Things of The Past!

[Bini]

I thought this might be fun. The idea is to list as many "things of the past" that YOU remember in your lifetime that are no longer popular or common. You don't necessarily have to list "things". You can list old sayings, old wives' tales, old traditions, etc etc. So just list them as you think of them. There's many out there.

Here's one: "Be kind. Rewind."

I remember reading that on rental VHS labels.

[Tarnished]

The following cartoons:

Thundercats

He-man

Shera

Smurfs

Snorks

Gummi Bears

Rescue Rangers

Duck Tales

Tale Spins

I am sure there were lots of others that I am not remembering. Plus lots of other stuff, I am listing only the cartoons right now because that is one of the clear memories from my childhood.

[FlaviusHambonius]

Talking to people face to face and in person.

[Mahone]

Pogs

Pokemon

YoYos

Tamagotchis

Walkman

Minidisc players

Rainbow dust straws

[MichaelCraig]

There only being one phone in the house and it was in a central location, the hall in the house I was raised, and it was mounted on the wall about 5 foot high so I could never reach it. Still can't. :)

[miztrniceguy]

Lite Brite

[pam]

Rotary dial phones

Atari

vinyl records

8 track tapes

green stamps

[marshac]

Pocket Rockers -

Neon clothing / accessories

Hand-Drawn cartoons

A childhood spent outside

[Jenamarie]

Stamps you had to lick

Green screen computers

Printer paper that was one long strip of paper with perforrated lines, and the printer ink would be in "blocks" so the letters would be all blocky instead of looking like reguar script. (I remember coloring in SO many "school spirit" banners with huge pixelated letters!)

Turn-dial TV's

Having to go to the ATM before you made a purchase, because you couldn't use a debit card at check-out.

[marshac]

Having to go to the ATM before you made a purchase, because you couldn't use a debit card at check-out.

Carbon-paper credit card receipts, complete with an impression of the card.

[Canuck Mormon]

Pogs

Pokemon

YoYos

Tamagotchis

Walkman

Minidisc players

Rainbow dust straws

Pokemons are still around. My son still plays with them and gets new ones.

Same with YoYo's. In fact he got one for his birthday last month.

How about cell phones that weigh 5 or more pounds and could only be used to call someone.

[pam]

Full service gas stations

[pam]

Split church sessions instead of the 3 hour block. Sunday School in the a.m. and Sacrament meeting in the p.m.

[pam]

Bandelos in Primary and earning the things to go on it.

[Truegrits]

Sky King

No seat belts

No car seats

Riding in the bed of the truck

Clove chewing gum

Drive-In theaters

Roller Rink parties

Hay rides on Saturday evenings

[Mahone]

Pokemons are still around. My son still plays with them and gets new ones.

Same with YoYo's. In fact he got one for his birthday last month.

How about cell phones that weigh 5 or more pounds and could only be used to call someone.

This is true, however the OP stated to list things which are no longer popular or common. At one point in the UK, it was consider "uncool" if you were in school, and did not have a YoYo. This was the height of its popularity, it was around 1998 back when I first started secondary school. It's quite rare if you see them in the school playground any more.

Pokemon, to my knowledge, has no-where near the popularity that it once had. I very rarely come across kids, at least here in the UK, who still have pokemons. Still, I'm so glad I was a couple of years above the age group that this phase affected at the time. My brother wasted so much money on them

[Mahone]

Opal Fruits

Woolworths

:(

Those are two things we no longer see, both of which hold a place in my heart for multiple reasons

[miztrniceguy]

10 cent ice cream scoops at Thrifty drug store. Flavor of the month....blueberries-n-cream....or Double Chocolate Malted Crunch with black cherry as the 2nd scoop.

[Mahone]

I have to do this:

AskJeeves (yes, I know it's still accessible, but who actually uses it any more?)

Geocities

Kazaa

Napster

Dialup modem in order to get online

Hubs

Pretty much everyone being on AOL dialup, with their horrendus idea of a web browser and all around general internet experience

Windows 3.1 (hey, I installed it on my brothers computer last year, I'd forgotten how stable it actually was)

[Traveler]

Car with: Starter button on the floor, dimmer switch on the floor, horn ring on the steering wheel, vents on the hood and side of the car, water bags for crossing the desert, manual lever for the windshield wipers, choke lever and throttle (old style cruise control) on the dash board and a dump clutch for sport cars.

Phones with operators that ask, “Number please”, Black and white TV, crystal set radios, Iver Johnston racing bicycles; Bear trap binding on skis, front doors on homes without a lock, sugar beet welfare farms, ward Gold and Green Balls, road shows, all church basketball and softball tournaments, 2 and ½ year foreign missions, seminary classes for high school credit, stake conference in a tabernacle, ward meeting houses that were never locked, cardboard on a stick fans on the benches at church (no air conditioning) and the Panorama on the 4th of July in Provo.

And last but not least – being able to walk into the “old” Church office building and seeing someone in the 1st presidency without a security guard or an appointment.

If you are wondering – I do miss the good old days when I was neither good nor old.

The Traveler

[Hemidakota]

I thought this might be fun. The idea is to list as many "things of the past" that YOU remember in your lifetime that are no longer popular or common. You don't necessarily have to list "things". You can list old sayings, old wives' tales, old traditions, etc etc. So just list them as you think of them. There's many out there.

Here's one: "Be kind. Rewind."

I remember reading that on rental VHS labels.

There is always a song I heard while being schooled in England called 'Lola' by the Kinks.

Or watching the Thunderbirds.

[Mahone]

Or watching the Thunderbirds.

During my mission, we were naughty and watched thunderbirds on youtube for a bit. We were caught out, and rumour spread around that we had been watching "inappropriate content" on the internet. They were actually quite disappointed to find out that "inappropriate content" meant thunderbirds.

[mightynancy]

Didn't Opal Fruits turn into Starburst?

Jolly Rancher fire stix candy

Slime

Dittos!

Señor Lopez pullovers

Chemin de Fer jeans

Winning seasons for the Dodgers

[pam]

Penny candy that really only cost a penny.

[pam]

Clove chewing gum

Drive-In theaters

You can actually still get Beeches clove chewing gum here in Utah and we still have a drive in theater.