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You want to call a friend? Better grab your enormous list of phone numbers:
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And don't get me started on if you wanted to call literally anyone else:
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You want to open a program? Hope you have 35 minutes:
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You wanted to enjoy that program? Hope you enjoy this:
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I mean, if you were downloading something, you had to EARN IT:
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And if you wanted to go on the internet? Every website pretty much looked like this:
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Not to mention mouse gunk, so much mouse gunk:
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You want to listen to a CD? Hope you have 35 minutes:
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You wanted THAT CD? Hope you enjoy scratches:
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And don't even get me started on "skip protection":
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If you wanted to rent a movie, you had to pray no one beat you to it:
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And if you wanted to see what was on TV, you had to hope and pray you didn't miss your channel:
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I mean, this was a time when you had to carry around a big giant list of directions JUST to get hopelessly lost on a road trip:
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And you wanted to see a movie? Hope you can find that paper you just threw out:
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But seriously — imagine hearing this phrase in 2018:
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And imagine taking a picture and not being able to see it IMMEDIATELY:
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Not to mention ending every phone call caught in a WEB:
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Or just having to untangle this knot EVERY time:
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Let's be honest — 75% of all the oxygen during the '90s was expended trying to get video games to work again:
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And there wasn't an app for weather...just a channel, man. JUST A CHANNEL!
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I mean, you don't know true fear until you've experienced the fear of someone taping over your precious VHS:
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And cellphones? Well, most of owning a phone was just looking at this screen:
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And telling someone to call you back when your minutes were free:
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Oh, not to mention sitting on the toilet contemplating your life choices: