You used to have to print out a document and then scan it into another machine that would use landlines to send it to another printer so someone, somewhere else, could have the document.
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I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.
https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine
AOL zines were pretty neat.
Researching for essays was annoying because you had to actually leave your house and go to a library to get books. (But libraries are fun for personal reading.)
Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
Bullshit they could work on channel 4 too; the NES and the SNES both had a switch in the back for that, I assume the Genesis and TurboGrafx16 did too
I still dream in black and white.
Let me just call someone if they're still at home on this payphone to look it up in the encyclopedia that was printed 20 years ago