Talk About Something YOU Lived Through That Nobody Today Could Relate To...
The whole Covid year was so life changing that life will probably never be like it was and in 20 years I don't think anyone will be able to relate to what things were really like in 2018.
1974 - Star Trek Communicators, actually walkie talkies with a almost three foot antennae that almost reached across the street if there was a completely unobstructed path. We thought we were high tech, one day I'd see 10 year old kids with iphones and I felt like we had two tin cans on a string in a tree house.
1979 - The Apple II plus. I was seriously next level and cutting edge. Dual floppy drives and an Epson dot matrix computer. I used to print out my homework and blow teachers minds when I handed it in. Now it seems like one of those casio calculator watches. By 1983 I was actually online with the damn thing although if you didn't have the modem information of a specific person there wasn't a lot of chatting going on. We sent to proto emails.
1983 - I bought a HK 91 and a HK 93 for $700. I remember feeling like a giant retard because earlier that year I bought an SP1 carbine for just under $200. I thought I got robbed hard, keep in mind I was still in high school and $700 was a lot of money. Speaking of high school, more than a few times I tossed my SP1, HK93 and about 500 rounds of 5.56 in the back of my Blazer and drove to school. It was in the school parking lot all day long because the range was just out of town and didn't make sense to drive back home, grab my guns and gear and drive back the way I just came. That would be an actual felony today, in 1983 it was just good time management. At least once I accidentally brought a 1911 into school because it got left in my backpack which doubled as a book bag. I was throwing books in my locker and went "oh shit...I can't have this in here", locked it in my locker and after class ran it out to my car.
I went to school with more hunting knives, switchblades and balisongs which didn't get left in the car than I can count. I actually had a teacher talk to me in the hall as I was throwing a bali into my locker, explained what happened and he told me to go put it in my car before I got in trouble. I made sure he wrote me a hall pass so I wouldn't get in trouble being late for my next class. Fast forward to 2019 and I went to check on my friend who was a resource officer at the high school and he actually asked me how I got in the building during hours. Very different world.
1994 - Clinton ban, if you lived through it, you understand. Glock mags were $100 and USGI mags were like $50. People actually paid money for themolds and pro mag BS. If you lived through it, it was like your great depression and in 2004 you bought 6 different AR rifles and at least 100 AR mags. You bought 100 HK G3 and FN FAL magazines because they were $1.99 each even if you didn't own a FAL or HK 91 yet. When P mags came on the market you bought another 100 of those. Unfortunately you didn't know to get 50,000 round of .308 when it was 10 cents a round for high grade NATO surplus.
Around this time PCs with 5 gig hard drives were several thousand dollars. Anyone who bought one wishes they spent that money on cheap surplus mags and part kits.
1998 - Not kidding, Like New condition HK G3 kits $199, any AK kit $75 to $100, G1 and Stg 58 FAL kits $100-150. Uzi kits $75. If only we'd known. At least we bought the crap out of surplus magazines.
1999, bought my first PC for just under a grand and joined the online revolution. AOL with a second phone line was like $100 a month for a 56k connection that dropped before you could post half of what I've already written.
2000 - Riding Todd Baileys ass all over the net because Special Weapons was just as good or better than factory HK guns. I remember when he got tossed from HKpro because he wrote a letter informing them he was in the process of buying HK (the factory in Germany) and intended to shut down all unauthorized HK websites.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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