Millennials Share 30 Things Generation Z Doesn’t Know About, And It Will Make You Feel Old

If you ever installed Windows 95 from floppies (many, many of them), you will not forget.

Good old Dial Up

My dearest Emily, Gettysburgs was hell. I would never have survived without your kind and generous mixtape.

I can hear my parents yelling at me to hurry up and close the window cause we are entering a long tunnel. Forget lifting weights, this was the arm workout.

Worst thing of all: You had to pay in order to find out how good or bad they were.

Young people also do not know that calling someone and asking 'where are you' is as young as mobile phones.

My best friend and I had a notebook full of notes that we would pass back and forth. There ended up being 2 volumes. We STILL have them (graduated in 95) and trade them back and forth every few years:-)

The container that held a role of film?

In Hungary 3 seconds talk were free. People looked like idiots calling for three seconds then calling back... that's how awkward mobile phone conversations was between teenagers and poor university students.

Now that's kinda dumb lol

You call this "struggle"? Pfffff..... try Windows 3.1. Or even better... DOS!

...and we were happy for having these three devices. Not everyone had them.

When I over out my parents made sure I got a phone plan with Verizon so all our calls and text would be free. That ended when I got a girlfriend and switched to T-Mobile so all our calls and text would be free lol.

Using a real map, probably an outdated one.

You have to keep in mind that this phone only could store tiny text messages.

Ahhh it was the best feeling.

don't need pause if you're switching letters

Rewind!

Twitter needs an update when people who shout (all caps) get a posting ban for 12 hours.

On to the wall in front of everyone - not on the ceiling.

Although payphones are out it's not been that long since they were everywhere

Snake.... sweet memories...

ahhhh I had a silver version of this exact one as a teenager....memories....

1955 is about close.

Read history about ancient Rome. Especially about Nero who lived in the ancient times and was the Emperor of Rome. He even burnt Rome beside CDs.

My siblings and I still call them Ghetto Blasters as if we were stuck in the late 70's.

Beethoven predicted the future too. His Symphony #9 is marvellous.

I teach 18y and over. I had a particularly young group a while back. I had a note on the whiteboard noting out important facts. Each number was preceded by the # symbol. They just looked at that board bewildered and confused. Finally one of them said, "Do you want us to research these hashtags?" I'm only 37, but I felt like a dinosaur!

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

It's actually called an Octothorp

That's not a "HashTag"... that one is a "Pound Sign"

Had the EXACT one

So given that this thing is called a pound sign in the USA, were twitter hashtags started by uk/european users who called it the 'hash key'?

That is a NUMBER SIGN

and it was called the pound key or the number sign, not the hash tag. omg omg

hashtag extension!

Let's not get so picky and technical; some things just need be left as is, no questions.

Well I've learned something today. I never knew Americans called # a "pound" sign. Out of interest, what do you call the real "£" sign?

I still sometimes use a hashtag to indicate 'number', it only just occurred to me that a lot of ppl would misunderstand that nowadays!!!

That's a number sign aka pound sign. Now get off my lawn.

The Beatles - I am the walrus released 1967 states: "Expert, texpert choking smokers Don't you think the joker laughs at you"

It was thcalled the pound sign. Gives the "#Metoo" a whole new meaning

me, wakes up at 5 am to download some songs, because the internet provider is suck at normal times, and only got moderate speed at 2 to 6 am

You know what's crazy? Hospitals still using these because they are so easy to use. They notify you clearly, give you a quick overview of the urgency and let you decide to call back immediately or attend to what you're doing at that point first. Leaving the decision making with the actual person while not having to set a gazilion options only to forget to turn the sound on when you were needed to save someone's life.

This one is odd. Even two years old normally recognize those, but consider them toys instead of things an adult would use.

Yup! It was a panic trying to close it when your playing with your mom's phone 😂

Good Old Days.

It is crazy. Cable tv is crazy expensive and you still have to watch commercials.

Well, to be honest, a lot of people from older generations who have never used one would not know about the rotary thing.

I remember watching a movie that my father recorded and I accidentally pressed the record button, so he got like a 5 second clip of a commercial in the middle of the movie. >_<

NOOOOO! Don't ever do this! I used to cringe when I worked at Nintendo of America and kids would call in saying the game didn't work even after blowing on the connector. Your game isn't working BECAUSE you've been blowing on the connector. It makes the contacts erode. Best thing to use is a cleaning kit or an old t-shirt or tea towel and rubbing alcohol. Never use a cloth or q-tips that have the chance of getting stuck or fraying/leaving strands behind.