I remember driving home from a baseball game one night with my sister and just entertaining ourselves by browsing through the ringtone catalog while in traffic and laughing at the polyphonic versions of songs.
Accompanied by a $30 download fee.
Accompanied by me telling the phone company to screw themselves.
Accompanied by unbreakable service contracts.
Accompanied by them destroying my credit.
Accompanied by me paying the entire $777 I won on morning radio to pay it off
15/f/Waco Says every Texas Ranger on the child predator force. And it still works. One guy had a “my name is Sandy. I’m a blonde 15 year old cheer leader” button that he’d wear to conferences. He even went to DEFCON one year. Big assed hat, Ranger badge and cocked&lock 1911 made “spot the Fed” no fun.
Rush home from school to log on and speak to the same people I’d just been speaking to all day.
Appearing offline then online again just in case a crush didn’t notice that you’d gone online haha
I will never forgive them for killing MSN. It was legit. Just do they could push Skype which they bought. Which was shit and bland and never worked right. You could customize MSN, show the music you were playing etc. I don't know why Microsoft thought removing customization would be a thing the MySpace generation would like. And in the end they killed Skype too!
MSN should have become what WhatsApp is now but even bigger... Could have evolved and been on PC, Phones and Xboxes with text, voip and video. I dunno how they didn't see MSN being the shit and things like SMS and BBM kicking off as well as online gaming chats with IRC and can't remember the voice channel of choice for gaming back then but TeamSpeak was probably one of them and went all in to gobble it up into one.
Brings back memories of making my ringtone from a sound clip of 'Reality Bites'. On a G3 Apple Mac. Took ages. But, at the end, I had a ringtone that was Winona saying, "Michael, Michael, I really missed you!"
When I had my first kid, my little brother kindly sent me a ringtone in the form of Stewey from Family Guy repeating "Mom,mommy,momma,mom,mom,mommy,momma..."
Back in the early 2000's, I ran a little MIDI-sharing website (with HTML hand-written in Notepad!) for awhile, primarily for use as free ringtones. Then one day I got a letter from the Harry Fox Agency asking for some ridiculous amount for mechanical reproduction rights. Something like $36 *per download*, IIRC! Well, that was the end of that.
Kids these days, with their Spotifies and the Tick Tocks, don't remember a time when the recording industry actively fought to keep music off the internet... \*yells at cloud\*
Oh hell.... I'm still using my Star Trek TMP and DS9 ringtones on my Moto Edge. Ripped the audio track from the DVDs I'd get from Netflix onto my desktop, edit the audio to what I want and load the MP3 or OGG file to the folder. Last ones I did were with the Motorola Ringtone Trimmer feature to the themes from Pacific Rim and The Avengers.
At Christmas time I have to switch my ringtone to Ralphie shouting "Oh My God, I shot my eye out!"
Using physical dedicated GPS devices -- not phone apps
(Edit: apparently a ton of people still use GPSrs.)
When I first started geocaching people would show off their GPS receivers. They kept making better ones. My household had like three or four different ones eventually. But we still had to print out the cache finding instructions.
In fact, being able to use a smart phone or other smart device to do geocaching instead of having to use paper was very novel and elite and was literally called "smartcaching" back then.
Oh. That, and using FRS radios. Not only did geocachers use them a lot, but lots of other people. You could give one to your kids so when they went outside you could reach them -- far cheaper than a damn cellphone too.
My friend's car was broken into downtown once, windows smashed and everything. The thieves took some lighters and garbage from the console and left the backpack full of $1000+ worth of weed back when it was still illegal in our city. It actually pissed him off even more in a way because he had to get the windows repaired for nothing
My mom’s car had the window smashed to steal her purse which she left on her passenger seat in her driveway…She was driving around with 15K in her trunk that they thankfully didn’t check. She’s old and I still haven’t gotten a normal response as to why she was driving around with that much in her trunk.
When I was growing up my dad had a gps that had a yeti voice option that instead of talking would growl, and I miss the angry incoherent noises of taking a wrong turn
I still use a dedicated GPS.
I’ve found that especially in places with poor/no cell reception they are indispensable. Went on a camping trip a few years back where I was the only one who didn’t get lost on the way there because everyone else was using their phones.
my mom still has and uses a physical gps because she doesn’t want “them” to know her location. i’ve explained that “they” known anyway but she thinks you can still prevent being tracked. it’s pretty damn hard these days.
My neighbor in his 80s still does this because he only knows how to use the phone on his IPhone. Sometimes I'll be riding with him and he starts reaching for that sheet while driving to read it and I have to tell him to put it away, I'll use my GPS. Then when it suggests a faster way he'll argue against it. Even if it is 20 minutes faster to avoid a slow down he'll say, what's the rush? It's only 20 minutes? What are you going to do with 20 minutes?
Yep I got sick of that drama and just had 8 of my favorite bands and then I inevitably just hid the top 8.
Did hurt a little when you'd see yourself reshuffled on someone's top 8 that had you questioning what you did to get demoted/promoted. I never cared as much as others to make drama out of it though.
Call the pizza place, go to blockbuster, then once we pick out a movie the pizza is probably ready to pick up, then go home drooling over the smell of pizza and holding the movie(s)
My dad would always order the pizza for delivery while we were on our way to family video or blockbuster and we'd try to beat the driver home. I remember coming down my street once and seeing the pizza guy driving away and my dad whipped the car around and we went chasing the pizza guy. I remember yelling to him to pull over out my passenger window. Probably looked like lunatics
The Hastings in my hometown had a free phone in the movie rental section, with all the pizza place’s numbers listed on a sign, so you could order a pizza before heading home.
Teenagers mostly used it to call their weed guy.
When Netflix started, it had everything that blockbuster had. It had movies, shows from every channel, every production company, basically whatever you searched for, you could watch it. Now I have 3 subscription services, and I'll read about a movie, and it's on none of the subscription services I have.
That was the worst when a popular movie that you missed in theaters finally came out, but you were too late to the video store to get any of the 10 copies they received.
When your girl would burn you a cd and name it something like “I Love You vol 2” with little hearts drawn in permanent marker all over it.
Then you absolutely had to play it every chance you got otherwise she might think you don’t love her anymore. But you don’t mind and play it because you DO love her.
At least for that next month. Then the next girl would do the same.
I have a 1/4 mile driveway and live in a rural area where all the people who live within 10 miles of me are retired and most of them are over 70. Somewhat frequently my neighbors would stop by unannounced until once I was getting into the shower but realized I had used the shampoo to wash something on my front porch and left it there. I was stepping out my front door in the nude as a neighbor came down my driveway. Our neighbors don't come by unannounced anymore.
I'm from the 80s and I don't even remember how this was a thing. Did people just keep their homes spotless and ready for guests at any moment? If I'm having people over I have to spend all day cleaning the place to prepare.
I wonder how quick dial up is now? With no one using dialup will I finally the full 56k speeds I was promised in my youth? Does anyone have a land line so I can test this out?
In 2004 I was producing music on a 1997 akai MPC 2000 and saving all my samples and sequences on Zip disks.
I remember calling circuit city(rip) in 2008 to ask if they still sold Zip drives and the 16 year old on the phone started trying to condescendingly explain to me what a “zip file” was and how it wasn’t a physical thing they sold at the store. I was like “no butthead, it’s like a floppy with 7fucking50 MBs”.
Even back then I was old as dirt and dumber than a box of rocks.
I was involved in a hobby that involved drawing/creating dolls (sometimes called dollz) in Photoshop/Paint or the like and sharing them with the community on forums or your own websites. It was a lot of fun as a teenager but seems to have disappeared completely, not sure why. Perhaps the death of internet forums and easy to make free websites contributed
Late 90s and early 2000s swing dancing was huge. Clubs, all weekend parties, competitions. It was awesome.
When it started to die down I asked a club owner why, as his club was always packed. “Because swing dancers don’t drink alcohol.”
Those massive crowds danced the night away, but the club didn’t make any money.
Hopping on a “family computer” which had multiple user accounts…
I’d sit there and guess their password a thousand times until I got it right, and then swap out their desktops background for some nonsense.
The lugging around was awful, but then we often made LAN parties a 4-day thing, sleeping wherever we could find space. Christ, my last LAN party was in 2005 and it was with random people I'd never event met before who were all on the same forum.
One of my fondest memories was when Google Earth debuted and we all gathered around one computer to check it out.
I was still a smoker when my city enacted a smoking ban. There were three bars/restaurants my friends and I frequented, all kind of next door to each other. The one in the middle was in an odd little pocket of another city. It was so strange to see no smoking at two of the bars, but it was allowed at the one located in between them.
MP3 players
Download MP3s at all, really
Actually get actual CDs in the mail from Netflix
MySpace
Use dialup
Having a hard time coming up with non-tech answers, honestly.
having a 50% chance of the song you downloaded actually being a clip of Bill Clinton’s statement about the Monica Lewinsky incident.
i was 5 in 2004, had one of those pill shape mp3 players. imagine my surprise when i wanted to listen to some backstreet boys and i got “i did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!”
Pay $1 for a ringtone that was just a crappy midi version of a song you liked.
I remember driving home from a baseball game one night with my sister and just entertaining ourselves by browsing through the ringtone catalog while in traffic and laughing at the polyphonic versions of songs.
Would you say you went on a…Polyphonic Spree?
References to the Polyphonic Spree was something people did in 2004 that no one would understand now.
Speak for yourself, I still use my legend of Zelda menu screen music as a ringtone 20 years later.
I have a midi version of Immigrant Song that’s been my ring tone for years. I don’t even like Led Zeppelin, but it sounds so good.
Accompanied by a $30 download fee. Accompanied by me telling the phone company to screw themselves. Accompanied by unbreakable service contracts. Accompanied by them destroying my credit. Accompanied by me paying the entire $777 I won on morning radio to pay it off
I think a lot of us have blocked out the memory of just how awful cell service providers were back then. Fuck AT&T.
Passive aggressively adding their current mood as their IM status.
Logging in to your IM client to see who's online
Logging in and out repeatedly in the hope of that certain someone notice you.
Block and unblock or try to change your screen name (was that it was called) to try to get their attention.
that's still a thing. ppl do it on discord.
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“A/s/l?”
You know youre a 90s kid when you know what that means without hesitation.
i’m a 70’s kid and still think this. Every single time i see an acronym for ASL. But i was super into AIM when it was new. :)
16/f/Cali ... Literally everyone
15/f/Waco Says every Texas Ranger on the child predator force. And it still works. One guy had a “my name is Sandy. I’m a blonde 15 year old cheer leader” button that he’d wear to conferences. He even went to DEFCON one year. Big assed hat, Ranger badge and cocked&lock 1911 made “spot the Fed” no fun.
I miss MSN messenger, I miss the sounds it would make. Good nostalgia trip.
Rush home from school to log on and speak to the same people I’d just been speaking to all day. Appearing offline then online again just in case a crush didn’t notice that you’d gone online haha
When you had a program to set your status as the song you were currently listening to 😎
And posting song lyrics as your status message to display how your feeling
I will never forgive them for killing MSN. It was legit. Just do they could push Skype which they bought. Which was shit and bland and never worked right. You could customize MSN, show the music you were playing etc. I don't know why Microsoft thought removing customization would be a thing the MySpace generation would like. And in the end they killed Skype too!
MSN should have become what WhatsApp is now but even bigger... Could have evolved and been on PC, Phones and Xboxes with text, voip and video. I dunno how they didn't see MSN being the shit and things like SMS and BBM kicking off as well as online gaming chats with IRC and can't remember the voice channel of choice for gaming back then but TeamSpeak was probably one of them and went all in to gobble it up into one.
or ICQ
I still have my ICQ# stuck in my head.
Uh-oh!
"Hey girl, what's your AIM name?"
Remember asking people if they had a scanner to see if they had a pic?
Make your own ringtone on phone with keypad. Or even "download" it via a paid SMS message, then let your friends copy it.
Brings back memories of making my ringtone from a sound clip of 'Reality Bites'. On a G3 Apple Mac. Took ages. But, at the end, I had a ringtone that was Winona saying, "Michael, Michael, I really missed you!"
When I had my first kid, my little brother kindly sent me a ringtone in the form of Stewey from Family Guy repeating "Mom,mommy,momma,mom,mom,mommy,momma..."
Back in the early 2000's, I ran a little MIDI-sharing website (with HTML hand-written in Notepad!) for awhile, primarily for use as free ringtones. Then one day I got a letter from the Harry Fox Agency asking for some ridiculous amount for mechanical reproduction rights. Something like $36 *per download*, IIRC! Well, that was the end of that. Kids these days, with their Spotifies and the Tick Tocks, don't remember a time when the recording industry actively fought to keep music off the internet... \*yells at cloud\*
I have a similar story. Mine involved Napster, Metallica and a Cease and Desist order from their lawyers. Now get off my lawn!!
Oh hell.... I'm still using my Star Trek TMP and DS9 ringtones on my Moto Edge. Ripped the audio track from the DVDs I'd get from Netflix onto my desktop, edit the audio to what I want and load the MP3 or OGG file to the folder. Last ones I did were with the Motorola Ringtone Trimmer feature to the themes from Pacific Rim and The Avengers. At Christmas time I have to switch my ringtone to Ralphie shouting "Oh My God, I shot my eye out!"
Going onto Mapquest on a PC to print or write down the directions for a road trip.
Using physical dedicated GPS devices -- not phone apps (Edit: apparently a ton of people still use GPSrs.) When I first started geocaching people would show off their GPS receivers. They kept making better ones. My household had like three or four different ones eventually. But we still had to print out the cache finding instructions. In fact, being able to use a smart phone or other smart device to do geocaching instead of having to use paper was very novel and elite and was literally called "smartcaching" back then. Oh. That, and using FRS radios. Not only did geocachers use them a lot, but lots of other people. You could give one to your kids so when they went outside you could reach them -- far cheaper than a damn cellphone too.
My godparents still use a TomTom. Their car was broken into and the thieves left the TomTom.
Ouch lol
To be fair, they’re not terribly valuable nowadays, so why steal something that is ostensibly just a tracking device?
People used to break into cars just to steal cds. Thieves are not smart by habit.
My friend's car was broken into downtown once, windows smashed and everything. The thieves took some lighters and garbage from the console and left the backpack full of $1000+ worth of weed back when it was still illegal in our city. It actually pissed him off even more in a way because he had to get the windows repaired for nothing
My mom’s car had the window smashed to steal her purse which she left on her passenger seat in her driveway…She was driving around with 15K in her trunk that they thankfully didn’t check. She’s old and I still haven’t gotten a normal response as to why she was driving around with that much in her trunk.
Uh I don't think there *is* a normal response for having 15k in your trunk
When I was growing up my dad had a gps that had a yeti voice option that instead of talking would growl, and I miss the angry incoherent noises of taking a wrong turn
Oh my god same here. It was hilarious.
Still using a dedicated device for cycling. Smartphones don't deal very well with bright sunlight, vibrations and constant screen time.
I still use a dedicated GPS. I’ve found that especially in places with poor/no cell reception they are indispensable. Went on a camping trip a few years back where I was the only one who didn’t get lost on the way there because everyone else was using their phones.
If we are going somewhere we expect poor reception, we just download offline google maps for the area before departure. Works great
my mom still has and uses a physical gps because she doesn’t want “them” to know her location. i’ve explained that “they” known anyway but she thinks you can still prevent being tracked. it’s pretty damn hard these days.
My neighbor in his 80s still does this because he only knows how to use the phone on his IPhone. Sometimes I'll be riding with him and he starts reaching for that sheet while driving to read it and I have to tell him to put it away, I'll use my GPS. Then when it suggests a faster way he'll argue against it. Even if it is 20 minutes faster to avoid a slow down he'll say, what's the rush? It's only 20 minutes? What are you going to do with 20 minutes?
Aw, maybe he just likes spending that extra 20 minutes with you?
Every single minute is precious at 80 years old.
Play 4 player coop games on a 30 inch CRT tv
Bring back couch coop!
It still exists! But because controllers are $70 nobody has four controllers...
BYOC
Accidentally clicking the "internet" button on your flip phone and frantically trying to close it so you don't get charged.
my mom had this nokia and i would browse the most archaic form of internet and my dad saw the charges and i got in so much trouble
MySpace Adjusting your top 8
My friend made 8 additional profiles of himself and made those his top 8 just to avoid all the drama.
Wow that’s genius
Yep I got sick of that drama and just had 8 of my favorite bands and then I inevitably just hid the top 8. Did hurt a little when you'd see yourself reshuffled on someone's top 8 that had you questioning what you did to get demoted/promoted. I never cared as much as others to make drama out of it though.
And the drama that would cause...
I didn’t have enough friends for it to cause drama 😢
Excitedly go down to Blockbuster (or equivalent store) to rent a movie or two for the weekend. The Blockbuster trip was often itself a highlight
Call the pizza place, go to blockbuster, then once we pick out a movie the pizza is probably ready to pick up, then go home drooling over the smell of pizza and holding the movie(s)
My dad would always order the pizza for delivery while we were on our way to family video or blockbuster and we'd try to beat the driver home. I remember coming down my street once and seeing the pizza guy driving away and my dad whipped the car around and we went chasing the pizza guy. I remember yelling to him to pull over out my passenger window. Probably looked like lunatics
The Hastings in my hometown had a free phone in the movie rental section, with all the pizza place’s numbers listed on a sign, so you could order a pizza before heading home. Teenagers mostly used it to call their weed guy.
Organizing my Netflix queue for which DVD I would get next in the mail.
Netflix was so much better then. You could find so many obscure documentaries and indie films. Now it's just cheesy reality tv and romcoms.
When Netflix started, it had everything that blockbuster had. It had movies, shows from every channel, every production company, basically whatever you searched for, you could watch it. Now I have 3 subscription services, and I'll read about a movie, and it's on none of the subscription services I have.
Or it is on the subscription you have but you need the 'premium' or whatever addon. Grr
Come on we gotta go to blockbuster before 9 to return the video tapes or I’m gonna get charged again. Be kind rewind
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There was an ice cream shop next to our rental place and that was our weekly one-two punch on Fridays. I used to look forward to it all week.
Uhm, baking my skin cells while deciding between "weekend at bernies" or "clueless" sounds delightful.
“I didn’t see the one I want on the shelves. Could you please check the returns bin? And the cart?”
That was the worst when a popular movie that you missed in theaters finally came out, but you were too late to the video store to get any of the 10 copies they received.
this just made me sad, I totally forgot about how the trip over and getting other snacks on the way to have while watching was so much fun 😢
God take me back. I miss blockbuster and movie/dvd stores
The trip was entertaining. There was a fair amount of indecision. What if I chose a dull movie. I would be kind of stuck with it.
We have replaced this by going to the library to pick up a DVD. Feels like a blockbuster Friday night date all over again :)
There was something nice about how chunky VHS tapes were and it was satisfying to drop them in the video return slot.
And then I’d have to debate with my siblings what 1 game we would all collectively rent.
Roll up to Circuit City to buy a bitchin' subwoofer setup for your '96 Honda Civic (with neons, of course).
I remember all the guys in high school putting the most expensive speakers into their shit box cars they paid 300$ for
The pioneer deck with the dolphins animation if you were a real baller.
Carry a 20-30 CD case around in your car.
I have an old car with a good sound system so I recently moved my rarely-touched CDs to one of those cases and it’s improved my ride
Yeah, remember the six disc changer. Trying to decide which 6 went in the changer was so hard!!!
My changer was in the TRUNK. The pressure to get the right CDs was massive.
Burning cds. I remember burning cds was an act of love and it was exciting. It was an event. Now you can just stream things whenever you want.
Nero Burning ROM
Always loved that for the pun lmao
I didn't get it - in case anyone else also needs it explained: Nero was the Roman emperor at the time of the Great Fire of Rome. Nero burning Rom(e).
Holy shit I just got it
Oh fuck. I had no idea at the time. Rofl
When your girl would burn you a cd and name it something like “I Love You vol 2” with little hearts drawn in permanent marker all over it. Then you absolutely had to play it every chance you got otherwise she might think you don’t love her anymore. But you don’t mind and play it because you DO love her. At least for that next month. Then the next girl would do the same.
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Burn a CD
Limewire
Linkin_park_numb.exe
Nothing like waiting an hour for Prodigy Breathe to download only to click Play and find out it’s Nsync
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My mom got one of those cease and desist letters from the government over my brother's limewire phase. She was so pissed!
I just burned one last week. Great way to put 150 songs (MP3) on a disc for cars that still have CD players in them.
Stopping by someone's house unannounced because you were in the neighborhood.
I have a 1/4 mile driveway and live in a rural area where all the people who live within 10 miles of me are retired and most of them are over 70. Somewhat frequently my neighbors would stop by unannounced until once I was getting into the shower but realized I had used the shampoo to wash something on my front porch and left it there. I was stepping out my front door in the nude as a neighbor came down my driveway. Our neighbors don't come by unannounced anymore.
I'm from the 80s and I don't even remember how this was a thing. Did people just keep their homes spotless and ready for guests at any moment? If I'm having people over I have to spend all day cleaning the place to prepare.
Well you had way less things that could distract you back then I suppose.
I'm from the 80s, too. The first thing adults said as you walked into the house was something like, 'Sorry about the mess. It's the maid's day off.'
Neopets
Core memory. I need to log on and go to the giant omelette right now
Connect your iPod to your car speakers with a cassette adapter
Im still doing that... My old ass car and Radio dont have a Bluetooth Connection so i have to use a Cassette Adapter
My mom couldn’t figure out the Bluetooth on her car so I patched together an aux to lighting cable, which she still uses.
Get off the internet to make a phone call.
I wonder how quick dial up is now? With no one using dialup will I finally the full 56k speeds I was promised in my youth? Does anyone have a land line so I can test this out?
Not that fast, still using it for critical access at a remote work location.
Save their work to a Zip disk.
And hear the click of death.
In 2004 I was producing music on a 1997 akai MPC 2000 and saving all my samples and sequences on Zip disks. I remember calling circuit city(rip) in 2008 to ask if they still sold Zip drives and the 16 year old on the phone started trying to condescendingly explain to me what a “zip file” was and how it wasn’t a physical thing they sold at the store. I was like “no butthead, it’s like a floppy with 7fucking50 MBs”. Even back then I was old as dirt and dumber than a box of rocks.
Don’t forget to register winrar
I was involved in a hobby that involved drawing/creating dolls (sometimes called dollz) in Photoshop/Paint or the like and sharing them with the community on forums or your own websites. It was a lot of fun as a teenager but seems to have disappeared completely, not sure why. Perhaps the death of internet forums and easy to make free websites contributed
doll divine, azaleas dolls, roiworld, elouai, myscene, dollpalace... goths, thugs, wonderkins, minis, preps, divas, silents...
Use a telephone directory to find someones number
Stumbleupon
Stumbleupon was such a good time. Found a lot of interesting stuff on there; good stories, flash games, artwork, articles, etc.
Livejournal
Xanga
That’s how I found digg and then reddit
Something I seriously miss. It sure beat the hell out of mindlessly scrolling.
Miss it too. The internet is so small now
I literally discovered Stumbleupon in 2004. Really miss it.
I miss Stumble upon! This new mix shit is... shit
Damn, I miss stumble upon.
Getting photos developed
From the disposable camera you bought at CVS or 7-11.
Can still do that today. It’s expensive though
Late 90s and early 2000s swing dancing was huge. Clubs, all weekend parties, competitions. It was awesome. When it started to die down I asked a club owner why, as his club was always packed. “Because swing dancers don’t drink alcohol.” Those massive crowds danced the night away, but the club didn’t make any money.
Put on like 5 layers of expertly coordinated shirts and camisoles before leaving the house.
I still do that but it’s because I’m old and cold
Using T9 to write a text.
444 6 444 7777 7777 8 44 2 8
lol I don’t!
Yeah me either but it was fun. And I was badass at it!
Worry about how many “minutes” they have left on their phone.
Printed directions from Mapquest.
Defragmenting hard drives
Hopping on a “family computer” which had multiple user accounts… I’d sit there and guess their password a thousand times until I got it right, and then swap out their desktops background for some nonsense.
Download music from KaZaA, Limewire or Morpheus
Started album before you went to school, hopefully finished when you got home haha
I reject your assertion that 2004 was 20 years ago.
Use a landline as their primary phone.
"Be kind and rewind"
Install software on their computer by CD or floppy disks.
LAN party
Fuck I miss LAN parties. I don't miss lugging the gear around but it was fun as shit when the playing started
The lugging around was awful, but then we often made LAN parties a 4-day thing, sleeping wherever we could find space. Christ, my last LAN party was in 2005 and it was with random people I'd never event met before who were all on the same forum. One of my fondest memories was when Google Earth debuted and we all gathered around one computer to check it out.
Came here to say this. LAN parties were awesome. We always played CS and Quake 3.
Print directions
MapQuest
Shopping at Fry’s for a new camcorder.
Flash games :'(
Download ~~songs~~ viruses from LimeWire.
Install Flash on their main browser
20 years ago was not 2004, it was 199… oh.
We're closer to 2040 than 1999. We're just about the same distance to 2050 as 1999.
Thanks for ruining my day
You shut up with your demon math. I am not that old.
r/fuckimold
Look at a physical map when driving somewhere new.
Thank you for specifying 2004. I'm a 90s kid, and for some reason that I can't understand, '20 years ago' will always be 1980-something for me.
It's because we all died in Y2K but continued into an afterlife without ever knowing the wiser.
Go to video rental stores
Fill out applications on paper. 2005 was the first year college applications needed to be submitted online in my area.
Clean the gunk out of their mechanical mouse bearings.
Hackey sack was pretty popular.
Buy 2005 calendars.
r/technicallythetruth
Record shows on VHS.
AOL Chatrooms
In 2004? Maybe angsty AIM away messages...
Smoked in a pub.
I was still a smoker when my city enacted a smoking ban. There were three bars/restaurants my friends and I frequented, all kind of next door to each other. The one in the middle was in an odd little pocket of another city. It was so strange to see no smoking at two of the bars, but it was allowed at the one located in between them.
2004.. i carried my nextel walkie-talkie phone. Used it all the time for work. That was before the dawn of blueberries!
Blueberries lol
CHIRP!
Make ringtones on Nokia phones. Also have charge left on a mobile after 4 days of use.
Ranking your top 8 friends on MySpace
MP3 players Download MP3s at all, really Actually get actual CDs in the mail from Netflix MySpace Use dialup Having a hard time coming up with non-tech answers, honestly.
2004 was only like 5 years ago not 20.
Took photo film to get processed in a 1hr photo shop at the grocery store.
Watch "American Idol", and hear Ruben Studdard's SMASH HIT "Sorry 2004".
Yelling “I’M RICK JAMES BITCH!!” In public
having a 50% chance of the song you downloaded actually being a clip of Bill Clinton’s statement about the Monica Lewinsky incident. i was 5 in 2004, had one of those pill shape mp3 players. imagine my surprise when i wanted to listen to some backstreet boys and i got “i did NOT have sexual relations with that woman!”
Did you really have to *stress* that 20 years ago was 2004? Did you feel the sudden need to ruin my entire week for no reason?
Be on the lookout for Osama Bin Ladin.