What makes you feel nostalgic?

[dragos240]

I don't know. For me it's just Dos, windows 95, anything from my very early childhood.

[meskes]

I'd have to say it was when I rawked the Mac 512

[NightwishFan]

O_O noooo my avatar! :D

[jrusso2]

Any kind of old technology from Radios, TV's Telephones and computers.

[lisati]

The occasional mention in these forums of things like punched cards.....

[meskes]

Nightwish. I hope you don't mind. I liked it so much that I thought I'd copy you! if you would rather not, I can change it. I have a ton of others I can use. :D

[schauerlich]

This just in: things from our childhood make us nostalgic.

[NightwishFan]

No it is fine, just random chance I posted here and you were the response above. Greetings earthlings. :popcorn:

I suppose I will restore my edit and say the Pokemon RPGs for Gameboy.

[Irihapeti]

Sometimes, the smell of diesel and sea water takes me back to the time when I used to go out on a friend's boat. That was a highlight in a childhood that was pretty awful a lot of the time.

[HansKisaragi]

Whenever I play old games in Emulator or listen to some retro video games tunes on youtube.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTz5iwmtkrs

[dgw]

this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

[Eisenwinter]

Reading IRC logs from 2005, and seeing that I was actually participating in a conversation 5 years ago.

[dominiquec]

Mazinger Z. Wacky Races. Rolling a bicycle tire with a stick. Super Mario Bros. The sound of a modem handshake.

[NightwishFan]

Ah the modem dial, that made me nostalgic the other day. I wish I used Linux back then I would be a programmer now.

[frup]

Music most of the time.

There are songs that remind me of all kinds of actions I have done in the past, they invoke memories of how I had my bedroom arranged at the time, the people I used to be friends with and what we used to do together.

On the technology side of things some songs remind me of my first few times on the internet, playing games such as AoE 1+2, Warcraft2, Settlers 2, Pokemon Red(sadly shania twain seemed to be on a lot) Most of the music isn't music I liked but what my younger brother would be listening to while I did these things.

My brain works differently to how it did 10 - 15 years ago. I rarely dream now, where I used to dream every night. I was more creative and had more time to pursue things that interested me. Just looking back on these things evokes feelings. I suppose you could say this thread has now made me feel nostalgic... I could certainly type for hours about the memories the little things I have just typed out have raised to the surface.

[cariboo]

Watching Popeye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPmdb315upY). :)

[lisati]

Seeing historical events remembered on TV that occurred during my lifetime, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtjKp6DOBMw
My family traveled on the Wahine the year before, traveling from Wellington to Lyttleton. My memories of the trip include the smell of the cabin, and watching "Flipper" on TV.

[bruce2000]

Playing ZX Spectrum games on an emulator :P

[mister_p_1998]

the CBM 64...
Watching my five year old son playing and remembering how exciting and new the world seemed.

[EarthMind]

Cartoons from my childhood.

[kaldor]

No it is fine, just random chance I posted here and you were the response above. Greetings earthlings. :popcorn:

I suppose I will restore my edit and say the Pokemon RPGs for Gameboy.

Was there anyone from the late 80's/early 90's who DIDN'T have those games? In USA/Canada? :D

[Swagman]

Rain on tarmac after a hot spell.

the smell instantly takes me back to my (early) Yoof (40 years ago)

[Frogs Hair]

Traveling to a near by resort town , reminds me of the many weekends spent there when I was in highschool. Our battle cry was " Party in the Woods "

[swoll1980]

The smell of wood burning, the smell of kerosene, old Nintendo games, and Christmas lights.

[samalex]

To name a few for me:
- Anything command line
- Monochrome monitors
- Tinkering with old computers (8088 through 80486)
- Calling a Bulletin Board System using a modem
- Next best thing, Telneting to a BBS
- Floppy disks (which I still have MANY boxes of)
- The first Leisure Suit Larry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSGqnzK7xYg)
- Internet without of WWW
- Analog devices (phone, television, radio, etc)
- Listening to the crackle of a ham radio or even AM Radio at night
- Reading old Radio Shack Catalogs (http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/)
- Playing Atari 2600 or the original Nintendo
- Staying up late enough to see the PM light disappear on my alarm clock at midnight (I've had the same alarm clock since I was probably 10 years old -- I'm 34 now)
- Garbage Pail Kids (threw mine away years ago, and regret it)
- IRC or Fidonet when staying home 'sick' from school
- Trying to see what I could get into via Tymnet and Telenet
- Downloading different BBS apps just to try them out -- shared phoneline with Sister so couldn't run a board from home until she moved out.
- Coding in Basic and Pascal in MS-DOS or on the Mac Classic
- Having to 'park' my old MFM hard drive before turning off the computer

Again, just to name a few :)

Sam