Things Our Kids Will Never Understand

How else can you conveniently watch movies at home? Blockbuster will be in business forever! #comedy #90s #nostalgia
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[gamom]

Don’t forget to be kind and rewind your VHS rental movie

[SuzySylvania]

In the late 70’s, I wanted the lyrics to a song off of my record album. I spent 2 hours listening and writing by hand to get every word. I had to keep putting the needle back to the approximate spot.
Several months later I took the clear plastic off of the album. I opened it up and the words were written right there on the inside of the album🤦‍♀️

[foxwaffles]

Honestly I am glad I was a kid before the explosion of the Internet. Everything on the Internet is permanent and it's good to know my idiocy and immaturity will never be known about!

[cocoavideos]

Kim nailed every single "thing" from the past! Only thing she could have added was the typewriter and what you did if you typed the wrong key...no backspace erase back then, it was liquid whiteout and re-typing the correct key a few times on top (once the liquid dried of course)!

[GamerDad]

I'm an elder millennial and this was my childhood. We didn't have dial-up internet until my freshman year in highschool. My kids are amazed every time we tell them we were alive before the internet.

[sadfaery]

Dude, the serious nostalgia here. Especially the TV show theme songs (Greatest American Hero and Three's Company I believe?). And the recording music from the radio, dial-up internet, and so much more. 100% accurate. Ah, the joys of growing up in the 80s and 90s.

[akasbm]

So many things our kids won’t know - how about looking up what’s playing at the movie theaters in the newspaper? Loved the video and the memories it brought up!

[shanaadams]

And one landline phone for the whole household. 😂😂

[karenrangel]

Totally rad! I am a total Gen X and you just described my whole childhood. Also, when your brother would call collect and the operator would ask " Do you accept this phone call from.." and he would scream "HAVE MOM COME PICK ME UP!" Then he would hang up and you weren't charged for the call. And calling friends and family long distance after 9 pm because it was free. Good times

[sr-lwbi]

Every dang moment spot on. 80's and 90's teens knew these struggles well. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. 😁

[katebell]

I was talking to a coworker last week about how we had pagers, had to google to show her a picture, she then asked where were the buttons to respond, and I was like, "you had to go find a payphone to call the number back!". She could not wrap her head around that!

[graceaxisa]

Oh, the anticipation of waiting for those photos! Oh, the disappointment when they are finally ready! 😂

[llamasugar]

Student: “So, did you like TikTok when you were in high school?”
Me: “Well, computers weren’t really a thing until my senior year, and the Internet hadn’t been invented yet.”
Student (looking stricken): “I’m so sorry, I didn’t know!”

True story. 🦖

[blondegiraffe]

And here I am like don't open the last disposable camera on earth! You gotta keep it in mint condition in the original packaging!" Devalued it by $1000 😂

[edmeyer]

Disposable cameras were a "newer" technology. I remember getting the roll of 35 MM film and depending on how you put it around the spool in your camera determined if you got all 24 or 36 pictures. Sometimes that last picture was a gamble. We also had slide projectors which my kids will never use. Most of my childhood is on slides.

[stephaniek]

my kids died laughing, they think it's made up....so my husband and I died laughing 😂

[johncasey]

Oh muffin, getting to buy or rent a movie in the 1990's from Blockbuster a couple months after it left theatres. Try the 80's when you would go to the movie theatre to see a movie and never be able to see it again until it maybe aired on TV years later. Love your videos guys.

[DivergingLives]

I was literally trying to explain half of this video to my 13 year old yesterday. Dial up internet 😂 heck if our high speed internet is interrupted for 5 seconds our kids are screaming “we need a new house!”. Ahhhh, the memories!

[karenwagner]

The funny thing is, we were THRILLED to be able to choose ANY MOVIE WE WANTED and watch it AS MUCH AS WE WANTED within that 48-hour window. It’s all about the context of what else was available! 😆

[kathyfritz]

Loved the ending. You two are so cute. Back in the day, all the action happened at the skating rink or the mall. (Remember how you always needed change so you could call your mom to come pick you up.)