Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?
Staying up late waiting for the really good shows to come on is more emotionally rewarding than being able to watch whatever you want whenever you want.
Having to be on Channel 3 to play videogames.Rewinding a VHS tape and watching the characters jump about crazily in reverse to rewatch a show, instead of restarting like a DVD.
Begging your parents to get cable so you can watch high school musical on disney channel and stop being a social outcast at school
Not being able to watch Doctor Who because BBC America only showed the specials and SyFy only played Series 4 on a loop, so having to watch it in pieces on YouTube quickly before YouTube found it and took it down.
Being able to fill my tank for $5.
Passive-aggressive AIM away messages.
Also? Napster. So much Napster.
Not being able to watch Doctor Who because PBS was running a FUCKING PLEDGE DRIVE, and they moved it to 0200 Monday from 1600 Sunday.
Getting hooked on All Creatures Great and Small (and Peter Davidson as Tristan) as a consequence.
Only being able to watch cartoons on Saturday morning - that animated opening for Soul Train meant they were over for the week!
Missing an episode of a show and not knowing when or even if it would be repeated.
Video rental stores with $50 annual membership fees (on top of rental fees).
Friday Night Videos.
The excitement of being connected to the Real Internet and not just a local BBS.
The feeling of talking to your crush on AIM when someone else in the house picks up the phone :l
Waiting for that song to come on the radio with your fingers over the play and record buttons of the tape deck, just hoping that asshole didn’t talk through the ending.
Having to mess with the turntable speed switch to get music to play right.
Those cool binocular-like things with little discs of images, you hold it up to the sunlight to see the pictures, and press a little lever to change the image.
Turning a dial on the TV to change the channel and there were only 13 of them.
ASCII art.
Making little boing-y toys and jewelry out of the sides of the printer paper.
Shrinky Dinks, Kabangers & lawn darts. Also, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Dude, my mom bitches about the loss of lawn darts EVERY SUMMER
That’s because lawn darts were the shit. A big ass dart you throw in the air? Are you kidding? Freaking awesome!
I have only the foggiest memories, mostly of lots of tipsy adults yelling at the kids to stay the hell out of the way.
Pasadena getting cancelled because of 9/11 and the stupid America’s most wanted terrorist special that aired instead because YEAH THE AVERAGE AMERICAN IS GONNA BE ABLE TO SPOT A GUY WHO’S PROBABLY IN SAUDI.
Winding a cassette tape with a pen because side A and side B were different lengths and you wanted to save the batteries on your Walkman.
Dial-up noise, cell phones the size of brick. My mom sending me in with a $20 to pay for gas and coming out with change. Recording songs off the radio onto tapes. Dropped my cd player and had to hold it closed with a scrunchie for six months. Died in shock when I got an iPod for my birthday.
Rolling the TV into the classroom so we could watch Bill Nye or The Magic School Bus.
Stomping your feet and yelling at the pile of coal bricks (well, they’re cylinder-shaped, with holes through the middle) to first scare away the giant rats that like to nest within, and then carefully shovelling a few into the heater/fireplace, trying not to get
anytoo much soot on yourself, so that you don’t freeze in winter.Walking to Blockbuster every day during the summer and having the two movie rental pass and annoying my sisters by singing “I’ll Make A Man Out Of You” from Mulan at the top of my lungs… In public.
Browsing a video store for the films you’d choose for the seven rentals for $10 deal, knowing full well they’d all be binged in a single session with whoever had come to the store with you, arguing over choices and play order and whether or not to buy an extra-large bag of M&Ms at the counter.
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