I remember that assignment - hotbot, lycos...all the major search engines...

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Mar 26, 2015
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hxmCougar2000

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Time

What existed (or was ubiquitous) after your mission that either didn't exist or

hansel

3/26/15 12:51pm

internet video ads. it was a sad discovery

Wagon

3/26/15 12:53pm

smart phones

Schultz is back

3/26/15 12:53pm

"antibiotics" - Mall Santa

Ragnar Danneskjold

3/26/15 12:53pm

Email, internet in general

El Pasco

3/26/15 12:55pm

I remember that assignment - hotbot, lycos...all the major search engines...

hxmCougar2000

3/26/15 1:15pm

I was really frustrated when professors told me to download their syllabus

Hang10

3/26/15 3:01pm

Facebook

PharmD

3/26/15 12:55pm

Wikipedia

kalifi

3/26/15 12:55pm

Leonardo DiCaprio

Ruby Soho

3/26/15 12:55pm

Exact same for me.

cougfanblue

3/26/15 12:56pm

Internet in people's homes. When I left, I knew a few geeky families that had

Byron McNertney

3/26/15 12:56pm

Clintons

boogers

3/26/15 12:56pm

the Matrix

yahtzee

3/26/15 12:57pm

BYUBoard.com

WhyaskY?

3/26/15 12:57pm

BYU Law School

lightmann

3/26/15 12:57pm

Ubiquitous?

TNT

3/26/15 12:58pm

Break it down...

boogers

3/26/15 1:02pm

DVD's

Hotty-Toddy-Reb

3/26/15 12:58pm

MSN Messenger completely disappeared. When I left everybody and their dog was

rggee

3/26/15 12:58pm

Everybody had moved to Facebook. Facebook existed before I left, and I had an

rggee

3/26/15 1:00pm

Apparently they pulled the plug entirely on MSN Messenger late last year. That

rggee

3/26/15 1:14pm

It integrated with Skype.

scall

3/26/15 1:22pm

The internet in general

oohYeah

3/26/15 12:58pm

Me too. I was gone 96-98. My dad had primitive email before I left,

jayriggity

3/26/15 2:32pm

Email and the proliferation of personal cell phones.

scall

3/26/15 12:59pm

I couldn't beleive it when I saw almost every family having a car..It was a lot

Real G Man

3/26/15 12:59pm

what year was that?

CougarTwins

3/26/15 12:59pm

1998 - 2000

hansel

3/26/15 1:04pm

When I read the OP, I immediately thought you must have served about a year

CDV

3/26/15 1:36pm

Women

Chester Copperpot

3/26/15 1:00pm

Garth Brooks

squidmark

3/26/15 1:02pm

Nutella

jrob30

3/26/15 1:02pm

Britney Spears. Digital Cameras.

badodo

3/26/15 1:03pm

Also, pay at the pump gasoline.

oohYeah

3/26/15 1:03pm

A DVD

Justinodhan

3/26/15 1:06pm

cell phones and DVD's

Bravescoug

3/26/15 1:07pm

Bernard's answer "Electricity"

DodgerMike

3/26/15 1:07pm

facebook...no one had it when i left, everyone had it when i got back

nashty

3/26/15 1:07pm

BYU71: the wheel

nashty

3/26/15 1:07pm

I miss that guy.

crack

3/26/15 1:18pm

dot com. Everybody and their dog was advertising blankblank.com

Left Shark Coug

3/26/15 1:08pm

CDs/DVDs

BYUBandfan

3/26/15 1:09pm

Did you go on a 15 year mission?

Bravescoug

3/26/15 1:10pm

My family just barely got a VHS player before I left. We used a Beta player

BYUBandfan

3/26/15 1:17pm

OK, so DVDs came out a few years later. My memory doesn't work so well anymore.

BYUBandfan

3/26/15 2:28pm

Video calls (Skype, FaceTime)

TrueAndBlue

3/26/15 1:09pm

poodle skirts and DAs

ColoSpgs

3/26/15 1:10pm

PG-13 Movies

SouthAnch

3/26/15 1:12pm

losing to UU in football

run26

3/26/15 1:12pm

Iphone

boorad

3/26/15 1:13pm

Duran Duran

Acorn

3/26/15 1:15pm

Before I left, there was no such thing as "New Wave"

BeardedSpock

3/26/15 1:22pm

Email, and widespread internet use.

Napoli

3/26/15 1:17pm

pastel t-shirts, white linen jackets and espadrilles for men

BYUFBDAD

3/26/15 1:17pm

Iran Contra, Reagan's alzheimers

Hoosier Cougar

3/26/15 1:19pm

Big hair mega rock groups.....after mission Grunge

kotacoug

3/26/15 1:19pm

Yep, this is what I remember...Pearl Jam came outta nowhere it seemed.

ClawsonCoug

3/26/15 1:33pm

Running water

Bill

3/26/15 1:21pm

A stop sign at a particular intersection in my home town. I didn't realize it

rapper

3/26/15 1:23pm

That happened to me. A cop was sitting there & I waved at him as I drove past.

Real G Man

3/26/15 1:27pm

Me too. And the internet. Mission was 98-00.

Alister Mackenzie

3/26/15 1:47pm

The Internet, widespread cell phone use

HiLife

3/26/15 1:57pm

Angry Birds

ldssdl

3/26/15 1:58pm

Women

kalifi

3/26/15 2:06pm

Also, self service frozen yogurt bars.

jrob30

3/26/15 2:37pm

Color TV.

Pikkunen

3/26/15 3:27pm

How were commercials for color TV effective on B&W TVs?

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