BIMD - If someone moved out of town or even to distant part of the same town, 90% of the time you stopped being in touch. Even though those people were your "best buddies". Just too inconvenient, as there was no way to keep in touch on a daily base.
BIMD - People mostly talked to each other face to face.
BIMD - Shows only aired on certain hours on TV, and if you missed it or didn't tape it, there was propably no way you could ever see it again.
BIMD - "Hard porn" essentially meant that people on film actually had sex, or maybe an MMF. Bukkake was the newest and kinkiest thing in porn and most people wouldn't admit to knowing either of those terms even if they did.
BIMD - People, not just companies or governments, sometimes sent physical mail to each other. Even though you had to pay for each letter you sent.
BIMD - Most players for Team Finland played in the Finnish league, even for the olympics. On the other hand Team Canada was often a pretty ragtag bunch and few people would actually know any of them, especially since most hockey fans in Finland had never seen an NHL game in any form.
BIMD - You could actually impress someone by compiling ~20 songs for him/her on a used magnetic tape. You needed to enter a physical recording into the machine, usually a different one for each song, look for the right spot and pause, press record on the tape you were working on, then press play on the original, and then stop recording when the song had ended but before the next one started. There were often mistakes, and if you at the end you noticed something had gone wrong, you had to do everything again starting from the point of the mistake.
BIMD - Machines like dishwashers and music players could last for a decade, but films and music could become useless in a couple of years in repeated use. Old people often had working and usable appliances that were 20 or even 30 years old.
BIMD - When music lovers went to visit someone, they could and would check that persons music taste by looking at their physical collection of albums. People used to hide some of their albums for that reason, and some even bought albums just because they'd look good on the shelf.
BIMD - Everybody pretty much knew the same bands and picked their favourites from a list of basicly 2-20, depending on how "into music" they were and what they liked. This was because there was mostly no way to get your hands on anything that was not considered a "classic" or really popular.
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