dot matrix with stereo sound
Picking up the phone to make a call, and getting yelled at by the neighbor for not checking for a dialtone before dialling. Alternatively, learning how to screw out the mouth piece (muting the handset) and pick up the receiver without making a noise so I could listen to the neighbour gossip.
Macdonalds and burger king Pokemon toys were actually of decent quality
I saw “The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson” on TV.
Games used to come with books to read, and their anti-piracy measure was to give you a page number and tell you to enter the first word on the page to activate the software.
Of course, you’d copy that floppy and write the code word on the label for your friends.
LOAD “*”,8,1
Y’all remember the turbo button?
If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn’t in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.
1-800-CALLCOLLECT “imatthemallatboscospickmeup” and then get your dime back
Hold on, I got to flip the tape over.
We had hopes for the future and internet connections made sounds.
I wonder if the Internet would still make sounds if the communication devices were connected to speakers
I miss having hope.
Not if you disabled the sound so you could sneakily get online at night without your parents noticing! I was so happy when I figured that out and could quit nervously smothering the modem in pillows when connecting.
I don’t know if that always worked. I didn’t figure it out until we were on a 56k modem. Maybe it didn’t work with older modems.
ATL0 I think.
I did not know you could do that! My trick was to connect while parents were hussy, then distracting them from the phone the whole evening.
Having to wait for the television to warm up after turning it on
Let me just call someone if they’re still at home on this payphone to look it up in the encyclopedia that was printed 20 years ago
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Address 220 irq 7 interrupt 1 V42bis modem
Be kind. Rewind.
