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[VOOK]

I posted this list elsewhere and got a bunch of 18 year olds going "This whole "gen Y is too retarded to know left from right" bullshit is annoying as hell".

Had to point out to them that list is talking about kids in the future, not around today. Fucking idiots living up to their own hated stereotype.

 

[DJ_Tet]

Fuck that.. Using alcohol with a qtip on the cartrige!

Double stacking NES cartriges in the NES to be able to play!

Finally..

UP, DOWN, UP , DOWN, Left, Right, Left, right, B, A, Start!

Heh I forgot about sliding in another NES cart to force the loaded cart down and make it work.

Got your code a little messed up there

007-373-5963

 

[Jonny The Pie King]

101. Walking to school, in the snow, uphill. Both ways - to school and back!






You kids get off my lawn!!

Technically, I did this :lol

Last year we had to pay for parking at our school, and it was only about a mile walk. It did have a large dip in it, so when it snowed (in Minnesota here), I did technically have to walk to school in the slow, uphill both ways. Of course when the path wasn't plowed, that was fun. Snow was actually up to my waist at the very bottom once :lol

Also, I never had the issue with the Playstation, NES carts though, man...my dad told me never to blow on them, as it would only make it worse, but I so did anyway.

 

[Zoramon089]

"45.Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment"

This one made me :lol




This also! I remember having to rewind my dads VHS porno so he didnt know i'd watched them! :lol

Lol VHS porn. For me it was all about Pay per view and trying to make out the weird shapes and colors from not having paid for the porn station. The audio came out crystal clear though...

 

[Scuba Steve]

I wouldn't give my childhood for anything!

I do not envy the children of the future, not even slightly.

 

[Steven_Jitters]

87.Swimming pools with diving boards.

Why are there less diving boards in pools now?

 

[Hitokage]

Man, over half of these are bullshit. The author doesn't have a firm grasp of past, present, or future.

 

[AkuMifune]

Man, over half of these are bullshit. The author doesn't have a firm grasp of past, present, or future.

It's just harmless nostalgia for the period of time in which we grew up. It all goes in circles. Might as well start feeling sad our great-great-grandkids won't know about computers because they're all cool cyberpunks with built in nanomachines. Bastards.

 

[Hitokage]

It's just harmless nostalgia for the period of time in which we grew up. It all goes in circles. Might as well start feeling sad our great-great-grandkids won't know about computers because they're all cool cyberpunks with built in nanomachines. Bastards.

Nah, I meant things like not waiting long periods of time for a download or freeing up space on one's HD. Bittorrent disproves both.

 

[Osuwari]

hmm i remember using windows 3.1 and 5 inches floppy disks. my dad has been always ahead of his time and we had a computer at home in 1992. it had DOS before my dad got windows 3.1. i still remember some commands and rules that were used to operate DOS.
also, those were the days operating a computer didn't require a mouse.

 

[AstroLad]

Voodoo Memory Manager

 

[XiaNaphryz]

Voodoo Memory Manager

Bah, just use QEMM to manage your EMM386 settings.

Writing custom batch files that swapped out your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, auto-rebooted your system, then load a specific game was awesome damnit.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

97.Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall.

When a new quality Fighter hit the mall, oh the fun I'd have. $50 was not unheard of (Tekken 3 or MvC2 especially) and that was BEFORE they crew would turn off pay for play and we'd monkey with movesets. Not allowance though, but a healthy chunk of paycheck.

 

[Battlezone]

That long ass list, and no mention of the Dewey Decimal System or card catalogs? Although, I'm sure today's kids don't actually know about that.

 

[Corwood Rep]

Also, my grandparents have a rotary phone which I still use. All I know is that it's like 60 years old and still works, even though I burn through cell phones once every year or so.

 

[Xenon]

The entertainment value of old TV shows like Alice, Sanford and Son, Andy Giffith Show, The Rockford Files...

 

[Team Jones]

7.High-speed dubbing
11.MiniDisc

I have fond memories of both of these.
I had a Sony and Sharp MiniDisc player. (minidisco anyone?)
I remember my Brother introducing me to High-speed dubbing. It was Notorious BIG - Ready to Die. I had no idea I could dub so fast!

 

[SPACECADET]

may be blaspheme, even to me. but i kinda wanna hit the restart button on technology, or at least set it back to like the 80's. hell, time travel to the 80's. i wanna destroy my cellphone and only accept calls from my home phone, be excited for 30 some channels after going from local antenna to basic cable. i miss a lot of simple things sometimes.

 

[DJ_Tet]

Bah, just use QEMM to manage your EMM386 settings.

Writing custom batch files that swapped out your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, auto-rebooted your system, then load a specific game was awesome damnit.

lol custom boot disks were both awesome and maddening at the same time. Sometimes juggling enough memory to load the game plus mouse drivers was damn near impossible!

 

[DJ_Tet]

That long ass list, and no mention of the Dewey Decimal System or card catalogs? Although, I'm sure today's kids don't actually know about that.

You should read it again, there was one or two mentions of card catalogs in there.

 

[harSon]

I just figured that after a few hours, you know, the kids might want to see the countryside. Or maybe their parents wouldn't be in such a rush to fuck up their attention spans.

I never looked out the window, not because I didn't want to, but because I get extremely car sick if I do anything other then look at something inside the car

 

[CorporalDork]

You forgot the 40 miles.

And the single wooden shoe.

 

[itxaka]

Bah, just use QEMM to manage your EMM386 settings.

Writing custom batch files that swapped out your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, auto-rebooted your system, then load a specific game was awesome damnit.

Argh the memories!

31.Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load.

I remeber doing this but thinking that it was probably an hoax because the guy who told me about it was a huge lier.

 

[Uncle]

78.Neat handwriting

Hah. I dread the moments I have to take notes by hand...

 

[Outtrigger888]

Technically, I did this :lol

Last year we had to pay for parking at our school, and it was only about a mile walk. It did have a large dip in it, so when it snowed (in Minnesota here), I did technically have to walk to school in the slow, uphill both ways. Of course when the path wasn't plowed, that was fun. Snow was actually up to my waist at the very bottom once :lol

Also, I never had the issue with the Playstation, NES carts though, man...my dad told me never to blow on them, as it would only make it worse, but I so did anyway.

What city do you live in, I have a feeling its the same as mine.

 

[Visualante]

18.Wired. OK, so we’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long

Wired lists are so dull.

 

[ChoklitReign]

may be blaspheme, even to me. but i kinda wanna hit the restart button on technology, or at least set it back to like the 80's. hell, time travel to the 80's. i wanna destroy my cellphone and only accept calls from my home phone, be excited for 30 some channels after going from local antenna to basic cable. i miss a lot of simple things sometimes.

Fuck you. If we did that we would have to get porn and music the hard way.

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

78.Neat handwriting

Hah. I dread the moments I have to take notes by hand...

I used to write in extremely neat cursive hand writing when I was younger....but now, wow, it's like an odd mixture of print/cursive chicken scratch. The computer keyboard has completely ruined me.

I still have some old school assignments and I'm amazed I was about to write, well, so elegant and almost pretty like, but damn if I can even do that now. :lol

 

[Regulus Tera]

53.Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.

I used to wait days to watch a twenty-minute long video.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

43.Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words.

 

[Zeona]

53.Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something.

bandwidth will increase, but so will the size of content. at least the author used "may" instead of "will" and a good portion of the list is correct, I mean theres a lot on that list that I never experienced so its possible that future generations wont even know that stuff existed in the first place.

 

[ymmv]

The writer missed out one of the most obious: offline internet.

We're all used to having an internet connection running for 24 hours a day now, but I remember the days I had to use a modem to dial in to my ISP. I had to be careful not to run up insane telephone charges so I was online for 1 hour a day at most, otherwise it would get too expensive.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

I don't miss anything from that list, except 104: Common sense.

That long ass list, and no mention of the Dewey Decimal System or card catalogs?

Dewey decimal is still around

 

[Eteric Rice]

No, they'll know about the NES carts.

Oh they'll know...

 

[zoukka]

And I'm glad about it.

 

[Rorschach]

Nah, I meant things like not waiting long periods of time for a download or freeing up space on one's HD. Bittorrent disproves both.

I dunno... I haven't had to wait more than 45 minutes for a download in forever. Also haven't had to delete much with 2 1TB HDDs. I'm guessing my kids will have higher capacity hard drives and better connections.

I remember downloading something over several DAYS. Leaving it on overnight hoping no one calls. :lol Resume was a godsend!

The whole article is tongue-in-cheek anyway.

 

[Arozay]

I still use VCR for the odd taping. >_>

 

[Commodore_Perry]

101. When people dresses all in black and acted like they didn't give a fuck, were antisocial and smoked a lot, wore lots of chains, crosses, spiked shit, pale, acting down... were called goths, not emo, nor vampires.

Here, let me fix that for you:

101. When you were actually afraid of someone who dressed in all black with spikes and chains and shit, instead of loathing them.

True story time!
When I was 13 my best friend's older brother was the scariest motherfucker I'd ever met. Before my friend and I became friends he was just the intimidating punk guy that walked through the field behind my house.
When my friend introduced us, his brother was washing blood off of his steel-toed Doc Martens. He had just gotten back from curb-stomping a guy that did some inappropriate things to one of his friend's sisters.
Luckily the guy lived and only suffered a broken jaw and a few busted teeth. He was too afraid to rat out the guy who did it to him, since by buddy's brother ran with a pretty tough crowd.

 

[Ashour]

Local MP

 

[PetriP-TNT]

I'm not THAT old and luckily I have experienced most of those.

 

[Salazar]

Me and my kids will be living in the jungle, so screw all of that anyway.

 

[ZeoVGM]

This list feels like the "good old days" type whining. :\

Or it's just a fun list about things that are kids would laugh at the idea of?

Jeez, some of you will find a way to nitpick anything.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Some of these surprise me in that it's already something that I laugh at. I can't remember the last time I had to remember a phone number. I literally can't think of a single friend or family member's phone number.

 

[rpmurphy]

Will Smith making a theme song for the movie he stars in.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

I never looked out the window, not because I didn't want to, but because I get extremely car sick if I do anything other then look at something inside the car

I'm the exact opposite: I can't read a book or do any portable gaming in a car as I'll have a raging headache for the remainder of the day. It blows.

 

[Neverender]

Will Smith making a theme song for the movie he stars in.

What is the world coming to...

 

[Ceres]

A bunch of those things already apply to teens today. We probably had our last rotary dial tv when I was 12 which would have been 1993.

One thing they forgot was tv guide channel. Before digital tv I used to spend so much time waiting to find out what was on tv. And of course, half the time you tune in just after it went by the channels you're interested in.

 

[Kozak]

I know a lot of these things and I'm only turning 17..

 

[Escape Goat]

So, are we blindfolding kids in the future?

Cars have DVD players now.

 

[Ourobolus]

Finally..

UP, DOWN, UP , DOWN, Left, Right, Left, right, B, A, Start!

Methinks you are already forgetting this.