Something young kids today will never understand

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The excitement of seeing a blockbuster film for the first time because it's being shown on TV 8 years after everyone else saw it at a cinema.

I had an interesting conversation a few years back. One of the women in the office was talking about how she had been watching video tapes of when she was born. I thought about this and wondered if her dad had been an early adopter of technology and she said not really. I asked how old she was and it turned out that she was 12 years younger than me so I kept quiet. A few minutes passed and she returned to the conversation and asked how old I was. We had both assumed we were roughly the same age.

But it must be interesting to be able to see your first years alive in high definition video rather than a few black & white or faded colour still photos.

I remember when we got our first TV. I wasn't in kindergarten yet. (1955/6)

[ignoramus]

Our first 2 or 3 tv's were second hand B/W. We weren't THAT poor ... Dad was just a tightarse.

[Mr.Obvious]

The wonder that was missingno.

[emjay]

The excitement of seeing a blockbuster film for the first time because it's being shown on TV 8 years after everyone else saw it at a cinema.

I had an interesting conversation a few years back. One of the women in the office was talking about how she had been watching video tapes of when she was born. I thought about this and wondered if her dad had been an early adopter of technology and she said not really. I asked how old she was and it turned out that she was 12 years younger than me so I kept quiet. A few minutes passed and she returned to the conversation and asked how old I was. We had both assumed we were roughly the same age.

But it must be interesting to be able to see your first years alive in high definition video rather than a few black & white or faded colour still photos.

Yeah, these days your whole life could pretty much be recorded on Facebook or YouTube... vlogs etc. Very different... less to treasure... I wonder if it's possible to feel nostalgia in the same way these days... being so swamped with quick and easy 'memorabilia' as we are now.

[Brian37]

You get to name it.

My contribution:

They'll never get to experience the wonderful sound of modems dialing up and waiting half an hour for a picture to load on the computer.  These kids just don't know how great they have it today.

[FatAndFaithless]

They won't know what the 'save' icon in microsoft word is.

[Joods]

Meeting a polio victim in person. 

Comparing small pox scars.

My grandpa had polio. I only knew about it because I once asked him why he limped all the time.

[I_am_not_mafia]

At any point of the day or night you might only be given 3 minutes to prepare for a nuclear strike and face the end of civilisation.

[The Industrial Atheist]

Singing "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode, while being too young to have any idea what they're talking about.

[brewer]

Getting a collect call from someone not in jail.