Little Things You’ll Have To Explain
To Your Kids One Day
Brian Galindo - BuzzFeed Staff - Dec. 8, 2015
“Hey, can you call me back after 9 p.m.?
I’m almost out of minutes for the month.” 😎 = You in 2003
If you're a parent now, then you probably didn't "get" some of things your parents would talk about. You know, stuff like drive-in movies or candy for a penny! Now it's our turn to educate our kids on how great they have it now and how things used to be.
Enjoy this list of "things you'll have to explain to your kids one day" :
- Smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants.
- Why we used to buy maps, and how they were so hard to re-fold.
- Taking a photo and not getting to see how it came out instantly.
- Dialing star-69.
- Taping a song off the radio so you could hear it whenever you want.
- How the only way to get song lyrics was to hope the band or artist printed them inside the tape or CD liner notes.
- How you used to have your friends' phone numbers MEMORIZED and why you used to have to talk to their parents sometimes when you called them.
- How you could go more than eight hours without having to charge your cell phone battery — in fact, losing very little battery life. - Hell, you could even go more than 24 hours without recharging.
- How there was no worse moment than when you got all settled in to watch your favorite VHS tape only to realize that it needed to be rewound to the beginning. The wait seemed like an eternity.
- How carefully you had to handle one of these whenever you wanted to listen to music. Anti-skip technology was a LIE. A HUGE LIE.
- Also when it came to music, how difficult it was to pick which CDs were essential for you to want to carry around. And putting in two CDs in each pouch in order to double the number you could have.
- How staying home from school was exciting ’cause it meant you got to watch these two gems. Along with The Price Is Right.
- How looking up information for a report or homework actually meant physically looking it up in an encyclopedia. And then correctly sourcing it.
- How you would have to use a pay phone in order to call your parents to come pick you up from the mall or movies. Which also meant you had to carry around change with you!
- How Snake was the most entertaining game ever created for a cell phone. but it’s true.
- How there was no worse thing to happen while doing a search online than having Internet Explorer crash.
- How there was no better feeling than logging into your Myspace and seeing a New Friend request. Then having to decide whether this meant you needed to rearrange your Top 8.
- How instant message was the only way you communicated with your friends after school and on weekends.
- How you more than periodically had to clean the lint and dust buildup in your mouse in order to get it to work again.
- How this was the only way you could get the latest songs — and they were usually crappy radio rips. Also the No. 1 cause of PC fatalities in the early 2000s. RIP to all those computers that never recovered from the virus they got.
- How there used to be not only texting limits, but also talk minute limits. Unlimited minutes and text plans were only a pipe dream in the 2000s.
- How this was your default game to play every time you couldn’t get online ’cause someone had to use the phone or was expecting a call. Or worse yet, when the internet was busy and you couldn’t even log on.
- How Friday nights were basically the Hunger Games at Blockbuster as you tried to get the latest release. And going home defeated — and with that SAME fallback rental — if they ran out of copies of the new movie you wanted to rent.
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