20 Things We Did On The Computer In 2006 That We’ll Never Do Again

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1. Watch < 10-minute videos in glorious 240p and then rate them out of five stars.

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2. Print out driving directions in a computer lab that looked like this…

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3. …where you’d accidentally snap off the miniature plastic keyboard legs.



4. Bug your friends to sign up for this invitation-only ~beta~ email service.

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5. Upload mirror selfies you took with a standalone digital camera.

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6. Copy and paste HTML code that reduced your profile into a garish, unreadable, autoplaying mess…

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7. …but still agonize over who you could trim from your finely pruned Top 8.

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8. Ask this guy your deepest, darkest search queries.


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9. Read and bury news stories on the *original* front page of the internet.

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10. Download an mp3 over DSL, and then feel personally wronged by the seeder who mislabeled it.

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11. Go PKing in the Wilderness.

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12. Scribble an angst-ridden tracklist onto the CD-R you burned from low-bit .WMA files.

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13. Own a loud-AF external DVD drive…

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14. …so you could rip your movies into giant .ISO files…

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15. …only to end up watching them on a tiny, two-inch screen with a couple hours of battery life.

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16. Pay $40 for a 512MB flash drive and wonder how you’ll ever need that much space.

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17. Open multiple windows of this browser ‘cause tabs weren’t a thing yet, and you didn’t know any better.

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18. Dream of one day owning a Pocket PC — a computer that fits in the palm of your hand!

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Source: buzzfeed
 
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