Source: Instagram user jenicaviolet [1]
As great as '90s tech was [2], it definitely came with some problems. Getting kicked off AIM? Not cool. Here, check out the worst of the worst, and let us know if you suffered through any others.
- Having to get off the Internet because someone needed to make a phone call ("Mooom!")
- The VHS player eating your tape (same for audio cassettes)
- Trying to fix your N64 video games by blowing in them
- Leaving the floppy disk with all your homework at home
- Sitting by the radio all day to record your favorite song on tape
- Only having one photo left on your disposable camera
- Brainstorming a rEaLlY cOoL AIM name
- Not watching the Disney Channel or MTV because you didn't have satellite or cable
- Calling your crush and his/her parents answering the phone
- Rewinding a Blockbuster movie because the previous person wasn't very thoughtful
- Your favorite CD not coming with a booklet with song lyrics
- Owning a Discman with no skip protection
- Having to start an N64 game all over again because someone tripped on the cords
- Not being able to figure out three-way calling
- Getting a scratch on your favorite CD
- No moves left in Solitaire
- Not knowing how good or bad your photos would be when they were developed
- The Tamagotchi's buttons not working and your pet dying as a result
- Trying to use a fax machine
- Choosing which color to use for your AIM profile
- Getting to the TV Guide Channel after your favorite channel had passed and having to wait until it scrolled back again
- Breaking the tape deck in your mom's car
- Taking forever to find any program through the Windows 95 Start button
- Getting dysentery on the Oregon Trail
- Losing your Encarta CD right before a school project.
- Your computer freezing every time you used the Kid Pix stampinator
- Not being able to turn off predictive text on your Nokia 3210
- Losing your CD wallet full of your favorite jams :(
- Waiting 90 hours to download something from Netscape Navigator
- Getting a square piece when you needed a long piece in Tetris
- Accidentally walking across grass on Pokémon and being challenged to a duel
- Running out of Game Boy batteries and stealing ones from the TV remote
- Using a pen to rewind your cassette
- Not being able to go online because you ran out of free AOL CDs
- Making short cell phone calls because only the first minute was free
- Hearing this dial-up sound [6] when you were trying to get online
- Hearing busy tones for everything — the modem, the phone
- Using two VHS tapes for Titanic [8] because it was so long
- Not being able to open the plastic wrapping on CDs
- Waiting one hour for film to develop
- Seeing a printer error on your Game Boy camera
- Y2K
Source: Instagram user mr_tobi23 [3]
Source: Instagram user brittanycasile [4]
Source: Instagram user jeffamador [5]
Source: Youtube user RetroHead92 [7]