16 Nostaligc Things You'll Be Ecstatic Don't Exist Anymore
By
Samantha in
Entertainment
On 28th February 2016
Remember when you had to push a button four times just to get the character you wanted in a text? Or all those times you had to sit by the radio for hours just to record the one song you wanted? While I'm sure many of you work very hard to repress painful memories of your childhood, sometimes remembering has its benefits. For one, it definitely fosters appreciation for the beautiful, convenient things — touchscreen keyboards and Spotify — we now have to enjoy.
They're also a ton of fun to laugh at. Imagine how much commitment it must have taken for someone to stand idly by a radio for hours just to add one song to a mixtape that anyone born into this century could have made in under five minutes. Ridiculous, right? At least that's how the millennials see it.
#1. Remember the interesting puzzles you sometimes had to deal with?
#2. When music didn't fit into your pocket
#3. Payphones are still a thing
#4. Remember when you forgot to press stop and recorded hours of senseless radio
#5. And that was his only copy of Groundhog Day
#6. When this was a solution
#7. When backlights were a luxury
#8. I remember being pretty good at it, though
#9. When shutting down your computer actually meant pressing a button
#10. Life before Facebook
#11. When the internet tied up the phone lines
#12. When this would absolutely ruin Saturday morning cartoons
#13. When this was revolutionary technology
#14. Remember when these were the future
#15. When this was actually a competition
