Back in my day the servers were only turned on for two or three sessions of a few hours each week.

Back in my day EU(and separately EN/FR/DE)/NA/JP had different forums and 90% of your FFXIV time was spent on said forums contributing to ridiculous threads about biscuits.

Back in my day, I was able to accurately map out the locations of the entire EU playerbase with Google.

Back in my day, experimenting with different quantities and types of ingredients was the only way to craft new items.

Back in my day, your forum avatar was whatever you linked to.

Back in my day, if you actually made it through the gateway from Limsa onto La Noscea without crashing, timing out or sending the whole server offline, it was cause for celebration.