"I know accounting needs this on the 2nd Floor but that pile of papers is too big to fit in the tubes in one go"

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.

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

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.

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

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.

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.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

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.

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

"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.

I saw "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" on TV.