EmaleighFriend Super Troll
Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 1474
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re: 23 Things Your Kids Will Never Understand
by Emaleigh on 2013/08/27 12:53
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/technology-kids_n_3751012.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
1. The floppy disk.
2. The VCR.
3. Video rental stores.
4. The photo store to get your film developed.
5. Record stores.
6. Mix tapes.
7. Wired Internet.
8. Dial-up Internet.
9. THE NOISES.
10. Fax machines.
11. An image loaded like THIS.
12. Landline phone, just so you can use the Internet.
13. Slow starting computers.
14. Microsoft Windows.
15. All those AMAZING screensavers.
16. The encyclopedia.
17. Not being able to know or verify something IMMEDIATELY.
18. Not having anything to watch because there were only so many TV channels and no DVR.
19. TV Guide magazine.
20. Blow into that video game cartridge to finally get it working.
21. Passing notes.
22. Cell phones, cell phones everywhere at movie theatres and concerts, ruining everything.
23. What a world without smartphones was like.
This list is a lot better with all the pictures attached to it :P Click the link at the top.
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CecelyFriend Veteran Poster
Joined: 01 Dec 2008 Posts: 300
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re: 23 Things Your Kids Will Never Understand
by Cecely on 2013/08/27 13:05
some of these are debatable :p but I can see why they are listed.
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ByleanaGuild Master Troll
Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 541
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re: 23 Things Your Kids Will Never Understand
by Byleana on 2013/08/27 13:08
I'll be honest...I never dealt with dial-up Internet. My family was dirt poor growing up, I didn't have Internet in the house until I was 15, and it was a broadband connection.
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re: 23 Things Your Kids Will Never Understand
by wom-d (leesinga) on 2013/08/27 18:34
dial up was painful, we got internet near the end of dial up life from a company called enternet. that noise....... THAT NOISE
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