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"Sorry, I got to return this video"

"Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial"

"Do you have any quarters for a phone?"

"Bill Cosby really is America's dad"

"Can I borrow that VHS?"

"Sorry, I can't come. My favourite show is on"

"Do you know where a phone is?"

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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 23 points 1 week ago

"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"

Also, "w00t!!"

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

... People don't say "w00t"?

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That's the saddest news I've ever received.

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[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"What do you think about John Kerry?"

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
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[-] wax@feddit.nu 19 points 1 week ago

Hang on, my pager is making a noise

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

Well, some people in Lebanon disagree

[-] pcr3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

No they won't 👀💀

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

Where did I leave my zip disk?

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[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Let me check the answering machine.

[-] minyaen@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

“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

[-] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] root@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago

It's not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.

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[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago

"hit me on my two-way"

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

What's your AIM screen name?

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[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 14 points 1 week ago

"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"

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[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Wassuuuuuuuupppp!

[-] SuperEars@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".

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[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)

[-] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Why didn't you page me back?

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[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

Ska is forever!

Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.

[-] Oka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago
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[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago

Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again

[-] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sadly, fax machines are very much still in use ....

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Can you give me directions to your house?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

"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.

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."

[-] Zexks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

"Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets."

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Is that available for OS/2 Warp?

[-] fool@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Did you see Mozart's new concerto?

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