25 Old School Things Kids Today Would Never Understand

PocketEpiphany Published 04/12/2022 in feels

Kids these days think they have all the answers. But there are more than a few things they would never understand.

Ready for a trip down memory lane? Here are some memories from back in the day that modern kids could never wrap their heads around!

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1. Organizing to meet someone on a landline and actually having to turn up on time or they wouldn’t know where you are because you have no way of contacting them.-u/withereddesign
2. Recording music from the radio-u/AndNoc
3. Waiting for your friend to get home to call them.-u/est1979
4. I recently had to explain what “changing the channel” meant to my small kid because he only knows streaming. We’ve already covered CDs, VCRs, and what it means to roll down a car window. It was a little rough -u/Proper-Emu1558
5. It’s not working, cuz it’s not on Channel 3-u/moridin82
6. Calling a girl and her dad answers the phone. That sh*t was rough, kids.-u/clydem
7. Playing the same level on a game over and over because there are no saves-u/drevilishrjf
8. Video rental stores with adult sections-u/est1979
9. Knocking on your friend's door to see if they could come out and play.-u/whit3lightning
10. The joys of Saturday morning cartoons-u/GallicPontiff
11. Using a road atlas to get somewhere on vacation-u/siriusonbroadripple
12. Rewinding VHS or a cassette before returning.-u/est1979
13. That Lite Brite was peak technology-u/shanecdotes
14. TV going off-the-air at night.-u/J_David_Settle_1973
15. Getting to be goofy and awkward and not have to worry about it ending up online for everyone to see.-deleted user
16. Walking to Blockbuster and spending an hour trying to pick a movie everyone agrees on-u/sugarfairymagic
17. Running to go to the bathroom during a commercial break-u/OptimistPrime527
18. How exciting it was to open a new box of cereal to see which toy you got and trade with your mates, usually pencil toppers or bicycle reflectors, etc, lol-u/WishUponAStar35
19. How we had to plan our TV watching around a printed schedule. No VHS, no DVR.-u/thorndike
20. You needed a light accessory for your Gameboy because those suckers didn't have back lighting. And to trade Pokemon, you needed to use cables. CABLES.-u/gracefultime
21. The sound on the phone when somebody was using the internet.-u/Poops_McClanahan
22. Going on road trips as a kid where the only form of entertainment was some sort of game played amongst your siblings in the back seat involving the license plates of other passing cars. On our car trip to Disney/FL from central PA me and my brother had a competition on who could write down the most license plate numbers… we ended in the thousands but for the life of me I can’t remember who “won”
23. Columbia House Records club-u/passesopenwindows
24. Clackers. They were colorful glass (yes glass) balls at the ends of a piece of rope with a ring in the middle to put your finger through. You would move your hand up and down, and the balls would smack into each other, making a “Clack -Clack-Clack” sound (hence the name). They were eventually taken off the market since the glass balls could shatter and kids were getting injured by the flying glass shards. They were a big fad toy for a while there. They came back later with plastic balls.-u/lanky_planky
25. How much time we spent playing outside, but not in organized sports. Pickup kickball in the street where you yell “CAR!” to break up the game briefly for a car driving through. Coming home covered in dirt after disappearing for five hours. We all made fun of how we were called by our parents. We would explore and poke around. Dig up worms, chase butterflies, freak out over finding a dead baby bird, skin our knees at least twice a summer and entertain ourselves for hours.-u/GoddessOfOddness

1. Organizing to meet someone on a landline and actually having to turn up on time or they wouldn’t know where you are because you have no way of contacting them.-u/withereddesign
2. Recording music from the radio-u/AndNoc
3. Waiting for your friend to get home to call them.-u/est1979
4. I recently had to explain what “changing the channel” meant to my small kid because he only knows streaming. We’ve already covered CDs, VCRs, and what it means to roll down a car window. It was a little rough -u/Proper-Emu1558
5. It’s not working, cuz it’s not on Channel 3-u/moridin82
6. Calling a girl and her dad answers the phone. That sh*t was rough, kids.-u/clydem
7. Playing the same level on a game over and over because there are no saves-u/drevilishrjf
8. Video rental stores with adult sections-u/est1979
9. Knocking on your friend's door to see if they could come out and play.-u/whit3lightning
10. The joys of Saturday morning cartoons-u/GallicPontiff
11. Using a road atlas to get somewhere on vacation-u/siriusonbroadripple
12. Rewinding VHS or a cassette before returning.-u/est1979
13. That Lite Brite was peak technology-u/shanecdotes
14. TV going off-the-air at night.-u/J_David_Settle_1973
15. Getting to be goofy and awkward and not have to worry about it ending up online for everyone to see.-deleted user
16. Walking to Blockbuster and spending an hour trying to pick a movie everyone agrees on-u/sugarfairymagic
17. Running to go to the bathroom during a commercial break-u/OptimistPrime527
18. How exciting it was to open a new box of cereal to see which toy you got and trade with your mates, usually pencil toppers or bicycle reflectors, etc, lol-u/WishUponAStar35
19. How we had to plan our TV watching around a printed schedule. No VHS, no DVR.-u/thorndike
20. You needed a light accessory for your Gameboy because those suckers didn't have back lighting. And to trade Pokemon, you needed to use cables. CABLES.-u/gracefultime
21. The sound on the phone when somebody was using the internet.-u/Poops_McClanahan
22. Going on road trips as a kid where the only form of entertainment was some sort of game played amongst your siblings in the back seat involving the license plates of other passing cars. On our car trip to Disney/FL from central PA me and my brother had a competition on who could write down the most license plate numbers… we ended in the thousands but for the life of me I can’t remember who “won”
23. Columbia House Records club-u/passesopenwindows
24. Clackers. They were colorful glass (yes glass) balls at the ends of a piece of rope with a ring in the middle to put your finger through. You would move your hand up and down, and the balls would smack into each other, making a “Clack -Clack-Clack” sound (hence the name). They were eventually taken off the market since the glass balls could shatter and kids were getting injured by the flying glass shards. They were a big fad toy for a while there. They came back later with plastic balls.-u/lanky_planky
25. How much time we spent playing outside, but not in organized sports. Pickup kickball in the street where you yell “CAR!” to break up the game briefly for a car driving through. Coming home covered in dirt after disappearing for five hours. We all made fun of how we were called by our parents. We would explore and poke around. Dig up worms, chase butterflies, freak out over finding a dead baby bird, skin our knees at least twice a summer and entertain ourselves for hours.-u/GoddessOfOddness

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25 Old School Things Kids Today Would Never Understand

1. Organizing to meet someone on a landline and actually having to turn up on time or they wouldn’t know where you are because you have no way of contacting them.-u/withereddesign

2. Recording music from the radio-u/AndNoc

3. Waiting for your friend to get home to call them.-u/est1979

4. I recently had to explain what “changing the channel” meant to my small kid because he only knows streaming. We’ve already covered CDs, VCRs, and what it means to roll down a car window. It was a little rough -u/Proper-Emu1558

5. It’s not working, cuz it’s not on Channel 3-u/moridin82

6. Calling a girl and her dad answers the phone. That sh*t was rough, kids.-u/clydem

7. Playing the same level on a game over and over because there are no saves-u/drevilishrjf

8. Video rental stores with adult sections-u/est1979

9. Knocking on your friend's door to see if they could come out and play.-u/whit3lightning

10. The joys of Saturday morning cartoons-u/GallicPontiff

11. Using a road atlas to get somewhere on vacation-u/siriusonbroadripple

12. Rewinding VHS or a cassette before returning.-u/est1979

13. That Lite Brite was peak technology-u/shanecdotes

14. TV going off-the-air at night.-u/J_David_Settle_1973

15. Getting to be goofy and awkward and not have to worry about it ending up online for everyone to see.-deleted user

16. Walking to Blockbuster and spending an hour trying to pick a movie everyone agrees on-u/sugarfairymagic

17. Running to go to the bathroom during a commercial break-u/OptimistPrime527

18. How exciting it was to open a new box of cereal to see which toy you got and trade with your mates, usually pencil toppers or bicycle reflectors, etc, lol-u/WishUponAStar35

19. How we had to plan our TV watching around a printed schedule. No VHS, no DVR.-u/thorndike

20. You needed a light accessory for your Gameboy because those suckers didn't have back lighting. And to trade Pokemon, you needed to use cables. CABLES.-u/gracefultime

21. The sound on the phone when somebody was using the internet.-u/Poops_McClanahan

23. Columbia House Records club-u/passesopenwindows

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