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Nobody referred to videos as "VHS" unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them "videos" and "tapes" or "videotape."
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as "videos".
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
Have you heard of the Information superhighway?
"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant
"I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)
"I got it off Napster"
"want to listen to my mix tape?"
"I can burn you a CD of that"
"I'm excited for what the future has in store for me."
Iβve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I donβt agree with you, Iβm glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what Iβve learned.
"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"
Also, "w00t!!"
... People don't say "w00t"?
I say woot. At least 2-3 times a week.
Let me check the answering machine.
Where did I leave my zip disk?
Next to the minidisk
Yes, that was two decades
I still use minidiscs!
"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"
Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.
Hang on, my pager is making a noise
Well, some people in Lebanon disagree
No they won't ππ
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
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.
I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said "Well that'll never go anywhere". I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn't find where the wallet ended to. I think it's gone, now.
What's your AIM screen name?
My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
βSorry, I got to return this videoβ
2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn't widely aware of them until 2014.
How about "John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term" ?
"I'll ask Jeeves."
"Phil Hartman guest stars in..."
"What format is that floppy?"
"I bought a Beanie Baby price book."
Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again
Sadly, fax machines are very much still in use ....
Did you see Mozart's new concerto?
Be kind and rewind.
"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
"I wish no one would assassinate billionaires."
Can you give me directions to your house?
Try cleaning your mouse ball, see if that helps.