This is not an exaggeration. Your download speed would slow down to the point where Windows would make this kind of absurd estimate, and you’d sigh and leave the room for a while (because you couldn’t use the computer while it was doing this for fear it would crash and lose all your progress) and then you’d come back in 40 minutes and maybe it would now say 52 years or maybe it would say 3 minutes, who knew, not Windows.
these are the most early 2000s nu metal motherfuckers i have ever laid my eyes on, and exactly what i would expect from the people who voiced ed edd n eddy
Mixtapes were made by recording songs off the radio onto a cassette tape and movies had intermission.
People would pick a song to play for their voicemail message.
You’d record a song from the radio as your ringtone.
AIM/Yahoo Messenger
Tagged/MySpace/Blackplanet
You have to go in the living room to use the computer
“You’ve got mail!”
We had chat lines i.e. The Loup
Emo AIM away messages
Tamagotchis
Furbys
Hit Clips
The sheer frustration of having to do a high school research project in the library with like 50 web browsers open at once because IE didnt have tabbed browsing yet and Firefox wasnt allowed on the computers because the school librarians didnt understand it.
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