Buy blank VHS tapes:
Record something off the TV using a VHS tape:
Take mall photos with your friends and then trade the (wallet-size) pictures with other friends:
Write down everyone's phone number, address, and email address in a day planner (as well as carry around the wallet-size photos of your friends in it):
Page your friends and get a page:
And wear your pager around like this (so everybody knew you had one):
Go in person to a Ticketmaster or box office to buy concert tickets and get a printed physical ticket back:
Look up a phone number in the yellow or white pages
Join a random chat room and pretend to be someone else just to fit in:
Call your BFF and know you had an at least 90% chance that their parents or sibling(s) would pick up the phone:
Use a payphone:
Think of the people in The Real World as older and cool:
Order CDs from Columbia House (that you never paid for):
Order a bunch of magazines from Publishers Clearing House (that you never paid for):
Receive a teen magazine you loved in the mail:
Install an AOL CD so you could have free internet time:
Watch a viral video on a VHS tape:
Receive a gift certificate* to a store you wanted for your birthday:
*For those who might be too young to know, gift certificates were the precursor to gift cards — but, unlike gift cards, there was no way to trace them if you lost them and they couldn't keep a balance. So if you didn't spend the entire thing, the store would usually just give you the remaining balance back in cash.
Listen to an album on a portable CD player:
Buy an entire album for just one song:
Buy a pricey imported CD single from artists you really liked just for the B-sides or remixes:
Read magazines in the magazine section of Tower Records or Virgin Megastore:
Pick up a local alt-weekly to see what concerts were happening or look up movie times:
Carry around your various discount and reward cards with you at all times:
Order clothes from a catalog:
Take photos with a disposable camera:
Have a skincare routine that involved these astringents:
And, finally, use dial-up:
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