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

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Everyone in the school standing and saying the pledge of allegiance with the principal on the school PA.
Everyone in school being white.
Not being able to call your friend 2 towns over because it was a toll call.
Rotatory phones still being around phones stuck to the wall in kitchens and having 30' phone cords so you could take the phone to another room.
Computers with no spell check.
Staying up late so you could get back to back turns before and after midnight on some BBS door game.

 

[Chromeo]

Everyone in the school standing and saying the pledge of allegiance with the principal on the school PA.

Every time anyone brings this up I'm compelled to say both my school district and my younger sibling's did the pledge of allegiance on the intercom every day. Even kids I know are in school in [current year] are still doing the pledge daily. I legitimately don't think any school has stopped/banned the pledge of allegiance, I think it's just boomer ragebait from Facebook.

 

[Jump]

Every time anyone brings this up I'm compelled to say both my school district and my younger sibling's did the pledge of allegiance on the intercom every day. Even kids I know are in school in [current year] are still doing the pledge daily. I legitimately don't think any school has stopped/banned the pledge of allegiance, I think it's just boomer ragebait from Facebook.

My state's statute just says a block of time must be made available for the pledge. Doing it or not is up to the local school boards.
In the 20teens a string of lawsuits went after local school boards and ended compulsory reciting of it in the morning.
And now that the US flag just stands for globohomo I am perfectly fine with that.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember when video game trailers would actually use in-engine footage for their marketing. Not CGI crap irrespective of the actual product.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I remember when video game trailers would actually use in-engine footage for their marketing. Not CGI crap irrespective of the actual product.

Our entire society is a demiurge's dream. People in media don't act anything like people in real life do. Advertisements don't represent the product 100% of the time. Nobody is honest on their dating profiles. Nobody is honest about anything. It's the fucking Kali Yuga.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

A sense of humour, a sense of wonder and an optimistic outlook of life.

In the 90's, everything felt possible. All jokes were in good humour and taken as jokes. Women were fun and enjoyed life without being uppity sluts or wanting to be more than just women.

Social media didn't exist, neither did 24 hours news, so you only got the top stories once a day for 30 minutes. Any scare mongering; Y2k, Sars 1, Bird flu, global warming, by the media was laughed off and ignored.

People had a better attitude, tv shows were cheesy and more light-hearted. Politics was seen as a boring subject for old fuckers. The current year hadn't begun, booth babes were still at E3 and games were made by nerds, for nerds.

Fuck the modern day.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Microsoft Clippy

There was a whole bunch of Office Assistants.

 

[Betonhaus]

There was a whole bunch of Office Assistants.

...oh fuck yeah, I forgot about them! i think there was a globe, a puzzle, and a red ball or something?

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Sars 1

I remember getting picked up by mother from summer camp during SARS 1.

Instead of stopping at our usual café for lunch in the idyllic little town close by as was tradition, my mother refused to enter the town because she'd heard from a friend-of-a-friend that there might have been a single case locally in the town of thousands.

I thought she was kidding until she passed the turnoff a booted it home without any stops for several hours.

It really was an early 20-year sneak peak that I didn't pick up on for SARS 2: Electric Boogaloo that was to come.

 

[Random Internet Person]

...oh fuck yeah, I forgot about them! i think there was a globe, a puzzle, and a red ball or something?

There was also a robot, a cat, and a dog.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Watching the first season of Spongebob when it first aired.

That is something I will never get to see, though my uncle introduced it to me early as a young kid, and let me tell you what, the first few seasons rocked. And while I may be a zoomer, I am a late one; it was a lot easier to find pirate streaming sites than now with search engines buying them, it's how I watched the pilot of Spongebob

 

[Betonhaus]

There was also a robot, a cat, and a dog.

there were TWO cats and two dogs and robots

 

[Random Internet Person]

Watching the first season of Spongebob when it first aired.

And seeing the first film in theaters. And playing a pinball game featuring Plankton on the film’s website. RIP Stephen Hillenburg.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

And seeing the first film in theaters. And playing a pinball game featuring Plankton on the film’s website. RIP Stephen Hillenburg.

Still remember going to the bathroom after the movie ended. Everyone was singing the Goofy Goober song. The tie in game was great. As good as Battle for Bikini Bottom.

 

[The handsome tard]

Early internet was a god damn experience of a lifetime. A true free internet, an undiscovered country full of opportunity.

 

[DavidS877]

Early internet was a god damn experience of a lifetime. A true free internet, an undiscovered country full of opportunity.

Make Money Fast.

Also, do you need a green card?

 

[Random Internet Person]

Early internet was a god damn experience of a lifetime. A true free internet, an undiscovered country full of opportunity.

The antics of stick figures filled so many days.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I cam recall a time when tattoo were only on bikers, criminals, freaks, and sailors.

I also remember the world before 9/11, a time when airport security wasn't invasive.

I can also recall when it was normal to not carry an electronic device all the time.

 

[Betonhaus]

I recall using a typewriter. it was an electric one with a backspace feature but still

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Libraries when they weren't homeless hangouts

Libraries also didn't often celebrate "identity politics" a lot.