This Is How People Watched Stuff In 2008

#TBT

Listen, to all you 2018 kids out there with your "5Gs" and your "streaming," you don't know how hard we had it in 2008.

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1. First of all, we had cable and satellite TV. That was it. If you missed something, oh freakin' well!

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Unless you thought ahead and programmed your DVR, there was no going back.

2. Wanted to watch a show that wasn't on anymore? You were out of luck.

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You could have shelled out for the damn DVD set — but then you were behind a season!

3. DVDs ruled our lives. Binge-watching meant we were gonna have to get up to change the DVD at least three times.

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And if you fell asleep, you'd wake up with the DVD menu song stuck in your head for DAYS.

4. And renting things was still a pretty big deal.

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It was like the library! For movies and TV shows! You know...the library? UGH – we know, we're old.

5. If "standard definition" wasn't good enough for you, your best bet was Blu-ray.

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They were neither blue nor had anything to do with a man named Ray.

6. Not to mention dealing with eight different remotes just to hit "play."

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We didn't even know what half of them did, TBH.

7. But it wasn't totally impossible to find what we wanted to watch online...through ~maybe~ illegal free streams.

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We got approximately 50 viruses and had to close out 13 pop-up ads, but it was well worth it.

8. Even though we had to press "pause" and wait around five hours for the stream to buffer.

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There was a lot of shouting at the screen before the show even started.

9. The amount of just plain amazing TV out there in 2018 would've been staggering to any of us in 2008.

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Our options were still limited to cable and satellite, and the idea of an internet-only series was a joke!

10. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel: 2008 was the very first time you could stream on a TV.

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The first streaming player released and paved the way for streaming channels.

So in conclusion: Thank you, 2018 kids, for letting us old folks vent a little.

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You truly are the future.

And appreciate what y'all got in 2018, because it's pretty damn great.

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