Experiences and stuff that won't happen again....

Decent music.

Agreed on the fax machine, used to work in sales and the horrible brrrrr noise of the fax usually meant a purchase order so was a good unpleasant noise.

Waiting for cassette based video games to load, like the spectrum and commodore 64. Some games had more loading on later levels and you'd be bricking it that it might crash.

Handing over your money to buy a plastic card to use in a small plastic phone cabin on the street in order to talk to somebody.

Getting off the couch to change the television station.

You didn't have a TV stick?

Bloody luxury! We just has a stick.

In our house I was the stick

Kids allowed to be kids without helicopter parents. I was out at 11am till near midnight when I was 8-12 during the summer months.

Programming the video recorder with the video plus codes from the TV guide

And then realising that the football match went into extra time, so the movie was delayed and you failed to record the last 30 mins of Star Trek 2

I was really f**king confused when I saw the start of Star Trek 3 😂

blowing into the old video game cartridge's.

making mix tapes from atlantic 252, raging when they would start talking as the song winded down

checking scores on teletext.

my 1st date had to call their landline (number gotten from phone book of course) and speak to the auld fella 1st before he would let me speak with the girl.

god be with the days

The likes of Feeky McGee.

I feel like there's a division of Russian hackers who are saying "challenge accepted" right now 😁

But yes, faxes are generally secure enough to be used for things like medical data.

I think there's also a lot of legacy thinking involved in that, like there's other methods of communication that are secure but pharmacies and doctors don't see any reason to use anything newer

If it ain't broken then don't fix it, and continue to torture anyone using it 😂

Having a file on a floppy disk and getting the dreaded "the disk is not formatted" error when trying to read from it.

Or if using DOS, the dreaded "Abort Retry Ignore Fail" error message.

Every weekend in 4th class we had to write a summary of a news related story that occured over the weekend. I was lucky enough to have got a TV with teletext on it early on, I would pretty much just copy a story word for word off Aertel at 8.55pm of a Sunday, never was sussed out by anyone, how I loved that TV 😁

Renting non-legit/replica/pirated videos from a man who would arrive in to the estate once a week with a van and 'rent' these videos for £1.50 for the week...This was at a time when a blank tape would cost £1, I could never figure out why he didn't go the next level and sell the the recording for £4 and flog lots at once.

Reminds me, actually renting a TV or video recorder by the week for a pound or £1.50 cos they were so expensive!

Visiting people, hanging around for a few hour while parents talked sh1te around a coffee table with a branded ashtray. Then it would be time to leave and they'd stand there another half an hour chatting by the front door or by the car

Buying a PC and it came with 20 floppy discs with all the drivers. And the manual had all the circuit schematics for the motherboard in case a repair shop needed to replace one of the components

Also, trying to figure out what IRQ address your sound card is on, and getting it wrong so every time you pressed a key the sound got interrupted

MT Usa on a Sunday afternoon.

Adjusting the "tracking" in a vain attempt to improve the visual quality of an old VHS tape.

-Collecting the fyffes banana stickers to send off for some **** toy

-A ring in the barm brack at halloween

-An actual toy in the cereal box that you wouldn't have to download an app for

-All the effort of cutting the token off the milk carton, having thousands saved up in the cupboard only to be too afraid to spend them

-No seatbelts in the backseat

-Not realising someone was a raging alcoholic

-Being in the sacristy alone with the local priest (nowhere safer than there..)

I remember when boards wasnt 24 hours - it shut down for an hour in the middle of the night (possibly for a backup or something)

All now, I still use minidiscs.

This thread should be called

"Being a 90s teenager" 😁