memes

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

"I know accounting needs this on the 2nd Floor but that pile of papers is too big to fit in the tubes in one go"

Sundays were awesome because you got to read comics!

My first game controller only had one button.

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.

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

I still have a distinct memory of trying to get on the Internet and then hearing my dad's voice coming through the computer speakers. He'd been on the phone with someone.

Loading games from audio cassette.

Drive-thru bank pneumatic box slot

Edit: ok so apparently everyone except me is somehow stuck in the 1980s. And presumably buying betmax players so they can watch Robocop

I was recently at a party with a SNES connected to a noisy channel-3 RF modulator because the TV couldn't switch to its composite input via the front panel buttons, and they didn't have the remote. I wandered the house until I found a universal remote, then programmed AUX to match the TV and switched inputs. Just things you learn in the '90s.

Let’s go one deeper… you couldn’t play games without sliding a switch

Somehow I just knew how to get to places. Idk how that stopped.

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

Coffee and cigarettes, indoors, at a cafe, on lunch break in highschool.

Saving up paper route money and begging my dad to drive me to CompUSA so I could buy blank CDs.

Idkfa

"Mom I'm playing Starcraft don't pick up the phone!"

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

Type LOAD "", press RETURN, press PLAY on the cassette player, wait 5-10 minutes, enjoy.

The best selling video game was all text with zero graphics; Zork.

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

Renting the never ending story so many times the store just gave it to us after a while.