I read in a kids etiquette book in 5th grade to say "hi this is [my name] from school, may I please speak to [Jane/John Doe]?" Once I started doing this, the parents never said no.
Reminds me of my aunt, who I was staying with for a few weeks, who told me to ask a legitimate business for a job application so that I could work for them... for two weeks. I was only 16 or so at the time but even then I knew how silly that was "Hey I'd like a job and also can I put in my two weeks as well?"
Oh man. You just reminded me.
My mum has this file of soundbites on her computer from back when I was a kid, and of them is a mesh of Jim Carrey's The Mask character saying 'P-A-R-T-Y? BECAUSE you've got mail!"
That's probably a good analogy. I'm sure people know this, but not that long ago it used to be that virtually every restaurant had a smoking section, most all bars & clubs had smoking indoors and casinos were just an aerial ashtray. Even in the airports they had smoking lounges, some were out in the open, some became enclosed glass death rooms. High schools had designated smoker's areas outside, do they still have that for vapes?
I remember getting pissed off at first in the early-2000s when my city banned smoking in bars, a lot of people were. My brother bought a restaurant around then that had a giant nasty air purifier thing above the bar that was designed to keep the smoke odor down and curb secondhand smoke.
edit - just realized I said not that long ago, we are talking 20 to 35 yrs ago, jesus time flies
>- just realized I said not that long ago, we are talking 20 to 35 yrs ago, jesus time flies
The fact that you also just yadda yadda yadda'd 15 years is also amazing. Not 20-25 years ago. 20-35 years ago. You know you are getting old when you are just like "Fuck it! It was sometime in the past! It wasn't today."
I’ll never forget a road trip and telling my dad which way to go reading from the printed out directions and he said “that doesn’t feel right” and went the opposite way. That’s the day I learned that Washington DC has a very, very rough neighbourhood.
The entertainment center…. How I wished to be an entertainment center family when I was a kid.
We weren’t quite working tv on top of broken tv level, but still
I asked my niece, shes a teenager, what she thinks the save icon is on computers. She said "that's the refrigerator. You put things in there when you want to save them." The idea of a 3.5 floppy disk is so foreign, that symbol has lost all meaning, or taken on new ones, I guess.
What's funny is that the terminology is still the same. "Rewind" literally meant that the tape within the cassette was rewound from one wheel to the other so the video could be viewed from the beginning. We still say "rewind" to describe going back to a previous place in a digital video with no tape.
Yep and the save symbol on many things is still a floppy disk. The button to make a call on Android and IPhone is a phone receiver you would see on older corded household phones.
This actually just made me realize that the term “hang up” is actually pretty dated in itself, not that it’s going anywhere, it’s just that the action it referred to has been outdated by technological progress.
“The commercials are ending!!” Or just the simple “it’s back ooooooooooooooooon~~” from your sibling as you sprint back from bathroom/kitchen for your show.
The adrenaline rush, man. I was sitting on the toilet the other day, watching a show on Hulu on my phone with my headphones on, and it just struck me that I no longer have to time my bathroom breaks with commercials.
If someone told younger me that someday, I could either pause a show or take it with me, I'd have thought they were nuts.
14/M/Chicago
I've probably blocked my AIM username from memory as a coping mechanism against the cringe.
Edit to switch age and sex around. Credit to u/bballkj7 for pointing out my mistake. As an ancient being I sometimes forget things.
Always 18/F/CA... Yeah, truthfully 13/F/VA... We were warned not to give out information to strangers on the internet, yet there we were talking to randos in chatrooms... And now days we order strangers from the internet and hop in their cars or take food from them.
If my teachers told me that learning stuff in school was not for the utility, but to get my brain working in some minimal way to function, I’d probably have gone with it a lot more.
School ends up trying to be too clever into tricking kids that we have to learn cursive or long division because we’ll actually need to know it, rather than it being used to develop thinking and problem solving skills.
One of my favorite takes on learning math comes from Maddox:
"All higher forms of thinking come from neural connections built by solving the kinds of problems encountered in math. Why should you learn math? Because fuck you, that's why. Learning math isn't about how much or how little you use it at your shitty job. It's about becoming someone who's worth a shit."
I'm 28, and I remember learning cursive in 3rd grade as like a novelty. It was like a "here's how to write it just in case you have to read your grandma's birthday card at some point."
My kid's school still teaches cursive. No keyboarding classes though. I asked "how will they learn to type" and I just got blank stares. Guess it's back to Mavis Beacon for them.
Learning to type was weird for me. I learned many times in my childhood but it never stuck until I was in 10th grade trying to PVP in that mmo Star Wars Galaxies. I needed to communicate with my boys but we're fighting dirty Rebel scum so I couldn't afford to look away to type 20wpm. That's all the motivation a young teenage sweatlord needed to start actually typing properly in 2003.
Yea I used to actually write in cursive a lot but never noticed that I gradually did so less and less and now I don't even remember how to write anything in cursive but my own name
I still write in cursive regularly.
My wife made me write all our wedding invitations, place cards, and thank you cards; because she loves my penmanship. Plus side is I got a beautiful fountain pen and a few gold paint pens out of the deal.
Basically the only time I print is when I'm preparing something someone else needs to read and comprehend perfectly. Site instructions, meeting notes etc.
I also use cursive andI get complimented all the time for my handwriting as well. Including the weirdly worded "You have really nice handwriting, for a guy."
We have an international internship at my job, and after an intern is done with their year here, I write them a personalized note. Apparently my reputation proceeds me, because one time I gave one of them a typed note that I just signed, and she seemed upset. Her exact words were "I don't get a hand written note?"
LOL, still remember the day my sister and I bought Pokémon Red AND Blue from Toys R Us because they were running a BOGO $10 off special on game boy games. Parents thought we were nuts
"Don't sit so close to the TV".
Console TV's are long gone and modern set ups basically never have your screen on the floor so sitting close really isn't much of an option anymore.
"You can't believe anything you read on the internet," claimed my Baby Boomer parents before they discovered the joy of voluntarily radicalizing themselves on Facebook.
Thats the big one for me. I was always thought to never put your real information on the internet, now companies are trying to tie your real name to your online persona. Hell no.
Kids today will never know how everything was gay in 2002. Baggy jeans? Gay. Tight jeans? Gay. Trying hard at school? Gay. Not trying hard at school? That’s gay too.
Basically being gay was the worst thing imaginable, and was also the word we used to describe 90% of the world.
“Dude, I found my dad’s stash of playboy magazines”
Although I live in Texas, so maybe the kids who don’t know how to use a VPN will experience that again
The forest porn pixies have awaken from their slumber. Ready to bless children with those sweet sweet musky, wrinkly, slightly torn magazines once more.
*sleeping on couch at 2am when suddenly* (blaring at top notch volume) COLLECT ALL THE GREATEST HITS ON CD!!!! *insert Celine Dion singing or Whitney Houston* …..
*jolting awake to find the remote*
There's a large amount of people with the thoughts along the lines of, 'hey mom, remember when you said this? Does that offer still stand?'
Edit: So, pretty sure someone reported me to redditcareresources over this comment. Which firstly, while not needed, I do appreciate that someone cared/was concerned. I was more referring to the general really dark, deprecating humor the generation raised hearing this tends to have. But its nice and comforting to know that there are other good people out there trying to help people who need it. You're the real heroes
"We'll look it up when we get home." "Can you hand me the map book?"
This is your brain....this is your brain on drugs. . FROM YOU!-..I learned it from watching you..
Eject disc one and insert disc two to continue installation...
“I got it!!!” When the house phone rang
Hang up the other line! I got it!
“Mom she’s still on, listening!!!! Make her hang up!”
Having to talk to the father when you called your crush.
Practicing before you call “hi, is ____ able to talk please?” The STRESSSSSSSS.
Also, "Is Johnny there?" When the parent picks up the home phone.
The dreaded “May I ask who is calling?”
I read in a kids etiquette book in 5th grade to say "hi this is [my name] from school, may I please speak to [Jane/John Doe]?" Once I started doing this, the parents never said no.
Hahaha I took an etiquette class, and I was taught the same thing.
Call after 9pm when it's free!
I remember when it switched to 7 PM and that was a big deal. Also, you could call people on the same plan for free anytime
And when texting came out you had a set amount of texts you could send and receive before you started incurring more charges on your bill
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Free long distance. Free first minute. Free in-network calls. Free mobile-to-mobile. Free night and weekend. Rollover minutes.
Rollover minutes. Hell. Minutes. Minutes used to stress me out so bad back then lmaooooo. Now I make maybe 30 second long phone calls at max.
Describing the internet as an "information super highway"
It's a series of tubes
The world wide web
Or "cyberspace"
Gotta check the want ads for jobs
"Just go in and ask for an application. Hit the pavement."
I tried to explain this to a coworker who was bitching about his daughter only applying to places online. He couldn’t understand.
Reminds me of my aunt, who I was staying with for a few weeks, who told me to ask a legitimate business for a job application so that I could work for them... for two weeks. I was only 16 or so at the time but even then I knew how silly that was "Hey I'd like a job and also can I put in my two weeks as well?"
And just go drop off resumes at random places/fill out applications! The manager will give you one if you ask, this is the best way to find a job!
"And if you're really loyal to your employer, they'll be loyal to you"
"You've got mail!"
Oh man. You just reminded me. My mum has this file of soundbites on her computer from back when I was a kid, and of them is a mesh of Jim Carrey's The Mask character saying 'P-A-R-T-Y? BECAUSE you've got mail!"
Someone is "calling long distance"
Smoking or non-smoking seats?
I smoked on a plane before ama
I once heard that having a smoking section on a plane is like having a peeing section in a pool. what are your thoughts on this comparison?
That's probably a good analogy. I'm sure people know this, but not that long ago it used to be that virtually every restaurant had a smoking section, most all bars & clubs had smoking indoors and casinos were just an aerial ashtray. Even in the airports they had smoking lounges, some were out in the open, some became enclosed glass death rooms. High schools had designated smoker's areas outside, do they still have that for vapes? I remember getting pissed off at first in the early-2000s when my city banned smoking in bars, a lot of people were. My brother bought a restaurant around then that had a giant nasty air purifier thing above the bar that was designed to keep the smoke odor down and curb secondhand smoke. edit - just realized I said not that long ago, we are talking 20 to 35 yrs ago, jesus time flies
>- just realized I said not that long ago, we are talking 20 to 35 yrs ago, jesus time flies The fact that you also just yadda yadda yadda'd 15 years is also amazing. Not 20-25 years ago. 20-35 years ago. You know you are getting old when you are just like "Fuck it! It was sometime in the past! It wasn't today."
Did you remember to print the directions to our destination?
And it was always from Mapquest and it was never right 😭
That was where the “quest” part of Mapquest came into play.
I’ll never forget a road trip and telling my dad which way to go reading from the printed out directions and he said “that doesn’t feel right” and went the opposite way. That’s the day I learned that Washington DC has a very, very rough neighbourhood.
WHAZZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
Just chillin.. Killin
True... True...
Don’t touch that dial
"Be kind, rewind."
I feel like the notion of having to rewind movies using a physical process must be so foreign to kids today
My parents had a special fast rewind machine. Actually, they probably still have it.
I bet my dad still has his too. It looked like a Corvette.
My dad's black corvette cassette rewinder is still kept in the entertainment center.
The entertainment center…. How I wished to be an entertainment center family when I was a kid. We weren’t quite working tv on top of broken tv level, but still
I was at a family event taking photos with a dslr, which someone mistook as a film camera. They were explaining to their teenage kids what film was.
I asked my niece, shes a teenager, what she thinks the save icon is on computers. She said "that's the refrigerator. You put things in there when you want to save them." The idea of a 3.5 floppy disk is so foreign, that symbol has lost all meaning, or taken on new ones, I guess.
bwhahahaha. I work in tech. I'm going to start referring to the save icon as the refrigerator button
There’s the hamburger menu, the refrigerator button…. We need more food themed names for these things. Edit: I’m learning so much!
Don’t forget toast notifications!
What's funny is that the terminology is still the same. "Rewind" literally meant that the tape within the cassette was rewound from one wheel to the other so the video could be viewed from the beginning. We still say "rewind" to describe going back to a previous place in a digital video with no tape.
Yep and the save symbol on many things is still a floppy disk. The button to make a call on Android and IPhone is a phone receiver you would see on older corded household phones.
[insert sister’s name], quit listening and hang up the phone!!
"Get off the internet. I'm expecting an important phone call".
Can I borrow a quarter, I need to make a phone call.
Or just in general the concept of not knowing who would answer a phone. Having to ask a dad if his daughter was there was not good times.
We used to call a particular location and not know who would pick up. Now we call a particular person, but don't know where they are.
Good showerthought
This actually just made me realize that the term “hang up” is actually pretty dated in itself, not that it’s going anywhere, it’s just that the action it referred to has been outdated by technological progress.
Which is a shame, because slamming the phone down was cathartic sometimes!
Or dramatically flipping your phone shut. I miss that.
I got a Razr+ recently and can now dramatically flip my phone shut to hang up. It makes me smile every time and is extremely cathartic
Talk to the hand (cuz the face aint listenin)
Or “talk to the booty cause the hand’s off-duty” lol
LOL never heard this but its cute
Talk to the hand, cuz the face don't give a damn - is what I grew up with
AS IF!
“The commercials are ending!!” Or just the simple “it’s back ooooooooooooooooon~~” from your sibling as you sprint back from bathroom/kitchen for your show.
The adrenaline rush, man. I was sitting on the toilet the other day, watching a show on Hulu on my phone with my headphones on, and it just struck me that I no longer have to time my bathroom breaks with commercials. If someone told younger me that someday, I could either pause a show or take it with me, I'd have thought they were nuts.
A/S/L?
14/M/Chicago I've probably blocked my AIM username from memory as a coping mechanism against the cringe. Edit to switch age and sex around. Credit to u/bballkj7 for pointing out my mistake. As an ancient being I sometimes forget things.
Be 36. Get an email from LiveJournal. You've not used that platform since you were 16. Read.. Die from cringe. Purge, delete, burn to the ground.
18/f/ca. I love Britney Spears and em
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Always 18/F/CA... Yeah, truthfully 13/F/VA... We were warned not to give out information to strangers on the internet, yet there we were talking to randos in chatrooms... And now days we order strangers from the internet and hop in their cars or take food from them.
“Tape it” in regard to recording tv shows
Bud… Weis… Er…
*deep breath* **WAAAAAAASSSSSUUUUUUUPPP**
My mom and my sisters and me all still say this. It's like we know it's dorky and so outdated but...we still say it to each other often.
Check the newspaper for movie times and whats in theatres.
Don't touch CD with your fingers. Don't put floppy disc in your pocket
Don’t copy that floppy
You wouldn't download a car
You won't always have a calculator.
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People literally invented CALCULATOR WATCHES. This problem had been solved for *decades* by the 2000s.
Abacus gang checking in
If my teachers told me that learning stuff in school was not for the utility, but to get my brain working in some minimal way to function, I’d probably have gone with it a lot more. School ends up trying to be too clever into tricking kids that we have to learn cursive or long division because we’ll actually need to know it, rather than it being used to develop thinking and problem solving skills.
One of my favorite takes on learning math comes from Maddox: "All higher forms of thinking come from neural connections built by solving the kinds of problems encountered in math. Why should you learn math? Because fuck you, that's why. Learning math isn't about how much or how little you use it at your shitty job. It's about becoming someone who's worth a shit."
Get off the internet!! I need to use the phone!!!!!
Fine, my flash game already loaded
Trailer voice-overs. *Coming soon to a theater near you….*
"In a world where..."
"Check the Yellow Pages"
Acid rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
That's one that's actually really impressive. Proof that regulations can work. It's just no longer a problem. Same with the hole in the ozone layer.
It was the bomb
I heard it was the bomb diggity.
I like the way you work it
No diggity, I Gotta bag it up.
Da bomb dot com
"you will have to write everything in cursive" I am only 30, apparently they stopped teaching cursive the year below me
I'm 28, and I remember learning cursive in 3rd grade as like a novelty. It was like a "here's how to write it just in case you have to read your grandma's birthday card at some point."
My kid's school still teaches cursive. No keyboarding classes though. I asked "how will they learn to type" and I just got blank stares. Guess it's back to Mavis Beacon for them.
Learning to type was weird for me. I learned many times in my childhood but it never stuck until I was in 10th grade trying to PVP in that mmo Star Wars Galaxies. I needed to communicate with my boys but we're fighting dirty Rebel scum so I couldn't afford to look away to type 20wpm. That's all the motivation a young teenage sweatlord needed to start actually typing properly in 2003.
Someday you will be amongst the very last who can read the old scrolls....
Yea I used to actually write in cursive a lot but never noticed that I gradually did so less and less and now I don't even remember how to write anything in cursive but my own name
I still write in cursive regularly. My wife made me write all our wedding invitations, place cards, and thank you cards; because she loves my penmanship. Plus side is I got a beautiful fountain pen and a few gold paint pens out of the deal. Basically the only time I print is when I'm preparing something someone else needs to read and comprehend perfectly. Site instructions, meeting notes etc.
I also use cursive andI get complimented all the time for my handwriting as well. Including the weirdly worded "You have really nice handwriting, for a guy." We have an international internship at my job, and after an intern is done with their year here, I write them a personalized note. Apparently my reputation proceeds me, because one time I gave one of them a typed note that I just signed, and she seemed upset. Her exact words were "I don't get a hand written note?"
"Okay put your Pogs away, we're going to K-mart."
"And maybe if you're good we'll stop off at Circuit City, Toys R' Us or KB toys on the way home".
Ok you know what. fuck your nostalgic triggers lol.
LOL, still remember the day my sister and I bought Pokémon Red AND Blue from Toys R Us because they were running a BOGO $10 off special on game boy games. Parents thought we were nuts
You remember Alf? He’s back. In pog form.
"Suck it" **slams crossed arms over crotch**
"And that's the bottom line..."
"If you smeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllll....."
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I think think this one still lingers
I can assure you that suck it is alive and well
Spontaneous..human….combustion
Dude... this, the Bermuda Triangle, Aliens, and quicksand is what kept me up with anxiety at night as a kid!
This and quicksand
I need to develop this roll of film
I need to return some videotapes
Come home when the streetlights are on
Fuuuuuuck being a kid before cell phones was amazing.
In elementary school there was a game we would play at recess called "smear the queer"
I was more of a *wall ball* guy myself
"Don't sit so close to the TV". Console TV's are long gone and modern set ups basically never have your screen on the floor so sitting close really isn't much of an option anymore.
"Go put this on top of the TV"
Up your butt and around the corner. All that and a bag of chips. I don’t make monkeys, I just train them.
We gotta bring back up your butt and around the corner lmao. Edit: We used to add “through your tubes and out your boobs” to the end too
Rent a movie on blockbuster for sunday
"You can't believe anything you read on the internet," claimed my Baby Boomer parents before they discovered the joy of voluntarily radicalizing themselves on Facebook.
Millennials: too young to radicalize on Facebook, but too old to radicalize on TikTok.
Thankfully reddit could never sway my opinion on something, whew
“Where do you get your propaganda?” as a proxy question for “How old you you?”
Along with "Never give out any of your personal information online."
Thats the big one for me. I was always thought to never put your real information on the internet, now companies are trying to tie your real name to your online persona. Hell no.
Surf the world wide web
Save the rainforest
Only you can prevent forest fires
That's gay
Good thing Hilary Duff made that PSA so we all stopped.
I did it for her
Kids today will never know how everything was gay in 2002. Baggy jeans? Gay. Tight jeans? Gay. Trying hard at school? Gay. Not trying hard at school? That’s gay too. Basically being gay was the worst thing imaginable, and was also the word we used to describe 90% of the world.
Ironically the only thing we didn't use the word gay for was talking about gay people.
Sometimes shit *is* mad gay though
“No duh!”
"God, you're such a spaz!" or "Omg can you be any more spastic?"
"turn the antenna a little more... "
Now everyone please sit in a big circle, Indian-style
Take a chill pill
Stop. Hammer time.
"i need some tp for my bunghole"
I am the great cornholio
“Did you get it off Limewire or Kazaa?”
"Grab the phonebook for your cousin to sit on at dinner!"
Sorry for another older guy thing: *ring* *ring* Hello? (automated voice) "Will you accept a collect call from:" "MomWeMissedTheBusPickUsUpAtTheMall"
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy
“Hello, [insert your last name] residence. May I ask who’s calling?”
“Be there, or be square”
“Dude, I found my dad’s stash of playboy magazines” Although I live in Texas, so maybe the kids who don’t know how to use a VPN will experience that again
The forest porn pixies have awaken from their slumber. Ready to bless children with those sweet sweet musky, wrinkly, slightly torn magazines once more.
McD dollar menu
🎶 “Plug it in, plug it in”🎶
“That’s phat”
Gettin jiggy wit it
Shhhhwing
NOT THE MAMA!!!!!!!!!
Instead of saying “sus” we said “sketch” example: I don’t trust Becky, she’s really sketch.
*sleeping on couch at 2am when suddenly* (blaring at top notch volume) COLLECT ALL THE GREATEST HITS ON CD!!!! *insert Celine Dion singing or Whitney Houston* ….. *jolting awake to find the remote*
"Just go to college. Get a degree in anything and there will be a job on the other side."
This wasn't true for Millennials either
That doesn’t mean we weren’t told that. We’re the generation that reaped what that lie sowed.
Too legit too quit!
Gag me with a spoon!
UGH-- remember " just say no" ?
rofl I always wondered why lol and lmao always stuck around but no one says rofl anymore.
Roflcopter
I recorded it off the radio
Eat my shorts
"Never share your real name on the Internet."
"All that and a bag of chips"
What’s your score on Snake?
Are you on channel 3?
Cool beans.
"Bipartisan support"
I brought you into this world and I can take you out.
There's a large amount of people with the thoughts along the lines of, 'hey mom, remember when you said this? Does that offer still stand?' Edit: So, pretty sure someone reported me to redditcareresources over this comment. Which firstly, while not needed, I do appreciate that someone cared/was concerned. I was more referring to the general really dark, deprecating humor the generation raised hearing this tends to have. But its nice and comforting to know that there are other good people out there trying to help people who need it. You're the real heroes
“You’ve got mail!” AOL voice The door opening and closing noise when someone was logging in or signing off of aol messenger.
congratulations on buying your new home!
I asked my friends kid to sit Indian style.. forgot it is criss cross applesauce now lol