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#28 They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”

I actually had to Google "MagiCan".

I didn't remember that either.

I remember when having 12 channels of cable was a big deal.

Edited, Mar 29th 2010 1:01pm by Uglysasquatch

I can't imagine how parents would raise their children without cable (or the internet) nowadays.

I remember when the highlight of my summer was a San Francisco Giants baseball game making ABC's late game on network TV. My dad let me stay up late for that and we would sit in the living room and watch the game together.

Last year I took him and my oldest son to a Twins game for Father's Day and we watched a Giants game live on my iPhone between innings.

Lol. We had 3 network channels and pbs. Pbs only aired programming during certain hours and there was nothing at all worth watching - occasionally you might catch Mr. Rogers. Cartoons were only on tv on Saturday morning. On Sunday mornings we read the funnies in the newspaper.

I remember our first video player - and the big decision; go with Beta or VHS?

I remember our first microwave - what an invention!

I remember the electric can-opener, the electric knife and the electric blanket. Everyone had them. Now no one has them again.

Today's generation will have no concept of life before global warming, social networking, or laser-pointers.

I remember this too, and renting videos from local shops before we got Blockbuster.

My dad and I had "the talk" for the first time on the drive home from renting movies one night. I think I was like 9.

I was reminiscing to my wife the other day about how we used to make popcorn on the stove, with a skillet that had a hand crank to keep the kernels turning, then we got one of those automatic popcorn poppers and that was amazing.

Haha them air-poppers?

I still cook popcorn on the stove by just shaking the pan. Them Jiffy Pops never worked. Now there are Jiffy Pops for the microwave. They still don't work.

My childhood consisted of NBC and FOX for the only available channels.

My senior year in High School my family got Dial-up (14.4 i think).

Mind you I am only 29 currently, it was just the location I grew up in.

I remember getting blisters from my jelly shoes and sleeping on my water bed.

I remember playing ET and Montazuma's Revenge on the Atari.

I remember "writing games" for our Commodore 64.

My parents used to have an 8-track player, but I never actually listened to anything on it. I did use that record player, though. I remember listening to "Skip To My Lou" and dancing around the living room like a fool. And I remember how this album cover used to scare the **** out of me. I've actually still got that at home.

I remember begging my parents for a Lester ventriloquist doll for some reason. I still have him. He's a little scary now.

I remember making my list out for Santa Claus, and all I wrote was "Omnibot 2000" over and over again. I was convinced he would do the dishes and clean my room for me.

I remember when Michael Jackson was black not a child molester cool. (I actually downloaded the "Thriller" video the other day to my iPod.)

When we got our first microwave, I put a piece of meat in there to reheat and set it for 20 minutes. Hey, it took about 45min to heat up a frozen TV dinner so 20 minutes in the new magic oven thingie made sense to me!