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“Life Without Smartphones”: 30 Things Today’s Kids Will Never Get To Experience
Interview
The life of a child who grew up in the 1990s looks undeniably different from that of a kid in the 2020s. Back then, the only way you could reach your friends was by calling a landline phone and asking their parents if you could speak to them. And let’s not forget having to wake up early on a Saturday so you don’t miss a new episode of your favorite cartoon.
It’s quite wild to think that kids today won’t get to know such things. Having a similar thought, redditor Subject_Thorn turned to the AskReddit community with a question, “What is something that 2020s kids will never get to experience?” Striking a nostalgic chord with many older adults, such an inquiry received over 3K comments in just a few weeks.
Scroll down to find the most popular answers that will shortly take you back to the good old days and a conversation with Subject_Thorn, who started this discussion in the first place.
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#1
Privacy. Doing stupid things without the whole world knowing about it on TikTok.
PeePeePooPoo 1 year ago
I'm so glad my stupid years happened when there were basically no camera phones and internet...
Cat Chat 1 year ago
On the other hand, not every stupid thing recorded ends up on TikTok. Plenty of sites going around. In this case TikTok is just used as a euphemism for "ending up on the internet".
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SonicAlchemy 1 year ago
There's this really great concept I heard somewhere, that you don't HAVE to post anything on the internet. Crazy, right?
megasmacky 1 year ago (edited)
How brainless do you have to be to think everything you do HAS to go on tiktok? Just don't post it if you want something to remain private! Are they all going to be this stupid?
SonicAlchemy 1 year ago
I don't know why you'd be downvoted for speaking truth so I got you out of the negative, at least. I agree. You don't HAVE to post anything online. Pretty ignorant for anyone to cite "privacy" as a problem when it comes to something they chose to upload. No sympathy there.
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#2
Waking up early on Saturday morning so you can watch the next episode of your favorite cartoon.
Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
Or MTV..music videos and artist interviews, not the c**p they have today. In Australia we also had Video Hits which counted down the top 10 hits plus Sundays was Countdown with live acts, interviews, videos a countdown of the top 10, usually they played the top 3 or more.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
And going away during a commercial and the exhilarating rush to run back to the TV when one of your siblings yelled "IT'S BACK ON!!"
Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago
Indian here.. grew up in the 80s and early 90s where there was just one or two govt owned channels. But we had some good shows esp. cartoons from abroad..always shown on Sunday mornings. Since not all households had TV, we had our friends from our building come over to watch.. Good old days..
SonicAlchemy 1 year ago
Saturday mornings were really only for Looney Tunes and Garfield, for me. All my favorite cartoons were always on in the after school/evening slots during the week.
#3
Buying a video game and it has everything it should on it without having to provide an update or paying for extra content.
CKB 1 year ago
Or have a subscription and you don't actually own the game *looking at you Xbox game pass
NetworkMan 1 year ago
I disagree with this, the amount of games I've got to enjoy over the years of having gamepass, far outweighs my need to own. I don't commit to many games, so playing one for a few weeks, and then moving on is perfect for me. If I thoroughly enjoy one, and it gets removed, I'll then just buy it.
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Surenu 1 year ago
And when you did buy an add-on it was worth the money. Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction...
Corvus 1 year ago
It was like a totally new thing, but still built upon the original game...
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Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
And if you no longer want the game, being able to sell it for (measly) pennies on the dollar to help you buy another one.
Marcel 1 year ago
I can still sell my games. Just not on pc, nor digital ones. but discs? sure.
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gilded panda 1 year ago
Or paying a company for “free” games you won’t own he second the subscription stops (looking at you Microsoft and whatever company has PlayStations)
Michelle C 1 year ago
Which ones were your favorites from childhood? Mine were the Mario-series games, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Yoshi 64, and Super Smash Brothers Mêlée. 😀
Bored Panda reached out to redditor Subject_Thorn, who started this discussion online, and kindly agreed to answer a few of our questions. Naturally, we were curious to know what inspired him to take this question to Reddit.
He told us, “I was actually in a nostalgic mood that night, so my mind was wandering. I work in an office in an adjacent IT role, so we use the Windows file system in various ways daily for our tasks, and last week I was reading about how kids today don't even know what File Explorer is because of the oversimplification of technology, primarily on smartphones and tablets.
Kids today could never know that you can actually manually change video game files to adjust the game experience, nor how to actually do it. It's made me sure that to teach my future children technology properly, they will need to be exposed to a computer before, or at least around the same time, they are able to use a phone.”
#4
Developing a roll of film and all the pictures are bad.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
One time I accidentally used the same roll of film twice and ended up with some really cool double exposures.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Um, I did the same thing. 😬 I don't know if I'd say mine were cool. I was so disappointed because they were "first day of school" pictures on the roll. 😞
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Britches are for everyone 1 year ago
My sister worked at a place that developed your pictures for you and the machine that developed them would spit the pictures out right in front of the glass facing the mall. So you could see everyone's personal photos. Surprising number of nude photos if you stood and watched for long enough.
Princess Bride 1 year ago
And dropping off a a roll of film and having to wait a week to go back in and pick up the developed pictures...and not knowing what you ended up with.
goldenwood_cottage 1 year ago
finding out the camera wasn't working correctly after shooting a dozen rolls on vacation.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
....or the developer exposes all the photos on the film, so you get none, even if they were bad.
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
oh....and those plastic canisters could be used for anything (used them mostly in backpacking). Even rolled my own film and developed them too. Coming home, jumped into the dark-room (the original kind) developed the film to get an idea of how the pictures turned out.
#5
Waiting for a new episode to come on at 7:30, yelling into the kitchen that it’s starting.
Calling your crushes house and having to politely ask a very scary dad if you can speak with Tanya. And then they say, that depends, who’s calling?
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
"Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her, I'll only keep her a while... And the operator says 40 cents more, for the next three minutes..." - Silvia’s Mother song by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
J C 1 year ago
And having to run to the bathroom or to grab snacks quickly during commercial breaks. Not answering phone calls during certain shows.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Hated when you thought you had the commercials timed just right, only for them to show 2 commercials.
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Dane Smith 1 year ago
If I didn't identify my self first thing before asking if the girl was there my dad would slap the back of my head.
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Commercial breaks turned into Olympic training events. Running to go to the bathroom, grabbing a snack, POSSIBLY getting one more quick activity in then leaping over furniture while yelling "IT'S ONNNNNN!!" to any other parties in the house. Good times.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Calling your crushs house and hanging up because of nervousness. Later learning about caller ID
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Yelling that it's starting? That's what VCRs were for. Or is this pre-1980?
megasmacky 1 year ago
When were new episodes on at 7:30? That's syndicated shows and game shows time.
#6
Violence fixing technologies. Remember when we used to slap the television 📺 for it to work properly or operate CPR on our consoles and game cartridges?
keyboardtek 1 year ago
"percussive maintenance" will be the title of my next song!
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Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Televisions could sometimes be temporarily fixed by hitting the side of it. That would be because of a vacuum tube with a broken filament (wire) in it. Shaking the television might cause the filament ends to touch. Source: My uncle who repaired televisions for about 50 years.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I had an old CRT back in the day that would tint everything a violent shade of purple at random. The only fix was a solid whack to the side.
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
There is no problem that cannot be solved with a sufficiently large hammer.
TheRealFrappuchinoTheHedgehogr 1 year ago
Now it’s a godamm part that’s broken and it cost 73646838477 dollars
If he were to answer the question himself, he would say that something the 2020s kids will never experience is not being able to connect with other people instantly and lacking a stable or accessible internet connection.
Our interviewee shares, “I remember when I was little and I had just picked up Counter-Strike to play with friends from school, and we needed to install Steam to do it. In the process of that, we found that you can actually talk to other people on Steam! It was crazy that I could type on a chatbox, press enter, and they would see it a few moments later! It was like magic.”
He adds, “When I was young and we visited with my cousins, we would find YouTube videos we thought were cool to watch and some flash games like Stick Fight, and we would open several Internet Explorer windows and let them load so we could check them out later. We did this the moment we woke up, around 8 or 9, and the videos and games had only loaded by the evening!! And we would NOT turn the computer off or the windows with the media on them, so we could access them through our vacation without having to re-download them again. This is not a problem anymore in the developed world.”
#7
Hearing your favorite song on the radio and waiting for it to come on again so you can record it on a blank cassette tape to listen to later.
Having a CD binder the size of Merriam Webster’s dictionary for road trips.
Taking a CD Walkman on a walk and making sure you didnt walk too fast or the CD skipped.
Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
Bonus points if they overlapped the last bit with an ad for something stupid like haemorrhoids creme.
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Cat Dragon 1 year ago
Wow I actually forgot that cassette players recorded for a second there. Back to playing cassette beasts
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
i dont miss the 40 cd collection for road trips. I just connect my phone. Ill always have a few new cds with me but the songs on my phone are just so much easier, and the playlists idem.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I had a 6 CD stacker in my previous car so I'd just load up either six of my favourite CDs or 6 mix CDs. That would usually be enough for most trips. My current car was just a touch too old to have USB or Blutooth and Android support but it does have a 6 stack CD capable of playing MP3s. At around 192-320 kbps bitrate I get between six and ten CDs worth of music per disc. So having somewhere between 36 and 60 CDs effectively loaded up is great. As long as your CD player is capable of playing MP3 it's still a good alternative to phone play.
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Joseph Stillman 1 year ago
my family still has CD binders for music, so many childhood memories
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
You youngsters with your CD Walkmans. I remember the excitement when the first cassette Walkman was released !
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
I remember when the first transistor radio was available. Yeah, I'm old.
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The joy of going to school without social media.
I remember getting bullied in middle school and having a terrible time. But all that could have been so much worse if smartphones and apps were a thing back then.
Kids these days must be so stressed out just trying to tune it out.
CKB 1 year ago
When we were kids, we had a bad day at school, get home, close the door and it was done for the day. Tomorrow would be a new day. Thanks to social media though there is no escape. It is constant and continues. I feel sorry for the kids today.
Libstak 1 year ago
Exactly, no matter how bad you were treated, after school your best buds and neighbourhood kids were all in and you are forgot your bad day altogether.
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Lala Looloo 1 year ago
not all teenagers are obsessed with their phones and social media - i actually stay far away from social media due to knowing how my mental health would be impacted
Dragons Exist 1 year ago (edited)
Phones are 100% NOT the reason school stresses me, if anything is the opposite cause I can read or look at BP like rn. Older people really seem to overestimate how much everything is recorded, I've only ever seen people record once and it was hail.
Snowy Ashton 1 year ago
I literally just said something to this effect to my nephew a couple days ago.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
There's no reason to let yourself be bullied virtually. You can't block bullies in RL, or turn off school - and it totally sucks when adults who are supposed to protect you dgaf - but you can do both of those things on social media. Ensure your safety, well-being and care first, You. Are. Worth. It!
Chickens are fluffy 1 year ago
As someone in school with social media, we all just gave up, we don't really bully much anymore, you just ignore mostly what someone said on social media unless it's illegal
LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
I feel so bad for children and teenagers today. I feel like there is constant pressure to put your whole life online for all to see. It's a double edged sword as if you post on social media you are constantly opening yourself up to being bullied or ridiculed by your peers. If you don't post on social media you are seen as a strange or a loser. I had a lot of pressure in school, but I never had to worry about constantly being ridiculed by peers even after school.
#9
Driving to someplace new with an actual physical map.
Adrian 1 year ago
You should still keep paper maps in the car for when you don't have a signal (yes, I know you can download maps, if you remember).
Debbie 1 year ago (edited)
*for when you don't have signal and/or enough battery / your phone gets stolen / damaged
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Westy 1 year ago
I'm still a huge fan of maps. Keep a bunch in my car, in the bags on my motorcycle... GPS tells you how to get to your destination, maps tell you where you are and where you're going (if that makes sense). Only time I've ever even used GPS was when I was on a fairly tight schedule in Europe a few years ago.
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Yes! You can see where you are in relation to other places. I love paper maps and atlases. I still have a Rand McNally Road Atlas from 2001. Every once in a while I pull it out to see what has changed, which was helpful when I moved to a new area. "Oh, so this road is new; it didn't exist back then." I find it interesting.
Load More Replies... Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
I love a paper atlas or AZ, of course you could almost guarantee the place you wanted to get to straddled two or more pages!
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
Turn left where the old courthouse used to be...
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I still have some DeLorme “Atlas & Gazetteer” books for a few of the US states. They are great to look through to find new areas to visit/explore before going to an online map.
CKB 1 year ago
I'm actually glad we don't have to do this anymore. Love Google maps. The only problem with this though I rely on it so much that I don't pay attention and even after going to the same place 10 times I find myself still using Google maps to get there! Still a small price to pay though
Libstak 1 year ago
Nope, sorry I want my paper maps back. They showed so much more. Google shows you where you are but no clue what is anywhere near you or if you are 5kms from a park or beach you might have a geek at if you had a clue it existed. You can't tell someone 4 blocks west of the cemetery anymore, they'll have a fit of panic.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Not sure which plymouth you're referring to, but I live near Plymouth, MA.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
I still use a paper road atlas. Nothing compares to being able to see the big picture!
Having said all this, the redditor doesn’t think that childhood was better back then compared to now. “I don't believe in the "good old days" sentiment. Kids now will experience different things than my generation did, and they will be similarly nostalgic about their unique experiences the same way I am. And their kids similarly after them, and so on.”
#10
I was at work the other day when our department's landline phone started ringing. One of my coworkers (my age-ish, 30s) called out "I'll get it!" I felt a weird sort of sad nostalgic pang. You don't hear that much anymore.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I yell "it's for you" when someone's phone rings. Only old people get it.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
I still remember the number from the landline phone we had growing up. But can't remember my current mobile number. :')
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
Oh boy, at work we had only one landline phone for 3 colleagues who had to phone often.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
I worked at a super hi-tech corp I won't name (let's call it: Blue F). They assign everyone a mobile, which must be answered at any time it rang, vibrated, or otherwise made a sound. Now imagine a warehouse layout, where you can't quite see the end, covered with pods of 4 (back to back desks, no dividers), as far as the eye can see. Allllll these people actually fighting with 2 mobile phones (personal and assigned), constantly, because you need one to authorize the other. The din is palpable. Then suddenly, an actual phone, landline type, rings out; the din dies, while everyone in the vicinity turns with questions of how? why? as it's certainly not friggin Batman.........
#11
Going to the movie store.
The Doom Song 1 year ago
I miss this one. We could either choose a movie or a video game for the week
Libstak 1 year ago
Yessss, movie nights were such a production, picking flicks, grabbing snacks. All friends come over pile up on the floor, couches, wherever.
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Scrappychick 1 year ago
My mum and I used to go do the weekly shop and then go to the video shop afterwards and we would pick a video each. My first one was the carebear movie and I was so excited I wanted to rewind it and watch it again, but my teenager brother told me the shop would know if we watched it twice and we would get charged
Papa 1 year ago
There's one of the Red Box (I think that's what it's called) kiosks still near the front door of my local grocery store, but I noticed a couple of weeks ago that it had a printed sign on it saying it was ceasing operation on a certain date, and the last time I was there it had an Out of Order sign. I was surprised it was operational for as long as it was.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
I don't miss this AT ALL! Driving to a store, thumbing through the selections only to learn that what you want most to watch is on loan, or not a title they carry. Then have the pressure of remembering to rewind VHS and return whatever you rented before owing a late fee. Streaming lights up my life.
Almost sunny 1 year ago
Could make a day out of this, searching for ages to choose a couple of movies, then going and getting food for the night. Miss it.
John Truglio 1 year ago
I'm up in the air on this one. My dad owned two VHS rental stores. It was fun, but I like picking my movie online. Well, I always kind of had this luxury in life. I was allowed to take as many movies as I wanted from the store for years. I saw every movie from 1989-1995.
KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago
Every Friday night with my dad 50p per video and they had to be back on Sunday. If there was another film i wanted to see i had to go on a list to wait for it
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
I worked at a Hollywood Video for awhile. It was nice working the night before a big release (game or movie) b/c my manager would let me rent it out before anyone else.
#12
Exploration.
As kids we played video games but we also got outdoors. Sometimes finding areas of forest to go and investigate. We enjoyed checking out odd areas people generally would never go into such as those little wooded areas in between roads. Our parents didn't care as long we gave them an idea of what we were doing ahead of time in case we got lost or hurt.
We would have a small fire just enough to roast some marshmallows and then put it out and usually make it back in time for supper.
Corvus 1 year ago (edited)
I loved exploring creepy abandoned buildings (both houses and industrial)... nowadays I realize how dangerous it could have been. Still, good memories.
DC 1 year ago
Oh, it was! We had an abandoned factory around the corner, that had produced ... some sort of poison, don't know for sure. Also, connected to the adjacent railroad, and some other ... stuff. The railroad company used to store flat waggons there, often filled with the stones that go under the tracks, often even long trains of these, of a pile of stones that could really challenge a cyclist's abilities, ... we climbed on so many so dangerous things, went into an unused subway tunnel that was shut at the end, just to ... not do much at all, just to look how it is there, if there's anything remotely interesting, ...
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Some of my best memories as a kid and teenager were exploring with friends. I used to love playing outside for hours. I'm very fortunate that I grew up near a woods and two huge ponds.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
I remember my mother telling us "Go do something outside. And don't come back until supper time!"
Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
Honestly, I would do this if there was actually stuff to do outside, seeing as their is really nothing fun to do outside. I say as I have no one to hang out with & playing by yourself gets boring after 10 minutes. Along with the fact that there are hardly any wooded area's anymore to play in. It is no wonder that so many people stay inside 24/7, at least then you have internet & can look at bored panda.
Load More Replies... BoredPossum 1 year ago
I loved this, but knowing all the stupid things I did, I'm scared what my kid could do.
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Back in the day, get me on a bike and the amount of miles I'd put on that thing in a day was impressive! All the little creeks, wooded areas, etc where the greatest to find and explore!
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
We stayed healthy from all the walking and bike riding and climbing 🩷
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bas moelard 1 year ago
Reading this, I want to go back in time again!! That was the best time to be alive!!
John Truglio 1 year ago
I like watching people explore yard sales and record them for YouTube!
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
We played in the abandoned farm behind my neighborhood, climbed through thickets, ate berries and watermelon that grew wild, made a hideout under a huge bush that you had to crawl through a hole to get to ... wonderful memories ... and really dangerous! I'm quite honestly shocked that none of us died, and I'm sure my parents would have been shocked to know we poked at the rattlesnakes!
#13
Meeting family/friends at the **gate** at the airport instead of baggage claim or the curb.
keyboardtek 1 year ago (edited)
Ralph Nader warned congress many years before 9/11 that security at our airports was in serious need for improvement. The same with hospitals. All those TV shows where the killer just walks into a hospital and goes to the room of the person he needs to kill is so false these days as now every major hospital has metal detectors and security one has to pass through.
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Princess Bride 1 year ago
Gosh, I remember one could almost walk right up to the plane and say goodbye. There was just a small corrugated fence separating plane and families. And, yes, I am older than dirt.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
So many airport scenes at the end of rom-coms can no longer be made unless set in the past. Not sure if that's really a loss.
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 1 year ago
I do wish I could be there sometimes on the other hand, can you imagine how PACKED the gates would be.
Mike F 1 year ago
And, you don't have to pay to park before going in. That could take the better part of an hour by itself
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New Everywhere 1 year ago
My mom traveled for work and that was the thing that made saying goodbye better. I could be with her up to the gate and then watch the plane take off
KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago
It was nothing to do with religion and its an ignorant statement to make
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Dial up internet and AOL chat rooms.
InfiniteZeek 1 year ago
MOOOOM! I'm on the internet downloading a 3.5MB MP3, DO NOT TOUCH THE PHONE!
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Fax machines! I remember when those became a thing, and the sound from across the office!!
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Tim Douglass 1 year ago
Did work from home in the 80s by dialing into the modem on the work mainframe. Was totally thrilled when I was able to get a solid 1,200 baud connection! Put the PC in terminal mode and get to it. Press a key and wait a half second for the character to show up. I typed around 90WPM, that delay drove me insane. No Internet, no windows, just text. Honestly it was nice to not have to make the commute but I don't miss that stuff one tiny bit.
#15
Tangled up telephone cords.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
This almost made me think I had appendicitis. Let me explain. I would reach sideways to get my phone but because it was tangled, it would yank the handset all the way across my desk knocking stuff over. So I put it further to stretch the cable more. Reached further. Eventually, repetitive strain injury in lower ribcage.
sofacushionfort 1 year ago
This was caused by picking up the receiver with the dominant hand then transferring to the other hand
John Truglio 1 year ago (edited)
There were less murder mystery movies when this disappeared. Such an easy way to strangle someone.
#16
Being disconnected.
There were periods of my life growing up, hours or even days at a time, where there was genuinely no way to reach me or my parents. In the 90’s, growing up, most people didn’t have cellphones. They existed but they were *really* expensive. I remember when my mom got her first cellphone. She always turned it off when she got home and stuck it in a drawer. Why would she need a cellphone at home?
We had the internet but it was slow and we had limited access to it, often on a family computer visible to everyone and maybe for an hour or two.
And if you go back a little further than that, answering machines were expensive and uncommon so you either reached someone or you didn’t. There was no constant demand from everyone for everyone.
I definitely remember calling a friend to hang out, their parent answering, and telling me they were already hanging out with someone else. “Okay, cool, I’ll try again later.”
I had no way to reach them. Which meant they got to be fully present with whoever they were with and weren’t talking to me or anyone else while they were with that friend.
That level of disconnect is something that, in hindsight, I really miss. You were wherever you were with whomever you were with and that was it. People took hours to reach and that was normal and, I think, a really good thing.
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
And you could have a full conversation over email with someone because they were far away and you didn't want to pay the ridiculous rates for long distance. The conversation still took days because you only checked your email once per day, but it was still faster than mailing letters back and forth.
AKA AKA 1 year ago
ive done that so many times! wasnt around when all these posts are from but my parents were very strict so i used to sneak into their room grab the laptop and have full email convos with my friends!
Load More Replies... Karin Nachtkrapp 1 year ago
I agree as even as someone from gen Z, it was always nice to never have to worry if someone was trying to interrupt your plans with something. You either told me when you saw me or passed it to someone else to tell me. This is also why I suck at Texting people back, but never mind that.
Alicia M 1 year ago
When I was a kid and you were going to be somewhere you weren't supposed to be, you would try to get a friend of yours to lie for you when your parents called to ask if you were there. Your friend would say yes and give some excuse as to why you couldn't come to the phone, then contact you and tell you to call your parents. Most the time it worked. When it didn't, it was chaos. 😂
Britches are for everyone 1 year ago
This one is something you can absolutely still have if you set good boundaries.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Having a single family phone meant that when you called someone you got to know their family too! And your family got to know your friends.
Anke Dieken 1 year ago
Or you would go to your friends house to ask if they could play and when they were out already you'd look in the usual places like playgrounds or in the woods. "Be back when it starts to become dark" was the rule.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
As someone born in the 70s the being disconnected thing rings true. Maybe that's why I've been willing (happy even) to go on holiday to Bali and NOT take my phone. The only electronic device I had was a digital camera. Some people were aghast when I said that, "OMG what happens if someone needs to contact you?" Umm... it can wait til I get back home? I'm going for a week not a month, and even if it's something drastic like my house burning down or someone dying, it's not likely I can get back early to do anything anyway. So I'd rather enjoy my holiday (without knowing) and then deal with it when i get home.
Max Fox 1 year ago
I love these youngsters! "We had the internet but it was slow and we had limited access to it, often on a family computer visible to everyone and maybe for an hour or two." Imagine not having personal computers, or having ones which had no access to anything, because there was no internet to have access to. No cell phones, since there were no towers. Few credit cards, and these were only available for the very wealthy. Cash or checks. A friend and I took buses and hitchhiked on a trip, when we were 15 and 16, and we called home from a cafe near we spent the night camped out in some park in a small town. In th elate 1970s and not in the USA, though.
#17
Being responsible for zero parental contact and simply just needing to come home when the streetlights come on.
Scrappychick 1 year ago
People say uts because it was safer for children back then, failing to realise that there were still creeps out there doing grim things but no social media so if it wasn't in the evening news you'd not hear about it
Phoenix Burn 1 year ago
Too many vehicles on the (UK) roads now to just head out on bikes or skateboards or play football in the street....
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Jill 1 year ago
This! You can be outside all day long, no sunscreen and getting a drink of water from a garden hose, but as soon as a single street light came on, someone yells, "STREETLIGHT!", and kids go running like cockroaches! :D
cerinamroth 1 year ago
We did! We would scarper! If we didn't notice it, my mum had a cow bell she would ring furiously out of the back door and then I would know I was in for it.
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Rodney Bowie 1 year ago
Here we all are, crowing about how beneficial this was, and yet not a one parent would say "Sure, I'll let my kid roam all over the neighborhood without a way to reach them." So I don't blame the kids on this one.
#18
Getting kicked off the internet because mom needs to make a call.
Adrian 1 year ago
Or having your connection drop when your download is at 90% because someone picked up the phone in the kitchen...
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
Yes. Because downloading a song could take hours if not days
Load More Replies... KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago
There wasn't Internet until i was in my 20s . I was so amazed by it
Ozymandias73 1 year ago
Oooohhh worse, you're downloading a song or game and someone picks up the phone! Even worse, when you were in the upper 90 percentile of being finished with the download.
Nagisa11 1 year ago
The way that we're all connected to the internet today still amazes me. I remember in high school I had a cell phone, it was even a relatively rudimentary smartphone, but I never had a data plan. If I wanted internet I had to find a Wi-Fi network to connect to. The fact that I'm always connected with a high-speed connection now is just mind-blowing
#19
Having to check the newspapers to see when new movies were released, as well as what theater they’re playing at.
Kids today won’t ever experience that.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Welcome to Moviephone.Please say the name of the movie you'd like to see....NOW
Scrappychick 1 year ago
Or pre automation when you had to listen to all the movies/time to find out, the worst if you missed it
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
In my old town, the Friday newspaper had the biggest circulation of the week, 2-3 times the normal sales because it included the free TV guide for the week.
New Everywhere 1 year ago
Ours was the Sunday paper, and it was huge from all the coupons
Load More Replies... KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago
I used to love a magazine, which is still available, called the RTE guide. We would put a ring around the programme we wanted to see. Christmas time was brilliant with that magazine listings
megasmacky 1 year ago (edited)
Or Moviefone. " Coming to theaters near you. Kevin Bacon. Susan Sarandon. YOU'VE GOTTA GET ME OVER THAT MOUNTAIN!!! There's no higher place than... Mountain High!
Ronstantin 1 year ago
Some cinemas (at least in Germany) also offered hotlines with an automatic program announcement.
#20
Snow on Christmas, at least most of the time.
I’m almost as far north in the USA that you can get and snow just doesn’t stick around anymore. It snows like once or twice in December and it melts in a day. 25 years ago you were lucky if it wasn’t a blizzard on *Halloween.*
But don’t worry, climate change isn’t real! /s.
KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago
Snow on Christmas and being up at 4am to go play. Socks on hands because we couldn't find our gloves.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
Climate changing is natural - the speed at which it does now is unprecedented, and we're the likely cause.
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Paul Brown 1 year ago
I live in a mid atlantic state and I remember as a kid going ice skating on the ponds in a county park. That was more than 50 years ago, now? It hardly even snows anymore let alone get cold enough for the ponds and lakes to freeze over.
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
I'm in the UK, born in '95 and the only proper christmas i really remember in the UK was 2010, when we had the "snowpocalypse" and "beast from the east".. though when I was really young there may have been some in the UK or elsewhere. And we did get some snow here in November, I was at a really pretty outdoor light show at the time so it was wonderful in the snowfall.<3
Lena Flising 1 year ago
In southern Sweden, we currently have almost a feet of snow. That is not normal. Getting a few centimeters of snow now and then in April, sure. Not almost a feet.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I live in Indiana. When I was a kid in the 80s, we would get snow sometimes at Halloween. Now we are lucky if we even get slight flurries before Christmas. It's solidly into January before we see any winter weather here. Winter is now only happening in January and February, and temperatures are warming to the point we get little snow anymore. Most our winter precipitation comes in the form of rain. Sucks for me because I actually love the snow. Winter is my favorite season.
Adrian 1 year ago (edited)
I grew up in the south of England in the 60s, about the same latitude as Vancouver, and we always had snow in the winter. Not any more. What some people don't realize is that while global warming is only measured in fractions of a degree, it can have massive effects on climate.
#21
Having to listen/watch the nightly news with your parents because you only have one tv.
James016 1 year ago
We still have only 1 TV in the house so we have to watch my son's weird YouTube videos and he in turn has to watch the news or whatever we are watching in the evening.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Do you have to watch *one* of his weird youtube videos on the TV, while he's also watching a different weird youtube video on his phone... but he's watching both, so don't change the channel...
Load More Replies... Corvus 1 year ago
One TV, and only one channel... so even if there was a cool movie later, you'd still have to sit through all the boring political talk before it.
Adrian 1 year ago
I was a teenager in the UK when we got Channel 4. It was a really big deal.
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Rusty (He/They) 1 year ago
The bored panda in the hole said to type first so First! And yeah this still happens
The Redhead 1 year ago
I remember when I was a kid I hated the news, I told my parents that when I grew up I'd never watch the news. My daughter is 6 years old she watch the news with me & doesn't complain. If I'm watching a show she doesn't like she'll ask if we can watch the news instead.
Alicia M 1 year ago
My parents had their own televisions. My mom always liked soap operas and talk shows, and my dad was strictly a Sci-Fi guy. Mom would have her stuff on all day, and dad would sit in his recliner with headphones watching his television. We could watch mom's TV in the evenings, but dad's was strictly off of limits.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Looking back, I think this was a good thing. Yes, I was traumatised slightly by world events but at least we got our news from reputable sources that could be held accountable for spreading false information under libel and slander laws... We only have one TV now, and we watch a good-quality children's news programme with our daughter so we can discuss current affairs afterwards. If you all get the same information, you can have a good conversation about it.
#22
Fixing the antenna to get a better picture on the TV. Or making one with a coat hanger.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
When I was a child, my family collected a lot of scrap metal for extra income. So we always had metal available for projects. We built our own 40-foot antenna and got more channels than our neighbors.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
The static would wriggle around, so we called it Worm Wars.
Load More Replies... megasmacky 1 year ago
We lived in the country for a while so we had only 2 channels. Get ready for The Rene Simard Show!
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Growing up we had three, until I was in high school, then we got a new one and we were all excited!!!
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Downloading a song for 2 hours and finding out it's a virus.
David Bowlby 1 year ago
To me, this generations version of this is downloading a minecraft mod to find out it is a virus.
LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
Ahhh, I probably gave our family computer so many viruses illegally downloading music as a teen.
Norwegian_Panda🇳🇴 1 year ago
…or a complete different song than you thought. Happend often on limewire.
John Truglio 1 year ago
In the year 2000 I made my first CD on a state-of-the-art Compaq computer with a CD-RW. Each sone took about an hour to download (9 songs - 9 hours) and an hour to burn. 10 hours to have a CD that I played on a portable CD player in my dated Chevrolet Celebrity. Amazing!!! My own CD!!!!!! Wow!!!!!
#24
A life without immediate gratification. I feel like 90s/00s kids might be the last to have experienced what its like to have to wait for that good thing you want.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
And we used to actually build stuff like model cars and planes, things out of wood. We learned that a project that takes time and attention and thought resulted in something very gratifying to do.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Things you *make* are yours, in a much deeper way than things you just *buy*
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Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
I think this is a big one. It is a completely different way to perceive things, your sourroundings - and it changes your attitude towards those, too.
HistoryLover(she/her) 1 year ago
Don’t worry. As a high school student who filled out the FAFSA in January, I can assure you, we are still waiting for the good thing we want.
Max Fox 1 year ago
The older people in the 1980s were saying The. Exact. Same. Thing. Kids today seem to believe that in the 1980s, kids all got up early and went down to the fishin' hole with Mike. No, there were hours of TV on weekend mornings, and kids prefered hanging out in the the malls, not in parks or riverbeds. I bet that 80% of those people talking about playing outside until it got dark were, in fact, Mall Rats.
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
and so grateful for that! I can wait! Its so much more fun to wait a bit when you're looking for something. So much more satisfying. I still dont buy cds and movies online, if i dont have to. Its so much more fun to find them in a recordshop somewhere. But many of my generation dont care.
Alicia M 1 year ago
When I was a kid, The Wizard of Oz came on television once a year, and it was an event. We didn't have a way to watch things on demand. We only had what was on TV, and most the time it wasn't good. Also, waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch the cartoons and trying not to wake my parents.
#25
Watching that ticker at the bottom of the tv to see if school is closed only for them to cut to commercial when it’s time for yours to show up. I watched that thing like an nba draft.
Doyle Alan 1 year ago
I live in Canada and in my area, three flakes of snow and the kids are off school. When I was little we would have two or three feet of snow before they'd call a snow day.
megasmacky 1 year ago
Yeah, enough for school to be cancelled but not enough for tobogganing. We'd see the announcement and five minutes later we'd be running out of the house with our Super Saucers. Tobogganing on a school day was just the best.
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Michelle C 1 year ago
Every time we got snow enough to close schools, my sister and I would cheer our blessings, go back to bed for a bit, eat breakfast, and then spend the day outside!
John Truglio 1 year ago
I listened to the radio. "Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pine Bush - all closed" "Valley Central - 2 hour delay" DAMN!!!!!
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
For me it was if my parents came to wake me up, since I was usually already awake. If they didn't, snow day.
TheRealFrappuchinoTheHedgehogr 1 year ago
Here in Michigan we need like 3 feet they don’t care really
Lena Flising 1 year ago
I only remember one day off work because of snow. 1997, I think it was, November 17th. Two feet of snow in less than 24 hours.
Nolgoth 1 year ago
Now most schools are equipped for remote learning due to covid so likelihood of getting a day off is much less likely now
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#26
Mystery.
“Just Google it” has ruined any sense of wonder in the world.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Remember when we all thought that free access to information on the internet would topple totalitarian countries and make everyone educated? Then all the criminals, Fascists, conspiracy nuts, and idiots took it over.
John Truglio 1 year ago
The Student Handbook. 3 volumes of information. Definitely $150 well-spent.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
I miss paperback desktop encyclopedias and quick reference books. Libraries still get new full volume books, but where are the quick references that stores used to sell? Remember F&W included with "Carmen Sandiego" games?
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
I miss being able to look something up in an encyclopedia and just being able to trust that it was basically true. Now, you look something up and have to wonder what algorithm directed you to that information.
#27
Oh, uh, losing hours of work because you forgot to hit save.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Still happens. If our patient record system crashes there’s no auto save. A colleague literally cried when she’d spent 2 hours writing a discharge report.
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
Still happens, often because the software glitches and either has no record of the file or corrupts it beyond repair. Been victim too many times.
Joseph Stillman 1 year ago
did that with uncharted once, I was on the second to last mission on the hardest difficulty
#28
Choking to death on smoke wafting over from the smoking section of every restaurant while you try to eat.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
This is the one thing I definitely don't regret being in the past
Adrian 1 year ago
Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
Dave Walters 1 year ago
Go back further to the 70's and there were no separate smoking sections as such, everywhere was a smoking section!
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KimB 1 year ago
Hospitals had smoking areas!!! I remember sitting there with my parents visiting relatives in the hospital when I was young. Seeing doctors walking past holding their breath...
Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
When I had my tonsils out, the nurse came to my room and sat on the foot of the bed and we both had a cigarette.
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Alicia M 1 year ago (edited)
I'll never forget being closed up in my friend's parent's cars while their parents smoked. I was the only kid out of my friend group whose parents did not smoke. People today don't realize how it felt like almost everyone smoked. I remember friends parents keeping packs of cigarettes in cookie jars on top of their refrigerators. It looked so weird to me since I came from a non-smoking family.
SlightlyTarnished 1 year ago
I'll take the smokers over what passes for social behavior today.
David Hale 1 year ago
A bus driver smoking while driving us to school, Mr. Earl put up with ZERO c**p.
Anke Dieken 1 year ago
Would have been glad if there had been a smoking section and not smokers just everywhere in the restaurant. No place was save.
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
It gets better. There used to be non-smoking sections. That is, the entire place was smokable by default.
bas moelard 1 year ago
Birthdays. Sitting next to my chain-smoking uncle because he's loads of fun. Admiring the cool tricks he can do with smoke and such. Downside was, like OP mentioned, choking half to death, and when you wave away the smoke, you shouldn't cry about it and man up.
#29
Waiting for a video tape to rewind before returning it to the rental shop.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Having a vhs rewinder that all it did was rewind the tape to save wear on the vcr.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
I miss VHS, period. I used to use them to record the radio six hours at a time.
Alicia M 1 year ago
My dad was (for lack of a better word) a "rewind Nazi." No way was he going to pay to have the movie store rewind his rentals. (They used to charge for tapes returned not rewound) He bought a machine specifically for rewinding. You would remove it from your VCR/VHS, put it in a different machine, and it would rewind the tape at lightning speed. He loved that machine. He loved rewinding tapes for other people. He would frequently ask me and my brother if any of our tapes required rewinding. He's been dead for 15 years, and I miss him, but I'm glad for the funny memories.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I have scores of movie related stories regarding my dad. 😂 He loved movies more than anyone I knew, but he did his own editing.
Load More Replies... Petra Schaap 1 year ago
some of those would sound a very loud SNOK sound at the end that made you wonder if it was catapulted into the yard.
#30
That windows opening sound in pc.
User# 6 1 year ago
It did (eventually) have GEOS though, a point and click GUI.
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Northlander72 1 year ago
That's... not a PC, though. Well, it is in a technical sence, but....
Hans Georg 1 year ago
One would most likely call them Home Computer. But yes, they are in fact also Personal Computers as are also those from the brand Apple.
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Tomaz Zsthorother 1 year ago
Alert and startup sounds were the first thing I disabled on a fresh Windows install. Hate it when my computers make noise when I don't want them to.
#31
Scheduling your television consumption around an ironclad tv schedule, pre-streaming and pre-TiVo/Recording.
Not to get all Boomer sounding, but the strict schedule and dealing with the consequences of being late/missing entire episodes, I personally feel, had an enormous impact on society's overall sense of entitlement.
Kanashimi Cat 1 year ago
Yeah and since there were only 3-4 channels, everyone watched the same thing. You could have a conversation with a stranger by asking what happened on Dallas last night.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
Yup, that's the most boomer thing I've heard all day and not even remotely true.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Think of it as "hard" vs "soft" learning environments. "Hard" learning was, make a mistake and it affects you for an age; 'you've blotted your copybook' and the stain is not removable. "Soft" learning is, 'have a go and if things go wrong, just switch off and then on again'. You find out more things the second way ... and learning is much less scary, so, more enjoyable.
#32
Apartment kids having friends outside all the time on bikes and skateboards, no phones just knowing their building and knocking. This was only 13 years ago but damn.
New Everywhere 1 year ago
One of my fondest childhood memories is when the adults who were friends in the complex would hang out on a weekend night and all us kids would be out playing late. That's when hide and seek would be truly epic
Just-A-Black-Cat-Lover 1 year ago
And then sometimes the parents would get mad if you knocked more than twice in a day....
Alicia M 1 year ago
I would have my friends tell me to come over and then their parents would yell at me when I would actually show up.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
And knowing phone numbers. I can still remember some of my childhood friends' phone numbers, even though they are long gone - also our car registration plates.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Being at school and opening the security door for an adult, whether you knew them or not
#33
Pagers, Digi-pets.
Jill 1 year ago
I always wanted a Tamagotchi but never got one because I was afraid my forgetfull a**e would accidentally "unalive" it. :(
Dan Holden 1 year ago
The word you're looking for is "kill". Please, enough of this "unalive" c**p. It's ridiculous.
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Alicia M 1 year ago
When I was in high school in the '90s, anyone who had a pager was considered a d**g dealer, even if they weren't.
Mike F 1 year ago
Perhaps to you folks. I ran a gas station/c store and I had to have one because I couldn't afford a cell phone and rent (the cell bill would have been ~1k per month) so a pager it was!
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#34
Life without smartphones.
But, also think that this is more "1st world problems" type of answer. So, please no hate. .
Me. Just Me. 1 year ago
I think cell phones are still a wonderful thing we have. Like everything, there are pros and cons. The problem is what is on these phones. It's reassuring that you likely have a phone on your person if you are in an emergency. It's depressing that you are immediately greeted with a "look what everyone else is doing that you are not" message just because you tap on one app. It's nice to have quick and easy communication with our loved ones. It's horrible that we are immediately reachable by our bosses just as quickly. Sometimes it's how you use the technology that makes it what it is.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
T9/Featurephones (aka "dumbphones") are the fastest growing market, and teenagers are buying them, not old people. If any company made a T9 phone with 4G connection and a good camera (12MP or better) that would be my everyday phone.
Alicia M 1 year ago
We didn't grow up with social media, but we still had our share of problems. Of course, gossip was huge. It didn't stop after school either. Friend groups would gather in the same areas and do the same stuff to other kids they would do at school. (Bullying, teasing, trying to fight, bad pranks) Also the phone. We would prank other kids, or call kids we didn't like. I remember having some messages left on my answering machine by some bullies. Even though there was not internet and social media, people still found ways to be mean. There were still problems after school hours. Kids knew where to find you if they wanted. We all hung out at the same places, so you were constantly seeing everyone you went to school with anyway.
Britches are for everyone 1 year ago
As with lots of these "having a thing that intrudes on my life," yeah, just put the phone down. No one is forcing you to keep your cell phone on.
Joseph Stillman 1 year ago
its worse if you DON'T have one, my siblings and I share a phone and alternate days we have it, everyone else has one so it's kinda pointless trying to talk to anyone
#35
Celebrating the millennium.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
I read a consultant’s letter this week that said a patient had had a hip replacement around the turn of the century. Technically correct…
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
the new millenium didnt bother me much i think (i was 28 at the time) i do remember as a kid watching the news with my parents and siblings, and there was the first time the year 2000 was mentioned (some planning for some project or goal or whatever) I remember looking at my siblings and we all thought "holy s**t did we just officially enter science fiction?!"
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
But many people celebrated one year too early. The new millennium started January 1, 2001, not January 1, 2000.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Either, they couldn't wait, or their definition of "millennium" involves just looking at the leading number. Sometimes, being wrong has such great momentum that it becomes right ...
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Guigsy Gwiggins 1 year ago
Reddit: where the same questions with the same responses are posted day after day
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I think you mean Reddit: where BP lists are reposted from.
Load More Replies... Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago
As a 90s kid, this is a list of things I DON'T miss. Why do we keep dwelling in the past? Yeah things were simpler but also harder at the same time.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
This is like Ellen making fun of teenagers for not knowing how to use a typewriter. Like, sorry idk how to use a old piece of tech when we have computers
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SBocker78 1 year ago
What was that about? Why was there ALWAYS porn in the woods and why does it seem to have been a universal phenomenon?
Load More Replies... FABULOUS1 1 year ago
There is always a post about kids these days not understanding the great experience us adults had as kids because they are always online or have their nose buried in their phones. But lets place blame where it should go, not the kids but the adults who they have mimicked who also have their noses in to their phones. Who bought the kid their phone, computer, gaming console and didnt set any limits, an adult in their life. While I still love my 80s and 90s music that is about it. How would this list be possible for all of us to comment on if it wasnt for the internet. If you dont like it take their electronics away send them outside or pull out a puzzle. If you feel really nostalgic close the windows and smoke a cigarette with them in the same room (j/k dont do that), but do it before you go on Amazon and order something you dont need or hope on social media for the 50th time today to tell the world what you are making for dinner. If kids are missing out its our fault not theirs.
Floeckchen 1 year ago
As if kids don't do many of the things on the list anymore. And the others are just obsolete.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Most of these are just older people reminiscing about significantly worse tech cause nostalgia or significantly overestimating social media (as they comment on social media)
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Honestly, a lot of these kinds of things are still doable. I just slapped a microwave the other day to get it to not make a weird hum. There are apps I play on that aren't full of microtransactions or subscriptions. People can chose to leave their phone at home on a hike if they want to unplug. The options for a more simplistic time are there, you just have to look harder for them and put in some effort.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
What gets me is, I've seen these lists on the internet for kids of the 90s, 80, 70s, 60s, and so many of them are the same or similar, whatever the decade.
Guigsy Gwiggins 1 year ago
Reddit: where the same questions with the same responses are posted day after day
Cat Chat 1 year ago
I think you mean Reddit: where BP lists are reposted from.
Load More Replies... Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago
As a 90s kid, this is a list of things I DON'T miss. Why do we keep dwelling in the past? Yeah things were simpler but also harder at the same time.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
This is like Ellen making fun of teenagers for not knowing how to use a typewriter. Like, sorry idk how to use a old piece of tech when we have computers
Load More Replies... SBocker78 1 year ago
What was that about? Why was there ALWAYS porn in the woods and why does it seem to have been a universal phenomenon?
Load More Replies... FABULOUS1 1 year ago
There is always a post about kids these days not understanding the great experience us adults had as kids because they are always online or have their nose buried in their phones. But lets place blame where it should go, not the kids but the adults who they have mimicked who also have their noses in to their phones. Who bought the kid their phone, computer, gaming console and didnt set any limits, an adult in their life. While I still love my 80s and 90s music that is about it. How would this list be possible for all of us to comment on if it wasnt for the internet. If you dont like it take their electronics away send them outside or pull out a puzzle. If you feel really nostalgic close the windows and smoke a cigarette with them in the same room (j/k dont do that), but do it before you go on Amazon and order something you dont need or hope on social media for the 50th time today to tell the world what you are making for dinner. If kids are missing out its our fault not theirs.
Floeckchen 1 year ago
As if kids don't do many of the things on the list anymore. And the others are just obsolete.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Most of these are just older people reminiscing about significantly worse tech cause nostalgia or significantly overestimating social media (as they comment on social media)
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
Honestly, a lot of these kinds of things are still doable. I just slapped a microwave the other day to get it to not make a weird hum. There are apps I play on that aren't full of microtransactions or subscriptions. People can chose to leave their phone at home on a hike if they want to unplug. The options for a more simplistic time are there, you just have to look harder for them and put in some effort.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
What gets me is, I've seen these lists on the internet for kids of the 90s, 80, 70s, 60s, and so many of them are the same or similar, whatever the decade.
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