‘What will the current generation never get to experience that was actually pretty cool?’ – 21 old-school joys
13.
‘Pick and mix at Woolworths.’
–conradslater
14.
‘Searching through every magazine to find a glimpse of a story about a celebrity you liked. Now they share their bowel movements on Instagram.’
–Captain___Quark
15.
‘Typing code in from computer magazines then trying to figure out where the typo was.’
–Parsnipnose3000
16.
‘Sending a fax to the other side of the world. I was so thrilled when I got to do this for the first time.’
–another_online_idiot
17.
‘Finding porn in bushes. A few crumpled pages of Razzle could feel like incomparable treasures in a way teenagers nowadays will never understand.’
–JustLetItAllBurn
18.
‘Snow days. Post Covid, with the rise in remote learning, many kids now will never understand the pure joy of waking up to snow and putting on the local radio waiting to hear if your school had been closed. Knowing you’d get to spend the day playing in the snow with all your friends. Now it just means they have to log in to virtual classrooms from home.’
–thefuturesbeensold
19.
‘Finding the hidden track on a CD.’
–Low_Sodiium
20.
‘Sitting down at the start of the Christmas Holidays with a pen and a copy of the Radio Times and the TV Times, and marking out all the films you and your family were going to watch.
Watching a movie because it was the only thing on, and then getting drawn into it, instead of being able to always find something that matches your tastes.’
–jock_fae_leith
21.
‘Creating absolute fiction and having no one google it and call BS within a literal minute. I remember convincing someone at school that iceberg lettuce had to be mined from the heart of icebergs.’
–LevelSecret3537