What kind of things will you tell your kids?
This is going to make me feel so old but here is mine:
When I was your age I had to walk to library and find my books in the card catalog to do a report! No computer browsing for me!
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When I was your age, we watched TV live and had to sit through commercials. It didn't pause, either, so you used the commercials for your potty breaks!
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we didn't have cell phones
or ipads
and only had dial up internet
google didn't exist -
When I was your age we had 10 TV channels, had to watch MTV at my friend's house.
We had to share a phone line and did not have internet/texting on our cell phones.
Dial up internet that was slower than dirt. No Youtube, Facebook, ect. We had MSN messenger.
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Telephones were corded.
If you picked up the phone and heard *beee booooooo bee beep ding ding beeee* you hung up as fast as you could and hope you didn't disconnect the internet!
Windows 3.0!
TV channels went from 2-13, then at 13, you had to use the other dial. -
we were talking about this a few days ago! Our kid will not:
- know the phrase "be kind, rewind"
- know what a floppy disc is
- know what a walkman is
- know what a dial-up tone sounds like -
@Mae: "know the phrase "be kind, rewind" "
loleta: we just found a TON of VHS tapes when cleaning out the basement!
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How about knowing why we "roll down the window"?
Also, that we had to use maps and phone books.
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Seeded watermelons
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@PurplePumps: OMG!! YES!!! "If you picked up the phone and heard *beee booooooo bee beep ding ding beeee* you hung up as fast as you could and hope you didn't disconnect the internet!"
You were lucky to get a bulky desktop. None of this laptop/tablet thing.
Everything was manual - not automated like power locks, windows, sliding doors.
We looked up phone number via a phone book or wrote numbers down in a personal address book or memorized it.
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I had to build up the nerve to CALL my boy crush, and have his mom answer the phone and have an actual conversation with him. EEK!
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When I was your age, if I needed my parents to pick me up from school, I needed to stand in line to use a payphone, that sometimes was covered in gum or other nasty unknown substance. If my parents weren't home? Too bad for me!
Oh also, do you know how to call collect?! I don't think so!
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Geez.
Floppy discs
Ask Jeeves (before Google)
Pay phones
VCR
Video rental stores
No cell phone until I was 18, and then it was a block phone
Dial-Up
No FB/IG/Twatter
Stupidly heavy backpacks full of textbooks instead of the laptop my niece's school provides...ETA: It's a little bit overwhelming to think about how far technology has come in even the past 10 years.
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@lovehoneybee: What? NO textbooks at all??
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there was no facebook!!!
I still can't wrap my head around how different my high school experience probably would have been if facebook had been part of it.
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@Mamaof2: Two or three of her classes have workbooks...light, paperback things that are like 1/2" thick. But no, not like the 6 or 7 1-2" thick textbooks I used to have to lug around. All of her textbooks are interactive and loaded onto the laptop. It's really cool, actually.
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We had to WRITE with a pencil, in full sentences.
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Film cameras! You had to take a roll of film to a store, wait a week, go back and pay for them - even if half of them didn't turn out!
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Learning cursive! Apparently its not being taught here anymore.
Taking a typing class
Dial-up Internet - I had 15 minutes of internet time a day in grade 8/9
Keeping quarters in my backpack to call home -
Our TV didn't have a remote! You had to stand up to change the channel.
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Mixed tapes made from songs off the radio!
@autumnlove: oh my gosh... seeded watermelons... yes!
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@californiadreams: seriously! I'm SO glad it wasn't. The pressure to take selfies, the embarrassment of saying whatever you were thinking...
I remember when television "started" at 7am.
Calling collect from the payphone because you didn't have any quarters and you needed a ride home.
You memorized everyone's phone numbers.
You called a number to see what time it was.
You watched TV to see if school was cancelled (no automated phone calls).
You tore the edges off of printer paper. I LOVED doing that!
Encyclopedias - enough said. -
@jedeve:
"You called a number to see what time it was."OMG I forgot about that one! At the tone the time will be 2:34 beep!
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There was this shiny copper thing called "the penny" that was worth 1 cent!
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