There's a term called the generation gap and it refers to the differences in experiences, opinions, habits, and behavior that separate age groups.
To learn more about this phenomenon, Reddit user MatsGry decided to look at it from another perspective. One that is often neglected and ridiculed on the internet. Baby boomers. So they made a post on the platform, asking the elders: "What's something today's youth would never understand?"
People immediately started sending in their replies, listing all the things that millennials and zoomers — in their opinion — can't wrap their minds around. Of course, some of them are up for debate, but that made the comment section even more interesting.
#1
History Channel, Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and a bunch of other cable networks that are now dedicated to absolutely bottom-tier garbage reality TV shows used to be amazing nonstop documentary TV.
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279points
#4
Needing to do a report on a topic. No internet. No encyclopedia on CD. Going to the actual library to find someone in your class already grabbed the one book on the subject.
216points
#6
Opening up the newspaper to look at the TV guide to see what was on that night.
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198points
#7
Going to the bathroom during a commercial break and hearing the dreaded “IT’S ON!!” when you’re not done.
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193points
#8
The relationship between audio cassettes and Bic pens (or pencils).
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192points
#9
omg smoking EVERYWHERE! In theaters, planes, offices, hospitals, trains, restaurants, schools... just everywhere (and the outrage when it was finally banned lol)
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190points
#10
The excitement of going to a video rental store on the weekends to get to pick out a movie.
Actually picking one out was just as exciting as watching the movie.
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187points
#11
Calling the movie theatre to hear the recording with the movie times on it.
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180points
#12
When you left work you left work. There is an emergency? Oh well, I guess we can solve that problem tomorrow.
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174points
#13
The sheer joy of receiving a handwritten letter from someone you haven't seen in a long time. I really miss the days when I had a nice stationery set, and I would write long letters to friends and relatives.
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169points
#14
Taking photos using those little rolls of film and having to take them into a shop for processing. You often wouldn't know if any of the photos were good until a couple of months later.
You also had to manually wind on the camera after every shot.
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161points
#15
Picking up or saying goodbye to airline passengers right at the gate
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161points
#16
Watching a draft lottery to see if your number would be low enough that you will be drafted to fight in a war in Asia
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160points
#17
Hovering over your stereo with your fingers ready to hit play and record simultaneously while the radio DJ intros the song you've been dying to hear.
Recording movies straight off the TV onto VHS tapes and having the dedication to stop the recording to cut out the ads.
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155points
#18
Be kind rewind.
Smoking or nonsmoking
I left a message but I think the tape cut out.
So when should I call?
Get off the line!
I got to swing by and drop off some film.
I tried calling but I think he's online right now.
Everything glass is brown and that's normal.
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152points