Old School Hobbies.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Although I was born in 1998, I feel like an old soul. My mother got me hooked on her disco collection, while my father got me hooked on 80's alternative music and films. And I was in for a case of culture shock.

Today, thanks to them, I now have become a retro nerd. Some of my favorite pop culture was fleshed out in the 1980's, 1986 being my favorite year.

I have a Sanyo Stereo Cassette Player, A Cassette Tape Collection, a Sega Genesis with Street Fighter II: Champion's Edition, Vinyl Albums, and loads of doomer shooters on my laptop. The Arcade has always been a childhood favorite of mine, and Drive-In Theaters are a dying breed, which I feel we must preserve and protect. I also read old Doonesbury comics and listen to 80's music.

I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say.

 

[Captain]

Although I was born in 1998, I feel like an old soul. My mother got me hooked on her disco collection, while my father got me hooked on 80's alternative music and films. And I was in for a case of culture shock.

Today, thanks to them, I now have become a retro nerd. Some of my favorite pop culture was fleshed out in the 1980's, 1986 being my favorite year.

I have a Sanyo Stereo Cassette Player, A Cassette Tape Collection, a Sega Genesis with Street Fighter II: Champion's Edition, Vinyl Albums, and loads of doomer shooters on my laptop. The Arcade has always been a childhood favorite of mine, and Drive-In Theaters are a dying breed, which I feel we must preserve and protect. I also read old Doonesbury comics and listen to 80's music.

I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say.

Born in 98 and has Max Headroom avatar =

 

[alix (dead account)]

Although I was born in 1998, I feel like an old soul. My mother got me hooked on her disco collection, while my father got me hooked on 80's alternative music and films. And I was in for a case of culture shock.

Today, thanks to them, I now have become a retro nerd. Some of my favorite pop culture was fleshed out in the 1980's, 1986 being my favorite year.

I have a Sanyo Stereo Cassette Player, A Cassette Tape Collection, a Sega Genesis with Street Fighter II: Champion's Edition, Vinyl Albums, and loads of doomer shooters on my laptop. The Arcade has always been a childhood favorite of mine, and Drive-In Theaters are a dying breed, which I feel we must preserve and protect. I also read old Doonesbury comics and listen to 80's music.

I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say.

I like collecting different kinds of money all across the world. I will buy an album soon to organize them.
And I also collect CDs. I FUCKING LOVE COLLECTING CDS RAHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Razzle Dazzle]

Born in 98 and has Max Headroom avatar =

Cheers mate.

 

[Razzle Dazzle]

I like collecting different kinds of money all across the world. I will buy an album soon to organize them.
And I also collect CDs. I FUCKING LOVE COLLECTING CDS RAHHHHHHHHHH

I collect CD's too, that way I can burn them onto my laptop and download them onto my flip phone. No iTunes, no contract, no fees.

 

[MindControlBoxer]

Beating up minorities, flintlock dueling, Morphine addiction.

 

[elia925-6]

* Learning French
* Playing Piano(Although not that retro)
* Collecting Stamples and Coins from other countries(Mine collecting some pre-euro currencies like drachmas and italian coins)
* Collecting Encyclopedias

 

[Rikstah]

I collect CD's too, that way I can burn them onto my laptop and download them onto my flip phone. No iTunes, no contract, no fees.

You got a laptop with a CD burner, thats some Y2K vibes right there

 

[Dark Agent]

I collect CDs and Cassettes

 

[Z0diacK]

You got a laptop with a CD burner, thats some Y2K vibes right there

Good times.
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Drive through cinemas seem fantastic, they are stil in the US? I will be going there in spring, I hope I'll find one somewhere.
I collect vinyls and CD's, mostly just gabber (hardcore).

 

[Sketch Relics]

Good times.
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Drive through cinemas seem fantastic, they are stil in the US?

They still exist, though it's probably going to be dependent on what location you visit.

 

[llillilll]

I quite enjoy walking, it is very niche ormold school i am not sure. I know some old men that walked 5+ daily but noone my generation.

 

[imnotdeadyet]

I quite enjoy walking, it is very niche ormold school i am not sure. I know some old men that walked 5+ daily but noone my generation.

Fellow walking enjoyer, I feel besides old people no one really goes on walks anymore.

I used to collect older (dumb)phones along with my old man, had a pretty sizable collection but had to sell them off a few years back for an emergency. Been wanting to get into collecting again maybe old Militaria from the region or stamps.

 

[haitoy0u]

i'm a CDs and LPs collector, but I don't consider a vintage thing (as people thinks about those). however, I love 90s culture (and I don't like the 80s).

 

[VaporwaveHistorian]

I collect old books! I waste 80% of the money I spend on this (excluding necessities). I have an amazing collection, started like 6 years ago or something, I believe? I will add photos and all once I manage to snap photographs of them. The rarest two (I think) include a book about Bismarck from late 19th century in Ottoman script. Another is a bible from late 19th c in Ottoman Turkish too. I had a Greek jokebook from 1940s but I gifted that to my most kind Greek professor for all he has done for me.

It's VERY expensive actually. I mean, if you want to buy a famous novel from old times, buying the worn-out 1950 copy is cheaper than the modern copy, but most of the books I got are discontinued so price only increases. Luckily some folks don't know how rare some books are and list them quarter the price, so I can buy them and give them a loving home. My Ottoman bible was 100 liras back in the day (now would cost a solid 200-300 with inflation today. And if the vendor knew what it was, it'd be listed in 500+ or so?). I got The Twelve Caesars in English for just 40 liras a few weeks ago (modern Turkish edition being 100+ liras... you'd expect English to be more expensive due to dollar but it's from 1970s and worn-out so I'm lucky).

I got a German military magazine piece in French from the Second World War too, along with Rommel's diaries in French (but it's breaking apart in your hands, extremely damaged, so I need to repair it as much as I can when I have the chance).

All found in Turkey, by the way! I'll add photos once I can, making another post.

 

[pronoundisrespecter]

I collect teacups like an elderly woman

 

[☯змія☯]

I quite enjoy walking, it is very niche ormold school i am not sure. I know some old men that walked 5+ daily but noone my generation.

I walk 5 hours daily, sometimes i do it straight, i really love to walk specially with music, is very cathartic.

 

[VaporwaveHistorian]

Cont. Old Books:

Left to Right.
1- Twelve Caesars, Suetonius. Historical book, primary source. 1970s copy, English. It was cheap!
2- Ludus Latinus, Latin to German vocabulary. I remember buying it but I don't remember why. I do not know German.
3: The God That Failed, this is straight outta Cold War and very damaged.

Twelve Caesars --I read the Claudius chapter a little too intensely He's my favorite, I took a lot of notes. Plenty of "God bless you"s, exactly twenty "I love you"s.

Those are mixed with modern ones and it's an old photo (I don't have many of them with me at the moment), yet:
1- Romalılar, a book on Romans. I believe it's a 1950s one.
2- Claudius the God, Robert Graves. Novel about the Roman Emperor Claudius. This one must be from the 80s.
3- Pumpkinification of Claudius by Seneca. This is a 1930s copy! Very old Turkish At least latin script eh?
4- New Testament & Psalms, this one must be 1980s, yet I am unsure. I had at least 3 bibles, some older and some newer than this. It's a habit to pick up a secondhand bible when I see one.

Ottoman Bible from late 19th century! It's a little damaged but the pages are quite intact. I'll probably cover the exterior to prevent more damages. Some discontinued war novels at back.

Part from an old German war magazine in French from the 1940s. The old owner had a hand-drawn map in it. I keep it in a cardboard cover when I don't have it out. Pages are falling apart.

1&2: Rommel's diaries in French. By far the books in the worst condition I ever had. The online store delivered it neatly packaged and fixed in place with rubber bands, but the moment I took them out, they started falling apart. Very much rotten. I'll have to cut out a paper cover and stick the falling-apart original cover on it. I got them for extremely cheap. Probably would be over 600 liras if they knew how rare they are. I gave like 60 for both back in the day.
3: That yellow book next to Kardeşler Takımı is about WWII. I didn't take it out, it's squeezed in. Either English or French.

I keep many others in a bag/luggage in a separate room I cannot access at the moment, yet some honorable mentions include huge-ass books about the French Revolution and a Latin-French book of church songs and prayers. I don't eat much, I don't go outside at all (except for market, museums, and historical places), and I don't need more clothes or anything that requires replacement. Spending the money on making a library, I guess.

 

[PraxHeadroom]

I fix old computers. I resell some of them but keep the best stuff for myself. Once I get some more free time my next project will be restoring a Sun Microsystems workstation I bought a few months ago.

 

[☯змія☯]

1&2: Rommel's diaries in French.

I like how the title is just "The Audacity of Rommel" sounds epic

In spanish we just called it "Marshall Rommel's Memoirs" sounds so fucking silly.