"Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes."

"No body ever got fired for choosing IBM"

“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”

I can't believe gas is over $2 a gallon now.

Nobody referred to videos as "VHS" unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them "videos" and "tapes" or "videotape."

for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?

That movie just came out on video.

Be kind, rewind your videotape.

"Get off the internet, I'm expecting a call"

"Osama Bin who?" And in a similar vein, "Jihad? That's a Dune reference, right?"

"I'll cash in on my Beanie Baby investment when it's time to pay for my kid's college tuition."

"The internet is just a fad."

"I'm so excited for the next The Matrix sequel."

"Two bedrooms and a walk-out basement. $300 a month rent."

Send me your ringtone

I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set

"America will not abide Nazism."

itt: people thinking 20 years ago was 10 years ago.

I’ve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I don’t agree with you, I’m glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what I’ve learned.

"I'm excited for what the future has in store for me."

Check out my GeoCities

Have you heard of the Information superhighway?

"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant

"I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)

"I got it off Napster"

"want to listen to my mix tape?"

"I can burn you a CD of that"

Do you Yahoo?

"I can't believe you didn't put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!"

Also, "w00t!!"

"Hark, Alfred, the smith's apprentice, was taken by the plague - find your goodfellows and see if any of their sons of the working age would wish gainful employment to a kind master."

Be kind, rewind.

"What do you think about John Kerry?"

"We need to get WMDs out of Saddam's hands"

Where did I leave my zip disk?

“Sorry, I got to return this video”

2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn't widely aware of them until 2014.

How about "John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term" ?

Let me check the answering machine.

It's not working? Try blowing into the cartridge again.

Hang on, my pager is making a noise

Hey, I live down the steeet from the best remaining video rental store (Movie Madness in Portland, OR). Have run down to return videos pretty often this year!

I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)

Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.

I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.

Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had "speed dial". You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.

Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it's schedule to watch it.

"Could you please not use the phone? Gotta dial up to connect to the BBS"

I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...

He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.

Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.

What's your AIM screen name?

"hit me on my two-way"

Wassuuuuuuuupppp!

My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".

Why didn't you page me back?

If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number

Ska is forever!

Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.

I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)

"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.