monition : May make you to stare at a wall and interrogate the passing of meter .

If you remember a time when the internet made that sound, phones flipped instead of scrolled, and your biggest flex was customising your Bluetooth name, congratulations, you’re officially part of the 25+ club. This is your gentle (and slightly chaotic) reminder that you’re now the person who says, “Back in my day…” unironically.

So buckle up and prepare for a wild ride through memory lane, because these core memories are about to hit harder than abreakupstatus on Facebook in 2009.

1. Blowing into a video game cartridge like you were performing CPR

2. When your phone had actual buttons and you could text with your eyes closed

3. Burning CDs and naming them something like “MIXXX VIBES VOL. 2 🔥💔”

4. The trauma of accidentally hitting “Back” after typing a long Orkut testimonial

5. Snake on the Nokia 3310

6. Passing notes in class like a black-market transaction

7. Carrying around a USB drive like it was a crown jewel

8. The iPod click wheel sound living rent-free in your brain

9. Recording your favourite song from the radio and praying the RJ wouldn’t speak over it

10. Bluetooth file transfers taking longer than most modern relationships

11. Changing your Facebook status every 4 minutes to something emotional

12. When your phone had a torch and that made you the MVP of every power cut

13. Saving your crush’s number as something completely unrelated

14. Using MS Paint like it was Photoshop

15. The original YouTube buffering wheel becoming your nemesis

16. When you had to delete songs from your phone to take a new picture

17. Getting excited about Caller Tunes

18. Playing Roadrash and Midtown Madness like your life depended on it

19. Waiting all week for Sunday morning cartoons

Made it to the end? Thought so. There’s something about being 25+, you’ve lived through tech that didn’t always work, feelings that spilled into Facebook statuses, and romances powered by Bluetooth transfers. Quietly weird, oddly formative, and now, strangely comforting.

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