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

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

carburetors, drum brakes, stick shifts

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.

they're probably looking at shopping lists. I know it's the only reason I'm ever looking at my phone in a grocery store.

 

[Premium Gonzo]

- Being able to go to the cockpit of a plane and see the pilots fucking around
- Arcades actually being good and house of the dead being scary
- being on time to meet people cause no mobile phones.
- calling someone in a STD area (subscriber trunk dialing) and it costing more then a phone sex hotline.
- Phone sex numbers

 

[Roland TB-303]

Being allowed out of the house to roam the neighbourhood on my bike and visit friends as I pleased. I sound like a boomer now that I’ve typed that but it’s definitely something I cherish from my childhood. All kids need to be given autonomy at a certain age but sadly there’s pedos everywhere now so it’s best to plop them infront of an iPad.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Being allowed out of the house to roam the neighbourhood on my bike and visit friends as I pleased. I sound like a boomer now that I’ve typed that but it’s definitely something I cherish from my childhood. All kids need to be given autonomy at a certain age but sadly there’s pedos everywhere now so it’s best to plop them infront of an iPad.

And even then, you gotta lock down the internet on that, because they're more likely to get preyed on there than out there in the neighborhood.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The ability to spend a whole day crying because your computer couldn't run Zoo Tycoon 2. I was really excited about the first person mode that let me pet animals.

 

[Soggy paper straw]

Not being obese. Standard activities for children involving movement rather than sitting on your ass.

The value of selected printed photographs.

Having to be a bit creative to solve problems, rather than following a random article you found online because "wikihow said so, so it must be true"

Having to go to the toilet/other stuff very quickly during ad breaks. Waiting one week for a new episode of something, and if you missed it, you missed it.

 

[RussianParasite]

I’d add two things to some of these as well:

1) Going to best buy or other game store and examining the back of the PC game boxes to decide which game that you never heard of that you wanted. I can still smell those boxes after getting the plastic off.

2) Not being trackable by your parents. You’d be shocked at how pretty much every kid now has some sort of tracking device on them now be it a phone or smartwatch and it alerts parents if they are somewhere they are not “supposed” to be. I had nightmares about such technology as a kid, and unless one of my kids break my trust they will never be under my scrutiny regarding exactly where they are at any given time.

Having to remember friends phone numbers by heart.

I still, decades later, remember the phone numbers of my friends’ houses. I also remember our old phone number as well.

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 grew up near a ton of boys and we would organize full-on wars with sticks. Throwing shit, hitting each other with our self-made “weapons”, and just having all out wars sometimes lasting days still bring a smile to my face. Can’t imagine that is allowed now either or that kids would even come up with it.

Weird, experimental snack foods.

They brought back 3D Doritos but I swear they lowered the quality.

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

They brought back 3D Doritos but I swear they lowered the quality.

This is a common theme in the "foods you miss" thread. CheezIT no longer uses tobasco for their spicy flavor and it's garbage.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

 

[mindlessobserver]

I could walk to the 7-11 at the age of 8 with my sister aged 6 in tow.

Alone.

We bought some ice cream and sodas. cashier said thank you. we went on our merry way back home.

If kids did that today some Karen would call the police.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The distinct smell of a brand new out of the box first party Gamecube game manual.

 

[Sundae]

Having to rewind VHS tapes when I was done watching them.

Having to wait up to 15 minutes or more for dial-up internet to connect before I could surf the web.

 

[teriyakiburns]

walking around with a knife on my belt and nobody giving a shit.

 

[Meat Target]

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

Even though GWOT was ultimately an illusion of globohomo machinations, it was still a beautiful illusion. The post-9/11 years were the last time we had any national unity.

Zoomers will never have a country to feel proud of. The reason the military can't recruit is because nobody wants to die for a gayer, fatter China.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Not just being able to disconnect fully, but having disconnection be the default.

Moving through a media and entertainment landscape that wasn't designed by psychologists to be addictive.

Public gatherings of people who aren't concerned about being documented.

 

[The Ugly One]

No rainbow flags at school
Not having to learn about buttsex at school
Playing video games at friends' houses

 

[Shart Attack]

Being able to make an edgy joke about women or minorities without the risk of having your entire life ruined. Remember when we were allowed to treat black people like we treated everyone else, as if everyone was equal?

A version of Facebook that was only open to people with a college email address. A basic social media site for college students to hook up and say stupid, inconsequential shit, free from Boomer Minions memes, hysterical trannies, and propaganda.

Positive representation of white, heterosexual people in media being the norm rather than the exception.

A single blue-collar man being able to own a home and provide a comfortable standard of living for a family of five.

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

Not having internet and having to rely on knowledge from your friends to discover good music in the 1980s.
In the early 1980s, most games were played in arcades(I know consoles were still a thing before the 1983 crash, but my childhood neighborhood preferred arcades over the console).
Most videos were on Betamax and VHS tapes and you had to rewind the video if you rented or else you have to pay a rewind fee, most zoomers would never understand what it is.
Social media never existed so there wasn’t that deep of a pressure to conform
Finally, having to go to the library to find information instead of using Google.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

walking around with a knife on my belt and nobody giving a shit.

If I do this--hypothetically, of course--I have to keep it concealed. Which is way more illegal, but I wouldn't be doing it were it not for Karens and man-Karens.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I still remember that SpongeBob movie I rented from Blockbuster in the mid-2000s. Didn't know it would be over so soon and I was being introduced to it. My nearest gas station was a movie rental place and I'd have 2 dollars to spend for a treat. More than 2 because the bottle of Gatorade costed more. Also, future generations won't remember Gatorade Rain. Nor would they remember people sharing the images of Early 2000s visual novels such as Innocent Eyes and Moldevite without knowing them. (Yes, I'm that much of a degenerate). Now everyone is playing these games. Basically solid games with serious sinful flaws.

But yeah, my 9 year old self playing the infamous Pachinko level in Super Mario Sunshine didn't expect DSPGaming to cuss out the employees when playing that level in 2016 during one of most holiest fuckups.

Our family made the most of Disney parks and now they're unbearable for North American locations at least but I don't know how many people would remember a park in Dania Florida known as Pirate's World. A location destroyed by the competition of Disney World and known for it's notoriously shitty Christmas movie known as Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. I know it doesn't sound like much compared to the demoralizing garbage in Hollywood and TV nowadays but nothing in that movie makes sense. Much fewer may remember the parking lot fights there. Yes, Miami was shitty even before Tony Montana set his throne there.