# I was into \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ before it was cool. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105 "2003-11-25T03:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Moo\_the\_Magic\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moo_the_Magic_Cow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/21 "2003-11-25T07:56:05Z")
PORN ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/22 "2003-11-25T08:14:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Forty-Six&Two \* > \*\*Iron Chef, dammit! \*\* Oh, me too! I used to watch it on the Asian-language station in the Bay Area. It’s a really odd station, it shows completely random stuff in every Asian language. 30-minute Indian music videos, Chinese soap operas, Japanese soap operas, Persian talk shows, and once upon a time…Iron Chef. On Saturdays at 9 pm. Without dubbing, just strangely worded subtitles. This would have been in…1995 or so. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/23 "2003-11-25T08:18:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*In my day, we had to FIGHT to get our music, dammit! \*\* Or go on IRC. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/24 "2003-11-25T09:07:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Or go on IRC. I remember the days when I’d ask about Mp3’s in chat rooms and such, and people would say “You mean Mp5, the submachine gun”. ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/25 "2003-11-25T09:08:53Z")
“masturbation” ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/26 "2003-11-25T09:26:17Z")
Am I imagining things, or were there mp2’s before mp3’s? ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/27 "2003-11-25T10:57:31Z")
Yes, there were mp2’s - I still have a couple of them. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/28 "2003-11-25T11:14:29Z")
The “Shaved Head with a Goatee” look. Damn poseurs. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/29 "2003-11-25T11:21:29Z")
One day, way back in that prehistoric era known as the 1980’s, I went to school wearing a blazer over a t-shirt. I thought it looked pretty cool. Unfortunately, the rest of my classmates thought this was the stupidest thing they’d ever seen, and mocked me all day. Three months later, _Miami Vice_ hit the screens. Guess what everyone was wearing then? Wankers. ---
**Author:** ![SJSB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SJSB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SJSB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/30 "2003-11-25T11:34:58Z")
I used to watch Ricky Gervais on the **11 o’ clock show** and thought he was the funniest guy ever. That was a good couple of years before **The Office** came along. Tch. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/31 "2003-11-25T12:35:57Z")
**Bruce Springsteen** (I remember when he had a cult following) **cappuccino** (have had some sort of espresso maker for 25 years) growing **herbs** in general, and making **pesto** in particular, been enjoying them since a teen–for more than 30 years ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/32 "2003-11-25T12:58:32Z")
Urban backpacks. In 1979 I left Manhattan to go to grad school in Colorado, where I found that I could keep my books, my lunch, my etc in one of this hiking things that people wore out there, and still have my hands free. I came back to Manhattan on vacation in the summer of '80, and all my friends mocked me, called it a goiter, a growth–one particularly trendy jerk literally refused to walk with me on upper Broadway because of how geeky I looked. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/33 "2003-11-25T13:01:43Z")
“Cocooning” ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/34 "2003-11-25T13:11:34Z")
NASCAR. Yeah, ok, it’s still not “cool,” but it’s a heck of a lot more mainstream than 30 years ago ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/35 "2003-11-25T13:15:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Qadgop the Mercotan \* > \*\*“rocky horror picture show” \*\* Me too - right from the beginning. Also - country music (from way back in the late 60s, a good ten years before “crossover country” and Urban Cowboy). eBay. Polymer clay, crocheting, scrapbooking – loads of handcrafts. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/36 "2003-11-25T13:23:16Z")
Tom Wolfe since 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." I told everyone how good he was, and ten years later they all agreed. Andrew Lloyd Webber since “Jesus Christ Superstar.” LONG before CATS and POTO. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/37 "2003-11-25T13:46:23Z")
Mountain Biking. 1982…no space-age aluminum alloys or suspensions. Basically, just a high-carbon-steel 10-speed modified to accept 26x2.125 tires. It was what a BMX wanted to be when it grew up…man, it was a tank. ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/38 "2003-11-25T13:49:28Z")
I listened to and enjoyed The Hives five years ago. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/39 "2003-11-25T13:54:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LifeOnWry \* > **Also - country music (from way back in the late 60s, a good ten years before “crossover country” and Urban Cowboy).** Late 60s? You’re just a kid! “Why, I remember when Hank was a boy…” Or the 50s anyway. I was brought up on country. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105/40 "2003-11-25T13:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > \*\ ***Pinkfloyd**. > > To me, _Dark Side of the Moon_ is from their new era. \*\* Same with me. And Dark Side was a step back, too. **Hill Street Blues** (from the first episode) **B. Kliban** (well before “Cat”) **Andrew Lloyd Weber**. I saw the first North American performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at my old high school (it didn’t get to Broadway until nearly four months later) and got caught up in it. I don’t care for him all that much any more, though. **Bruce Springsteen**. I reviewed his first album for our college radio station (it was sitting, being ignored) and immediately recommended we start playing it. I also saw him in concert when he was doing small venues (ours was about 1000). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-into-__________-before-it-was-cool/215105.md?page=3)