I couldn’t play on the internet if my grandmother had a conference call or an appointment with a buyer

Having too sit and hold down the top of the vhs tape rewinder cuz the latch broke after my brother’s movie binges

Oh geez I remember that

Spooling the magnetic tape back into a tape after the tape deck ate it

The relationship between a cassette tape and a Bic Crystal pen

When 15 mbs was a good internet speed

Free cellular minutes after 9 pm

You get in trouble calling a different area code and spending a long time on the phone because the phone bill got high. You could buy a calling card for it. Dialing 1-800-Collect. Find somewhere comfortable that the cord reaches.

There was a whole numeric alphabet code before sms could support letters

“At the tone the Bell Atlantic* time is 3:35 and 15 seconds, temperature 65F”

Not having to dial an area code

The phase where you had to email yourself from your phone via text to get the address that people could send messages to you from email.

*insert phone company here, ours was bell at the time which from my understanding only exists in canada now? But with no internet that’s how you got the accurate time lmao

Teletext is how we got accurate time to sync our wristwatches that actually still had a functional purpose, if for nothing else but beeping every hour.

And man, teletext is still being watched by every third citizen. Baby boomers probably.

Boop, beep beep, beeoooppp, screeech, screeching *shrieking of the damned* and you got online!

Using a pencil to rewind the cassette tape is for cowards! Use your index finger, you p*ssies!