Without revealing your age, what’s something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?

[Dalek]

I saw this Twitter question screenshotted and I liked the answers.

My daughter and I were watching an X-Files episode from 1995. A character was driving a 1995 car and literally rolled down their windows. My daughter had a look of realization on her face and said "So that's why they call it ROLLING down a window!"

 

[ScubaSteve693]

Getting that orange VHS tape from Blockbuster to watch Goodburger.

 

[Senator Toadstool]

you can't talk on the phone and go on the internet at the same time

 

[Username1198]

Getting that orange VHS tape from Blockbuster to watch Goodburger.

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having to wait a few minutes so the tape would rewind to the beginning or they would charge lmao

my contribution was going to be making a mixtape by recording songs off the radio......

 

[Monster Zero]

Rotary phones.

 

[Alex3190]

Holy moly... I totally forgot about channel 3.
So glad that I had that RF adapter for that Nintendo system.

 

[Deleted member 6582]

Getting that orange VHS tape from Blockbuster to watch Goodburger.

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Please be kind, rewind.

 

[B.K.]

Rotary phones.

Floppy discs.

Rewinding cassette tapes.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

You have a collect call from "Pickmeupatthepool."

 

[ibyea]

Are floppy disks to the point where current 10 years old wouldn't understand? Because floppy disks.

 

[Phantom]

I once played Smash TV on the go, and it wasn't even with a Game Boy
Also obligatory phone lines and 56k Internet making it impossible to receive a call while online (though some houses had the FANCY two lines thing)

 

[astro]

Spokey dokeys.

 

[Deleted member 8901]

goatse

 

[Dalek]

You have a collect call from "Pickmeupatthepool."

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[Indelible]

Having to buy magazines to get video game news and walkthroughs.

 

[Cantaim]

Zoobooks

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

config.sys

 

[nsilvias]

when i was your age my allowance went to batteries

Spoiler

handheld gaming was a struggle back in the day. i use check for sales on batteries like a hawk. handhelds only starting using rechargable batteries sometime during elementary school

 

[Teh_Lurv]

Are floppy disks to the point where current 10 years old wouldn't understand? Because floppy disks.

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I was about to reply that I think a lot of people under the age of twenty probably don't realize the save icon in PC applications represents a floppy disk.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Rewinding a cassette tape with a pencil.
Having a "video game system" that you could just play Pong on. To be fair, as I recall it had three versions of Pong so that was something.

 

[AndyD]

You have a collect call from "Pickmeupatthepool."

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aha, i forgot about that.

 

[karmaforgotme]

- Party phone lines. Now these were insane. The line was assigned to a neighborhood or block (each house had their own number tho). That would mean there was only one line for that area, and you couldn't use your phone until your neighbor got off the line. This would lead to people picking lines up and listening to calls of neighbors. My parents had one up until 1985 I think.

- TV channels ending broadcasts at night and going to white noise until the morning hours.
- The joy of found porn (usually magazines) in the woods or on the side of the road.

 

[ManNR]

Ranger Rick, Captain Planet, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, & the Toxic Avenger all told me that recycling was important, effective, & would save the earth.

 

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[ibyea]

Blowing on cartridge before putting it in game console.

 

[Deleted member 13496]

It was channel 4 for us.

Maybe a Canadian thing? Or just where I grew up.

Also, smoking in restaurants WITH your kids.

McDonalds' Pizza

 

[Gawge]

Teletext

 

[Deleted member 6582]

config.sys

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AUTOEXEC.BAT

 

[TheBiInBilingual]

paying for texts.

 

[mikhailguy]

watching music videos on tv

 

[thoughthaver]

goatse

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its rare but people still get goatse'd to this day. and no i'm not speaking from experience

 

[egg]

They put the crack in cracker.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

You used to have to manually connect to the internet, and it would make an unholy screeching noise while you did so, and also knock you off your phone, which was 100% a landline phone.

 

[Catalix]

Don't touch that dial!

 

[entremet]

Holy moly... I totally forgot about channel 3.
So glad that I had that RF adapter for that Nintendo system.

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Right lol.

I went to composite quicky with the SNES. The fact that the cables were packed in helped tons. NES and Genesis were RF though.

 

[Violence Jack]

Getting your porn fix in the 80s and 90s unless you had Cinemax or Showtime.

Also, pagers and pay phones.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

You have a collect call from "Pickmeupatthepool."

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This is a good one, phone booths in general

Also road trips with my parents in their big station wagon, laying in the back, stretched out, no seatbelts

This exact car

 

[super-famicom]

Blow on the cartridge to get it to work.

 

[Couleurs]

We had to hit the side of our TV when it wasn't working right (color issues, bad reception, etc). And that usually fixed it.

 

[Man God]

Are floppy disks to the point where current 10 years old wouldn't understand? Because floppy disks.

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CDs are at that point, Optical media in general.

 

[The Albatross]

The soundtrack of my life

 

[ExtremelyBitter]

The idea that for a lot of movies, the only way to ever own a copy was to wait for a rental store to put used ones up for sale because movies often just didn't come out to buy

Losing a term paper to inserting a Windows disc into a supposedly compatible Mac and having it reformat it

Memory card or you can't save your game; being able to play games without memory cards and lose 10 hours of progress if the thing reset

 

[Horsefly]

Buying a vinyl record wasn't a statement

 

[Jesse_and_the_rippers]

Paging each other in code, and deciphering it.

 

[Dalek]

Getting your porn fix in the 80s and 90s unless you had Cinemax or Showtime.

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My friends and I noticed that if it was a scene with a lot of water- like at a pool or the ocean, the image would clear up. My friend was going to try putting his TV in a fishtank.

 

[Zache]

Are floppy disks to the point where current 10 years old wouldn't understand? Because floppy disks.

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current 20 year olds probably wouldn''t understand floppy disks man

 

[Alex3190]

Right lol.

I went to composite quicky with the SNES. The fact that the cables were packed in helped tons. NES and Genesis were RF though.

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I remember growing up with a TV that didn't have composite inputs.

So I had rf on both NES and SNES.

Now I'm trying to remember whether the NES and SNES had the same cable connectors on the back.

 

[lazerface]

Josta

 

[Jakenbakin]

Having a portable cd player.

Then even later, having a CD player with electronic skip protection :o

 

[Stone Cold]

Getting your porn fix in the 80s and 90s unless you had Cinemax or Showtime.

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I remember watching when my parents weren't home and you would hear elevator music over the top of it. I remember my grandpa picking me up to go to school and hearing that music from the hallway as he watched that channel while I was getting ready for school.