Hey, Millennials aren’t gonna be around forever, you know…
It’s true!
But have you ever thought about what will go away when those folks aren’t around any longer?
Here’s what folks had to say about this on AskReddit.
1. For real!
“Memory of life without the Internet.
I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how big of an achievement that was. And it happened in our lifetimes.
That’s probably one of the more significant events to happen during our lifetimes.”
2. The old days.
“Listening to the radio all day waiting for your favorite song.
Also, phoning in to request certain songs and being so excited when they played them.
I grew up in a small town so people could phone in and wish you a happy birthday and they would play all the birthday messages in the morning.”
3. No need for that anymore.
“Remembering phone numbers.
Still have my 3 best friends numbers memorized, when I haven’t needed to use that info for 15+ years, as well as most of my family.
Intentionally memorized my boyfriend’s in case there’s an emergency and I don’t have my phone.”
4. Stuck with whatever.
“Watching “whatever was on”.
Everything is always on now, you don’t stumble into an interesting (or awful) show because it’s the only thing mildly interesting on TV.”
5. Sad…
“There is a building by my house that still has Blockbuster painted parking spots.
It is pure nostalgia every time I walk past it.”
6. Definitely!
“Saturday morning cartoons were that much more exciting back then because it was the ONLY opportunity to watch them.”
7. Fun times.
“Playing multi-player video games with split screens in one room.
Halo LAN parties man. Good times.”
8. So much easier now.
“Using maps and Thomas Guides for road trips.
Guys, I’m so old I remember the first time my dad used MapQuest to print out directions for a cross country trip, and how novel it seemed at the time.”
9. Pre-digital.
“Knowledge of pre-digital life.
An appreciation for sending and receiving letters in the mail.
As Arcade Fire put it, we used to wait.”
10. Do kids play outside anymore?
“I used to play in a creek after school in 1999 have never seen kids play in that creek for at least 15 years.
Was mystified by the tadpoles and crawdads.”
11. Do you remember?
“Remember actually getting good information and useful websites along the first four or five pages on a Google search?
Now you’re lucky if the first three hits are good, and 100% that the first two are just sh**ty ad spam sites.”
12. Is it good or bad?
“Childhoods spent pre-cellphone.
This one is incredibly important.
Humanity is in new territory with the way kids are being raised, for better or worse.”
13. The way it is now.
“Apparently using a Haynes or a Chilton’s manual to work on your car.
I h**e using YouTube videos for car maintenance, but it looks like that’s all I have left.”
14. Good point.
“A coworker and I were talking a while ago and we started thinking/ talking about how the general population (not the ones going to school for it or people truly interested) most younger and older people don’t understand a lot about computers.
If it’s not app, most people aren’t really sure how to get to it on a computer. I thought, “that’s not right surely” but when trying to get a younger coworker (different dept) to add a printer he literally asked me “wheres the app I can’t find it to add the printer” and I just like stared into the middle distance for a sec before just doing it for him.
It was like navigating a computer wasn’t something he’d done in his life. And he’s only like 4 years younger than me. He’s glued to a cell phone too so I was like yeah ok this guy should know. Nope.
This is only one example though. However, when I really stop and think about it, the window from late 80s-00s were really the testing phase for home computers and most to all websites.
So navigating them, learning basic code (og myspace people), and just figuring out computer language (not code just the terms) for normal people… really ended when cell phones became more popular.
But it feels weird to have to explain stuff to someone younger than me while simultaneously doing the same thing when they are older. It’s kinda frustrating tbh but mostly just mind boggling.”
What do you think about this?
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Thanks in advance!
