22 Things Only People Who Were Born Before The ’90s Will Understand

LMAO, my sister and I did that and you can hear my father in background shouting to turn down the music

And then, in the middle of the song - a bloody commercial message from "our sponsor"!

And the hours and hours of listening to songs and writing down the lyrics - totally incorrectly, of course XD

I used to do this, except with music video and my VCR!

I totally miss being able to record my own cassettes.

Ah yessss. sitting on my bedroom floor, reading the lyrics booklet (if they had one) or at least going over and over the album art while the new CD played.

I still do this, but after listening to it on spotify.

And by the end of the week, if you heard a song from the album on the radio, you would (once it ended) start singing the next song from the album

OO I love SADE, still have her on my playlist. I guess Im gving away my age..

Best part was looking at the art work, reading the lyrics, and seeing what brand name instruments and gear they used.

No surprise IQ is steadily lowering.

Can you imagine? We were able to remember ALL of the numbers of ALL of the people we phoned on a regular basis. Of course, in my country anyway, this was only 5 digits for a local call (pre mobile phones and longer landline numbers as we have now)

I memorised my phone number as words. So, if you ask me my cell phone number in a language that is not Korean, I could recite it to you, but it will take a while, and my brain would go into "interpretation mode".

Yes, when I was young, I could remember birthdays, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, car license plates, anniversaries. I still remember a Social Security number, but I don't know who it belongs to. I remember some phone numbers from the '60s.

To be fair I gotta remember all my logins and passwords so there's no room for phone numbers

I had one of those clear colored phones. I loved it so much. It HADDD to have an extra long cord.

And the screeetching when you accidentally pick up the phone and someone's on modem.

Gotta love the see-through phone!

OMG the see through phone lol I loved that thing

Ah yes the clear plastic phone on the cradle...Classic 👌🏽

An encyclopedia that was out of date a year later on anything but history.

I loved it. Looking for one entry, reading a zillion others.... I actually made a wish for an encyclopedia for my birthday this year 😅 That, or a world map puzzle in 4000 pieces.

I'm 11 and i still do it at school. My teacher says, it's important not to forget how to use books, when looking for material

the best of times!

Right! And at least the encyclopedia is totally factual. Wiki is based on whatever somebody writes..

The best thing in the early 80s was a walkman and you really could walk and run while listening to it. The discman came much later, in the middle of the 80s.

I remember buying discmans that had skip protection for 3 or 10 seconds, and I would shake the discman to see if the skip protection worked (it didn't). Also, minidisc players were the rage for a couple years in highschool!

Bloody discman! And then you could buy an anti skip one.. I thought nah something better will come out soon... thank heavens I was right

Ahh, the agony of when your favorite CD got scratched!!!

Just pay slightly more and get a Walkman that doesn't skip. Simple.

With or without a cell phone, I would never wait an hour for someone to turn up.

1) I still always have a book with me, for this exact reason. 2) you do NOT wait an hour! 15 mins, max.... then I'm gone!

I know right? Everything was literally based on what people told you. You couldn't check to see if a message was "seen" like on am iPhone or on Facebook. You had to actually talk to people...

If they ain't there I just go eat and hang with someone else.

This is 100% percent accurate... up till about 2009 when cellphones became popular.

My grandfather owned the local video store. He would hold it for us.