What are some things that today's kids will never get to experience?
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The anxiety of calling your crush and having her Dad answer the phone.
That shir was nerve-wrecking
That shir was nerve-wrecking
I still have mine! (And I did the same thing, lol)Syncing your Indiglo Ironman Timex to the Weather Channel.
Having to wait for porn to load
And i'm not even talking about videos, I'm talking about a single picture
And hoping someone didn't call your house before it did
And i'm not even talking about videos, I'm talking about a single picture
And hoping someone didn't call your house before it did
This is it. My daughter cannot fathom a time when entertainment was not all readily available on-demand and why you just wouldn't just binge watch everything. There's no savoring anything now-its just BINGE BINGE BINGE. And to get through it even faster - better watch it at 1.5x speed!
I would watch an episode of a show-then it was over and I would think about it for a week and wait a week for the next episode- no problem.
Also - if you missed an episode of a show-you missed it. It's not going to be "on demand" 24 hours later. If you're lucky you might catch that episode that you missed 5 years later or so when it's in syndication and in reruns.
I would look through the TV guide on sunday and plan out what movies were going to be on TV that week and I would program my VCR to record them.
They still paddle kids in schools?
If they don't, was gonna say, getting paddled in school. Good times. /s
If they don't, was gonna say, getting paddled in school. Good times. /s
Yup, it wasn't at your finger tips all of the time. You got 12 issues of whichever games magazine you were subscribed to and that was it, you savoured every page. It was definitely a slower pace of life.
Yeah hanging out at Arcades huddling around a Street fighter or a MK Machine, slowly and naturally breaking the ice and socializing with like minded kids. Shooting the shit, laughing, joking ... One of my most cherished early teen mementoes.
Also being conflicted and debating if you want to tape over a new episode of SNL over the old one, and if you can afford to use the highest quality VHS recording speed, was it SP?? It was EP, LP, SP if I remember correctly.
I hope this post doesn't get me banned for admitting to piracy :P
I hope this post doesn't get me banned for admitting to piracy :P
Installing Prince of Persia in your school's PC (yes, singular), trying to not get caught, while praying the order of the multiple floppy discs that was crudely written on pen was accurate. If not rip
In that same vein, paciently waiting for those damn Amstrad cassettes to load just to crash the fucking thing and having to load again.
In that same vein, paciently waiting for those damn Amstrad cassettes to load just to crash the fucking thing and having to load again.
To me the biggest difference from back then was how much stuff was out of your control. Like, if you wanted to know what was on TV and you didn't have a TV guide you had to watch this scroll by:
There was not much of a way to know when shows were cancelled, they were just suddenly gone one day.
There was not much of a way to know when shows were cancelled, they were just suddenly gone one day.
The internet is huge.
I feel sorry for today's youth because they'll never know privacy. They probably all have naked or other embarrassing pics of them on their parents social media. Everything stupid they say will forever be immortalized on the internet.
I think lots of us were stupid shits when we were kids but none of my childhood is on the internet for all to see and judge.
I feel sorry for today's youth because they'll never know privacy. They probably all have naked or other embarrassing pics of them on their parents social media. Everything stupid they say will forever be immortalized on the internet.
I think lots of us were stupid shits when we were kids but none of my childhood is on the internet for all to see and judge.
Had Michael Jackson hits from the radio on my own tape with MC Hammer. Yes I had to put the microphone on the radio for the whole song and make sure the mic record button was hit
Als o having to wait until that song you wanted to hear comes on the radio, and having that cassette tape in the tape deck and ready to record when that song comes on. Then going back and rewinding that cassette over and over to hear that song.
I doubt most kids will ever experience a vhs player without auto tracking. Also my grandparents used to have a TV that had this switchboard-like thing to change channels. It was the coolest thing and I was super bummed out when we went up one summer and they got rid of it.
No lie I found over fifty AOL discs in there, this was like 2013.
I worked at a theater, and I had to clean out the the hole where the napkin dispenser goes.
No lie I found over fifty AOL discs in there, this was like 2013.
Others have mentioned it but it is nearly impossible to put into words how different the pre internet days were. It has completely changed how society functions.
Non backlit screens. Those short burst of enjoyment every time the car passes by a street light.
Yes. I had to use microfiche as well as make photo copies of journal articles when I was working on my dissertation in grad school. Now it is all online but back then I had to actually travel to find the information I needed. I don't miss that.
I do miss the arcades of the 80s. Yes, I'm old as fuck.
Having to wait until christmas or your birthday to get that new album that has that one song you liked on the radio, only to be disappointed by all the other songs on the album.
Finding playboys or hustlers in the woods, rainsodden and torn.
edit: beat
Finding playboys or hustlers in the woods, rainsodden and torn.
edit: beat
Damn kids have it too easy.