I had (and still have) a Teddy Ruxpin.

I had to fast forward or rewind a cassette tape to a specific time to play a game in the computer.

I actually know what this means, from getting my mom’s Atari to work on my grandmother’s TV

I think it was channel 2 for that one though, idk. We switched to using the flatscreen because of the annoying high pitched noise. (To the annoyance of all retro gamers who read this)

Let's listen to this radio station play an unholy noise for about 30 minutes, record it in a cassette tape, and play the game recorded in those BAUD BOIS

You had to empty the bit bucket once in a while.

My first one was wood grained

C:\park.exe

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.

Blowing the cartridge may or may not work.

Can someone explain this to me pls?

I had a couple of magazine CDs that I got from a trial subscription.

https://archive.org/details/launchcdmagazine

AOL zines were pretty neat.

https://medium.com/s/requiem-for-an-internet/how-aols-tween-zine-scene-pioneered-the-digital-self-9f2e261a6d2a

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.)