Technology has advanced so much it’s just unbelievable that we lived when the Internet was something you can only use on your old, DDoS computer. Phones used to have only two games, assuming you had one and it was either calling your girlfriend or spending the next 15 hours downloading the file on Napster.
So, here are some images that will bring you back to that time. That beautiful, old-time when things were simpler and the time kids these days will just never understand.
1. Internet was a luxury.
2. Or bringing along a huge map of the US.
3. What the hell is 5G?
4. Kids these days: You still have radio in your car?
5. Had to fit as many song as possible into a single CD. About 21 per CD.
6. And after burning, you inserted it only to see this on the player.
7. Windows XP Error worms.
8. It’s a grudge you can never erase.
9. Field trip? Day by the water? High school spirit week? Take a disposable camera!
10. MP3 player, a pair of earphone and these.
11. Remember when ‘Friends’ first aired?
12. Memorizing and texting without looking.
13. And you have to pay for each text.
14. The hate is real.
15. You know the pain. You can still feel it.
16. Weekend mornings are reserved for cartoons after a long commercial.
17. “Call me after 9. Yeah, that’s when my phone is free.”
18. Video store, a dying, but such a nostalgic place.
19. It shows.
20. Paying for your favorite ringtones and wallpaper.
21. The struggle of singing along and praying it doesn’t skip.
22. And re-title the songs from ‘c28123hdsa.mp3’.
23. Waiting for your channel to come only to space out and miss it again.
24. Predates Farmville. Harvest Moon.
25. “My life just fell apart.”
26. Screaming ‘Don’t touch the bottom part!’ so it’s not ruined.
27. Repairing scratched CDs with banana or toothpaste.
28. Did you? Did you?!
29. Waited weeks after using disposable cameras, to find out 80% of the pictures were ruined by your amateur hands.