19 Things Kids Today Will Never Experience

[joshlyman]

I'm dying at scrambled porn.

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[youhadmycuriosity]

The missed the annoyance of making plans to meet someone somewhere and have them not show up because they were waiting somewhere else. My best friend and I had a lot of "Entrance J" vs. "Entrance A" mix ups at the mall.

[btay]

Mapquest filled me with so much rage

[gummybear]

I love these lists. My favorite of all time is the one that has, "Answering the phone without call ID" on it. Who could it be? Your mom? Satan? You just have to pick up and hope for the best!

[waffletime]

"6. Or when you tried to download a song and it took hours just to get ONE SONG."

Truth. I remember MSN Messenger (lol) taking me three and a half hours to download. It now takes about ten seconds.

[gummybear]

Feb 3, 2015 13:36:38 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I'm too old for a lot of this.

We used real encyclopedias. lol. Try the agony of going to the library and discovering someone you hate checked out the ONE BOOK YOU NEED to finish a paper.

Or try using a card catalog/the Dewey Decimal system.

I was thinking that too. I didn't even have a tape deck that recorded off the radio up until I was in 6th grade or so. I needed to hold my tape recorder UP to the radio and hope for *complete silence* in my house, no movement or rustling, while the song recorded. 

[bania]

#5! I had so many songs on my mix tape with the stupid DJ talking over the intro!

[cuddlyevil]

Feb 3, 2015 13:29:06 GMT -5 btay said:

Mapquest filled me with so much rage

Mapquest was a lying asshole.

[Eagles]

I used to get so pissed when Christopher Knight would start talking over songs on Between the Sheets. I AM TRYING TO RECORD "ALWAYS AND FOREVER" FOR MY SWEET MIX TAPE, CHRISTOPHER.

[janegold]

Encarta brings back some serious nostalgia. Windows 95 seemed magical to me.  Did anyone else play the museum game that was part of Encarta?  I loved that game.  And Myst.  Oh man.



My dad's computer once crashed around '94 or '95 and the computer company had to send him floppy disks - hundreds of them - to manually reinstall every single program that was on the computer. LOL, those were the days.

[discogranny]

Also missing from this list is when you were on dial up internet and someone in another part of the house would pick up the phone, kicking you off right before something was finished downloading.

[DotAndBuzz]

Feb 3, 2015 14:24:22 GMT -5 al dente said:

My mom still uses mapquest print outs. It makes me irrationally ragey.

Me too.  And it STILL sucks.  I'm like, Mom, YOU HAVE A GPS, and even so, Mapquest sucks.  Use Google maps.

She's all "well, I like having printed directions, and I know how to use mapquest, so I like to compare the 2 directions when I'm going somewhere new..."  Except when it takes you the wrong way, and then you're screwed, but whatever!

[btay]

Feb 3, 2015 13:53:09 GMT -5 cuddlyevil said:

Feb 3, 2015 13:29:06 GMT -5 btay said:

Mapquest filled me with so much rage

Mapquest was a lying asshole.

I still remember the day I was apartment hunting in a new city and the stupid thing had me make 3 left turns instead of just one right.  It did this more than once.  I got so mad I went home and ended up not moving to that city.  Mapquest ruined my whole life!

[joshlyman]

Feb 3, 2015 13:43:14 GMT -5 googled said:

Feb 3, 2015 13:36:38 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

I'm too old for a lot of this.

We used real encyclopedias. lol. Try the agony of going to the library and discovering someone you hate checked out the ONE BOOK YOU NEED to finish a paper.

Or try using a card catalog/the Dewey Decimal system.

I was right on the cusp of all of these so I experienced all the agonies on that list, PLUS your agonies! 

Fucking millennials! 

Ditto.

80s baby!

[alexis]

Feb 3, 2015 14:24:22 GMT -5 al dente said:

My mom still uses mapquest print outs. It makes me irrationally ragey.

My MIL will use an atlas to look up addresses and figure out directions while sitting right next to her laptop. It cracks me up every time.

[Queen Mamadala]

Those were the days.

[lilafowler]

Feb 3, 2015 13:29:06 GMT -5 btay said:

Mapquest filled me with so much rage

Mapquest was the WORST.

[spitforspat]

Do you guys remember BUYING packs if clip art? I'll never forget the pack of fairy clip art I got my Mom for her birthday one year.

[lpcats]

Feb 3, 2015 14:42:21 GMT -5 discogranny said:

Also missing from this list is when you were on dial up internet and someone in another part of the house would pick up the phone, kicking you off right before something was finished downloading.

My modem once messed up and dialed the local realtor's office. I have no idea how it happened, but it freaked me out.

[lilybug]

I totally forgot about calling for movie times. Or looking in the paper. I wonder if they even list them in the paper anymore!

This makes me think about what our kids will be nostalgic about. Remember when you used to have to actually type out text messages rather than just sending them telepathically?? Ah, the good old 2010s.

[MrsAxilla]

Feb 3, 2015 17:34:25 GMT -5 @evelynrichards said:

My 8yo asked me what a phone book was the other day. He has never seen one.

We still get a phone book.  I feel guilty tossing it directly into recycling, but what else do you do with it?

[miniroller]

Feb 3, 2015 21:39:40 GMT -5 @evelynrichards said:

Feb 3, 2015 21:38:49 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

We still get a phone book. I feel guilty tossing it directly into recycling, but what else do you do with it?

That's what we do. I have never even brought it into the house -- mailbox to recycling can.

Our's is fireplace kindling. I don't know why burning it makes us feel better about the giant waste that created it

[partyinmytummy]

Before we ever got the weather channel, we would either look in the newspaper or call the time and temperature hotline to get the forecast.

[RoxMonster]

Ha! I was just coming in to mention time and temp.

I remember calling that all the time in middle school/early HS to find out what the forecast was. I wonder if that still exists in my hometown....

[joshlyman]

Feb 3, 2015 21:45:44 GMT -5 partyinmytummy said:

Before we ever got the weather channel, we would either look in the newspaper or call the time and temperature hotline to get the forecast.

I would watch Johnny Mountain on the local news lol

[pinkpinot]

Dial up internet.

Kids have it so easy these days!

[joshlyman]

Feb 3, 2015 21:50:11 GMT -5 pinkpinot said:

Dial up internet.

Kids have it so easy these days!

Eeeeeeeedddessrfjjsnhsnskfujnjnsssmrrrjdfjdndjdndkxhdnjdusssssnjjvbhjbbn

Kids today will never know that sound.

[polarbearfans]

Feb 3, 2015 21:38:49 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

Feb 3, 2015 17:34:25 GMT -5 @evelynrichards said:

My 8yo asked me what a phone book was the other day. He has never seen one.

We still get a phone book.  I feel guilty tossing it directly into recycling, but what else do you do with it?

I always save one yellow pages... My husband made phone of me until a city wide power outage. Some streets had power, some didn't. Charging phones was a luxury and we couldn't waste battery on trying to randomly search businesses that may be lucky enough to have power. We ate those 3 days because of my phone book lol

Silly, but I always dig the newest out of the recycle bin and hide it. I don't like having to rely on technology all the time.

[discogranny]

Feb 3, 2015 21:51:53 GMT -5 Lucy Honeychurch said:

Feb 3, 2015 21:45:44 GMT -5 partyinmytummy said:

Before we ever got the weather channel, we would either look in the newspaper or call the time and temperature hotline to get the forecast.

I used to call time at like ten PM, and that way my boyfriend could call me and my parents wouldn't hear the phone ring bc it came through call waiting. Lol.

I did the exact thing. When it was my BFF calling, we would often then three way our other BFF who would be patiently listening to the time and temp for the same reason. 

[nursewife]

I still use the phone book a ton. For some reason it just seems so much easier to look up a number that way to me.