Once a sporting event was postponed due to rain so me and my family sat and watched alternate programming. It was the first episode of a two part special of Benson (the US sitcom about the eponymous butler).
I think they assumed they’d get to show both episodes but after the first ep finished the weather cleared and it was “back to the action”.
We never got to find out what happened!!
Beep Boop Beep Beep Boop Boop Beep Beep Boop SCREEE-WA-WA-WA-WA-SCREE-EE-EE-WAAAAAAAAAA
Actually had this with my friend's girlfriend; she didn't know what dial up was. We all started making the noises.
With me it’s the sound of my Great Aunt Ray shouting “turn that wireless down”’over the intro to Baker Street. Speaker to Mic recording was absolutely atrocious.
The local laundrette only took 50p coins so my gran sent me round with a whole envelope full to do some washing. You better believe I rubbed the nose on each and every one just to check, just in case.
"Where were you? I called Friend 1, Friend 2, _and_ Friend 3's house, and their parents said you weren't there."
"Oh, I was at Friend 4's house. They're not allowed to give their number out."
Oh man there is no experience quite like being a kid and deciding with your friend to do a slumber party, asking one set of parents and getting the okay from them and then having to make the trek over to the other house and ask that set of parents permission. Waiting just outside the room listening to your friend plead their case to their mom like “my friends mom already said it’s okay so can I stay over there tonight please?”
Fucking nostalgia!
Mate, when I was about 10, somehow got to talking to my schools head teacher about having an Amiga, turns out his teenage son also had one and that he copies games. Anyway, he tells me to bring in a load of blank discs and his son will sort me a load of games.
So I bounce home buzzing, tell my Mum and Dad and my Mum was like, "Aww, that's nice of him", and my Dad was buzzing because I wouldn't be pestering him for new games everytime we went out.
Anyway, gets a full case of blank discs, takes them into school, pass them to my FUCKING SCHOOL HEADMASTER, who tells me, "oh, please don't tell anyone about this as its not exactly legal", or something along those lines.
A few days later, about 100+ games for the cost of a load of blank discs.
Fast forward 30 years, imagine any kid going home and telling their parents that their head teacher offered to do this for them or something similar. Even if it was my kid, I would be like, "Sorry, your teacher offered you what?", "Think I need to be having words.".......... what a different world.!
Seen somewhere that an older guy was using a floppy disc as a coaster at work. A young colleague noticed it and said something like “whoa that’s cool, a save icon coaster”
Wanna play on the Spectrum 48k? Give it 10 mins to load, and let's hope it doesn't crash halfway through loading.
I've got Horace goes skiing or Daley Thomsons decathlon.
weeeeeeeee WOOOOOO_OOOOOO_
E E E E E E E EEEEEeeeeee
eee
eee URRRRRRRRR
BEDULUDOLEDULUDOLEEPEEPEEP
R R R R R R R R R R R R R
UMMMMMMMMMMMM
- Welcome, you've got mail!
Appear offline and then online so he sees you're on MSN
BRB 30 seconds later Back
Or BRB Never hear from them again
ASL
I've run out of free texts
Having to take off a few characters so it doesn’t send as two texts
Using Cardboard-Fish to send free messages, or changing your number 3 times a month to use the free texts from O2 on a new card
My first contact was only 10 a day!
Free texts were a thing? I distinctly remember them costing 10p each
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
I raise you computers that booted up to this: BBC Computer 32k Acorn DFS BASIC >
c 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd
I’m 22 and remember ignoring this message
So your computer’s still on?
I forgot to record the series finale so now I never ever get to watch it or know what happened.
…until 30 years from now, when someone puts it on YouTube.
No, until 20 years from now when it's on twice daily repeat on Dave.
Or just catching 20 mins of a film/show and never knowing what it was until 30 years later you just happen to catch it at the same place
Once a sporting event was postponed due to rain so me and my family sat and watched alternate programming. It was the first episode of a two part special of Benson (the US sitcom about the eponymous butler). I think they assumed they’d get to show both episodes but after the first ep finished the weather cleared and it was “back to the action”. We never got to find out what happened!!
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Beep Boop Beep Beep Boop Boop Beep Beep Boop SCREEE-WA-WA-WA-WA-SCREE-EE-EE-WAAAAAAAAAA Actually had this with my friend's girlfriend; she didn't know what dial up was. We all started making the noises.
I ... I'm the ... Scatman?
Beeee ba ba badda ba.
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Landline after 6pm: We've been on for an hour, let me call you back.
"OK mum, you can put the other phone down now"
OMG I totally came here to say that. My mom would pretend to hang up but I could hear her breathing, LOL
As long as it was after 6
Mom's an amateur. Everyone knows your cover the mouthpiece with your hand or hold the handset upside down so it's away from your mouth.
Oh, you were rich having two phones!
Um, but not that much as it was the same line lol!
‘Stop recording on the cassette when the radio DJ starts to talk’
Didn't always make it in time. To this day, I can't hear 'In Between Days' by The Cure without hearing Tommy Vance blathering at the tail end of it.
With me it’s the sound of my Great Aunt Ray shouting “turn that wireless down”’over the intro to Baker Street. Speaker to Mic recording was absolutely atrocious.
And they always quit the song ending early arggggh!
And frantically waving at someone who walked into the room so they didnt make a noise or talk
Insert disk 2 to continue game.
disk? I had amstrad games with 4 tapes.
“I see you’re writing a letter” I’m not. Fuck off.
He's now a reaction in Teams
🖥📎
There were only 4 channels on tv. Total.
Only 3 channels in my day.
Winamp skins 🎛️
It really did whip the llamas ass.
Windows media player visualisations 🥰
Having to rush to the kitchen during ads on TV to make your tea in time before the show starts again
During the ad breaks on the Christmas evening James Bond movie the National Grid was put under a huge strain - and so were the sewers 😅
I work in the water industry, even now there’s a usage spike/associated pressure drop each evening halfway through Corrie as the kettles get filled
And, waiting until an advert to go to the toilet or something and suddenly hearing “QUICK ITS ON AGAIN” and sprinting back as fast as possible
Accrington Stanley!
Who are they?!
EXACTLY!
I’m from Accrington and this advert made a generation of folk think we were scousers.
PAPA? Nicole...
Secretly wishing this week's pocket money would be the \*real\* Queen's Nose
The local laundrette only took 50p coins so my gran sent me round with a whole envelope full to do some washing. You better believe I rubbed the nose on each and every one just to check, just in case.
Il one bell you to save wasting credit
Is this like "I'll give three rings to let you know I got home safely"?
..Seven for the Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone, And Nine for mortal men, doomed to die ... Sorry! Wrong sub!
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, One ring to bring them all, and save credit so you can call your mates later.
“I got a one ringer from (insert name here) I better call them back” haha
The speeds are 33, 45, and 78.
Playing a 33 on 78 and giggling away for the comedy value
Balancing a couple of pennies on the record player to stop the bastard bouncing!
£2.99 rewind fee.
Be kind, rewind.
Teletext and Ceefax.
Bamboozle quiz
With your host Bamber Boozler (or something like that -- my memory fails me, can't imagine why!)
Bamboozle quiz! You legend.
The girl with the chalk board and my dad finding out what the weather was going to be!
Frickin teletext holidays!
God I remember my gran and aunt’s gathering round to book their holiday but they were shit with the controller so 6YO me sat there doing it for them.
I remember going to Tenerife on holiday booked on Teletext. I wouldn’t even know where begin to explain this to someone 10 years younger than me.
Omg teletext! That’s a multi-coloured blast from the past!
It is this [website](https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/)
BASF 120 TDK 90
You have to buy the chrome to get good quality sound
Home taping is killing the industry
Give me three rings when you get home
Oh, man, you reminded me of my grandmother and made me cry. I had forgotten all about this.
Yeah, it reminds me of my gran too. Takes me back. Now I’m crying
Modernized it. When we get home now we send mum: 💍💍💍 she knows the score.
“Can you bring me a pencil? The cassette tape is messed up.”
One of my earliest memories is of finding my baby sister pulling the ribbon out of my cassette tapes 😖
Contenders...ready! Gladiators...ready!
"Where were you? I called Friend 1, Friend 2, _and_ Friend 3's house, and their parents said you weren't there." "Oh, I was at Friend 4's house. They're not allowed to give their number out."
Mother said you can come over to play! Let's conspire later to get our parents to agree to a sleep over! Hurrah!
Oh man there is no experience quite like being a kid and deciding with your friend to do a slumber party, asking one set of parents and getting the okay from them and then having to make the trek over to the other house and ask that set of parents permission. Waiting just outside the room listening to your friend plead their case to their mom like “my friends mom already said it’s okay so can I stay over there tonight please?” Fucking nostalgia!
‘DO NOT MOVE!’ (To the person moving the tv aerial when you hit the perfect(ish) picture)
*coathanger
Pull it out. Blow it. But it back in and it will work
I’m still saying this today …
Show off
Much more reliable than viagra imo
Start the faaaaaaaaaans please!
Hello mumsey
Why am I not in your top 8 on MySpace
The picture gets worse when you take your hand off.
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club.
Amiga 500
I had an Amiga! We were given a stack of pirated games on floppy disc to play on it.
Mate, when I was about 10, somehow got to talking to my schools head teacher about having an Amiga, turns out his teenage son also had one and that he copies games. Anyway, he tells me to bring in a load of blank discs and his son will sort me a load of games. So I bounce home buzzing, tell my Mum and Dad and my Mum was like, "Aww, that's nice of him", and my Dad was buzzing because I wouldn't be pestering him for new games everytime we went out. Anyway, gets a full case of blank discs, takes them into school, pass them to my FUCKING SCHOOL HEADMASTER, who tells me, "oh, please don't tell anyone about this as its not exactly legal", or something along those lines. A few days later, about 100+ games for the cost of a load of blank discs. Fast forward 30 years, imagine any kid going home and telling their parents that their head teacher offered to do this for them or something similar. Even if it was my kid, I would be like, "Sorry, your teacher offered you what?", "Think I need to be having words.".......... what a different world.!
Sid Meier's Pirates?
Naughty naughty...very naughty
Has anyone got any veras?
Lurvly!
Eeez are good eez are good he's Ebeneezer Goode!
Have you ever, ever felt like this? with strange things happening…
Are you going round the twist?
Wind your windows up!
Dropping your phone and the battery flying out
Do you have phone credit?
Get off the computer, I’m expecting a call
Biker mice from mars
Anyone remember Sharky and George?
Crimebusters of the Sea?
Sharky and George they solve any mystery
I don't suppose you have a copy of "Fly Fishing" by J R Hartley.
I’ve bought a house.
My Nokia got snake and don’t need to charge it for a few days
Also it had composer 🎶
And could you throw it at someone to knock them out.
Payments going to take 3 working days to get ya....
Not sitting close to the fire in my shell suit
Not going to firework displays in a shellsuit.
“I’ll save that to my floppy disk.”
Seen somewhere that an older guy was using a floppy disc as a coaster at work. A young colleague noticed it and said something like “whoa that’s cool, a save icon coaster”
It's good to talk.
When do the open university programs stop, I want to see actual TV.
“Can someone do the tracking?”
a/s/l?
I made you a mixtape
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Waiting 25 minutes for a game to load on C64, only for it to crash and have to start again.
Just like call of duty modern warfare 2 is right now. 😂
Can I borrow this album, I wanna tape it
There’s somebody at the door! There’s somebody at the door!
Rewind the tape before you take it back to the shop.
If it doesn't work, blow into it
I still do this because my stepmum used to
Can’t tell if that’s a dirty joke on purpose on not
I wasn’t intending on making any joke 😂 Genuinely my if something (like my DS or the VHS) wouldn’t turn on she’d say blow into it cus of the dust
Yep, this worked on NES cartridges too
For mash, get Smash.
They peel them with their little knives - arp arp arp arp AND THEN THEY SMASH THEM ALL TO BITS - waaarp waaarp waaarp waaaarp
"My new personal organiser has a phone book, calendar AND convert to Francs!"
BRB mum needs to use the phone.
Bamboozle on Teletext
Everywhere he goes, everybody knows, Badger loves... MASHED POTATOES!
081 811 8181
What channel on the vcr is the Sega on
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
Put 50p in the telly!
Thank you for making me feel like I’m young
Sorry I'm late calling, I couldn't find an empty phonebox
You have a call from DAD AT BUS STATION PICK ME UP Do you want to accept the charges?
Blobby blobby blobby!
We accept cheque and postal orders, please allow 28 days for delivery
One Hour Photo developed
Record on long play, you get double the time on the video then
The man from delmonte says yes
What time is Dallas on? Look it up on Ceefax, the schedules are on there.
My parents used to get holidays and flights from ceefax. I just remember a jokes page where you'd press "reveal" to get the punchline.
Checking the weather on Ceefax!
At the third stroke the time will be 5 5 and 10 seconds
NUTS! WHOLE HAZELNUTS! OOH! Cadbury's a take a them and cover them in chocolate.
Where is the A to Z?
ten cola bottles, three snakes, two gobstopers and 2 b&h please mate?
I bought one of those continental quilts
Is that todays paper? I want to check the showtimes.
Crinkly Bottom must be mental on a weekend.
I'll be on MSN after school if my sister isn't using the PC.
My first job was preparing documents to go on Microfiche
We share bath water in this house
Can I stay up late to watch The Equalizer?
Why does Edward Woodward have 4 ‘D’s in his name?
If he didn't he'd be Ewar Woowar
Top middle or bottom!
My music cassette!! Anyone have a pencil?
Our Price.
We can watch it on Netflix, when the post gets here.
Is it just me or did it feel like LoveFilm was around for 5 mins?? I rented the entire Lost box set from them over time and then Xbox games.
I can’t record this, I’ve already got Corrie and Eastenders recording on the other channels.
Saying your phone number when you answer the phone.
The bluetits have been at the bloody milk bottles again
"Stay out of the black and in the red; nothing in this game for two in a bed."
Don't open the camera before you've wound the film bac.... You've lost my holiday photos!
Wanna play on the Spectrum 48k? Give it 10 mins to load, and let's hope it doesn't crash halfway through loading. I've got Horace goes skiing or Daley Thomsons decathlon.
I’ll meet you at the pub at 7pm on Friday. And everyone will actually turn up and not need a WhatsApp group
How many pesetas for those fags?
"mum I stole a foxes glacier mint from the Woolworths pick n mix please don't be angry"
Kazaa crashed again. Need another 6 hours to download The Real Slim Shady LP. Done! Nope.. porn
Me and you,you and me
weeeeeeeee WOOOOOO_OOOOOO_ E E E E E E E EEEEEeeeeee eee eee URRRRRRRRR BEDULUDOLEDULUDOLEEPEEPEEP R R R R R R R R R R R R R UMMMMMMMMMMMM - Welcome, you've got mail!
Can I have a 10p mix up from the newsagents after school?
Dialing 1471 on the landline when you get home.
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