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Technology advances and improves faster than we can adapt to the changes. Progress has always left some people in the dust, but the tempo has increased with the dawn of the Digital Age. That means that different generations are finding less and less in common with each other than before.

If you thought that the differences between millennials (aka Generation Y) and members of Gen Z were minor, think again. Nowhere are those generation differences more obvious than when members of the older generation show kids the tech that they used when they were small, only to be met with utter disbelief.

Bored Panda has collected some of the best examples when kids today couldn’t understand the technology the millennial generation grew up with. And, boy, do we feel old looking at these childhood memories! If you’d like to feel ancient and get a burst of nostalgia for the good old days, scroll down. Remember to upvote your faves or the ones that gave you the most 90s nostalgia and share this list with your friends (especially those whose birthdays are soon approaching).

#1

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This is a diskette, aka a floppy disc.
It stores information.

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

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

chi-wei shen
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

MS Office in the mid-90s with Winword 6 and Excel 5 (if I remember correctly) came on more than 20 floppies. This was pure torture.

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What's In Your Head?
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not a real floppy. Floppies were much bigger and... floppy.

Vincent Bevort
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A real "Floppy" disk is 5.1/8 of an inch and really floppy. it stores 720KB. this one id a diskette and stores a whapping 1.4 MB

Pan Narrans
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A real floppy was an 8", and stored far far less. Before that we had punched paper tape.

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Carol Emory
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had one computer prof tell me that back in the day, when PC's had 5 1/4 floppy's and Mac's were just coming out with the mini disc drives, students would come into the computer labs with a 5 1/4 disc, look at the Macs, fold the disk in half and try to insert it into a Mac. Needless to say..they didn't quite work right after that.

Daria B
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the sound they make. ♡

Isidien Gudmundsdottir
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You wanna talk old? This didn't even existed when I started in computers.

glowworm2
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to hate these things because eventually, I would end up losing my saved file on it--something had corrupted the disk or something.

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

I just hated the fact that some games took like 4 discs... and you had to constantly swap them.

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Mama Panda
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would think that this would be more of a Gen X thing than a Gen Y. I believe that the 3.5s came out in the mid 90s therefore Gen Y'ers would have been around the age of 1 years old.

Eva Bryson
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just tell the Gen Zs and the Gen Alphas that they're getting older with every passing minute and that they too will die.

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    #2

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

    Good ole' Napster. Memories. I can see the 'logo' in my mind's eye right now.....~!

    Tyler Campbell
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This must be a real old tweet, Napster was defunk in 2001

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

    Yesss. That happened a LOT ! Does anyone remember the time those files were broadcasted over the radio and you had to be at your desk at the right time to tape it ALL. I don't really feel old because of this, just amazed at how fast all this computer stuff evolved and keeps evolving at an incredible high rate.

    Dale Overturf
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh Napster, damn you Metallica drummer...

    Lindberg Erica
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm assuming this tweet is pretty old by now 15 years ago would be 2005 cause I remember having USB plug portable wifi at that point. dial-up was in the 90s no? haha

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

    Tell them it used to be iTunes contraband.

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

    it happened all the time right before it was done

    Sue Sanders
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh-oh. Please forgive Mom because she knew not what she did - doeth - done - oh, heck, it's your mom, dude!

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    #3

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    This is a cassette tape.
    You can store music on it.
    It was first developed in 1963, not the American Civil War which was fought between 1861 and 1865.

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

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

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

    But there's a date on the tape!

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

    That poor tape looks like it has been through a war though

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

    I bet you felt you were from the Civil War era when that was said to you. I felt that old just reading your post.

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

    Well, since it's Skynard, shouldn't it be called "The War of Northern Aggression", as rednecks call that war?

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

    honestly! i am gen z and though we may be extremely chaotic, we're not all that ignorant

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    Jo Browne
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still use cassette tapes........

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

    .... and now y'all got me singing 'MADE IN THE SHADE!' (dang, i'm old!)

    Odd1sout
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Come on, I'm a teenager and I use these daily. Sorry, adults, for us being dumb.

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    Just to make sure that everyone’s more or less on the same page, Gen Y (millennials) refers to people born in the early 1980s and mid-1990s. In short, it’s safe to say that millennials were born sometime between 1981 and 1996, though different researchers use different definitions.

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    Meanwhile, members of Gen Z are considered to be those born from 1997 until the early 2010s and who grew up with digital technology and are comfortable using both the internet and social media.

    #4

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    This is a fascinating device from a bygone era that lets you manually roll down the car window.
    It takes some getting used to.
    You have to put your hand on the handle.
    And then turn the handle to open the window.
    The best part is, if you turn it the other way, the window closes.
    Much wow. Such mystery.

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

    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.

    ispeak catanese
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when those handles were made from metal.

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

    I'm sorry, but many cheaper cars still have these. Even now.

    Bob Beltcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember fondly the days of hurrying to roll up the windows as it began to rain.

    Jenny Pugh
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd much rather have manual controlled windows - you can open them to *just* the right amount.

    martin734
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That window winder is more advanced than what I have on my Land Rover, it has sliding windows.

    K. LNU
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Funny how some people will still use the "hand signal" for "grind down the window" - when there isn't a handle.

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

    I guess the hand signal for pressing a button wouldn't be so clear. But then, if a kid doesn't know what a window-winder looks like, I guess they won't be using the winding gesture. What do they do?

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

    20 years and still don't like buttons, manual is easier to get window to exact level i want...

    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Young people will never experience why it's called 'rolling down a window'.

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

    I am a young person and our car has these.

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    #5

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    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

    This is a disposable camera, so at least you would have got pictures of some sort. What was even worse was getting to 24 shots and the camera kept winding on for more shots. Then you realise it never wound on properly in the first place and all those photos you thought you took, you never did. :-(

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    Jane Alexander
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes, the 'Cinderella Cameras' (someday my prints will come) -and you paid, now matter what they looked like.

    Tiny Dynamine
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We couldn't take a ton of pictures. We had to ration them carefully!

    Layla Corman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    $19.50 later when 2-3 out of 30 (with doubles) were decent pics!

    Kristy P
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Worse now... if you want to use film, to get it developed takes a long time. No more 1 hour photo for film based pics.

    martin734
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still often use film, but because of the cost and time it takes to get it developed I do my own developing.

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    Jim Ellington
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Worse yet, the nerd that worked at the photomat got to see all the nudes of your girlfriend.

    Full Name
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For some reason those prints always came back glossy, and sometimes stuck together.

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    Steve Cruz
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They'll never know what it's like to send off film and NOT GET IT BACK, because your brother took a photo of his junk and the store destroyed the roll.

    Bee Angulo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hahaha. My son recently discovered an old polaroid camera we still have. He asked me what it was. I had to buy film just so he can see how it worked. He thought it was the coolest thing ever, except that the pictures "kinda suck". LOL

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

    They have Instax cameras now that are pretty much the same thing. Cheap camera, expensive film.

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    Spikey Bunny
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was at a wedding a few months ago and they passed them out for everyone to take candid pictures. There was a big basket to collect them on your way out after the reception.

    Dale Overturf
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! You went to a wedding in the past! Cool 😎

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

    There was an app for this: 24 shots with no review of photos until you pay to have them developed. Charming?

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    #6

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    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

    i suppose we don't automatically connect it in our heads, but it does make sense.

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    Sergio Bicerra Descalzi
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember the time unplugging the house land line was how we Blocked someone?

    Mark Serbian
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For the same reason we "dial a phone"... where'd I put that cane?

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

    We had a dial phone till 94, even then I knew that was kinda old, but thought it was so much fun. I enjoyed playing with my grandparent's dial phone (after we changed to a new model)

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

    Well, few phones actually "ring" these days...

    Rose Brien Harrington
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes! LOL I was asked why we say "dialling" when using the phone. That was my son, he said there was nothing like a dial on the phone............. right.

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

    So what do the young folk (lol, I sound so old) say instead of 'dialling' and 'hanging up'? I guess most of them don't do either because they just text.

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    Steve Cruz
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once upon a time, it was stupid to ask "WHERE ARE YOU?" while on the phone.

    Carole Reid
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And those colorful "Princess" phones.

    Kate S
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father in law used to say "Watch your fingers!" right before he hung up

    Sue Sanders
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Try answering your wooden wall phone, not recognizing your personal ring, and cutting in on a neighbor's private conversation. Oops.

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    Aside from tech and upbringing, what are the ways that the two generations differ? According to Amber Feitsma on Compan Young, Generation Z is far more pragmatic than Gen Y because of higher economic instability. Gen Z prioritizes security and stability (but, ironically, prefers experiences over material possessions which sounds counterintuitive).

    And while the new generation has grown up surrounded by digital technology, it still values face-to-face interaction and tech that makes communication easy, simple, and convenient.

    #7

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    Kristy P
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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:-)

    Ruth oro
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me and my little sister did this! She passed away 2yrs ago and I would give anything to have those binders full of notes we would send to eachother.

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    Mark Serbian
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which may be why Sister Immaculata NEVER turned her back on the class...

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

    ^^^^ Yep, paper footballs. I remember those~!!!

    ispeak catanese
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My teacher intercepted one we passed where I'd drawn a middle finger under her name. Got a D that semester!

    Steve Cruz
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many historians have wondered what will remain from this modern age of digital images, emails and texts. If someone finds an ancient computer in the attic, will they boot it up to see what's on it? Will they even be able to start it?

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

    yup...still have a full box full of my hs notes

    Christopher Mayer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, how the past molds the future, eh?

    Ivy D
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kids still pass notes.

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

    Kids these days still do that.

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    #8

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    Rose the Cook
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The container that held a role of film?

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

    little dude is not wrong though...

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

    I mean...you COULD hide weed in that

    Daria B
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not anymore, if it's become so well known....

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    Isidien Gudmundsdottir
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also handy to safe dried flower seeds, spices, medicine, etc.

    LUCY BALDWIN
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom actually uses these to hold safety pins.

    martin734
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually still use a 35mm film camera.

    Dale Overturf
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was a “cocaine canister”.

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

    Yep, film roll holder turned weed container, after film is developed~! (I think I still have some, haha!) ;)

    Sara Rosen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's not right but he's not wrong.

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    #9

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    Calls, text messages, and mobile internet all used to cost more money than today because cellphones were considered a luxury item, while service providers incurred greater costs than nowadays.

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

    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.

    Saurin Apriliawan
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also happened in Indonesia :D such a struggle for high school couples

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

    ah yes. also because of the limit of characters per text, we had to lern 2 typ lyk dis

    What's In Your Head?
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have to do that? Then again I use a Nokia 100...

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

    10 cents is nothing, got my first phone when it was nearly 1 euro for calls and about 30 cents for sms; 20 years later i live in Czechia where prices are nearly the same :D

    Will Fenton
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...when using text language wasn't because U wer 2 lazy 2 type, it was just 'cos U wanted to avoid the cost of having to send your message across two texts. (LOL...)

    Anonymous Web User
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I use pay as you go so I still pay something like this per text.

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

    I only had to pay a dime for a PAY PHONE CALL!

    Jennifer Novak
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a teenager, we had to walk to the gym door in the high school and put 10 cents in this thing called a pay phone...

    Jazmyn-Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And back then, 10 cents was worth a lot more than it is today.

    Bob Beltcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you except this Collect Call from "Momthemovieisovercomepickmeup!!!"

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    Gen Z also blurs the lines between different devices, work, and leisure: editing documents on laptops at work, only to change a few things on the bus home (or add a flourish or two using their smart fridge while getting a midnight snack). To sum up, it’s a generation that tries to synthesize contradicting and contrasting ideas into a logical whole.

    Do you know what I’m looking forward to? Seeing how Generation Z will compare to Generation Alpha—those born from the early 2010s (and those who’ll join us on Planet Earth from the mid-2020s). Imagine the articles showing Gen A’s reactions to Gen Z’s tech. I can’t wait.

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    M.J.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seriously?! A 5 year old wouldn't put a phone in there.

    William Bonner
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A 5 year-old would stuff a toy car into a VCR.

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

    BS... I have never see any cars with "docks" that looked anything like this for phones... it would be a useless dock anyway. Too many made up stories!

    chi-wei shen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this was intended as a joke.

    Carol Emory
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is better known as The Destroyer of Cassettes.

    F. H.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My first car, built in 2002, still had this because the previous owner was an older man. So I had to buy a cassette adapter, which was a cassette with an audio cable attached to it. This way I could connect a mp3-player.

    Sue Sanders
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my god! Hope that's not a Lynerd Skynerd tape.

    Steve Cruz
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Take away your brother's car keys and lock hm in his room.

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

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

    Marky Mark
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    c:\ c:\ cd\games c:\ list /l c:\ commanderkeen.exe

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

    Uhhh... can I confess I still kinda like Minesweeper...?

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

    Wow, I hated when Microsoft invenvted the Start menu. I learned computing using MS-DOS and Win 3.1.

    Kevin Wayne
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ever heard of desktop shortcuts? one thingnever changes over time... noobs

    Anonymous Web User
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least computers made sense back then, I don't understand modern computers, they've changed so much.

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

    still know my favourite dos commands

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

    You think they don’t struggle? I might be young adult but nothing changed here. If I want to reach a file I have to do this everytime

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    #12

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    kixito_ Report

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Nunya
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to mention, separate devices for playing games, finding your way to your destination, watching movies/TV, managing your bank account, etc....

    MagicalUnicorn
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i prefer to carry my camera for pictures, quality is so much better

    Craig Lee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any person who considers photography as a hobby for themselves, usually has a decent camera they take with them. I have yet to meet someone who considers themselves a photographer or photographer enthusiast, and only uses a phone for taking pictures.

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    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember getting a Polaroid camera for my birthday as a kid...it was so giant that the neck strap left a mark on my tiny neck but it was sooo cool to be able to see the photo right after you took it...I imagined that in the future Polaroid cameras would just become higher quality and that the photos would be 3 dimensional.

    Steve Cruz
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And a TV and VCR for watching porn. And an encyclopedia. And a dictionary. And envelopes and stamps. And a flashlight. And a clock, timer and stopwatch each separate. And a directory and yellow pages. And a flashlight. And a camera. And a movie camera. And a Gameboy. And an iPod or Nano or MP3 player or Walkman or Discman or a boombox or a stereo.

    Danielle Ibclc Cpst
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    16 years ago my husband said he wasn't getting a cel phone until it would also play music and take photos. At the time it seemed that it was impossible but here we are.

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still use an mp3 player. Much more storage space and better battery life.

    Rissie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You have an MP3 player with more storage than a modern smartphone? The thing is you can stream most media, you don't need storage. Carrying multiple devices for that reason seems odd. Now the battery life. Yeah. Get that. But then. Still charging my phone for other uses anyway.

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    Merry Miller Moon
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still do. I refuse to buy a cell phone. Take that technology!

    Sue Sanders
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that they took up lots of space in our backpacks.

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    #13

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    itschelseaw Report

    Bob Beltcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    TheExtremeSmell
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Different service providers for a relationship was basically Romeo and Juliet.

    Craig Lee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This wasn't that long ago, what's next? Reminiscing about all the old things from the previous year?

    Charlotte
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that kind of happens every new year, when everyone does the reviews of the year articles and TV shows and social media posts. Also, the increased rate of nostalgia due to the speed of technological advancement is the entire point of this article.

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    Loretta
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok wait...I still use this system with family and some friends?Am I missing something??Am I too old?

    Jazmyn-Annie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still the case with Apple phones on WiFi.

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    #14

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    panoramicjazz Report

    Jane Alexander
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Using a real map, probably an outdated one.

    Dynein
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what my parents did; one was the driver, the other navigated by map. A great starter of heated arguments.

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    kat lia
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still print it for back up. You wouldn't know.

    European other
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah there are books with maps in now !

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They've been around for decades. I always have a Thomas Guide handy for whatever big city I've lived in - just in case. Still very handy! You never have to worry about a connection or power.

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    Bridgid Newman-Henson
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol, I just bought a 2020 Thomas guide road atlas, no electricity required!

    kate h
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They saved me when I moved to LA in the early 80s!

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    Danieletc
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Angelinos like me used to burn through Thomas Guides - a thick BOOK of maps for one county.

    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha! This was me..everywhere I went and I would still get lost and have to stop at a gas station for directions. One thing I can thank technology for is that people like me with no sense of direction whatsoever will never get lost again.

    Pan Narrans
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What about asking the way? You know, pulling over, forced interaction with strangers, and getting lost repeatedly.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then panic when the directions told you to take a turn on a road that goes over railroad tracks when that road doesn't actually exist and a 1000 gallon propane tank is in the way instead.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had that happen once because there was a house in the middle of where the road was supposed to go, apparently they didn't parcel out the lots correctly and the road just wasn't there for about a block and then resumed on the other side of that house.

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    kate h
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was in the middle of nowhere for a wedding and my phone died. I didn't realize how much GPS drains the battery. No way would I have found my way back to the hotel, so I turned around and had the venue (a winery) print directions. (Yes I was dumb and forgot my charger.)

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    #15

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    Cellphones could store very limited amounts of data.
    While it seems funny that your phone couldn't make any more space for extra messages, consider how quickly photos and videos fill up your brand new smartphone.

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    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    martin734
    Community Member
    Premium
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But at least the batteries on these phones lasted more than a few hours. I had a Nokia 6310 that I used to charge once a week.

    netwitch tatjana
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still grief the death of my old Nokia ... didn't survive the washing machine :-(

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    Chase Berwick
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Smart phones STILL only store limited amounts of data. Relatively speaking.

    My O My
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    Premium
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And always the dilemna: which text are you going to delete?

    Jim Ellington
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is like the phone I have now. I refuse to carry around a "smart" tracking device that can recognize my face and enable drones to target me.

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was such a chore going through the letters to type messages, too. I got to the point with a friend where planning a night out went from "Shall we meet at Negritos at 11?" to "Neg 11?"

    Hendra Lim
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that phone memory size can't even hold a single picture from a smartphone

    Carol Stephen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how about when you had only an old rotary phone, and you were on a party line and no one could leave messages. But your neighbours could listen in...

    Origami Chik3n
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My first mobile phone was Nokia 1611. I was so much cooler than owners of 1610, because mine could receive AND send SMS.

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    #16

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    babyak_josh Report

    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahhh it was the best feeling.

    EHops
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You KNEW it was going to be excellent period or you had a sub that day😂

    Collin Lyle
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my day it was the film strip projector. Or, worse, the slide projectors

    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how quickly it was dashed when we were told to take notes.

    Ninja Kitty
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im mean im 12 and I remember my 4th Grade had these!! (smart boards were made then though..)

    Joie Zeglinski
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    in our day it was a deadly made movie of polar bears and snow.....nap time!

    Bob Beltcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That ment the teacher was hung over.

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    #17

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    CISNCountry Report

    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    don't need pause if you're switching letters

    Falcon
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly, the only time you had to pause was when the next letter was under the same number.

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    Emerald Joanna
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But man you learnt to text that way super fast!!!!

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yeah, I didn't even have to look at the keys most of the time lol

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    Gin
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Texting without looking!

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember trying to use T9 and being completely confused until someone showed you and then thinking, "It can't get any better than this!"

    Jon S.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Press' was a b***h . And 'Back'.

    deathcorelover
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Germany there's a place called SOSSENHEIM. If you type that in with T9 on such a cellphone in German, which is 7-6-6-3-6-6-4-3-4-6, it will say POPPENGEHN, which is inappropriate. It means "to go have se*".

    deathcorelover
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or just press 4-3-9 and if it doesn't say HEY, press * until it does (I think it was *, because # was used to make letters big or small). Sure, some cellphones might not have had this T9 word suggestion, but most of them did. Apparently it existed from 1999.

    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Way back, I use to tutor kids, and some were rude enough to be texting under the table. With a T-9 keyboard, they could look me in the eye while typing.

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    #18

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    This is a VHS tape.
    You can store movies and video recordings on it.

    HeavyMetalYeti Report

    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That moment when you're excited to watch a movie and find out the bugger who watched it before you didn't rewind it....

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    European other
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had so many of them. I remember when you 'taped' something to watch later !

    Lillukka79
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or called home for someone to tape it when you forgot to set the timer, and them mom forgot and you had to wait years to see the rerun.

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

    When I was a kid, I was always wondering, if audio cassettes have an A and B side, why don't video tapes do too?

    Charlotte
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The answer is long and technical and searchable if you really want details, but it is essentially to do with videos being larger than audio data so needing more bandwidth on the tape. This means the tapes have to be read at different speeds and using different mechanisms, so although they both use magnetic tape, VHS and audio cassettes work quite differently.

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    Keilyn Hiilei
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the good disney movies are on these!

    Magda_lena
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ikr we had more than 15 disney movies on these.

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

    Recording Disney movies and trying to not to jump to avoid the VHS skipping 😂

    Sivi
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have mines, I just need a vhs-player. I had hoped something would come out since its retro :C

    netwitch tatjana
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No VHS player as well. So I had to dump them all at the move to a smaller flat last year :(

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    Ruth Rodriguez
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have a bunch of these featuring aerobic exercises from the 90s.

    Sue Sanders
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Recorded a bunch of REO Speedwagon on these - and now what? YouTube - guess you're the one now.

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    #19

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    JaIenSkutt Report

    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MySpace was a rather short phenomon of less than 10 years. Most people of my generation didn't even realize what MySpace was and - poof - it was almost gone. Interestingly, it still exists but isn't very popular.

    Jon S.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember it only being popular for 1 or 2 years. It was the first really big social network movement. Then we had facebook and no need of myspace.

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    Iron Roses
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do. It just didn't last a terribly long time. It isn't that relevant anymore. I have one, actually.

    Kurisurin Sutaringu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MySpace is that old thing or parents had before Facebook.

    Andres Rogue
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    very good, it must kept forgotten

    TheExtremeSmell
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d spend all my time changing the song then though. Or picking my top friends and putting that they aren’t in any order in my profile.

    CrunChewy McSandybutt
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember Myspace and it was intensely annoying when you go to a page and some s**t song started blaring.

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    #20

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    This is an overhead projector.
    It projects things over your head.

    kenzie_bug20 Report

    TUBLOVER3
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    EHops
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's hoping the teacher had legible handwriting 😂😂 Do not miss this thing

    N G
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a holographic projector for communicating to people on the other side of the world

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was the thing you use before dry erase boards. It was used with clear plastic films your teacher used to write on with permanent ink, then use Windex for hours trying to clean them off. If a dry erase board and a slide projector had a baby, this would be it.

    European other
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My whole school life was projected on one

    Bob Beltcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the thing you make hand puppets with

    Jim Ellington
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it temporarily printed words on a screen.

    Jessica Temple
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh how I would love to own one of these!

    Collin Edward
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My music teacher had one of these, I'm 12.

    Christine Amweg
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Loved when the teacher wrote all over the transparency.....wiggling the projection all over the place. Headache.

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    #21

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    This is a public payphone.
    You used it to call people.

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

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

    Ms.GB
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember leaving my cell at home and thinking "Oh I'll just use a payphone...only to look around for one and finally come to the conclusion that I'm a dinosaur. "

    Bethany Wolfe
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Been there. It is impossible to find one when you need one!

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    Layla Corman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I found one of these when I parked on the far side of my regular gas station the other day! I had to bring my 8yo to see it and school her in the struggle!

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the device where you made collect calls to your house that said "Mom, come pick me up from the mall" instead of your name so that mom would get the message and you didn't have to pay for anything.

    Panda C. Bear
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had a few on our property but had the phone company take them out a few years ago - only drug dealers were using them.

    Carol Stephen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is a prehistoric artifact in the museum of ancient history

    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's how you get into and out of the Matrix.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, try finding one when you get a flat and left your cell at home!

    Sue Sanders
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's your best friend when you're caught in a mega-mall with no ride home - 80 miles away.

    Steve Cruz
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An 8-y/o doesn't know what a lot of things are.

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    #22

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    rauhlsbeat Report

    ADHORTATOR
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Snake.... sweet memories...

    Paul Hutton
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately it's not the same on smart phones, it's missing something without those tiny rubber keys

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    Kristy P
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the phone that my mother currently uses. She's a boomer and I'm Gen X

    Magda_lena
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same although the one using it is my father (gen X) and I'm gen Z.

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    Bob Beltcher
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Used to play hours of this waiting for my parents to pick me up.

    David Glover
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have logged some serious hours playing snake on my old phone.

    Iron Roses
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love snake. I'm being cereal. Snake is king.

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    #23

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    twheat9 Report

    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Daria B
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The dust on top of it says a lot about when it was last used.... ahhh, memories....

    European other
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have them at work and we use them !

    Vinniegret
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's also a CD player, something else he would not know about

    Sue Sanders
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You took that thing to church? I'm not religious, but it still seems something's not right here.

    Katherine Gilleland
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had this exact one. I still have a very similar one

    okpkpkp
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have one like this I use to aid my outdoor gardening pleasure. And of course, I listen to classic rock.

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    #24

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    This is an iPod.
    It plays music.
    The very first iPod came out in 2001, not 1955.
    The iPod pictured appears to be an iPod Nano, the first of which were released in 2006.

    jodierandazzo Report

    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1955 is about close.

    Vinniegret
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In 1955 the only portable sort of music you had was a phonograph and plastic records. And the phonograph/record player had to be plugged into a wall socket

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    Layla Corman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait... Are these considered "old" now? Because I still have my pink one, loaded with all the good music (from the 2000s of course) and I still use it...often.

    J 3lack
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My wife still uses hers, they aren't that old.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That one is not a 2006 model. I have one of those. That one came out a couple of years later.

    Alexandru Bucur
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Allow me to contradict you there, this is indeed a 2006 second generation 2Gb iPod Nano, I'm looking at mine as I type this. Mine in better shape, still works and it even has charge even though I haven't used in years...

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    Little Lark
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is kinda crazy though... it's only been 14 years and technology has already advanced so much.

    Christopher Mayer
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Compared to technology in the here-and-now, it may as well have come from 1955...

    Arthur White
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mine still works and I still use it. Zeppelin, Who.... :)

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    #25

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    I still don't know how to burn CDs and I'm not a member of Gen Z.
    On a theoretical level, it's clear that you copy information that's on your PC onto a disc. On a practical level, I end up messing up the disc and accidentally deleting the data I meant to copy over from the computer.

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    Nerevar
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had to heat a needle and burn the songs in by hand.

    Panda C. Bear
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just used a magnifying glass and the sun to burn my discs - it was easier to check your work as you went that way as well. There was nothing worse than spending 8 solid years etching out your perfect playlist by hand only to find you accidentally got a few bits backwards and are now stuck with Nickelback on tracks 3-6!

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    Gabrielle Causey
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never understood how my parents burnt CDs. I thought it was some sort of tech magic that my dad could just pull off because he was the Dad(TM) of the house.

    Full Name
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some CD's you could re-record to over and over. You had to be House of Ravenclaw in order to get it to work though.

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    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've still got a couple of spindles of blank CDs for burning "mix" CDs, depending on your MP3 compression rate you could fit a couple of hundred songs on one. This was because an MP3 compatible Discman or whatever was about $30-$50 in the early 2000s, but an iPod was several hundred dollars and I was a poor student.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom laughed so hard the first time I burned a CD because I didn't know you could only put data on it once, unlike a floppy disc. We all carried little cases of floppies for school assignments in high school, I thought I was cutting down to 1 disc to carry. It took 1 CD to teach me the error of my ways lol, now I've got 3 diff thumb drives for various things.

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Careful, I recently leaned the hard way that thumb drive data degrades and eventually vanishes!

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    Marky Mark
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Burning CD's was a dark art-form. Few mastered it flawlessly. I often forgot to 'close' the volume and the CD would not work on regular CD players. Or my dog would bump the computer while it was burning and the whole project when to hell. But when it worked, Hallelujah! You had a MASSIVE 720 MB worth of music!!!!

    Mary Jaye
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that can go two ways. my mother would not know how to do that either.

    Sue Sanders
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Easy. Put the original CD on your nose, and the blank one on your second toe. Chant a Buddhist mantra for no more than fifteen seconds - and there you have it. (If that fails, choose another religion.)

    Shawn Barry
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nero software was nice for burning CD's (the plastic thing, not cross dressers)

    Gary Born
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CDs were burned/imaged with an app on a PC or Mac

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    #26

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    This is a stereo, aka a boombox.
    You use it to play music and be popular.

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    Marky Mark
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Nami Tantrum
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i like the term ghetto blaster more.. so eyah.. yor're not alone

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    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At the pediatrician a few years back for my daughters eye test. She was 6. The computer thing they use to test her eyes basically said she was blind, so they gave her an old school test with picture cards. She was doing well and starting to relax a bit. Then, the nurse flipped a card of an old, rotary phone. My daughter looked at me with a panicked face. (She already thought she was going blind because of the machine reading). She just stood there, eye covered. Suddenly, a tear rolled down her cheek. She could clearly see the photo, but had no idea what it was. I felt awful. But she passed.

    Panda C. Bear
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like a more modern one too - with a phone docked in the front.

    I am Disney
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always wanted one of these.

    Steve Cruz
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Save those flashcards. You discovered a new version of Trivial Pursuit.

    Iron Roses
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    XD here we are in the future, I guess.

    Christopher Mayer
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stereo became Ghetto Blaster, which became boom box, which became...

    Full Name
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does this one have a smartphone glued to the front? This was made by a Gen Z who's never seen a tape deck before.

    Danieletc
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, it looks like a crochet of big pink iPhone mounted on what is a crocheted boom box. Mister "I Bomb Automatically" is simply trying to f** with his spawn's head, ammiright, or ammiright? #PrayForTheChild

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    #27

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    Will Tiernan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG I love Beethoven's Symphony Hashtag 9!! (read in a valley girl voice)

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    Evil Little Thing
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's called a pound sign and all phones with buttons have always had them. The pound sign is still frequently used in phone menus. As in "enter your number followed by the pound sign". Calling it a hashtag is a new thing that Twitter did.

    Jon S.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where are you from? Never heard it called a pound sign (£=pound sign in the uk), only the 'hash key'

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    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Ivy D
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok but even I knew that this person is just an idiot

    Tara Brooks
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry

    Fixin'Ta
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, seriously, even cell phones have that symbol -- you know "Enter your password, then press the pound sign". I'm not buying this one.

    Anonymous Web User
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hi why does everyone think it's a pound sign? That would be £. It has always been called a hashtag.

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    Ashley Beaver
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's actually called an Octothorp

    Bob Beltcher
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still call it a pound sign. I don't care and I'm not changing.

    Mark Serbian
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That symbol is still on the keyboard on all modern phone apps, I don't understand why this confuses people.

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    #28

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    Hendra Lim
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Monday
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still do that since my provider still sucks......but I don't have to wait 2 hours for a single song anymore

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    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I gave no idea what this is. Guess I'm too old for this

    What's In Your Head?
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And sometimes you'd get a file of the song you wanted... Ruined because someone decided to add his own "version" at the end. -___-

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you got the version with the loud, obnoxious horn blaring in the beginning, or some voice coming in at random times saying c**p like "Hot Mixes"

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    Helen Wood
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    got a dam virus using limewire, had money taken out of my bank, got the money back, but felt aweful knowing someone had access to my PC.

    Steve Cruz
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never used it, but it was known among savvy friends as SLIMEwire, because of the hazards.

    Walkus-Andrew Andrea
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved Limewire...even if it took a long time for some songs to be downloaded.

    T.Milly
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I LOVED Limewire. It was awesome & fast & you could find everything from movie quotes to the most obscure songs.

    Ashley Mason
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    or when you waited forever to download a file just to find out it was a god damn picture

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    #29

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    This is a beeper, also known as a pager.
    It can be used to transmit short messages or, in some cases, voice recordings.

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    Rissie
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    K. LNU
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just for the ease, but it is less likely to interfere with the medical equipment in some areas of the hospitals.

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    Nerevar
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are still in use in some places. For example in logistics.

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The hospital gave these to expectant fathers so they would know to come to the hospital if their wife went into labor while she was at work... My husband had one when our 1st was born 26 years ago.

    Phyllicia Goh
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ahh those were the days! Owning one of these used to make me feel so cool back in my teens (Oops, did I just revealed my real age?) And being able to send those 'number' messages felt so cool too.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what doctors ignored until they'd get a phone call or a PA announcement telling them to check their pager.....

    Batwench
    Community Member
    Premium
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We still use them at my work place.

    Robin DJW
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I carried one for years. They were still in use at my work when I retired in 2017. Once they just showed a number for a call-back, but 'round about 1998 we were issued ones that also gave short text messages. I put mine through the washing machine once, and it worked for years after I baked it dry. Try that with a smartphone.

    Lola
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoever had this, was so cool.

    Karina Santana
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my bf has one but because hes an md

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    #30

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    This is a cellphone.
    You use it to call people.

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    Hans
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Hendra Lim
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    probably because all of his family only used smartphones, *note that these days even phone toys are looked like smartphones

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    Nunya
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not a cell phone. It is a cordless phone, which was connected to an outlet in a home.

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was going to say the same thing. This looks more like a cordless phone than a cellphone. We still have one of these.

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    Geoffrey Holland
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not a cell phone, it's a cordless phone.

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh. This is NOT a cell phone. This is a cordless handset for a landline phone.

    Spencer Welch II
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NO, this IS NOT a cell phone it is a cordless phone handset.

    TheExtremeSmell
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That cousin might not be the sharpest bulb in the box

    Scott M
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hah, even the comment included on the photo is wrong. It's not a cell phone, it's a cordless home phone.

    Jennifer Cassada
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not a cell phone. It's a cordless phone. Huge difference.

    JozeeMom
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look more like cordless phone from home.

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    #31

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    EHops
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Nami Tantrum
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    who screaming.. no no no no NO!!!! until you where back to the home screen, hoping that it wouldn't be active in the back somewhere

    #32

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    Random Panda
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I miss that sometimes. Yesterday morning I didn't want to talk to anyone, so when my MIL rang I didn't pick up. In the afternoon she called my husband and I had to make up excuses why I didn't answer my phone. Apparently she got worried we didn't call back.

    ispeak catanese
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember when the phone would ring upwards of 20 times? That ring could be heard all through the house. Heck, I remember how quickly my excitement over getting a 2nd phone turned into defeat when my grandma started listening in on my phone calls and telling me to hang up the phone!

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also meant that you could pretend you were not at home by letting the phone ring, which sometimes was convinient.

    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before called id you had to gamble picking up the phone. It could have been anyone.

    BG
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For some reason, many movie plots still work like that.

    #33

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    Helen Haley
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Random Panda
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This drives me crazy too. Why am I paying to watch ads? It also irks me that the cable providers in my country don't give you the option of removing porn channels from the package you're buying. And there isn't a single package that doesn't include that s**t. Ugh.

    Mike Crow
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was watching tv with my 8 year old and they had to leave the room for a second so they asked me to pause the show.

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    #34

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    kurisutofu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    #35

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    Falcon
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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. >_<

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's ok. I accidentally recorded over the birth of my daughter. My family still teases me to this day. She's almost 24 now.

    Batwench
    Community Member
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you didn’t want people to record over, just break the square tab, then when you wanted to record just put tape over hole. Simple.

    Gary
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You should snap out the little tabs to stop people recording on it. The put sticky tape over the holes when you want to record on it again. Simples.

    #36

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

    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.

    flynx184
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 12 and still love Super Nintendo games. Yes I know the struggle.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We blew on the cartridge NOT because it was dusty or whatever but because the system would get hot.

    Tara Brooks
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And we all did it. How did we know?

    Jon S.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has perplexed me ever since I found out other people did it as well.

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    Ed Souza
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never did this. I knew this helped nothing. Cleaning the contacts with a paper towel or cloth is the right way to do it.

    AutumntheLeaf/RainWing
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two gameboys: an advance and a colour.

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    #37

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    Jon S.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, we had 3d movies in the 90s. They have been around since at least the 50s and they die off every time because everyone realises how horrible they are very quickly.

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are/were awesome! They still make them, but they aren't as good!

    AutumntheLeaf/RainWing
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had one when I was 5... I'm 15 now. I think it was a Peter Pan one? Something Disney-related.

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    #38

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    Jane Alexander
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We couldn't even search, just had to wait through the whole damn 'hit parade' to hear that certain one.

    Magda_lena
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We still have this exact type and you can still buy it online.

    #39

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    Dianna Siever
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's true, but you knew it was a show and could remember the numbers without trying.

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

    Okay, but wait. The code for the bathroom??? Is this a NY thing? I noticed the location on the tweet. You have to have a code to get into bathrooms there? Is this to keep non customers and/or homeless people out? I have so many questions.

    Laura Roberts
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to unlearn the 0=O working in medical revenue. Too many things are alpha numeric.

    Tiny Dynamine
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    5 years ago

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    Oh no! The person said them as if they are all numbers! She's more educated than you, pal.

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    #40

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    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 32 and I have no idea of what this is talking about

    Evil Little Thing
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You might have grown up in a place with mild weather and no snow/cold closures.

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    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or watching the channel guide and missing way was coming in next on tv.

    Toujin C'Thlu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The news stations still do this. At least where I live, anyways

    NeverGoWoke
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We listened to the radio to see if our school was closed due to snow - it's very rare in the UK.

    Jennifer Crompton
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We would listen for our school closures on the local radio station 🤣🤣 when the weather was bad, they'd read them off in between each song. Was faster than waiting for the TV news

    Layla Corman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Syracuse NY- #1 snowiest city in the US. I remember this VERY well!

    Gin
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We'd just run to the thermometer to check outside temp in the morning. If it's -25C (-13F), no school today! (Europe)

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    Random Panda
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pfft, I remember when my dad used to have one of the earliest cellphones, it was as large as a brick. And he had a pager for texting. It feels surreal how fast things have changed.

    Jane Alexander
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sarah, there was texting when you were 8? Wow, you ain't seen nothin' yet. We had dial phones, party lines and manual typewriters. We got one TV station, maybe one and a half sometimes.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when texting first became a thing. I thought, "That's silly, why would you do that when you can just call the person?" And now I send several thousand texts a month and probably spend less than an hour total on the phone lol.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some phones weren't even compatible with texting at first.

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    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both my parents originally had cellphones because of their jobs. I remember my stepdad having a bag phone for years, then "upgrading" to a Motorola brick lol. I didn't have my first cellphone until 2004. My dad called it a silly toy, but after our car broke down twice that summer and we used it to call for help he told me that I would always have one, even if he had to pay for it. I still have one, but I've been paying for it all along :D.

    Jenica Thomas
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was 8 there was no such thing texting (or calling unless you happened to be INSIDE someone's house). If dad wanted you home, he stood outside and literally yelled for you and expected you to come running.

    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got a cellphone the year after I graduated high school in '97. I had my own apartment and didn't tell mom for at least two years that I had a cell phone because she said 'only drug dealers use them'. I had to keep my land line because I didn't want to tell her I had one. Then around 2000 she got one.

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    #42

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    This is a pencil sharpener.
    It sharpens pencils.

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    TUBLOVER3
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not only that, it sharpens different sizes of pencils - the best!

    Will Tiernan
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are pencils no longer used? Either this shouldn't be in this list or I'm even more out of touch with modern reality than I thought.

    Emperor Kitten
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many 4 year olds are sharpening pencils in classrooms?

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    Tor Rolf Strøm
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    maybe she was looking at that white dispenser-thingy in the back there..

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I loved those growing up, they sharpened your pencil nice and evenly and you could get a super sharp point

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I still have one at home. I also have the small, personal sharpeners for colored pencils and other art pencils.

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    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were loud too. If a kid got up to sharpen their pencil the teacher would have to stop for about ten seconds or more because of the grinding sound. And everyone would watch you sharpen.

    Spikey Bunny
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you would go to the sharper to walk near your crush. XD

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    RadicalPebble
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is in like all schools right now.

    Moji Pagoda
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still have those at my school but then again my school district started like seventy years ago

    Aileen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure teachers still have these, but they prefer electric sharpeners and these just sit on the wall collecting dust.

    Mark Serbian
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't been in a classroom in YEARS that had one of these! Apparently, they just throw dull pencils away...

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    Anne
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol.. Casette tape.. and stop recording when the dj started talking..

    Jro308
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to make me so mad when the DJ would keep talking through the beginning of the song!

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    #44

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    This is also a cassette tape.
    You can store music on it.

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    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite band ever!! 😀😀😀😀 Can NOT wait to see them at Fenway in August!! *Edit- Crazy good album too!

    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a kick-butt Sony Walkman that was just a little bigger than a cassette case. To put a tape in, you had to expand it by pulling the player head outward. This one: il_fullxfu...460900.jpg il_fullxfull.314460900.jpg

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    #45

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    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...or hitting a key more than three times because you needed a special letter like an Umlaut.

    Nami Tantrum
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and then you hit one to many and hat to start over

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    Idan York
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and to think T9 texting was an improvement over multi-tap!! LOL

    George-Florin Constantin
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was a good phone. It had awesome sound, too!

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    #46

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    TUBLOVER3
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the movie was always one you'd already seen and didn't like ....

    ispeak catanese
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh yes! Until you realized they played the same movie back to back for an entire month.

    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 32. I dicovered HBO by watching Game of Thrones. Never heard of them before

    #47

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    J Mason
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine someone like at Walmart calling the police or the Secret Service because you paid with one of those.

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The police come right away. Then the Secret Service gets involved and watches for a long time. I know someone that was paid cash for a job, almost half the notes were counterfeit with only 2 different serial numbers. It was a big thing.

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    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They ARE fake! Send them to me and I will safely dispose of them.

    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not as bad as the teen that thought a customer was trying to pass counterfeit bills because he didn't realize that $2 bills actually do exist.

    Guy MacGregor
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    5 years ago

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    #48

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    athornedrose
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yessssssss i had the purple one, which was like the only color option available

    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always get the AM/FM CD player, so at least you get radio for maybe another hour.

    DC
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BASS boost to begin with - and you shouldn't have used it. Before the loudness war, musicians and producers carefully balanced out different instruments, it was right just as it was.

    #49

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    ispeak catanese
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish I had one! Those things hardly break.

    Tara Brooks
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had one in our basement whey we bought our house 5 years ago. I love it

    Danielle Renee
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    do kids not use pencils in school anymore?

    Tor Rolf Strøm
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously some sort of gatling gun...

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    #50

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    Bill
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any good candy store still carries these

    Michael Naegele
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Candy cigarettes are still available here in Austria! Believe it or not.... I never understand that. And you can still order this at Amazon! :-(

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The last time I've seen such cigarettes made of chocolate or bubble gum in Austria was in the 1980s. I don't know a single store where I could buy them (except for Amazon, of course).

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    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I recall that you could blow through them and get a smoke effect from the candy dust.

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG! These were super tasty! I look for them all the time in specialty candy stores. I only find the ones that don't puff the "smoke" out. They don't taste the same.

    Tiny Dynamine
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    5 years ago

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    Keep reading. No thanks, I'm bored of your ramblings.

    #51

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    Jane Alexander
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh, you poor things! I saw a movie on Saturday in a theater if I was lucky.

    tuzdayschild
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not a complaint. There was nothing more exciting than that red envelope in the mailbox.

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    Alexis D.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    believe it or not I still get discs. the internet in my apartment was atrocious so streaming was but a dream. I still have them even though I have a new place with decent streaming... can't seem to let go?

    MAL_Winchester
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My (almost 70 year old) parents still do this. It's adorable.

    Randomcthulu
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still offer that service, but no one really uses it because it costs just as much as streaming and even if you watch things the day you get them you can only watch 4-5 DVDs a month. If you MUST watch something new, try Redbox, they're all over in the US, even in the tiny town I'm in. If it's something older, well, you can try the DVD thing I guess lol.

    Jenica Thomas
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone here where I work STILL gets discs in the mail. I see them pop up on the mail cart every now and then. They aren't called Netflix anymore (I forget what the envelope says) but they are in a red envelope that looks pretty much just like the one above.

    Kyle D
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never noticed that but you're right. the envelope says DVD.com and in small letters 'A Netflix Company' w/ the return address, 'Nearest Netflix Shipping Facility'. Even the website has DVD.com.

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    Jasmine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whatttt???? I seriously thought Netflix was a new invention. I mean I knew they had companies you could order movies through, but I thought Netflix was just invented to view movies on the interNET. Hence NETflix.

    PaulV
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They would also throttle your usage by slowing their mail-outs so that even under higher plans, you could only watch 4 movies per month.

    Moji Pagoda
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Netflix existed in the 90’s?? I did not know that

    European other
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah not in England while I was living there

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    #52

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    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a sign of a very fast development because Facebook is only 16 years old.

    Rissie
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please don't write this down so explicitly. To me Facebook started yesterday. I know it's been 16 years. But really it was yesterday and I'm still 24.

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    Laura Roberts
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually it was more like AOL mail when I had dialup but I get the point.

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Broadband came out at least 5 years before facebook. Well done for trying, but do your research.

    Orillion
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they're talking about how they couldn't check facebook on a smartphone.

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    NeverGoWoke
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would go to Blockbusters almost every day after school

    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You couldn't rent a game here in Europe. never heard of that.

    B
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm from Italy, we could rent videogames here. :)

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    Tor Rolf Strøm
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Get this.. here in Norway renting videogames was never a big thing. and I am sad to this day.

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    #54

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    Phil DeBlanc
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm really old. We used to use a clothespin and a playing card in our spokes. Of course, we had more that three spokes too, so...

    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hum.. Never heard of or seen that stuff. We used playing card and clothespin

    #55

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    Hooked
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We did that too. But we had to rotate since we were shooed off every time we spent to long at the same hangout. The noise our heels made while banging them against the metal switch boxes would drive people crazy. Hmmm...those were the good old days....:-)

    chi-wei shen
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is this? It looks like some sort of transformer.

    Layla Corman
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is 1 between my house and the neighbors. How are these old?

    Tiny Dynamine
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't live anywhere near those boxes, so missed out, too.

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    #56

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    Tacitus86
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Still kind of the fact. Verizon wireless is still more expensive than anywhere else for absolutely no reason.