1) I remember when I purchased a book with instructions on how to get rich for $19.99 by simply writing a book and publishing it.
2) I remember when phones had cords.
3) I remember when more then one PC game was released annually at retail stores.
4) I remember when $20 to fill an 18 gallon gas tank was expensive.
5) I remember when “apps” were keyed in by hand from a magazine and magnetic storage media was not financially feasible.
6) I remember when song skipping was an extremely advanced option on car stereo cassette decks.
7) I remember when Mtv actually played music videos.
8) I remember when Mtv was better then VH1.
9) I remember when 64KB of RAM was a lot.
10) I remember when PC Gamer Magazine was 457 pages.
11) I remember when
www.blackviper.com was only 1 HTML page.
12) I remember when people could “dislike” things as well as like them.
13) I remember when sharing was giving access to physical objects with whom you did not wish to give that object to.
14) I remember when a hard cover dictionary was the only spell checking option available.
15) I remember when receiving one email per week from my website visitors was a success.
16) I remember when receiving 250+ emails per day from my website visitors was a failure.
17) I remember when 99% of all statistics were completely made up.
18) I remember when I bought my first new car.
19) I remember when I wrecked my first new car after only 3 months.
20) I remember when people used to interact in person.
21) I remember when I actually looked forward to Christmas.
22) I remember when cars did not talk back.
23) I remember when cars started talking.
24) I remember when pay phones actually existed.
25) I remember when the world was going to end December 31, 1999.
26) I remember when the world did not end January 1, 2000.
27) I remember when connecting to the internet required effort.
28) I remember when modems actually made noise.
29) I remember when displaying text as an image on a website was bad.
30) I remember when displaying text as an image on a website was good.
31) I remember when Transformers did not suck.
32) I remember when console game controllers only had one button.
33) I remember when my car insurance was just as much money per month as my rent.
34) I remember when being a geek was not cool.
35) I remember when The Bard’s Tale was released on C-64.
36) I remember when 16 color graphics was great.
37) I remember when Diablo was released on PC.
38) I remember when 640×480 resolution was high res.
39) I remember when I refused to buy a cell phone because people could call me at any time.
40) I remember when I broke down on the side of the road which led to a purchased cell phone.
41) I remember when a small battery installed in a game cartridge to enable saved games was phreaking awesome.
42) I remember when I read the Dungeons Masters Guide at my leisure.
43) I remember when Dungeons and Dragons was the root of all evil.
44) I remember when I bought my first optical mouse and never looked back.
45) I remember when #wordswereseperatedbyspaces.
46) I remember when I could write some really good one liners.
47) I remember when my whole life was in front of me.
48) I remember when portable music players were 50+ pounds.
49) I remember when people protested for a reason.
50) I remember when entire brick and mortar stores were dedicated to PC Gaming.
51) I remember when movies were only produced in two dimensions.
52) I remember when I updated my daily diary in 1986 at the age of 14 with weeks of “Boring day” and did not make it to March.
53) I remember when a 20 mile daily commute from Rosamond, CA to Edwards AFB took one CD worth of music to get there.
54) I remember when a 30 mile car ride from Corning, CA to Chico, CA and back was an eternity every Saturday.
55) I remember when a 60 mile car ride from Corning, CA to Redding, CA and back monthly was more punishing then being “sent to my room”.
56) I remember when a 620 mile U-haul ride from Rosamond, CA to Yreka, CA required only one pee break with cats squalling in their carriers every two seconds.
57) I remember when video game violence was actually blown out of proportion.
58) I remember when songs on the radio did not have to censor every other word and those words were actually cuss words.
59) I remember when robotics was science fiction.
60) I remember when Stephen King novels were not allowed as high school book report options.
61) I remember when a 13″ color TV was huge.
62) I remember when a 21″ CRT computer monitor was gigantic.
63) I remember when my kitties fit in the palm of my hand.
64) I remember when Google was only a search engine.
65) I remember when AltaVista was better then Google.
66) I remember when people actually retained knowledge instead of just googling it.
67) I remember when people actually retained incorrect knowledge instead of just googling it.
68) I remember when I enjoyed using ICQ.
69) I remember when printers cost more then the ink contained within them.
70) I remember when a map purchased from a gas station was a better option then asking Siri.
71) I remember when after work naps were longer then nighttime sleeping.
72) I remember when I used to be funny.
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