4.
“Telling your friends not to call until after 7 p.m. because your minutes are free after that.”
5.
“The printed phone bill would list time/date/recipient for every text. Literally pages and pages.”
6.
“Lest we forget the days when it took five business days to load the internet on a BlackBerry.”
8.
“As a middle school-aged girl at this time, talking to 45-year-old men was completely normal, because in my mind, they were just being nice, so what’s the big deal?”
11.
“Dropping your phone and the battery skittering across the floor and into another dimension.”
12.
“If you had speakers around that were on, you’d know seconds before that a call was coming.”
13.
“Religiously deleting your emails because you only got 5MB storage. You read that right. Not 5GB, no — 5MB.”
16.
“That bloodcurdling sound that music companies were slipping into downloads to ruin them.”
18.
“Taking hours to download a song just to find out it’s Bill Clinton saying ‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman.'”
19.
“I spent days torrenting a movie, and it turned out to be a long-ass porn video. I was pissed. I really wanted to watch that movie.”
20.
“Burning a perfect mix CD, only for the last song to cut off halfway because you misjudged the runtime.”
21.
“Watching the 2MB buffer jumping up and down during burning, knowing that if it reached 0, you had to throw out the half-burnt CD and start over again with a new one. And what could cause buffer under-run? Anything, even touching the mouse — no one knew really.”
—GM8
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