21 Things Anybody Under 16 Won't Believe About How We Used The Internet

Can’t Surf Your Cake And Call It Too

As mentioned before, if you were using the internet nobody else in the house could make a phone call, and vice versa. It was quite common to hear siblings screaming, “Mom! I need to use the internet, can you make Georgia get off the phone?!” That meant that you couldn't spend hours on end surfing the internet without having to hear about it from your parents. Then again, there was no such thing as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or any other social media website back then, so the only real reason one would need to use the internet was to check email, do homework, or research that perhaps could not be done at a library.