Things Kids Today Will Never Understand (2 Viewers)

[chippitydoodah]

No kid would know how to use a phone book.

As a kid, I WAS the remote control.

 

[warewulf]

Be kind rewind!

 

[upNdown]

Oh, here's a good one! A few weeks ago, when there was a verizon outage, my daughter told me that since her GPS on her phone wasn't working, she had to print out a map.

 

[warewulf]

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Yup, this was my first job. I had various paper routes from age 10 - 15. Great source of steady income.

Wednesday and Sunday were 'backbreaker' paper days.

 

[warewulf]

 

[ChipFinderSK]

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As a kid, I WAS the remote control.

This is how I learned I was poor when I was little; my neighbor across the street had cable (with ESPN, Disney Channel, etc.), while we had 4 channels (5 if I could get the antenna to line up just right).

 

[Taghkanic]

Blockbuster. You actually drove to the store to get a movie. Maybe they had what you wanted. If not you just grabbed whatever and watched Total Recall for the 19th time because you were just gonna pause it at the scene with the chick with three tits. Again.

The very last time I went to a Blockbuster, the clerk told me I owed like $80 in late fees that had to be paid before I could rent anything else.

I was surprised, and asked what movie I’d rented that was late…

When he told me the name of some junky Gwynyth Paltrow rom-com, I just laughed. “There’s no freakin’ way I rented that—someone here must have keyed in the wrong membership.” (I loathe Paltrow and don’t watch rom-coms.)

Clerk wouldn’t back down, so I just dropped the movies I was going to rent on the counter and left. Never went back.

They eventually went out of biz and no one ever tried to collect.

 

[Taghkanic]

Hey, shot in the dark here, but if anybody has any empty cassette shells or damaged tapes, I could use a few to repair some tapes I have. Looking primarily for TDK but would be open to Maxell, even Scotch.

I had a crate of cassettes in an unheated/uncooled storage space for like ten years.

Some of these were my oldest mix tapes, from back when my brother and I would wait for songs we liked to come on the radio in the late 1970s. (We’d hold a basic Panasonic tape recorder up to my clock radio.)

I was shocked that almost all of the cassettes not only played, but sounded the same as ever, 30+ years later. Including cheapo Radio Shack tapes.

 

[Taghkanic]

I’m in my 40s and have never had a house phone. But I’m considering getting one now as an alternative to giving my kids devices.

One nice thing about landlines is that they work during power outages with phones you don’t have to plug in.

At least, the old copper ones did. Haven’t had a landline since 2013 and I miss it.

 

[buffalojim]

I had a crate of cassettes in an unheated/uncooled storage space for like ten years.

Some of these were my oldest mix tapes, from back when my brother and I would wait for songs we liked to come on the radio in the late 1970s. (We’d hold a basic Panasonic tape recorder up to my clock radio.)

I was shocked that almost all of the cassettes not only played, but sounded the same as ever, 30+ years later. Including cheapo Radio Shack tapes.

In the mid 80s I was lucky enough to have a cheap radio/cassette player that would record from the radio and then you could switch and record yourself. So of course I made a bunch of cringy DJ tapes which I digitized years ago, along with all my other personal cassette recording of myself and friends. Awful stuff, but I'm glad I made them.

My mother had a cassette from the 70s that was so old and the tape snapped, so I was looking for a good shell to try and repair it. Might just pick on up on eBay.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Oh man, so many to choose from!

 

[Taghkanic]

Oh man, so many to choose from!

Those sounds remind me of logging into an NYC bbs in the mid-90s, which was busier then than Facebook is today.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Those sounds remind me of logging into an NYC bbs in the mid-90s, which was busier then than Facebook is today.

Crazy how you couldn't be on the phone and online at the same time back then. Now online is on the phone.

 

[Hot Nuts]

Skinamax!

Boom-chicka-wow-wowwwwwww

We also called it CinemaX.

If you didn't have it you could hold down 6 and 7 buttons at the same time and get this hoping to see a boob.

 

[Labrat]

Crazy how you couldn't be on the phone and online at the same time back then. Now online is on the phone.

I still remember the day I brought home my Hayes 300 baud dial-up modem and first connected to CompuServe. 6 bucks an hour for a text-based service.

Coolest thing ever.

 

[woodsy]

How many phone numbers do you still have committed to memory?

 

[ekricket]

If you didn't have it you could hold down 6 and 7 buttons at the same time and get this hoping to see a boob.

lol that somebody was that desperate to try every possible button combination

 

[Hot Nuts]

Was

 

[ekricket]

How many phone numbers do you still have committed to memory? View attachment 1654805

I still have my weed dealers number in my head from 46 years back.

I can also give you this gem from my childhood, about 55 years ago

Jot
Box 341
Fort Worth TX 76116

I know you’ll like it!

 

[GreatWhiteDope]

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I have this exact calculator on my desk.

 

[AlbinoDragon]

Casey Casem and the American Top 40:

I made a reference to this a few months back to some younger (but not a lot younger) folks and was met with blank stares.

"And now, time for our long distance dedication."

 

[Tonysquander]

The struggle was real…

 

[Labrat]

How many phone numbers do you still have committed to memory? View attachment 1654805

Maybe 3 cell phones. But I remember all three phone numbers to the houses I grew up in and my grandparents phone number.

I even remember their number when they used words as the prefix. REdwood1 9362.

 

[Lil Tuna]

Summer of 84.

 

[WedgeRock]

 

[Hot Nuts]

 

[quintooo]

kids today don't know what it was like to have a 2:1 home price to income ratio

 

[Labrat]

kids today don't know what it was like to have a 2:1 home price to income ratio

I'll take things that never happened for 500, Alex.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

8008 and 80085

If you know, you know

 

[Labrat]

lol that somebody was that desperate to try every possible button combination

Dude. We were 15-17 years old. Who wasn't that desperate to see a boob?