Every new generation of people experiences life differently. That depends on what economical, political and cultural environment they grew up surrounded by. They are also heavily impacted by the technology that is available and how it makes their lives easier and less complicated as time goes by.
Those who were born earlier witness the change in the generations, in the global trends and technology development and observe how younger people than them don’t experience the world in the same way they did.
This does not necessarily mean that the way today’s kids are growing up is wrong, but it’s still interesting to explore what things lose their relevance over time and how they immediately expose your age. Redditors went down memory lane when LastPoopOnTheLeft asked them “Without revealing your age, What is something from your childhood that ‘Kids These Days’ wouldn’t understand?”
Let us know if anything in this list was part of your childhood and if you ever had to explain it to a younger person who had no idea what it was!
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#1
Getting to be goofy and awkward and not have to worry about it ending up online for everyone to see.
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#2
Recording music from the radio
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#3
TV going off-the-air at night.
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#4
How we had to plan our TV watching around a printed schedule. No VHS, no dvr.
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#5
Running to go to the bathroom during a commercial break
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#6
Using a road atlas to get somewhere on vacation
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#7
Memorizing peoples phone numbers
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#8
It’s not working, cuz it’s not on Ch3
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#9
Knocking on your friends door to see if they could come out and play.
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#10
Hitting that red strip of paper for your toy gun with a rock.
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#11
Organising to meet someone on a landline and actually having to turn up on time or they wouldn’t know where you are because you have no way of contacting them.
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#12
Rewinding vhs or a cassette before returning.
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#13
Calling the theater to listen to the prerecorded list of what movies were playing and at what time.
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#14
Phone corded to the wall.
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#15
The joys of Saturday morning cartoons
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#16
We had to walk up to the t.v. to turn it on or off, change the channel, or adjust the antenna when the picture became unclear.
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#17
“Please get off the computer (internet) so that I can make a phone call.”
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#18
The Wizard of Oz was on once a year, and if we missed it we had to wait another year to see it
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#19
Walkman
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#20
those sort of binoculars with cardboard discs with pictures. I used to have Dora the Explorer ones.
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#21
Playing the same level on a game over and over because there’s no Saves
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#22
Video rental stores with adult sections
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#23
That Lite Brite was peak technology
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#24
NOT DA MAMA!
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#25
Walking to blockbuster and spending an hour trying to pick a movie everyone agrees on
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#26
Kids these days wouldn’t understand why people who grew up with beanie babies won’t buy NFTs
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#27
The sound on the phone when somebody was using the internet.
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#28
Waiting til nights and weekends to make FREE phone calls on your mom’s Nokia.
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#29
I’ve noticed a lot of younger people who have grown up with social media don’t have a strong sense of privacy. Everything is filmed and turned into a tiktok or an insta story without asking if you consent to having your life shared like this.
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#30
Waiting for your friend to get home to call them. (Not having constant access)
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#31
Blowing on Game cartridges to make them work.
#32
Going on road trips as a kid where the only form of entertainment was some sort of game played amongst your siblings in the back seat involving the license plates of other passing cars. On our car trip to Disney/FL from central PA me and my brother had a competition on who could write down the most license plate numbers… we ended in the thousands but for the life of me I can’t remember who “won” 😂
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#33
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
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#34
Hunting for dimes in pay phones
#35
Picking up the telephone to call your friend and hearing people talking because it was a party line, meaning multiple households all had to share the same line and so you had to wait until it was available.
#36
I recently had to explain what “changing the channel” meant to my small kid because he only knows streaming. We’ve already covered CDs, VCRs, and what it means to roll down a car window. It was a little rough (for me, not him). Edit: oh and we watched “Turning Red” and I got to explain what a flip phone is.
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#37
You needed a light accessory for your Gameboy because those suckers didn’t have back lighting. And to trade Pokemon, you needed to use cables. CABLES.
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