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Memorizing everyone’s phone numbers.
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Having to call your friends without knowing who would pick up the phone, and being forced to make small talk with their parents.
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And answering the phone without ever knowing who was calling.
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Your annoying sibling listening in on your private phone call from an extension in another room.
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Going to a friend’s house specifically to go on the computer.
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Playing one of, like, four games on that computer.
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Having to make sure everyone in your family wasn’t using the phone before you could log on to the internet.
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Someone picking up the phone while you were online and accidentally disconnecting your internet.
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Turning the internet off and leaving it to rest in its special room on the computer, and not going back to it until the next day (or longer).
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Paying for ringtones when you finally got a cell phone.
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Typing out each individual letter by pressing numbers on the keypad a certain number of times when texting.
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Paying for every single message and phone call you made on your cell phone.
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Calling collect and saying your message really fast when you were supposed to say your name.
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Printing out directions before you left the house.
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Having a printer at home, and printing everything in black and white so you didn’t “waste” the color ink (even though apparently that still needed color).
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Blowing on a game cartridge when it was glitchy.
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Having to learn lyrics by buying a music magazine or just listening to songs over and over again and writing them out yourself.
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Spending 12 hours illegally downloading one song and winding up with six viruses on your family computer.
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Having to choose, like, 19 songs to load onto your Mp3 player before you went out, and feeling like you were living in the future.
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Using a floppy disc, or a CD, or a USB, or anything physical to save something.
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Looking up movie times in the newspaper, or worse, having to call the theater.
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Going to the video store to browse and rent a movie.
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Basing your whole routine around the TV schedule.
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Any obsolete experiences we missed? Drop them in the comments!