Today's Teen vs. Teen 20 years ago

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  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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    Waiting for hours for your favourite song to come on the radio just so you can frantically hit *RECORD* on your ca-ssette tape.

    Great minds, as they say ...

    (Even if you do feed your cat cheeseburgers. I'm on hold with the ASPCA right now.)
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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    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.
  • angeldaae
    angeldaae Posts: 348 Member
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    Skating rink.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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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.

    I'm old enough to remember when it was a dime!
  • stephygetsfit2
    stephygetsfit2 Posts: 12
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    brain cells
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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    Rotary dial phone.

    Phone that hangs on the wall in the kitchen with a 20 foot cord.

    Car windows that had to be rolled down (not electric).

    I remember that phone phone sooo well - the LOONNGGG cord that stretched al the way across a couple rooms,
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
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    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    There are actually people who still do this believe it or not.
    Family dinner every night is my one rule. I don't care if we're eating take out, we're having it AT the dinner table.
  • MTBrob
    MTBrob Posts: 513 Member
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  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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    Family dinners at the dinner table.

    You know that is probably very true, but my family tries to always have dinner together - not always at the table, but definately together.
  • Ruthe8
    Ruthe8 Posts: 423 Member
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    Rotary dial phone.

    Phone that hangs on the wall in the kitchen with a 20 foot cord.
    I was a teenager 20 years ago. We had a cordless phone. The only people I knew who had a rotary dial were my grandparents, and we laughed at that because it was so old-fashioned.
  • 126siany
    126siany Posts: 1,386 Member
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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.

    I'm old enough to remember when it was a dime!

    Me too! in fact, when I was in first grade the school gave everyone a card that held a dime and your home phone number!
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
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    Going from vinyl, to cassettes, to CD's.

    Pong.

    Vinyl and pong?? In the 90's?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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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.

    I'm old enough to remember when it was a dime!

    Me too! in fact, when I was in first grade the school gave everyone a card that held a dime and your home phone number!

    Oh yeah! I do remember that!

    And, B, yes, some of us did have vinyl in the 1990s.
  • beansprouts
    beansprouts Posts: 410 Member
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    Typewriters.
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
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    I remember when you used to call someone, if they weren't home...you were screwed, no way to reach them at all. That's hard to believe now!
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    Typewriters.

    We still them at work
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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    Typewriters.

    I remember having typing as a subject in HS - you actually had to center things on each line, using math. And you had to use liquid paper for corrections, unless your teacher wanted NO errors or corrections and you would have to retype the whole thing or take the points off.
  • TrimAnew
    TrimAnew Posts: 127 Member
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    Skating rink.

    They still have those and they do good business. You just will be more likely to see roller blades than skates when you go.
  • Busymomshantell
    Busymomshantell Posts: 126 Member
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    No one has guessed the correct answer yet, but some really good answers.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    Cell phones are the biggest thing I can think of.

    I remember about 18 years ago, when I was 18, I got a flat tire on my way home at like 1am. I had no cell phone, so I had walk 4 blocks to the gas station and use the pay phone to call my dad to come and change my tire.

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