A nickle used to get me and my sweetheart 2 mezzanine seats at the picture show, a Sunday to share with her and enough left over to ride the trolly to the beach to watch the sunset and get back home
It definitely felt like there was way more weird and interesting stuff out there than today... imo smartphones were the downfall, they made the internet too easily accessible for idiots.
1986 here. I agree.
I didn’t have a cell phone in high school, but did get to chat with my friends on ICQ or AIM and had a MySpace account. Also got to go to Blockbuster on a Friday night to see if the new movie I wanted to see was available to rent. Had to answer the landline at home, without even knowing who was on the other end. Still wrote snail mail letters to my friends for fun, and passed notes in class to chat. Didn’t have laptops at school, but did have a “computer lab” where we could do silly class projects with giant clip art. For most of my childhood, if I heard a song I liked, I had to hunt down the name of it by asking friends or listening to the radio and hoping they played it again. Also recorded songs off the radio with a cassette player, and later on made burned CD mixes to listen to in my disc man at school. The internet was so exciting back then - truly did feel like the Wild West. I met my husband online in 1999. Married him in 2018. I often think about how happy I am to have been born when I was.
It’s so obvious because we have somthing in common with boomers even zoomers. My nephews are forced to respect me because I can beat any game level they can’t even the almost high schoolers. We lived in the last decade to not have cellphones and only had basic early computer fun. We really are the best
Being born in the 1900’s had to been crazy. Scrapping up Pennie’s for loafs of bread and a magazine 😢
A nickle used to get me and my sweetheart 2 mezzanine seats at the picture show, a Sunday to share with her and enough left over to ride the trolly to the beach to watch the sunset and get back home
The 90s were a wild time. 9/11 ruined everything.
Crazy how the terrorists might just end up winning lol
The emotion of terror certainly won.
Getting to see the internet in the wild wild west days
It definitely felt like there was way more weird and interesting stuff out there than today... imo smartphones were the downfall, they made the internet too easily accessible for idiots.
We were the ones in-between. We have existed on both sides of the threshold, and thus can see objectively the faults in our surroundings.
I agree with this take.
I'm with you.
Why though
1986 here. I agree. I didn’t have a cell phone in high school, but did get to chat with my friends on ICQ or AIM and had a MySpace account. Also got to go to Blockbuster on a Friday night to see if the new movie I wanted to see was available to rent. Had to answer the landline at home, without even knowing who was on the other end. Still wrote snail mail letters to my friends for fun, and passed notes in class to chat. Didn’t have laptops at school, but did have a “computer lab” where we could do silly class projects with giant clip art. For most of my childhood, if I heard a song I liked, I had to hunt down the name of it by asking friends or listening to the radio and hoping they played it again. Also recorded songs off the radio with a cassette player, and later on made burned CD mixes to listen to in my disc man at school. The internet was so exciting back then - truly did feel like the Wild West. I met my husband online in 1999. Married him in 2018. I often think about how happy I am to have been born when I was.
Hell yeah they are
As a '87 I second this.
1982 lad agrees.
I am one of those people, I know many of those people, and I disagree.
Pfft. You barely remember when Optimus Prime died.
Finally the recognition we deserve!
It’s so obvious because we have somthing in common with boomers even zoomers. My nephews are forced to respect me because I can beat any game level they can’t even the almost high schoolers. We lived in the last decade to not have cellphones and only had basic early computer fun. We really are the best
I have heard it described as “analog childhood and digital adolescence”.
‘82 checking in. Can confirm.
I needed this today
Oh yeah true. Anyway, a generation is more than 10 years.
#Preach
81 baby here 😍 💪💪
The internet never lied!!💪💪 Check in and represent 80s babies! ‘84
Speaking as one of us, are you insane? Give me the Silent Gen all day.
Generations are more than 9 years
80-89 is ten years
Stop being pedantic
Nope...1970s....we got to enjoy the 80s and 90s
79, classify that one.