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I Hate To Break It To You, But If You Did Literally Any Of These 40 Things Growing Up, You Are Officially Old As Dirt

And I mean that lovingly.

If you've ever...

1. Spent way too long watching the TV guide channel to see what was on TV...

A television screen

2. Printed out a whole page of directions and still got lost...

Mapquest directions

3. Watched YouTube when it looked like this...

"Look at this fossil"

4. Watched TV on a big hulkin' piece of wood...

An old TV

5. Slammed a phone down with the force of a thousand suns...

Tweet reading, "Today's kids will never know the joy of being able to slam the phone down"

6. Ate ice cream out of a toilet paper roll...

A push pop side-by-side with a toilet paper roll

7. Watched the Snow Day Draft...

Screenshot of a tweet

8. Drove a car that needed TWO keys just to unlock the doors and then get it running...

GM keys

9. Almost caused a 15-car pileup trying to find the perfect CD...

A visor with CDs

10. Remember exactly where this exact piece of paper used to be in your house...

phone number list

11. Had to cover your eyes for a full five minutes...

tweet about having to rewind movies

12. Burned the heck out of your arm on one of these on a hot summer day...

ashtray in a car

13. Or threw out your shoulder trying to open one of these doors...

old car door

14. Lived this nightmare...

"GET OFF THE INTERNET, I NEED TO USE THE PHONE"

15. Spent time in a room with walls like this...

wood panel wall

16. Still have a mouth full of scars from these...

"these lollipops used to cut tongues so viciously"

17. Set the land speed record trying to get back to the TV...

Screenshot of a tweet

18. Answered a phone having zero idea who was on the other end...

phone with no caller id

19. Waited days and days just to watch Netflix...

Netflix DVDs

20. Expertly performed one of the original reaction GIFs...

Screenshot of a tweet

21. Mastered the art of texting while your phone is in your pocket...

Screenshot of a tweet

22. Learned a valuable lesson from one of these...

"A teachable moment for an overly curious child in a car alone."

23. Had to set the TV to channel 3 just to watch movies...

tv static

24. Spent an entire day waiting for something to download...

Tweet reading, "Some of you never had to wait eight hours for a Limp Bizkit song to download and it shows"

25. Had to pick a newspaper out of the trash to check the movie times...

Movie times in a newspaper

26. Been flung off one of these at 100 mph...

playground equipment

27. Remember having to go to a dedicated ROOM just to use the computer...

Tweet about the existence of a computer room being a thing

28. Had to use manual labor to rewind a cassette...

A person rewinding a cassette tape with a pencil

29. Became an expert coder because of MySpace...

Screenshot of a tweet

30. Used this medieval contraption...

car window roller upper

31. Heard your computer make these satanic noises...

Tumblr post about how loud a floppy disk in a drive used to be

32. Said these exact words...

image of a phone reading call me back after 9 when my phone is free

33. Spent way too long as a kid trying to get these right...

"I really thought I deserved a degree in mechanical engineering after plugging these in"

34. Publicly ranked your nearest and dearest...

tweet reading myspace really made us rank our friends 1-8

35. Spent way too long fidgeting with this thing...

floppy disc

36. Used a search engine not named "Google"...

ask jeeves screen

37. Listened to music using this thing...

cassette to cd player

38. Can think of exactly who had this kind of alarm clock...

old clock

39. Carefully unfolded the lyric book from a cassette so you could learn the words...

A lyric booklet for an album

40. And if you lived in a time where you could disappear completely off the grid...

Screenshot of a tweet