Today's Teen vs. Teen 20 years ago

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  • leslielrd12
    leslielrd12 Posts: 115 Member
    Having to actually answer the phone to find out who is calling. No caller ID
  • Sister_Someone
    Sister_Someone Posts: 567 Member
    Learning the Pascal computer language

    We learned Pascal in my high school for the better part of last year. No period has gone by without me sending a bunch of profanities to whoever the hell invented it.
  • Cindy873
    Cindy873 Posts: 1,165
    Leg warmers. Rewinding VHS tapes. Failing at something.

    Hate to tell you this, but Leg Warmers are back. Saw them the other day at Justice for Girls. I looked at my husband and said, "Did we not learn the first time?" LOL!

    No! No! Say it ain't so! :noway:
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.

    We sit at the dinner table together every night.

    This is a rule in our house. Such a rule that we now wait until 7:30-8:00 pm at night to eat since my son has CC practice until that time. I refuse to give it up! It's the only time we have to learn about what happened that day!

    My hubby usually doesn't get home until almost 8pm from work, so we have dinner together once he gets home. Try to make that happen everyday. Sometimes it is just impossible - whether he is out of town or doesn't get home until 10 or later, then the kids and I will eat together without him.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    I can think of SO much, but it goes further back than 20 years.

    Atari is one thing, LOL.
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    The way you wrote "ca-ssette" makes me think you listen to the Rod Ryan show.
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    Sitting in front of the stereo with a blank tape set to record but paused while listening to your favorite radio station waiting for a song to come on that you want to record.

    Also, Rico Suave.

    ^^^^Hahahaha. I remember doing this. They always turned out super fuzzy too.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    No call waiting either. You call someone and they are on the phone, you get a busy signal.
  • RedwoodsIris
    RedwoodsIris Posts: 23 Member
    Well this is no fun if we don't get the right answer ;~(
  • philOHIO
    philOHIO Posts: 520 Member
    I went to Catholic school and we were allowed to take smoke breaks in high school! I didn't smoke, but who DOESN'T want to sit outside for 15 min.
  • Whisperinghorse
    Whisperinghorse Posts: 202 Member
    I walked to school, at 18 there would have been no way I'd have had a car!!

    Top loading video recorders with a wired remote control.

    Banana hair clips

    Jelly shoes

    Getting on the bus for 18p into town
  • Cindy873
    Cindy873 Posts: 1,165
    Well this is no fun if we don't get the right answer ;~(

    I agree! I want to know! I still think the answer is failure. :smile:
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    Sitting in front of the stereo with a blank tape set to record but paused while listening to your favorite radio station waiting for a song to come on that you want to record.

    Also, Rico Suave.

    ^^^^Hahahaha. I remember doing this. They always turned out super fuzzy too.

    I remember way back holder a recorder up to the radio and it picked up all the background noise. How many cassettes did I have with recorded songs from the radio where you can hear me telling my brother to shut up cuz I was recording something.
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    OMG this! I used to get so mad when the radio announcer would talk AFTER the song started... Always ruined my mix tapes!

    HAHAHA
    Yup.
    My mix tape had some poison, INXS and a few others, I forget. But it was a GREAT run mix!
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    I went to Catholic school and we were allowed to take smoke breaks in high school! I didn't smoke, but who DOESN'T want to sit outside for 15 min.

    No smoking allowed in our school (not that we didn't sneak out anyways).

    We weren't even allowed to go outside at lunch time.
  • AmyFett
    AmyFett Posts: 1,607 Member
    Heard a trivia question on the radio this morning - What have most teenagers today NOT experienced that most all teenagers DID experience 20 years ago? (can't wait to see what answers will be guessed) :smile:

    discipline?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Driving a tank to school instead of a cute, sporty car? Listening to good music... which had to be done with a boom box on the rear window because cars only had AM radios? Now, there IS no good music. Unless it is before 1995.

    The current lack of respect for their elders, lack of parenting by others?
    Instead of "Yes, Mrs. ----," "No ma'am."

    You're going WAY further back than 20 years, Phil! Cars had FM radio and tape decks in the early 1990s.

    And there is good music now. You just have to find it.
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    Well this is no fun if we don't get the right answer ;~(

    I agree! I want to know! I still think the answer is failure. :smile:

    ^^I totally agree with thist statement!
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
    DRUMROLL....:smile:

    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".
  • Ruthe8
    Ruthe8 Posts: 423 Member
    No call waiting either. You call someone and they are on the phone, you get a busy signal.
    I lived way out in the boonies. We had call waiting. We had remotes for the TVs. We had our own cars. We had most of the things that people have mentioned in this thread!
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    I walked to school, at 18 there would have been no way I'd have had a car!!

    Top loading video recorders with a wired remote control.

    Banana hair clips

    Jelly shoes

    Getting on the bus for 18p into town

    I hated Jellys!! Blister city, but they were cheap!! LOL! I also had several banana clips! :laugh:
  • Ruthe8
    Ruthe8 Posts: 423 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".
    That's kind of weird, I see people on bikes all the time.
  • KittieLea
    KittieLea Posts: 1,156 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    The way you wrote "ca-ssette" makes me think you listen to the Rod Ryan show.
    YAY For Rod Ryan! You must live in Houston?
  • chunkiedunker
    chunkiedunker Posts: 144 Member
    what kind of hack dj do you listen to?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    Huh? I see kids on bikes ALL the time?

    Weird.
  • jcjsjones
    jcjsjones Posts: 571 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.

    So true! Both my kids have bikes and ride them all the time. :noway:
  • 00Melyanna00
    00Melyanna00 Posts: 221 Member
    All the comments here are much better than the "correct" answer.
    And boy, this thread was one big trip down memory lane!
  • d0gma
    d0gma Posts: 3,966 Member
    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    The way you wrote "ca-ssette" makes me think you listen to the Rod Ryan show.
    YAY For Rod Ryan! You must live in Houston?

    Yeah, listen to the show every morning.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    give the answer already, its clear that all these answers are correct.


    I would have never guessed this, but the "correct" answer according to the radio DJ is "riding a bicycle".

    That is not correct at all. My daughter is 17 and she has ridden a bicycle. All her friends have.

    So true! Both my kids have bikes and ride them all the time. :noway:

    Yeah I'm going to have to say bull on that because I see plenty of kids on bikes where I live.

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