Tell me what it means

Once a person left the house, you couldn't reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.

My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.

To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.

It is now safe to turn off your computer

This station now concludes its broadcast day.

That's right. At a certain time of night, TV stations would just stop showing things until morning.

You could only watch cartoons after school or on Saturday mornings.

Flying being a really fun and nice experience.

You could walk your family members/friends right to the gate without going through any screening. As a bonus, everyone wore shoes and not their worst clothes too.

My first flight I was by myself before I was even a teenager yet, and the airline had a specific flight attendant watch after me until my grandparents picked me up on the other side. She was awesome and I kept the flight wings the captain gave me for decades. It was not unusually good customer service.

In fact, before MBAs McKinsey'd the world, interactions at most businesses were actually pleasant... Nearly every restaurant or store actually cared about customer satisfaction in the before times. I can't tell you how nice that was having a social contract. It was a genuinely nice thing (*racial and gender provisions apply, offer not valid in all areas) Instead of expanding the umbrella to everyone, we drained the public pools and now it's normal..

Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.

Of course, you'd copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.

Insects. At night there would be plenty of insects under every singe street lamp. The windscreen would be full of yellow goo after driving in summer.

I think I see boobs!

Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.

Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

• Receiving junk mail Internet CDs
• Waiting patiently to record a song you liked
• Setting the clock and a timer to record something on your VCR
• The planet Pluto
• Wax lips and candy cigarettes
• Tang
• Translucent electronics
• Cheat Code books
• 1(800) COLLECT & "00 it's magic!"

Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection

I love how the title is "Tell me what it means" and then 747 replies later, no one has done that.

If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn't in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.

Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.

MTV only had music video

We had hopes for the future and internet connections made sounds.

Sound blaster compatible, irq5, dma1

The magic config to make sound work in DOS games

IRQ 5, DMA 1

When you call someone it was normal for someone else to answer and you had to be careful because they could be listening to your call.

It's a US thing, where the glory of SCART was unknown thus they had to continue using the antenna input of their TV to connect their consoles to, also, as far as I'm aware only NTSC has fixed frequency assignments. Elsewhere in the world you just programmed the TV to display the console's output on whatever number you wanted, or, if you had a proper input for non-antenna signals, switch the TV to "AV".

Needing to memorize the home phone numbers of all my friends

I noticed if the TV was off or on (muted and black screen) without looking at it, but my parents did not.

Want to kmow the weather, lottery results, TV channel program for the day and other info? Go to your TV and check the teletext

Y'all remember the turbo button?

Most of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" wouldn't work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.

Disk 13 of 18

"At the tone, it will be 8:45 exactly." Beep

MonsterKing is young enough that he doesn't know you could push the slider and it would work on channel 4.

My speakers used to be able to let me know I was about to receive a call on my cell phone.

The random one that I remember and don't see anywhere, is the tv getting staticky whenever we ran the microwave

Failing at a pc game wasn't necessarily on you. It could also be on the dirt gathered by the ball inside your mouse. Later, of course, you realized it was on you all along.

I would go to the video rental store to play video games.

I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV

I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)

TV had an end. After a last program or movie that ended after midnight, broadcast stopped and it only showed the test card.

When you bought a thing you owned it.

Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.

I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler's mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.

When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to 'warm up'. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.

Oh man… I said “box art” the other day and my buddies daughter pointedly asked what I was talking about :-)

Smoking or non-smoking?

Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+

I remember summers without smoke.

Game consoles didn't come with a storage card, so you had to keep the game running or restart every time.

To refuel your car, first flip down the license plate.

I remember when printers would print without being sassy & extortionate.

Let's listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS

Macdonalds and burger king Pokemon toys were actually of decent quality