27 Old-School Problems That You'll Only Understand If You've Over 30
Slow internet transfers, VHS, Napster, LimeWire, and politically incorrect television commercials... If you were born around 1990, this is your life.
Picture this: a warm spring evening in 2000, and you're downloading *NSYNC's 'No Strings Attached' on iMesh, Napster, or LimeWire. The file transfer has been running for over three hours.
It's now at 97%, and you're excited. You get up to use the bathroom, knowing that once you're back, the sweet, sweet sound of 'Bye Bye Bye' and 'It's Gonna Be Me' will be playing on your family computer speakers.
You walk through the living room and see your mother; she is talking to someone, but she's alone in the room. You realize she is on the phone—it's a landline.
You run to the study, only to see the dreaded message across the 11-inch computer monitor: "File transfer interrupted, no internet connection." She blew it.
You told her specifically not to use the phone until you were done, but that was almost four hours ago. She had forgotten, and the last 200 minutes have been in total vain. There will be no *NSYNC tonight.
If you can relate to this story, it's probably because you're under 30, but if you do, keep scrolling. These are some old-school problems that only we veterans will understand.
Literally, mine once said "more than 100 years" LOL!
spiletta42Not feeling that RUSH!
FlossAusI can only guess it was a Backstreet Boys music video... because I've been there, done that.
AngryManTV
Or just HAVING a stereo in general.
reddit.com
Getting the photos developed only to realize someone had their finger on the lens.
This was an aesthetic.
Having folders upon folders of CDs.
Having to read the MapQuest directions to your irritated parent.
AyanaTheDIVA
DID THIS!
Zenex Lee
Flip-phone lifestyle...
Sweeeeeeeetieee
Having free calls after 9 PM!
Hitting the internet button and hoping to God it didn't connect and charge your parents $945,789,437,854.30.
passingpleasantries
That's storage goals...
... and to only have approximately 20 chances to get a good shot!
Disc errors. The worst.
I begged my mother to let me call and 'order' one of these.
amiiwg
Good luck!
Mom walking in and carrying on like a pork chop about something that could have easily waited.
IAmAhjani
Video rental. VIDEO!
That wait sucked.
You've never had a black eye from a boogie board, and it shows...
heavendols
This was very satisfying.
plantblogger
Spoiler: it still skipped.
reddit.com
The crazy thing is, sometimes it would still work.
This was such a time-waster.
If you didn't cost your parents hundreds of dollars to have the computer guy come to your house to get rid of the virus... OMG.
BIackPplVids
Doesn't work.
