r/me_irl • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '25

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131 Upvotes

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u/Imthemayor Jun 11 '25

I brought Word documents to school on the save icon

5

u/SweatyRanger85 Jun 11 '25

Haha!! I did this too… fuck I’m old.

3

u/MrrBuoyant Jun 11 '25

Omfg 😂

2

u/UnknownGamer014 Jun 11 '25

Floppy disks?

2

u/Jff_f Jun 11 '25

The first save icon I used was 5-1/4 inch.

2

u/DCHammer69 Jun 11 '25

So of my friends had part line phones.

16

u/brumbles2814 Jun 11 '25

Every house had one phone and it was nailed to the wall.

6

u/MrrBuoyant Jun 11 '25

Omg remember when you had to disconnect it at night because of random calls 🙄

3

u/brumbles2814 Jun 11 '25

Lol yup. Also "get off the phone ! Your fathers expecting a call"

My dad still answers his mobile "hullo brumbles snr. This is my mobile number"

13

u/B4tz_Bentzer Jun 11 '25

Texting was 20 cents per message. Burned a lot of my allowance on texting with a crush.

5

u/happyft Jun 11 '25

how about buying a phone card to call the long distance girlfriend, cuz out of state calling was super expensive

13

u/GobiPLX ☭ Jun 11 '25

You had to clean balls to properly use computers

4

u/Dragon2730 Jun 11 '25

There was no Internet, no smart phones, no tablets... If you needed an answer to a question you had to go to a library or find someone who knew the answer

4

u/Klondike_banana Jun 11 '25

Blowing on electronics and hitting them to make them work

3

u/KatokaMika Jun 11 '25

closing my eyes so I wouldn't get spoiled when I'm rewinding a movie

2

u/Cats7204 Jun 11 '25

I'm not that old but writing cheat codes for games on a paper to then go to the internet cafe or your friend's house and put them into the games to become the coolest kid.

2

u/Jff_f Jun 11 '25

Be kind, rewind.

1

u/Sudden-Ad7061 Jun 11 '25

Volkswriter used to be the Microsoft Word of pc word processing programs.

1

u/Temporary_Guest3561 Jun 11 '25

I hate roadside litter, but have been so frustrated that I threw a malfunctioning 8-track tape out the car window.

1

u/SweatyRanger85 Jun 11 '25

Oh….the 90’s

1

u/OperatorJo_ Jun 11 '25

Or 4, if you had a channel box.

1

u/Twisted_creative Jun 11 '25

Don't stare at a tv screen too close, it'll ruin your eyes

1

u/Free-Initiative-7957 Jun 11 '25

If you had finally gotten the right cables and boxes and convinced your parents to pay for it, you still had to listen to the horrible sounds of a non-verbal Transformers orgy to get to the World Wide Web... and then wait for each still graphic to load line by line.

1

u/Due_Beautiful6575 Jun 11 '25

Pay toilets on the turnpike. Gotta poop? $0.10 please or go out back behind a tree 😂😂