As we roll into 2013, let's take some time to reflect on what the world was like a decade ago. It was a time before Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, when text messaging and Myspace still reigned supreme. A time when the only smartphones that mattered had swivel displays or were named after fruit. It was also a time when the only status updates anyone checked were the ones left in your AOL Instant Messenger away message. Those were the days when you took more than a little bit of time to figure out how exactly to inform your friends that you weren't at your computer. And while you may have painstakingly crafted your away messages, we're sure it wasn't anything compared to the care the girls you knew put into theirs. Don't believe us? Just watch...
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