Miss internet in late 90s / early 2000s was such a place to be

Or finding out their parents were listening in.

With a usable cassette in the radio and your finger on the Record button.

Great observation!

And the weekly TV Guide being published in the newspaper.

I was on the bus once and a bunch of schoolkids got on with me. One was trans (as in literally wearing a trans pride badge), and the other kids were treating them as just one of the gang. It was awesome. I showed the kid my matching ace pride badge (they were both from the Prideosaurs line!) and all of them were like "hey, cool!" Those kids really gave me hope for the future. (When I was their age "gay" was a playground insult).

I used to remember every phone and ICQ number. Now I don't even remember how old am I without deep thinking

I've made some amazing new friends who once upon a time I would never have had a chance of meeting, thanks to social media! Going to Melbourne for the weekend? Awesome, I can meet up with that buddy of mine who I met on Facebook! Parents are going to Prague? Oh hey, I know someone who lives there and can show them around! (Which is exactly what happened, as a matter of fact!)

I don't believe millennials did that. That was Gen x.

Add "using a rotary phone" to the list. Also, how frustrating it was when you almost got to the end, and then accidentally turned a wrong number. 555-556... damn it!

In like the 50s and 60s you could support a family with one non college-educated income. Like factory work type jobs. The expectations of being able to afford middle class life stayed the same, but the income potential people had went way down and expenses went way up. It took a while for people to become more aware of the fact that things in society had to change for that to be possible.

My kid posted her drivers license to show she was 18...we LOST OUR MINDS!...she took it down within 20 minutes

I know my wife’s phone number, and the number we had when I was nine in 1980. 794-9865. Didn’t have to dial the area code back then.

I still have VHS tapes and a player, though the player is not connected to the tv, again just in case hahahahaha

And many only know this as 3d printed save icon

Stressing over did I remember to rewind

Me neither!! Working from home has saved me!! I can never go back!!

The man-bun makes a ton of sense to me. It's the best way to deal with long hair. Long hair is for everyone.

What is it

I saw the pic and thought it would say, "using cash".

"NO YOU CANT LOOK AT MY SIDE" Or "No i like that side better" *cue remote and place switch*

I've worked in a call centre and there are still a few fax lines about. It makes me smiile that anyone under 30 doesn't recognise the sound.

In my country you always had to pay rent for the plots. You get rental agrement and all (well your relatives do). If the rent is unpaid and 30 years passed since burial they just reuse the plot, chuck the headstone and bury someone else on top of the remains, or move the remains to mass grave at the back of cemetery.

No, but you had to buy a GameShark to get the ultimate experience.

Yes but as more stuff goes into the internet it may be harder to find the truth about certan things.

Never had to charge them!

Depressingly true.

I must be missing these articles about how I ruin everything. I only learned that I was a millennial the other day by Googling it. 1982.

I use a refurbished desktop computer to watch YouTube on an ad blocked browser on my tv. There are too many subscription services out there so it's easier for me to subscribe to none of them.

Tired of people labeling entire social media platforms as bad. There is so much amazing content- music, art, people spreading support, knowledge, awareness, and love.

Or having fresher cabin air in the plane because of people being able to smoke. Now they aren't forced to have the cabin air replaced as often, so you are forced to sit amongst recycled farts for far too long for the sake of saving some fuel.

This won’t be a bad thing though

Musicians still use these style jacks like people change their mind.

The phrase "virtue-signalling" can die too. Somehow the people who use it never seem to realise that it is, itself, a virtue signal.

My kids still get DVDs so they can bring them to Grandpa and Grandma’s house and watch them there. Or in our fancy 2006 minivan that has a DVD player.

The special china thing probably came about because once upon a time that sort of thing was expensive enough to be given the status of "family heirloom", so of course you'd want to keep it safe (and maybe be forced to sell it if the harvest failed and you needed to pay the rent in a hurry).

When the china comes to me, the Corelle is going to the thrift store and the expensive china is going to be used everyday. It is too pretty to hide in the closet.

It honestly makes me a bit sad though, because we have a family heirloom buffet. Beautiful but huge piece of furniture hand-carved from oak in the attic during WWII in Amsterdam. My brother doesn't want it, I can't take it because I'm disabled and will possibly never live on my own or in a place large enough for it... and the other relatives in Europe don't live in houses big enough for it.

I own my great-grandmother’s china, my grandmother’s china, and I have my own china. My mother is still alive and kicking… and she says I don’t get her china until she’s dead. :-) But we do have sentimental millennials! So, I think collecting china will still be a thing. Maybe it’ll sit in a cabinet and not be displayed. Or maybe china cabinets will continue to be a thing. I mean, they have been around since the 17th century.

I want a china cabinet and hutch for my dolls and ornaments as display cases. They're classy.

I wish we had China to eat off of. Id love to eat off of fancy dishes every dinner.

I was born at the end of what would be the baby boomer generation and I regret asking for and receiving china but that was just something you did when I got married. Since it has to be handwashed, it only comes out at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know my son will have no use for it which is OK, he can be the one that goes through the hassle of selling it - LOL!

I'd like to have the China please! I love antiques.

Why do you have an issue with heirloom pieces? They are pieces of our cultural identity, especially in term of family history. I own a lawyer’s bookcase that has been in my paternal lineage for over 150 years; I should just toss it? I’ve three other heirloom things, them too. I don’t even like my family but These things are special because of their history. Apparently you’ve not been graced with such. I’m sorry

I have one. Never gone past 32" TV, can't see the need, TV works just fine. And if big is the thing, why is everyone looking at a tiny phone or tablet screen?

Speaking as a Gen X, we entered the job market just as all the best parts our parents enjoyed were being sucked out of it. We went in knowing that employers trained and promoted employees within the business; employers paid most or all of the continuing education and recertifications, that employers provided our insurance and benefits, and that getting raises and keeping the same job until you retired and got a paid pension were a thing. We saw our parents; mothers too, get White Collar jobs with diplomas from two-year colleges, and we saw that even four-year college student loan debt could be paid off in full within two years of steady employment. The advanced college education was only optional too, and it was only accepted if it directly related to the duties of the type of employment you had or sought. We were the first to get ****ed over, again, and again, and now we're just exhausted.

You can still get those

Nonsense, young people curse all the time!

Still exists outside US I think. I don't even know what my friends' views are.

BP could have used a photo of an actual strip mall rather than Las Vegas' Fremont Street, which ISN'T a strip mall 🤔