19 Things Kids These Days Will Never Understand
How things were done before today's high-tech devices and gadgets.
By godimgay
Published 10 years ago
How things were done before today's high-tech devices and gadgets.
1
Blowing into a video game cartridge if the game isn't working
2
Knowing what a dial tone sounds like
3
Renting VHS tapes from video rental stores if you wanted to see a movie at home
4
...and knowing to rewind those movies before you return them (If you were lucky, you'd have a rewinder.)
5
Consistently carrying around cash, instead of relying on credit and debit cards
6
Navigating a city by using a map and knowing how to do so
7
Having actual conversations
8
Old chat clients ICQ, AOL, MSN where you could ask fun questions like "asl?"
9
Holding and reading a real newspaper
10
Passing notes in class instead of texting your friends
11
What happens when you combine a pencil and a cassette tape e.g., rewinding your music manually
12
What an old-style phone actually looks like
13
Having colorful and numerous floppy disks piled on your desk, in your room, and at the bottom of your school bag
14
Having to use a VCR to record things on live TV that you want to see later
15
Using a phone book to look up someone's number
16
...and actually memorizing those phone numbers
17
Having countless "favorite" cassette tapes
18
Making a mix tape or burning CDs for long trips in the car
19
Having to wait many, many minutes for the TV Guide channel to scroll through the listings and sobbing if you looked away for a second and missed the channel you wanted to see
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