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

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

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.

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

It is now safe to turn off your computer

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.

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

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

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.

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

Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.

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.

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

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…

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