People Are Sharing The Things From The '90s And '00s That No One Born After 2005 Will Understand
Here are 50 of their most nostalgic responses:
Some responses are from this post as well.
1."The joy of going to the video rental store on Friday nights!"
—ellie4me
2."The stressfulness, rage, and sheer insanity of being a parent to a Tamagotchi."
—smartgoose16
3."Freaking out that you might get arrested for downloading Limewire and/or Frostwire."
—smartgoose16
4."The Motorola RAZR was a huge deal stylistically and technologically. The fact that the pink ones were exclusive to one phone carrier — I had to buy one from overseas, where carrier-locked phones aren't a thing, and it was a different shade of pink than was available in the US. It was tiny, sleek, and internet-capable (but for the love of all things holy, don't go on the internet, think of the bill)."
—tiktokism
5."The hype of the BlackBerry Curve phone."
—jadewright
6."Having to watch the news to see if your school is canceled for a snow day."
—myneishac
7."Phones with cords! Why, I ask, why?!"
—penguinlover720
8."Calling collect and yelling your message to the person you're calling at the point you were supposed to say your name, then hanging up before anyone was charged."
—slickninja
9."Netflix being a DVD-mailing service."
—sleepingbubble74
10."Watching High School Musical, not on DVD. It was never really about the movie; it was all in the lead-up. The premiere of those movies was a social event and a cultural phenomenon for us growing up. I didn't have cable TV, so I had to arrange watching at my neighbor's house, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world. There was a bunch of buildup in the programming beforehand, and a countdown clock, and you'd be sitting with your eyes plastered to the TV sometimes days ahead of time so you wouldn't miss any of the exclusive trailers or bonus crossovers or promotional materials. Back then, there was still a lot of sprinting to use the bathroom between short commercial breaks. The hype didn't die down just because the movie had aired, oh no. There were High School Musical-themed birthday parties, posters, t-shirts, etc.. It was everywhere, and everyone loved it. I still do!"
—tacobaco
11."I was talking to my dad today about this. I'm pretty sure kids today have probably never seen snowy/bad reception on a TV or static from the radio."
—kevinhicks77
12."The Tinkerbell Pixie Hollow computer game."
—Anonymous
13."Junk food vending machines at school."
—almanmark720
14."We were watching regular TV the other day, and my kid asked us to pause the show. I had to explain that it doesn't work that way when you're not streaming."
—francesjoys
15."Hit Clips… I miss Hit Clips."
—morgandemkey
16."There was a great show on the WB network called Grosse Pointe that was a satire of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Dawson's Creek. It was only something like 12 episodes before it was cancelled. Supposedly, it hit Aaron Spelling too close to home."
—janes4c411b247
17."The 2002 limited edition wild berry Spider-Man Pop-Tarts. To this day, I have not found a Pop-Tart that even comes close to how yummy (and exciting, because Spider-Man had just come out) those Pop-Tarts were. SMH, good things never last."
—haleeraeevans
18."The scene era."
—smartgoose16
19."Not having a computer in the home, and if you did have one, not having the internet. I didn't have a computer until I was in college, and in the summers when I was home, I was without internet unless I wanted to pay by the minute for it. We also didn't use computers much in school unless it was a business class, like typing or programming. We would write research papers by hand, and then we'd have a few days before they were due when the whole English class would go to the computer lab to type them up for submission. Even those computers didn't have internet, so much of our research was done at the library."
—matchwolf
20."Having to wait until Saturday mornings to watch cartoons all morning, and you didn't have a way to custom choose the schedule for which cartoons to watch. You watched what was available on broadcast TV or cable."
—jealouskitten151
21."If you lived in a small town, you had to go to the restaurant to get your food. There was no food delivery service, not even from Chinese restaurants, just the occasional pizza joint."
—jealouskitten151
22."I recently found out TV Guide is still a thing when I got an actual mailer for it a couple of weeks ago."
—jgcromwell
23."Walt Disney World used to send out VHS tapes with little features on the parks as a way to encourage people to visit. My sister and I used to watch them over and over again because we lived in PA, and we weren't a vacation-style family. Eventually, though, my parents did feel guilty and took us to Disney World. I do feel bad because one of my only memories of that trip is me being such a small child that when I sat on the toilet, I folded in half and fell in."
—monikap6
24."Don't even get me started on having to memorize your friends' phone numbers because there were no smartphones to store them. Simpler times!"
—trendycake45
25."Disney Channel used to play movies every night at 8 p.m. I still sometimes hear, 'Let's watch a Disney Channel movie.' It's not like streaming was around, so you had to be ready with a VHS tape if you wanted to ever rewatch it. The Thirteenth Year was a favorite at our household."
—monikap6
26."Burning a CD. I asked my daughter what she thought it meant, and she guessed I was destroying something. Quite the opposite. Those custom CDs were romantic gifts, the soundtrack to rolling through town/backroads, and even a way to celebrate without a DJ. Now, the idea of a playlist capped at 16 songs sounds foreign."
—acidictooth778
27."Trying to burn the perfect mix CD from LimeWire without crashing your computer or downloading a virus… now that was a skill."
—trendycake45
28."Salsa Fries from Andy Capp."
—Anonymous, 36, MN
29."Senior from 1994 here. Someone born after 2005 would never understand why, in the '90s, if you were in a hurry or had a set time to be somewhere, you did not drive the main street of your town on a Friday or Saturday night. You drove on the outskirts of town to get through faster. (Because all the teens were driving in circles or drag racing.)"
—abourque
30."Waiting until after 8 pm to call long distance. Or, getting your first cellphone and having only 60 minutes of 'talk time' per month. If you went over, you had to pay per minute. Same with texting when it became more common."
—laurachytka
31."Being told to come home when the street lights turn on."
—slickninja
32."'Playing' the demo version of arcade games in the laundromat."
—smartgoose16
33."Writing a text using only numbers. I was trying to explain this to my daughter the other day — to write out 'hey,' you had to press 4 twice, 3 twice, and 9 three times."
—hovingkaitlin
34."Having to buy film for your camera. Having to be selective over what photos you take because you only get 24-36 frames. Forgetting to get the film developed for months or years."
—lesliepl0310
35."Plug-in CD players. You would put a tape into the 'tape player' and the plug into the cigarette lighter, and you would be able to listen to CDs."
—jgcromwell
36."On Nickelodeon, that chimp with three eyes that used to say, 'Hi, I'm Paul!' during commercial breaks and wave!"
—Anonymous, 30, Niagara Falls, NY
37."Waiting for the radio station to play your new favorite pop song by Britney or *NSYNC so you can record it with a cassette tape!"
—dazzlingmagician324
38."Making plans with friends to meet at the mall with no guarantee that they would show up and no way to contact them to see if they were on the way."
—myneishac
39."Having a large cellular phone that came in a black leather-like bag for only your car. One of the early cell phones was hooked to your vehicle's battery."
—marvelousfan911
40."Having to stop a random person to ask what time it is."
—slickninja
41."Riding your bike to a friend's house and knocking on their door to see if they could come out. Or calling someone's house phone and having to interact with their family member before getting them on the phone."
—slickninja
42."Being on the Internet, probably playing a flash game, and your mom telling you to get off the internet because she has to make a phone call, and then waiting around for her to finish."
—hobbitgirl96
43."Buying disposable cameras for big events, and then the anticipation of getting them all developed."
—bravechinchilla277
44."Pagers and payphones being the only means of communication. In fact, in high school, you were considered cool if you had a pager."
—angelamastin82
45."There was a show on Disney Channel called Naturally, Sadie about a girl who loved nature. I remembered its existence, but I swear I thought it lasted a season, maybe, because I can only somewhat recall one episode (she notices that there are no baby pictures of her older brother but tons of her, and at the end, her mom reveals that they had a housefire before she was born or something), but according to Wikipedia, there were three seasons!?!"
—rachelo4ef37e40d
46."Phone companies charging PER text message."
—amandav4218e9747
47."Kissing Fruit lip gloss."
—Anonymous, 18, Houston, TX
48."Buying a 'phone card' so you could make long-distance calls home from camp on a landline or payphone and have the cost covered in advance. There was always a stupidly long string of numbers to punch in, and you had to do it at the right time in the right order, or you would have to hang up and start all over. You bought the cards in increments of time (20 min, 45 min, 1 hr, etc). I remember having thoughts like, 'There's a dance on Friday, and I know I'll want to talk about it for a long time, so I should probably keep Monday's convo under five minutes!' Different times, man."
—melc40e454224
49."The electronic pocket dictionary things. They were about the size of a calculator, and they can't have been expensive because I think I had one."
—gettysburgdressmaker
50.And finally: "'You have died of dysentery.'"
—kimmiethiel
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