@pete1061: How do you use a program on cassette? Did you have to rewind it every time you put it in the PC, and wait for it to be fastforwarded to a certain spot when a different pie e of code was accessed?

@PJ Quinn: They may have emailed teachers, though!

Most of the items on the list are either over generalizations or completely false.

@smkm: O yeah. My sister was doing that into the early 00s.

@imapcgirl: It's an irrational thought. I'm only 19, just a little baby, and yet I feel the same way whenever I find out that someone I'm speaking with is a few years younger than me. We're not used to treating people younger than us as equals, you know? At this age we're still used to thinking of people who are even…

@stryder100: Thank you thank thank thank you for existing. It get's very annoying when most of the commenters remember the 80s at the earliest.

"when everyone except a few predicted its catastrophic failure"

@Someguy: By requiring users to pay?

@isashach: We'll, I don't think any, er, 'serious' prediction specifically said that we'd have flying cars in 2010. If all the little children of the time believed that the cars would fly and they would live like the Jetson's, they were wrong and just being children. Certainly their mistaken predictions shouldn't…

@Martin Webster: Oh dear lord yes! How DARE Gizmodo try to make some money off of this website!

@meatbag_pussrocket: What on earth were people supposed to do with all those buttons?

@FrankenPC: No, they/we'll be as nostalgic for 2010, and sure that it was better than 2040, as most commenters on this article feel for the '70s.

@BadJoJo: Wow, talk about unjustified elitism.

@Awax: I think I read somewhere (probably wikipedia) that Youtube has more data than the entire web did in 2000.

@Catbackpack: Maybe they were way off, but the kitchen HAS changed in the last 30 years. I mean, in 1980 hardly anyone had microwaves, glass stoves did not exist and not a single appliance had a digital clock.

@isashach: You mean those silly predictions about computers becoming as ubiquitous as telephones?

@fastactingrelief: It's in 2022.

@faulknerswhiskey: Hehe. I'll only be turning 49.

@EBone: Ah, but what do you do if you collect new data at a faster rate than the growth of HD capacity?

I hoard info. Whenever I go throw the piles upon piles of wrappers of papers that inevitably end up on my floor, I always make sure to keep at least one example of everything I find -one ad, one newsletter, one appointment notice, one packet- so I'll be able to find them years or even decades from now and reminisce my…