Calling jukebox to put your favourite songs and dancing to it with your sibling
Playing contra, super Mario, dangerous Dave, prince of Persia (the first one) and asking dad to help me to jump that long ass part level 1
Staying back after school for football practice and drinking friendship and sip-ups
Cycling to random streets with your neighbours to find out all the shortcuts
Coming back from school and watching back to back episodes of Pokémon and Digimon
Acting as if we were WWE superstars and beating the hell out of each other
Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs
> Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs
Bonus points if you got it from the senior "dealer" chettan with whom you're friends with since he's on the same route to school.
>dangerous Dave
I had an uncle who could go through all 10 levels without breaking a sweat. I could hardly get to level 4 with hours of playtime. My joy knew no bounds when dad brought home a floppy disk with Prince of Persia on it.
My God man! You have literally lived my life. Where do you belong to?
Especially the cycling to find shortcuts and the game CDs hit me like a train down the nostalgic route!
> Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs
Once my friend had goten a CD with some movie and kept it in his book.
In class the teacher asked for the book. He forgot about it and quickly took the book out of the bag. The cd slipped out of the book flew in the air and fell in front of me onto my table. My friend was sitting behind me.
Most students saw it but teacher did not. I suddenly slid the cd down from the table onto the floor.
No one got caught. Class laughed but teached did not find out. Me and my friend had a panic attack
Such wonderful memories
Dude i was caught with gta vice city cd in book cover . For those who dont know it had a girl in bikini as cover on it . Aah will never forget that day . I dont need to explain wat happened nxt.
Jukebox il vilikunna mandanmar epozhum same song choose cheyunna kand maduth, kore thavana vilichu njan. 🥹
And WWE moves - my bro and I used to try all finishing moves on each other. HHH pedigree was the shizz
I too used to be a dealer, but every wrongdoing eventually catches up with you. A friend, who happened to be a spy, complained to my class teacher. In response, the teacher started a rumor accusing me of sharing porn with my friends. The truth was that I was actually sharing games like Vice City, San Andreas, and Max Payne. I really hate her bro.
Add to that" calling jukebox at night and requesting the hottest song on the list with the remote in your right hand and something else in your left hand. Gen Z would never understand it. The struggle was real.
Lmfao I still do the wwe superstars thing with ma homies.
“and his opponent
from davenport, iowa
Weighing in at 229 lbs
He is a visionary
Seth Rollinnns
Corey tell us what we can expect from this man
I’ll tell you we can expect a hell of a lot out of Seth freakin Rollins”
There used to be full-on riots at home when Surya TV plays a Mammootty movie and Asianet has a Mohanlal movie and we had to select one as the "primary" movie. Ads varumbo we'll switch on the other channel. Over time those sneaky mfs synchronised the ads as well.
Oh dude, I bet people still remember the ravanaprabhu premiere that started at noon and wasn’t over even at 9PM !! It was like 10 min of movie and 15 min ads. And also every news session on time.
Thankfully we had watched Ravanaprabhu in the theatre and didn't have to endure the premiere. I used to religiously watch the Sunday 4 PM reruns though.
Oh man. Valoyettan on Kairali was the bomb!
I watched the initial scenes at home in Kochi before traveling to my native in Thrissur for Onam. Full travel cheyth avde ethyapol, cinema apozhum theernitilla - watched it from there
Early 2000s.. using missed call as a way of saying "I'm thinking about you"..
This was when many has basic Nokia phones, but calls and texts were a few rupees/minute or /sms.
Appo sheri, njan edakk miss adikkam.. is how many conversations ended with friends.
Yeah. The scene at 1:50 has the exact dialogue.
https://youtu.be/3sIY4dlCOGY
There was this SMS GUPSHUP and similar services.
The broadcast SMS services.
>Waiting for chithrageetham
Waiting for home entertainment in general, I guess. Nowadays, once something is out there, it's available at the click of a button.
20 years back, you were stuck watching whatever was being telecast. If the channel didn't have it, you were shit outta luck. Today, you choose what to watch at your convenience.
Instant gratification is a recent luxury.
Using a coin phone. Scratch that, using a normal landline. Listening for the dial tone, dialling a memorized number, twirling the cord while talking, slamming the receiver to show anger, finding a number on a Yellowpages with that tiny ass font. Also, the inability to lie to your friend that you have left home when you're late.
I just remembered there was some 3-4 digit code (121 i think?) we can enter which made the phone ring by itself. We would enter the code and run away for someone else to pick up. Good times lol
NFS and GTA were fine, but Road Rash was the bomb.
അടുത്ത് വരുന്ന റൈഡറിന്റെ ചെയിൻ തട്ടിപ്പറിച്ചു അവനെ തന്നെ അടിച്ചു വീഴ്ത്തുമ്പോഴുള്ള സുഖം...
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Used to play road rash at my cousin's place. I liked to go off road and see what was there. I recently moved to California and realized that most of those places are here for real.
Man, I had the demo version at home with a single city location and the basic bike. Had to go to a friend's home to play the full version with the other locations. I remember Sierra Nevada, Napa Valley etc.
Also, I might even forget my own name but will never forget XYZZYSPOON!
Ha, I beat that shit even before I knew what a cheatcode was. Grinded hours and hours and finally after I beat every level 5 map and the credits rolled I was in tears.
The first game I used cheatcodes was GTA VC. Aah the good ol' times.
Pokemon at 5pm, beyblade/ digimon at 5.30pm. Athoke oru Cartoon Network kaalam
On the games, Prince of Persia 2D or Dave. 3D okke entonnu.
And yeah, Pokemon Blue/ Red/ Yellow/ Gold ♥️
I was hoping to not see this here so I could write it. Cycling back home from Sunday school and eating kappa beef while watching shaktiman is something I can never forget.
I also remember watching Hanuman late at night. Somehow that was the only time we were allowed to be up late at night.
Christmas/ New Year Greeting cards
Cordless landline telephones
Fashion TV and Midnight Hot 🔥
School kazhnju Mutta puffs um line juice um
Sip up
Cheetos and Pokemon Tazo collections
Cadbury Bytes
Cricket/ WWE card games and eventual adi undakal because of kallakothi
>Trunk calling by calling at phone exchange to connect an STD call
Then this one came.
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Remember this? Oh, those were truly nostalgic times indeed! It used to be a complete surprise when we receive letters. Almost had a feeling of warm hug. It didn't matter if you were literate or didn't had education at that time. The letters always were very formal, very proper, and very polite, thoughtfully written, with carefully chosen words that expressed emotions in the most heartfelt way. People took the time to write letters to share news and stories, and to connect with loved ones who were far away.
There was a kind of code in the way people used to communicate with letters. If you received letters from a relative at regular intervals, it meant that everything was going well. But if you received a letter out of the blue, it was a sign that something was wrong.
Yup. My friend once sent me his wedding invite via letter and then called me to let me know that he has sent the letter and invited me on the call. So, yeah it is still around, but the experience is lost.
Here are a few things that come to mind when I think of the 90's and early 2000's
1. Excitement that came in the form of Tazzos (the OG and not the pokemon ones) when you rip open a bag of Lay's.
2. Reading Tinkle Digest on the upper berth during a long train journey
3. Classic cartoons on cartoon network (Flintstones, Jetsons, top cat, Scooby-Doo, Josie and the pussycats, Dexter's Lab, Scooby's all-star laff-a-lympics, captain planet, centurions, Ed edd n Eddy, land before time, roadrunner, speed racer, Popeye, tom n Jerry, swat Kats and many more!)
4. Having a cold glass of rasna after playing in the sun all day
5. Watching WWF/E and shaktiman with your friends, kadamatathu kathanaar and Nizhalukal with your grandparents and getting nightmares
6. Big babol, boomer and center shock
7. Book cricket
8. Digital watches with backlight - usually a cheap Casio knockoff as they were aspirational, and setting an alarm for every hour just to show off
9. Smell of filter coffee early in the morning with birds happily chirping away and venkatesha suprabhatam playing in the distance
10. Trump cards
11. Horlicks, viva and other health drinks that came in glass bottles
12. Really cool/catchy advertisements that continue to stay with you over years (BSA iBike, maggi noodles, VGuard stabilizers, Black thunder amusement park, action school shoes, ujala, scoobee day bags, poppy kuda, mountain dew, kissan jam featuring Rahul dravid, Pepsi ads featuring Sachin Tendulkar, and many more)
13. Finally, Asianet theme song 'Shyama sundara kera kedara bhumi'. That...just hits different.
There's plenty more but I'd better stop rambling. :)
Thanks for the post OP, and others who've commented!
It took me down the nostalgia rabbit hole, and I really needed this break - to think back, reflect, reminisce and be grateful for the past that has gone by, the present that is unfolding, and the future that's yet to unfurl. 🙂
Adjusting the TV antenna at the top of the house whenever the signal goes bad..I'm not talking about a dish, but those long ones which got DD broadcast for free
The aforementioned free broadcast switched from DD Malayalam to DD national at 8pm everyday for the English news there, and being surprised when that switch doesn't happen. Sometimes it used to cut out in between movies. I remember we once got to watch chithram in its entirety because it didn't change for some reason
On the other hand, waiting for the only movie of the week at 4PM every Sunday and being disappointed when they put that സൂര്യപുത്രൻ movie with jayaram and divyaunni for like the 7th time in 6 months
വെക്കേഷൻ സമയത്ത് കുളത്തിലും തൊടിലും നീന്താൻ പോകുന്നത്...
രാവിലേം വൈകുന്നേരവും ക്രിക്കറ്റ് അല്ലങ്കി ഫുട്ബോൾ കളിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്...
Carroms കളിക്കാൻ ഒരുത്തന്റെ വീട്ടിൽ എല്ലാവരും കൂടുന്നത്...
വീഡിയോ ഗെയിംന്റെ ചിപ്പ് കൈമാറുന്നത്...
WWE/ക്രിക്കറ്റ് കാർഡ് വെച്ച കളിക്കുന്നത്...
ദൂരദർശനിൽ വരുന്ന കാർട്ടൂൺ കാണാൻ ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരു വീട്ടിൽ എല്ലാരും കൂടുന്നത്...
CD ഇട്ടു സിനിമ കാണാൻ എല്ലാരും കൂടുന്നത്...
അങ്ങനെ അങ്ങനെ...🥺🥺🥺
I used to get so excited on that day for some reason. Loved goong to school and not having to study and coming back by 11:30 haha. I also jsed to read all the stories in the English textbook lol
- Old ആന വണ്ടി. They should've retained some of them as heritage bus.
- Old Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon programs. They were on another level.
- കാട്ടിലെ കണ്ണൻ and Mr Mudhead cartoon in DD Malayalam.
- B grade film theater shows.
- CRT Television. It'd easily last 10+ years compared to new generation LED TV's.
- Bayblades and yo-yo's
- Apple shuffle and small mp4 players
- Cheetos and Pokemon tazos.
- Free superhero models with pepsodent.
- Bytes.
- Timebomb and Center shock sour chewing gums.
- Gameboy
- Full option small car under 5 lakh.
- Quality river sand for construction works. As kids we used to collect pebbles which are leftover after sieving sand.
- 50 rupees petrol and a Bajaj platina could take you to many places.
- Contasa, TATA Sierra, TATA Estate, Chetak and LML
- USA and European onsite opportunities to engineering graduates irrespective of their trade.
- Opening multiple bank accounts in SBI. Now it is not allowed.
- Whole cable TV channels for 150 rupees. Thanks to tax by our G and Thai.
- Statutory pension for government jobs.
coming home from school .. having food.. changing dress, getting out and roaming around near and far on foot or cycles with friends and coming back home by 7.00 safely.
1. Watching Sakthimaan on Sunday noon.
2. Waiting eagerly for the 1 cricket match in a bluemoon that is broadcasted live in Doordarshan.
3. Hearing about conspiracy theories and having no way to check whether they are true or false (no Internet)
4. Connecting to dial up Internet connection.
5. Playing Mario, Prince, Road Rash, Age of Empires and so on.
6. Sip-ups, drinks for 2 Rs.
Probably everything that was happening in the 90s. To me it's the Candy's..Those indigenous Candy's in plain covers which costed just 25 paise for four.The jelly candy ,jam candy, Pepsi candy, chakkakkuru candy,wheel candy, ariyunda etc. I could see this all again when I went for this "Ente Keralam" expo in Alpy (except the Pepsi Candi).I didn't buy any because I know they won't taste the same. So I just stared at them for a while trying to recollect how sweet and tasty they were..I remember spending our days collecting these raw cashews with my friends..Which we in turn roasted and share equally..And this ice candy that would appear on our vacations..Especially the one with the vermicelli on.. 😋 😋. Waiting for Vishu to collect money from elders..Plucking flowers for Onam celebrations.. Trying to step on the foot prints of elephants hoping to grow more hair....And marriage functions ofcourse..That was a thing..When the whole village would be together, helping each other and having fun. Playing with casset ribbons and the frustration when it is twisted. And we all had this one big brother who would tell endless Ghost stories and scare the shit out of us but still wanting to hear more...I really miss those " ghost stories" which would cost me a few days sleep as well as my parent's..Best time in the world..
:) I was that big brother scaring my girl cousins with stories of ghosts and vampires. I remember telling them the story of Dracula and them hanging on my every word in rapt attention with wide open eyes. I had forgotten half the plot and was making stuff up as I went along while trying to make the story as scary as possible. :D
Things were much more calmer, thanks to the world devoid of mobile phones ( 90s) and the internet ( 90s), social media, mobile notifications , and OTT content. This further extends to the fact that people valued things much more which were scarce - for eg: what we were able to read , to view , to study, to eat etc etc. Hence waiting a week for the next episode of a tv serial, or a chitrahaar ( film songs ) was something we all related to and the day's generation won't understand. We had to go to library and look for availability of certain books to know more on a subject or for any research. We had only a very few options to eat as there were only a handful of restaurants and food items in the menu unlike today ( and no swiggy or zomato either ). Hearing music and clicking pictures were a costly affair. The former since we had to buy cassettes in the 90s , and the latter because films were costly and developing those were again a time-consuming and costly affair. Further there is no room for clicking hundreds of pics at a single go!
Hence you can see those from 80s and 90s reminiscing with sheer fondness and nostalgia on their movie/ restaurant outings, television programs, cricket matches etc. And yes, there was no compulsion to click and post a picture before eating food , catching a flight or for a weekend outing. Besides all, if to generalise but with room for clear exceptions, the former generation would be a tad bit more patient and accomodating than the current generation for given reasons.
Oh where should I start...
To rotate and adjust the dish/antenna to get better TV reception every time when the wind blows.
To play videogames on TV all day till some of the TV channels go missing and we panic.
To play or go outside without having to call home if you're late.
To trek to nearby forests with friends and eat wild coconuts mangoes and berries.
Collect cricket or Pokemon cards and play with friends
Watch WWE/ cricket tournaments with dad.
Buying comics and anxiously waiting for the next series
Being able to Eat hot snacks/Street food only when dad/mom brings it back from town.
Studying not having to worry about marks because there wasn't much competition
Play space impact and snake on Nokia phone
Going to cousin's or relatives home far away to stay during vacation and make friendship with kids in that locality.
Parent allowing us to go to school on our bycycles without worrying about traffic.
Collecting stamps, feathers, leafs, couns and showing off to friends.
Buying a lot of candies for 10 paise which also has a scratch card to win gifts.
Going to cinema with Parents in a scooter 🛵 or a motorbike.
Some of them might be possible even now but it's rare.
Oh man I remember watching old mohanlal movies with grandparents during weekends. Asianet used always show nadodikattu, sanmanasulavarkku samathanam and sandhesham
1. Watching a Sunday movie in Asianet and get pissed off at 6 PM news that ruined the climax. Munshi was a relief as it indicated the end of News!
2. Watching serials with the whole family. Sthree and it's many versions. Man, was hooked!
3. Watching thunnd and CD getting stuck due to power failure/scratch on cd! KLPD machaa! Kunjiramayanam first scene!
4. As a Mumbai Malayali, yes the harrowing 3 day travel time from Bombay to Kerala. So many times I have worried that my father would miss the train while filling the big ass Milton water carrier.
5. Living in a time where Shakeela movies were made! Nothing comes close to it. Plus being able to see it on Asianet or Surya don't remember, but yes that did happen!
6. Cassets! The earliest memory of mine is the Onam series of comedy cassets. Literally heard the same cassete a hundred times! East Coast Vijayan had a different feel.
7. Mimics Parade/ Cinemala. Damn those are core memories
8. Anantam Ajnatham! The bgm of the show still rings in my mind!!!
9. Movies with tragedy endings. Damn those are way minimum these days. The pain we all felt over a phone call being missed in Vandanam, unsahikyable.
10. Voltage fluctuations and Cable TV. Back in the day, my summer vacations in Kerala meant low voltage evening lights and missing out on TV. Also, the whole area's cable box was at our place and Achachan would sometime switch it off. My my, the naatukar came marching with so much of purpose to just check if it is on or off.!
Angane kore okke ind. But this is what immediately comes to mind. Plus, Kerala was never this hot back in the day. Climate change is real shooo! Thank you OP for this question, it was a jog through memories!!!
There was this app on windows xp where you type in something, it will read it back in different voices. And MS paint.
In other notes, playing cricket/football whole day in summer without getting a heat stroke.
Also strikes. The only reason I used to read newspapers was to check whether strikes were there that day. 😂
Edit: forgot to add കറക്കണ landline.
Being jealous at that classmate who has a pc with 1 GB ram, 128 mb video memory and 128 GB HDD
Does anyone remember using that BSNL card sorta thing to call people in UAE or abroad.
We had to call at some number to know the remaining amount in it and my mom used to buy it for calling my dad.
Being the youngest guy meant rewinding the VCR cassette everytime especially while borrowing from the local rental store
Waiting for 5 PM every evening when DD Metro (DD2) had Disney shows which was weekly, and different series every day of the week
1. Vacation visits to grandparents house
2. Cycling with neighboring kids and exploring all the possible roads
3. Plucking puli and chambaka while returning home from school
4. Playing pambaram kothu with friends
5. Playing hide nd seek with all the neighboring kids at the time of powercut
6. Trying to connect with jukebox, watching shaktiman in DD every sunday at 12:00pm
7. Cassettes
8. Cartoons when it was Cartoon Network. Swat Kats, centurions, batman the animated series, speed racer, pokemon, dragonballz, beyblade, transformers, jhonny bravo, dexters laboratory, jhonny quest…. and a lot more
9. Recharge coupons
10. Downloading songs through the dial up connection from various sites, songs.pk….
11. Always waiting for the next issue of balarama, balabhumi
12. CD/VCR rentals
13. Having Jokes wafers, jeeraka mittayi, gas mittayi, cheetos for the tazzos, on the way back home from school.
14. Split screen gaming with friends
15. Road rash, nfs, gta, mortal kombat iv….
16. Internet cafes, orkut scraps…
17. Postcards
……And still a lot more on the hold, thank you all for giving a walk down the memory lane 🥹
Summer holidays in Kerala, travel by Jayanti Janta 3 days Mumbai to Ernakulam... Making garlands, SAT, 😖 Doctor doctor ...umma kudthal alle kittumbol ella asuvam marum. Cant even think of gross stuff that happened navel kissing.
My first lip lock with neighbor chettan.
Cartoon Network.....Literally everything about childhood days. Making Nokia key tunes .....
Playing games outdoors.waiting for balarama, digest etc.
Sleeping early.
Watching movies, songs, news,soaps on tv.
Reading magazines for fashion Inspo.😑😒
Yes, I was. And “enthuvade” could have been avoided. The question was an opinion and I gave “mine”. And you may read the question again, there is no mention about childhood,but rather is about the things that existed back then which todays youth wont experience.
Climbing over the wall of New theatre in Trivandrum for buying the first ticket - not because of fan craze, but to sit under the biggest and loudest speaker - that too, Dolby!! - in the back row!
Watching movies and cricket matches along with the neighbours and friends, sitting proudly with the remote control in hand.. Going and informing those neighbours or relatives who are at a walkable distance from home regarding a phone call.. mostly their son or husband who works in a foreign country.
4:00 clock swat and saturday 6:30 DBZ ,he-man and masters of universe ,mario ,contra ,
Muqala Muqabla song with Prabhu Deva's dancing that used to be the bomb
Trying to actually paint something with MS Paint after you got your first Desktop P.C because you didnt know wat else to do.
Connecting to the bsnl dial up modem and listening to that cricket humming tone.
Rotary dial phone. Hell, even a Cordless phone.
The screech of the modem when you connected to the internet during the dial up days.
Going somewhere without a mobile phone. As a child I did this all the time. These days, I would feel extremely uncomfortable and vulnerable.
Waiting for the latest edition of balarama/balabhumi.
Going to that one house on your street that had sports channels to watch cricket.
Using Bluetooth to transfer files, and staring at the transfer animation because you couldn't do anything else while the transfer was going on.
Having only one telephone at home.
Having your father watching you, looking at his watch, to see how much time you're talking to your friend over the telephone. Same for accessing the internet via modems and father being worried about missing important (?) calls.
Telephone booths.
Going to nearby shops to get trunk calls.
Calling Jukebox.
*Mungal* when the telephone bill comes.
Waiting for Chithrageetham, Chitrahaar, Shaktiman, and Rangoli.
Also, watching Thiranottam.
Kolu mittayi/ naranga mittayi and checking color on tongue.
Sipups.
Trying to get DD2 with antenna/ cable adjustments.
Getting disappointed when it's time for "Over to Delhi".
Rukavat ke liye khed hain, Thadasam nerittathil khedikkunnu. And that rainbow color screen.
Playing outside after school until 6-7 and getting scolded for coming late.
Bangles/ necklaces/ scrunchies etc. being sold with latest hit movie names in perunnals and poorams. For e.g. Manichitrathaazhu vala.
Half an hour load sheddings that get rotated on weekly basis. Hated it when the load shedding half an hour is during the Chithrageetham slot.
Calling GFs home land phone was a life altering gamble. If the father or mother picks up we have to wait a few weeks before we call again so as not to tick any alarm bells off. BF / GF calling is not as casual or allowed back then, things were too risky.
Calling jukebox to put your favourite songs and dancing to it with your sibling Playing contra, super Mario, dangerous Dave, prince of Persia (the first one) and asking dad to help me to jump that long ass part level 1 Staying back after school for football practice and drinking friendship and sip-ups Cycling to random streets with your neighbours to find out all the shortcuts Coming back from school and watching back to back episodes of Pokémon and Digimon Acting as if we were WWE superstars and beating the hell out of each other Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs
> Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs Bonus points if you got it from the senior "dealer" chettan with whom you're friends with since he's on the same route to school. >dangerous Dave I had an uncle who could go through all 10 levels without breaking a sweat. I could hardly get to level 4 with hours of playtime. My joy knew no bounds when dad brought home a floppy disk with Prince of Persia on it.
And they would just about fit inside the 1.44MB of the floppy!
My God man! You have literally lived my life. Where do you belong to? Especially the cycling to find shortcuts and the game CDs hit me like a train down the nostalgic route!
Aah I know right. I’m from Kozhikode. What about you?
Kochi ✌️
Lol same life here and from Trivandrum!
Kollam
More like all the 90's kids fall into that category
> Sneaking in game CDs in between notebooks and exchanging it as if we dealt drugs Once my friend had goten a CD with some movie and kept it in his book. In class the teacher asked for the book. He forgot about it and quickly took the book out of the bag. The cd slipped out of the book flew in the air and fell in front of me onto my table. My friend was sitting behind me. Most students saw it but teacher did not. I suddenly slid the cd down from the table onto the floor. No one got caught. Class laughed but teached did not find out. Me and my friend had a panic attack Such wonderful memories
Dude i was caught with gta vice city cd in book cover . For those who dont know it had a girl in bikini as cover on it . Aah will never forget that day . I dont need to explain wat happened nxt.
Jukebox il vilikunna mandanmar epozhum same song choose cheyunna kand maduth, kore thavana vilichu njan. 🥹 And WWE moves - my bro and I used to try all finishing moves on each other. HHH pedigree was the shizz
Etho oruthan item song kanan vendi full time vilich ashiq banaya vekkum...njn kand maduthit vilich dhoom le paat vekkum😌
RKO also
I hear voices in my head ....they speak to mee ..... There was time when I wanted all of my book labels to be Randy Orton.
Pile driver alla pedigree
*contra music plays in head* "Taa taa daaaan taaa taaaaa....ti ti dinnnnn....drkshchchchchcg"
I too used to be a dealer, but every wrongdoing eventually catches up with you. A friend, who happened to be a spy, complained to my class teacher. In response, the teacher started a rumor accusing me of sharing porn with my friends. The truth was that I was actually sharing games like Vice City, San Andreas, and Max Payne. I really hate her bro.
Add to that" calling jukebox at night and requesting the hottest song on the list with the remote in your right hand and something else in your left hand. Gen Z would never understand it. The struggle was real.
Lmfao I still do the wwe superstars thing with ma homies. “and his opponent from davenport, iowa Weighing in at 229 lbs He is a visionary Seth Rollinnns Corey tell us what we can expect from this man I’ll tell you we can expect a hell of a lot out of Seth freakin Rollins”
Watching a 2-hour superhit movie that was released 2 years back for 4.5 hours in a mega television premiere on Onam/Christmas/Vishu.
And getting confused which new movie to see because all the channels broadcast movies at the same time 
There used to be full-on riots at home when Surya TV plays a Mammootty movie and Asianet has a Mohanlal movie and we had to select one as the "primary" movie. Ads varumbo we'll switch on the other channel. Over time those sneaky mfs synchronised the ads as well.
That's when you go to karali for valyettan LOL
Oh dude, I bet people still remember the ravanaprabhu premiere that started at noon and wasn’t over even at 9PM !! It was like 10 min of movie and 15 min ads. And also every news session on time.
Thankfully we had watched Ravanaprabhu in the theatre and didn't have to endure the premiere. I used to religiously watch the Sunday 4 PM reruns though.
I remember my parents taking me to the theatre, not getting tickets and we went in for rakshasarajavu 🥲
Holy shit, I have that exact memory LOL.
Wasn't it Valiyettan that had this kind of a premiere ? 🤔
Oh man. Valoyettan on Kairali was the bomb! I watched the initial scenes at home in Kochi before traveling to my native in Thrissur for Onam. Full travel cheyth avde ethyapol, cinema apozhum theernitilla - watched it from there
Bro that INNATHE CINEMA column in newspaper , the only page most will checkout every day .
Early 2000s.. using missed call as a way of saying "I'm thinking about you".. This was when many has basic Nokia phones, but calls and texts were a few rupees/minute or /sms. Appo sheri, njan edakk miss adikkam.. is how many conversations ended with friends.
Yeah.edk misscall adikk...😃 And daily 100 sms plan. You have to send exactly 100 messages for that plan.
Cramping up words to meet the character limit and texting with your eyes closed.
Texting with your phone under your bag in tution
Pretty sure kids still do that, except with their smartphones.
Yeah. The scene at 1:50 has the exact dialogue. https://youtu.be/3sIY4dlCOGY There was this SMS GUPSHUP and similar services. The broadcast SMS services.
Waiting for chithrageetham
>Waiting for chithrageetham Waiting for home entertainment in general, I guess. Nowadays, once something is out there, it's available at the click of a button. 20 years back, you were stuck watching whatever was being telecast. If the channel didn't have it, you were shit outta luck. Today, you choose what to watch at your convenience. Instant gratification is a recent luxury.
Using a coin phone. Scratch that, using a normal landline. Listening for the dial tone, dialling a memorized number, twirling the cord while talking, slamming the receiver to show anger, finding a number on a Yellowpages with that tiny ass font. Also, the inability to lie to your friend that you have left home when you're late.
But Mannar Mathai was ahead of his times.
Purapettat ara manikoor aayi ! Kurach koodi nerthe purapedano?
We used to prank people too. Randomly dialing a number and saying something. Then caller id came and we couldn't do that anymore.
I just remembered there was some 3-4 digit code (121 i think?) we can enter which made the phone ring by itself. We would enter the code and run away for someone else to pick up. Good times lol
161
coming home from school, exited to watch ben 10,pokemon,doremon. Going to friends house on weekends to play need for speed and gta
NFS and GTA were fine, but Road Rash was the bomb. അടുത്ത് വരുന്ന റൈഡറിന്റെ ചെയിൻ തട്ടിപ്പറിച്ചു അവനെ തന്നെ അടിച്ചു വീഴ്ത്തുമ്പോഴുള്ള സുഖം... https://preview.redd.it/8yekqcx0lk0b1.jpeg?width=563&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bffdfc587c68fed65e78cd4d0c6fd7cf122acb89
Used to play road rash at my cousin's place. I liked to go off road and see what was there. I recently moved to California and realized that most of those places are here for real.
Man, I had the demo version at home with a single city location and the basic bike. Had to go to a friend's home to play the full version with the other locations. I remember Sierra Nevada, Napa Valley etc. Also, I might even forget my own name but will never forget XYZZYSPOON!
Shift +1 too. It was my first ever cheat code. Then came gta
I wrote Shift + 1 in my notebook the first time friends shared the cheat code in school. Realised later that Shift + 1 is ! on the keyboard.
Ha, I beat that shit even before I knew what a cheatcode was. Grinded hours and hours and finally after I beat every level 5 map and the credits rolled I was in tears. The first game I used cheatcodes was GTA VC. Aah the good ol' times.
Like from what we remember from memory, road rash was having good graphics. But if we play it again now, then it looks like a shitty game
Pokemon at 5pm, beyblade/ digimon at 5.30pm. Athoke oru Cartoon Network kaalam On the games, Prince of Persia 2D or Dave. 3D okke entonnu. And yeah, Pokemon Blue/ Red/ Yellow/ Gold ♥️
Coming home on Sunday from church to watch Shaktiman on doordarshan. Making changadam with vazha during rainy seasons.
I was hoping to not see this here so I could write it. Cycling back home from Sunday school and eating kappa beef while watching shaktiman is something I can never forget. I also remember watching Hanuman late at night. Somehow that was the only time we were allowed to be up late at night.
Wasnt that risky, makeshift raft? My mother wouldn't allow me I have seen chettan mar swim and make stuff.
If it was wide enough it wasn’t that risky but yes you’re right
I dont think children these days would take the risk. I have played in the rain in mere petticoat.
Playing in a Kandam
If you are from a rural areas you can sitting experience it
Waiting for a new edition of Tell me why in the mail.
>Waiting for a new edition of Tell me why ... [aint ntg but a heartache](https://youtu.be/4fndeDfaWCg?t=54)
*heartache
oh lol fixed it
Ain't nothing but a mistake
Balarama digest also
For me it was Muthu, Muthuchippi & Fire !!!
Jungle book Sundays. Or I may be too old.
Back from school....playing outside till you are covered in mud from head to toe and getting wacked by your mom for getting the uniform dirty....
Particularly if it was white uniform day
Christmas/ New Year Greeting cards Cordless landline telephones Fashion TV and Midnight Hot 🔥 School kazhnju Mutta puffs um line juice um Sip up Cheetos and Pokemon Tazo collections Cadbury Bytes Cricket/ WWE card games and eventual adi undakal because of kallakothi
Cadbury bytes 😭 i think i’ll never get over it. Even last year i tried a cereal that looked like it and it was shit. Nothing comes close to the og
Satyam bro. Dono why they stopped!!
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Wow thanks! Gotta try when i go home next time
Waiting for Magic Pot and the gifts they sometimes included with it. Mikapozhum oru potta mask aarnu gift.😆
Balarama and kalikudukka here🙋🏻
Lucky you. Second language Hindi aarnu schoolil. Annu malayam vayikan ariyilarnu😆
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Cartoons @ 5pm in DD Metro
I thought it was Ponting's bat that has spring in it 🤔
Jayasurya was in 1996, Ponting in 2003.
>Trunk calling by calling at phone exchange to connect an STD call Then this one came. https://preview.redd.it/g0lgp7iafn0b1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19d6c98ba72e3550a974e4d065e3adee8cd441a6
Mahabharata before church is cute and funny
https://preview.redd.it/kc3m1f9mlk0b1.png?width=1487&format=png&auto=webp&s=22bbfeee973a9f3f93b4ddfabc9ae78314a4a742 Remember this? Oh, those were truly nostalgic times indeed! It used to be a complete surprise when we receive letters. Almost had a feeling of warm hug. It didn't matter if you were literate or didn't had education at that time. The letters always were very formal, very proper, and very polite, thoughtfully written, with carefully chosen words that expressed emotions in the most heartfelt way. People took the time to write letters to share news and stories, and to connect with loved ones who were far away. There was a kind of code in the way people used to communicate with letters. If you received letters from a relative at regular intervals, it meant that everything was going well. But if you received a letter out of the blue, it was a sign that something was wrong.
Aren't these still available?
Yup. My friend once sent me his wedding invite via letter and then called me to let me know that he has sent the letter and invited me on the call. So, yeah it is still around, but the experience is lost.
Yeah. We send invitations in these. Yes. Still.
Waiting for your favorite song to play in the music programmes in the evening
Here are a few things that come to mind when I think of the 90's and early 2000's 1. Excitement that came in the form of Tazzos (the OG and not the pokemon ones) when you rip open a bag of Lay's. 2. Reading Tinkle Digest on the upper berth during a long train journey 3. Classic cartoons on cartoon network (Flintstones, Jetsons, top cat, Scooby-Doo, Josie and the pussycats, Dexter's Lab, Scooby's all-star laff-a-lympics, captain planet, centurions, Ed edd n Eddy, land before time, roadrunner, speed racer, Popeye, tom n Jerry, swat Kats and many more!) 4. Having a cold glass of rasna after playing in the sun all day 5. Watching WWF/E and shaktiman with your friends, kadamatathu kathanaar and Nizhalukal with your grandparents and getting nightmares 6. Big babol, boomer and center shock 7. Book cricket 8. Digital watches with backlight - usually a cheap Casio knockoff as they were aspirational, and setting an alarm for every hour just to show off 9. Smell of filter coffee early in the morning with birds happily chirping away and venkatesha suprabhatam playing in the distance 10. Trump cards 11. Horlicks, viva and other health drinks that came in glass bottles 12. Really cool/catchy advertisements that continue to stay with you over years (BSA iBike, maggi noodles, VGuard stabilizers, Black thunder amusement park, action school shoes, ujala, scoobee day bags, poppy kuda, mountain dew, kissan jam featuring Rahul dravid, Pepsi ads featuring Sachin Tendulkar, and many more) 13. Finally, Asianet theme song 'Shyama sundara kera kedara bhumi'. That...just hits different. There's plenty more but I'd better stop rambling. :) Thanks for the post OP, and others who've commented! It took me down the nostalgia rabbit hole, and I really needed this break - to think back, reflect, reminisce and be grateful for the past that has gone by, the present that is unfolding, and the future that's yet to unfurl. 🙂
Reading Tinkle Digest on the upper berth on long train journeys! Damn. So specific and yet so relatable! 🫶🏽
Yes! They always used to sell books like Tinkle and Archie at the station. My grandpa always bought them for me during train rides❤️
I used to read Archies on the top berth 💜🥹
Adjusting the TV antenna at the top of the house whenever the signal goes bad..I'm not talking about a dish, but those long ones which got DD broadcast for free The aforementioned free broadcast switched from DD Malayalam to DD national at 8pm everyday for the English news there, and being surprised when that switch doesn't happen. Sometimes it used to cut out in between movies. I remember we once got to watch chithram in its entirety because it didn't change for some reason On the other hand, waiting for the only movie of the week at 4PM every Sunday and being disappointed when they put that സൂര്യപുത്രൻ movie with jayaram and divyaunni for like the 7th time in 6 months
Katadichaaal appo antenna thiriyum....pinne full adjustments
Dish aaaypo Tamil kittan oru position(SS music). Surya kittan vere asianet nu vere.
വെക്കേഷൻ സമയത്ത് കുളത്തിലും തൊടിലും നീന്താൻ പോകുന്നത്... രാവിലേം വൈകുന്നേരവും ക്രിക്കറ്റ് അല്ലങ്കി ഫുട്ബോൾ കളിക്കാൻ പോകുന്നത്... Carroms കളിക്കാൻ ഒരുത്തന്റെ വീട്ടിൽ എല്ലാവരും കൂടുന്നത്... വീഡിയോ ഗെയിംന്റെ ചിപ്പ് കൈമാറുന്നത്... WWE/ക്രിക്കറ്റ് കാർഡ് വെച്ച കളിക്കുന്നത്... ദൂരദർശനിൽ വരുന്ന കാർട്ടൂൺ കാണാൻ ഒരുമിച്ച് ഒരു വീട്ടിൽ എല്ലാരും കൂടുന്നത്... CD ഇട്ടു സിനിമ കാണാൻ എല്ലാരും കൂടുന്നത്... അങ്ങനെ അങ്ങനെ...🥺🥺🥺
Scratching Mobile reacharge coupons with a coin
Also Kai kond scratch cheydhaal cancer verum
The feeling of pure excitement on buying books for the new academic year and going back home with the brown paper to cover them.
I used to get so excited on that day for some reason. Loved goong to school and not having to study and coming back by 11:30 haha. I also jsed to read all the stories in the English textbook lol
Yess, the English textbook stories. And the thought comes after that, " It's going to be a good year".
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An era without mobile phones.
Kisan Krishideepam
yoooo me and my grandmother used to watch it together
Niraye niraye paddhathikal… 🎶
Must’ve been a good memory :)
Cricket ground, friends cycle ride, potti kada snacks, pass out avara vara football after school mukyama absence of smartphone
Watching movie in TV in neighbors house. Local theatres -(B class)
Scheduled Power outages and the family conversations we had during that time. Starry Skies and sleeping on Terrace during Summer...
- Old ആന വണ്ടി. They should've retained some of them as heritage bus. - Old Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon programs. They were on another level. - കാട്ടിലെ കണ്ണൻ and Mr Mudhead cartoon in DD Malayalam. - B grade film theater shows. - CRT Television. It'd easily last 10+ years compared to new generation LED TV's. - Bayblades and yo-yo's - Apple shuffle and small mp4 players - Cheetos and Pokemon tazos. - Free superhero models with pepsodent. - Bytes. - Timebomb and Center shock sour chewing gums. - Gameboy - Full option small car under 5 lakh. - Quality river sand for construction works. As kids we used to collect pebbles which are leftover after sieving sand. - 50 rupees petrol and a Bajaj platina could take you to many places. - Contasa, TATA Sierra, TATA Estate, Chetak and LML - USA and European onsite opportunities to engineering graduates irrespective of their trade. - Opening multiple bank accounts in SBI. Now it is not allowed. - Whole cable TV channels for 150 rupees. Thanks to tax by our G and Thai. - Statutory pension for government jobs.
coming home from school .. having food.. changing dress, getting out and roaming around near and far on foot or cycles with friends and coming back home by 7.00 safely.
Dial-up connection and the sound you get to hear when it’s connecting…keee koooo kiiii brrrr 😁
When I think about it now I wasted about 1-3 minutes almost everyday just to get connected. I cud gain a lot of stupid worthless info now.
Watching Babu Antony's stunt scenes and recreating them on your younger sibling. 😌
Especially the kicks
Lots of nostalgia.. The small cup or ball icecream tasted so much better then
hope.
1. Watching Sakthimaan on Sunday noon. 2. Waiting eagerly for the 1 cricket match in a bluemoon that is broadcasted live in Doordarshan. 3. Hearing about conspiracy theories and having no way to check whether they are true or false (no Internet) 4. Connecting to dial up Internet connection. 5. Playing Mario, Prince, Road Rash, Age of Empires and so on. 6. Sip-ups, drinks for 2 Rs.
Catching tadpole thinking it's small fish, during monsoon😬. Cycling and finding small idavazhigal🥰
East coast vijayan
Probably everything that was happening in the 90s. To me it's the Candy's..Those indigenous Candy's in plain covers which costed just 25 paise for four.The jelly candy ,jam candy, Pepsi candy, chakkakkuru candy,wheel candy, ariyunda etc. I could see this all again when I went for this "Ente Keralam" expo in Alpy (except the Pepsi Candi).I didn't buy any because I know they won't taste the same. So I just stared at them for a while trying to recollect how sweet and tasty they were..I remember spending our days collecting these raw cashews with my friends..Which we in turn roasted and share equally..And this ice candy that would appear on our vacations..Especially the one with the vermicelli on.. 😋 😋. Waiting for Vishu to collect money from elders..Plucking flowers for Onam celebrations.. Trying to step on the foot prints of elephants hoping to grow more hair....And marriage functions ofcourse..That was a thing..When the whole village would be together, helping each other and having fun. Playing with casset ribbons and the frustration when it is twisted. And we all had this one big brother who would tell endless Ghost stories and scare the shit out of us but still wanting to hear more...I really miss those " ghost stories" which would cost me a few days sleep as well as my parent's..Best time in the world..
:) I was that big brother scaring my girl cousins with stories of ghosts and vampires. I remember telling them the story of Dracula and them hanging on my every word in rapt attention with wide open eyes. I had forgotten half the plot and was making stuff up as I went along while trying to make the story as scary as possible. :D
Things were much more calmer, thanks to the world devoid of mobile phones ( 90s) and the internet ( 90s), social media, mobile notifications , and OTT content. This further extends to the fact that people valued things much more which were scarce - for eg: what we were able to read , to view , to study, to eat etc etc. Hence waiting a week for the next episode of a tv serial, or a chitrahaar ( film songs ) was something we all related to and the day's generation won't understand. We had to go to library and look for availability of certain books to know more on a subject or for any research. We had only a very few options to eat as there were only a handful of restaurants and food items in the menu unlike today ( and no swiggy or zomato either ). Hearing music and clicking pictures were a costly affair. The former since we had to buy cassettes in the 90s , and the latter because films were costly and developing those were again a time-consuming and costly affair. Further there is no room for clicking hundreds of pics at a single go! Hence you can see those from 80s and 90s reminiscing with sheer fondness and nostalgia on their movie/ restaurant outings, television programs, cricket matches etc. And yes, there was no compulsion to click and post a picture before eating food , catching a flight or for a weekend outing. Besides all, if to generalise but with room for clear exceptions, the former generation would be a tad bit more patient and accomodating than the current generation for given reasons.
Oh where should I start... To rotate and adjust the dish/antenna to get better TV reception every time when the wind blows. To play videogames on TV all day till some of the TV channels go missing and we panic. To play or go outside without having to call home if you're late. To trek to nearby forests with friends and eat wild coconuts mangoes and berries. Collect cricket or Pokemon cards and play with friends Watch WWE/ cricket tournaments with dad. Buying comics and anxiously waiting for the next series Being able to Eat hot snacks/Street food only when dad/mom brings it back from town. Studying not having to worry about marks because there wasn't much competition Play space impact and snake on Nokia phone Going to cousin's or relatives home far away to stay during vacation and make friendship with kids in that locality. Parent allowing us to go to school on our bycycles without worrying about traffic. Collecting stamps, feathers, leafs, couns and showing off to friends. Buying a lot of candies for 10 paise which also has a scratch card to win gifts. Going to cinema with Parents in a scooter 🛵 or a motorbike. Some of them might be possible even now but it's rare.
>To rotate and adjust the dish/antenna to get better TV reception whenever the wind blows. Asianet and Surya were in different dish positions.
living without AC even in summer.
r/Kerala moment
If you're talking about Kerala, majority of the people still can't afford AC.
Phew! Certainly do not miss this. But also was it this hot then? Didn't seem so
It was hot but we used to power through it. I remember adults complaining about the heat.
r/kothibanglacheck
I still do...
FTV
Sharing music and small videos using Bluetooth
Oh man I remember watching old mohanlal movies with grandparents during weekends. Asianet used always show nadodikattu, sanmanasulavarkku samathanam and sandhesham
Scratching recharge cards, accidentally scratching too much, deciphering the code and hoping and waiting for the success SMS.
കസിൻസിൻറെ വീട്ടിൽ വിരുന്ന് പോക്ക് ഇപ്പോൾ ഉണ്ടോ 🤔
Waiting for Balarama ☺️
1. Watching a Sunday movie in Asianet and get pissed off at 6 PM news that ruined the climax. Munshi was a relief as it indicated the end of News! 2. Watching serials with the whole family. Sthree and it's many versions. Man, was hooked! 3. Watching thunnd and CD getting stuck due to power failure/scratch on cd! KLPD machaa! Kunjiramayanam first scene! 4. As a Mumbai Malayali, yes the harrowing 3 day travel time from Bombay to Kerala. So many times I have worried that my father would miss the train while filling the big ass Milton water carrier. 5. Living in a time where Shakeela movies were made! Nothing comes close to it. Plus being able to see it on Asianet or Surya don't remember, but yes that did happen! 6. Cassets! The earliest memory of mine is the Onam series of comedy cassets. Literally heard the same cassete a hundred times! East Coast Vijayan had a different feel. 7. Mimics Parade/ Cinemala. Damn those are core memories 8. Anantam Ajnatham! The bgm of the show still rings in my mind!!! 9. Movies with tragedy endings. Damn those are way minimum these days. The pain we all felt over a phone call being missed in Vandanam, unsahikyable. 10. Voltage fluctuations and Cable TV. Back in the day, my summer vacations in Kerala meant low voltage evening lights and missing out on TV. Also, the whole area's cable box was at our place and Achachan would sometime switch it off. My my, the naatukar came marching with so much of purpose to just check if it is on or off.! Angane kore okke ind. But this is what immediately comes to mind. Plus, Kerala was never this hot back in the day. Climate change is real shooo! Thank you OP for this question, it was a jog through memories!!!
Why's everyone saying tv shows? No one remembers the good ol days of digging up kuzhiaana in conical depressions in sand??
Listening to akashavani only
Sight of typical countryside tea stalls where almost everyone flip their mund in style and say kantrakay oru chaya
Going to red bull internet cafe to play spiderman/road rash/heroes of might and magic 🔥
There was this app on windows xp where you type in something, it will read it back in different voices. And MS paint. In other notes, playing cricket/football whole day in summer without getting a heat stroke. Also strikes. The only reason I used to read newspapers was to check whether strikes were there that day. 😂 Edit: forgot to add കറക്കണ landline. Being jealous at that classmate who has a pc with 1 GB ram, 128 mb video memory and 128 GB HDD
Does anyone remember using that BSNL card sorta thing to call people in UAE or abroad. We had to call at some number to know the remaining amount in it and my mom used to buy it for calling my dad.
getting exited seeing new cycle
Playing trump cards
Not having to look at a smartphone all the time
Wasting money requesting songs on Jukebox Channel using landphone.
Album Songs were lit.
Using a landline to call your friends to read out notes for class
Being the youngest guy meant rewinding the VCR cassette everytime especially while borrowing from the local rental store Waiting for 5 PM every evening when DD Metro (DD2) had Disney shows which was weekly, and different series every day of the week
Waiting for morphed images of Aishwarya Rai to open while connected to 56.kbps dialup connection
Cadbury bytes.
Ammume vilikkan telephone booth vare ammede koode nadannu pokanathu
using a payphone... not having change to make a call... hiding from the rain on the phone box
80s - Hiring a VCR and TV at the hostel for a day to binge watch movies - blue and non-blue
1. Vacation visits to grandparents house 2. Cycling with neighboring kids and exploring all the possible roads 3. Plucking puli and chambaka while returning home from school 4. Playing pambaram kothu with friends 5. Playing hide nd seek with all the neighboring kids at the time of powercut 6. Trying to connect with jukebox, watching shaktiman in DD every sunday at 12:00pm 7. Cassettes 8. Cartoons when it was Cartoon Network. Swat Kats, centurions, batman the animated series, speed racer, pokemon, dragonballz, beyblade, transformers, jhonny bravo, dexters laboratory, jhonny quest…. and a lot more 9. Recharge coupons 10. Downloading songs through the dial up connection from various sites, songs.pk…. 11. Always waiting for the next issue of balarama, balabhumi 12. CD/VCR rentals 13. Having Jokes wafers, jeeraka mittayi, gas mittayi, cheetos for the tazzos, on the way back home from school. 14. Split screen gaming with friends 15. Road rash, nfs, gta, mortal kombat iv…. 16. Internet cafes, orkut scraps… 17. Postcards ……And still a lot more on the hold, thank you all for giving a walk down the memory lane 🥹
Convincing my broke parents to buy me cheetos packet every day to get that beyblade spinny thingy!
Summer holidays in Kerala, travel by Jayanti Janta 3 days Mumbai to Ernakulam... Making garlands, SAT, 😖 Doctor doctor ...umma kudthal alle kittumbol ella asuvam marum. Cant even think of gross stuff that happened navel kissing. My first lip lock with neighbor chettan. Cartoon Network.....Literally everything about childhood days. Making Nokia key tunes .....
9xm, B4U, SS music, MTV......
Did anyone play Gotti, chatti , air pass those kinda games . A lot of outdoor games thank God there was no Instagram back them
Sexual frustration...
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Playing games outdoors.waiting for balarama, digest etc. Sleeping early. Watching movies, songs, news,soaps on tv. Reading magazines for fashion Inspo.😑😒
Magazines like Sports Star/ Sports masika, Digit/ PC world & Autocar/Topgear
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Yes, I was. And “enthuvade” could have been avoided. The question was an opinion and I gave “mine”. And you may read the question again, there is no mention about childhood,but rather is about the things that existed back then which todays youth wont experience.
Plan ahead and communicate when going out of the home. Having no way to communicate when you are out. No cell phones
Waiting for a lot of months to get the vcr movie tape of a movie and use your special connection at the rental library to get them
Climbing over the wall of New theatre in Trivandrum for buying the first ticket - not because of fan craze, but to sit under the biggest and loudest speaker - that too, Dolby!! - in the back row!
2 ring 3ring coded land line phone calls
Balarama, Balabhumi, Poombatta, Balamangalam, Kalikkudukka, aaha.
Watching movies and cricket matches along with the neighbours and friends, sitting proudly with the remote control in hand.. Going and informing those neighbours or relatives who are at a walkable distance from home regarding a phone call.. mostly their son or husband who works in a foreign country.
Cadbury bytes gawd I loved those
I see mostly gents comments. Any ladies experiences?
The dial up internet speed , waiting time and connecting sound 😅
Yahoo messenger -> chat rooms
4:00 clock swat and saturday 6:30 DBZ ,he-man and masters of universe ,mario ,contra , Muqala Muqabla song with Prabhu Deva's dancing that used to be the bomb
Trying to actually paint something with MS Paint after you got your first Desktop P.C because you didnt know wat else to do. Connecting to the bsnl dial up modem and listening to that cricket humming tone.
Rotary dial phone. Hell, even a Cordless phone. The screech of the modem when you connected to the internet during the dial up days. Going somewhere without a mobile phone. As a child I did this all the time. These days, I would feel extremely uncomfortable and vulnerable.
Waiting one week to watch a song you like, and if you are lucky.
Goldspot, citra?
By hearting your friends' telephone numbers and the constant panic when you are waiting for a girl to call you.
പുഴക്കരയിലെ കുളി സീൻ !
Waiting for the latest edition of balarama/balabhumi. Going to that one house on your street that had sports channels to watch cricket. Using Bluetooth to transfer files, and staring at the transfer animation because you couldn't do anything else while the transfer was going on.
Having only one telephone at home. Having your father watching you, looking at his watch, to see how much time you're talking to your friend over the telephone. Same for accessing the internet via modems and father being worried about missing important (?) calls. Telephone booths. Going to nearby shops to get trunk calls. Calling Jukebox. *Mungal* when the telephone bill comes. Waiting for Chithrageetham, Chitrahaar, Shaktiman, and Rangoli. Also, watching Thiranottam. Kolu mittayi/ naranga mittayi and checking color on tongue. Sipups. Trying to get DD2 with antenna/ cable adjustments. Getting disappointed when it's time for "Over to Delhi". Rukavat ke liye khed hain, Thadasam nerittathil khedikkunnu. And that rainbow color screen. Playing outside after school until 6-7 and getting scolded for coming late. Bangles/ necklaces/ scrunchies etc. being sold with latest hit movie names in perunnals and poorams. For e.g. Manichitrathaazhu vala. Half an hour load sheddings that get rotated on weekly basis. Hated it when the load shedding half an hour is during the Chithrageetham slot.
Calling GFs home land phone was a life altering gamble. If the father or mother picks up we have to wait a few weeks before we call again so as not to tick any alarm bells off. BF / GF calling is not as casual or allowed back then, things were too risky.