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Millennials Share 30 Things Generation Z Doesn’t Know About, And It Will Make You Feel Old
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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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...
Guess then it's the best radio channel you have there, as they actually play something that still can be considered music. In my country (Italy) every historic station transformed itself into the ultimate sender of pure c**p and during all the day, you can tune in at any time, there are always the same ten or twelve songs on rotation (worlwide pop products of the worst subspecies). Thinking that we had two radio stations specialized in club music (mainly euro dance first, then proper house, techno, trance...you name it) I can only cry very sad tears nowadays... I don't consider myself "old" if I hear some cool trance of the late 90s or early 2000s....
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God yes, they play Metallica on classic rock stations now and call it 2nd generation classic rock. F my life.
It's not just that I'm old, current music really does suck.
The oldies show was playing and I said to a clerical officer “this isn’t an oldie”. He just looked at me and said “it’s older than I am.”
I was floored the first time I heard Nirvana on the classic rock station. I was like, this isn't classic rock: Nirvana was around only 10 years ago. *sigh*
Aehm...Nirvana was around more than 20 years ago actually. Kurt Cobain passed away in 1994.
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When you hear your faves as elevator music. I damn near died when I heard Journey and White Snake on the elevator!
I really dislike 90's songs being considered oldies.. yet that damn fool on the radio insists they are. 80's I slowly accepting as oldies... but 90's just hurts.
This was so me the other day. Soundgarden, collective soul, and U2 are on the classic rock station. I was like when did they become classic rock?!?
They retire songs to classic rock pretty darn quick. I heard one on there from 10 years ago.
when the grocery store or elevator is playing top hits from your high school years.
I was born at the start of the 80's & a friends 7 year old asked me if the music I listened to growing up counts as Classical music?! Hold me back!!!
What even counts as "classic"? I feel like it's 60s-80s, but the music is so different between all those times.
Or they are the intro/outro music on NPR...looking at you, Ramones/Radiohead/GratefulDead
I was watching top of the pops once when the guy introducing the video said "It was ok to dress like that back then" (sequin dress and suit) .... Eeek, my childhood is back then
Blink-182 are still relevant, dammit! And yes, that was done intentionally.
When you hear "that song" on the instrumental track at the mall. Oh, and the mall is still indoors, not re purposed into what we used to call a "Shopping Center".
With a laser, duh. Though the real party trick was burning the title on top of the disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
Gameboy was the great granddaddy of the smartphones and apps of today. Boy, you better respect it.
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
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.
THOSE ARE LITTERED AROUND MY SCHOOL! The only problem is that they aren't working and no one is fixing them
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.
I giggled, though some of the posts are stretching it a bit thin.
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...
200 years ?? Lol, look around you, in 15 years, it will be nearly classified as prehistoric stuff...
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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.
Right!!! But a lot on this list applies to Gen X too.
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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...
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.
"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!
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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.
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?
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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About 15 years back I found a doll house that I had as a kid at an antique store. That hurt a little bit.
When I was 30 I found a childhood toy at an antique store. WTF?!
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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?
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
I'm gen z and i know perfectly well what all of these things are soooooo...
I don't know half of these music artists or whatever, and while I am old...there are just so many levels of old.
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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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
16 pic. I'll tell kids that this mustard, mayonase and catchup pipes
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.
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 !!
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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Am I the only 18 year old who got most of these? (the socks thing is just trivial)
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.
I find it weird that I'm a Gen Z, but I relate to 90's kids. (born 2003).
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
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Besides the Backstreet Boys and Gameboy, I have absolutely no idea what this stuff is or does. I feel young.
I know every generation dumps on the next. But doesn't it seem a few years too soon for this to start.
Anyone remember how we used ti dial up the internet using a router in a separate box and the sounds it made?
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.
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.
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,
You people all make me feel old. Almost every one of these things are from my adult life! 1965 baby here....
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.
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.
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.
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
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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Lol the dark ages of floppy disks and dial up. Kids these days got it good
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.
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... 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).
I was born in the late 80s, so I'm actually quite familiar with most of these items.
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.
I giggled, though some of the posts are stretching it a bit thin.
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...
200 years ?? Lol, look around you, in 15 years, it will be nearly classified as prehistoric stuff...
Load More Replies... 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.
Right!!! But a lot on this list applies to Gen X too.
Load More Replies... 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...
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.
"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... 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.
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?
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... About 15 years back I found a doll house that I had as a kid at an antique store. That hurt a little bit.
When I was 30 I found a childhood toy at an antique store. WTF?!
Load More Replies... 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?
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
I'm gen z and i know perfectly well what all of these things are soooooo...
I don't know half of these music artists or whatever, and while I am old...there are just so many levels of old.
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... 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
16 pic. I'll tell kids that this mustard, mayonase and catchup pipes
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.
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 !!
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... Am I the only 18 year old who got most of these? (the socks thing is just trivial)
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.
I find it weird that I'm a Gen Z, but I relate to 90's kids. (born 2003).
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... Besides the Backstreet Boys and Gameboy, I have absolutely no idea what this stuff is or does. I feel young.
I know every generation dumps on the next. But doesn't it seem a few years too soon for this to start.
Anyone remember how we used ti dial up the internet using a router in a separate box and the sounds it made?
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.
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.
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,
You people all make me feel old. Almost every one of these things are from my adult life! 1965 baby here....
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.
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.
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.
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
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... Lol the dark ages of floppy disks and dial up. Kids these days got it good
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.
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... 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).
I was born in the late 80s, so I'm actually quite familiar with most of these items.
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.
