I feel bad for the kids of today

Dude111

100 things kids might not ever know of

http://web.archive.org/web/20090723005455/http://www.wired.com//geekdad//2009//07//100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about

Much better stuff I might add..........

Kids using these Ipads,etc and thinking they are so good.... They dont know what GOOD is and probably wont ever be able to

humberklog

Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sure you might as well say kids in my youth (1940s and 50s) never experienced the Victorian toys or games. At least kids today also don't have to experience the bad things in life that the current era has reduced or eliminated.

Eutow

There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.

Summer wind

I've never heard of half of this stuff not to mind my children.

One eyed Jack

I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.

Buona Fortuna

humberklog wrote: »

Nearly all the things on that list are crap things to miss.

I'm 44 and miss hardly any.

Out of curiousity OP, how old are you?

I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs

The Strawman Argument

Eutow wrote: »

There was nothing good about mini-discs, or waiting 15 minutes for a computer game to load.

The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

"Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! "

humberklog

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I'm older than that and I don't miss any.

They really went to the bottom of the barrel to reach 100 didn't they?
Fentucky Fried Chicken instead of KFC - ffs

It reads like a list compiled by someone who didn't exist when the items existed.

smash

An old drunk man once tried to converse with me at a bus stop by saying "you kids today... You have it all and you don't even know it. All the sex and the drugs and the Internet!" and here you are, OP, talking about VHS and square Lego bricks... Yes, I'm sure the kids today are miserable as their cousins instant message them from the other side of the world with a link to watch a movie on their iPad before it's even hit the cinema.

Eutow

The Strawman Argument wrote: »

The article doesn't claim there is either. OP's either joking or has some serious nostalgia issues.

"Remember wires! All the fun we had as kids, untangling wires, connecting things together! Oh, kids today'll never know that kind of fun! "

Ah yes, and finding that the wire is too short, so you need an extension lead... Look at number 79 - days before the nanny state. Stupid list.

Rough Sleeper

Glad you posted this OP, if there's one thing the intenet's lacking it's yet another list-based article on pre-millenial life.

Seriously, this **** has long since gone from nostalgic to twee. I grew up in the 90s and while my childhood was happy I still remember how much it sucked when the tape from your cassette got tangled or when you had to blow into your NES cartridges for 45 minutes just to get quick game of Mario in. And where's all the talk about all the horrible stuff that went down? Maybe for the sake of balance we should see more articles like "1,000,000 butchered Rwandans who never got to see the turn of the century."

Tail Docker

The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

I used to love Clackers, the amount of smacks on the wrist I got from them things

Nodin

Tail Docker wrote: »

The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

The Backwards Man

I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

Tail Docker

Nodin wrote: »

Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

I was more about hacking across muddy fields on a bay gelding and reading up about the life of Tolkien, the Col bitar and Jack Dempsey, but yeah, I get what you're saying.

Tail Docker

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

:eek: LIAR!! :pac::D

Nodin

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm well in my 30s and I don't remember many of them

Some of them never caught on, tbh.

KKkitty

Tail Docker wrote: »

The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

Have to agree with you on the climbing trees thing. There's trees opposite my home and not once have I seen a child climb them. It does annoy me somewhat that people can stream new series before they're on TV. Any show you watch is spoiled by the internet.

SilverScreen

A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.

Buona Fortuna

SilverScreen wrote: »

A complete waste of a thread. The stuff mentioned in that article is just redundant technology, apart from vinyl which has risen in sales over the past decade. Technology comes and goes and kids aren't loosing out on anything. There's tons of stuff around now that I would have killed for when I was a teen.

Internet porn huh?

SilverScreen

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Internet porn huh?

Nah I had plenty of that when I was a teen Took a while to download on dial-up though.

CelticRambler

"Vinyl records. Even today’s DJs are going laptop or CD."

I have a DJ in the house at the moment who says that vinyl is very definitely back in fashion! Of course the article is already five years old - how were they to know that their list would be obsolete by 2014!

mad m

Loved my ZX Spectrum....

10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
20 goto 10
30 end

run........:)


Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

anncoates

The kids are just laughing at you.

Which is the natural order of things.

mad m wrote: »

Loved my ZX Spectrum....

10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
20 goto 10
30 end

run........:)


Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

I did that too on my Atari 800 XL but let's be honest, it was shite and you got bored doing it after 2 minutes.

Buona Fortuna

mad m wrote: »

Loved my ZX Spectrum....

10 Print " Im the dogs bollox"
20 goto 10
30 end

run........:)


Well it's a bit hazy but something like that...

I did too. Though if I had one now I think after about 20 minutes of the novelty/nostalgia I'd realise that they were great in their day but now a bit meh.

Remember loading a game on it from a tape deck. Sometimes it would, sometimes no. Then to save the game, to another tape. Sometimes OK, other times not so much and then finding the saved game again.

OK I'm over it now.:)

hidinginthebush

Kids these days, jaysus even 25 year olds, will never know the unbridled joy, general madness and pure pandemonium of italia '90.

They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

And that list is awful. No. 35 says kids these days will never know what it's like to record music in a studio?! Wtf!

YFlyer

72 still happens. I lie it's usually the phone company.

YFlyer

Tail Docker wrote: »

:eek: LIAR!! :pac::D

In his 40s eek

Nodin

Nodin wrote: »

Flagons, bein able to buy loose smokes, knowin who would take Butter vouchers for smokes..............

I used to buy my loose major in the van shops in Ballymun.

Son Of A Vidic

hidinginthebush wrote: »

They'll also never know the sheer panic of ringing a girls house only for her parents to answer.

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

hidinginthebush

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

All executed while frantically finding an 18 year old to buy you drink, stashing the drink, before you all head home for the dinner

GLaDOS

Standard nostagia based clickbait

colossus-x

The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.

Nodin

colossus-x wrote: »

The only think I feel sorry about for kids is the amount of junk food they are being fed which is making them very sick. But at least they don't have to go to mass.

You actually went?

Adamantium

Waiting every month for favourite games magazine in the late 90's and early-mid 2000's and the demo/videos on the disc, going into newsagents and realising it won't be in for 2 more days and last months one is still there.

The standard of journalism was really bloody high, quite un-PC, the articles funny and insightful, and I think I learned how to write and read well from them as a kid/teenager, games were build word of mouth on their quality, now its all web-based hype and shockingly feels like I'm reading paid press releases.

It's like the difference old timeless Simpsons from the 90's and the new ones.

The tangiblity and the fact there was little to no internet made the hobby feel a lot more personal and special imo. I think my love of reading the magazines made me appreciate the quality of what I would soon buy much more, than if I played them alone.

I haven't played since 2010 really, kinda sad.

Irish Guitarist

Records are great. I think anyone who doesn't listen to an album as a whole is missing out. Most of the others things on that list aren't so great.

When I was about fourteen years old one of those Emmanuelle films was on Channel 4. Some of my friends had told me it was great and that there was a part where she combed her pubic hair on a train.

I thought this sounded great so I waited up until about 2.00 AM to record it. I had to rewind the video tape and it sounded like a Boeing 747 taking off. I decided it would be best to rewind it a little at a time so as not to make too much noise at once. It ended up taking ages to rewind and I missed about fifteen minutes of the film.

Then I heard my sister walking down the stairs. As the video had no remote control I had to pull up my trousers and jump up from the chair as quickly as possible to stop the video before she asked what I was recording. I got away with it but just barely.

So, no, teenagers aren't missing out on VHS.

cloud493

VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.

Grayson

Tail Docker wrote: »

The.sh1ttest.list.ever. What about climbing trees, BMX, the A team on saturdays, not knowing much about sex but finding out the fun way, or a proper old fashioned fist-fight after school?

I dunno. They have laserdiscs on that list

Grayson

cloud493 wrote: »

VHS were the worse. Either some dick would snap the top bit off, so it was unplayable, or they'd snap the little thing off the bottom, so you couldn't record over it, and you were stuck with what you had.

Sellotape dude. just sellotape the bottom.

http://www.quickmeme.com/img/4d/4db9812d188f52fe482e5a73bca7950c5f52622438351f6f4a1a79a3bf13f9c7.jpg

cloud493

...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.

Buona Fortuna

cloud493 wrote: »

...... My mind is blown, I never knew that.

All those wasted tapes

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I feel bad for children and young people today because they can't get away with anything without it being recorded and uploaded, shared, and judged for it, a permanent digital reminder of their naivety and occasional stupidity that follows them long into adulthood.

You never expereinced my mother's eidetic memory combined with her penchant for telling compellingly inapproriate (to me anyway) dinner-party stories...

Karl Stein

Queues at phone boxes.

To Elland Back

I'm 52 and there is nothing on that list that I miss.

However, I do feel sorry for the kids of today in that they have never seen a proper size Curly Wurly.

Grayson

Karl Stein wrote: »

Queues at phone boxes.

I remember queueing in the rain when i was at college. You could be stuck there for an hour waiting to call home just to say "Mum, could you stick a tenner in my account".

mad m

I wonder do kids do the glass of red lemonade with a lump of HB Vanilla ice cream thrown into it these days?.....yuuuuumm.

colossus-x

Nodin wrote: »

You actually went?

Oh my goodness me whatever are you trying to suggest lol

nyarlothothep

Walkmans were great though, you would listen to an album from start to finish more so and therefore would be able to appreciate it as a complete work. This skipping back and forth and listening to single downloads reflects the age of instant gratification which is to the detriment of music as an artform. Also games were better, the cutscenes were often pre rendered graphics or cheesy fmv and they were rewards for oft difficult levels so you really appreciated them. Now it's just boring cutscene after boring cutscene as game devs take themselves too seriously. Also VHS had a warm quality to it in comparison to DVD. The world without fb etc was a quieter one which gave more space for reflection and for the imagination to roam.

CelticRambler

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

They'll also never know of the sheer skill required before the mobile phone era, as you organised a Saturday night on the town with your mates. Meeting up at predetermined times & locations with such perfect synchronisation, it would make Seal Team 6 proud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p5lZHUrG7w