LPs.
Sure CDs are much clearer and space saving and handy. But LPs … it was always a surprise what you were going to get packaging-wise. You could actually see the detail on the cover art. Sometimes you’d have a fold-out cover with more info inside. Sometimes there’d even be a booklet! Even the LP innersleeve would have special artwork on it. You just don’t get that kind of packaging these days, except for more pricey special edition CDs.
Yeah, and there’s the whole demons trying to blow up the universe issue as well. Truly sucks.
Not that I’ve ever actually seen freaks and geeks. 
Things I miss? Umm… Uhh…
Damn my memory. I don’t miss too many things because I have trouble remembering anything that happened more than about a year or two ago…
I agree with Mr. Blue Sky: Looking forward to Christmas.
When I was a young adult I dated a woman who LOVED Christmas. The weekend after Thanksgiving was devoted to decorating, listening to Christmas albums and late in the afternoon we would build a fire, snuggle on the couch and watch VCRs of the old Christmas specials. Her favorite was Charlie Brown, mine was the Grinch. I miss that - and her too.
All the carefree, happy summers I had before high school (when I had to get a summer job). The extent of my responsibilities prior to that was keeping my room clean, emptying the dishwasher, and helping with yardwork. Otherwise, my best friend and I were pretty much left to amuse ourselves all day, every day.
My grandparents
My aunt - It’s strange to think that she is gone.
Locally owned and managed FM radio, before the Telecommunications Act (United States) reared its ugly head.
Usenet. Yeah, it’s still around, but thanks to spam, address grepping, and script kiddies, it’s a shell of its former self.
Byte magazine.
Comic books that weren’t intended to be "collectible."
Department stores in downtown Buffalo, New York. As late as 1980, there were eight of 'em there.
Free maps at gas stations.
AT&T before the breakup.
Being able to legally buy alcohol at 18.
Large independent record/music stores.
Dial-in bulletin boards.
AM radio before it became dominated by all-talk, all-news and all-mariachi stations.
The Electric Company
Running to stop the ice-cream man
Hi, Opal!
Chocolate Pudding Pops.
*fifty-cent plastic charms of bicycles & household appliances
*air conditioning
*naptime on a little blue mat
*motivation
*my grandmother
*doritos before they became nacho cheesier
*outland/bloom county
Good one, Scarlett67!!!
Mmmmmmm…pudding pops.
*Dr. Demento on Sunday nights, the folks fussing at me to turn off the radio and to sleep because of school.
*Walking or bicycling to and from school and not being afraid of being hit by a car.
*Standing on the chain link fence in the back yard holding onto neighbors wooden fence, looking with binoculars at drive in theater off in the distance.
*Sitting on the roof looking at the stars.
*Hanging upside down from the top of the monkey bars.
That reminds me: playgrounds when they were “death traps”:
Solid metal merry-go-rounds
Steel pipe monkey bars with rusting exposed ends (with nothing to break your fall but solid ground)
Wooden (and later rubber) swings with exposed metal chains
Solid steel sliding boards (not popular in the summer 
)
Three-inch thick solid wood see-saws mounted on four-inch diameter steel pipes
Tether ball (does this still exist?)
Playing dodge ball, kick ball, Red Rover, and Streets & Boulevards
Hell, playing ANY competitive game without worrying about whether or not someone’s “self-esteem” was being damaged
Not knowing what someone’s “personal space” meant
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[li]Bird’s Celtics vs Magic’s Lakers in the NBA Finals [/li][li]My friend Kassie, who moved to DC and whom I’ve lost track of[/li][li]Non-giga-plex movie theatres[/li][li]The Jacobs Field “Era of (Central Division) Championships”[/li][/list=1]