30 Things That Used To Be A Big Deal Back In 2000, But Have Faded Out, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group

There still something to be said for doing basic math in your head

I use me almost every day. But then I do work in finance…

My kid is 14 and uses a Calculator at school..... and this is with having a laptop instead of text books

And even without smartphones, this sentence was still stupid. When you are supposed to do complex calculus, nobody forbids you to use one. Even the most expensive lawyers keep codes in their office.

In high school, I took shorthand, typing, photography and bookeeping. I failed most of them. In later years, I passed typing with 33 per minute. The rest of the class, I don’t care. I really don’t. My later career took care or of later things.

I can never get that sound out if my head

Yes connected. Oh no disconnected

This gave me nostalgic anxiety

I miss those sounds. Hearing them was like listening to the logo music before the movie. It prepared you, set the mood for the fun you were about to have. If that makes any sense to anyone.

hAlP- i read this in the same tune aloud in front of my grandma and she's staring at me

I recently left my phone at home when going into my office for work. My phone is NECESSARY for the work I do. I to drive 15 miles back to get it. When I go home my husband asked "why didn't you just call me, I would have brought it to you?" Then we both dissolved in laughter.

They actually do still come in handy. Ever have a pocketful of change and leave your cellphone at home? Or go to lunch and leave it on your desk at work? Especially if you also forgot your keys to the house or the office, and someone needs to know you’re going to need to be let in? It happens. I know this because it has happened to me.

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There was a time when you had to use pre paid phone cards in public phone boothes and we used to collect them. I told this riveting story to my niece and nephew and they looked at me like I just told them I regularly used to hunt mammoth for dinner. "But why would you?" "They were colorful and....there." "I'm sorry it was so boring when you were young."

I’m pretty sure a number of pay phones in the uk were really profitable for BT as they were used by drug dealers to do business

I used to put a bottle of nail polish on the enter key and waiting for the internet connection. It could take a while, I could go to the kitchen and make myself a sandwich

Remember all this fear mongering commercials calling us pirates. As if that's an insult

CDR discs are amazingly reliable. They've saved my posterior several times over the years, most recently last year (SEE BORED PANDA I DIDNT USE THE NAUGHTY WORD)

We used to connect harddrives just copy a movie from one computer to another.

Date: Bianca LOL

I hated when someone would light up near me on airplanes, or in a car. Such oblivious selfishness.

Yeah I remember being a 16 y.o. with an after-school/ weekend waitresses job at a family restaurant.... I got fully hot boxed with cigarette smoke the whole time 😔

Go to most of Asia and see if this idea still amazes you ....... Oh, and Russia, China, Germany, Greece, many of the Balkan states and all of Africa ..... sad but true ; thank you William Morris and BAT et al .... despicable, murdering, state sponsored bastards.