Many things have changed since the turn of the century – just ask this wistful lot!
Memorizing Phone Numbers
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“Now everyone just saves contacts on their phone.”
“I couldn’t tell you the number of my girlfriends who I own a house with. But I can tell you my childhood friend’s parents’ home phone number from 30 years ago.”
“A friend of mine got arrested 10-15 years ago, and you weren’t able to call cell phones from jail back then, so he called the one landline number he remembered: my parents.”
T9 Texting
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“I could carry on a verbal conversation with my parents without looking at what I was texting. I wish I had some other skill that would have aged better.”
“To this day, I’m way quicker with T9 than on the iPhone.”
“I could drive down the highway and text a full conversation without looking at my phone and know that everything was spelled correctly.”
CD Burning
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“I was the first one in my class who learned how to do it and had a computer capable of doing it. Oh, what a brief and shining moment of popularity…”
“I learned how to install a CD-R drive in my Dell my sophomore year in high school and became a go-to person for burning CDs.
Lots of hours spent trawling Napster, Limewire, Frostwire, Kazaa, etc., in attempts to find the complete, unedited version of whatever song I was tasked with tracking down.”
Memorizing TV Channels
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“…so I knew what to look for on the TV Guide channel.”
“I wouldn’t want to go back to that slow-scrolling TV guide channel on cable. I would want to see what was coming up on Nickelodeon in the next hour, get distracted because it took too long, then have to wait for it to scroll through again.”
Word Art
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“Using WordArt and ClipArt to make documents more visually interesting.”
“Making the books of clip art was a whole industry. TIL from a tour of a newspaper printer in the ’80s!”
Keeping a Tamagotchi
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“How to keep my Tamagotchi alive.”
“I got one when we were headed to vacation at the beach, and my poor Tamagotchi fell into the water. I can still see my poor Tamagotchi dying, but I couldn’t do anything about it.”
“I got one for Christmas but haven’t opened it. I don’t know if I can take the responsibility on top of my adult obligations.”
Cassette DJing
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“Making mix tapes on cassette.”
“The feeling you got when you successfully hit stop just before the DJ starts talking!”
“I hated when it was a rare song and the DJ starts talking at the beginning of the outro.”
Reading Paper Maps
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“They come in handy when you’re in the middle of nowhere, and GPS doesn’t work.”
“I used to have a dozen maps in my car to use in my travels.”
“I used to buy an Atlas before a road trip and plan out the routes to take, highlighting them as I went.”
Reading Encyclopedias
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“Using an encyclopedia and dictionary when writing papers.”
Reading Dictionaries
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“I had a massive history paper to write and needed the internet and/or library to research. We had dial-up, and anyone alive then knows how much it sucked and was more frustrating than helpful.”
“My stepmom told me to use our encyclopedia set at home. The problem was they were published in 1959.”
Balancing a Checkbook
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“I think the last time I wrote a check was about seven years ago. I don’t even know where my checkbook is anymore.”
Plus: “Doing your taxes with a pen and paper.”
Old-School Film Editing
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“Gotta tell you, I still LOVE film photography and dark rooms. I’ve never been proud of anything I’ve done in Photoshop, as much as my darkroom stuff. I miss it.”
“I learned photo offset printing in shop class and had to shoot film, develop it, do the touch-ups and editing, and then burn plates with them.”
Using Phone Books
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“Yellow Pages. Understanding what they were for and how to use them.”
“I can pick up a map of the area within 30 minutes, and I will be able to tell you where we are with a 99% chance of being correct.”
“From there, everything is cake and works almost easier than Google Maps. My ex was six years younger than me, and she was completely lost in front of a map.”
Cursive Writing
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“Haven’t used it since I was 15, no plans on ever using it again.”
“I don’t think I ever used it again once I left elementary school.”
Downloading Music
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“Downloading music/movies. My dad was an incredible movie pirate, and I had so much music because some friends showed me the tricks to get the most out of Limewire and Frostwire.”
16 ANNOYING PHRASES THAT MAKE PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY HATE YOU!
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OBSOLETE MILLENNIALS: 14 SKILLS THEY LEARNED IN THE 90S THAT HAVE NO PLACE IN TODAY’S WORLD
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THE FALL FROM GRACE: 12 PROFESSIONS THAT WERE ONCE REVERED, NOW A TOTAL JOKE
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Each generation has its quirks. Most label it as an “old person thing” when asked why grandpa or grandma does something unusual. The defense from the other side is that “it was the way things were back in our day.”
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