Tell your kids you remember this and they'll say you're ancient: Someone reposted old ABC News footage from 1988 of a guy calling the Nintendo Power Line . . . a hotline for video game tips.
The only way for gaming nerds to get advice back then was by calling an even bigger gaming nerd on something called a "landline phone." It launched in '88 and finally shut down in 2010 after the internet made it obsolete.