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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

"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"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My first game controller only had one button.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sundays were awesome because you got to read comics!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Loading games from audio cassette.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Coffee and cigarettes, indoors, at a cafe, on lunch break in highschool.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (19 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Trying to record said song on tape without having the host talk over it

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

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