Even though it wasn't that long ago, it's amazing how rapidly our expectations have changed. Now I get frustrated if a page doesn't load in the first second.

Yes, and if you were lucky you wouldn’t break a toe or trip over the sofa cushions some dope had put on the floor for their seats.

Used to use a program call "Getright" a download manager that you could pause and then resume downloads with, even days later, godsend of the dial-up era!

well i still do... but then i drive a 90s car?

My sister does this or if not, she chops your head off when taking your photo. Sometimes, she does both

I loved doing this with error boxes!

For a moment I thought these were all pop-ups.

Ah, yes. Remember it well.

I remember this so well! But can somebody explain WHY this happened? Something to do with the graphics card or...?

This is Windows XP. So stable and so majestic. Still laugh at people saying how good XP is and how bad 10 is. I always mention this issue. It won't just disappear in half an hour or longer. You had to restart the PC most of the times. Modern Windows doesn't do that. Fortunatelly.

this was our way of doing "modern" art

i used to do this while i was on the phone, gossiping with friends :))

My laptop does this sometimes and it's a 2019 laptop.

Opposite of a problem

Yes, This was gold, but wevery time I did it, somehow, my mom was always there lol

Haha! I still have all of mine!

My parents and I used to travel around Europe having no navigation but my mother holding a map in her hand ;)

Yeah and phones would only hold tiny amounts of messages so you’d agonise over which ones to delete.

I still have and use a flip phone from 2005. It doesn't do internet, and its pay as you go, but I only need it for texts and calls. Can also go 5 DAYS without charging.

I had totally forgotten that!

Yes and it took about a year to load and when it did load it was expensive so you’d try and press ‘end’ but you’d get that ‘connecting’ sign for like 10 minutes so you’d have to pull the battery out. Frustrating.

The first cd i burned took all day, in a 2x burner, on a 486 pc. Windows 98 smh

Lomography is the spiritual evolution of this

Damnit!! Rub rub rub (stop, exhale on it for moisture) rub rub. Insert, wait, pray.........disc error. Noooooooo. Repeat.

DADDYS LITTLE PSYCHO B***H

Nah, rolled up piece of paper or a cigarette filter did the job just as well.

Or the Dj would interrupt near the end.

I miss going to the video store

Saturday morning...Ginsu Knives then Scooby Doo.

That is not an old thing

I still do this since it is free

Anti skip as in a buffer in the unit that held several seconds of the track playing so you could use it while running, not anti skip as in preventing damaged discs from skipping.

This can still happen. Blu-Ray disks have such stupid disk holders in their cases that you have no option but to handle the disk. Grrrr.

A lot of these are 90's problems, too.

Rather have Farmville than Candy Crush!

I had the same one and broke the same way. Broken like Armstrong's career.

i used secret sites that were invite only. no viruses

This is not an old thing tho