Old skool memories
If you are an old skool Yahoo!7 Answers community member, you will remember me from day one, but might not have known that I was still around. I have been working behind the scenes on all sorts of exciting things over the past year and half. Well… it’s good to be back on the blog!
Speaking of ‘old skool‘, as a Gen X – Gen Y cusper, I grew up with much of popular culture’s old skool classics. To me, old skool means ‘old is kool’ and is all about the 80s and 90s when rap artists started making use of the term.
Before game consoles, there were hand-held gaming devices. My favourite one was a 2-layer, orange ‘game and watch’ from the 80s called Donkey Kong. Have you ever wondered why the game Donkey Kong doesn’t have a donkey in it?
Growing up, I used to call a 0055 number to find out where an underground rave was a few hours before it started – I loved the music and the culture, especially the happy vibes from the other ravers. The other day when browsing Answers, I found a great list of songs that I used to listen to and found it quite nostalgic! Did you know which old skool track was used in the movie, The Shining?
Old skool even describes basketball and Ferraris, anime and parenting to name just a few.
Let us know your fondest old skool moments from your life!
Alana
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My “old skool”,is “PAC Man” that was it…Atari pong now that was real cool! But we still had to ride our bikes,clean our rooms, help around the house, and make sure our tree fort dirt clods were picked up and ready for an attack at any time….
The good old days when all the kids in the street would play cricket in the middle of the road and the cars would stop for the good of the game… gone is the day when I would let a kid do that… Time has changed for the worsted in a alot of ways like in safly but as someone hanging on to some kind of young I feel ripped of with lot the toys games and stuff kid have now… Gen X what will I do next…
omg talk about memories….woot woot!
ohhh Alana can’t forget OUR SCHOOL PROM, AWESOME!!!…I was a sophomore, waiting for my SHINING KNIGHT TO COME, a super cute seniour left a note asking me to HIS PROM and couldn’t believe it…and yesss we danced!!!…it was a fun night and he WON PROM KING! whoaaa I felt like a movie star, on the red carpet,cameras flashing, people cheering us on IT WAS FANTABULOUS!!!
Shoulder Pads, Roller Skates, thin ties, puffy shirts, skin tight pants, fluro socks, hair that was backed combed so much it couldn’t ever be brushed and much more. As a teen from the eighties I could go on and on. Its all great stuff. Just glad pointie shoes came back in fashion.
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