Once a person left the house, you couldn't reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.
I never really thought of it this way before, but we really shifted from calling places to calling people.
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..
I think I see boobs!
Thanks, pal.
Maybe use a NSFW tag next time?
My mom walked in and now I don't get to use aol for a month!
To continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.
My jpeg stopped downloading cause my roommate picked up the phone.
Internet you could hear, literally.
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.
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.
Snow. It used to last the whole winter and not just 2 days here and there.
Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.
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.
Flip the plastic chicklet in your floppy disk so you dont accidentally erase it.
Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.
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.
My speakers used to be able to let me know I was about to receive a call on my cell phone.
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".
A stack of 15 floppy disks for one program. Please insert the next disk to continue (I can't remember the exact wording). Command prompt to A:\ and having to see what the install program might be called. Bring amazed that CDs could autorun programs.
Want to kmow the weather, lottery results, TV channel program for the day and other info? Go to your TV and check the teletext
The random one that I remember and don't see anywhere, is the tv getting staticky whenever we ran the microwave
Using a hole punch to make 5 1/4" disks double sided! Saved a lot of money!
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.
Sound blaster compatible, irq5, dma1
The magic config to make sound work in DOS games
I'd like to listen to my favourite album, but first I need to find a pencil.
OTA TV stations used to have an end to their broadcast day, and they'd play the national anthem before going to color bars until morning.
Sticking my finger into the coin return of every pay phone, and if there was a dime, checking the date on it because silver coins were still floating around in circulation.
Same thing every time one of us got our hands on a quarter. If it was silver, we'd all fight over it.
I don't remember any of us ever cashing one in. If we found one, it would just go into a shoebox, ultimately getting lost to time.
1-800-CALLCOLLECT "imatthemallatboscospickmeup" and then get your dime back
Oh man… I said “box art” the other day and my buddies daughter pointedly asked what I was talking about :-)
You could only program like 9 phone numbers on your phone because it only had 10 buttons for it and one of them was reserved for 911. All other numbers you either memorized, wrote down in a book or on cards, or dialed 411 to talk to a stranger whose job was to provide you with the contact information of people and businesses.
Game consoles didn't come with a storage card, so you had to keep the game running or restart every time.
A wire coat hanger shoved into the back of the TV to get it working
Going next door to borrow the phone because you've been downloading something all day and didn't want to lose it
Being hyper aware of the current status of the street lights in summer evenings
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