things you remember from your childhood that zoomers will not get to have

[Negrate]

theres lots of things but i will name some
web games unity webplayer flash cut the rope webgame i remember transformers webgames spider man webgames etc zoomers will not exprience these things
early 2000s comedy alot of this i look back on my early teen years and cringe doug stanhope george carlin i was into theres also some of these guys who just fell off after being huge like rodney carrington i remember my parents were into him
monkey quest monkey quest was an amazing webgame that im sad shutdown
piracy sites groove shark is one i remember using as a kid and many zoomers will not experience it
lego dot com i remember lego dot com

tell me some more i miss web games

 

[DavidS877]

The ability to slam down the phone. The ability to dial the phone.

My lawn, get off it.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Word-of-mouth playground rumors you had to take at face-value because you didn't have Internet/Google skills to fact-check.

 

[Night Crawler]

I would say they won't ever experience a 2D game but it seems like there will always be indie retro games. But they will never get to experience a true 2D game. Like completely flat 2D. They will be stuck with the 2.5D games as we used to call them. Like the Contra Shattered Soldier on PS2. They can always use emulators. But given that Zoomers are pretty much about as tech savvy as a Boomer they might not even do that much.

I once had my youngest nephew ask me what was YouTube like when I was a kid. This was years ago when I was younger and he was younger. I think I was in my early 30's and I explained to him that when I was a kid or about his age we didn't have YouTube. That I didn't even have a computer at the time. The internet wasn't anything like it is now. I also had to explain to him that I couldn't tell him what the internet was like back then because I didn't get to use it much.

So the Zoomers will never get to experience a world without the internet. They will be constantly connected in some way, if they can afford it. An issue my nephew his girlfriend and their 5 other roommates in a 3 bedroom house are dealing with. One thing Zoomers and Millennials will have in common is many of them won't be able to afford to live on their own. So we have that in common.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Not being able to make or receive calls while someone was using dial-up Internet. Walking to the mall to use a payphone to make plans.

Having to remember friends phone numbers by heart.

Going to Blockbuster with friends to pick out a movie to watch together that takes half the runtime to finally rent a movie that is at least palatable to all involved but everyone is still mostly unhappy.

 

[Sugriva]

Playing outside and using your imagination.

 

[Catgirl Enthusiast]

Boredom. When I was a kid I'd have to sit hours sometimes sitting staring at a wall waiting for something or another. I do my best to avoid boredom also, but if these fucking zoomers lose interest for five seconds they are in their phone and you have to bitch slap them out of it to get their attention back. The only two zoomers I've hired have gotten fired for this shit.

Playing outside and using your imagination.

I'm way out in the country. Even the "redneck" zoomers are afraid to go in the woods alone. When I was a kid in the 90's our parents would just let us disappear into the woods as long as we came back before dark. I make my kids take handheld cb radios so I can check on them every hour or two. I'd probably get arrested for child neglect if I gave them the kind of freedom I had and something went wrong.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Kids these days, they missed out.

 

[Cool Dog Returns]

I would say having hope, zoomies and the older alphas are blackpilled as fuck

Like we used to make fun of genX fags for being mopey as shit with stuff like nirvana but zommies are waaaay beyond that point, half I talked about were a couple bad days from roping

Sure our hope turned to ash but at least we had it for a while, these niggas were born doomed

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Watching US troops patrol the streets of Baghdad on cabal news.

Video games where you don't have to download a long while before getting to play for the first time.
No day 1 patches/ dlc/ always online games. None of the kids owned phones nor school requiring digital homework though that all changed once I got into middle school.
Western Europe not being an embarrassing place. The Twin Cities being a good place to live.

 

[Night Crawler]

Boredom. When I was a kid I'd have to sit hours sometimes sitting staring at a wall waiting for something or another. I do my best to avoid boredom also, but if these fucking zoomers lose interest for five seconds they are in their phone and you have to bitch slap them out of it to get their attention back. The only two zoomers I've hired have gotten fired for this shit.


I'm way out in the country. Even the "redneck" zoomers are afraid to go in the woods alone. When I was a kid in the 90's our parents would just let us disappear into the woods as long as we came back before dark. I make my kids take handheld cb radios so I can check on them every hour or two. I'd probably get arrested for child neglect if I gave them the kind of freedom I had and something went wrong.

That's everyone these days no matter what age they are. If I see anyone stop moving they stick their nose in a phone. Even I do it. It's a good time killer. But I see people doing it in lines at grocery stores and the Deli counter in the stores. If they stop for more than a minute they take their phones out. Women are the worst for this. But I have seen men doing it as well. With the no phone use while driving laws most states how now anytime people stop at a red light they use their phones. I hardly ever see anyone talking to anyone. They are just tapping on the screens or staring at them. I don't think people talk on phones much anymore.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Battletech pods. Back when I went to Dave & Buster's, they had those old mech pods with a proper joystick and throttle. Japan had something similar with Virtual On's twin stick controller.
Arcades in the 90s really did go all out in trying to be as immersive as possible with physical props. Today, Round One is the closest to the 90s arcade experience, but no business really captures what arcades were like in the 80s and 90s.

While I'm at it, local multiplayer as a whole. Yes, I'm aware network play is vastly superior in just about every way, but there's a distinct difference when your LAN mates are next to you and your COD lobby of today.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Having a normal attention span that's not destroyed by various web/mobile apps.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

• Airports not being full of security. Being able to see your friends off at the gate. Watching the planes land from the restaurants and bars you can now only get to with a ticket.
• Not living in a Patriot Act police state. Some millennials don't even remember this as they were too young to remember. The Patriot Act and subsequent laws have changed how normal Americans operate and have stifled commerce and financial privacy.
• No social media to cause drama and compare one another to.
• No "nonbinary" women. At worst they were bisexual or emo/goth. This did start to happen with the rise of the Tumblr echo chamber.
• Excitement for the next technological advancement in computers that would be available for you to purchase. (home computer, windows, 2d game consoles, 3d games consoles). I think zoomers missed out on the feeling of excitement of something groundbreaking being released instead of a slightly better version of something.
• No hyperfixation on race and little open discrimination against whites and for "minorities".
• No transgender propaganda(though there were symptoms of friends at risk of trooning out who trooned out). There was gay marriage propaganda with a lot of pressure on highschool students to take the "compassionate" side.
• Weird, experimental snack foods.
• Playing in the woods/outside all day.
• Being able to try smoking at 18.
• White people the TV. Seriously, look at this 1995 Disney park video. Its almost all white families.

• Fewer mexicans trashing the area up. There are entire areas taken over by them and they cause issue like the trashy blacks do along with being openly racist. The mass immigration in the US only started in the mid-late 1960's so baby boomers grew up in mostly white areas without other groups who have incompatible cultures.
• No tracking via smartphone by parents aside from calling the house of the friend you are going to or calling your cell phone(if you had one).
• Hanging out in real life. Playing LAN/split screen games all night and enjoying it.
• A feeling that there was something to look forward to when becoming an adult.

 

[seri0us]

No tracking via smartphone by parents aside from calling the house of the friend you are going to or calling your cell phone(if you had one).

I'm surprised I haven't yet heard about some parent watching their kids via drone. Consumer versions have gotten a lot better over the past several years.

 

[Day Walker]

Running the neighborhood all day until the street lights came on.
Being able to just be dumb kids without the risk of it going viral and ruining future prospects.
Not knowing anything about teachers’ lives outside of school.

 

[WolfeTone]

Boyscouts where you didn't have to worry about being diddled.
Disney attractions where you didn't have to worry about being diddled.
School where you didn't have to worry about being diddled.

Though there is hope if we can turn back that clock on some of these 'rights'

Oh and videogames that were complete on launch and didn't require Internet connection to play.

 

[Georgio Cocklord]

Animax (Asian Adult Swim), Miniclip flash games, shitty MMOs like Pokemon Indigo, Disney and Dreamworks film discs with bonus features and game trailers, Dial Up internet with 50-100kbps, Sony Walkman, nokias with a removable battery and only call/message options, online arcade games like time management sims, match 3, bubble bobble clones (Snowy the bear, Farm Frenzy, PVZ, Chuzzle), finished games with small size and spec requirements, Moorhun, ton of other stuff. Also Steve Irwin in his heyday, with like 4 crocodile hunter shows across discovery and animal planet.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

School where you didn't have to worry about being diddled.

You always had to worry about being diddled at school. It's just in the 2010s and 2020s that the problem can no longer be ignored.

Oh and videogames that were complete on launch and didn't require Internet connection to play.

It's too bad that young zoomers and alphas are too damn stupid to know how to use emulators, or have idiotic moral hangups over it.

 

[Illumithotty]

Flea markets. Covid stepped on their neck but even before that they were dying out; everyone's a fucking ebay expert now so there was less and less incentive to just hawk things together in a western bazarr. I try not to romanticize it too much, the stall owner willing to show teenagers a bunch of sleazy exploitation movies for free was probably a tremendous pervert that I had the good luck of being too ugly to attract if I'm being honest with my memories. But there was a lot of fun in seeing the legitimate hobbyist outlets right next to shady pirated movie booths and everything else. Plus you could get a hotdog and fountain drink for a buck.

Wooden playgrounds. I distinctly remember going to one week after week from the time I was 6 to when I was 10 and finding something new every day, but that's at least halfway due to the lead in the paint. But they were amazingly diverse in what you could do, and all of them being designed like endlessly explorable castles was fun to share with friends. Pretty much everything I remember enjoying the most - tire on a swing, 10' monkey bars, siege holes to throw rocks down - is probably illegal now.