- golden era for black entertainment and media: hip hop and r&b were dope, lots of black movies, black tv shows/sitcoms, black comedians, black writers, black magazines
- the record store: spending your whole allowance on cd's/tapes, spending the entire day in a record store browsing thru the used cd section, previewing albums by listening at the lil headphone kiosks
- landlines: that rush to pick up the phone before your parents when a boy was calling
- college basketball mattering/being a thing outside of the bracket hype/gambling that march madness has become
- regional differences: meeting someone from somewhere else and being
by their slang, accent, or way of dress - everyone looks/talks the same since lingo is picked up over the net
- experiencing stuff at the same time/en masse: for all the complaints about gatekeepers and shyt, music was way more dope when most people were listening to/experiencing the same thing at the same time, when a big album or song dropped - the shared experience and going to school and discussing it. same with TV, everyone watching martin or moesha or some shyt at the same time and coming to school the next day using the jokes
- saturday morning cartoon, snick, TGIF, after school cartoon lineups
edit: when three-way calling dropped :justwow:, and caller ID
....the busy signal tho