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.
You could only watch cartoons after school or on Saturday mornings.
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.
It is now safe to turn off your computerTo continue installing a game you had to type in the 7th word found on page 16, paragraph 3 on line 4.
Huh? What does this mean?
Old anti piracy measure.
Games were on floppies and could be copied trivially. Games also came with a printed instruction manual. If you bought it, you’d have the manual. If you’re just playing a copy you wouldn’t. So type one word from a specific page so we know you own the game.
If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn’t in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.
If they were in the same city, you only needed 7…
IRQ 5, DMA 1
BLESSED THE DAY PLUG AND PLAY WAS INVENTED
Tamagotchi and a Walkman with skip protection
I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler’s mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.
Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.
Driving long distances to places you had never been before usually involved books of maps, pre-planning, a navigator, and help from strangers.
Once a person left the house, you couldn’t reach them unless you know where they will be and called that place.
I remember when printers would print without being sassy & extortionate.
Big caveat, printers have always been unholy hellish abominations that sense your fear and exploit it right before delivering that so important THING you need to print
Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+
That seems an odd progression. I used 5.25" floppy disks from grade 3 to grade 6, when I switched to 3.5" floppies. DVD came around my final years of school in the mid 90s and USB flash drives didn’t become widespread until the early 2000s, when I was already at uni. I remember Star Wars Dark Forces being the first game I got for my first DVD drive and that came out in 1995. I got a DVDR the next year with money we stole from the school. Me and two friends shared one DVDR because they were still so expensive.
