kids today will never know

Started by Parivir July 23rd, 2015 12:10 PM
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Parivir

rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Jakarta, Indonesia
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Posted September 1st, 2017
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12.4 Years
What was your favorite part about growing up that kids today don't do anymore?

Personally I'm just very saddened that my descendants will never know the god-given gift that is Crayon Shin-Chan.
There was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.

Her

Age 29
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pokemon crater :(

Amongst other things:

- Actually going fishing and bug-catching
- Watching decent cartoons
- Going to Woolworths
- Eating Taz bars
- Being amazed by 3D graphics
- Sega doing what Nintendon't
- The new Harry Potter book hype
- Goosebumps
- VHS
- Mr. Blobby
- POKEMON CARDS
- A world without the Star Wars prequels
- Everyone wanting a Buzz Lightyear
- Jason David Frank/Tommy Oliver being THE Power Ranger
- The 90s X-Men theme being hummed by literally everyone
- Cassette Tapes
- Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds and Stingray

...I could go on.

Age 29
Female
Germany
Seen October 6th, 2015
Posted September 22nd, 2015
192 posts
8.1 Years
I don't know about some of these things. I can get being sad about kids not having the same food, not experiencing e.g. the Harry Potter hype as people still waited on new books to come out and stuff, but really, kids are lucky they get all the technology of today!

We have fond memories of VHSs but honestly, DVDs (or online sources even) are just a lot more convenient. The only reason many people "miss" VHS and other older technology is because of nostalgia. Same goes for cassettes. I, too, like to think of them as an important part of my childhood but really, they were quite inconvenient. You had to take them out and turn around half-way through and sometimes the tape would get completely tangled and, in the worst case scenario, render the cassette useless. Whelp.

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Leviathan

What's the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes?

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My childhood :'( Man I miss that game
Didn't it like come back in some kind of 'revived' form, the same thing but going under a different name? Either way, Crater was the biz, man.

Also I had an old Nokia track phone from 1998 as my first phone. I could probably brake one of your skulls then wash that **** and it'd work. 90's phones didn't **** around. Also, who remembers snake?
Snaaaake! I poured hours into that game when I wasn't texting my aunt. That and Space Defense!

Let's see what I got

-Rugrats
-Cartoons appearing on non all-the-time-cartoon-channels like Sky 1
-WWF Attitude Era
-Spyro & Crash as they should always have been
-Penny Arcades
-Browsing the internet on tiny phone screens
-Horrors of dial-up
-Big 'n' fat SD-screen TVs
-CDs
-Blowing into cartridges to get them to work
-Jetix
-Chalkrooms + classrooms that don't have a computer in the corner

Hikamaru

Age 30
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Australia
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Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
Most kids today won't get to know much about products that were huge fads in an era they still weren't born in, like leg-warmers or Tamagotchis. And of course Pokemon's heyday as well, or any other gaming franchise that seems like it got ruined these days... looking at you Spyro and Crash.
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Her

Age 29
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or any other gaming franchise that seems like it got ruined these days... looking at you Spyro and Crash.

Hikamaru

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12.2 Years
The coincidence is he hasn't had a proper new game since 2008...
Gone forever for personal reasons.
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Leviathan

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And the less said about it, the better....

Tsutarja

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13.2 Years
Myspace and custom profile pages were a thing back when I was growing up.

Bay

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Myspace and custom profile pages were a thing back when I was growing up.
Oh man, I remember when I was in high school Myspace was huge. I used to do a few blog post on that site, haha. Everyone then shifted to Facebook, welp.

For me a lot were already mentioned like dial-up, walkman CDs, Pokemon's huge popularity (it's still big today but not as huge as in the 90s), VHS, and several others.
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206 posts
7.9 Years
Kids will never know the desperate struggle for batteries just so you can play your Gameboy. The Gameboy was my first gaming console ever given to me by my sister. When I ran out of batteries there were no games for me. :(
My god, yes. My parents, for some insane reason we were poor only bought two Gameboys for me and my five sisters. IMMEDIATELY when the little light turned from green to red we would run screaming, "WE NEED MORE BATTERIES THE GAMEBOY'S GONNA DIE". Eventually I realized I could just ask my parents to buy a ten-pack anytime we went grocery shopping, and I built myself an emergency stockpile of batteries as a result, but that didn't always work. There are painful days I can remember not playing my Gameboy because we had no batteries. Even after stealing the TV remote's batteries. That was something I learned to do real quick.

Kinda on the contrary since they'll know more about it than we ever did as technology advances.
But new kids don't think of it as a planet :(

I don't think anyone's commented about this yet, but the "Save" button on games, apps, and programs - it's a psyducking floppy disc. When did that become the image of "save your work"? New kids don't know that image used to exist and used to be the primary way of holding memory, before thumb drives were even a thing.
And don't even get me started on dial-up internet. I'm trying to have a great time playing Neopets (SPEAKING OF WHICH, NEW KIDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT NEOPETS. I MADE SO MANY FRIENDS ON THAT WEBSITE BEFORE NICKELODEON BOUGHT AND RUINED IT WITH ADS AND PSYDUCKING NEOCASH. SPEAKING OF WHICH, ADS DIDN'T USED TO EXIST), playing the Snake, Pong, and Galaga clones trying to earn enough Neopoints for the Secret Laboratory Map pieces when all of a sudden one of your parents gets a phone call. Guess what? No Neopoints for that game.

EDIT: Just dug out my Gameboy Light and tried to find batteries for it. We have none. Now I'm depressed.

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90's cartoons. Like, can we just say that those were the best days ever? Does anyone agree? Not that I hate a lot of the stuff now but... none of it can ever compare to the 90's. I pretty much grew up with 90's cartoons.

Also, silly putty. That stuff was psyducking epic. It was fun when you also tried to eat it like gum.

DJTiki

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Posted April 11th, 2021
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9.2 Years
Blowing on the catridge because Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt kept freezing every goddamn time I so much as tapped the NES.

Burning CDs in Windows Media Player and begging your parents to blast that muk in the car.

Actually utilizing local multiplayer in video games, instead of giving your online name away. You had to organize that muk with your friends! (*cough*SSB64*cough*Goldeneye*cough*Super Mario Bros. 3*cough*)

Parivir

rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Jakarta, Indonesia
Seen August 16th, 2022
Posted September 1st, 2017
199 posts
12.4 Years
90's cartoons. Like, can we just say that those were the best days ever? Does anyone agree? Not that I hate a lot of the stuff now but... none of it can ever compare to the 90's. I pretty much grew up with 90's cartoons.
THIS SO MUCH let me throw all my agrees at you
There was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,
I skin my knees. I bleed.

Melody

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Posted March 2nd, 2018
6,459 posts
18.6 Years
  • Saturday Morning Cartoons - When you were nowhere near having any cable and the only oasis of programming that you enjoy is cartoons; these are especially nice.
  • FM Radio
  • MTV/VH1/CMT - When these channels ACTUALLY WERE DEVOTED TO PLAYING MUSIC VIDEOS AND MUSIC ALONE!
  • The Game Boy, GBC, and GBA
  • Boybands
  • Combination FM Radio/MP3 Players
  • Zune player - This is the same as above but was more advanced. I owned both a 1st Gen 30GB and a 32GB ZuneHD. I loved them dearly. The Zune absolutely DESTROYS the iPod in comparison...but Apple had the traction already. RIP Zune. You will be missed forever.

Esper

California
Seen June 30th, 2018
Posted June 30th, 2018
MP3 Players
There was a Kids React about this just today.



I also had a Zen. Well, technically still do. I guess the kids these days don't care for dedicated music players and want it all-in-one with their phones.

DJTiki

absolutely should have never given me the internet

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Florida, USA
Seen November 23rd, 2022
Posted April 11th, 2021
1,256 posts
9.2 Years
  • MTV/VH1/CMT - When these channels ACTUALLY WERE DEVOTED TO PLAYING MUSIC VIDEOS AND MUSIC ALONE!
I'll never forget ;_;. RIP in pepperoni. Rekt by too many reality shows.