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There is an ongoing (and it seems like a never-ending) discussion between the millennial generation kids and baby boomers. While the older folks are trying to prove that us young people are ruining the economy and basically the entire world, we millennials keep fighting back by blaming baby boomers for any minor inconvenience we stumble upon during the difficult period of growing up. Basically, both generations blame each other for everything that is wrong in this world, and we're not sure if there's any way to stop them. And while this fight about generation differences keeps evolving, a new, fresher and younger generation is slowly growing up only to find a new way to ruin the world that we live in. The so-called 'generation z' or 'Genz' are people that were born from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s. And even though the age difference between Genz and the millennial age might be small, there are some things that millennials grew up with that Gen z kids have no clue about. Bored Panda compiled a list of all the random things that the younger kids from different generation don't understand, and before you check it out, be careful, it might make you feel extremely old.
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Martha Meyer 6 years ago
Those are still used in schools. I know 6 year olds who can tell you what this is.
Master Markus 6 years ago
Most of the time we needed one the light would be going out, and EVERY time something on the screen was dirty. Plus, a lot of teachers' handwriting on those things were not that good.
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Maggie Dougherty 6 years ago
It's called, an Overhead Projector! You put a film on the bottom, and it projects onto a wall. I had them all through my school years.
KENNY_WIND_YT 6 years ago
Wait, Is that an Elmo (That's what my fifth grade teacher called them)?
Isabella 6 years ago
I had those in my elementary school classes (kindergarten- grade 6) born in 2003
JOY JACKSON 5 years ago
looks like something I would find random broken pieces to in my grandmas house
Rosemary Moreland 6 years ago
I remember when they were first used in high school in the seventies. 😂
Lizz Martin 6 years ago
Hahaha!! I will never forget my teachers using their own spit on a finger tip to correct a mistake
Francesco Wibowo 6 years ago
Bwahahaha i use this in my college for presentation, projector were so rare
Katinka Min 6 years ago
I actually just tossed a stack of printable foils for these f*ckers, two days ago, during a major clean out :-D (Still less annoying and fast than power point)
Markus McCloud 6 years ago
Ah, yes. The overhead projector. I remember these in elementary school, but meh... Promethean and SMART boards FTW.
Iñaki Tofiño 6 years ago
I used this for teaching and found them amazing technology at the time... ;-)
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I graduated high school in 2004, teachers still used overheard projectors then
released kraken 6 years ago (edited)
Oh my god i kniw what this is i had them until like 5th grade (born 2005)
Renee C Radclyffe 6 years ago
Petra. It’s an overhead projector. The sheets placed on them were clear,and the writing or pictures were black...
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Lydia Austin 6 years ago
That's and Elmo (at least that's what all of my teachers said that's what it's called)
Margaret Althea Elvenshadow 6 years ago
I'm a Gen Z'er and we used those in elementary school, try again lol
Kunal Chopra 6 years ago
the teacher be adjusting the height of that s**t till the end of the semester
Lucy Smith 6 years ago
I had to source on of them at work for a speaker we had coming in to speak to our pupils. When I found it it still had his last acetate from his last talk 5 years earlier 😂😂
Nela Rothenbach 6 years ago
I'm still using these at school....dreaming of whiteboards and stuff
The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
Okay, I'm genuinely confused on this one, is it some sort of camera?
Hannah H 6 years ago
It projects text (or other black and white images) onto the overhead screen. The text would have to be printed onto a piece of plastic and could be manipulated by the teacher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_projector
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Bob Beltcher 6 years ago
Always breathed a sigh dread seeing these. It meant a lot of work for me since I write slow. Thank God for typing.
Bored Fox 6 years ago
When I was at school in 1990's it was a common prank to put small pieces of an eraser inside the overhead projector from the fan holes. So when the teacher turned the power on soon the whole classroom smelled like burning rubber. I am happy that no one did that prank when I was at school.
Rainbow_Gal05 6 years ago
Projector? We used to have these in my Elementary school but now middle school is all about apple tvs in every room :/ I wonder what next year will be like in highschool xD
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Bored Fox 6 years ago
Here in Finland we have Radio Nostalgia. Which is a channel that mostly plays songs from 1990's and 1980's. That is one of my favourite radio channels and I feel extremely old when I listen it. For me a radio channel called 'Radio Nostalgia' should play 1960's songs or older...
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Oathbraker 6 years ago
With a laser, duh. Though the real party trick was burning the title on top of the disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
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Matt Richardson 6 years ago
Gameboy was the great granddaddy of the smartphones and apps of today. Boy, you better respect it.
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Baron Simone Von Bianco 6 years ago
Bet whatever you want that she knows pretty well Justin Timberlake still. Boy bands are merely a launchpad for artists, if they are good enough to continue. East 17 were way better anyway...lol
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Oathbraker 6 years ago
I loved the Mummy movie as a kid. And there was this other one where the devil was a hot woman and was trying to get Fraser's soul, it was a funny movie.
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Rainbow_Gal05 6 years ago (edited)
THOSE ARE LITTERED AROUND MY SCHOOL! The only problem is that they aren't working and no one is fixing them
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Troux 6 years ago
Explain it like this: Imagine that every time an app crashed, you would have to turn off your phone, blow into it, then restart. Also imagine that when you downloaded an app, it was actually finished, and didn't require a patch twice a week to fix all of the bugs and add unnecessary updates.
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Aahzmandus Pervect 6 years ago
I giggled, though some of the posts are stretching it a bit thin.
Perryn Stert 6 years ago (edited)
200 years later: ...and when I was your age, we had things called "pens", that we wrote with on "paper"- None of this microchip-telepathy nonsense. And we had to ride a "bus" to go to school, no transmatter portals in 2019...
Kryogen 6 years ago
200 years ?? Lol, look around you, in 15 years, it will be nearly classified as prehistoric stuff...
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Chicago Kitty 6 years ago
I think it would be more fun/interesting to show Gen Z things from Gen X. There was such a rapid burst of change that it seems we went from the Flintstones to the Jetsons during that period.
Monica A. M. 6 years ago
Right!!! But a lot on this list applies to Gen X too.
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Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
What I found funny were the people saying "And my didn't know who/what was" and I feel old. Then I realize I too don't know who/what / is. Not because I'm too young and haven't experienced it but because I'm too old and completely missed it...
Effseven Six 6 years ago
I was born in 1980, but lived a hand me down life till I was around 10, so I sorta feel like I grew up in 70s also.
Chicago Kitty 6 years ago
"hand me down life" made me smile- that was my deal too, although being born in 1970 I remember them first hand. It doesn't seem like hand me downs are a thing anymore. Everyone seems to have everything new and shiny. Heck, I was happy if something fit and wasn't completely faded from so many trips through the washing machine. My first pair of "designer" jeans were a hand me down from my male cousin- I'm a girl- but I was so glad to get those Sergio Valentes!
Load More Replies... The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
I feel like some of these were a little too overdone. The fact that Gen Z kids don't know about some movie or actor from 20 years ago is completely normal.
Maryann 6 years ago
What?? How can millennials and older sit here and go "OH MY GOD DO GEN Z KIDS ACTUALLY DO NOT KNOW THAT THESE ARE". Or those "only 90's kids remember most" when I, a gen z and 2000's kid literally know exactly what you're talking about?
Maryann 6 years ago
Some things are are stretching it a bit, most of the time I know what it is, but some of them are like really??? Do you REALLY expect us to know that?? Or I'm fact vice versa like do you really think we don't know what that is?
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Serbob 6 years ago
About 15 years back I found a doll house that I had as a kid at an antique store. That hurt a little bit.
Full Name 6 years ago
When I was 30 I found a childhood toy at an antique store. WTF?!
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Zori the degu 6 years ago
Some are going too far. Come on, I'm 16 and I recognised 90% of those immediately! Are the peers asking what these are coming from the moon or something?
thepotatogirl 6 years ago
I recognized some of these, and others I was like, what is that? Born 1999, so I have no idea whether I'm a millennial or Gen Z
Hermione Jean Granger 6 years ago
I'm gen z and i know perfectly well what all of these things are soooooo...
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
I don't know half of these music artists or whatever, and while I am old...there are just so many levels of old.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
No one is too old to have a Game Boy! You go on eBay right now, and buy one! I recommend the Legend of Zelda games. So good, Robin Williams named his daughter after them.
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Suck it Fool 3 years ago
You old people just don’t get the culture Istg i remember everything since I was like 2 and up and as a 16 ur old the best part of my childhood revolves around animal bands slappy bands (until the tape measerer poped out and cut my wrist open🥲) a ds which you OLD PEOPLE CALL GAMEBOYS dragon tales(I can recite the whole chant) lazy town wonder pets Oswald Danamles zhu zhu pets those wierd animal shaped paper plates and aggressive mortal combat matches on the ps3 and watching my dad play god of war and having to cover my eyes every 5 seconds because of the MA content
Bernadotte Pip 3 years ago
16 pic. I'll tell kids that this mustard, mayonase and catchup pipes
Delphine Fray 6 years ago
When you roll down this post and realize you know what every single object is and what's purpose is. I grew up in the 1990s.
Mark Szeman 6 years ago
Remember when 30 years ago adults were complaining that they had to ask a five year old to setup their VCR ? We are those 5 year olds, and we are still being asked to set things up !!
Anthony Merchant 5 years ago
I was born in 1980 and I constantly was fixing people's VCR's to stop flashing the time as a kid. When my family got our first CD stereo system I set it up. Same thing went for our first DVD player. I guess that's why I'm an electronics technician today.
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Sukki Blue 6 years ago
Am I the only 18 year old who got most of these? (the socks thing is just trivial)
Michael McGee 6 years ago
I bought an old house to rehab. I was taking down the chimney with a college kid. He didn't know what the big metal thing strapped to the chimney was. It was an old TV antenna. He had never seen one.
electricblue 6 years ago
I find it weird that I'm a Gen Z, but I relate to 90's kids. (born 2003).
Suck it Fool 3 years ago
I was born in early 06 and Ik these all they don’t get the fact we all watched Disney movies religiously on vhs tapes the only difference is we got cool s**t like animal bands and zhu zhu pets they call us uncultured when they call our ds a gameboy and our wii a Nintendo
Load More Replies... Kyana Winter 6 years ago
Besides the Backstreet Boys and Gameboy, I have absolutely no idea what this stuff is or does. I feel young.
Robert Bailey 6 years ago
I know every generation dumps on the next. But doesn't it seem a few years too soon for this to start.
Glynis Lailann 6 years ago
Anyone remember how we used ti dial up the internet using a router in a separate box and the sounds it made?
Carol Emory 6 years ago
Best thing I ever heard was the parents that put a rotary phone in front of their kids and asked them how you use it. Every kid kept looking for a touch screen or buttons to push.
Bob McDonald 6 years ago
I'm going to weep softly in my coffee mug because I used to tease my Mom that she was so unhip her butt fell off. I am she...with a beard.
Erik Granqvist 6 years ago
My sisters doesnt know what a Mercedes-Benz W124 is. Or W123, W115, X204 etc. Not sure its an age thingie, though. Maybe they are just strange people,
Melissa Mitchell 6 years ago
You people all make me feel old. Almost every one of these things are from my adult life! 1965 baby here....
Master Markus 6 years ago
A lot of these are either "OH MAN, KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT CASSETTES ARE AND I FEEL OLD!" or pop culture stuff that has largely been left in the 90s for good reasons.
Anastasia Martinez 6 years ago
I feel proud to say my brother raised his daughter right. At 10 she asked to put on some good music, I asked her what it was first and she said I think I'm paranoid by Garbage. When I asked her how she knew Garbage she said her daddy plays it all the time. Thank goodness for that.
Amanda Ford 6 years ago
I'm confused. I thought millennials were people born over the millennium, but this is saying they're gen Z? I thought I was Gen X being born 1981 and Gen Y was like 1990ish. I'm all shades of confused.
Richard Mell 6 years ago
Boohoo some 12 year old doesn't know about this slightly outdated visual medium and is making me feel old even though I'm 30 waaaa
Anthony Merchant 5 years ago
I literally saw no one going boohoo about any of this. The only one I seen doing that is you. They are making jokes about the differences in time. You should try it sometime it may help you dislodge that stick you got up there.
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Fiki Towfiq 6 years ago
Lol the dark ages of floppy disks and dial up. Kids these days got it good
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Some of these are a little meh. Like, if something was made 5-10 years before they were born, with the tech boom of course they won't know about it.
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Well, movies and such are different. They're cultural, and are of course preserved. But utilities that have grown outdated that we have no reason to use- yes, some people will find out about those, but there's not really a reason we'd know about them.
Load More Replies... Full Name 6 years ago
It's weird the write-up mentions baby boomers, millennials and Gen Z. I think you're missing someone in there (you know, the generation who actually grew up with most of the stuff in these photos).
glowworm2 6 years ago
I was born in the late 80s, so I'm actually quite familiar with most of these items.
Rob Chapman 6 years ago
Gen Z simply doesn't care about the past. If it doesn't give them instant access to Facebook & Twitter, it's worthless to them. I grew up in the 70's/80's, and I never looked at a piece if 50's tech and said "what the heck is that thing", I knew what it was.
Aahzmandus Pervect 6 years ago
I giggled, though some of the posts are stretching it a bit thin.
Perryn Stert 6 years ago (edited)
200 years later: ...and when I was your age, we had things called "pens", that we wrote with on "paper"- None of this microchip-telepathy nonsense. And we had to ride a "bus" to go to school, no transmatter portals in 2019...
Kryogen 6 years ago
200 years ?? Lol, look around you, in 15 years, it will be nearly classified as prehistoric stuff...
Load More Replies... Chicago Kitty 6 years ago
I think it would be more fun/interesting to show Gen Z things from Gen X. There was such a rapid burst of change that it seems we went from the Flintstones to the Jetsons during that period.
Monica A. M. 6 years ago
Right!!! But a lot on this list applies to Gen X too.
Load More Replies... Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
What I found funny were the people saying "And my didn't know who/what was" and I feel old. Then I realize I too don't know who/what / is. Not because I'm too young and haven't experienced it but because I'm too old and completely missed it...
Effseven Six 6 years ago
I was born in 1980, but lived a hand me down life till I was around 10, so I sorta feel like I grew up in 70s also.
Chicago Kitty 6 years ago
"hand me down life" made me smile- that was my deal too, although being born in 1970 I remember them first hand. It doesn't seem like hand me downs are a thing anymore. Everyone seems to have everything new and shiny. Heck, I was happy if something fit and wasn't completely faded from so many trips through the washing machine. My first pair of "designer" jeans were a hand me down from my male cousin- I'm a girl- but I was so glad to get those Sergio Valentes!
Load More Replies... The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
I feel like some of these were a little too overdone. The fact that Gen Z kids don't know about some movie or actor from 20 years ago is completely normal.
Maryann 6 years ago
What?? How can millennials and older sit here and go "OH MY GOD DO GEN Z KIDS ACTUALLY DO NOT KNOW THAT THESE ARE". Or those "only 90's kids remember most" when I, a gen z and 2000's kid literally know exactly what you're talking about?
Maryann 6 years ago
Some things are are stretching it a bit, most of the time I know what it is, but some of them are like really??? Do you REALLY expect us to know that?? Or I'm fact vice versa like do you really think we don't know what that is?
Load More Replies... Serbob 6 years ago
About 15 years back I found a doll house that I had as a kid at an antique store. That hurt a little bit.
Full Name 6 years ago
When I was 30 I found a childhood toy at an antique store. WTF?!
Load More Replies... Zori the degu 6 years ago
Some are going too far. Come on, I'm 16 and I recognised 90% of those immediately! Are the peers asking what these are coming from the moon or something?
thepotatogirl 6 years ago
I recognized some of these, and others I was like, what is that? Born 1999, so I have no idea whether I'm a millennial or Gen Z
Hermione Jean Granger 6 years ago
I'm gen z and i know perfectly well what all of these things are soooooo...
Biana Weatherford 6 years ago
I don't know half of these music artists or whatever, and while I am old...there are just so many levels of old.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
No one is too old to have a Game Boy! You go on eBay right now, and buy one! I recommend the Legend of Zelda games. So good, Robin Williams named his daughter after them.
Load More Replies... Suck it Fool 3 years ago
You old people just don’t get the culture Istg i remember everything since I was like 2 and up and as a 16 ur old the best part of my childhood revolves around animal bands slappy bands (until the tape measerer poped out and cut my wrist open🥲) a ds which you OLD PEOPLE CALL GAMEBOYS dragon tales(I can recite the whole chant) lazy town wonder pets Oswald Danamles zhu zhu pets those wierd animal shaped paper plates and aggressive mortal combat matches on the ps3 and watching my dad play god of war and having to cover my eyes every 5 seconds because of the MA content
Bernadotte Pip 3 years ago
16 pic. I'll tell kids that this mustard, mayonase and catchup pipes
Delphine Fray 6 years ago
When you roll down this post and realize you know what every single object is and what's purpose is. I grew up in the 1990s.
Mark Szeman 6 years ago
Remember when 30 years ago adults were complaining that they had to ask a five year old to setup their VCR ? We are those 5 year olds, and we are still being asked to set things up !!
Anthony Merchant 5 years ago
I was born in 1980 and I constantly was fixing people's VCR's to stop flashing the time as a kid. When my family got our first CD stereo system I set it up. Same thing went for our first DVD player. I guess that's why I'm an electronics technician today.
Load More Replies... Sukki Blue 6 years ago
Am I the only 18 year old who got most of these? (the socks thing is just trivial)
Michael McGee 6 years ago
I bought an old house to rehab. I was taking down the chimney with a college kid. He didn't know what the big metal thing strapped to the chimney was. It was an old TV antenna. He had never seen one.
electricblue 6 years ago
I find it weird that I'm a Gen Z, but I relate to 90's kids. (born 2003).
Suck it Fool 3 years ago
I was born in early 06 and Ik these all they don’t get the fact we all watched Disney movies religiously on vhs tapes the only difference is we got cool s**t like animal bands and zhu zhu pets they call us uncultured when they call our ds a gameboy and our wii a Nintendo
Load More Replies... Kyana Winter 6 years ago
Besides the Backstreet Boys and Gameboy, I have absolutely no idea what this stuff is or does. I feel young.
Robert Bailey 6 years ago
I know every generation dumps on the next. But doesn't it seem a few years too soon for this to start.
Glynis Lailann 6 years ago
Anyone remember how we used ti dial up the internet using a router in a separate box and the sounds it made?
Carol Emory 6 years ago
Best thing I ever heard was the parents that put a rotary phone in front of their kids and asked them how you use it. Every kid kept looking for a touch screen or buttons to push.
Bob McDonald 6 years ago
I'm going to weep softly in my coffee mug because I used to tease my Mom that she was so unhip her butt fell off. I am she...with a beard.
Erik Granqvist 6 years ago
My sisters doesnt know what a Mercedes-Benz W124 is. Or W123, W115, X204 etc. Not sure its an age thingie, though. Maybe they are just strange people,
Melissa Mitchell 6 years ago
You people all make me feel old. Almost every one of these things are from my adult life! 1965 baby here....
Master Markus 6 years ago
A lot of these are either "OH MAN, KIDS DON'T KNOW WHAT CASSETTES ARE AND I FEEL OLD!" or pop culture stuff that has largely been left in the 90s for good reasons.
Anastasia Martinez 6 years ago
I feel proud to say my brother raised his daughter right. At 10 she asked to put on some good music, I asked her what it was first and she said I think I'm paranoid by Garbage. When I asked her how she knew Garbage she said her daddy plays it all the time. Thank goodness for that.
Amanda Ford 6 years ago
I'm confused. I thought millennials were people born over the millennium, but this is saying they're gen Z? I thought I was Gen X being born 1981 and Gen Y was like 1990ish. I'm all shades of confused.
Richard Mell 6 years ago
Boohoo some 12 year old doesn't know about this slightly outdated visual medium and is making me feel old even though I'm 30 waaaa
Anthony Merchant 5 years ago
I literally saw no one going boohoo about any of this. The only one I seen doing that is you. They are making jokes about the differences in time. You should try it sometime it may help you dislodge that stick you got up there.
Load More Replies... Fiki Towfiq 6 years ago
Lol the dark ages of floppy disks and dial up. Kids these days got it good
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Some of these are a little meh. Like, if something was made 5-10 years before they were born, with the tech boom of course they won't know about it.
Bob 2.0 6 years ago
Well, movies and such are different. They're cultural, and are of course preserved. But utilities that have grown outdated that we have no reason to use- yes, some people will find out about those, but there's not really a reason we'd know about them.
Load More Replies... Full Name 6 years ago
It's weird the write-up mentions baby boomers, millennials and Gen Z. I think you're missing someone in there (you know, the generation who actually grew up with most of the stuff in these photos).
glowworm2 6 years ago
I was born in the late 80s, so I'm actually quite familiar with most of these items.
Rob Chapman 6 years ago
Gen Z simply doesn't care about the past. If it doesn't give them instant access to Facebook & Twitter, it's worthless to them. I grew up in the 70's/80's, and I never looked at a piece if 50's tech and said "what the heck is that thing", I knew what it was.
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