Toys

These pictures will depict what struggles kids before the millennium will NEVER understand including having to use a corded phone to asking Jeeves instead of Siri for answers. The only difference is you manually had to Ask Jeeves and didn't always get the correct answer. The strains of life in the days before iPhones and Google will leave anyone born pre-2000 feeling nostalgic while anyone born after, baffled. 1. The crushing disappointment of getting a new phone and realizing you'd lost your high score on Snake 2. applegazette.com 2. The amount of time you spent trying to get the perfect angle for a webcam selfie. Thinkstock 3. Eventually having to log off MSN because your mom needed to use the home phone. youtube.com 4. The pain of downloading a song on Limewire, only to find that it was a radio recording where the DJ spoke over the end of it. limewire-basic.brothersoft.com 5. Having to wait until Friday to see the proper chart rundown on Top of the Pops. ogos.wikia.com 6. Going through this rigmarole every time you wanted to play Solitaire. Twitter: @RapidRundowns 7. How powerful you felt when you were put in charge of the overhead projector! commons.wikimedia.org 8. The painful decision of which text to delete because your phone memory ran out. youtube.com 9. The race to cover your screen before Internet Explorer started working again. Twitter: @CoolBeans0_o 10. The thrill when the cereal box toy finally came out. 11. Getting a video from the rental shop and finding out the person before you hadn't rewound it. Twitter: @90sdecade 12. The endless arguments with this little guy. dashe.com 13. Playing this game even though you had no idea what you were doing. Twitter: @90sdecade 14. Having to go through the Phonebook every time you needed someone's number. raincrossmarketing.com 15. The stealth involved in passing notes in class. bagmanslogorrhea.blogspot.co.uk 16. But not being able to walk around because your phone wasn't cordless. bagmanslogorrhea.blogspot.co.uk 17. Being taught the Dewey Decimal System on your first day of senior school. library.mpslakers.com 18. Having to look up what films were on in the local paper. jamiemccallum.wordpress.com 19. Waiting for ages to get your holiday photos printed, and then realizing they were all too dark and blurry anyway. katewashere.com 20. Writing a letter in banana gel pen but then not being able to read it. lifeimitatesdoodles.blogspot.co.uk 21. The excitement of using different search engines, like AskJeeves or ABC Search, even though they all gave you the same results, because why the hell not? searchengineland.com 22. Having to delete files off one of these so you had room to save your homework. commons.wikimedia.org 23. And truly believing that owning a Palm Pilot was the height of glam. Flickr: jonrb 24. The mystery of picking up the phone and not knowing who was calling. 25. And not being able to walk around because your phone wasn't cordless. Buzzfeed Credits: buzzfeed.com Share this story on Facebook with your friends.