1.Having to share one phone line with your entire household!
2.And not having really any privacy if your phone was not portable.
3.Having to leave awkward messages for your friend on their family's answering machine, knowing that their entire family would probably hear it.
4.Answering the phone and having NO IDEA who was calling 'cause your family didn't have caller ID.
5.Having a mixtape or cassette eaten by your tape player.
6.Having favorite VHS tape destroyed by the VCR.
7.Taking your film to be developed and discovering that 99% of the pictures were blurry and no good.
8.Turning on the TV Guide Channel right after the channel's listing you wanted to see had already scrolled.
9.Having to watch a lot of commercials when watching live TV, 'cause there was no DVRs.
10.Having to watch The Weather Channel to get the local forecast, but having to wait a while because they were showing the national forecast.
11.Having to wait for the radio or TV to announce if you were having a snow day or not.
12.Having people rush you while talking on a payphone — if there was a line to use it.
13.Or having your friends or neighbors listen to your conversation if you asked to borrow their phone.
14.Finding out the night before a report is due that Encarta did not have any information on the subject matter you needed.
15.Or finding out the night before a report is due that the encyclopedias your family owned were too outdated and did not have any information on the subject matter you needed.
16.Having to write letters to a friend who lived far away, 'cause it was the only way you could communicate with them on the cheap.
17.Trying to start a TV show a season or two after it had started and being totally lost on the plot.
18.Having to remember to bring extra CDs or tapes on long trips, or else you'd be listening to the same songs for the entire time.
19.And finally, going somewhere boring and forgetting your Walkman, a book, or Gameboy.
