Every new generation of people experiences life differently. That depends on what economical, political and cultural environment they grew up surrounded by. They are also heavily impacted by the technology that is available and how it makes their lives easier and less complicated as time goes by.
Those who were born earlier witness the change in the generations, in the global trends and technology development and observe how younger people than them don’t experience the world in the same way they did.
This does not necessarily mean that the way today’s kids are growing up is wrong, but it’s still interesting to explore what things lose their relevance over time and how they immediately expose your age. Redditors went down memory lane when LastPoopOnTheLeft asked them “Without revealing your age, What is something from your childhood that ‘Kids These Days’ wouldn't understand?”
Let us know if anything in this list was part of your childhood and if you ever had to explain it to a younger person who had no idea what it was!
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#1
How much time we spent playing outside, but not in organized sports. Pickup kickball in the street where you yell “CAR!” to break up the game briefly for a car driving through. Coming home covered in dirt after disappearing for five hours. We all made fun of how we were called by our parents. We would explore and poke around. Dig up worms, chase butterflies, freak out over finding a dead baby bird, skin our knees at least twice a summer and entertain ourselves for hours.
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292points
#2
Getting to be goofy and awkward and not have to worry about it ending up online for everyone to see.
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255points
#5
How we had to plan our TV watching around a printed schedule. No VHS, no dvr.
236points
#6
Running to go to the bathroom during a commercial break
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223points
#10
Knocking on your friends door to see if they could come out and play.
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200points
#11
Hitting that red strip of paper for your toy gun with a rock.
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197points
#12
Organising to meet someone on a landline and actually having to turn up on time or they wouldn’t know where you are because you have no way of contacting them.
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195points
#14
Calling the theater to listen to the prerecorded list of what movies were playing and at what time.
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183points
#15
Calling a girl and her dad answers the phone. That s**t was rough, kids.
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180points
#18
We had to walk up to the t.v. to turn it on or off, change the channel, or adjust the antenna when the picture became unclear.
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172points
#19
"Please get off the computer (internet) so that I can make a phone call."
170points
#20
The Wizard of Oz was on once a year, and if we missed it we had to wait another year to see it
163points