The Saddest thing that reminds you that you're old...

[mr3urious]

Yep, I guess phones and alarm clocks are the same thing now.

I have a clock radio in my room, but I still use my phone as a fail-safe, like when the power goes out and I have to reset the clock.

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

When stores you used to go to are closing down for good.

The Sears in my town is closing in late September.

 

[LittleJerry92]

When stores you used to go to are closing down for good.

The Sears in my town is closing in late September.

Seriously!

It brings me back to the fact that people just suck their lives into the internet.

I'm really gonna dread the day when the era of when Wal-E predicted the future actually comes true.

 

[LittleJerry92]

I'm only 16, so I'm not sure if I should really be posting in here, but...

Just the fact that today's kids don't know what VHS is. I grew up watching VHS tapes (though I also watched DVDs, too), and I still have my VCR hooked up in my room right now!

I still remember the first time I used a DVD and it was just completely mind blowing.

I also remember when I was angry that VHS tapes were being phased out.... Now I'm angry that DVDs are being phased out.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Same.

Not only that, but most kids today also don't recognize hard-line telephones (even cordless), or alarm clocks (old-fashioned or digital).

To be honest, I never even use my alarm anymore.

I'd rather hear a nice alarm go off than "BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!"

 

[D'Snowth]

I don't like hearing either!

In fact, as much as I kind of miss those older telephones, the one thing I do not miss is the loud and obnoxious ringing they do!

 

[LittleJerry92]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRING.

 

[LittleJerry92]

I remember the first time I discovered YouTube when I was 13 in June of 2006, finding a flagged video felt so cool. It was like I found the dark side of YouTube and I was dissapointed that I couldn't watch it. So I signed up under the username "wattamack3" (yes, believe it or not, I had an old username but it was registered under my mom's email and me being the stupid 13 year old at the time, I didn't know how to confirm it; wattamack3 was an old TV.com username that stuck with me until I asked my mom to help me out with signing up with a YouTube profile in January 2007 and alas, "wattamack4" was born at that time). But anyway, being able to click on the videos with a lied DOB (I pretty much made it up so I was like 49. ) was a huge success for me at the time, considering I used to have cyber patrol and couldn't go to any porn sites (13 is a very big number, man; for some reason though, my parents never put it on my old XP computer when I first got it in 2007 and cyberpatrol was disabled off my Dell laptop as well for whatever reason; I don't know why, but I was so grateful. I could look at all the porn I wanted by then! and I also caught on to learning how to hide it better) but anyway, as I got older (mainly by the time I was 15), when I clicked on a flagged video, it was just like "eh, a little blood, some adult language, so what?"

Now that I'm over 18, it just feels like a roadblock whenever I have to confirm my age. It's like "just take me to the **** video already!"

 

[fuzzygobo]

Am I the only one who remembers TV dinners (wait!) when they used to come in metal trays, and you had to put them in the oven for 45 minutes?

My favorite used to be the Hungry Man fried chicken. 3 pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, brownie, and 1,200 mg of salt. Yum!

 

[mr3urious]

Does ice cream still come in those square fold-up cartons, in particular the store-brand kind? I never see them at the store anymore.