1. Having to choose between using the phone or using the internet.
2. Coming home from school and talking on the phone with your BFF and having your mom take it away mid-gossip.
3. Worse still, having a family member eavesdrop on your calls because of parallel lines.
4. Having to go to music stores and buy an entire album to listen to your favourite song.
5. These brats today don't the complicated relationship between these two.
6. Borrowing/buying books and comics from the school library/friends was the only way to read.
7. Maintaining a book where you wrote down the lyrics to your favourite songs after having listened to them over fifty times.
8. Having to depend on TV channels to watch reruns of your favourite shows.
9. Having to check the newspaper TV section to see if anything interesting would be telecast every. Single. Day.
10. Having to wait for your favourite movies to be available on VHS tapes.
11. Having to rent CDs and CD players to watch movies.
12. Flipping through Yellow Pages to find the number of the place you wanted to call.
13. Taking pictures on a film camera and be able to take only 36 of them.
14. Oh, the trouble of going to an "STD. ISD. PCO" booth to call your family abroad.
15. Having to ask teachers and your parents for answers and not Google.
16. Having to give your message to a real person on the phone to send a message to your dad's Pager.
17. Having to go to a cyber cafe to use internet.
18. Trying to pass your time by looking at this screen when the cable conked out on you.
19. Having to fit your message in under 160 characters to send an SMS.
20. Having to watch Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi because it was either that or doing homework.
21. Waiting all day for a song to download on LimeWire and having it turn out to be a troll file.
22. Having to save your data on multiple floppy disks.
23. The only way to record your friends' likes and dislikes was having them fill out your slam book.
24. Feeling cheated when this "999999 Games in 1" came with only 10 games.
25. Writing letters to VJ Vishal and VJ Shehnaz and never having them read it on TV.
26. And exhausting yourself, looking for a magic pencil that actually worked.
