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Post by brownrexx on Aug 14, 2018 8:15:05 GMT -5
I saw a cute story about things that we experienced in our youth that today's teenagers will never have to deal with.
I thought that it might be fun to start a thread and list some things that we think that today's teen's will never see.
Just list one item. I'll start.
Call a house with a land line and awkwardly ask if that person is home. "Hello is Mary there?"
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Post by spike on Aug 14, 2018 8:21:16 GMT -5
Encyclopedias for reports!
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Post by ahntjudy on Aug 14, 2018 8:49:18 GMT -5
...Need pocket change to use a pay phone...
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Post by ladymarmalade on Aug 14, 2018 10:47:24 GMT -5
Mix Tapes.
When I was a teenager I wasted SO much time listening to the radio, listening for my favorite songs and hastily pushing both the play and record buttons at the same time to capture them for listening later. I always hated it when the DJ talked over the beginning or the end of the song!
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Post by meandtk on Aug 14, 2018 12:21:48 GMT -5
Long play albums. Say what? It's a large cd,young'n !
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 14, 2018 19:02:28 GMT -5
Use a typewriter or even know HOW to use a typewriter!
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Post by daylilydude on Aug 15, 2018 4:35:03 GMT -5
Change the channel... and have to get up and go do it... and then have to go outside to turn the antenna to get a better picture.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Aug 15, 2018 13:30:50 GMT -5
Or when I was a kid, I * WAS* the remote control, and sometimes the antenna as well. And of course, when I was holding the rabbit ears over the TV in the most awkward position possible, Dad would say, "Right there! Stay still!" So there I would be stuck, at least until the nightly news was over. At least I grew up informed as to the day's events. Being the supplemental rabbit ears was still better than later on when we got a big outdoor antenna and Dad made me go out to adjust it. Then I was standing on a ladder whatever the weather, listening for Dad yelling directions out the window and trying to wrestle that big antenna to comply. Of course, the perfect position for the antenna was the one position that it absolutely, positively would NOT stay in. So I would get yelled at every time I let the antenna go. At least Dad never made me stand on the ladder through a whole newscast.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Aug 15, 2018 13:35:50 GMT -5
On a related note, here's something today's teens never have to worry about: missing your ONE chance to see a movie. If you didn't get to see a movie in the theater, all you could do was hope that it would come on TV (edited down to PG if needed - and filled with commercials) years later. And you would probably get ONE chance to watch it on TV unless it was super-popular.
Though by the 80s we at least had VCRs with recording timers so if you could figure out your VCR you could record the movie to watch later and fast forward through the commercials.
Now of course you can get a huge number of movies and TV shows on demand, 24 hours a day, from one of the gazillion streaming services out there, many of them commercial-free.
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