NO INTERNET
Yet somehow, we knew where everyone was.
AES · CLASS OF 1994
WE DIDN’T GROW UP ONLINE.
Before the internet. Before social media. Before smartphones.
We grew up outside. We came home when the streetlights came on. And somehow, those were the best years.
01 / THE BEFORE TIMES
BEFORE EVERYTHING
BECAME SMART
NO MOBILE PHONES
Yet nobody was really unreachable.
NO SOCIAL MEDIA
Yet somehow, everyone knew everyone’s business.
NO STREAMING
If you missed your favourite programme… tough luck.
02 / PRIMETIME
OUR LIVING ROOM
ONE TELEVISION.
ONE REMOTE.
AN ENTIRE FAMILY
FIGHTING OVER WHAT TO WATCH.
There was no Netflix. No YouTube. No watch whenever you want.
If you missed it… you missed it.
03 / AUDIO SIDE A
PRESS PLAY
Before Spotify, there was the mixtape.
We recorded songs from the radio. Rewound tapes with a pencil. And prayed the tape wouldn’t get eaten by the player.
04 / FOUR O’CLOCK
AFTER SCHOOL = OUTSIDE
OUR PARENTS DIDN’T HAVE TO ARRANGE PLAYDATES.
WE JUST WENT DOWNSTAIRS.
The street was our playground. The neighbourhood was our social network.
SOCIAL NETWORK
THE STREET
STATUS
HOME BY 7
FRIENDS
EVERYONE OUTSIDE
05 / INSERT COIN
ONE MORE GAME
We had video games too. But nobody called it gaming.
There was one television. One console. Two controllers. And one person who always said: Let me play one more time!
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06 / THE BOX IN THE LOFT
THINGS WE NEVER
THOUGHT WE’D MISS
Things that once felt ordinary. Things we now call nostalgia.
◉TRANSISTOR RADIO
▤CASSETTE PLAYER
☎LANDLINE
▱VCR
◌BICYCLE
▥SCHOOL DIARY
◉FOUNTAIN PEN
▤COMIC BOOKS
☎PHOTO ALBUM
▱PENCIL BOX
◌POSTCARDS
▥SCHOOL BAG
07 / THE PART THAT WAS OURS
AND THEN
THERE WAS AES
Somewhere between all those afternoons,
we became us.
Different streams. Different paths. Same beginning.
＋CLASS PHOTO / ADD PHOTO
＋CORRIDOR / ADD PHOTO
＋SCHOOL DAY / ADD PHOTO
08 / THE YEAR WE LEFT SCHOOL
1994
THE YEAR WE LEFT SCHOOL.
11 friends. Different journeys. One shared beginning.
CHILDHOODSCHOOL1994LIFETODAY
THE 11
PHOTO
Amit Jain
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Amit Kumar Rakesh
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Ankit Sharma
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Arun Nigam
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Ashutosh Rai
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Chandan Lal
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Gaurav Verma
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Manish Kumar
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Naman Chaturvedi
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Nandan Lal
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Nitish Sharma
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Pralayankar Shahi
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Rajiv Lochan
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Sumit David
ONE-LINE MEMORY
PHOTO
Vivek Jain
ONE-LINE MEMORY
09 / THE BIT THAT MATTERS
WE GREW UP.
We moved cities.
Changed careers.
Built families.
Lost touch.
Found each other again.
Changed careers.
Built families.
Lost touch.
Found each other again.
But somewhere inside…
we’re still those kids from AES.
WELCOME HOME.
10 / NOW
SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY,
WE BUILT OURSELVES A LITTLE CORNER OF THE INTERNET.
A place to reconnect. A place to share. A place to remember. A place to create new memories.
ENTER THE AES COMMUNITY ↗AES · CLASS OF 1994