19 Things Kids These Days Will Never Understand

godimgay Published 01/04/2015 in Pop Culture

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

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