memes

"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"

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

Sundays were awesome because you got to read comics!

My first game controller only had one button.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Idkfa

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

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

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

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.

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

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

I had a game destroyed because the recorder ate the tape.

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"