No internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue.
We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take, like, a week to get there.
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butts!
You had to wait around all day to tape your favorite song off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone.
If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, a collections agent, you just didn't know...you had to pick it up and take your chances.
We had the Atari 2600, With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your guy was a little square,and there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.... forever!...and you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died.
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. You were screwed when it came to channel surfing, you had to get off your a** and walk over to the TV to change the channel!
If we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove!
