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Shiifi:
NICE ONE OP DATS WALKMAN EHNNNNNN
EVEN MY PRINCIPAL FALL IN LOVE WITH ME COS OF AM

Then, it was like the best feeling...
But you'd hate yourself if the Battery dies off when you're out and didn't go out with money for replacements.

I was hoping to feast my eyes on some real Nigerian recession action. Didn't see!!!. Next, i tried finding the 4matic. Didn't see too. Nawa ooh......

henryobinna:
I remember how using a colored nokia phone them was....

You'd be feeling like some Arab prince...

henryobinna:
I remember how using a colored nokia phone them was....

ahem (clears throat in loki's voice)... LALASTICLALA

11. Every time Sony introduced a new model of the Walkman we went, "Shut up and take my money!"

10. Back Then, 32 GBs worth of music looked like THIS:

9. As kids, we did not want an XBox One, but a Nintendo 64 and a game cartridge that read ‘999999 in 1’.

8. We used our MotoRazrs with so much swag it puts the iPhone freaks of today to shame.

7. We had to read the manuals that came with our gadgets because, believe it or not, there were no freaking tech reviews back then!

6. For 80’s kids, downloading music meant waiting for their favorite track to play on the radio and recording it on a cassette.

henryobinna:
there weren't smartphones then

That's exactly the point... there were no smart phones then.

5. We didn’t have dozens of games on our smartphones. Instead, we killed time on our humble Nokias with THIS:

4. We didn’t have GPS. If we ever lost our way on the road, we sucked up our pride and asked for directions!

3. We marveled at the graphics of ‘Road Rash’ like it was the most visually satisfying game ever made!

2. We had to hit '7' four freakin' times on our phone’s keypad to type 'S'.

...

We are the last generation that saw the world without the Internet for some time! And, even when we didn't, initially we had to struggle with dial-ups, Hotmail and MS-DOS. Our younger nieces and nephews, on the other hand, can download a full movie in 30 minutes, play games with life-like graphics and have access to apps that solve just about every life problem from finding a cab to finding a date! It won’t be a surprise if they get totally weirded out, should you ever tell them what the tech scenario was like back in the good ol’ days.
Enjoy the ride!
1. We literally spent hours downloading songs and begged the dial-up Gods to shower us with the lightening speed of 64 Kbps!

xo, how many of us read the whole stuff?