Things that made you feel old but proud to have rocked the 90s

In the 90s many families would have one cell phone, starting around 1994 or so. It wasn't until the early 2000s that every member of a family had a cell phone. My dad bought a cell phone in 1994, and I thought it was really cool at that time our family had a cell phone, as before that only rich people had mobile phones. I was finishing up high school in 1994 and neither I nor my father could afford another one at that time. I got my first cell phone in 1998, but I was already 22 at that point. Yes others are right, through most of the 90s people communicated with beepers and pay phones. If you wanted privacy in your phone calls from your parents during the 80s and most of the 90s, you begged your folks to add a second line to the house.

So it blew me away when a few years later around 2002, I ran into this 14 year old kid that had a cell phone that his parents bought him. It was a culture shock to me in 2002 that a 14 year old kid had a cell phone when I bought my first at age 22 in 1998. 11 years later, it's very common and a complete after thought for people to buy their kids cell phones. Now I wasn't a kid when AP came out in 1999 like most of you, but it was the last high school movie I could still connect with and find hilarious. Some of the actors were older then me too. Every high school themed movie after this I just felt way too old for and the landscape had changed from when I grew up anyway.