People Share 75 Things They Did Before It Was Cool To Do Them

"I deleted Facebook before it was cool to hate it."

"I was out for the night back when I was 17/18/19. A friend and I went to a good pub in Oxfordshire where we thought we’d have a chance to pick up some girls.

Ended up getting drunk and listening to the band who were pretty good.

Turned out that the band was an unknown indie/rock group called 'Radiohead'. A couple of weeks later 'Creep' went international.

Been a fan ever since."

"I was into memes when they were called 'demotovational posters.'"

"I washed my hands for 20 seconds and used a paper towel for the sink and door handles way before Corona."

"I first saw 'The Simpsons' when it was a sketch on 'The Tracy Ullman Show', and I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. I was ecstatic when I learned they were making a full cartoon of it. I watched it religiously up until about season fifteen or sixteen before I finally switched to every once in a while like we all eventually did."

"I went to a bar a long time ago (illegally- I was below drinking age) to see this neo-punk band play. I liked it enough that I shelled out for one of their cassettes (pre-CD). The band was 'Green Day.'"

"Online dating. I met my wife in Yahoo chatroom in 2000."

"Hulu in 2008. It used to be completely free, browser-based, with no ads. It was the only way for me to watch new episodes of 'Heroes' every week."

"Seeing a therapist regularly."

"I feel like nowadays being an introvert is glorified. I’ve been an introvert my whole life, and now I see these posts from obvious extroverts calling themselves the opposite."

"Sent an ‘electronic mail’ message from my car using a HP48G calculator and a ham radio in 1993. That feat got published in a technical magazine. Nothing about that first sentence sounds cool, but I know the G is for gangster."

To answer the common questions: I wrote a terminal emulator for the 48G. That talked to a terminal node controller which is like a modem to interface between the calculator and radio. The message (don’t remember the exact details but I was 16 so it probably went to my mom’s prodigy account to say 'hi mom') went through the ham radio packet network until it hit a node with an internet bridge. The car was my POS 88 Mustang that I bought for $1800. Lastly, the source for G is for gangster as it relates to HP-48G comes from the incredible Nerdrap Entertainment System album by YTCracker."

"My old IT teacher was pushing us onto this unknown player called Google when everyone was using Ask Jeeves. He predicted that one day they would be huge."

"Skateboards. 1964 or so."

Itavan replied: "My husband is 62 and still skating bowls. A picture of him holding a board is in Wes Humpston's book."

"Avocado toast. It was one of my favorite foods growing up (born in 1985) - just avocado on sourdough with salt and pepper. When I saw it becoming trendy I was like, 'Wait, were we all not doing this?'"

"Gmail. 2004. When it is invited only. My friend had a small amount of invites."

Space20021 replied: "And the counter for free storage space would keep going up."

"Was using Netflix since 2001."

"My mom did yoga back in the 1970s when it was considered a hippy thing.'"

"I was attending 'ComiCon' before most people knew it existed. Show up the day you want, buy a ticket, and go in and shop. I have some incredible collectible movie memorabilia from back then. Never thought it would turn into the enormous event it has become."

"I was into vinyl before it made a comeback. And since nobody in the 90s or early 2000s wanted their records anymore, I basically got 500+ records for free or nearly free."

"I still remember being made fun of in school for playing video games and being a nerd. How times have changed."