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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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

poor guy. You could scream "NOOOOO" all you wanted, it was already too late

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Martha Meyer
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are still used in schools. I know 6 year olds who can tell you what this is.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you got to move the next one OHP paper on and off at school it was a pretty cool job!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember showing presentation on this projector in my college days using a transparent plastic sheet and fighting to have that member in our group who had the best handwriting.

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Chamel
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

umm I was born in 2003 and we used these like everyday in science class

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, Is that an Elmo (That's what my fifth grade teacher called them)?

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Emily Howell
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These didn't appear in my life till 13. Oh how I feel young, NOT!!!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG!!!! Ummm a TV, a Record Player... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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Vik Roberts
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just bought a used one of those as an aid to teach art on Zoom.. D:

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JOY JACKSON
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

looks like something I would find random broken pieces to in my grandmas house

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Walker
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born in 2002 but we had these in my elementary school. We mostly used smart boards tho

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Rosemary Moreland
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember when they were first used in high school in the seventies. 😂

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Lizz Martin
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahaha!! I will never forget my teachers using their own spit on a finger tip to correct a mistake

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Millie Rose
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These bored me to death when teacher brought it out for viewing.

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Francesco Wibowo
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bwahahaha i use this in my college for presentation, projector were so rare

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That looks like a newer, more modern one. You should have seen the projectors we had in the 70's classrooms.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no....things have changed sooo much in the last 20 years ...

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Autumn Kelley
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born in 2003 I’m now 15 and my math teacher uses these

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Markus McCloud
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah, yes. The overhead projector. I remember these in elementary school, but meh... Promethean and SMART boards FTW.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It doesn't help that most these comments are from kids they are referencing on the post haha

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was the one sitting by the projector and working ahead because I could read through the cover sheet. lol

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used this for teaching and found them amazing technology at the time... ;-)

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Christina Sersif
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I graduated high school in 2004, teachers still used overheard projectors then

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released kraken
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my god i kniw what this is i had them until like 5th grade (born 2005)

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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used these in kindergarden and I was born in the 2000's

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Lu
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Such weird contraptions even when era appropriate

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Ioana Velica
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use it in my classroom at the university. Still a good device

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the teacher be adjusting the height of that s**t till the end of the semester

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Lucy Smith
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 😂😂

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Nela Rothenbach
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm still using these at school....dreaming of whiteboards and stuff

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, I'm genuinely confused on this one, is it some sort of camera?

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always breathed a sigh dread seeing these. It meant a lot of work for me since I write slow. Thank God for typing.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL! Yea. Sometimes the crowd is just a little too young for me. Their drinking the cheapest thing they can to get messed up. I'm sipping my one drink made with titos so I can get up on time the next day and get stuff done.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gameboy was the great granddaddy of the smartphones and apps of today. Boy, you better respect it.

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Put the needle on the record Put the needle on the record Put the needle on the record Put the needle on the record Put the needle on the record When the drumbeats go like this!

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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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