memes

Once a person left the house, you couldn't reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.

To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.

My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.

Flying being a really fun and nice experience.

You could walk your family members/friends right to the gate without going through any screening. As a bonus, everyone wore shoes and not their worst clothes too.

My first flight I was by myself before I was even a teenager yet, and the airline had a specific flight attendant watch after me until my grandparents picked me up on the other side. She was awesome and I kept the flight wings the captain gave me for decades. It was not unusually good customer service.

In fact, before MBAs McKinsey'd the world, interactions at most businesses were actually pleasant... Nearly every restaurant or store actually cared about customer satisfaction in the before times. I can't tell you how nice that was having a social contract. It was a genuinely nice thing (*racial and gender provisions apply, offer not valid in all areas) Instead of expanding the umbrella to everyone, we drained the public pools and now it's normal..

It is now safe to turn off your computer

This station now concludes its broadcast day.

That's right. At a certain time of night, TV stations would just stop showing things until morning.

Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.

Of course, you'd copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.

Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.

You could only watch cartoons after school or on Saturday mornings.

Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.

Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.

I think I see boobs!

• Receiving junk mail Internet CDs
• Waiting patiently to record a song you liked
• Setting the clock and a timer to record something on your VCR
• The planet Pluto
• Wax lips and candy cigarettes
• Tang
• Translucent electronics
• Cheat Code books
• 1(800) COLLECT & "00 it's magic!"

If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

We had hopes for the future and internet connections made sounds.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

Failing at a pc game wasn't necessarily on you. It could also be on the dirt gathered by the ball inside your mouse. Later, of course, you realized it was on you all along.

I love how the title is "Tell me what it means" and then 747 replies later, no one has done that.

MTV only had music video

The best selling video game was all text with zero graphics; Zork.

Smoking or non-smoking?

"At the tone, it will be 8:45 exactly." Beep

Sound blaster compatible, irq5, dma1

The magic config to make sound work in DOS games

Oh man… I said “box art” the other day and my buddies daughter pointedly asked what I was talking about :-)

Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.

When you bought a thing you owned it.