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25 Years Ago Almost Everyone Had These 34 Things, But Now They’re Gone
I loved those nostalgic fact sheets like "What the World Was Like 25 Years Ago"... you know, with young Joe Montana, Miami Vice on TV, Police Academy and Terminator on VHS, Ronald Reagan in the White House - right up until I realized that, damn it, this wasn’t a quarter of a century ago!
Yeah, 25 years ago is 1999. Yes, I understand that many of you, dear readers, were not even born at that time, but for me personally, it was so recently, it seems like, no, not yesterday, but at least like last week. But it turns out that two and a half decades have passed, and people in nostalgic online threads like this one remember all the good things that happened then. Let's remember too...
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#1
My dad who passed away on June 18, 1999, at the age of 71, the same age I am now. "Everyone" didn't know him, but I sure as hell did. I held his hand until he let go. **Miss ya big time dad**. Till we meet again.
#6
AN ABSOLUTELY BONKERS YEAR FOR MOVIES.
The Matrix
Dogma
Fight Club
American Beauty
American Pie
Green Mile
The Mummy
The Sixth Sense
Office Space
Boondock Saints
Varsity Blues
Blair Witch Project
And f*****g more! Not reboots, remakes or sequels. Just fresh f*****g content and original stories.
#9
A "stereo system" in the living room.
Edit: Look man, if yours doesn't have a squeaky-a*s turntable, tape-to-tape deck and a shiny "metal-style" plastic carapace, we're not talking about the same thing.
Get out of here with your Bose, you hipster muso snobs. Shoo! Shoo! ??.
#13
The *need* to be home at a certain time on a certain day to watch the next episode of your favorite show.
Unapologetic suntans. (Edit: haven't you guys ever heard of slathering yourself in baby oil before going to lie in the sun? We all did it back then.)
A cassette deck in their new car.
#18
Land lines. Mom still has hers, but all the phones are cordless. The days of a handset connected to the receiver with a 25 foot cord are long gone. Scrolling through comments, yup Mom has an Answering machine connected to her landline. Edit #1: Mom is in her middle 70's. Edit #2: Supporting documentation
#21
Cameras with film, posh people had digital ones
Dial up Internet
Discmans
Minidisc players
Floppy discs.
#29
The ability to get on an airplane without spending 20 minutes going through TSA.
The ability to navigate around town without a GPS or phone.
A nintendo 64.
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