Sometimes I get a little sentimental, like back in the mid 90s, when the world wasn’t taken over by cellphones and the world wide web, and girls my age didn’t dress like they were 10 years older.

Those were the days, if you wanted to see the newest gear, you had to wait till your local news stand had a 2 months old version of Transworld Skateboarding. And you would read every single letter in it and look at every ad at least 10 times, so you knew what you couldn’t get… And in school holidays, you and your friends would go on roadtrips to Rotterdam or Scheveningen, cause that were the cities with “big” skateshops, so you could replace your ducktaped shoes with shoes you had to save for all your pocketmoney.

And meeting friends was easy, text messages didn’t excist, so you would drop by their house to see if they were home, and if not, you would just go to your local skatepark and see who’s there. Now you have to put a post on Facebook or send a group text message to see if you will go out and play. It almost seems these days people don’t know how to enjoy themselfs anymore without modern day technology. And that includes myself. I spend hours behind my pc, reading blogs and writing for FUCCIT. I almost seem to forget to go outside and play like in the old days.

You knew all the phone numbers of your friends and didn’t rely on the phonebook of your mobile phone. Right now, if my phone would crash, I would be lost! My best friends are on pre dial, so no need for remembering their numbers.

And the hardcore scene wasn’t spoiled by scene star attitudes…

Those were the days.

Turning 30 isn’t as much fun as it sounds…

Cheers,

Votske