Anyone here feels unsecure when you forgot to bring your cell phone while you were out? I have that uncomfortable feeling everytime I left my cell phone at home / office.
On the 5 1/4 floppies, you and your brothers getting grilled and yelled at by your dad for leaving the disk on the CPU, which would then suck out the memory. Holding your cassette deck over the clock radio so you could record your favorite song. Oh, nope, that's the relative poverty speakin. Looking for a particular color, brand or size of shirt at a store; and then if you couldn't find it, physically walking and/or driving to other stores asking for the same thing. One thing career counselors told us to stop doing after Fall '01, physically writing and mailing thank you letters after job interviews. When searching for the nearest location of a familiar restaurant, looking in the phone book, calling them up and asking them what their hours are, then asking for directions: "what are the cross streets? Do you know what bus route you guys are near?" Then checking the directions against your road map of the city and surrounding areas. Cashing or physically depositing a paycheck. Buying a 20-ft coaxial cable so you could surf the information superhighway on your laptop in different rooms of your house or apartment. Physically renting a videotape at a store not called Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. Most of the rented tapes had blue cases, but some of your Dad's "grown-up" tapes had orange cases. Walking into a convenience store to pay for gas.
i remember another one... personal ads on newspapers and corresponding abbreviation: SWM seeking SBF for LTR.
That still happens to me sometimes when the credit card machine is broken. I remember at the beginning of this decade the gas stations I went to would let you pump your gas, then walk in and pay with cash. Now everywhere I go makes you prepay inside or at the pump first before they'll let you pump. Not me. I actually like not feeling like I'm accessible 24-hours a day. I'm pretty liberal about turning my phone on silent, and I often leave it at home. I need to learn to at least start taking it with me in the car whenever I go out in case I get into some sort of wreck/emergency.
What are..? There was a lot more that I just recognize as archaic things. I barely can remember the days before we had a PC, or even the internet, though we were probably on our 3rd PC before we got the internet. ISP companies are a thing of the past too. Hard to remember the days where everyone had AOL, MSN, & NetZero. Everyone just now see internet explorer and don't even realize there is a phone/cable company behind it.
I'm with you. And the thing that really gets me is how something like that totally wouldn't have mattered to me just a few years ago.
I remember doing this as recently as 1998. 2 years later I had a computer with a CD burner and Napster and couldn't imagine doing something so primitive. Man, these things can change fast.
Oh man, I've tried them all. The very best fix was actually pulling the cartridge back a bit, making sure that it was not pushed in all the way. Seems illogical, but it worked better than everything else.
1. Blow out cartridge, lick the center strip, insert game push all the way down and rock it back and forth and then slide another game on top to keep it that way, worked every time and although I'm not proud of licking the same game I had seen my buddy lick a million times before; I had to get my Super Tecmo fix. Jerry Ball with the sack on every single defensive play baby!!!!
I'm so glad the internet existed while I was in college. I'm not sure I would've been able to get my diploma if I had to go down to the library, pull out books, and do actual research.
My kids will never know the proud satisfaction of making a truly great mix tape. From choosing the music, getting access to the records, dropping the needle without skipping or messing the recording, and finding that last song which fit perfectly on the tape so the auto-reverse wouldn't have dead space. It was an art.
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