“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
hey rich people probably still say that
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn’t call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.
I distinctly remember tapes, video tapes, video cassette, and VHS all being things we would say it for
That might be a regional thing. 20 years ago I was calling them vhs’ living in Nevada but idk about others.
Oh, interesting! I stand corrected.
Just blow in the cartridge
I need to turn my DLP projection TV to Circuit City.
I’m looking forward to Matt Groenig’s new show.
Disenchanted probably had that response
I remain unconvinced.
Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.
Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it’s in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask “Hey, are you done with that phone?” as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it’s 50 cents now, unless you’re calling a toll-free number).
VHS is making a … come back isn’t really the right word, but there’s a small number of folks interested in what’s on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).
It’s all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.
Is it like a nostalgic novelty place?
Can you turn the antenna to ___ insert satellite name ___ ?
For context
where I grew up, almost every immigrant houshold had a satellite antenna, to watch channels across the world. Since my parents were immigrants, we had to turn the antenna each time we wanted to watch either local news or news from our country of origin.
“Antenna”? Don’t you mean “dish”?
Yes I know that dish antennas are antennas, but I’ve never heard of anyone calling them just “antennas”.
yeah… dish … thank you …
English isn’t my first language, and I never used that word in a sentence to remember it.
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
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Back when common decency mattered, before 9/11,
It’s not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.
I just said that last week though
same, I couldn’t clear my rifle so I had to blow my sergeant
Still doesn’t work
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
“Hark, Alfred, the smith’s apprentice, was taken by the plague - find your goodfellows and see if any of their sons of the working age would wish gainful employment to a kind master.”
Man, I always forget the big foot fungus plague of '05. So many corpses, littering the streets…
Dude, 2020 wasn’t that long ago!
“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” ?
It’s weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.
I think you’ll still need specialized equipment to hookup a VHS machine to a computer and digitize it.
Nope. RCA > S-Video, HDMI, or FireWire. Any of the three would have worked at the time. And many VCRs had either HDMI, VGA, or S-Video out.
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Yeah I got my first mobile phone in 2004 and it was one of the Nokia’s, 3310 probably. We definitely still had a landline with speed dial and absolutely did not have streaming. Definitely still had VHS, probably got our first DVD player the year before but still used both.
