“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
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“Get off the internet, I’m expecting a call”
Also “I can’t get through to them, they must be on the internet”
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
Nobody referred to videos as “VHS” unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them “videos” and “tapes” or “videotape.”
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
“Hark, Alfred, the smith’s apprentice, was taken by the plague - find your goodfellows and see if any of their sons of the working age would wish gainful employment to a kind master.”
Dude, 2020 wasn’t that long ago!
Man, I always forget the big foot fungus plague of '05. So many corpses, littering the streets…
“I’ll show you the photos once I get them developed.”
Try cleaning your mouse ball, see if that helps.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn’t widely aware of them until 2014.
How about “John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term” ?
It’s weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.
I moved out on my own that year and only had cable Internet and a cell phone. Facebook was still edu only, myspace was still popular as hell, you could get DVDs through the mail from Netflix, movie piracy was extremely popular.
I think you’ll still need specialized equipment to hookup a VHS machine to a computer and digitize it.
Nope. RCA > S-Video, HDMI, or FireWire. Any of the three would have worked at the time. And many VCRs had either HDMI, VGA, or S-Video out.
Yeah I got my first mobile phone in 2004 and it was one of the Nokia’s, 3310 probably. We definitely still had a landline with speed dial and absolutely did not have streaming. Definitely still had VHS, probably got our first DVD player the year before but still used both.
“I can’t believe you didn’t put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!”
Also, “w00t!!”
… People don’t say “w00t”?
Only lol survived
My roflcopter begs to differ.
That’s the saddest news I’ve ever received.
Make the internet leet again!
And ‘lmao’ and ‘rofl’.
I say woot. At least 2-3 times a week.
I’ve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I don’t agree with you, I’m glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what I’ve learned.
“We need to get WMDs out of Saddam’s hands”
Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.
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Have you heard of the Information superhighway?
“Will that be smoking or non smoking?” Asked as a restaurant
“I think you flooded it” in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)
“I got it off Napster”
“want to listen to my mix tape?”
“I can burn you a CD of that”
“Will that be smoking or non smoking?” Asked as a restaurant
I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
I guess this would be country/state dependent.
I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.
Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had “speed dial”. You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.
Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it’s schedule to watch it.
Yeah, I think the premise is actually “What did people say 20 years ago that they don’t now.”
Merely using the word mm"premise" correctly makes one sound 200+ IQ in 2025.
Hey, I live down the steeet from the best remaining video rental store (Movie Madness in Portland, OR). Have run down to return videos pretty often this year!
VHS?
Those, and dvd, bluray, some other fancier format. They have way more titles than any blockbuster ever did. Good place to have around ( it’s a nonprofit, so should be around in future).
“Dammit, my tape is stuck inside the VCR again!”
“99 cents for a song? Hell yeah. I’m never buying CDs again.” (A reference to the iTunes Music Store launch)
“I ran out of free AOL time. Better get another demo disc”
Speaking of AOL, “yo, what’s your AIM screenname?” (Replace “AIM” with your favorite messaging service at the time if you used that)
“Mom, can I have a PlayStation 2? -No. -But it plays DVDs.”
“Oh, I can’t wait to see the wonderful New York Twin Towers, I’m so excited for what’s coming!” (I was too young to even remember the concept of different countries existing so I had no idea what “America” even was, let alone being confused about 9/11)
“I got slimed. It was so. Much. Fun.”
“I’m so glad the United Kingdom won Eurovision, I can’t wait to see how the next year’s contest will turn out. Katrina was so amazing” (1997 was the last time the UK won)
“What a wonderful Saturday morning. Time to watch some cartoons.”
“My phone has a NiCd battery, and it’s almost out of juice so I can’t just plug it in because I will ruin the battery. I have to wait until it literally turns off.”
“Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia”
“Finally got my fresh new copy of Mac OS X. Time to see what’s it’s like.” proceeds to stay on OS 9 for a few more years
That’s all I can think of.
More like “99¢ per song? What a ripoff! I’ll just download them from KaZaA instead.”
That too is pretty accurate.
