I was 9 in 1995, I remember it fairly clearly. - Few people had computers. It was not reasonable to meet someone and expect that they know how to operate, say,

I was 9 in 1995, I remember it fairly clearly. - Few people had computers. It was not reasonable to meet someone and expect that they know how to operate, say, a word processor. All of my homework was done by hand, including essays and long-form writing. All research was done in libraries amongst musty shelves and microfilm viewers. - Even amongst the few families with computers that I knew about, I was definitely the first to get a CD-ROM drive. Storing mass amounts of data on a disc was brand spanking new. The default storage media for data was 1.44MB 3.5" floppies. - We had VCRs. Most people did at that point, but they were still expensive beasts, much more so than the $50 DVD players we can purchase today. - Walkmen were still huge. Mixtapes were still huge. - Cell phones? What a bigshot you are! - Game consoles were very popular and not at all rare. It was the SNES vs. the Genesis at that point I think. - The internet "existed" - but was not at all in a state that we are familiar with today. More people used closed networks like CompuServe and AOL than the open web as we use it today. Even then, it was not at all reasonable to expect someone to have an email address at all. People had sort of heard of this "internet" thing but most people still didn't even know what it really was. - Answering machines had tapes.