“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?”
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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”
In twenty years it will be the year 2024
Happy new year 2005!
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
I forgot about free nights and weekends!
“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”.
Ah yeah, the classic PIP’d manoever. I worked with a few good guys who got
fired without causePIP’d and let go even though their performance was fineYeah, aka we want to RIF but are too cheap to pay severance.
“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”
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.
“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”.
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.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
Send me your ringtone
I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set
Check out my GeoCities
Geocities was over the hump at that point, but i guess that makes it even more true.
“America will not abide Nazism.”
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”
“What do you think about John Kerry?”
Be kind, rewind.
Be awkward, fast-forward.
