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Before Spotify, people carried around bulky binders filled with these shiny music discs.
What are CDs?
Before texting, people used this noisy machine connected to a phone line to access the internet.
What is dial-up internet?
This phone had to stay attached to a wall because it used this physical connection.
What is a cord/cable?
Students once saved homework on these small square disks that held very little data.
What are floppy disks?
You had to physically stand up to change channels using this household object.
What is a television?
This music player made everyone feel athletic while dramatically jogging in slow motion.
What is a Walkman?
That terrifying screeching internet sound usually meant someone was connecting using this technology.
What is a modem?
Before wireless earbuds, everyone spent hours untangling these.
What are wired headphones?
This portable storage device replaced floppy disks for school projects and presentations.
What is a USB flash drive?
Families gathered around this device to record songs from the radio onto cassette tapes.
What is a boombox/radio?
Before Netflix streaming, people physically rented movies from stores like Blockbuster on this format.
What are VHS tapes?
Using the internet often prevented family members from using this household device at the same time.
What is a telephone/landline?
This once-popular phone brand became famous for durable flip phones and the game Snake.
What is Nokia?
Before cloud storage, people feared losing school assignments because everything was stored locally on this.
What is a hard drive/computer?
Before GPS apps, drivers unfolded gigantic paper versions of these during road trips.
What are maps?
You had to rewind movies before returning them unless you wanted judgment from the cashier.
What are DVD's?
AOL became famous for distributing millions of these free items in the mail.
What are CDs/free internet trial discs?
You dramatically snapped this kind of phone shut after ending a call in the early 2000s.
What is a flip phone?
This once-popular video storage technology eventually lost the format war to VHS.
What is Betamax?
If your friend called your house, this family member might answer first and embarrass you.
Who is your parent/sibling?
This Apple device held thousands of songs before smartphones replaced it.
What is an iPod?
Before Google Chrome and Safari, many people used this once-dominant web browser.
What is Internet Explorer?
Parents once yelled at teenagers for texting too much because messages were charged individually on these plans.
What are limited texting/cell phone plans?
People once carried giant books of these to find someone’s phone number.
What are phone books/Yellow Pages?
This phrase described the panic of accidentally deleting your entire paper because autosave did not exist.
What is “I forgot to save”?