1. Your font on AIM, like it was basically your signature.
2. Novelty spoons, especially ones that changed colors.
3. Limited edition cups, and your cabinet being full of 'em.
4. The lush sound Windows XP made when you booted up your computer.
5. The 80-minute limit on a mix CD... Like, you'd be lucky to get 18 songs on that thing.
6. When you would accidentally hit the internet button on your phone and all hell would break loose.
When you accidentally pressed the internet button on a flip phone and had to press end so many times so your parents wouldn’t be charged for something so luxurious #TweetLikethe2000s
7. Cleaning the mouse ball and finding months of strange grime.
Do you remember when you had to do this to your old mouse? #MicrosoftFun
8. The pressure to spell everything correctly on your burned CDs because you only got one shot with permanent marker.
9. Turning to the TV Guide channel right when it was reseting and starting at the first channel.
10. Getting first dibs on Book Fair Day.
11. Worrying about your "minutes."
Remember when you had to wait till 9pm to talk on the phone so you don't use up all your minutes?
12. The confusing time period when Fox Family turned into ABC Family.
13. "Direct connecting" on AIM because that was the only way to send pictures to someone.
14. RealPlayer being the worst.
15. The Windows visualizer being cutting edge visual technology.
16. Weeding out the fake files from the real ones on LimeWire.
A good life skill I possessed from a young age was being able to weed out the fake files on limewire #limewire #songs #alllegalofcoarse
17. Leaving your computer on overnight praying, hoping, and wishing your illegal MP3 of "I'm Real" by J.Lo and Ja Rule finished.
18. When Kazaa, LimeWire, Soulseek etc. started shutting down and you had to find other places to download illegal MP3s.
19. The fear you had for illegally downloading an MP3 thinking you'd get 24 to life.
20. The computers you destroyed.
Shout out to the creators or limewire, kazaa, and napster for making all our parent's have to buy a new computer.
21. Always worrying about the amount of space left on your memory card in your digital camera.
22. The quotes and song lyrics you carefully selected for your AIM profile.
23. Trying to scrounge together 25 cents for crap at the school store.
24. Finding a payphone after school or at the mall and calling Collect to get your parents to pick you up.
25. When Disney Channel had free preview weekends because it wasn't included with most basic cable packages until the early 2000s.
26. When caller ID finally became a thing, and everyone just kind of stopped answering the house phone.
27. Buying a pack of Pokémon cards and hoping, wishing, and praying there was a holographic card in there.
28. When the Macy's or FAO Schwarz catalogs would come and it was a highlight of the holidays.
29. The two tapes in Titanic.
30. When you had to see this screen before "safely" manually turning off your computer.
I'm sure some people don't ever remember when you had to manually finish shut down.
31. When Netflix was just envelopes of DVDs.
#only90skids remember when you had to order Netflix and wait for your disk to come in
32. The fact that you had to print out directions to get anywhere.
I am "Print directions from Mapquest" Old
33. The fact that you always had multiple devices on you at all times.
Remember when you had to carry both of these at once?! How did we do it?
34. When you had to go to the mall and find a listening kiosk to sample a new CD.
35. The stress that came with new releases at Blockbuster; like, would they actually be there?!
36. The original Facebook: The Facebook.
37. When you posted your every thought on Facebook.
38. Seriously, everything.
39. Like, people would have full-on conversations through Facebook statuses about the most mundane shit.
40. The fact that we joined THE most random Facebook groups.
Remember when you used to 'like' Facebook groups that were like 'the cold side of the pillow'
41. They were for everything.
Remember when Facebook groups like "I go out of my way to step on a leaf that looks particularly crunchy" were a thing
42. Then, there was Doppelganger Week.
remember when doppelganger week happened in like 2010 and nobody ever did it again
43. Bumper stickers.
44. And last but not least, I know it's hard to believe, but there was a time when people actually posted on Facebook and it wasn't a bunch of memes like this:
I miss the times when Facebook wasn't blocked up with stuff like this...