Post by youhadmycuriosity on Feb 3, 2015 13:27:37 GMT -5
The missed the annoyance of making plans to meet someone somewhere and have them not show up because they were waiting somewhere else. My best friend and I had a lot of "Entrance J" vs. "Entrance A" mix ups at the mall.
I love these lists. My favorite of all time is the one that has, "Answering the phone without call ID" on it. Who could it be? Your mom? Satan? You just have to pick up and hope for the best!
We used real encyclopedias. lol. Try the agony of going to the library and discovering someone you hate checked out the ONE BOOK YOU NEED to finish a paper.
Or try using a card catalog/the Dewey Decimal system.
I was thinking that too. I didn't even have a tape deck that recorded off the radio up until I was in 6th grade or so. I needed to hold my tape recorder UP to the radio and hope for *complete silence* in my house, no movement or rustling, while the song recorded.
I used to get so pissed when Christopher Knight would start talking over songs on Between the Sheets. I AM TRYING TO RECORD "ALWAYS AND FOREVER" FOR MY SWEET MIX TAPE, CHRISTOPHER.
Encarta brings back some serious nostalgia. Windows 95 seemed magical to me. Did anyone else play the museum game that was part of Encarta? I loved that game. And Myst. Oh man.
My dad's computer once crashed around '94 or '95 and the computer company had to send him floppy disks - hundreds of them - to manually reinstall every single program that was on the computer. LOL, those were the days.
Post by discogranny on Feb 3, 2015 14:42:21 GMT -5
Also missing from this list is when you were on dial up internet and someone in another part of the house would pick up the phone, kicking you off right before something was finished downloading.
My mom still uses mapquest print outs. It makes me irrationally ragey.
Me too. And it STILL sucks. I'm like, Mom, YOU HAVE A GPS, and even so, Mapquest sucks. Use Google maps.
She's all "well, I like having printed directions, and I know how to use mapquest, so I like to compare the 2 directions when I'm going somewhere new..." Except when it takes you the wrong way, and then you're screwed, but whatever!
I still remember the day I was apartment hunting in a new city and the stupid thing had me make 3 left turns instead of just one right. It did this more than once. I got so mad I went home and ended up not moving to that city. Mapquest ruined my whole life!
We used real encyclopedias. lol. Try the agony of going to the library and discovering someone you hate checked out the ONE BOOK YOU NEED to finish a paper.
Or try using a card catalog/the Dewey Decimal system.
I was right on the cusp of all of these so I experienced all the agonies on that list, PLUS your agonies!
Also missing from this list is when you were on dial up internet and someone in another part of the house would pick up the phone, kicking you off right before something was finished downloading.
My modem once messed up and dialed the local realtor's office. I have no idea how it happened, but it freaked me out.
I totally forgot about calling for movie times. Or looking in the paper. I wonder if they even list them in the paper anymore!
This makes me think about what our kids will be nostalgic about. Remember when you used to have to actually type out text messages rather than just sending them telepathically?? Ah, the good old 2010s.
My 8yo asked me what a phone book was the other day. He has never seen one.
We still get a phone book. I feel guilty tossing it directly into recycling, but what else do you do with it?
I always save one yellow pages... My husband made phone of me until a city wide power outage. Some streets had power, some didn't. Charging phones was a luxury and we couldn't waste battery on trying to randomly search businesses that may be lucky enough to have power. We ate those 3 days because of my phone book lol
Silly, but I always dig the newest out of the recycle bin and hide it. I don't like having to rely on technology all the time.
Before we ever got the weather channel, we would either look in the newspaper or call the time and temperature hotline to get the forecast.
I used to call time at like ten PM, and that way my boyfriend could call me and my parents wouldn't hear the phone ring bc it came through call waiting. Lol.
I did the exact thing. When it was my BFF calling, we would often then three way our other BFF who would be patiently listening to the time and temp for the same reason.