"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"
Also, "w00t!!"
"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"
Also, "w00t!!"
... People don't say "w00t"?
Only lol survived
That's the saddest news I've ever received.
"What do you think about John Kerry?"
Be kind, rewind.
Hang on, my pager is making a noise
Well, some people in Lebanon disagree
No they won't 👀💀
Where did I leave my zip disk?
"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"
Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.
I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
Let me check the answering machine.
I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...
He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.
Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.
When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn't a sure thing, it's a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a "coin") every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing). I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each. That's less than the electricity it took to earn them. And you couldn't spend them anywhere, except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza. There weren't even any exchanges to convert them to real currency if you wanted to.
I tried to find my coins years later, (when Bitcoins got to USD $2000 each), but I couldn't find the old hard drive the wallet was on.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014
I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.
Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had "speed dial". You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.
Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it's schedule to watch it.
It's not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.
"hit me on my two-way"
What's your AIM screen name?
"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)
If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number
Why didn't you page me back?
Ska is forever!
Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.
Hand me my Razor
Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again
Sadly, fax machines are very much still in use ....
"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.
Can you give me directions to your house?
"Can I borrow that VHS?"
20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn't call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.
"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."
“it’s the 90s”
"Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets."
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
Did you see Mozart's new concerto?
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