What Did You Grow Up With That Is Gone Forever...?

[prdubi]

Writing letters...
Used to be a big letter writer and I used to receive letters from everyone.

Cursive writing is gone also and nobody teaches that anymore.



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[jsbhike]

Writing letters...
Used to be a big letter writer and I used to receive letters from everyone.

Cursive writing is gone also and nobody teaches that anymore.



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I think my kid's school has some. Started out stating they weren't, then out of the blue they did some although I don't think it was on the same level as decades past.

After several semesters of lettering in drafting classes followed up by 25+ years and counting of keyboard use I really have to stop and think about writing cursive beyond signing my name. Years ago that was only an issue with Q and Zz that never got much use beyond initial practicing.

[OH58D]

Typewriters. When in high school, we all had to take a typewriting class. We used manual typewriters and I reached a blistering 36 wpm. When I entered college in 1978, I went totally modern and bought a Smith-Corona electric typewriter, with a correction cartridge you would insert to fix mistakes.

When researching for a paper at the University of Arizona Main Library, you'd take either note cards or a yellow legal pad with you for writing down your research, then back at your apartment you'd take those notes and bang out your finished product.

On a side note of going totally modern, I think I was ahead of my time in other areas while in college. I am left handed so my cursive art is not the most neat. When attending lectures in some science class one day a week where you're with 700 other students in a lecture hall, I'd bring along a cassette recorder and record the lecture, instead of trying to write notes down for 1.5 hours. When studying, I'd just replay the lecture. Keep in mind this was between 1978-1982.

[jsbhike]

Went in a weird reverse order, but used 3.5" disks in late 1980's junior high, then 5.25" disks in high school, and a 1992 college computer class featured data entry terminals with a mainframe in another building. All gone.

[Firefly]

I kinda miss the innocence of computing. The Old Internet where there was no moderation because you didn’t need it. Everyone was genuinely helpful.

I also miss Quake 3 Arena LAN parties.

[Kenneth]

I miss being able to walk around town with your pellet gun and not get the police called on you.

Miss going to high school and seeing all the gun racks with shotguns in the truck windows.

I’m only 34 for the record!

This world is starting to suck balls quick.


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[prdubi]

I remember that time also..

Sprague HS Salem Oregon 1990.
Principal ask all with guns in the car and truck to bring them in to store in the school safe.
Make sure it is unloaded.


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[Arik]

I remember that time also..

Sprague HS Salem Oregon 1990.
Principal ask all with guns in the car and truck to bring them in to store in the school safe.
Make sure it is unloaded.


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1998, kids were bringing their rifles to school (kept in cars) during hunting season.

[26 Inf]

My little buddy. I followed him almost religiously from the time I was thirteen or fourteen.

He got me in trouble, got me in fights, and cost me lots of money and wasted time in pursuit of his dreams.

Now, fifty-three years later, I find it hard to say, but, sometimes seeing the end of the news is more important than my little buddy.

[AKDoug]

I think my kid's school has some. Started out stating they weren't, then out of the blue they did some although I don't think it was on the same level as decades past.

After several semesters of lettering in drafting classes followed up by 25+ years and counting of keyboard use I really have to stop and think about writing cursive beyond signing my name. Years ago that was only an issue with Q and Zz that never got much use beyond initial practicing.

8 years of field books as a land surveyor (plus lettering plats), broke me of cursive completely. I only print, I am fast at it, and it's totally legible. I have no clue why people put any importance on cursive.