19 Things Kids These Days Will Never Understand
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Published
01/04/2015
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Pop Culture
How things were done before today's high-tech devices and gadgets.
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Blowing into a video game cartridge if the game isn't working -
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Knowing what a dial tone sounds like -
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Renting VHS tapes from video rental stores if you wanted to see a movie at home -
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...and knowing to rewind those movies before you return them (If you were lucky, you'd have a rewinder.) -
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Consistently carrying around cash, instead of relying on credit and debit cards -
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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?" -
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Holding and reading a real newspaper -
10.
Passing notes in class instead of texting your friends -
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What happens when you combine a pencil and a cassette tape e.g., rewinding your music manually -
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What an old-style phone actually looks like -
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Having colorful and numerous floppy disks piled on your desk, in your room, and at the bottom of your school bag -
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Having to use a VCR to record things on live TV that you want to see later -
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Using a phone book to look up someone's number -
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...and actually memorizing those phone numbers -
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Having countless "favorite" cassette tapes -
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Making a mix tape or burning CDs for long trips in the car -
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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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