That's the biggest advantage of the 20th century. People nowadays are not dumber than 50 years ago but today everyone can see it.

This should be way higher up. Remember when the future held promise? I feel sorry and guilty when I think about my kids.

Oh yes, that one I miss dearly. The difference is like slamming the door in someone's face vs. pushing the elevator button really hard

I turn my phone off every night at ten, and it stays off until I get up in the morning. I don't care if aliens just nuked Parliament House; it can wait until tomorrow. After ten is Me Time.

"riding over to my friend's house..." to ring the bell, ask if he's there and if he's allowed to come out and play. "I'm sorry, but Steven still has homework to do" - "okay, I'll go home again then". Oh boy, that's long gone.

And because of that, you paid a lot more attention to what you were photographing. And you made actual albums of the best photos. I miss those days, so many photos are never even looked at more than once these days.

And cartoons. In my time at least. Anime included. But that came later. It was still really good stuff, like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, Slam Dunk, Blue Submarine n.6, Escaflowne, Master Mosquiton, Excel Saga, and many other wonderful titles. With a bit of censorship, though, but still worth it. And MTV had competitors as well, which made it even better for us audiences.

Trying to beat the DJ when recording off the radio, one of lifes worst challenges as a kid.

Summers in my grandma's neighborhood - mobile phones were still many years into the future, so if I spent the whole day outside, no one knew where I was or what I was up to... good times :)

Always. And I still use it with my kids.

In the UK in the 70s and 80s decent films were only shown at Xmas and the rest of the year was pretty much a film drought unless you count the 1940s b/w musicals shown on Saturday afternoons aimed at pensioners.

I don't miss that in the slightest!

Blockbuster never fined us. But you rewind it anyway because it's the decent thing to do.

I want one of these for my hardware in the garage. They are beautiful pieces of furniture.

That still happens here. We have kids in and out and knocking on the door daily.

Uh, try a shoebox full of CASSETTE tapes for a road trip. Didn't get a built in CD player in the family car until I was in my late teens

There still is damn it!! #PlutoForever

Was just thinking how much easier Christmas shopping would be if my niece could circle things in the wishbook.

Been there done that! So much fun!

i would do this in the toys r us catalogue wen i was a kid as well as fao schwarz

We had Argos for this in the UK. Loved the new catalogue coming out the start of November so we could write our lists.

This was a magical time of year. We would get so excited when the Sears catalog came. Plus, Sears had a credit card. There was no Visa or Mastercard when I was a kid. Only department store cards.

This is what I had my kids do every year when they were young.

In my family, we made a Santa want list, as we went through the SEARS catalogue ! Oh those were the days!

idk about anyone else but we still do this at my house

We would do this with the Argos catalogue in the UK

I really miss the Consumer's catalogue. ☹️

My husband got very excited today because we received a Smyths toys catalogue in the post!

My siblings do this with the toy magazines we get each year. They even get some of them. I'm not much a fan of the toys that come out nowadays, and I think my parents are grateful XD.

And the Toys'R'Us catalog too :D

My parents didn't have personal computers at home until well into the 2010s, and my sister and I didn't have cell phones until 2018 or so, so she (2008 baby) and I (2005 baby) did this for years!! IMO its so much more fun than ordering things online. She and I would fight over who got which color pen to circle our toys and then would get upset if the other smudged something :)

Me and my sisters are Gen z and we do this

we get the amazon toy catalog now... my kids circle stuff. but this past birthday, i took my oldest shopping with her bday $, shopping on the amazon app! she still got to pick something out and had fun, and we didn't have to drive anywhere and risk being exposed to the virus... ah the good ole days...

We had the Vedes catalogue...120 pages full of toys. *sigh*

I am Gen X, had my first mobile phone at 26. Before that, met friends, travelled the world, drove to places I didnt know. I miss every single thing of not being online/virtually reachable. But hey every generation has its own thing, so I guess it's ok ;)

Ugh trying to write school papers and the only encyclopedias available are ancient and the information is no longer correct. Having to keep a list of topics for the one day every two weeks you can go to the library where their encyclopedias are marginally less out of date. I looooove that now I want to know something I can just look it up.

Check anything that had a coin return!

Folding a map.

It was illegal to own a cassette without also owning a pencil.

Now you can safely go and get coffe while the ad lasts... From a gas station... In another state

It's important for young minds to learn about boredom.

And why the icon looks like that.

And the front.

I just recently found a series (The Vision of Escaflowne) online that I used to watch almost every friday night somewhen in the early 2000s. I never saw the last 2-3 episodes back then, and now that I did, I wish I didn't. I remembered the series so fondly, but the end was just... shallow. I didn't like it, and now I wished I could unsee it and just remember the series from back then.

That must have been one giant car!

But how much fun was it to go to the library to find out? With the added bonus of not actually going to the library, but meeting up with your boyfriend on a school night.😉

Followed by: Read/write error on disk 3

R.L. Stine (Goosebumps)

I am old and was a nurse - nurses in those days were never without a watch. they were also given as graduation presents. But I've come a long way baby my watch now has a battery no winding oh yes it also has the date - proud to be so modern! (sarcasm intended)

Downloading a single MP3 for a whole hour!

I love playing snake, so addictive.

Yep that was great - the judges daughter was arrested we got away!

TV repair in my house consisted of smacking the tv until it worked.

And accidentally taping over it again

Just me or was it a lot quicker to text back in those days? Smartphones have made it harder in my opinion.

You have a collect call from- “momitsmecanyoupickmeupfrom711”

person gets social media apps. person posts on social media apps about every detail of their life. person complains "why don't I have privacy!?!?" There use to be a time we thought the government would spy on us, now we pay private companies to spy on us.