Today's Teen vs. Teen 20 years ago
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I could see how thats true. I rode allot of bmx when I was a teenager with a buddy when we were in highschool. Pretty sure me and him might have been the only 2 kids at our school that still used pedal power at all @ that age, and that was a almost 10 years ago.0
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Using a card catalog at the library?
^^^^this
I was SO shocked when I walked into my local library - having not been in one for years at the time. They had no card catalog, you have to use the computer to look something up.
What is a card catalog? I've never even heard of that.... Is it just a giant list of all the book in the library?!
Poor Dewey and his decimals. :-(
Basically, yes. In alphabetical order and you could cross-reference author and title. The letters and numbers you see on the books' spines are a leftover of that.
I haven't seen a card catalog since the early 90s when I was in elementary school. Even then, it was rarely used because we had a computer catalog for most of the books. Computer catalogs are so much easier so I'm glad for that. However, I'd love to get my hands on a nice looking old card catalog as a neat piece of furniture... all those little drawers.
By the time I was in college, I could surf full content on every periodical in the university's physical collection, plus more they only had in digital, by just logging on the library's website from my laptop in my dorm room. I still had to go to the library for books, but I wrote a number of papers using the digital database of academic journals without setting foot in the library.
Even when I did need a book, I didn't always check it out. Sometimes I just used the scan-to-email button on the copy machines to get what I needed on PDF for later, so that I didn't have to carry anything home with me.
Our university didn't use Dewey's decimals. They used the Library of Congress method. Since I was only taught Dewey in school, I would have had a lot of trouble with the university library if it wasn't cataloged online.
The local branch library when I was in high school didn't use Dewey either. They reorganized to match what bookstores use. I loved it when they did that. It made browsing a lot more fun.0 -
Please be kind and REWIND!0
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Using a card catalog at the library?
^^^^this
I was SO shocked when I walked into my local library - having not been in one for years at the time. They had no card catalog, you have to use the computer to look something up.
What is a card catalog? I've never even heard of that.... Is it just a giant list of all the book in the library?!
Poor Dewey and his decimals. :-(
Basically, yes. In alphabetical order and you could cross-reference author and title. The letters and numbers you see on the books' spines are a leftover of that.
OHHHH! okay. I know the (or I used to) Dewey system! I guess I should have known that it would have been on cards or something. My entire library going life has been on computer so that's the only way I know to look for a book0 -
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.
I did this when I was a kid.. And I'm only 20 so it's not that old school 0 -
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.
I did this when I was a kid.. And I'm only 20 so it's not that old school
Of course it's old school! You're just retro. :-)0 -
Dial up internet and Sony Discman0
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Today's teens have never used an encyclopedia.0
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A Walkman and probably most haven't ever needed a portable CD player.0
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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.
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Pay phones?
Those are hard to find nowadays. My grandparents always told me to keep a quarter in my pocket to call home if I needed to.
My mom always told me to keep a *dime* on me. I must be older than you! I used to call collect though, but that was back when it was easy to talk to a human operator!0 -
Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.
That was sooo me. I still have some of my old cassettes with my favorite songs on them.
Me too! I just don't have a cassette player anymore to be able to listen to them!0 -
Turbo, Special K, and Ozone... the TKO crew.0 -
TGIF.....urkel,hangin with mr cooper, boy meets world0
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Family dinners at the dinner table.
There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.
We do this every night we possibly can. I would say 6 nights a week on average. We have done this since my children were born. When I married my second husband, his daughter thought we were strange when we all ate at the table together.0 -
Dialing a "1" before the area code. You don't have to with cell phones. My friend's teen lost his cell phone, and used the home phone. He got that error buzz for FOUR DAYS trying to call his friend in the next town/area code. He got frustrated and complained to his mom, who promptly told him he was being silly, dial a one.
This same teen was astonished that you can get television, like, with rabbit ears. He did not think that was possible, as clearly you have to pay for cable or satellite.
And this kid is extremely bright...he's at Stanford majoring in EE, and graduating early. These things are just not in the average teen's experiences today.0 -
Looking stuff up in a set of encyclopedias to complete their homework.0
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Parachute pants and Commander Salamander. 0
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Family dinners at the dinner table.
There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.
We still do this as often as possible.
I would say, not being allowed inside on a nice day, even when it's snowing. If it's not a hurricane outside, then we had to be outside, no tv until dark! (this was less than 20 years ago actually)0 -
Fresh air?
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Pay phones?
^^^^this
Also, not having a cell phone.
Not true at all, The majority of my teeange years (and even now) where spent without a cell phone
I have to rely on payphones if I'm out and need a ride home
They're getting rid of pay phones in malls though =(0 -
Being 18 im not sure why most of these are posted:
Before i moved to college i never had a meal not at the table with my family
i owned a casset player, and a cd player may i add the casset player was in the shape of a coca cola can
i rode a bike
i walked to school
had a tape player in all vechiles till recently (moms and dads) mine has a cd player
i have respect for my elders
i played at the playground everyday
my mom and dad used to lock me and my brother out of the house to "play outisde"
ive used a pay phone
had no caller id
used my grandparents dial/round phone
had a stretchy cord phone
have had a tamagotchi, legwarmers ( theyve been available from ardeen since at least grade 10..so 4 years ago in went to a 80's themed party.
i love reading actual books i have easily over 1000 ive read at least 2 times each
didnt have a cellphone till i was older, ive dialed 1 before a call
i graduated!
ive used an encyclopeida many times
ive also had a good licking with a spoon as a youngster
the things i havent experinced that youve listed ?:
pascal computer, george sr as president ( im a canadian so i never would have lol)
Things i havent had that those younger than me have had
a baby
Something to add to your list :
playing with one of those things you look thru and turn and the beads move into different patterns
and the lil clicky cameras with the photo negatives to look at
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Corporal punishment.0
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i am only 7 years older than my sister and already the differences are amazing!
she doesnt know what a vhs is! or what it was like with just 4 tv channels to choose from.... there are more but total mental block right now.....0 -
Drive in movies??0
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bump for later, totally have to talk to my husband to get more!! what a blast from the past so far. Love it!!0
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