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27 Struggles You'll Only Understand If You Were Born Before 1995

It truly was that hard knock life.

1. Straining your eyes any time you played your Gameboy in the car at night:

2. Having to keep all your friends’ or family’s phone numbers on an enormous list (it was either that or memorizing them all):

3. And having to look up someone's number you didn't have in the phonebook:

4. Accidentally leaving an awkward message on your friend's family's answering machine and having no option to delete it:

5. Having a family member tape over a video tape you specifically asked them not to use:

6. Picking up your developed photos and getting somebody else's photos instead of your own. And, usually, losing your own photos in the mix-up:

7. Finding out 90% of your photos are blurry or bad after getting them developed:

8. Having to use a public phone and realizing it's broken:

9. Turning on the TV Guide Channel right after the channel's listing you wanted to see had already scrolled:

10. Having to open like 45 files before getting to the one you wanted:

11. Having Clippy constantly bug you whenever you were using Microsoft Office:

12. Having to adjust your TV antenna over and over if you were watching television on a TV that didn't have cable.

13. Having to pull this move if you wanted privacy while talking on a non-cordless phone:

14. Getting kicked off the internet 'cause there was too many people in your neighborhood logged on at the same time:

15. Finally being able to get online and immediately having to get off 'cause someone needed to use the phone:

16. Trying to look at a ~suggestive~ pic using a 56k modem and having it take FOREVER to appear:

17. Putting a movie in and realizing it wasn't rewound:

18. Or worse yet, having your VCR destroy your favorite movie:

19. Scrambling to try to perfectly tape a song off the radio:

20. Downloading a fake MP3 off LimeWire or Kazaa:

21. Dealing with sending and receiving faxes:

22. Basically not being able to move whenever you used your portable CD player:

23. Lending a CD to your friends and getting it back all scratched and being forced to buy the album all over again:

24. Ordering something over the phone and then having no way to track your packages:

25. Having to wait for the TV to announce whether you had a snow day or not:

26. Having Internet Explorer crash on you at least 60% of the time you used it:

27. And finally, having your entire computer crash on the reg: