Do you ever think about what life must have been like before all the advanced technology we have today? Sure, you can read about it, but it's totally different from living it.
And when redditor u/vaxowa8021 asked, "Without revealing your age, what's something you remember that if you told a child today, they would not understand?" people jumped at the chance to describe what life was like "back in the day."
So here are just a few of the struggles that older generations had to face that kids today will absolutely never understand.
1. "We had to use [physical] maps to travel and plan out trips before sitting in the car."
2. "Going to rent a video at the store."
3. "You had to wait by the radio all day for your favorite song to come on so you could record it on a cassette tape, only to have it be ruined because the DJ talked over the last 10 seconds of it."
4. "I had to stand against the wall to use the phone."
5. "You had to put the TV on Channel 3 to play video games."
6. "When the tape cassette would get tangled up."
7. "You'd go to see a movie in the theater, and that was it. There was no getting a DVD or even a VHS six months later.
8. "You weren't able to use the phone and the internet at the same time."
9. "If you were on a date you arranged, there was no way of knowing if they'd show up or if something had come up.
10. "If you took a picture of yourself or someone else, it was either a Polaroid (and there was only one copy) or you had to get it processed somehow by a professional.
11. "The telephones were corded, with rotary dials, and in phone booths."
12. "The sound that modems made when connecting."
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13. "Having to wrap aluminum foil around the TV's rabbit ears and play Twister to get reception on the channel you wanted to watch."
14. “We had dials on TVs to change the channel, then a dial…to tune it in better.”
15. "The car windows were rolled up with a handle instead of a button."
16. "Only having a black-and-white TV, with just a few channels to watch."
17. "Taking turns with my friend to call each other on the home line phone so our parents didn’t yell at us.
18. And finally, "Back in my day, we blew into our video games to get them to work."
Are there things that you remember from your childhood that kids today will never understand that didn't make this list? If so, feel free to drop it in the comments below!
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.