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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The image of the "save"-icon is an image of a floppy disk
Load More Replies...Heck, I remember the big floppy disc. I remember how excited I was when my dad upgraded our computer from 4 megabytes of ram to 8!
I remember that very upgrade! It glossed up the graphics in Wing Commander: Armada!
Load More Replies...I'm old enough to remember when a 'millenial' first made this 'joke'
1 guy wrote in his girlfriend was nuts she wanted to know what the 'NO' button was for, she had it upside down1
And your final hopes were killed when the file looked like it was downloaded successfully, but when you try to open it, it gives you error, or appears as literally missing some parts.
Load More Replies...i'm 33, but first time i learned was that movie with Timberlake, emule was main thing in my country; which is not US :D
omg dial up internet lets not even try explaining that to them lol
I can still hear the static now... good ole 28.8 bps modem dialup gonna take about 46 seconds to connect thanks!! LoL Dude did you guys know that the band Dispatch was basically entirely made solely because they gave their stuff to Napster free of charge to flow thru to the people!!!
I'm under 18 and know what that is. Not all Gen Z don't know what that is
My hubby had got his old camera out and was using up the film (he takes the camera up the mountains for pictures) anyway our daughter is like hurry up daddy I want to see the pictures. She there ready to see. Had to Explain welcome to the old days lol. She’s like what the heck haha
I think I may have some of these laying around with the film still in it! They mDe great quarter holders!
Hell, I say "crank the car," but I wasn't around when they cranked cars. I've also heard Gen Z people say dial a number on the phone. I guess the lingo lasts longer than the product
Glad I don't have kids... Now I'll be young forever!!! 😁 Right? That's how it works, right? Tell me that's how it works!!
Enjoy your everlasting youth - Sincerely single parent dying slowly at age 29
Load More Replies...Those are still used in schools. I know 6 year olds who can tell you what this is.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
When you have to start scrolling to find your year of birth in pull down menus, you know you are getting too old for clubbing!
As of the end of last year, you can't legally be a child and be born in the last century. Everyone born in the last century is legally an adult now.
*Millennium. Until the end of my life I can brag to younger people for having lived in two millenniums.
Load More Replies...There was a song that came out in 2006 that had the chorus 'I've got love for you, if you were born in the 80's'. And NO ONE seemed to realise how dodgy it was.
wait...they're not actual babies? wtf? my purse is older than them...
Agreed. That's what I mostly used, but for variety I also used the purple tilty one
Load More Replies...Actually, I'm a 'today's kid' (12yo), and I've struggled with that before. Some things never die...
woha. so hard a flashback i could smell the school, that was crazy
Shoulda grabbed him and threw him on the floor and covered him like in the movies.
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....
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...When you hear your faves as elevator music. I damn near died when I heard Journey and White Snake on the elevator!
With a laser, duh. Though the real party trick was burning the title on top of the disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightScribe
I remember when I used to be very jealous because some people had LightScribe CD-Rs. I just had a marker scribbles on my CD-Rs.
Load More Replies...And then the DJ speaks over your favourite part and changes the song before the end of the current one. ♥
Load More Replies...The supposedly internet-savvy kids unable to do a quick google search...
bro i was born in 2004 and i still use cds that ive burnt songs to like i just finished burning a new cd
And I used to copy tapes with a wire between a player and a recorder...omg
We have so much we need to be teaching the generation following us.
Sorry, these are several generations in, youngin. Disks used to be f*****g massive (and were literally floppy).
My first computer as a Packard Bell 386 mini tower with a built-in tape drive. It came with DOS 6.0, Windows 3.11, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Money and a few other things. I spend my first weekend with it formatting 100 of these disks and creating the Setup programs for all the installed software because it didn't come with any disks. After I was done I accidentally formatted the C:\ drive and had no idea what to do after that. Fortunately I had completed making all the Setup software so I had everything I needed to reinstall everything.
Oh man I used to use 3.5" discs in college. I once forgot and put it in my pocket with my Seimens C35, it rang and wiped a whole semester of work. I then spent €100 on an 8mb flash drive and my classmates were like ohhh that's like 6 floppy discs!
That is actually not at all true... first gen were called floppy discs, and they were twice as big and quite fragile!
Oh no... this is not the 1st generation. Remember the floppy... the thin one...
Yes, some cars still have them. And I even often prefer them (especially when I'm a passenger) over the automatic ones
Load More Replies...Most cars are harder to fix yourself when they are electric everything.
Load More Replies...I'm 16 and we had this in our old car. My grandparents' car(which is not that old, it's a red Toyota Yaris) has them too. It's a lot safer than window buttons, which get blocked if you fall into a river with the car or something like that. "Levers" are better!
My nephew saw this and pressed on it thinking the window would roll down. When he realized it's a crank he said, "oh, it's ol' timey".
First world problem. Every car in my city has those. And even my 4 year old daughter knows what it is.
My grandparents' old car used to have this.. I remember when I was little I rolled up the window on my hand just to see what'd happen.
I found a dual cassette player/recorder....A Sony. Works beautiful. Found it in a used/thrift store for ten bucks.....
What is a Mötley Crüe? Well, you see kid, before regeton and trashy "music", anthems used to exist, genius people who knew how to touch human souls.
Reminds me of one of my first OMG I'm old moments, which was when I saw a 13 year old wearing a retro Motley Crue shirt!
I still know how to eliminate 8-track drag with rolled up matchstick cover,,Grundig anyone?
Grundig went bancrupt. They sold the brand name to Turkey, they produce very cheao electronics now.
Load More Replies...I'm only in my 30s but I so feel this. In fact I still have my old bw gameboy and original Pokemon red cartridge. And great news for the future gen: my son can't wait for his 9th birthday as he will be old enough to use it! He already plays an emulator version of it on my ancient PC (which he can use!). He outsmarts me on new tech tho
You're holding off until your son is 9 before giving him your Gameboy? I had mine when I was 6.
Load More Replies...I had one of these when I was little (early 2000s) Pokemon puzzles were my JAM!
I worked for Nintendo before they were released..how old do you think I feel....
I'm a millenial and I had one of these. Pretty shortly afterward, I got a Gameboy Advance, but I did have one of these and I think I still have it somewhere.
Oh man, I had that exact one. Still remember how it used to skip if you tried to listen to music while walking...
That's one of those cd players that you hook up a cassette adapter to so you can listen to CD's skip in your car.
Our 16yr old just bought a 2001 accord and asked where the aux was?? Lmao
Load More Replies...I still listen to cds, I've got about 1000. I use them in my car and also at home in my 5 disc multiplayer
Seriously ? Cds aren't such an archaic technology. Bought a cd practically yesterday (a new one, from 2018).
It's called a terrible idea. They weren't very portable. Like you couldn't take it for a run. They skipped.
And you had to put it in a pocket or carry it. No handy neck strap.
Load More Replies...All of these tablet and smartphone generation kids will be in for a shock once they start working in offices with actual desktop PCs. They'll wonder what the mouse is for.
I think you're severely misjudging how much people learn between the time they are tiny children and the time they work.
Load More Replies...Two for stereo sound (red and white) and one (yellow) for picture. Though there is a slightly better (but still old) version with 5 jacks- 2 for audio+ 3 for picture. TBH I'm not even sure if newer monitors/ TVs even have those anymore. I love my LG monitor because it has a lot of options. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPbPr
Plenty of new flat screens still come with the 3 and 5-jack options!
Load More Replies...RCA plugs! I was born after you but managed to set up my own TV / VCR / Stereo system back in the day.
Load More Replies...Yes. They were invented to make people go "What the f*****g hell causes these things to get tangled every time I stop using them?"
Geez..I still gave tons of these things hanging around. They breed in the dark!
Gameboy was the great granddaddy of the smartphones and apps of today. Boy, you better respect it.
Actually before Gameboy was Donkey Kong LCD handheld, circa 1981. My aunt had one and I was always on it as a young kid.
Load More Replies...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
Backstreet Boys have released a single THIS new 2019 year. So they're just new kids in the block if you know what I mean.
Load More Replies...she's better off not knowing, and I'm not even going to get into why a 14 year old has a job, shouldn't she be in school?
Backstreet Boys still playing! Their new album is on its way!
Well they had a limited shelf life like all bubblegum acts. Happily forgotten by humanity after 5 years.
A mate of mine when he was a kid, put ALL of them in his mouth at once and lost his sense of taste for over a month
i remember stealing theese from my sister and seeing how many i could put in my mouth before it started to burn
I actually convinced a person that Pearl Harbor never happened... that it was a fantasy movie like Godzilla and now they keep on making Pearl Harbor movies just like they keep making Godzilla movies. I was actually just trying to be funny and felt kind of bad when I had to tell him I was just kidding him and yeah, Pearl Harbor really happened. I like joking but I don't like making people feel stupid. I honestly thought he would just laugh at my "joke". Never occurred to me that he'd actually believe me. :(
Hi! We GenZ kids actually often know basic history! This person is just incredibly ignorant! Thank you so much!
That's less of a generation thing as it is someone wasn't paying attention in history class.
There was a lady that called a radio station here in Vegas, when the movie first came out, throwing a huge fit because the DJs gave away the ending that the ship SANK! This woman had to be in her late 20s/early 30s.
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!
come on, this one has to be bs, vinyl never disappeared and sales are on the rise again
I still don't REALLY understand how they work. I mean... why do those ridges + needle = music? Data storage is amazing.
Agreed! That has always fascinated me as well! Just how does that actually produce music though??
Load More Replies...My 25 year old daughter, who owns a turntable and buys vinyl records, brought home 2 records that she had spotted recently. They were not in covers, cost a quarter, and were a beautiful silver color. They also said Terminator on them. They were laser discs. She’d never heard of them before.
I showed one to a young friend a few years ago. He said, "Boy, that's a big CD."
lol,i'm 15 and know what that is my parents love to introduce us to things like this.
The one thing I like about Panic at the disco is that they make vinyl records :D One thing I want as a adult is a record player!!
Wait, P!ATD makes records? Where can I buy them?
Load More Replies...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.
Actually, most people don't know who he is. I'll always remember him as George of the Jungle which I'm not ashamed to admit that it's a movie I really like.
George of the Jungle, Dudley Do-Right, The Mummy... Bedazzled. The dude was golden in whatever he was in. I miss him, hopefully he makes his comeback soon.
The only bad movie he did was Monkeybones. He was great in School Ties, Gods and Monsters, With Honers, The Passion of Darkly Noon, Airheads, Crash, Exstrodinary Measures and Mrs. Winderborne also the Scout, just to name a few.
Load More Replies..."Encino Man" was the movie that first introduced me to him. Awesome 90's Paulie Shore humor.
GUESS WHAT! Brendan Fraser is back baby! he's doing tv shows now :D Its f*****g amazing.
This is a travesty. Everyone needs to know who Brendan Fraiser is. Then maybe we can bring him into modern movies like we do to Jeff Goldblum.
I still watch The Mummy every time it's on. Can never go wrong with a horror/comedy hit!
I used to watch The Titanic on tape as a kid. It was a long movie so it was on two separate tapes and halfway through you had to change the tape, then at the end you had to rewind them
It's funny too, in my living room we still have the VCR player and all the tapes!
Load More Replies...With some of this stuff I don't understand why we switched. Don't see the improvement in some cases.
When you recorded s**t off the tv and manually ommitted the commercials!!
Such an answer should make you feel immensely more intelligent than your little brother.
I think maybe this person's little brother is just a dumbass. Or maybe he thinks all movies are called DVD's.
I think this person's little brother is just a dumbass. Or maybe he thinks all movies are called DVD's.
It is bizarre to think he passed away 12 years ago! But they do say time starts to pass more quickly as you get older. I'm not even 40 though!
Load More Replies..."He's a god damn international hero".That's what I'm gonna tell my kids.
"...on top of that, he loves animals. And if you disrespect him, the internet will appear behind you and kick your idiot a*s into orbit, and i'll laugh!"
Load More Replies...Why would this make anyone feel old? It's not a question, it's a book title.
I know right. I was even alive when he passed and I've seen those books xD I even have some of those books!
Load More Replies...Me and my sis used to pretend the draughtstopper was a snake or croc, and we were Steve and Terri Irwin, catching it safely
Couldn't the book have been titled "Get to Know Steve Irwin"...? The 'was' is really depressing.
THOSE ARE LITTERED AROUND MY SCHOOL! The only problem is that they aren't working and no one is fixing them
Okay, I was born in 1989 and I found out about these only recently, thanks to the internet. When we were kids, we always used the tiny sharpeners we carried in our pencils cases. So effective and space saving, and it never crossed my thoughts why these would need to be so huge. I guess it's for safety reasons, but still, never heard of a sharpener caused accident (only pencil accidents).
I'm only a few years older than you and we had these in every classroom growing up in the US. They were huge because the whole class used them and it would hold more shavings, they could also work for many different size pencils.
Load More Replies...Those things don't work. I'm already in college and still can't figure out how to sharpen it without breaking the pencil.
At my old school (a new one was built, it was over 70 years old) there was a ton of those, we called them crank dinosaurs, they were all covered in rust and you couldnt turn the crank without multiple people helping (the boys tried this more than once).
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.
You might add that it will not show any advertisments, don't require you to constantly pay money if you want to advance, and it would actually require patience to get the skills to play it, instead of being walked through the whole frigging game.
Load More Replies...Disc Replay my Favorite store!!! Not gonna lie kinda mad they're turning into Gamestop/ p**n shop
There is no way I could walk on that. I feel a single grain of sand in my shoe.
Lol my husband says I'm the Princess and the Pea cause he says I can feel a crumb between the mattresses and then I can't sleep lol
Load More Replies...Why would anyone need ankle socks so much that they would make this uncomfortable mess?
Who would do this? This would have been very uncomfortable. This was not a thing.
Many many of us old people did this because we didn't have ankle socks in our day. We also had to walk up hill BOTH WAYS in the snow with bread bags in our feet and the internet was dial up.
Load More Replies...Rocko's modern life was everything, Rugrats also, when Dill was born though and Tommy sang himself to sleep, I ugly sobbed for what seemed like hours, was not a kid at the time lol
Load More Replies...htf do they not know what Rugrats is! Did they even have a childhood?!
Driving from TX to CA many many year ago there was a bolder on the side of the road. Someone spray painted "Fraggle Rock" on it. We still joke about it.
Load More Replies...Our older kids grew up on the rugrats..even saw the movie on the big screen! They’re 22, 20 & 17 now but Our 11 yr old has no idea who they are.
Take away the lyrics and you've got the perfect SCP Foundation theme music
Toxic..? Britney Spears..? And you feel old??? *laughing all the way to the record player to put on the Concert in Central Park*
You think that's bad, I remember when she was popular, but I wouldn't be able to name a single Britney song at all. I like rock music, and always avoided her stuff. Just not my style, but if you're a fan, to each his own....
I remember a time before Britney......t'was a good time....
Load More Replies...That is not a good "age indicator". I'm in my 30's and I don't know Toxic. Or any other Britney Spears song.
There is hope for future generation. My (nearly) four years old daughter insist on listening to Highway to hell. Whole day every day...
her friend steve? magenta? periwinkle? the spice family (salt, pepper, peprika)? ahhh
Load More Replies...Bruh, I'm 14 ....and that was my early childhood. This hit me right in the feels
We gotta find a blue pawprint, that's the first clue! We gotta put it in our notebook, because they're whose clues? BLUE'S CLUES!
I was obsessed with Hey Arnold, Full House and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, I used to have a huge crush on Harvey from the original, I don’t know how I feel about Fuller House and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (I mean I like the horror aspect of it) I just prefer older shows more (Born in 2004)
Hey Arnold is on Hulu. In case anyone needs to educate these dumb kids on what good cartoons are.
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 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?
