Nich Carlson: I really, really like AirPods,

and so I'm OK with the headphone jack being gone.

Jacqui Frank: Also I have a headphone jack now,

so I'm really smug about it.

I switched from iPhone to Android.

It wasn't the No. 1 reason that I decided to do that,

but the headphone jack was important to me.

Barranco: Now I've got this stupid dongle

that I've lost literally three times

in order to listen to my music,

and I'm not buying into the whole AirPods things, I refuse.

Frank: I mostly use Bluetooth headphones,

so it's actually not a huge impact to me

but still is an irritation.

If my headphones were dead and I also wanted

to charge my phone, I could never do that,

and I don't like being in that situation.

Barranco: It's just the security of knowing,

OK, if it did fall out of my ears,

it's not gonna, like, go rolling down the subway

or something. It's like, OK, still attached to my phone

if my headphones drop out.

Carlson: Remember how you would, like, move your arm

and just knock the earphones out of your ears?

And then sometimes you'd get them caught on a door handle

as you were walking into a room?

If we had to sacrifice the headphone jack

to get AirPods, which I don't think is what we had to do,

but if that's what we had to do, then it was a great trade.

Frank: I just don't understand why tech companies

want us to choose. Like, just give us what we want.

We didn't ask for foldable screens,

we asked for headphone jacks. It's so simple.

Carlson: We got rid of the headphone jack

so that Apple could sell more iPhones and AirPods.

That is why it is gone.

I know that a lot of people are very upset about it,

but I have AirPods. I'm good.

Alex Appolonia: AOL Instant Messaging.

Danielle Cohen: AIM was an instant-messaging platform.

Frank: AIM is basically text messaging

before text messaging was a thing.

Appolonia: I remember the sound

of getting a notification, though.

That's, like, embedded in my head.

Wait, now, it's like, da-ding! Like, what was it like?

Da-da-ding.

Carlson: Oh, I remember SmarterChild.

Alyse Kalish: Yes, SmarterChild.

It got, like, really scary.

I feel like I would, like, try to flirt with him

and, like, see if he was interested.

Cohen: I actually had maybe four AIM usernames.

xxxprettyinpinkxx.

Paige DiFiore: colesprouse4ever with the 4. That was me.

Appolonia: cheerdivaAl12. I wasn't a diva.

I don't know why that was part of my screen name.

Frank: firesparx14.

Jennifer Ortakales: sweetchick130693.

Carlson: And then I was also boltz999.

William Antonelli: swordscape40, because that was the name

I used for RuneScape.

Shannon Murphy: joejonaslover1996,

and I would leave away messages,

like, depending on who he was dating.

I'd be like, "I don't like you Taylor Swift,"

or like, "I don't like you Demi Lovato."

Something ridiculous, as if they would see

my AIM away message.

Cohen: If a boy liked me, he would write

"Dani

Frank: Insert whatever, like, emo song was popular

when I was 12, and that was definitely part of it.

Carlson: People definitely expressed themselves

with their away messages.

Cohen: At my school, it was really important

that you put in, like, all the names of your friends

that are in a clique.

Michelle Yan: What was it, Buddy Lists?

It was, like, "best friends," "friends."

Oh, yeah, I moved people off my best-friends list

to the friends list.

Cohen: And sometimes, you know, they would, like,

let a girl know you didn't make the cut anymore

by taking her out of everyone else's AIM profile.

Abby Tang: AIM was the best way to get bullied.

People would make these group chats

and, like, invite me into them,

and then they would, like, start saying nasty things.

DiFiore: I probably have catfished people on AIM.

Carlson: Teenage drama, friends, love,

all the things were on AIM.

Ortakales: After school got out, it's like,

that's how you could talk to your friends.

Antonelli: We would go home, like, immediately, get on AIM,

and start talking to each other, like, for hours.

Appolonia: I remember that adrenaline rush,

like, rushing back to my computer

to see, like, what my crush might have said,

or something like that.

Carlson: AIM was a key part of my adolescence.

I think I met a girlfriend on AIM.

Appolonia: It was pre-BBM, texting, Facebook messaging.

It was really the first way of feeling instantly connected.

Antonelli: Vine, rest in peace,

was a very wonderful video-making app, and I miss it.

Barranco: RIP, Vine. It's just, like, part of millennial,

Gen Z culture.

Quoting Vines is something that, like,

people my age just can do.

Trisha Bonthu: It was a big part of my personality,

like, growing up in high school.

I think everyone quoted Vines.

Genuinely, like, a big part of my high-school experience

was going to my friend's house

and spending hours watching Vines.

Barranco: God knows I still end up

at, like, 2 in the morning watching Vine compilations.

Vine clip: Hey, Tara, you want some?

Tara: It's f------ empty! Yeet!

Barranco: [laughing] Just, like, the spontaneity of the

soda can getting, like, tossed across the hallway

and the use of "yeet" that proliferated culture after that.

Truly inspiring.

Murphy: "'Road work ahead'? Uh, yeah.

I sure hope it does."

Barranco: There was a very loyal fan base behind Vine,

and a lot of people were very upset that it went away.

I remember when I heard about Vine for the first time,

I was like, "What the heck are people going to do

with six-second videos?"

Like, what could you accomplish in six seconds?

It's so stupid.

Bonthu: You only have six seconds to make a joke.

Unless you're, like, really funny,

it was hard to make Vines.

Antonelli: Well, I think Vine really challenged

a lot of people to get creative

and condense their humor

down into such a format

where everything has to matter in that six seconds

and every joke has to land.

My favorite Vine is "Back at it again at Krispy Kreme."

Clip: Back at it again at Krispy Kreme.

Frank: MoviePass is something I wanted so deeply to work.

Bonthu: I did have MoviePass, and I used it for, like,

a bit of a summer, and then it was like,

we suck, and we don't work anymore.

Lisa Paradise: MoviePass was a way to see basically

as many movies as you want in a week.

When I heard about MoviePass, I signed myself up,

I signed my roommate up,

and I signed my boyfriend at the time up.

I saw every movie that was in theaters.

You saw movies you didn't really want to see

because, why not? It was free.

I feel like everyone you knew

had MoviePass for a hot second.

Frank: Great, makes sense, I see a movie every single week.

This is a bargain. I live in New York City,

going to the movies costs almost $20.

This couldn't be cheaper.

They certainly aren't making money, so I have to get in now.

Paradise: It was like being a teenager again

when your parents are paying for you to go to the movies.

Nate Lee: I saved a lot of money through MoviePass.

Until it was demolished.

Paradise: I probably saw at least three movies a week.

They were literally just giving you money

to go see a movie.

Give me an inch, I will take the whole Oscar lineup.

Frank: And I abused it to no end.

I saw "Black Panther" four times using my MoviePass,

and they made the rule that you could only see

a movie one time, like, the next week.

Like, I'm convinced that "Black Panther"

is the reason they had to make that rule.

Lee: At its peak, I watched

every single movie in the theater.

Paradise: I wanted it to last forever,

and even when it started to die, I clung for too long.

Lee: Well, usually, when things are too good to be true,

it is too good to be true.

That's I think the biggest lesson I learned from MoviePass.

Frank: The last, like, two months I had MoviePass,

I was, like, arguing with myself on a daily basis,

like, "Do I still have this?

Does it make sense for me to keep this?"

But it was such a terrible service.

It didn't do anything that I wanted from it,

and I, like, ended up not seeing any movies

towards the end of it.

Lee: And I think you can't ignore MoviePass,

just because it really started

this whole subscription phase.

These subscription services

that are so convenient to use now

would not be around if it wasn't for MoviePass.

Carlson: Blockbuster was a place where they stored

Netflix movies on tape.

Shayanne Gal: Blockbuster was, like, my family's,

one of our greatest traditions.

That was the best surprise ever,

when my dad was like, "We're going to Blockbuster."

Carlson: If the one copy of the video you wanted to watch

was not at Blockbuster, you could drive

another 10 or 15 minutes to a Hollywood Video.

Ortakales: Blockbuster was an amazing, magical place to go

when you're a 10-year-old kid in the middle of nowhere.

It felt so expansive and, like,

"Oh, my gosh, there's so many movies.

I could watch any movie that I want."

Carlson: And you walk around,

and you're looking at all the boxes

and saying which ones look cool, and....

For me, it was like,

what kind of "Inspector Gadget" movie do they have?

Gal: I only rented Mary-Kate and Ashley movies.

Ortakales: I would go straight, make a beeline

to the kid's section,

and then find my movie while my parents

would, like, be in their section

picking out whatever new release they wanted to watch.

Gal: And then, at the checkout, pick out, like, a Nerds Rope

or a chocolate or whatever they had at the time.

That experience of going with a family member,

loved one, to a place like that

and being able to, like, bond over those things

is not replaceable.

Our brains are now wired in the, like, binge mode.

Like, one movie's not enough.

Like, one episode's not enough.

I'd have to go to Blockbuster, like, every day for it.

Ortakales: Oh. Well, now I'm definitely team Netflix.

Gal: Netflix, if I had to choose one,

but I feel like there could have been an ecosystem

where they both existed.

Carlson: I miss Blockbuster, but that's OK.

Netflix is great.

Frank: MP3 players are better

CD players are better tape players.

Do people still know what those are?

Barranco: Yeah, I remember specifically upgrading

from my CD player that I, like, hand-decorated

with rhinestones in, like, third grade

and listened to the "SpongeBob SquarePants"

movie soundtrack on, but I remember all the cool kids

on the bus on field trips had iPod Touches.

Frank: I used to have a CD player.

It was, like, a good CD player.