memes

Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.

I love how the title is "Tell me what it means" and then 747 replies later, no one has done that.

My first game controller only had one button.

"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!

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

Loading games from audio cassette.

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.

Let’s go one deeper… you couldn’t play games without sliding a switch

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.

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

Somehow I just knew how to get to places. Idk how that stopped.

Idkfa

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

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

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

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

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

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

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

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.

They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.

Computer and console games came exclusively on CD before the switch to DVD. When you bought a triple AAA title for console,you didn't have to spend 3 days waiting for day 1 patches to install. You could probably fit the entire game library of your favorite console back in the day on a thumb drive nowadays.