Born in 1984. Kids actually played outside and neighborhood pickup games were more the norm than organized sports. Now everything is scheduled and organized.
Also, no rewinding tv shows unless you’d recorded it on a vhs (video tape). We didn’t get our first vcr (precursor to DVD player) until I was 7.
Waaay less photos. My parents had a film camera and they *only* took pictures at special occasions and even then they only took 1-2 pictures. Film and developing film was expensive and you didn’t actually know what the pictures would look like until you picked them up from the store 2-5 days later. And it was nearly impossible to take a selfie with the bulky cameras 😆
The biggest difference between then and now is information was not nearly as accessible as it is today… I remember waiting in line at school for my turn to use the”C” encyclopedia. My parents actually bought a “homework handbook” that supposedly covered every subject for 1st-8th grade because back then you couldn’t just Google an answer and if the library was closed, you were out of luck. Need poster board? Walmart closed at 8 and might even be closed on Sunday. Last-minute projects were doomed to fail. 🤣 Have a question? Your best bet was going to a reference librarian. And even then, they might not know how to find the answer, either. You had to accept just “not knowing.”