I grew up in the 80s-90s:

  • We used to have to call to get movie listings and times or look them up in the newspaper.
  • We would record songs off the radio and hope that the DJ didn't talk at the end of the song.
  • Friday night fun was renting video tapes at Blockbuster or local video rental store. Be Kind, Rewind.
  • Computers had greenish yellow screens and there was no internet until the mid 90s.
  • Dial up internet access took forever, had the worst screeching sound, and disconnected if someone went to use the house phone.
  • We had to use the White Pages to look up the phone number of your crush, assuming you knew their parent's name. And hopefully their parent didn't pick up.
  • Rotary phones were annoying, especially if you dialed the wrong number and had to start over.
  • The first cell phones were huge and no one I knew actually had one. By the time I got my first one in the late 90s I had the ever durable Nokia 3210, which had no internet but you could play Snake. T9, anyone?
  • I've lived through rotary phones, touch tone pad phones, wall touch tone pad phones, cordless phones, cell phones, and smart phones.
  • I've lived through vinyl records on record players, 8-track cartridges in cars, compact cassette in stereos, boomboxes, and walkmans, CDs in CD players, Mini Discs in Mini Disc players, MP3s in MP3 players, and now a multitude of digital sound formats in literally any mobile device.
  • We took pictures without being able to preview them and had ti wait a week to have them developed.
  • We had respect for our elders and did not test our parents cuz butt whippings were an acceptable form of punishment.
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