35 Older People Reminisce About The Moments They Miss That Gen Z Will Never Get To Experience

Typewriters. Carbon paper. Mimeograph machines.

Stereos weighed a lot back in the day, for sure. But they sounded fantastic. People today think earbuds are high-fidelity sound.

The newer generation will never know the feeling of slamming a phone down when someone pissed you off on a call, then slamming it two or three more times for good measure. Hitting a button on a touchscreen to hang up on someone's stupidity just doesn't give the same satisfaction.

I bought a homemade ice-cream maker -- the old kind with a cedar bucket that leaks salt water over the porch, and a hand crank. I'd been telling my kids how much better it was, so they told me to just get one. Lo-and-behold, found one on an auction site. We pull it out a couple times a summer, and the ice cream IS as good as I remembered from childhood.

Taking most of Sunday to read the Sunday paper with the big crossword puzzle. Having to look up clues in the encyclopedia or dictionary. Reading all the sale inserts. Now I get the paper in an iPad don’t work the puzzles and no Sunday inserts.

I kinda miss the 80’s - early 90’s computer era. It was fun to try and figure stuff out without having the internet to help you. Plus people really figured out how to squeeze some fun games out of those computers. Trading games with your friends was fun.

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I miss the early internet in the mid-1990s, when there weren't all these ads!

Sitting alone in your room sobbing over some guy when you are 16, moving that needle to play the same sad song over and over again on your record player while your Bonne Bell black eyeliner and Yardley of London white lipstick melts down your face, until your father screams at you to “come downstairs and eat dinner for Chrissake and stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!”

No caller ID that allowed me and my punk friends to do some amazing telephone pranks.

Using your kids as the tv tuner and remote.

Cleaning the carburetor and adjusting the points on a truck engine with an engine compartment big enough you could stand inside it.

Smelling mimeographs.

Getting that distant FM radio station tuned in *just right*.

Checking your answering machine when you got home.

Folding up a manual convertible top in the rain. (or leaving it at home and driving in the rain getting stared at by all the other cars thinking you were the idiot that you were)

The cha-chunk sound an 8-track made in the middle of a long song.

Collecting points for the Radio Shack Battery Club.

(maybe not totally obsolete, but not done) Drinking water out of any random neighbor's hose in the summer.

Making Christmas wreaths out of folded punch cards and spray painting them gold.

Souping up your bicycle with baseball cards attached to the wheels with clothespins.

Shoot, to remember any more I would need a bong hit. Oh! Home made Bongs. Cleaning pot on record covers.

It's a weird one but I miss not being able to hear songs or knowing what they are. Any song you want now is a click away, but it used to take sometimes decades to find a track or even how to start to look for it.

Never knowing who was calling until you picked up the phone. Back in 60s and 70s, there weren't even answering machines, so if you didn't pick up, no idea who called.

And on the other side of that coin, when you called somebody and they didn't answer, you know it's not because they didn't want to task to you. It's because they weren't available.

Hitchhiking to out door concerts back in the 70's.Freedom. When we had to get somewhere- we would hitchhike. Violence made it obsolete.

Notes left on the kitchen table.

I miss the friendly arguments that we used to have about who was the better ballplayer. Nowadays you can look up statistics immediately, but in the 70's and 80's it was your word again your buddies as to who was better.