“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
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“I’ll show you the photos once I get them developed.”
“Get off the internet, I’m expecting a call”
Also “I can’t get through to them, they must be on the internet”
I’m looking forward to Matt Groenig’s new show.
Disenchanted probably had that response
I remain unconvinced.
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
Try cleaning your mouse ball, see if that helps.
Just blow in the cartridge
“Dammit, my tape is stuck inside the VCR again!”
“99 cents for a song? Hell yeah. I’m never buying CDs again.” (A reference to the iTunes Music Store launch)
“I ran out of free AOL time. Better get another demo disc”
Speaking of AOL, “yo, what’s your AIM screenname?” (Replace “AIM” with your favorite messaging service at the time if you used that)
“Mom, can I have a PlayStation 2? -No. -But it plays DVDs.”
“Oh, I can’t wait to see the wonderful New York Twin Towers, I’m so excited for what’s coming!” (I was too young to even remember the concept of different countries existing so I had no idea what “America” even was, let alone being confused about 9/11)
“I got slimed. It was so. Much. Fun.”
“I’m so glad the United Kingdom won Eurovision, I can’t wait to see how the next year’s contest will turn out. Katrina was so amazing” (1997 was the last time the UK won)
“What a wonderful Saturday morning. Time to watch some cartoons.”
“My phone has a NiCd battery, and it’s almost out of juice so I can’t just plug it in because I will ruin the battery. I have to wait until it literally turns off.”
“Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia”
“Finally got my fresh new copy of Mac OS X. Time to see what’s it’s like.” proceeds to stay on OS 9 for a few more years
That’s all I can think of.
More like “99¢ per song? What a ripoff! I’ll just download them from KaZaA instead.”
That too is pretty accurate.
“Hark, Alfred, the smith’s apprentice, was taken by the plague - find your goodfellows and see if any of their sons of the working age would wish gainful employment to a kind master.”
Dude, 2020 wasn’t that long ago!
Man, I always forget the big foot fungus plague of '05. So many corpses, littering the streets…
It’s 2004
Happy new year 2005!
Surly there were always people who say things like “wow, I can’t believe this thing is happening it’s like it’s 2004” or something.
“it’s literally the year two thousand and four”
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
Call me back, I got free incoming calls
I’m trying to start x-wing. Can you tell me the third letter of the fourth word of page 57?
What is this?
Anti-piracy technique for the game X-Wing: the game was 15 floppies which could easily be copied, so it required a copy of the manual present to start.
Haha. That’s a good one. Don’t think I ever heard of that.
I’m late for work at the Twin Towers!
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.
Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it’s in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask “Hey, are you done with that phone?” as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it’s 50 cents now, unless you’re calling a toll-free number).
VHS is making a … come back isn’t really the right word, but there’s a small number of folks interested in what’s on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).
It’s all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn’t widely aware of them until 2014.
How about “John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term” ?
It’s weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.
I moved out on my own that year and only had cable Internet and a cell phone. Facebook was still edu only, myspace was still popular as hell, you could get DVDs through the mail from Netflix, movie piracy was extremely popular.
I think you’ll still need specialized equipment to hookup a VHS machine to a computer and digitize it.
Nope. RCA > S-Video, HDMI, or FireWire. Any of the three would have worked at the time. And many VCRs had either HDMI, VGA, or S-Video out.
Yeah I got my first mobile phone in 2004 and it was one of the Nokia’s, 3310 probably. We definitely still had a landline with speed dial and absolutely did not have streaming. Definitely still had VHS, probably got our first DVD player the year before but still used both.
