“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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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.
“it’s literally the year two thousand and four”
Happy new year 2005!
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
“No body ever got fired for choosing IBM”
I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.
They don’t actually fire, they do “performance improvement plans”.
Ah yeah, the classic PIP’d manoever. I worked with a few good guys who got
fired without causePIP’d and let go even though their performance was fineBeen at Facebook 4 years? Not management? Get ready for the PIP.
Yeah, aka we want to RIF but are too cheap to pay severance.
“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”
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 was born in the late 80’s by the time Betamax had died out so VHS was the de facto only video tape format in wide use, Hi-8 existed but was only used in the airlines despite being smaller and better. So movie previews would talk about “Coming soon to own on video” or people would say “I’ve got it on tape.” It would feel weirdly early 80’s to specify…until late in the DVD era and into blu-ray when VHS was a truly dead format and people started calling it that again.
Similarly, I never heard anyone pronounce “SNES” as a one letter word until at least the Gamecube era; it was the Super Nintendo at the time.
I was growing up when the SNES came out. I was a rare person that had an NES and I knew of no one with both an NES and SNES so most people I knew called the SNES “Nintendo”.
After the game cube was absolutely when “S’ness” became popular.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
I can’t believe gas is over $2 a gallon now.
I still say that all of the time. Along with I can’t believe gas is over $1 a gallon now.
“Get off the internet, I’m expecting a call”
Also “I can’t get through to them, they must be on the internet”
“Osama Bin who?” And in a similar vein, “Jihad? That’s a Dune reference, right?”
“I’ll cash in on my Beanie Baby investment when it’s time to pay for my kid’s college tuition.”
“The internet is just a fad.”
“I’m so excited for the next The Matrix sequel.”
“Two bedrooms and a walk-out basement. $300 a month rent.”
Hah! Not those exact words but Angela Merkel in 2007: “The Internet is new territory for all of us”.
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.
“America will not abide Nazism.”
I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
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.
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
Check out my GeoCities
Geocities was over the hump at that point, but i guess that makes it even more true.
