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

Loading CD-ROMs into a cartridge before putting them in the computer

"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!

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

My first game controller only had one button.

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

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

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

Loading games from audio cassette.

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.

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.

Idkfa

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+

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

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

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

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

Jumping between radio channels trying to find one that's playing the new hit song

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

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

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.

They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.