Asklemmy

It's 2004

"Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes."

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.

"Get off the internet, I'm expecting a call"

"I'm excited for what the future has in store for me."

itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.

I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set

Send me your ringtone

“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" ?

Have you heard of the Information superhighway?

"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant

"I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)

"I got it off Napster"

"want to listen to my mix tape?"

"I can burn you a CD of that"

"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"

Also, "w00t!!"

It's not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.

"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"

Hang on, my pager is making a noise

I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.

Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had "speed dial". You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.

Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it's schedule to watch it.

Ska is forever!

Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.

I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)

Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.

Where did I leave my zip disk?

Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again

I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)

“Sorry, I got to return this video”

You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014

Do you Yahoo?

"hit me on my two-way"

I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...

He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.

Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.

"You think Monica Lewinsky sucks or blows?"

Is that available for OS/2 Warp?

"I'll show you the photos once I get them developed."

Did you see Mozart's new concerto?

"Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets."

Can you give me directions to your house?

"The check is in the mail"

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"I wish no one would assassinate billionaires."