Man, those were the days.
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Remember when you’d rush home from school just to jump on AIM to talk to your friends (from school) about everything that had happened that day…
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…when this was how you trolled people…
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…when there was no better way to spend an afternoon than flipping through the newest issue of Teen People…
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…when TRL was your must-see daily appointment TV…
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…when you voted every week for your favorite American Idol contestants like your life depended on it…
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…when it felt like a little victory that your DVR didn’t cut off taping the last few minutes of a show you liked…
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…when you had to worry about how many megapixels your digital camera had…
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…when 90% of the time you spent playing The Sims went to making design changes to the house and making your Sims look like your friends and crushes…
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…when this was the most gourmet snack you could have…
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…when the guy yelling “Coming soon…” at the beginning of a Disney video would give you a little startle (even though you knew it was coming)…
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….when the biggest fights between you and your siblings were over who got to use the computer…
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…when you had a 70% chance of having Internet Explorer crashing on you while using it…
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…when Windows would shut down and restart on you for no reason — usually while you were in the middle of writing something on Word…
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…when you’d have to call yourself and enter your pin in order to listen to your voicemails…
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…when there was no more embarrassing feeling than leaving an awkward voice mail on your friend’s home answering machine…
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…when going to the mall was an EVENT and not a chore…
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…when Sharper Image was a must-stop-at store whenever you visited the mall…
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…and it was 90% just to sit in their massage chairs…
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…when you either had a love or hate relationship with Abercrombie & Fitch…
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…when there was nothing more fun than going to Borders and sitting on the floor reading magazines…
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…when no stop to Tower Records or the Virgin Megastore would be complete without listening to an album in the kiosk (which is/was gross in retrospect)…
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…when the iTunes Free Download Single of the Week actually mattered…
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…when you would load up your LimeWire download queue, go to bed, and pray that it didn’t time out by the morning…
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…or when you were almost done downloading a song off LimeWire only to have the other user sign off…
#tbt that moment when you were downloading a song on #Limewire and the other user logs off at 50% completion.. how far music piracy has come
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…when you’d always make sure you had extra blank CDs at home…
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…when there was no better feeling than making or getting a 🔥 mix CD from a friend…
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…when there was always a little fear that someone would walk in while a Girls Gone Wild commercial was playing and think you were watching porn…
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…when it was important to get to Blockbuster early on Fridays to make sure you could rent a copy of the newest release…
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….and lastly, when you’d fall asleep watching a DVD and be woken up by the blinking DVD screensaver: