memes

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When I was a kid a single gold coin minted from the empire of Ashoka could buy you a house, a servant, a couple acres of land, some cows, a couple pigs, chickens, and a horse

yeah, I see all your extreme gen X nostalgia, dial-up internet browsing, floppy disk hole punching, cassette pencil rewinding, unshielded electronics interference having, family party line sharing, coin return checking asses, and I raise you something only REAL old kids will remember:

Silly Bandz. Only the real old heads will remember kids trading various kinds of silly bandz with each other. Alternatively, depending on how much the people around you believed in pseudoscience, the power balance hologram bracelets could also be found around people's wrists, at that time.

Poke 53281,4

Most of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" wouldn't work today because of the Internet and electronic receipts.

Game consoles didn't come with a storage card, so you had to keep the game running or restart every time.

3 or 4; most RF switches had a toggle on the box that let you select which of the two channels you preferred to use

Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.

Disk 13 of 18

Loading games from audio cassette.

I want rounded corners and shadows on my website so I'm going to use a 9 slice.

Needing to memorize the home phone numbers of all my friends