Things Kids Of Today Won’t Understand

Today’s Kid Won’t Understand

Being a kid born prior to the millennium, I’ve had my fair share of VCR tapes, floppy disks and Beverly Hills 90210. Kids today are connected on their smartphones and tablets that they simply don’t understand the struggles of having to call on someone and see if they could come out and play after dinner.

While we were watching Saturday morning cartoons and gobbling down fruit loops, kids are now watching Keeping Up With The Kardasians while shopping online. While every generation has their perks, here are some things that children of today will never understand.

Dial-Up Internet

Waiting for someone to put down the phone so that you could finally dial-up to the Internet was such a home drama. Yelling and arguments broke out so often that mum and dad had to step in. The result: nobody could use the phone at all. The nerve…

Kazaa and Limewire

Not that any of us would illegally download music or anything but if we were to download music, we used Kazaa and Limewire, consequently infecting and destroying our parents’ computers.

Logging onto MSN

Remember logging onto MSN and never signing off? You would never do your homework because you would talk to your crush the whole night.

Encyclopedia

Google was not around during then. So we had to depend on stacks of books called the Encyclopedia. What is it? Go Google it.

Developing Films

Gone are the days of putting a roll of film into a camera and then having to develop it afterwards. You’ll find that half of the photos developed are under or over exposed. You’ll never be able to get that pose again!

Game Boy

The handheld video game device that occupies our hands day in, day out and if it didn’t save properly…it ends up smashed against a wall.

Bubble Furniture

Bubble inflatable furniture was the rage when it popped up during that decade. Every family had to have one of those bright see-through pieces in their living room or outdoors.

Dial Phone

It’s a tedious task to phone someone back then, the agony of waiting for each number to be dialled and being limited to the area around the phone; and the line cut off when someone trips over that dreaded cord!

No Caller ID

Every phone call was a mystery! We just pick it up to solve the puzzle. Today we can choose to proactively avoid and ignore people.

Asking For Directions

Who needs humans giving mostly confusing and indecipherable directions on how to get somewhere when you just have your phone and Google Maps?

Is There A Need To Understand?

All this are pretty self-explanatory to us but kids today would be wondering what we meant by developing films and processing it at the shops. Try explaining and see their reaction. Ahh, the wonders of pre-millennium moments…