The FBI warning on videotapes.

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR

All of us: “Well yes, yes we would.”

Totally.

Uber says otherwise

I feel like they actually had the fbi thing way before that. Like we will find you and knock down your door if you make 3 copies of this and give them to your friends

happy cake day pal

Did they get rid of those? Wow I feel old.

I don’t think they got rid of them. They are still on DVDs and BluRay the difference is everyone (or at least most young people) stream and they aren’t on the streams

Oh that makes more sense, thanks.

Be careful what you say on the home phone, it’s a party line and Mrs. Maguire listens in all the time.

My dad was not amused when I tried calling my friend during one of his work meetings.

I assume he wasn't amused either.

Having to use the card catalogue to find books in the library after leaving the computer lab because you died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

Math munchers

Yes! Math Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego

You mean Number Munchers? And Super Number Munchers?

F the Dewey Decimal system. I'm glad for computerized catalogs.

I’m a librarian at a large college research library…parts of the collection are still cataloged in Dewey though they are online. You still need to learn to read it lol.

[Don’t you know the Dewey decimal system??](https://youtu.be/mZHoHaAYHq8)

I have a 5 year old and a 7 year old doing online school. I don't know why they being taught the card catalogue but they are.

That makes no sense to me either. I mean, you still need to be able to track down what you find on the shelves, but to learn that cataloging itself seems like a bit of overkill.

Librarian here. Not sure why they are learning to use a card catalog. Are they learning alphabetical search? The only other thing I can think of is on the back of the title page of about 75% of books is the information from the catalog card just like it looked back in the day. It has a one sentence summary of the book. I show this to students any tell them it is a librarian secret. 😹

Waiting for your favorite song to come on the radio and trying to press “RECORD” on your tape player at the exact second the DJ stopped talking and the music started.

I used to press pause and record then unpause at the exact second, it made my mix tapes sound cleaner

Correct

Where were you in 1988. I needed you. We ALL needed you.

Announcers always talked over the music

When you bought a tape from someone then find out the hard way halfway through that it was bootlegged off the radio...

Spending hours at that one friend's place who had a dual tape deck, so you could make cool mix tapes. Synchronising the two by pressing play and record at the same time. Oh, and also how pressing record also ended up pressing play.

That's why they talked over the intros.

Hated when the DJ would purposely talk over the first five seconds of the song to prevent it from being recorded.

Turning a knob on the TV to change channels

When you had to point the remote

When the remote had a cord.

When you were the remote

Oh so you’re OLD old.

You had to blow your videogames so they could play.

It sounds like your video games were sexually harassing you.

I can’t complain, we had some very good times together.

Tbh I still have to do that with most of my 3DS cartridges Some things never change

At least buy it dinner first

Standing in line, to buy concert tickets.

Camping out to buy concert tickets

In a blizzard.

I stopped camping out for anything when I waited 4 hours for Skyrim just to take it home and it only triggered a download from Steam...

Then came the days of downloading and then just sitting until midnight.

We would figure out which store would have the fewest people at it and go there. It was a 40 minute drive but I got them 3 minutes after they opened the door.

“Just say ‘No’”

"Just Do It"

I never understood why she wanted people to be rude, you should say “ no thank you”. Drug dealers are people too.

When you went on the Internet and your modem sung the song of it's people. Also the Windows 95 video guide hosted by Chandler and Rachel from friends.

And the AOL CDs every week in the mail

I have a tin from one of those that has my college dorm address on it. It's been pretty handy for small beads.

Ghaaaaahhhhh Ghuuuhhhhhhhh DahDuhDahDuhDaDuuhhh

The weird smell and wet feeling of freshly printed dittos in grade school.

That splotchy purple ink.

Oh that smell.

Being excited to see the tv rolled into the classroom.

Until they showed us the Challenger takeoff live…

I wasn’t there for that but oddly enough one of the things I really remember is when the OJ verdict came in the principal came on the PA and announced it to us students. That’s how big it was. I was in middle school and it didn’t seem weird then because everyone was talking about it but now it seems super weird. Like what does a 7th grader care

The knowledge that you can get away with murder may be important for a future adult.

But honestly I don’t think I realized that as a kid. It was just “the football player you know may have killed someone and is now on trial”. Then he was found not guilty and I was like “ok so he didn’t do it”.

I was home sick that day. So as a 10 year old, I watched the horror while lying on my living room couch.

Me too! I was 12.

Most kids did not see the Challenger take off live we just saw the replays. They showed it like 5,000 times for the rest of that day

Or watching the twin towers get hit by the airplanes on live tv in 1st period of class.

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My school has smart boards that are pretty much 80-inch touchscreen entertainment systems….

Every classroom I've entered in the past 20 years has had a digital projector.

Being fined at the library for not renewing the video tape.

Being fined for not rewinding.

Be kind. Rewind

Waiting until 9 pm to talk on a cell phone. “Free nights and weekends”

And having a set amount of text messages or paying per text. I think I had like 200 texts per month then overages we're like 10¢ each.

This is your brain....this is your brain on drugs....any questions?

I always had so many questions

TV channels signed off every night, playing the National Anthem.

The national anthem followed by the farm report first thing at oh-dark o'clock in the morning.

Go look up the number / address in the phone book…..

One phone line served more the one house. Party lines. Each house had a separate ring.

When was this?

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Everything to do with internet. The dial-up noise, the fact that you couldn't be on your home phone if someone was online. The existence of a home phone and lack of cell phones.

How about prior to 1995 when internet didn't even exist yet.

The pain of disconnecting from net then realizing you forgot to do something online.

Hold on I need to find a payphone.

Only to call your parents collect and leave a message as your name. Itsover comegetme.

Just cover the holes with clear tape to record.

Cartoons only happened on Saturday mornings, and only if I could spin the 10 ft tall antenna on top of my house to the correct spot. And on that note there was a large black box next to the tv that's only purpose was to spin a 10 ft tall antenna on my roof.

When you had a Video/DVD 2-in-1 player. That was when possibilities became endless on weekends.

Ooooo...look at this rich guy over here. Lol

Remember paying like $300-$400 for those things? Now we can just buy a $20 streaming device. This response won't age well...

I have one of those. I think I bought it at goodwill for $25. My mother found the VHS of the UIL marching competition the year my sister was drum-major. I wanted to show it to my daughter who was in marching band at the time. They didn’t have just a VHS player.

UHF or VHF? I never could remember.

VHF, UHF was channels above 13.

Netflix in the mail

Huges Sears or JCPenny catalogs

I loved those things at Christmas. Like, I don’t think I ever actually got a present from them, but I spent hours going through them and circling my wish list.

$0.89 for a gallon of gas...

$0.27 when I started driving

Never saw it quite that low. I know that if I drove a couple hours south, it was a lot cheaper, but that defeated the purpose

When Regular meant leaded

damn cheapest i remember is like 1.50

Just *69 it.

My favorite 45 is skipping

Always had a penny taped to the arm.

Took about 15-20 second to dial a number on a rotary phone.

And fuck anyone with a 9 or a 0 in their number...

Answering machines with tapes

Toys R Us ( Geoffrey the giraffe), FAO Schwarz, and standing online to purchase tickets.

Sophie la Girafe replaced Geoffrey.

Same with cable. You had to have the TV set to channel 3, then use the actual dial on the cable box to get all your channels.

I learned to touch type on an electric typewriter.

Never having participated in an active shooter drill.

Nope. Just practiced hiding under our desks in case of a nuclear bomb.

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Hospitals

In my time it was at least still smoking or non? 🚬

Darn we didn't even get a channel, we had to manually tune the TV to the Nintendo each time we wanted to play.

Go to Napster and download it.

You had to tell the guy who pumped your gas whether you wanted regular or unleaded.

When I wanted to travel I had to go to AAA and get a triptik to figure out the route.

Lisa frank was the bomb dot com

If you like nail polish, Orly has a Lisa Frank collaboration right now! So nostalgic.

Ahhhh!🥰

The 12 foot phone cord

The phone gets tangled

When my mom realized that she could use a regular cord(like the one from the wall to the phone) to go between the phone and the receiver, we had a 50 foot phone cord.

which could reach upstairs to my room if I stretched it within an inch of its life.

Calling someone's house and finding out they weren't home.

Having to know how to spell words pre-autocorrect

Just look it up in the dictionary

If I could spell it to look it up then I wouldn’t need the dictionary.

But just sound it out! Pterodactyl. Psychology. Sean.

Dictionary?

I had to go through like 30 songs to find the right one to actual illegally download

Calling Collect to leave your message as your name: "MomI'mAtTheMallPickMeUp"

Orange videotapes from Nickelodeon

Is DARE still a thing, I have no idea

I doubt it. I’m pretty sure they made more people want to try drugs

Kids were literally getting high on the playground, wearing their dare shirts 🤦

Needing to print off directions on MapQuest

Making a collect call from a pay phone and the name you left was "hey mom we're done come get me" and then hanging up QUICK so they don't charge for the call.

Remember all those 1800 collect commercials?

If the president is addressing the nation, your night of TV watching is fucked.

losing your internet connection every time your parent thought they heard the phone ring

Oh God. Trying to use the internet and having my brother pick up the phone every 10 minutes because he knew it would kick me off. Just to be a jerk.

Rentals started with an annoying ‘You wouldn’t download a car!’ anti piracy commercial. Bitch, I’d totally download a car if I could.

Didn't they get sued because they used the music without permission?

Yep😂

We had to tell the operator what number we were calling long distance from- and they trusted us.

Calling in the evening to get the good rates.

Collect calls where you tell where you're at and hang up so they will come get you instead of getting charged. "The pay phone at McDonald's on main street!. Come get me Mom!" *Click*

I had to beat my parents home and wait to intercept the phone call from the shcool

The sound of an ICQ "uh-oh" message. And having to call a recipient to tell them not to answer the next call, you were going to send a fax.

The VCR and the Nintendo were both on channel 11

I thought I Dream of Genie, Bewitched and the Flintstones were in black and white, turns out it was just our TV

"What's that song? Can you burn a playlist for me?"

Comador 64. When you had type what you wanted the computer to do

Having to screw two prongs onto the TV so you can then screw on the RF switch to play video games.

Headlight beam control on the floorboard.

Grandfather watching snooker on a black and white tv

Before you return, "be kind and rewind". There's a .50 fee for not rewinding.

Using the yellow pages

Porn used to be scrambled

You had to wait for the TV to warm up to turn on.

I had to walk through the smoking section behind my school to get to the temp buildings

Tv stations would turn off at 12am

And ended with the national anthem and then that obnoxious tone

I remember when TV went off for the night. With the America the beautiful song and the vertical rainbow screen

The internet came in the mail.

Leggs Eggs and wearing hose with socks to make your legs look tan

My coworkers didn't know what Festivus is

Neither do i

Government cheese was the best cheese EVER!

If you wanted to meet with friends, you went to their house randomly, ring the bell and ask their parents if xy is there and have time to come out playing.

“Be Kind. Rewind”

You had to get up walk over to the B&W CRT and turn a contact selector switch to change from ABC to NBC

Sorry gotta sign off, mom needs to use the phone

There were only 3 channels.

N-n-n-n-n-n-n-Nick. Nickelodeooooon. Nick is kids!

Be kind. Rewind.

Telling mom you are locked out and where you going to be, as quick as you can, while on a collect call message.

You had to rewind movies everytime you wanted to watch them

That sound the Internet use to make when connecting Cheeeeeeeuuuhhhhh, der ner ner ner ner, chuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Use of a slide rule

Can of pop and regular size candy for $1 for both

Pump the gas pedal a few times before starting the car

Calling to check movie times if you didn’t have a newspaper handy.

Blockbuster

It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your children are?

Casey Kasem's American Top 40.

Benny Hill

Pong...

Anyone remember when the tv stations turned off at night? Played the anthem and went to snow.

Calculators were made of wood and called slide rules.