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.
Carrying files to and from campus on ZIP Disks.
NRRROOOOOOO BEEEEEEEEE BHROPPP – EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE – BREP BREP BREP BREP BREP BREP – EEEEEEEEEEHHR HROOOOOOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Red Rover. Grass clipping houses. The wax man. Party lines. Not seeing Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving. Directory Assistance.
The satisfaction of unkinking the long spiral handset cord to the wall phone in the kitchen and getting all the curls to spin in the same direction.
Hearseeno 