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    Csaw Backnforth  9 months ago

    I’ll add (or repeat) only three channels (a little older than our local PBS station,) black rotary telephone attached to the wall, computer? (what’s that?) Thought it was really something to be able to go to a local rental place and rent a movie disk (looked like an LP record.) Yikes! I’m old.

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    geese28  9 months ago

    Dialup: the “snail” of internet connection

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    Packratjohn Premium Member 9 months ago

    My first modem was 300 baud and my first printer was a surplus teletype. And that was in my 20s!

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  9 months ago

    Things get better and better.

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    Mike Baldwin creator 9 months ago

    Historical!

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    Plumb.Bob Premium Member 9 months ago

    I wonder how many people are mystified as to why the icon for their phone app is a bent barbell.

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    seismic-2 Premium Member 9 months ago

    Heck, I used to download .jpg images that were transmitted as long sequences of UUencoded alphanumeric characters that then had to be decoded to render them as actual images on a bit-mapped screen.

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    cuzinron47  9 months ago

    At least they know about horse and buggies.

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    mistercatworks  9 months ago

    I remember my wife trying to get me to dash across town and mail the rented DVD as soon as we finished viewing it because we were on a “keep three-at-a-time” plan.

    I’ve gotten so lazy I will re-watch iTunes movies rather than walk across the room and load up a new DVD. :)

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    rstove428 Premium Member 9 months ago

    I read that people my age or so (I’m 80) should never start an anecdote “I remember when” or “when I was a kid” with the grocery store guy. I’m guilty. But the comments are great!

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    Pequod  9 months ago

    For a few years, it was as though just outside of the city there was a warehouse with 99% all films that had ever been transferred to DVD. In 2-3 days another fabulous film would arrive at my door. I would groom the queue to add films or alter the order in which I would receive them. I still kind of miss those red envelopes. All things must pass.

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    norphos  9 months ago

    At least Pam didn’t tell them to get off her lawn, would a space station even have a lawn?

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    Vagabond53  9 months ago

    I know the feeling Pam, most of my memories have moved from nostalgia to paleontology.

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    freewaydog  9 months ago

    Belle, I had to dial a phone & there was NO internet, NO Netflix, etc.

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    gopher gofer  9 months ago

    sometimes it arrived by pony express…

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    eddi-TBH  9 months ago

    Pam missed the video rental shops?

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    awcoffman  9 months ago

    People keep talking about streaming and DVD’s and VHS tapes and 300 baud modems. When I was in school, we didn’t even have calculators. Now we all have ’em on our phones.

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    chuckcork1  9 months ago

    Was it deliver by Horse and Buggy?

    They’re still doing that in Lancaster County.

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