Today's kids will never understand...

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Or, put another way, Get Off My Lawn.

www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/struggles-kids-today-will-never-understand?bffb&s=mobile

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I still remember when my Gateway computer arrived in the cow-print box.

[lasagnasshole]

I am   over Encarta.

[lilibet]

I loved the trivia game on Encarta. I remember that damn scrolling menu. That thing was evil. And oh how I loved TRL.

[elocrates]

My 6 year old and I often talk about this type of stuff on the way to school in the morning. He is always: mouth gaping open, mind.blown, "NO WAY, mom." Way to make me feel old, kid.

[josieposy]

I saw a payphone at a truckstop a few weeks ago and did a doubletake. I never see them anymore.

[starlily]

About half of these didn't exist our weren't common when I was a kid, so everyone can get off my lawn for real.

[redheadbaker]

I was nodding at every single one of those. Encarta! OMG

[ttt]

Fye! Does anyone else remember MediaPlay??

[orangeblossom]

Jul 13, 2014 23:29:22 GMT -5 ttt said:

Fye! Does anyone else remember MediaPlay??

No, I don't know that one. Do you remember Sam Goody's. I think that's the name.

[MixedBerryJam]

I have one I bet most of YOU won't remember. Back in the day, if you received a phone call (it didn't work if you initiated the phone call) you could hang up the phone, run downstairs and pick up an extension, and continue your conversation. A call didn't get disconnected for  like 30 seconds if the person who received the call hung up. 'Memba that? I do.

And scoffing at the 5.25 floppy disk. 8.5 all the way. Hell, I had a work computer that didn't have a hard disk at all. Boot disk in one floppy drive, data disk in the other.

[IIOY]

Jul 14, 2014 6:06:54 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

I have one I bet most of YOU won't remember. Back in the day, if you received a phone call (it didn't work if you initiated the phone call) you could hang up the phone, run downstairs and pick up an extension, and continue your conversation. A call didn't get disconnected for  like 30 seconds if the person who received the call hung up. 'Memba that? I do.
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I don't remember this, and it is kind of creepy.

[Velar Fricative]

Kids still go to the library to do research from books. Hate to be nitpicky, but it's true.

Otherwise, this list was my life. Oh, how much time I spent blowing on my Super Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge.

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I think it was the rest stops in Indiana that still have pay phones--I was shocked when I saw them a couple of weeks ago.

I remember trying to find a pay phone 10 years ago and I couldn't--I had to just ask to borrow a stranger's phone.

[IIOY]

Jul 14, 2014 6:54:20 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

I think it was the rest stops in Indiana that still have pay phones--I was shocked when I saw them a couple of weeks ago.

I remember trying to find a pay phone 10 years ago and I couldn't--I had to just ask to borrow a stranger's phone.

We were out and about one day and passed by a pay phone.  My kids were fascinated and couldn't understand why someone would need to use a pay phone because everyone has their own phone.

We showed them a Walkman at an electronics store last week and asked them what they thought it was.  My son had no clue and my daughter thought it might be a tiny TV.  (wilted)

[Velar Fricative]

We have pay phones in the building where I worked. Mostly tourists just take pictures in them. But one time a few months ago someone came up to my department asking for change for the pay phone. I think I stared at him for a good 30 seconds because I didn't think I was understanding his request correctly.

[eclaires]

My kids understand the Nintendo struggle because my husband still has his first Nintendo and a bunch of the cartridges/games. So Jackson is pro at blowing into the cartridges and console, lol.

[Vespasia]

We saw someone talking on a pay phone yesterday. I think I did an actual double take.

[jillboston]

1. Typing term papers on an electric typewriter in college. Yup.. all of them - and there were a *lot* until the last 2 years when I went to the computer lab to type them.
2. Party lines. We didn't have one but when my brother was first married (in 1978) he did.
3. Getting to the bank during the week and before 4 or 5 to get money. I was a kid so I didn't have to worry much about this.
4. worn out record player needles. Songs skipping when you jumped around dancing. scratched records skipping.
5. Turning the tv dial by hand (we had 1 channel that worked well - NBC- that was it - until my dad got some type of different antennaes for the roof.
6. Black and white TV. ( a lot of this was the product of being born to parents who lived thru the Depression - they bought NOTHING new.
7. No cell phones, obviously. Car breaks down (especially in a rural area) you walk to someone's house. (my high school boyfriend and I drove to a parking spot once to mess around - car died. Were too embarrassed to knock on any doors - walked to my house - 3 or 4 miles.. Jumped into the ditch as cars went by bc my Dad was coming home from work (worked 3-11) and didn't want him to know where the car was. Got to my house where my BFF and her date were waiting (we had all gone to the movies and she was going to stay over)- as was my somewhat confused Dad. Her date drove my boyfriend up to where the car was and it started on the first try.
Good times..

[Velar Fricative]

Jul 14, 2014 8:56:22 GMT -5 mockingbird said:

Jul 14, 2014 6:22:41 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

Kids still go to the library to do research from books. Hate to be nitpicky, but it's true.

Otherwise, this list was my life. Oh, how much time I spent blowing on my Super Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge.

Do they? My son thinks I am the devil. Because his school lets them do all research on the internet. But his abusive mother makes him look for current events in the ACTUAL newspaper, and got him The Smithsonian for science current events.

Maybe when he's older they'll insist on actual library trips. Maybe he'll thank me..... yeah, I know

We see so many students coming in with teachers who force them to use books. Even if they are allowed to use databases, a lot of them are only available if you come to the library (many allow for remote access for library cardholders but most do not). I'm sure a lot of students come in because of their parents too.

I actually do think teachers who are all YOU MUST USE BOOKS ONLY!!!! are a little shortsighted because there *is* excellent, accurate information that can be found electronically, but even a lot of teachers don't seem to understand the difference between something like Academic Search Premier and...well, Google.

Oh yeah, and Encarta 4EVA. I did love the Encarta trivia game!

[secretlyevil]

My world history class played Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago for our final on the computer. Good times. Good times.

[2curlydogs]

2700 BAUD, bitches. I don't see that anywhere.



I have never laughed so hard during a keynote address as when Scott Stratten was rattling off old school internet lore. IRC. BBS. Zork. Using the internet solely to print out the script to Monty Python and the Holy Grail....

[Scout'sHonor]

Oh god, all the memories. I worked at FYE for 4 years back in college too.

[msmerymac]

Jul 13, 2014 23:29:22 GMT -5 ttt said:

Fye! Does anyone else remember MediaPlay??

It was my favorite. Until Best Buy came. I would spend all of my money on CDs. 

[msmerymac]

I remember looking at the TV schedule in the newspaper. The Sunday paper had a TV section with the schedule printed in it! And it had a list of movies in the back, and sports events. I remember combing through the movies showing each week to see if there was anything I wanted to see.

Oh, and the section also had a syndicated column where people would write in with entertainment questions. "the Actor who plays ___ on ____ seems so familiar! Was he by chance on ____ which ran a few years back? Can you tell me more about him?" I was so excited to find out about imdb.com in college!

[zelda25]

Jul 14, 2014 8:46:48 GMT -5 jillboston said:

1. Typing term papers on an electric typewriter in college. Yup.. all of them - and there were a *lot* until the last 2 years when I went to the computer lab to type them.  
2. Party lines. We didn't have one but when my brother was first married (in 1978) he did.
3. Getting to the bank during the week and before 4 or 5 to get money. I was a kid so I didn't have to worry much about this.
4. worn out record player needles. Songs skipping when you jumped around dancing. scratched records skipping.
5. Turning the tv dial by hand (we had 1 channel that worked well - NBC- that was it - until my dad got some type of different antennaes for the roof.
6. Black and white TV. ( a lot of this was the product of being born to parents who lived thru the Depression - they bought NOTHING new.
7. No cell phones, obviously. Car breaks down (especially in a rural area) you walk to someone's house. (my high school boyfriend and I drove to a parking spot once to mess around - car died. Were too embarrassed to knock on any doors - walked to my house - 3 or 4 miles.. Jumped into the ditch as cars went by bc my Dad was coming home from work (worked 3-11) and didn't want him to know where the car was. Got to my house where my BFF and her date were waiting (we had all gone to the movies and she was going to stay over)- as was my somewhat confused Dad. Her date drove my boyfriend up to where the car was and it started on the first try.
Good times..

1. Yes to all of that
2. My grandmother had a party line when I was a kid in the early/mid-70s. I blew H's mind not long ago when I told him that when I was a kid, you didn't just go Target or whatever to buy a phone; you had to get one from the phone company. You could go to the local GTE office where they had maybe half a dozen models on display that you could choose from.
3. I remember ATM machines becoming a "thing" when I was in college--that was a big deal.
4. YES. I still have a lot of vinyl
5/6. I was the remote when I was a kid. My mother always asked me to change the channel, LOL. Our TV was one of those giant console jobbers that was the size of a VW.

[IIOY]

Jul 14, 2014 10:52:48 GMT -5 zelda25 said:

Jul 14, 2014 8:46:48 GMT -5 jillboston said:

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5/6. I was the remote when I was a kid. My mother always asked me to change the channel, LOL. Our TV was one of those giant console jobbers that was the size of a VW.

When we got cable for the first time, the "remote" was a large, rectangular box with a very long cord with all of the channels listed in three rows, and a switch on the side to indicate which row you wanted to activate. So if you wanted channel, say, 16, you'd set the switch to the second row position and then push the one that had 16, 31, and 46 listed on it.  When we were done watching TV, we had to wrap the cord around the box to stash it.

[erbear]

I tell my students how I took a class senior year of high school called "Internet".

[terpsfan]

We didn't get tickets at FYE. We had to go stand in line at Sears or JCPenney Customer Service for concert tickets. Which is very strange to me now, why those places had a Ticketmaster type setup too? I wonder if they still do?

[terpsfan]

Also, pre Ipod/mp3 self created playlists, you had to pick an entire album that fit most of your exercising needs for your CD-walkman (hello Blood Sugar Sex Magic!) or making your own mix tape if you still had a walkman. Or timing your run/cutting the grass to AT-40 on Sunday morning.