I think this is correlated with the shortening of attention spans. People want to be able to type faster, and so punctuation is obsolete. I’m unlike most people my age in the way that I take the effort to use proper punctuation and grammar

Walk into them and then yell at them for not watching where they were going - problem solved.

I miss this. Now there's work assigned cellphones. >:(

One bad mistake can haunt you for the rest of your life. That’s what I don’t like about cancel culture. People aren’t static characters.

I remember my house phone from 50 years ago!!

When I was a kid I had an unnatural fear of getting lost when I got older and could drive anywhere I wanted to go, so I learned how to read maps (and fold them!) so I always knew how to find my way back home or whatever I my destination was. I'm 41 now and it's not really an often necessary skill but I'll always have it in case I'm somewhere that GPS isn't really available 🤷‍♂️

Now your parents will have the police called on them.

One of these days when I'm subjected to someone using their phone on speaker in a public place, I'm going to be tempted to walk up and just join their conversation. If they're on speaker, it's open to the public, right?

That is the wrong kind of pencil. You need a six-sided pencil, not a round one.

This happens so much. Cashiers not understanding why you would give them say, $22 for a $12 purchase. They always want to hand the $2 back. No thank you. I'd like a $10 or (2) $5's. Sometimes they look completely befuddled but then decide to take a chance and put the numbers in the register. And then, a miracle happens! They get to see why I paid that way. I'm always mildly shocked. And then resigned to this is the way it is now.

Yes “diskettes” came after but 1. They were still called floppy disks (I only ever heard people trying to sell them call them diskettes) and 2. They still had a floppy disk inside the hard cover.

Their parents should know better, even if they don't. There's absolutely no excuse for this. Even if a parent needs to drive them to the interview for whatever reason, the parent should know to wait in the car or at a nearby cafe or something. I flat-out blame this on the helicopter parent.

Hear, hear! I hate feeling like I'm being watched all the time.

Or standing at the back gate just calling their name.

If at a restaurant, everyone in the group puts their phone in the middle of the table. First one to pick up theirs before the meal is done picks up the tab.

I bet photobombs were a lot more annoying back then

Now this one I agree with for Gen Alpha. My sister always complains so much when she’s bored, and expects us to always be able to entertain her. She’ll ask questions during shows or movies that could be answered by context or by waiting a few seconds to let the character explain themselves.

Remember Napster? Take a look at SoulSeek. Shh its a secret.

It may seem paradoxical but it actually makes sense that the younger generations can't trouble shoot computers. For us oldies, we had no choice, that was how we learnt and we shared that info - the younguns are taught 'do abc to get xyz' so that's what they do, they have no need/incentive to go and explore a programme or system

Taking the phone off the hook was the "Do Not Disturb" feature.

Remember when each programme had a number printed alongside it which you could type into a VCR to record it.

Admittedly I had this problem, but since I noticed it, I’ve had my Apple Watch face to an analog one to force myself to relearn how to read it lol

consequences for your actions is a very big one. Kids bring guns to school: they should be charged and their parents charged for making the gun available to the kid. They've started charging the parents, but the kids don't realize that handcuffs and an escort by police are just the start of the consequences.

school, library, parents with time

OMG, I have a story. Back in the 90s, I had a paper due. I was up all night (literally) finishing my reading. I finished the paper and tried to print it. I had one of those old X-pin printers. Wouldn't print. I called my Dad and somehow sent the paper to him to print. He printed it on his printer (with the paper with the feed holes on the sides that had to be ripped off). He printed it and ripped the edges off. He was retired by then. I drive up. He's waiting outside! I roll down my window and he throws the paper at me and I rush off. I get to the University and deposit the paper, JUST IN TIME. My Dad will always be my hero (for this and a thousand other reasons).

Pay phones still exist in some places in the US. They are especially common in areas with a population of Amish and/or old order Mennonites. Most of those groups don't have phones in their house of use cell phones. I have also seen pay phones in a few other places.

Yes - a little pet peeve of mine!

Again, in my experience this is more common in older people

A lot of us are depressed with the current state of the world and just don’t care anymore.

I suppose someone would have to teach them, the same way someone taught us when we were young..

i still have a dedicated device - the radio.

The sound of dial-up internet connecting. Plugging a cable into the phone jack, and one connection point for the whole household. Often only one computer for the whole household, and that was the only internet-capable device.

I went to a Montessori elementary school and they drilled into us from Pre-K that we only could write in cursive and you would get a trivial punishment if you wrote in print. Well, now my everyday hand-writing is cursive, and most people just think I'm some pretentious teen and I have to explain to them that I've just been doing this my whole life and writing in print is just slower and more inconvenient for me.

But people who lived in 2009 knew what floppy drives and cassettes were.

isn't that like basic math? 4x.25=1

This one is bizarre and I've noticed this myself first hand.

I was at The International Spy Museum in DC (definitely go, if you can!) and in a room that was set up as a military office either during WWII or during the Cold War (I can't remember which), I saw a man explaining to his kids (under 10yrs old) how the rotary phone on the desk worked ("You put your finger into the hole for the number you want to dial, and spin the plastic ring around until your finger hits the metal piece, then remove your finger and let the dial spin back around; you do that for each digit in the phone number.")...they did not believe him.

My laptop has a touch screen, and touch pad. I use neither. I use a regular, good old mouse.

Part of this is tech related as well. NoSQL and other such technologies aggressively push non-hierarchical storage, to our great detriment.

AOL was only one of many early providers, and like many suffered from trying to be too simple, restricting users to only a small subset of what was already available even at that time.

Do they mean taking a screenshot on a computer?

To be fair some cases were extremely robust, with the two clasps so tight that you had to use so much force to open it that you risked breaking one of them off.

Well the cellophane wrapper was the first thing that was hard to get off

The cases were designed so you'd pick the CD up by the edges with your index finger in the middle. There were two tiny locks that engaged if you tried to open it from other angles.

And people would brag about having the teeniest, tiniest phones.

I remember as a kid being excited to get the dvd’s in the mail in those red envelopes