Buying the car kit so I could connect my CD Walkman (with 15 second ESP) to the cigarette lighter and cassette deck in my first car.

My first game controller only had one button.

Drive-thru bank pneumatic box slot

Edit: ok so apparently everyone except me is somehow stuck in the 1980s. And presumably buying betmax players so they can watch Robocop

I still have a distinct memory of trying to get on the Internet and then hearing my dad's voice coming through the computer speakers. He'd been on the phone with someone.

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

I was recently at a party with a SNES connected to a noisy channel-3 RF modulator because the TV couldn't switch to its composite input via the front panel buttons, and they didn't have the remote. I wandered the house until I found a universal remote, then programmed AUX to match the TV and switched inputs. Just things you learn in the '90s.

Let’s go one deeper… you couldn’t play games without sliding a switch

Loading games from audio cassette.

Coffee and cigarettes, indoors, at a cafe, on lunch break in highschool.

Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+

Type LOAD "", press RETURN, press PLAY on the cassette player, wait 5-10 minutes, enjoy.

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

"Mom I'm playing Starcraft don't pick up the phone!"

The best selling video game was all text with zero graphics; Zork.

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

Computer and console games came exclusively on CD before the switch to DVD. When you bought a triple AAA title for console,you didn't have to spend 3 days waiting for day 1 patches to install. You could probably fit the entire game library of your favorite console back in the day on a thumb drive nowadays.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

"Slave drive" maybe.

I mean, they'll think it means something totally different.

I'm older than that, but it's definitely something a zoomer wouldn't understand immediately.