“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?”
It’s 2004
Surly there were always people who say things like “wow, I can’t believe this thing is happening it’s like it’s 2004” or something.
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
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.
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
“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.
I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set
Send me your ringtone
God almighty I could have any audio as my Nokia ringtone in the Bush era. Today? I wish I could have the ringtone I wanted.
“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.
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!!”
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”
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I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
I guess this would be country/state dependent.
“Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS”
It’s not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.
Still doesn’t work
Rubbing alcohol on a q-tip, give it a good once over, if the q-tip isn’t pure white, repeat.
Once clean wait for it to air dry and give it a go.
I just said that last week though
same, I couldn’t clear my rifle so I had to blow my sergeant
I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I’ve used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid’s show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
Why would you want a DVD over streaming it?
If you don’t want to sail the high seas, and you don’t want to pay, the library is a great, free option.
DVD’s are dog shit though. They break really easily, those ungodly annoying ads at the beginning and the amount of space they take. Streaming just beats DVD’s 10-to-1.
And Blu-ray beats them both.
You don’t need quality to watch paw patrol in the car or on a plane. A cheap portable DVD player does wonders for sanity while traveling without needing to dedicate and pre load a tablet with kids stuff.
privacy, and preservation
Young kids, you want the least amount of confusion and you don’t want to buy them a tablet that you have to maintain/load up with videos to watch.
Eventually there are better options, but there was a window of age that DVDs made all the sense.
Ska is forever!
Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.
Hand me my Razor
Ska is forever, though.
“Ska is what plays in a 13-year-old kid’s head when he gets extra mozzarella sticks”
2004 Nokia bricks are probably still around. Them things were indestructible.
