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Author: Subject: Turning Points

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  posted on 11/5/2003 at 03:41 PM
Here's a little game. I was recently trying to figure out all of the cultural turning points that I've participated in somehow. What has changed everything?

Here's the rules. No personal turning points, this is cultural turning points. I want to know what people thought about stuff that changed things for everyone. Not Fads. Here's examples:

I saw the "Video killed the radio star" video. I had no clue what I was watching. I was just thinking "wow, it's kinda like watching a musical play". There was no way to tell by looking at that video that this was going to change the way kids grew up. I was about 12 when MTV started. Before that, we didn't have anything like that to "show us what was cool" - styles and stuff came from watching what the cool kids we knew were wearing and doing. The media really didn't have much effect on it all. Imagine that.

When I downloaded my first copy of the Mosaic web browser, ther was no netscape - there was no Internet Explorer. Mosaic was the first graphical web browser. Nobody I knew had ever seen anything like it. By today's standards, it sucks ass, but back then I was the only one I knew who had even heard of the internet. Trying to explain to my friends the feeling of looking at pages on servers in different parts of the world, and seeing this all instantly on my screen was futile. They just couldn't understand what I was talking about until years later. I saw the potential of what I was looking at - but that potential hasn't materialized quite how I pictured it.

What are other people's takes on stuff like this?

 

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  posted on 21/5/2003 at 11:23 PM
Heh, with the way the world is going right now, I'd be careful what you wish for!

 

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  posted on 21/5/2003 at 07:42 PM
This is all very saddening. As interesting as it has been to read all your memories, I guess as a 16 year I havent witnessed too many non-personal pivotal events in my life. Hell, my first childhood memory was of watching 'Home & Away'.
*sigh* maybe if I get reincarnated, my next life will be more eventful.

 

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  posted on 21/5/2003 at 02:13 AM
I remember being over at a friend of a friend's house in about 1985, and checking out their new Compact Disc Player. I thought it was really cool that it worked like it did, but I remember making a comment about wondering how long that idea will last before they try another one. *chuckles*

 

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  posted on 19/5/2003 at 07:39 PM
"So hurry up and start your own UFO cult so you too can be remembered for 3000 years!"

 

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  posted on 19/5/2003 at 04:13 PM
I was in the north of France, making lunch & listening to the radio, when the Berlin wall came down. That was pretty awesome - three years earlier I'd been on a visit to some of the German military border stations... Weird.

And coming home from a trip in the forest, switching on my cell-phone, and being told there had been aeroplanes crashing into the WTC...

The first night of the first war on Iraq made a pretty big impression on me too, I got exceptionally drunk that night.

Kraftwerk - need I say more?

I'm also rather interested in observing the UFO-believers, I have a sneaking suspicion they might be replacing the Christians in a couple of centuries. SERIOUSLY! Think about it - same stuff, same myths, only with a modern context. Yep, I do believe we are witnessing a new world religion in it's early stages.

 

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  posted on 18/5/2003 at 11:28 PM
I remember Abaddon. Heh heh...

 

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  posted on 18/5/2003 at 01:31 PM
Hasn’t anyone yet covered Space Invaders, Pac Man, Atari or the NES?

 

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  posted on 18/5/2003 at 06:15 AM
My memory is hereditory. And not only that but I did not say I had no memories, I said that memories are indistinguishable from each other in terms of their importance to yourself or the rest of the world. Since we do not have the congative capacity to recognise turning point when they occur, the memories we thing of as being fundamental to the framework to the way we have processed our lives are in fact only that way in hindsight.

 

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  posted on 17/5/2003 at 04:40 PM
I took part in the booing of good charlotte off of the stage in 1998
they started as a "punk" band in baltimore

i dunno.. im young

err.. anyone remember those nanopets?

 

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  posted on 17/5/2003 at 03:25 AM
I was visiting the western part of Berlin with my parents a year before the wall came down. When we saw it being torn down a year later on TV they told me we could have been shot, only for standing where all those people were standing now. It was quite... impressive to hear that, even for a seven year old child.

 

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  posted on 17/5/2003 at 12:50 AM
Crimeny how could I have forgotten THAT?! I even remember them selling peices of it at the bon marche around xmas to help raise funds for rebuilding berlin. It was a strange feeling seeing those chucks of stone, some with grafitti some without, for sale in the BON, of all places, but I really really wanted one. I think they were selling them for $100 bucks a piece or something....
I do remember watching it on TV with my dad. And when the school officials were bitching about the cost of replacing all those textbooks and maps that had the big red area marked "USSR" and spoke of the Soviet Union in present tense, instead of past.
Man, even movies from that time were outdated when the USSR fell. Man, who is the Italian Stallion gonna fight if there's no more big bad brick pounding russian megamen to box?

 

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  posted on 16/5/2003 at 12:43 PM
I remember when the Berlin wall came down. That was pretty cool.

 

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  posted on 16/5/2003 at 10:52 AM
Wank.

I'm sorry you don't have a memory to contribute, abby baby, all doom and gloom and no "back in the day" makes for a very booring boy.

 

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  posted on 16/5/2003 at 10:14 AM
There are no cultural turning points, only spirals in its downwards fall towards self-destruction at the hands of its own citizens.

 

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  posted on 15/5/2003 at 11:51 AM
Cloneing, LapTops, Viagra, Jonny Carson's last show, both the wars with Iraq, fiber optic wires, cable modems, and dsl.

 

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  posted on 15/5/2003 at 09:34 AM
I voted for the first time in years against Prop 121 in California on some day in 1993 (I think, it may have been '94) but shortly after that the proposition passed into law, and california bacame the first state to ban smoking in public places, restaurants, bars, &tc.

 

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  posted on 15/5/2003 at 07:46 AM
genetic mapping, genetically altered foods, organ transplant, pace makers, 7-11s, smart drugs, designer drugs, AIDS, riddlin, thong bikinis, low emmission car laws, gay rights, VCRs,

 

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  posted on 14/5/2003 at 01:31 PM
Actually Betty, Betamax was a much better format than VHS, but, since it was more expensive, and they had shitty marketing nobody cared. Laserdisc and Divx had the same problems.

My first computer was an IBM I believe, we scrapped it and then stepped up to something a little less shitty, then I got to behold the wonders of the 486 and WIN 3.1.

Of course, all of my games still ran in DOS but at least I had a mouse by then...

 

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  posted on 14/5/2003 at 10:54 AM
Xaox, I had pong too *lol* a BIG fucking console with a switch on either side for each player, it weighed about 5 lbs *ha* THEN we got an atari, and I swear my dad used to spend HOURS playing "river raid". He'd only play THAT game, and the scary thing was he was REALLY good at it too. I think ours got sold in a garage sale after we got the Nintendo, and he hasn't played videogames since. For his birthday I got him a Playstation 1, and got him the activision CD comp, which has like 50 old activision games on it, including river raid, and I thought he was gonna PEE himself.

betamax *sigh* they really thought they were onto something huh? *lol* Betamax and Laserdisc were sort of like tech go-betweens in a rush to come out with the next big thing, and were good ideas, just underdeveloped in the rush to come out with the "new thing" FIRST.

I also saw something at the toystore a while ago that threw me off.
Who remembers "mini tapes"? You know, itty bitty tapes with itty bitty tape players with headphones that had one song on each side. The problem was you could only get the songs that the company that made the tapes and players wanted to make, so you were stuck with the Bangles "walk like an egyptian/manic monday" New Kids on the block, Debbie Gibson, or Wilson Phillips. Well anyway they're BACK again, but the wierd thing is that they've made absolutely no progress whatsoever and you can still only get crappy music with one song per side. I think McDonalds was giving them out in happy meals even.

ANd speaking of McDonalds...I remember the great switch from styrofoam containers to cardboard. It was wierd not hearing your lunch squeak in the bag every time it shifted.

 

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