It's 2004
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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"
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"No body ever got fired for choosing IBM"
I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.
They donβt actually fire, they do βperformance improvement plansβ.
Ah yeah, the classic PIP'd manoever. I worked with a few good guys who got ~~fired without cause~~ PIP'd and let go even though their performance was fine
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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.
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βJared from Subway is such an inspiration!β
"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."
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I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set
itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.
"America will not abide Nazism."
Iβve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I donβt agree with you, Iβm glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what Iβve learned.
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"
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Do you Yahoo?
"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"
Also, "w00t!!"
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"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."
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βSorry, I got to return this videoβ
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" ?
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"What do you think about John Kerry?"
Hang on, my pager is making a noise
"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"
Goddamnit no. 20 years ago was the 80s bro.
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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.
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Let me check the answering machine.
βSorry, I got to return this videoβ
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
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 $2000 each), but I couldn't find the old hard drive the wallet was on.
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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.
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"hit me on my two-way"
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!
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"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"
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My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
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Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number
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