10 habits we had in the 90s-2000s and which today seem absurd to us!
There are habits that in the past seemed completely normal to us and that now we can't even imagine. Perhaps a symbol of a life less technological and more marked by real contact, many of the gestures and actions that spontaneously concerned our days in the 90s no longer exist today, on the contrary, we find them inconceivable. For example, how we used to have fun with games like this?
- 1) Smoke freely in closed public spaces or on premises
- 2) Going to someone's house without warning
- · 3) Intercom
- · 4) Call someone from the phone booth
- 5) Call the home of the guy you like
- · 6) Make the stalking to meet him
- · 7) Remove the radio before leaving the car
- · 8) Rent a videotape
- 9) Print the photos to ... see them!
- · 10) Wait for the song on the radio to record it
But let's see together the most absurd habits of the 90s and, at times, full of nostalgia
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1) Smoke freely in closed public spaces or on premises
Perhaps not everyone remembers it, but the gambling atmosphere with a lot of gray smoke cloud was a normal thing for those who were old enough in those days. Those born in the late 80s may have experienced it for a while, or maybe they don't even remember it, but smoking at the table in a pub or sipping wine with a cigarette was the norm. Only the most daring today brave bad weather and cold for a cigarette during a dinner!
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2) Show up at someone's house without warning
Even if you want, today it is impossible, because you stay in touch 24 hours a day. It used to be expensive to send messages, except during summer or Christmas promotions, much less calling on your cell phone was plausible. The polite ones called home and made sure not to disturb otherwise, in the middle of the afternoon nap, someone knocked on a bell ...
3) Intercom
How many times today do you happen to call someone to tell them to go out? Indeed, to use the intercom as the only means by which to ask a person to take a walk? Perhaps, of some friends, you do not even know how the intercom is made and yet, once upon a time, it was a beloved means of communication
4) Call someone from the phone booth
With tokens perhaps, or with the card which was inevitable to collect. There are very few left around and, when we see them, we all turn into professional photographers and immortalize their immaculate presence. But let's face it, today it seems strange to have a landline phone at home, let alone call from a booth!
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5) Call the home of the guy you like
The "hello, I'm Francesca, Marco's classmate, is he at home?" it was preceded by 15-20 minutes of vocal and intonation tests to be able to not fade into the embarrassment of the first phone call home. As if to add someone on Facebook today we first had to go through his mother's profile!
6) Make the stalking to meet him
For the chapter "the non-existence of smartphones and Google", here is an in-depth study on the most acute technique of meeting / simple vision of the boy-we-liked: the stalking! Hours waiting at the bus stop or outside school to see it go by, peek at it, admire it. Other than selfies on social media!
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7) Remove the car radio before exiting the car
Can you imagine now? The idea of having a car stereo in your bag or, to be more detailed, carefully hidden under the back seat!
8) Rent a videotape
Probably many kids today don't even know what a videotape is, nor have they ever seen one. But once upon a time, when you had a free afternoon with friends, videotapes were the only way to watch a movie ... and renting them made you feel the master of the entire world cinema that Netflix RAISED!
9) Print the photos to ... see them!
It was that phase of history where selfies were called selfies and if you chose a subject you didn't get 50 shots. It was the period of the rolls, stored until the end of the summer when they were finally brought to development and we realized that only 3 of the 40 photos had actually come out well. Can you imagine an analog on the selfie stick?
10) Wait for the song on the radio to record it
I open Shazam for a moment so I recognize this song that they play on the radio and I save it on Spotify. Thing?? In the 1990s the best playlists were manually recorded on tape through a commendable job of waiting. As soon as the first notes of the Backstreet boys or Take That or Alexia's latest Hit launched at the Festival bar started, at the risk of tripping over our huge Onyx palazzo pants, we ran from one end of the house to the other to press REC on the our cassette player and immortalize, until the end of time, the most beautiful song in history!
