There wasn't even text message, phones had a cord on it that you could wrap around your house ten times, and if the TV wouldn't focus you had to either move these things called bunny ears or smack the TV lol

I think more importantly, you could be goofy and awkward just for the sake of fun in the moment, and not always be attempting to make a video and gain likes for it.

I used to hate when the DJ talked over your favorite song after you had waited HOURS to catch it on the radio so you could record it.

Ah yes! Right after the 'Star Bangled Banner' played!

Circle what you wanted to watch! And if two programmes overlap then.... Dad decides.

Then your sibling screams “it’s on!!” And you have to run back.

Still good to know how to read especially if you go hiking. Too many people depend on their phones way too much and don't realize there are still alot of dead air when it comes to cells.

I still remember a couple of number of my friends house numbers, from 30 years a go. Cannot remember any more recent numbers.

"They're here"

My best friend lived in the house behind mine so I would climb our chain link fence instead of going around the block to go visit her. She did the same for me. We went over so often we had pushed the top of the fence down. My father finally decided one year to put a ladder over it for us.

OMG yes! We were easily entertained then!

Wait....... did we say one or two? Maybe it's one and they could be a little late. They will be here. Any minute now. Let's just wait untill two, just to be sure. At two your friend came around a corner and said that they weren't sure if we said one or two. Some of my friends still don't have a phone and it still stresses me out

Ok, I legit thought for the longest time that those pens were made for rewinding cassettes

Thank you for calling moviephone

I think that level of accountability was a good thing.

I actually miss these. Especially the ones in the kitchen that had the phone book holder.

Thundercats theme still gives me nostalgia tingles.

AND The Flintstones and The Jetsons were prime time.

Ha! My parents were such squares that we were not allowed to watch Cartoon Network unless it was Tom and Jery, etc.

Saturday morning BEFORE Cartoon Network.

Even older, The Banana Splits show. Arabian nights, Tom Sawyer

Scooby Do, where are you?

I miss the original, unedited Bugs Bunny cartoons. They were the bomb!

Do... do y'all think that Saturday morning cartoons don't exist anymore

Loony Tunes, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Thundercats.....

HeMan

I watched Bugs Bunny and also The Roadrunner. But were taken off because some idiot thought they're too violent. Seriously?

Thundercats, star blazers,

Antenna? What's that? /S/

No, you get off the phone so I can use the internet!

It always seemed to be around Easter because I remember eating chocolate bunnies while watching it.

With a little case for your cassettes.

Viewmaster. You could buy whole stories.

Countless times of being on the verge of having an aneurysm, but you kept your cool because you knew if the controller got obliterated that was it for the rest of your childhood....

BlockBuster did not have an adult section. 😉

I loved my Lite Brite! Also my Spirograph, but that took more skill.

Re-watched that series recently! It's surprising how much of it I clearly remembered, and just how cheesy it really is too.

Oh, this takes me back! I worked at Blockbuster in 1997 & remember taking hundreds of orders for new copies of Titanic.

Franklin Mint "collectibles".

And waiting for the dial-up connection!

Waiting to call long distance on weekends because it was cheaper. No cell phones.

And I absolutely hate it

Yeah, and my mom always saying "What do you possibly have to talk about, you've seen them all day at school and you're going to see them tomorrow, you can talk then." I'm now perplexed by what we actually had to say to each other for so long.

MS Dos

This!

We used to do "Slug Bug" (without the punching, thankfully; we'd just yell that out whenever we saw a VW Beetle drive past). That's gotten much harder now that the VW Beetle has been discontinued.

Be honest, who read that in the voice of the Rockapella?

Lol pay phones and phone booths themselves!

This was the only way to get first class gossip.

Flip phone from 2000s (as depicted in Turning Red) is completely different from flip phone that we have today