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Old 04-04-2006, 01:33 PM   #9
Maritime Q-Scout
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- I remember having to pay cash at the corner store

- I remember being the first of my firends to have a computer, the amazingly fast 486

- I remember having to "dail-up" to the internet and you'd get that annoying screech

- I remember the days before Napster

- I remember Napster

- I remember downloading my very first song and it taking FOREVER

- I remember the days before high speed internet

- I remember no one having a cell phone

- I remember calling my dad's "beeper"

- I remember only having cable

- I remember it being beyond difficult to follow a Western based sports team

- I remember wanting a walkman for my birthday, and getting it thinking that it was beyond amazing

- I remember diskmen being too expensive to ever buy

- I remember mp3 players being too expensive to ever buy

- I remember iPods being too expensive to buy (still there for me, haha)

- I remember the only porn accessable was on the late night french channel from Quebec, and only on Saturday nights at 2 in the morning

- I remember when cameras took "film"

- I remember 5.25" floppy disks

- I remember the 3.5" floppy disks

- Hell I remember floppy disks!

- I remember not having a gaming system, then getting Nintendo (just NES)

- I remember when the kitchen telephone was the primary means of communication to the outside world

- I remember my school not having any computers, and then getting 2, amazingly fast 486s

- I remember getting a CD-Rom for Chirstmas and being amazed by it

- I remember VHS

- I remember the $2 bill

- I remember the $1 bill

- I remember paying for a WWF Action figure with both $1 bills, and loonies

- I remember the WWF, now WWE

- I remember the Meech Lake, and Charlottetown Accords

- I remember only being able to get music by buying a casette, or listening to the radio

People... I'm 23
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