Hysterical!!!!

[Country Kids]

One of the dck's was asking me what it was like when I was little. I told them man landed on the moon, Elvis/Presilla were married and Woodstock happened all before I was 3. Their face/mouth was like-:confused:

No, they said-what did you play with and things like that. Oh, we played outside alot but there were no electronics. There were no computers/hand held games or anything like that.

The child was like oh wow!!! You played outside all the time!? Yes, most of the time. I said.

A parent walked in about this time and said-Yes, we grew up before the computor took nature away-::::::

The kids were also shocked when we tried to explain what an Encyclopedia was. Basically the internet in book form!

[mom2many]

::::::::::Things have definitely changed a lot!

[e.j.]

A few years ago, one of my dc kids asked me the same thing. During the conversation, I mentioned that the tv we had when I was little was black and white - no color. They couldn't even fathom such a thing so I turned on the tv and adjusted the color so it was black and white. I explained that that's what all of our tv shows looked like. It was funny to see their reaction. Most of them were totally amazed. One little boy got very upset, though and yelled, "Fix it!! Fix it!!". :: When I was a kid, I thought nothing of watching tv in black and white. You just kind of imagined the colors based on the light/dark shades on the screen.

[Sugar Magnolia]

My kids were fascinated with cassette tapes, baffled by records. ::

[Sunchimes]

My granddaughter is a college sophomore, but this is her first year to live in a dorm. We were talking about it-she has an apartment like suite, with a kitchen. It is a coed dorm, although the suites are not coed. I started telling her that when I was in college, there were no coed dorms. My first year, guys were only allowed in the dorm twice a semester-to help you move in and move out. My second year, we were allowed visitation. Two hours one Sunday afternoon a month. You had to sign them in and out, leave your door open, and the RA had to patrol up and down the hall. ;-) The first year, we were allowed one popcorn popper. This was in the olden days when your poured oil and kernals in an electric popper. By my junior year, we were allowed a popcorn popper and a mini fridge. We were never allowed hot plates, electric skillets, or microwaves.

Then I went on and told her that as a home ec major, my freshman year was the first time we had been allowed to wear pants (not jeans, just nice pant suits) in the Home Ec building. Then I really shocked her by telling her that we weren't allowed to wear pants to school until I was a junior in high school. She just couldn't believe we could exist without microwaves. I had to tell her that I'd never seen a microwave until my senior year in high school when the power company extension agent brought one to my home ec class. Few people had them in their home.

It's so much fun shocking these kids! ::

[Happy Hearts]

Just over 10 years ago, I had 3 kids in high school. I remember them fighting over the phone and all wanting phone time at the same time. So stressful. Now, everyone has cell phones and voila! no more fighting for phone time now. Parents have it so easy these days. They also have no loud music blasting from their rooms because they all have headphones in their ears. Poor kids are going to be deaf by 40.

[e.j.]

Then I went on and told her that as a home ec major, my freshman year was the first time we had been allowed to wear pants (not jeans, just nice pant suits) in the Home Ec building. Then I really shocked her by telling her that we weren't allowed to wear pants to school until I was a junior in high school.

Brought back memories of my high school days. Dresses or skirts -"appropriate business attire". No pants and definitely no jeans. In my senior year, they decided to allow for dress pants. The only time we could wear jeans was when the nuns needed to raise money. To do that, they would hold a Casual Friday where we could pay a fee to wear jeans.
This thread is starting to make me feel old!

Just over 10 years ago, I had 3 kids in high school. I remember them fighting over the phone and all wanting phone time at the same time. So stressful. Now, everyone has cell phones and voila! no more fighting for phone time now. Parents have it so easy these days. They also have no loud music blasting from their rooms because they all have headphones in their ears. Poor kids are going to be deaf by 40.

Oh, I'm not so sure parents have it easy these days. Having their own cell phones cuts down on the fighting over who gets to use the phone but it also creates problems my parents never had to worry about when I was growing up. We had one phone in the house and it was in the living room. My parents knew everything that was going on with me and my siblings. It's so march harder to know what is going on with my dd unless she decides to share it with me. Keeping abreast of the songs she was listening to was also harder because of those earbuds she has. Now that she's 18, I don't worry about it so much but from about the age of 15-18, I wouldn't allow her to download any song I wasn't familiar with. If I wasn't familiar with some, I sat and listened to them first. She was into rap at the time so I had to pull up an Urban Dictionary just to understand the lyrics. It was like translating a foreign language sometimes! I'd also have to do spot checks of her playlist because I never knew who was sharing songs with her and what those songs were.

[LK5kids]

I pulled out record about 12 yrs. ago & the kids said, "What's that?" I said ahhhhh, hmmmmm. a big c.d!

[Bookworm]

My 20 yr old couldn't figure out why me and my sister were so excited when we got a cordless phone and call waiting for Christmas one year. My Mom blew her mind a few years ago by showing her a manual typewriter my Mom had since SHE was in high school. I amazes me all the things kids today will never know about let alone see.

[e.j.]

Just remembered the time my dd, who was fairly young at the time, asked if it was possible to wash dishes without a dishwasher!

[Blackcat31]

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.

Here is this years list:

For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead.

• 1.They should keep their eyes open for Justin Bieber or Dakota Fanning at freshman orientation.
• 2.They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of “electronic narcotics.”
• 3.The Biblical sources of terms such as “Forbidden Fruit,” “The writing on the wall,” “Good Samaritan,” and “The Promised Land” are unknown to most of them.
• 4.Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes “American Royalty.”
• 5.If they miss The Daily Show, they can always get their news on YouTube.
• 6.Their lives have been measured in the fundamental particles of life: bits, bytes, and bauds.
• 7.Robert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway.
• 8.Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of whose presidency they have little knowledge.
• 9.They have never seen an airplane “ticket.”
• 10.On TV and in films, the ditzy dumb blonde female generally has been replaced by a couple of Dumb and Dumber males.
• 11.The paradox "too big to fail" has been, for their generation, what "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" was for their grandparents'.
• 12.For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department.
• 13.They can’t picture people actually carrying luggage through airports rather than rolling it.
• 14.There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles.
• 15.While still fans of music on radio, they often listen to it on their laptops or replace it with music downloaded onto their MP3s and iPods.
• 16.Since they've been born, the United States has measured progress by a 2 percent jump in unemployment and a 16 cent rise in the price of a first class postage stamp.
• 17.Benjamin Braddock, having given up both a career in plastics and a relationship with Mrs. Robinson, could be their grandfather.
• 18.Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.
• 19.The Green Bay Packers have always celebrated with the Lambeau Leap.
• 20.Exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends.
• 21.A significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss.
• 22.The Real World has always stopped being polite and started getting real on MTV.
• 23.Women have always piloted war planes and space shuttles.
• 24.White House security has never felt it necessary to wear rubber gloves when gay groups have visited.
• 25.They have lived in an era of instant stardom and self-proclaimed celebrities, famous for being famous.
• 26.Having made the acquaintance of Furby at an early age, they have expected their toy friends to do ever more unpredictable things.
• 27.Outdated icons with images of floppy discs for “save,” a telephone for “phone,” and a snail mail envelope for “mail” have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screens.
• 28.Star Wars has always been just a film, not a defense strategy.
• 29.They have had to incessantly remind their parents not to refer to their CDs and DVDs as “tapes.”
• 30.There have always been blue M&Ms, but no tan ones.’
• 31.Along with online viewbooks, parents have always been able to check the crime stats for the colleges their kids have selected.
• 32.Newt Gingrich has always been a key figure in politics, trying to change the way America thinks about everything.
• 33.They have come to political consciousness during a time of increasing doubts about America’s future.
• 34.Billy Graham is as familiar to them as Otto Graham was to their parents.
• 35.Probably the most tribal generation in history, they despise being separated from contact with their similar-aged friends.
• 36.Stephen Breyer has always been an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 37.Martin Lawrence has always been banned from hosting Saturday Night Live.
• 38.Slavery has always been unconstitutional in Mississippi, and Southern Baptists have always been apologizing for supporting it in the first place.
• 39.The Metropolitan Opera House in New York has always translated operas on seatback screens.
• 40.A bit of the late Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, has always existed in space.
• 41.Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers.
• 42.Gene therapy has always been an available treatment.
• 43.They were too young to enjoy the 1994 World Series, but then no one else got to enjoy it either.
• 44.The folks have always been able to grab an Aleve when the kids started giving them a migraine.
• 45.While the iconic TV series for their older siblings was the sci-fi show Lost, for them it’s Breaking Bad, a gritty crime story motivated by desperate economic circumstances.
• 46.Simba has always had trouble waiting to be King.
• 47.Before they purchase an assigned textbook, they will investigate whether it is available for rent or purchase as an e-book.
• 48.They grew up, somehow, without the benefits of Romper Room.
• 49.There has always been a World Trade Organization.
• 50.L.L. Bean hunting shoes have always been known as just plain Bean Boots.
• 51.They have always been able to see Starz on Direct TV.
• 52.Ice skating competitions have always been jumping matches.
• 53.There has always been a Santa Clause.
• 54.NBC has never shown A Wonderful Life more than twice during the holidays.
• 55.Mr. Burns has replaced J.R.Ewing as the most shot-at man on American television.
• 56.They have always enjoyed school and summer camp memories with a digital yearbook.
• 57.Herr Schindler has always had a List; Mr. Spielberg has always had an Oscar.
• 58.Selena's fans have always been in mourning.
• 59.They know many established film stars by their voices on computer-animated blockbusters.
• 60.History has always had its own channel.
• 61.Thousands have always been gathering for “million-man” demonstrations in Washington, D.C.
• 62.Television and film dramas have always risked being pulled because the story line was too close to the headlines from which they were ”ripped.”
• 63.TheTwilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.
• 64.Robert Osborne has always been introducing Hollywood history on TCM.
• 65.Little Caesar has always been proclaiming “Pizza Pizza.”
• 66.They have no recollection of when Arianna Huffington was a conservative.
• 67.Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has always been officially recognized with clinical guidelines.
• 68.They watch television everywhere but on a television.
• 69.Pulp Fiction’s meal of a "Royale with Cheese" and an “Amos and Andy milkshake” has little or no resonance with them.
• 70.Point-and-shoot cameras are soooooo last millennium.
• 71.Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.
• 72.Astronauts have always spent well over a year in a single space flight.
• 73.Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive baseball games played has never stood in their lifetimes.
• 74.Genomes of living things have always been sequenced.
• 75.The Sistine Chapel ceiling has always been brighter and cleaner.

Thought it was interesting as well as a great way to make some of us feel VERY old

http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/

[Michelle]

funny story;
my husband was playing solitaire with a pack of playing cards and my 18 year old dd walked by and said" oh, you can play solitaire with real cards?"

[Mommy2One]

My kids were fascinated with cassette tapes, baffled by records. ::

At 29, I haven't really felt too out of touch until I was reading my 3yo daughter one of my old books I'd saved from my childhood and she asked me what a cassette was. I found myself saying "it plays music...like a CD"