1. Arriving in Year 7 to find what you thought was a really advanced computer room.
2. Or maybe, if you were lucky, a Macintosh Colour Classic.
3. And as your school obviously didn't have internet yet you'd just spend hours "painting" stuff on ClarisWorks.
Wow. Remember Claris Works? What a random but sweet nostalgic memory. #80sbabies
4. Having to write essays WITH AN ACTUAL PEN.
5. And not just ANY pen. But a Parker fountain pen.
6. Or if you were ever allowed to do work on the computers, you'd completely cover them with terrible Clip Art.
7. Before finishing it off with a swanky border.
Remember when you used to put a clip art border on your word document, symbolising completion
If that didn't guarantee you a good mark then NOTHING did.
8. Having a floppy disk with your name on it that you'd pick up at the start of every IT lesson to make sure your work was saved.
9. If you started towards the end of the '90s, adding horrific sound effects to Powerpoint presentations was an excellent way of getting extra marks.
Transition sound effects are the comic sans of PowerPoint Presentations.
10. And before Powerpoint, lessons would be taught via OHP.
11. Relying on this life-saver before Wikipedia was a thing.
12. And because you'd almost exclusively do all your work by hand you probably had brilliant handwriting.
13. You obviously didn't have a phone, so you'd either have to memorise all your friends' home numbers or write them down somewhere.
14. But towards the end of school someone (much cooler than you) got a Nokia 3210.
15. But seeing as they were pretty much the only person to have one, they only used it to play Snake.
16. But then one or two others followed suit and they started exchanging DIY ringtones.
17. And because you had no phone, if you needed to contact your mum you had to go to the secretary's office and get them to call her.
18. This was the goal of every IT lesson (when the teacher wasn't looking).
19. Racing home to watch Robot Wars.
20. Or to play on your BRAND NEW PlayStation.
21. Thinking you were really ahead of the times with your Hotmail address, not realising how it would haunt you later in life.
22. Being off sick was just a bit shit because you didn't have the internet and there were only four TV channels. 😞
23. So you'd just play Bamboozle all day.
24. This could easily have been the soundtrack to an entire school disco.
25. The people who had Sky would bring in VHSs of programmes you couldn't watch like football matches or episodes of Friends.
26. With Jamie Oliver's crusade over a decade away, school dinners were gloriously unhealthy.
27. And the vending machines were no better!
28. There was always that one kid who organised a Blue Peter Bring & Buy Sale every year.
29. When they introduced AS-levels just as you were nearing Year 12. 💔
30. Long before whiteboards there were these blackboards that you pulled down to get a clean board.
31. When the TV would get wheeled in so you could watch Through the Dragon's Eye on Look & Read.
32. Towards the end of your school days there would be drama if you dared to remove someone from your Top 8.
33. And finally, this dick.
