Back in the day, you probably wanted a pink, bejewelled flip phone like Carrie Bradshaw badly. Or maybe you were impressed when someone whipped out a copy of their encyclopedia. Today, however, these tidbits simply remind us how adorably outdated these shows are…

**1. Carrie Bradshaw’s ~blinglicious~ flip phone in *Sex and The City.
2. Rory’s pager interupting her lunch in Gilmore Girls.
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3. When Ross and Mike used an actual encyclopaedia during an episode of Friends. **

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- In Seinfeld when George spent an entire episode trying to rent a VHS of “Breakfast At Tiffany’s.”**

5. That time Carrie found out about her new advert via a bus, not Twitter in Sex and The City.

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6. Dawson’s middle part in Dawson’s Creek.**

7. Also, this intense discussion about the X Files:

8. Rosario’s very vintage hand-held video camera in Will and Grace:
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9. **When Rory said this in Gilmore Girls:

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- All the drama’s involving answering machines during Friends:**

11. Getting tangled up in your phone’s cord like Sam in Freaks and Geeks:
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- This entire scene from *The Nanny:
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