Remember When…

Remember when you'd spend an hour downloading a single mp3 only for someone to pick up the phone when it was on 99% and ruin everything? Join Jane Yee, Sam Brooks and Stewart Sowman-Lund as they revisit the dark ages of dial-up internet.

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Remember the hours spent scouring the racks and bins of shops like Sounds and The CD Store? Join Jane Yee, Leonie Hayden and Duncan Greive as they revisit New Zealand's peak CD-buying era.

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Remember when we'd eat way too much trying to get our pocket money's worth at the dine-in Pizza Hut? Jane Yee, Sam Brooks and Toby Morris as they take a trip to the all-you-can-eat Pizza Hut of the mind.

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Remember when we voluntarily terrified ourselves playing the Slender Man video game and sharing stories of how he stalked children and influenced proxies to do his evil bidding? Join The Spinoff's Jane Yee, Josie Adams and Stewart Sowman-Lund as we remember when... Slender Man.

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Remember when you had to wait until your 20th birthday before you could legally set foot in a bar and enjoy a lovely beverage without fear of being sprung? Join Jane Yee, Leonie Hayden and Toby Morris from The Spinoff as we steal a sibling's licence, jangle our keys and remember when... the drinking age was 20.

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Remember when we used dial-up internet and texts cost 20 cents each? When we learned to drive in a manual and listened to Channel Z? Or when Wellington Dub eclipsed the local music scene and we drove laps of Queen Street to show off our Mazda RX-7s? Remember when Slenderman invaded our nightmares, and the ultimate first date was at Death By Chocolate?

Join us as we delight and despair in these moments – and many more – that helped shape us across the generations. Remember When... coming soon! Subscribe now so you never miss an episode.

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