What's a sentence nobody has said in 20 years?
What's a sentence nobody has said in 20 years?
"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?"
"Get off the internet, I'm expecting a call"
Also "I can't get through to them, they must be on the internet"
It's 2004
Surly there were always people who say things like "wow, I can't believe this thing is happening it's like it's 2004" or something.
"it's literally the year two thousand and four"
Happy new year 2005!
"Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes."
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
Try cleaning your mouse ball, see if that helps.
"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."
Dude, 2020 wasn't that long ago!
Man, I always forget the big foot fungus plague of '05. So many corpses, littering the streets...
"I'll show you the photos once I get them developed."
Nobody referred to videos as "VHS" unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them "videos" and "tapes" or "videotape."
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
I was born in the late 80's by the time Betamax had died out so VHS was the de facto only video tape format in wide use, Hi-8 existed but was only used in the airlines despite being smaller and better. So movie previews would talk about "Coming soon to own on video" or people would say "I've got it on tape." It would feel weirdly early 80's to specify...until late in the DVD era and into blu-ray when VHS was a truly dead format and people started calling it that again.
Similarly, I never heard anyone pronounce "SNES" as a one letter word until at least the Gamecube era; it was the Super Nintendo at the time.
I was growing up when the SNES came out. I was a rare person that had an NES and I knew of no one with both an NES and SNES so most people I knew called the SNES "Nintendo".
After the game cube was absolutely when "S'ness" became popular.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as "videos".
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
"I'm excited for what the future has in store for me."
hey rich people probably still say that
"No body ever got fired for choosing IBM"
I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.
They don’t actually fire, they do “performance improvement plans”.
I'm looking forward to Matt Groenig's new show.
Disenchanted probably had that response
I remain unconvinced.
I can't believe gas is over $2 a gallon now.
I still say that all of the time. Along with I can't believe gas is over $1 a gallon now.
“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”
"Osama Bin who?" And in a similar vein, "Jihad? That's a Dune reference, right?"
"I'll cash in on my Beanie Baby investment when it's time to pay for my kid's college tuition."
"The internet is just a fad."
"I'm so excited for the next The Matrix sequel."
"Two bedrooms and a walk-out basement. $300 a month rent."
Hah! Not those exact words but Angela Merkel in 2007: "The Internet is new territory for all of us".
I’ve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I don’t agree with you, I’m glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what I’ve learned.
“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 moved out on my own that year and only had cable Internet and a cell phone. Facebook was still edu only, myspace was still popular as hell, you could get DVDs through the mail from Netflix, movie piracy was extremely popular.
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.
Send me your ringtone
God almighty I could have any audio as my Nokia ringtone in the Bush era. Today? I wish I could have the ringtone I wanted.
"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"
Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.
"America will not abide Nazism."
I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set
Hey, I live down the steeet from the best remaining video rental store (Movie Madness in Portland, OR). Have run down to return videos pretty often this year!
VHS?
Those, and dvd, bluray, some other fancier format. They have way more titles than any blockbuster ever did. Good place to have around ( it's a nonprofit, so should be around in future).
"Dammit, my tape is stuck inside the VCR again!"
"99 cents for a song? Hell yeah. I'm never buying CDs again." (A reference to the iTunes Music Store launch)
"I ran out of free AOL time. Better get another demo disc"
Speaking of AOL, "yo, what's your AIM screenname?" (Replace "AIM" with your favorite messaging service at the time if you used that)
"Mom, can I have a PlayStation 2? -No. -But it plays DVDs."
"Oh, I can't wait to see the wonderful New York Twin Towers, I'm so excited for what's coming!" (I was too young to even remember the concept of different countries existing so I had no idea what "America" even was, let alone being confused about 9/11)
"I got slimed. It was so. Much. Fun."
"I'm so glad the United Kingdom won Eurovision, I can't wait to see how the next year's contest will turn out. Katrina was so amazing" (1997 was the last time the UK won)
"What a wonderful Saturday morning. Time to watch some cartoons."
"My phone has a NiCd battery, and it's almost out of juice so I can't just plug it in because I will ruin the battery. I have to wait until it literally turns off."
"Belgrade is the capital of Yugoslavia"
"Finally got my fresh new copy of Mac OS X. Time to see what's it's like." proceeds to stay on OS 9 for a few more years
That's all I can think of.
More like "99¢ per song? What a ripoff! I'll just download them from KaZaA instead."
That too is pretty accurate.
Check out my GeoCities
Geocities was over the hump at that point, but i guess that makes it even more true.
Do you Yahoo?
Have you heard of the Information superhighway?
"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant
"I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)
"I got it off Napster"
"want to listen to my mix tape?"
"I can burn you a CD of that"
"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant
I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
I guess this would be country/state dependent.
I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.
Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had "speed dial". You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.
Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it's schedule to watch it.
Yeah, I think the premise is actually "What did people say 20 years ago that they don't now."
Merely using the word mm"premise" correctly makes one sound 200+ IQ in 2025.
Be kind, rewind.
Be awkward, fast-forward.
Be groovy, steal the movie.
It's not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.
"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"
Believe it or not, I recently have to script transferring files to and from a BBS. Got to love working with state governments.
It’s more secure than uploading to AWS 🤷♂️
I still love telnet.
I'm late for work at the Twin Towers!
Where did I leave my zip disk?
Next to the minidisk
Yes, that was two decades
I still use minidiscs!
Hell yeah. My Zip disk lives somewhere and contains nude shots of Dragon Ball (original and Z) from when I was like 10. It was the only way I could hide them from my family.
Inserts disk: click, click, click
"fuck, I knew I should have put that on a CD-RW."
Let me check the answering machine.
"What do you think about John Kerry?"
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
Hang on, my pager is making a noise
Well, some people in Lebanon disagree
No they won't 👀💀
Just blow in the cartridge
"You think Monica Lewinsky sucks or blows?"
What's your AIM screen name?
Whats your ICQ number?
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.
I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
Why would you want a DVD over streaming it?
Not everything is available on streaming. Even things that are available might not be on the services they have subscribed to. Also, while DVDs often have a "play all" option, you can typically play a single episode, and it will stop when it's over, which is pretty useful for helping to limit how long the kids are watching TV.
Young kids, you want the least amount of confusion and you don't want to buy them a tablet that you have to maintain/load up with videos to watch.
Eventually there are better options, but there was a window of age that DVDs made all the sense.
Why didn't you page me back?
Btw two decades is Nokia era!
I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...
He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.
Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.
When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn't a sure thing, it's a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a "coin") every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing). I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each. That's less than the electricity it took to earn them. And you couldn't spend them anywhere, except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza. There weren't even any exchanges to convert them to real currency if you wanted to.
I tried to find my coins years later, (when Bitcoins got to USD $2000 each), but I couldn't find the old hard drive the wallet was on.
I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said "Well that'll never go anywhere". I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn't find where the wallet ended to. I think it's gone, now.
Something like that happened to me, a friend was talking to me about it back in 2009-2010 because I had my computers churning Folding At Home protein folding stuff. It went over my head, I was skeptical, and I continued using my graphics cards for the non-Bitcoin thing.
Flash forward to January 2014, recovering from my first ear surgery, isolated and miserable. Dogecoin was really small and becoming a meme on Reddit, and out of boredom I started mining that and got a bunch of Microsoft Azure trial subscriptions and CPU mined it with those, made a couple hundred thousand Dogecoin.
Flash forward to 2021, Doge went from nothing to like 50 cents, and I was thoroughly convinced I had long since lost my wallet data, but pulled out all my old USBs and drives and ran recovery, and that wallet and a text file containing what was presumed to be the password were all over the place.
Text file was a couple pages of characters, like something out of a conspiracy theorist's fever dream. Was I supposed to omit every other character? Am I supposed to remove the 0s and As? Beat the hell out of me, I forgot. Pointed 2 1080 Ti at that and spent a month trying to crack the password off that document. No dice.
The night I was gonna call off the search I wanted to try one last thing: try cracking each individual line as opposed to using the entire document. Less than 10 seconds later, password found. Turns out it was just the 2nd line in that document. Fucking A man, hidden in plain sight, past me thought anyone would presume it's hashed or something, and future me fell for it hard
Damn, there's a paper jam in the fax machine again
Sadly, fax machines are very much still in use ....
They really are the cockroaches of the telco world.
My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
A few year back, I took my daughter to an urgent care clinic. She was around 2 or 3 years old. While in the waiting room their office phone rang and my daughter jumped and went, "What was that?" because she had never heard a landline ring before.
I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)
"Disco will never die."
And it never did. *sips beer*
If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number
"hit me on my two-way"
Ska is forever!
Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.
Hand me my Razor
People who want to shave still say this sometimes.
Ska is forever, though.
"Ska is what plays in a 13-year-old kid's head when he gets extra mozzarella sticks"
2004 Nokia bricks are probably still around. Them things were indestructible.
"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.
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.
"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014
Can you give me directions to your house?
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.
"The check is in the mail"
Checks are still used all the time, though, so I'm sure someone has said this recently.
“it’s the 90s”
From 2007
Did you see Mozart's new concerto?
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
I need to backup my PDA.
I knew some executive who still used the Palm Treo up until the iPhone came out. Getting Palm OS to play with Outlook and Exchange was a nightmare. I don't miss them at all.
I need to turn my DLP projection TV to Circuit City.
My book is due back at the library, and I have to rewind it.
"Let me check for the address and a map in this phone book."
You're on next, Mr. Dangerfield.
The invasion of Iraq was a great decision. The region will be much safer
"Put that Furby away! We have to go play Neopets."
I was surprised to hear neopets is still a thing. A friend went and checked it on a whim.
Eat fresh, beware of the flesh.
Why did you remove me from your top 8 friends?
"Sorry, I got to return this video"
There is a video rental place in town here.
Is it like a nostalgic novelty place?
It is also a cigarette shop now. I have not been in there since it was the original owners back in the 90s.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.
Pepsi: The choice of a new generation.
Mcdonalds has Pizza now?
"Damn, Cindy Crawford is hot!"
Go ahead, look up photos of her now, age isn't doing her former beauty very well..
She's almost 59 years old, and looks damn good for her age.
I started screening my phone calls.
ur-gir₁₅-re ec₂-dam-ce₃ in-kur₉-ma
nij₂ na-me igi nu-mu-un-du₈
ne-en jal₂ taka₄-en-e-ce
isn't this a reference to that famous nationalist chant in japan, involving nukes and lawnmowers?