Lawn darts.
Oh, you have satellite tv? Let’s see what’s on…
Channel 113, 114, 115, 116, 116West, …
The 19ft 📡 in backyard: wrrrrrrr rrrr…
…117, 118…The excitement of being able to go to Shop-Ko to buy a telephone for the first time.
Why is this repost still reaching the top of my feed.
Hit the coin return button on everything and randomly get lucky once in a while.
Let’s listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS
I referred to Jennifer Connolly as Stifler’s mom and this zoomer gave me a blank stare.
I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV
I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)
I still dream in black and white.
The sounds your computer would make if it was connecting to dialup Internet, or the sound you would hear if someone was using said dialup and you picked up the phone.
PC speakers and how they differed from regular speakers, or the fact that you needed a sound card if you wanted sound that wasn’t just beeps.
Lights on mean going home
0181 811 81 81
Or 081 811 8181
01 811 8055
I just have missed this when I was younger…
This is the first reference I’ve seen here that I didn’t immediately understand. Curious.
It’s likely you’re not from the right country.
Here’s any that’s very likely as geographic as it is from a specific time.
Daddy or chips?
The terms “daddy” and “chips” are not related in my vocabulary.
Address 220 irq 7 interrupt 1 V42bis modem
Be kind. Rewind.
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.
Speed dial… Completely forgot about that one.
I never got to use speed dial, but it sounds like the kind of thing I would have. Or one of those things I would’ve meant to get around to setting up but never bothered to…
My grandma’s phone is still just 5 in my mind
Phones with buttons?
Yeah, that’s weird. This is a telephone:
I utilized my skills of tiny writing from cheatsheets to fit every phone number I knew only a folded sticky note that lived in my wallet for probably 20 years before I realized it was long past being useful.
I had that on a particularly study business card. I used one of those fine-tip pens and got about 40 numbers on it. Now I talk to strangers on the internet, and the points don’t matter.
My father literally had a digital rolodex device for keeping his phone numbers in for his early cellphones.
Ah yes, the holy book of phone numbers that was mostly written in pencil… Except for the few that were written in pen and then erased until a whole was worn through the paper, and then scratched out and a different number was written really small over 1 end of the scratched out number.
Also, calling a number to get the exact time when you needed to set your clocks.
Or calling the movie theater and listening through the entire recorded message listing the films playing and all the times they’re playing at.
Using a hole punch to make 5 1/4" disks double sided! Saved a lot of money!
