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Some of us even listened to REM and, uh,

I thought Manfred said it; I'd had the internet for a while before I even knew Bruce hadn't said it first. 😞

I'll never forget a guy in my dorm who once monopolized the dot-matrix printer for hours printing out all ZZ Top's lyrics. Not tablature and lyrics. Just lyrics.

It was then that I knew nobody else understood what Michael Stipe was saying either

Hold me closer, Tony Danza.

Still do it every time. Auditory processing disorder gang 🥲

And then we were *immediately* frustrated to learn that most of them were in fact not published by the original writers but by some superfan in a Cleveland basement with a hearing impairment. 😜

Scuse me while I kiss this guy? Like that?

Maybe they'll. You never know.

and happy to sit and wait 20 minutes for a single naughty picture to download, lol. when the dialup worked at all in the first place.

They will never understand the level of social capital one would have by possessing both a DSL modem and a CD-burner back in the days of Napster in the late 90s/early 2000s

That's when we found out that we had been singing the wrong words for years.

A sad truth 😔

And cheat codes to Myst! Stupid water pipes.

That’s when I found out that Jimi Hendrix didn’t sing “Scuse me, while I kiss this guy”

Hmmm.. My great grandfather said the same thing about the light switch.

They will never understand the horror of being knocked offline by a phone call

14 y/o me only searched for naked women from the library computer

Napster

*downloads song on limewire* OH NO THIS IS NOT A SONG

The fact that IMDb existed in all of its simple HTML glory was amazing. That, and viewing previews on Apple QuickTime before they showed up in theaters was sooooo cool

Yeah, and it took 5 minutes for the page result to load over the dial-up 56k modem. Rotary Dial Phones were still a thing. Kids don't even know how to dial a rotary phone.

I do believe that was literally the first thing I did! Pretty sure I printed them out as well.

Or getting the CD booklets that had the lyrics!! Ugh what a time

Yes! I can’t tell you how many reams of paper I printed chords & tabs on. It was so exciting!

I did it the hard way by endlessly listening to a song over and over again in the days of an LP and a turntable.

Prodigy and AOL - Hilarious. God I am old!

The nostalgia! You're absolutely right! The early days of the internet were thrilling, and being able to look up song lyrics online was a game-changer!

Particularly "Long cool woman in a black dress " by The Hollies. I could never decipher those lyrics..

I still am

*nba.com dunk pics that I would print at the school library and tape to my "homework agenda" thing

And guitar tabs. So stoked to not only realise "that's not the lyrics" but also that the majority of our music was the same 4 chord variations..

We’re gonna buy a new, electric barbecue and there’ll be no more fires 🎶

30 years ago we would wait 2 hours for a page to load just for mom to answer the phone and interrupt the connection.

When I got Internet on my computer at work, I was told that it would be good for planning trips to Disney.

One of the earliest and few posts I made on Usenet was a lyrics post of a Smashing Pumpkins song that had just released in 1994, so this claim absolutely resonates with me

Still doing it

I'm so glad 🥲

Especially for the mondegreens I found!

Potato wave!

40yrs ago the song lyrics were on the record sleeve 😏

I remember being so excited that some bands put them in the plastic cassette tape containers of their albums. I would reverently unfold all 8-10 folds and read all the liner notes and lyrics. Ahhh, musical heaven ❤️

Now omg! google first page, found 4,356,709, then you scroll, and it ends on page 28, saying now FOUND 278! and of these 278 we get bombarded with the same 5 sites! This is no internet anymore! bubbles

And those lyric videos people made!

Still am

For me it was IMDb “Where have I seen that actor before?” Down the rabbit hole 🕳️

Yeah, it was cool when there was music with words in it.

Still remember printing out the lyrics to Nelly’s Country Grammar at age 9 then reading it and being like 😳😳😳😳

In Germany, in the 70’s, they had these monthly cheat printed booklets/magazines with song lyrics. We spent all our pocket money on those.

It was maddening when they took them out of the front covers.

Then wait three days to download that song illegally.

Sometimes I feel like the internet is USELESS. That’s what it means to be a fan of Japanese bands that are interesting to 15 people around the world I guess It’s hard to find lyrics. Especially on my native language or AT LEAST in English

Yeah because I was one of the slow ones that had to listen to a song 1000 times just to get the lyrics lol

Ngl... still makes me giggle to this day. (Who else B lined for Smells Like Teen Spirit and still doesn't understand the lyrics?)

And play Doom while checking for earthquakes.

...and find out that we heard them all wrong.

And chat on IRC !!

Bigger fan of the little booklets that came with CDs that had the lyrics!

Oh, Shiree don't like that.

Nah, we used to buy Smash Hits.

Or you look up song meanings and there's always a comment like "The singer is expressing how they're secretly homosexual and struggling with drug addiction."

I was just happy to watch free porn

OMG was that just 30 years ago????

if you only got the internet 30 years ago the. you’re young lol

It was only then that I discovered that the lyrics to Blinded by the Light are "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night", not "wrapped up like a douche".

For me, the unwanted knowledge is Alpha Flight. Whoever was transcribing the plots had every issue!

There's a fan community that has the entire source book set and rules of that game in a wiki classicmarvelforever.com/cms/

I looked up some just now haha

And chords

I’m a Stones fan. Tell me about it

🤣🤣🤣🤣if we could find them!!!

The number of Jethro Tull songs that made me go “Ooooooohhhh… I still don’t know what that means.” 😄

Yeah, it meant we could stop buying Smash Hits magazine.

And realized most of the lyrics we were singing were wrong

Too trues,lol

I Still do! I can't read the liner notes on the wav. Files!

I was just excited when I could dial through successfully without someone calling the apartment.

I was so excited at the prospect of being able to buy old songs on itunes - til my son explained to me that I wouldn't actually own them 😵‍💫

And guitar chords! We spent our teen years playing songs over and over on a tape deck working out chords and lyrics.

I was so excited, that I even printed them on paper and kept in a folder. Still have that old folder.

And after seeing the actual lyrics we would exclaim "THAT'S what it said?"

i still am 😭

Endless hours spent in the car, rewinding the cassette, arguing over shit that should have been in the liner notes.

The relief of knowing your cassettes might survive a little longer 😁 Do miss group transcription though.

I enjoy the song so much more when I can follow along. Always was disappointed when they weren't included in the album or cassette.

I couldn't wait until I got home, to pass the time in my room alone.

Until as recently as last year I thought the lyrics to Shake It Off was "the fella over there with the alligator hair." Even looked up what alligator hair was thinking it was a new hairstyle. Honestly it never occurred to me to look up the lyrics.

to look up EVERYTHING

Nah I think I get it

Pretty sure the lady in the Electric Six video "Danger! High Voltage" had electric boobs

You know I read it in a magazine

I thought the internet would make us smarter. Turns out a good portion of the population uses it for misinformation and conspiracies. It's only going to get worse with AI.

I did that yesterday.

And whats that guys name that's been in all the movies lately.

like i had a whole binder full 🤦🏿‍♀️

I used to dazzle my friends with my ability to tell them which songs were playing. but now they just use that cell phone thingamajig.

And fricken surprised. “Oh. That’s what it says”

Are we not still doing this? Am I the last person alive incapable of understanding most lyrics?

Then Spotify completely changed the game 30 years later. Oh brave new world

same here...

Or just improve on something that exists..

Dreams, Van Halen, Tenet Clock 1

Using lime wire to download lime wire pro to get the latest dragon ball Z episode only to destroy the family computer, those were the days

I was excited to download mp3 songs to my iPod 🎶

ahh yes memories of Metallica: gimme foo gimme fire gimme dabajabaza

I went to an Internet cafe to print out pictures of Russell Crowe on Gladiator.

I guess it was hard to make out the words from your record players

Young people will never understand that 30 years ago we turned drunk driving into a beautiful game

We were so excited in general when we got the internet. It was new, exciting, and a lot of fun.

So true.

I finally learned the REAL words to songs I'd been listening or singing to my whole life.

The realization I had been singing a favorite song wrong for 20 years was a bit embarrassing though.

KTel - now that is a throwback

Uh, 30 years ago.

And every Radiohead song had five different versions as people couldn't agree which word *mumblewhineoooah* was.

Honestly I still am, I use iTunes for that very reason today. Kids today will never understand the struggle. Remember when they got the lyric machine at the record shop?There was a line every time I went.It’s nostalgic and I get kinda melancholy.Time has flown by so fast you’d think it’s got wings!

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