“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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“Get off the internet, I’m expecting a call”
Also “I can’t get through to them, they must be on the internet”
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!
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
Call me back, I got free incoming calls
“I’ll show you the photos once I get them developed.”
I’m looking forward to Matt Groenig’s new show.
Disenchanted probably had that response
I remain unconvinced.
“Hark, Alfred, the smith’s apprentice, was taken by the plague - find your goodfellows and see if any of their sons of the working age would wish gainful employment to a kind master.”
Dude, 2020 wasn’t that long ago!
Man, I always forget the big foot fungus plague of '05. So many corpses, littering the streets…
Try cleaning your mouse ball, see if that helps.
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
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.
“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.
“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.
I moved out on my own that year and only had cable Internet and a cell phone. Facebook was still edu only, myspace was still popular as hell, you could get DVDs through the mail from Netflix, movie piracy was extremely popular.
I think you’ll still need specialized equipment to hookup a VHS machine to a computer and digitize it.
Nope. RCA > S-Video, HDMI, or FireWire. Any of the three would have worked at the time. And many VCRs had either HDMI, VGA, or S-Video out.
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 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.
“I can’t believe you didn’t put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!”
Also, “w00t!!”
… People don’t say “w00t”?
Only lol survived
My roflcopter begs to differ.
That’s the saddest news I’ve ever received.
Make the internet leet again!
And ‘lmao’ and ‘rofl’.
I say woot. At least 2-3 times a week.
“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”
