I remember back when I was a child, and I go back to a simpler time. A time before facebook, when (if you were lucky) you had a personal website like this.
No cellphones meant that you had to meet someone at an established meeting place at a specific time. If you were late, with no way to call they either sat there...or left you.
No facebook and cellphone meant you actually had to carry a camera AND get pictures developed to show your friends what a cool time you had! Then there was that decision...to pay the extra for the one hour photo developing or drop the film off and come back. That's right, film. Half the time you had no idea what your pictures looked like or how many pictures of your hand you were paying for.
The word "google" had no meaning, but if you were a smarty pants (like me) you were familiar enough with the pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's to whip out an answer when challenged.
Blockbuster was a real thing, not a movie ATM in supermarkets.
Downloading music was a new fad, a lot of people didn't think it would last. Why download music onto a tiny chip when you can just play all your awesome albums in your Walkman? Sure, if you jostled it too much it would skip, but wearing one made rollerblading look that much cooler.
Words like "organic" "vegan" and "free-range" were not in the common vocabulary, they were mainly used by fringe groups in LA or hippies. Hummus in the grocery store? Please, you were lucky if there was more than one kind of yogurt.
YouTube didn't exist, but your parents probably had one of these:
It was pretty neat, and you could make videos to show all your friends that had VCR's. Editing didn't exist though, so use with caution. You never know when you might record something embarrassing...
"Viral" was actually a medical term, landlines were the only lines, you bought CD's, rented movies and asked for directions.
Oh yes, they were simpler times....
I had a walkman!
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