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Dr_Galio , Kai Schreiber/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Waking up early on Saturday morning so you can watch the next episode of your favorite cartoon.

Final score:

142points

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Libstak 7 months 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.

29points

_HappyPappy_ , waferboard/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Buying a video game and it has everything it should on it without having to provide an update or paying for extra content.

Final score:

137points

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CKB 7 months ago

Or have a subscription and you don't actually own the game *looking at you Xbox game pass

20points

shebacat , Razor512/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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.”

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Developing a roll of film and all the pictures are bad.

Final score:

125points

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General Anaesthesia 7 months ago

Forgot to take the lens cap off the viewfinder camera, grrr.

26points

Icommentwhenhigh , nappy/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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?

Final score:

122points

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General Anaesthesia 7 months 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

33points

Joe_Winson , Leonora (Ellie) Enking/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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?

Final score:

118points

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Nonna_SoF 7 months ago

Preforming the litany of percussive maintenance.

38points

keyboardtek 7 months ago

"percussive maintenance" will be the title of my next song!

6points

Raphapablap 7 months ago

Love this!

2points

Andrew Keir 7 months ago

"energetic engineering"

0points

Justin Tyme 7 months 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.

7points

TheBlueBitterfly 7 months ago

So that's why my old floor console would work when you smacked the side when the picture went out! (It would go all strangely colored like a kid with only 3 crayons and no fine motor control.)

2points

gilded panda 7 months ago

Me with my game boy making a fricking tornado trying to play Mario

4points

Edward Treen 7 months ago

Known to us oldies as "Impact engineering".

2points

Sky Render 7 months 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.

2points

Papa 7 months ago

Or going outside and turning the TV antennae while someone inside watched the TV and yelled directions through an open window.

1point

Hiram's Friend 7 months ago

There is no problem that cannot be solved with a sufficiently large hammer.

1point

TheRealFrappuchinoTheHedgehogr 7 months ago

Now it’s a godamm part that’s broken and it cost 73646838477 dollars

1point

🦄 Unicorn Princess 7 months ago

Operate CPR LOL!!! I can't stop laughing! 🤣🤣🤣

0points

Nagisa11 7 months ago

How about just swearing at a computer. If my Google home messes up and I start swearing it says that I shouldn't swear and shouldn't be rude. Come on Google really

0points

DC 7 months ago

I had a tube TV that needed to be punched into life every time. Eventually, it hurt and I replaced it. As a side: standby needed 8W then, running at reasonable volume 40W, screamingly loud like 60W or so. Today ... standby ... is that even measurable? But ... imagine, millions of TV, worldwide, on standby whenever not on ... in germany, it was said that two major power plants were running only for devices in standby, which is ... unreasonable at any time. Always was, but energy seems to have been way too cheap, way too long, as downright wasting it for nothing was accepted and common, or rather common by unknown...

0points

Nicola Mawson 7 months ago

A repair shop I once worked at legit did this

0points

UncleJohn3000 7 months ago

We called that move The Fonzie.

0points

Joseph Stillman 7 months ago

it still happens but not as frequently

0points

Sapna Sarfare 7 months ago

We had antennaes and most of us kids were given the job to adjust them for better connection.. hahahhaha

0points

Lala Looloo 7 months ago

i still have to do that with my radio :P the signal goes out sometimes

0points

Stephanie A Mutti 7 months ago

We literally would kick the harddrives [lightly,, kick lightly] in the Air Force. Half the time it fixed it.

0points

Aisling Raye 7 months ago

"Did you blow on it?" Lol

0points

pandaPanda 7 months ago

We still do it on the remote! 😂

0points

Libstak 7 months ago

It was the Fonz effect...ehhhhhh...if you know, you know.

0points

Bernd Herbert 7 months ago

my old TV had such an issue. Sometimes only one of the two speakers would work. a slap on the side fixed it.

0points

James016 7 months ago

It worked though

0points

Lopsided_Platypus_51 , James Case/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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.”

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

117points

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SCP 4666 7 months ago

And then the radio host talked into it

41points

moenblast , Caleb Oquendo/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

117points

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CKB 7 months 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.

46points

DIABLO258 , Dominika Roseclay/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Driving to someplace new with an actual physical map.

Final score:

107points

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Adrian 7 months 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).

21points

AussieDog87 , Karolina Kabat/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

100points

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Sam Juan 7 months ago

At work the other day, I transferred a (much younger) co-worker a line to make a phone call to a client. I told her to listen for the dial tone before dialling the number, and she responded "What's a dial tone?" I died substantially that day 😑

10points

kphill325 , Grant Baldwin/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#11

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Going to the movie store.

Final score:

98points

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The Doom Song 7 months ago

I miss this one. We could either choose a movie or a video game for the week

17points

MyLandIsMyLand89 , Archie Binamira/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#12

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

94points

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Corvus 7 months ago (edited)

I loved exploring creepy abandoned buildings (both houses and industrial)... nowadays I realize how dangerous it could have been. Still, good memories.

15points

Infuryous , Philip Tellis/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#13

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Meeting family/friends at the **gate** at the airport instead of baggage claim or the curb.

Final score:

92points

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Adrian 7 months ago

Thanks Osama...

30points

#14

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Dial up internet and AOL chat rooms.

smurfsundermybed , anonymous Report

Final score:

89points

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Jill 7 months ago

I can hear that dial up sound now....

28points

VT_Squire , Rowan Peter/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#15

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Tangled up telephone cords.

Final score:

88points

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Zoey Bear 7 months ago

It was almost like a slinky.

10points

Evening_Rock5850 , Muhammad-Taha Ibrahim/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#16

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

87points

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Me. Just Me. 7 months 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.

13points

inspiredguy40 , Dennis Yang/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#17

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Being responsible for zero parental contact and simply just needing to come home when the streetlights come on.

Final score:

84points

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Scrappychick 7 months 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

24points

gnomeybeard , cottonbro studio/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#18

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Getting kicked off the internet because mom needs to make a call.

Final score:

84points

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Adrian 7 months ago

Or having your connection drop when your download is at 90% because someone picked up the phone in the kitchen...

23points

kimchiman85 , Jordi De Smedt/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#19

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

83points

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Carl Roberts 7 months ago

Welcome to Moviephone.Please say the name of the movie you'd like to see....NOW

20points

Faust_8 , Chris Short/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#20

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

81points

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BoredPossum 7 months ago

I'm in Sweden and we do get White Christmases, but not every year

8points

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#21

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Having to listen/watch the nightly news with your parents because you only have one tv.

Paparazzit23 , *SHERWOOD*/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

79points

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James016 7 months 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.

15points

GuppyGirl1234 , ErnestDuffoo/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#22

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Fixing the antenna to get a better picture on the TV. Or making one with a coat hanger.

Final score:

75points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 7 months ago

I was the remote. My brother was the antenna.

38points

GabbyCivility , Cheryl Cox/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#23

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Downloading a song for 2 hours and finding out it's a virus.

Final score:

71points

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SCP 4666 7 months ago

2 hours? Man, that was fast

29points

Mrbrowneyes97 , Kindel Media/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#24

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

69points

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keyboardtek 7 months 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.

17points

loves_spain , Dennis Sylvester Hurd/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#25

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

65points

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Doyle Alan 7 months 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.

16points

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#26

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Mystery.

“Just Google it” has ruined any sense of wonder in the world.

Lookslikeseen , Kindel Media/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

64points

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keyboardtek 7 months 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.

3points

Wheredoesthetoastgo2 , Ba Tik/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#27

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Oh, uh, losing hours of work because you forgot to hit save.

Final score:

64points

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Stygtand 7 months ago

That can still happen. Spending 3 hours on photo documentation, only to find out the server f****d up. F**k you microbizz you know what you did!!!!

12points

Santos_L_Halper_II , Centophobia/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#28

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Choking to death on smoke wafting over from the smoking section of every restaurant while you try to eat.

Final score:

60points

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Feathered Dinosaur 7 months ago

This is the one thing I definitely don't regret being in the past

47points

Key-Situation-4718 , Miguel Á. Padriñán/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#29

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Waiting for a video tape to rewind before returning it to the rental shop.

Final score:

52points

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James016 7 months ago

Be kind, rewind

23points

slimismad , Naotake Murayama/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#30

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience That windows opening sound in pc.

Final score:

41points

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Adrian 7 months ago

Way to go BP, again, I think you need a new image finder guy...

35points

Ok_Heat_3964 , Jo Naylor/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

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"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Final score:

24points

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Alicia M 7 months ago

You had one chance to see what you wanted. My dad was a TV guide person. He got real joy out of planning all of his TV viewing for the week. He always tried to get me involved too. Wanted me to sit down and look at the guide with him, and pick out my shows. 😂

2points

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#32

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience 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.

Lost-Astronaut-8280 , MESSALA CIULLA/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

21points

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New Everywhere 7 months 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

2points

HeadGullible7082 , Hades2k/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#33

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Pagers, Digi-pets.

Final score:

19points

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Jill 7 months ago

I always wanted a Tamagotchi but never got one because I was afraid my forgetfull a**e would accidentally "unalive" it. :(

2points

Mountain_Ad938 , Julian Jagtenberg/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#34

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Life without smartphones.

But, also think that this is more "1st world problems" type of answer. So, please no hate. .

Final score:

17points

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Me. Just Me. 7 months 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.

2points

ScottOld , ROMAN ODINTSOV/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

#35

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Celebrating the millennium.

Final score:

15points

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Ian Webling 7 months ago

Only 976 years until they can do it again.

5points

Many-Bag-7404 , John/Flickr (not the actual photo) Report

#36

"Life Without Smartphones": 30 Things Today's Kids Will Never Get To Experience Miniclip, Club Penguin,.

Final score:

6points

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Alicia M 7 months ago

I forgot all about Club Penguin. I used to play some ice block game.

0points

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What do you think ?

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Guigsy Gwiggins 7 months ago

Reddit: where the same questions with the same responses are posted day after day

11points

Cat Chat 7 months ago

I think you mean Reddit: where BP lists are reposted from.

3points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 7 months 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.

5points

Dragons Exist 7 months 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

5points

v 7 months ago

This one's a disappointment. I was expecting to see a list of things from 2000-2020 that may never be seen again but it's just new makeup put on the same old list.

5points

Montanavanna 7 months ago

How about randomly finding someone's porn mag stash in the woods.

2points

SBocker78 7 months ago

What was that about? Why was there ALWAYS porn in the woods and why does it seem to have been a universal phenomenon?

1point

FABULOUS1 7 months 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.

1point

Floeckchen 7 months ago

As if kids don't do many of the things on the list anymore. And the others are just obsolete.

1point

Dragons Exist 7 months 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)

1point

ConstantlyJon 7 months 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.

1point

Caroline Driver 7 months 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.

0points

Lyone Fein 7 months ago

Laughing at this because people think that the 90s are the old days!

0points

SlightlyTarnished 7 months ago

Funny, I don't feel old, but most of these were not part of my childhood years. I'm from the alphanumeric phone number, didn't see a TV until I was 10yrs old, pin setter in a bowling alley, generation.

0points

Steve Hall 7 months ago

If you are a 90s kid, you are still a child.

0points

MP 7 months ago

I’m a 90’s kid and I’m 38. But I’ll take it though lol

0points

Richard Graham 7 months ago

Playing a record, then having it slow down because you forgot to wind-up the Victrola.

0points

Paul K. Johnson 7 months ago

When software actually came with thick books that told you everything about how to use it.

0points

KimB 7 months ago

How about being the remote control for the TV because there was only a k**b? And only having 3 stations with no choice of what to watch when?

0points

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Guigsy Gwiggins 7 months ago

Reddit: where the same questions with the same responses are posted day after day

11points

Cat Chat 7 months ago

I think you mean Reddit: where BP lists are reposted from.

3points

Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 7 months 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.

5points

Dragons Exist 7 months 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

5points

v 7 months ago

This one's a disappointment. I was expecting to see a list of things from 2000-2020 that may never be seen again but it's just new makeup put on the same old list.

5points

Montanavanna 7 months ago

How about randomly finding someone's porn mag stash in the woods.

2points

SBocker78 7 months ago

What was that about? Why was there ALWAYS porn in the woods and why does it seem to have been a universal phenomenon?

1point