Who wants in? We can talk about what is was like to write a letter to your grandma or having no other way to ask someone out other than by calling them on the phone. Or checking out movies at Blockbuster or whatever your national equivalent was (we usually checked out videos at the grocery store, actually).
We’re cool because we can actually remember the USSR and “East” Germany. Although not as cool, I can remember when homophobia and transphobia was so much more widely accepted and the “default” position for most Americans. Not as cool.
Remember making a mix tape by pausing it on record and waiting for the radio station to play the song you wanted? Personalized mix tapes and even cds were totally rad.
Yes, I also enjoyed making my own radio shows by recording them on tape. Had I known about podcasts at that age, they would have blown my mind.