Banter Im so Old I remember

[Normalish]

Renting the latest vhs film for the weekend

 

[Mrroscoe03]

 

[Stanthropical]

Paying for shit with cash

 

[MuchAdo]

Carbon paper.

 

[Mrroscoe03]

Tom from Myspace

 

[Normalish]

A to z road map

 

[Mrroscoe03]

 

[Deleted member 1217451]

The annoying little sounds MSN messenger made.

 

[GilViper777]

Learning to type on a manual typewriter.

 

[brunette_]

This...

and how cool I thought I was with custom smiley faces and an "edgy" away message. 99% sure I had X's in my screen name too. lmao

 

[Gonzo_old_but_gold]

I even know ICQ.
The internet was black with white writing. No pictures
We had a telephone booth on every corner

 

[GilViper777]

I didn't smoke, but I remember cigarette vending machines.

 

[Gonzo_old_but_gold]

 

[Deleted member 1217451]

This being how we used to chat online ...

 

[Gonzo_old_but_gold]

German special in my youth

 

[Deleted member 1285590]

Those portable cd players you'd squeeze into your pocket

 

[Sim180]

Flares !

 

[Dogowar]

When this was all fields, before it was all dug up for the minerals to create the memory chips and processors you're using now in your computer, tablet or phone you're currently using to read this

 

[Stanthropical]

Food nearly twice less the price

 

[MuchAdo]

My neighborhood grocery store's picture is an item in the Historical Society - lol. There was a butcher at the meat counter to hand cut everything. In Chicago, you couldn't buy meat after 6 pm at all because the union butchers were off work then and a city ordinance required a butcher to be on hand.