Changing plans was an altogether bigger deal since mobile phones weren't exactly common, when you arranged to meet someone at a certain time it was much harder to bail with random excuses.

Digital TV and Netflix were the stuff of science fiction, if you really wanted to catch up on something, you had to record that shit on the VCR and pray you had enough tape to hold the entirety of Titanic.

You had to play a computer game all the way to the very end because you couldn't save your progress...

You lived in constant suspicion of your housephone because you never knew who was calling, it was like a very low stakes game of Russian roulette.

If you wanted to listen to your new favourite song on repeat you had to wait patiently for it to appear on the radio, ready to record it, and you needed cat-like reflexes to make sure you didn't miss the beginning.

If you did use the internet it took approximately 50 years to dial up, you also pissed off the entire household because no one could use the phone (their only lifeline).

Porn was so inaccessible it was ridiculous. You practically needed a dealer and watching the scrambled porn channel on your parents cable was the best option.

Social media and instant messaging didn't exist, and people had a ludicrous expectation that you should socialise in real life.

Avoiding awkward conversations via text was impossible.

Snailmail was just called post and you actually had to use it occasionally, a process which risked both paper cuts and dry tongue.

If you wanted to do a project you had to go to the library, or worse still, consult your parents' collection of encyclopedias.