Gen X Quiz For Gen Z

[@cj222100]

I'd have loved to see Lola's reaction if you told her that after waiting for the dial up internet, often times someone in the house would yell 'get off the computer, I need to use the phone!'

[@MakeWay4CJ]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Geez! We can all laugh about that…. NOW!

[@swampcastle8142]

My house they wouldn't yell, they would just pick up the extension and start dialing trashing what ever you were up to.

[@Calango741]

@@swampcastle8142 Thanks, that comment gave me a good laugh...

[@paulamcdonald6568]

Or when it stormed you’d lose connection to the internet over and over and over.

[@tohellwithgoogle4261]

More the other way around. Or you were downloading something something and some asshole called and you lost everything so you picked up the phone and screamed "WHAT???"

[@jdm1066]

As a Gen X myself, with no kids, I have never felt old.... until watching this.

[@jewelleryaddict]

As a boomer, I think man I have lived thru so much change and its all 🆒

[@MontagZoso]

Same here. When the daughter had no idea how to pronounce Depeche Mode, I felt soooooo old.

[@SuperJM2013]

Im 50 and just aged 20 years in 5 minutes

[@8O8DRAX]

ya weird!

[@eddarby469]

Don't feel old. You're tougher than that. We got through childhood without the Internet, having to copy from the blackboard and without a phone where we could call our mom any time we wanted.

[@ages6592]

The floppy disk = the ”save” symbol still prevails as an ancient mystic 🤣🤣🤣

[@justanotherrandomdisneyfan3717]

I think in new computers it’s a sd card lol

[@mr.worldwide4758]

@@justanotherrandomdisneyfan3717 I have a new computer and its still a floppy disk

[@mrkennedyfreak]

Yeah, I cringed when my little sister said that was the 'save icon' but I guess thats just how it is... I remember Floppy Disks well, same with Zip Drives

[@traceyrich]

I'm amazed that this is still used as the save icon because nobody has used them in a generation (and yes, I'm old enough to have used them. And the 5-1/4s before them that were actually floppy)

[@ages6592]

And the symbol for the ”call app” on iPhones😆😆 In Sweden at least I don’t think there are many teens to ever have used the type of phone it symbolizes: ☎️

[@cinnabarsin4288]

I love how The Price is Right is such a universal thing for when you stayed home sick.

[@Milesco]

Come on down! 😄

[@The_Ballo]

Please spay and neuter your pets

[@BlunderMunchkin]

I mean, it was the only thing on that wasn't a soap opera.

[@FrisbeeGirl]

"That ~~~~~ sound was all of your hopes and dreams being crushed...." OMG, I love this family so much!!

[@peggyjones3282]

My son said to me, "I found this band called U2. They're not bad!" 😒🙄 Me, "yes. I have heard of them!" 😆

[@billyoung8118]

I had a similar thing happen. I was walking through a mall around the time that No Doubt's song, "It's My Life" first came out. In the mall they were playing the MUCH better version of that song from Talk Talk over the PA system. A few teens walking through the mall said out loud "I can't believe some band already remade No Doubt's song." It was all I could do to just keep walking away.

[@mj6866]

LOL!

[@0utcastAussie]

@@billyoung8118 It's a proud moment when you find your daughters rummaging through your CD's to find a song they heard on the radio and like. "YEAH, DAD'S got it" !! I took them to a Status Quo concert just before Rick died and they were Rockin with the best of em !

[@katannep7798]

My friend’s 19 year old daughter: I just heard this song “if I had a million dollars” It’s really funny, I think you’d like it. My friend used to play in a band that did Barenaked Ladies cover songs all the time, to the point of annoyance, so this statement was just hilarious

[@thefluffyboosh4899]

@@billyoung8118 As a huge fan of Talk Talk, that statement put a tear in my eye..... :(

[@Lyds18]

Mario Theme- Lola- UH UH, TETRIS! Me- Dies Inside.

[@sportsshorts9607]

Same!

[@reckie5133]

Literally tho

[@katelynmarley1145]

SAME!!!! I am Gen Z, but I still knew that sound! Lol!

[@syberyah]

That's the first thing that came out of my mouth, too, but then a moment later I was like "OH, SUPER MARIO WORLD!!" (I still had the last word wrong, but I was close. ;P)

[@angelarrivas]

Yup, me too!

[@advfhorn]

I loved she knew the yellow pages from “Back to the future”. Good job Mom & Dad

[@metalvideos1961]

She us raised horribly.

[@brucetenhave6952]

Our house has yellow pages books!! Not that we use them but they're in the cupboard..

[@mikekolokowsky]

I was ready for her to say “because they’re yellow. And they’re pages.”

[@ColdBloodedBastard]

Yellow pages weren't in back to the future. That was the white pages lol

[@geoffswain359]

Mums not genx

[@BBMc107]

“Jord achey” I did the same thing. Grabbed my heart in disbelief.

[@markzeddo6033]

I've got to say that I'm very glad that there is now a generation which has never heard the horrible, soul-crushing sound of a dial-up modem.

[@666t]

My mother had dial up internet last year, one of less than 50 people who still have it

[@MakeWay4CJ]

OMG! RIGHT?!?!

[@OoOFaitOoO]

It depends I know people born in the early 2000s that had it in their early childhood

[@charliemcpherson6299]

It sounds like a computer being r@ped.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

You could go make a sandwich, then come back to see the webpage uploaded:)

[@kimmeshelter]

My 14 yo asked me the other day, "mother, have you ever heard of a band called Duran Duran?" Without thinking, I replied, "Which video would you like me to act out? And always remember Roger is the cutest!" Ah...Gen Z!

[@mamaof3beasties440]

I agree...any time I hear a Duran Duran song..I can see the video in my head. I have to respectfully disagree with you about Roger being the cutest (though my sister would agree w/you)....Nick is!!! :D

[@kimmeshelter]

@@mamaof3beasties440 The Duran Duran arguments that went on between friends in 1984/85 were intense. Nice to meet a fellow Duranie!

[@AB2B]

Excuse me, I can't hear your reply over my loud, warbled Rio karaoke.

[@kimmeshelter]

@@AB2B sing it my friend. Sing it loud and proud. Then next... Save a Prayer. You've got this.

[@AB2B]

@@kimmeshelter On it! The dog is annoyed, but she'll get over it.

[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

"THOSE ARE LIKE FROM THE 50S". Ouch, kid. Get off my lawn.

[@ardra6096]

Lola: And she's my thirty year old mother Kim: 😒

[@robertbowman448]

You can tell the instant Kim worked out the math...and didn't like it.

[@thefryinator7774]

@@robertbowman448 millennials are thirty, she should feel good her kid thinks she's so young

[@soul71000]

Nice lie Lola.

[@tvshowsnmovies1234]

@@robertbowman448 yes... mom at 16

[@jonogren5567]

@@soul71000 Kim 40?

[@megodynamite]

Fun fact: I believe the THX movie intro is too help you decide if the volume is correct for the movie, it plays the lowest sound to the highest sounds you will hear during the film

[@ajdembroski7529]

I guess you could use it like that, but really it was just to illustrate the quality of their sound in movie theaters. It was more ad than aid.

[@opie1kanobie]

Yeah, I thought it was the ad for Dolby surround sound or the next level which was THX

[@newdimension4731]

Max Headroom was the PEPSI commercial of the 80's

[@RavenSoulcatcher]

When I see him, I always think of the song by Art of Noise - Paranoimia

[@mbrady2329]

For me, Max Headroom will always be associated with the phrase, "Golf - great game!": kzbin.info/www/bejne/fprNp3-Ma5ilgc0

[@lessers24]

Dial up also known as “time to pee and grab a snack before settling down to AIM” 😂

[@david2869]

AIM, texting in its infancy!

[@erincounts8209]

Next time give her a busy signal! The look on their face when you explain if anyone is talking on the phone, mom, dad, whoever ~ no one is getting through! Life before “redial” and call waiting on push button landline phones was brutal :)

[@mlpreiss]

Not to mention party-lines... and I don't mean the ones advertised at midnight by sultry young women.

[@syberyah]

I'm 14 and I get that, too, 'cause we've used a landline in our house for as long as I've been alive, so I recognize the busy signal and the dial tone both.

[@michellemc5338]

And the signal/sounds when sending fax.

[@mrsmack5808]

I wish she would've explained what happened if someone picked up the landline when you were online with dial-up internet... The amount of unintentional disconnects when I was growing up. Ouch. And the missed calls when you were online, too.

[@mattslupek7988]

None of them remember a time without caller id, either.

[@artupidrakus]

"beavis and butthead?" "We've trained you well." 😂😂😂

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

I love how Kim got excited when she recognized their laughs 😁

[@jaquevius]

She nailed Beavis and Butthead 😂

[@ColH0m3r]

"Breakin the law, breakin the law!"

[@jenniferh189]

Hahaha “staying home sick, your mom didn’t believe you”….meant a great morning of game shows for real!!!

[@timafiggy]

Yes and Nickelodeon shows. Danger Mouse

[@christschool]

@@timafiggy Nickolodean? That's millennial and xennial, not true Gen X.

[@icouldjustscream]

I think it's very sweet that Lola covered up her mum's real age 😉.

[@ToniGlick]

Of course when you add up those numbers she would have been a teen Mom. 😂

[@ChrisMonopoli]

@@NousTrapper it would also make her not a Gen X since the youngest Gen X is around 39 to 43 years old (depending who you ask) so we all know she's supposed to Gen X because it says it in the video title so why not at least make the lie (that her mom isn't as old as she really is) believable.

[@Mike_H76]

@@ChrisMonopoli Gen X is far older than that, I'm near the end of Gen X, 1976 and am 47. The generation is birth years 1965-1981 (debatable if it's actually 1964 and/or 1980). My lady, born in '81, wants so badly to be a Gen X'er... but I won't let her, it's an elite club and since she had a Tamagotchi as a teen, automatically disqualified.

[@ChrisMonopoli]

@@Mike_H76 WTF are you talking about? I know Gen X is older than that but in the video the girl doesn't say her mom's real age and says she is 30 and someone here said that they think it's sweet that Lola covered up her mom's real age and then there is a comment saying the numbers don't add up because she'd have been a teen mom. I was resigning to the the comment that said it would make her pregnant at 16 and my comment went with that agreeing that if she was only 30 she would not be a Gen X because the youngest Gen X is around 39 to 43 depending on who you ask in no way was I even talking about the oldest Gen Xer. I am Gen X I am 50 and I am kinda in the middle I know the years of Gen X. So what are you telling me for? And why is your comment a highlighted comment it has nothing to do with what I was saying.

[@johns783]

here i was thinking... um.. Millennial mom?

[@charliebradlyn5313]

I’m only 12 and my heart was crushed when Lola couldn’t figure out the Super Mario. 😭😭😭

[@carinaraymond2]

I was saddened too! But hopefully it probably has more to do with not playing video games much, than her age per say?

[@Jenny-zd3jl]

Omg same like I new all of this and I’m 12 too !

[@connerbaber3330]

I’m only 10 and I knew It

[@mr.worldwide4758]

@@carinaraymond2 Yes probably because the kids in this comment section all know it

[@flamingdicegaming7845]

Same im 12 she is dumb

[@brianrvd]

The electronic game is Simon, the in-person game is Simon Says.

[@BlackieNuff]

By "electronic game", you mean the hand-held/tabletop version, and "in-person" you mean like an actual board game with an electronic component? I'm honestly unsure myself of the difference between Simon and Simon Says, and I'm total Gen-X... but I was not much into games (board/electronic/computer) unless it was Atari or Gemini.

[@brianrvd]

This is Simon: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWfTaK2IqKp2l6s this is Simon Says, no electronics: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKq7Y5-sh7Wkf6M

[@BlackieNuff]

@@brianrvd OHHHHH!!! LMAO!! Simon Says! The "do as I say" game! Duh! I totally forgot about that. I had the Simon game pegged right but I totally brain-farted on Simon Says. I maybe played it a handful of times as a kid then it was like it disappeared, cos no one actually played it anymore, though it got mention now and then. I can't believe I didn't remember that old "monkey-see/monkey-do" game, lol. Thanks for the refresher! Those links were a huge help. :-)

[@JamieAndersonMusic]

I still use a rolodex. I'll just get my walker and shuffle away now.

[@hplexicon]

The last time I saw or heard of someone using a rolodex was when I was maybe 12, I was surprised it's considered a Gen X thing.

[@wordivore]

@@hplexicon I'm an older GenX and only really saw them in offices. I used an address book for my friends contact info. I use a rolodex now for all my internet accounts and passwords. Lol.

[@derekmills5394]

Imagine her face if we told her the type with loose cards in a container was called a Tickler Box!

[@mattking3148]

As I watched this video. And read the comments. I'm lost on this age of Gen X? If 30 is Gen X. Dear oh Dear what am I at 43?? Ancient. How we slowly represent cell phone technology. Brand new for a few months. Then it's just OLD😱😱. But, the PAY PHONE BOOTH is the true test of knowledge 🤣. I have seen one here and there in Ohio, for entertainment to the young generation 😅. Good job mom and dad. Keep her educated 🤓

[@LauraCordes]

Oh, the days of being sick at home while my grandma babysat me, watching The Young and the Restless and The Price is Right, chain smoking and feeding me chicken soup, making sure I was warm and cozy in several of her handmade crochet afghans. Those are some memories.

[@tuffguydoe7937]

omg it was game shows then soap operas and when whoever was babysitting me took a nap I could get to watch the afternoon cartoons before local and nightly news. There was a reason kids stayed out till it got dark back in the days. There was nothing to do at home. There was nothing good to watch on tv except Saturday mornings.

[@phreak1118]

My parents missed so many phone calls in the 90s because I was on AOL.

[@cherylcarlson3315]

Went to a museum with my then 29 yo son and all my childhood was there, never been so depressed.

[@saracdlove1963]

That is sad you don’t find joy in your childhood being celebrated and preserved.

[@wizardsuth]

I felt old when I saw a Commodore 64 on display at the Museum of Science and Technology. And that was over 20 years ago.

[@naturalnashuan]

Tell him the fossils were old friends of yours. I'm 50, this is the age where I'm having fun with being middle aged. The hard part of life is done.😅

[@cherylcarlson3315]

@@naturalnashuan enjoy what you can.was 58 when developed neuromuscular disease.went from hiking, biking,cross country skiing, working..to crushing weakness and cane. BTW 65 isn't a fossil but if you are lucky you may find that out

[@naturalnashuan]

@@cherylcarlson3315 I agree totally. I had a massive brain injury from a blood vessel birth defect at 25. I may have actually done more good with my life with losing my professional career and ability to drive. I'm recovering from paralysis. A very helpful thing doctors and nurses told me was that I was in a situation where I needed to recreate abilities in my brain....and I could make them different. That makes it an act of creativity instead of a chore. I do appreciate what I have in my life, I achieved the major goals and as teachers used to say, "from this point, everything else is extra credit."

[@lynnettelg]

The 5” floppy disks were definitely more floppy and I remember they didn’t have a mechanism to pop in or out. You had to slide them in, flip down a tiny toggle to lock it in place or unlock it so you could grip one part with your thumb and forefinger to remove it from the huge desktop. Don’t touch the filmy part and put it back in it’s sleeve or you could lose all your saved info!

[@MasterSandman]

I was taught that the 5" was the floppy-disc, because it was... "floppy"!!! And the 3.5" was called the discette-disc... 🤔 Oh well... Long time ago... 😔😢

[@Keen_Eye]

@@MasterSandman Well, yes and no. The 3.5" was referred to as a floppy diskette due to being smaller, but all Floppy Disks are floppy on the inside, as opposed to a Hard Disk which has platters made of a sort of glass/ceramic material. Note I'm not using "disc" as that's for audio discs and round, flat things. My quick rule for which spelling to use is: magnetic media = disk (floppy, hard, another word that could be taken the wrong way) optical media = disc (compact, laser, digital video, Blu-Ray) Though we're getting closer to not using disks or discs in the consumer world. I have no hard or disc drives in my computer.

[@MasterSandman]

@@Keen_Eye Right, got it! I've got it all.... diskette disks (yeah, i've paid attention! 😁), CD-Rom's, HDD's, SSD's, Vinyls, audio-casstte's, CD's, DVD's, Blu-Ray's and even VHS tapes! 😂😂

[@Issblodh]

@MasterSandman you’re forgetting betamax and 8-tracks😢

[@MasterSandman]

@@Issblodh I know, but I'm being truthful here and I don't have those two... Besides I'm European and 8-track was never really a thing over here. The only Betamax recorder I ever saw up close was at a schoolfriends house. His father was a Realestate-developer and they were the richest family in our small town. They had a 25" color-tv!! (we're talking 1982 here! Yes, this was a tube-tv! 😃 We were still rocking an old 18" black&white) and a Betamax toploader. That's how I saw this little indie-movie called Star Wars for the first time! (This was the version from before it got the "A New Hope" added to it!!) Anyway, I'm quite proud of my little collection. 😁

[@rbbecker73]

Show her a VHS tape. And that Max Headroom pic should have been a video. Seeing him move and talk is key.

[@sillyfarmerbilly8872]

Show her an original VCR that didn't have rewind, you had to buy a separate machine to rewind the VHS tapes for you.

[@wizardsuth]

@@sillyfarmerbilly8872 Video stores used to rent out VCRs along with the tapes -- top loaders, of course.

[@JMetz]

@@sillyfarmerbilly8872 Man, now you're talking REAL old school!

[@melindasteinert9995]

Hahaha...I still have some VHS tapes *and* a working player. If I get bored from Netflix I could always bust those out.

[@naturalnashuan]

If you really want to freak her out, find the video of the guy dressed as Max Headroom pirating a TV station during an airing of Dr. Who.

[@Soy_Preinaugural]

I think dial up was an active meditation for me as a kid… I would listen, focus on my breathing, and choose to stay calm! 🤣

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I'm not really sure why they even made us listen to it when it was dialing out. It's not like in the early days when there was a literal audio coupler that you had to put the phone receiver onto, this was to the point where it was a phone line directly into the computer, no actual reason why you had to hear it coming out of the speaker to know that it was connecting.

[@redneck3883]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade So that you would know that something is happening. Years ago the ringing sound you heard on your phone was real and that was how you knew the call was dialed correctly. Now that sound is generated artificially by the phone company to comfort you.

[@SecretplaceintheGlory]

😂😂😂😂

[@ChristineKikiMac]

I'm 55 GenX w/ no kids, so through that lens, this is even MORE fun. I just don't think about how far we've come until I mention stuff like bike messengers before email was invented (internet invention) to my younger work buddies. The look on their faces is priceless.

[@Delicate_Disaster]

I've been saying for years, the second I hear an automated phone line say "Please enter the last 4 digits of your account number, then press hashtag." I am most likely going to have a meltdown.

[@Paldasan]

Hash works fine for me, because it is a hash (and being pedantic a hashtag must be something directly following a hash so it could never work in the context you describe so I'm in sync with you there). £ is what I think of when I hear the term pound.

[@Delicate_Disaster]

@@Paldasan do you live in a country that uses £? I guess me living in a country that uses $ and never even going to a country that uses £ kind of cancels out that problem for me lol. For me I've associated "Pound" with weight or # for 20+ years of my 27 years of life.

[@Paldasan]

@@Delicate_Disaster nope, Aussie here. Metric units and the $.

[@Mike-uh5xl]

@@Delicate_Disaster From what I understand, it's a holdover from before keyboards were standardized. "#" is hash, but over time it was placed were the "£" pound key used to be. Kind of like how the floppy disk icon still means save even though no one uses floppies anymore. Here's the 20 minute video of where I learned that bit of mostly useless information lol (skip to the 6:20 mark for the short-short version) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJzXeoxti8eli9U

[@Delicate_Disaster]

@@Mike-uh5xl not gonna lie, as much as I appreciate the time you spent to get me the link, I appreciate even more that you gave me the shortcut time code lmao. Just because you went through that effort, I'm a going to go watch the entire video.

[@13271969]

It is so funny how us older people associate the sound of game shows as being home sick memories, but that price is right song is so comforting to me even to this very day.

[@naturalnashuan]

To me it is the sound of lying on the pull-out couch bed and eating tomato soup and grilled cheese while Mom got my baby aspirin and a glass of water.

[@13271969]

@@naturalnashuan so true and what a comfort…st Joseph’s chewables, 7 up and Campbells chicken noodle soup with saltines

[@arturoherrera1386]

The sound of the Price Is Right equates me to visiting my grandparents

[@jeffmalone5557]

My nephew texted me a few years back and said he had discovered a song by a "new" band he thought I'd like. It was Duran Duran's "Pressure Off". I texted back that they had been around since the early 80's. He didn't believe me, until I proved it to him. Imagine that, he didn't know who they were.

[@wordivore]

How'd you prove it? All he'd need to do is Google it. ;P Edited to insert the question mark. I almost always forget those for some reason.

[@jeffmalone5557]

@@wordivore I sent him a link to "Girls on Film". As for googling it, I can't answer why he didn't, but I recently heard a song, and I KZbind it. It was "published" in 2020. I shared it on a thread about music and someone said that it was a classic. To me it was new, but I discovered, after that comment, that it was 12 years old.

[@mangarang]

Price Is Right theme song = massive shot of nostalgia teleporting me immediately back to my living room Wednesday morning staying home sick from school.

[@sar_e_bear]

Always love the THX/Dolby sounds in the theatre.

[@reneemulherin2899]

I'm a boomer, so, of course I got all of them right. Would be curious to see how well I would do with a quiz from Gen Z, so maybe Lola could quiz her grandparents?

[@mayadecorpo5529]

Or Penm

[@KatWoodland]

@Renee Mulherin have you heard of Gen Jones? It’s those born before Gen X, MORE like Gen X than the Boomers, (especially those born in the 40s and 50s ) yet overlooked and misclassified as Boomer.

[@nikhilrodrigues8475]

@@KatWoodland you meant The Silent Generation?

[@L1berty1776]

Born 1990 and I knew all of them. Price is right was the only thing available god forbid someone call and pick up the phone after loading a single picture for 5 mins

[@tonyp9313]

Oh wow a boomer. I just got to ask, how did you learn how to drive?

[@jillk6283]

Based on this quiz, I have sadly failed my children. HOWEVER, I can proudly assert that my kids would not only correctly pronounce Depeche Mode but know their songs because that’s all I play in the car 😆

[@mzwho9942]

Good music is all they need to know! 🎶Lol

[@hollyl5702]

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours

[@indis.6466]

Yes!!! As a huge fan of the band, that was the one that hurt the most. 🖤❤️

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I remember when I realized that what was listed as INXS on a compilation disc was pronounced In excess. I hadn't heard of them before and the first time my friend referred to them, it was like duh, In eXceSs.

[@666t]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade The first time I heard them the DJ called them the Inks at the intro but called the In Excess at the end , someone must have told him

[@doublej82]

I think it's funny that Lola recognized the phone book from Back To The Future, but completely blanked on Max Headroom

[@Vipre-]

He was only in Part 2...or was he...I remember Michael Jackson and Reagan.

[@kieranfirth4768]

The pain of the dial up modem still haunts my dreams today!

[@onlymeok]

That 300 ping for games is what bugged me the most.

[@coups119]

I love my Gen X kids! They know what improvise, adapt, and overcome is! They teach it to the generations! We made our teens carry pagers.

[@Chameleon_Effect74]

Marines

[@randomhuman3523]

As a twelve-year-old, I was proud that I recognized all of this haha

[@wfcoaker1398]

You should study Folklore. Lol

[@schechter01]

If/When you get into college, you could go for a history degree! 😃

[@Dynamatrix2000]

You're a liar.

[@AnnoyingMoose]

It's good to know that some people like you don't live under a rock.

[@amycaraway4489]

Excellent!

[@carrieswank]

Oh, so cute when Lola tried making “Jordache” all fancy. It made me think of people calling Target “Tar-jay”

[@stephenolan5539]

There was a British show called Keeping Up Appearances. Mrs Bucket kept insisting that it was pronounced Bouquet.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I think they do it ironically.

[@melindasteinert9995]

Hahaha...Jor-DA-chay! Sounds like a super expensive Italian designer. Something you'd find on Ro-dee-oh Drive. :D

[@maxryder995]

Shutty

[@marcusambrester]

Right at the end of watching this video, my 14yo daughter walks in and asks if I can take her to the library (where she and her friends hang out), I responded, "Do you need to check out a book?" She laughed and said, "That's funny dad . . . (rolling her eyes)." I don't think they know the library has books . . .

[@alect5953]

Sounds like that's your fault.

[@marcusambrester]

@@alect5953 good job getting the point of the story.

[@Greyzonecompliant]

What do they have besides books?

[@beanss5739]

So did you write this after you took your daughter to the library? Or moments after that took place?

[@grievinggeekclairedixon3445]

I don't like ebooks UNLESS the tangible copy is not available. I carry fiction books around with me, they're my security blanket. My favorite books: the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, the Middle School series by James Patterson, Me And The Terrible Two by Ellen Conford, the Chesapeake Shores series by Sherryl Woods, and the Haven Point series by RaeAnne Thayne. Ebooks won't suffice.

[@captainphoenix]

Millennial. All of those were the sounds of my childhood, too. The only thing missing was a really loud grunge riff.

[@brandontylerburt]

Lola did great and she's a good sport for putting up with weird Gen-X challenges. Very entertaining and engaging.

[@jamedlock83]

"Rolodex" Lola: "just put the numbers in the phone" lol

[@lg9895]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dracofirex]

Mom: LOL WE COULDN'T

[@Purple0fairy0bunny]

Oh yes the dial up, along with all your friends bunkering down at the friends house with the "fastest" dial up. Lol AIM messenger was the best! I still remember playing games in DOS and Juno mail.

[@breel4769]

I remember putting a pillow over my computer so my dad wouldn’t hear me going online in the middle of the night to talk to my friends in chatrooms 🤣

[@Purple0fairy0bunny]

@@breel4769 haha right. Computers were always in a family area and omg the fun to be had while the parents were out.

[@Lew2000]

I remember being on like hour 2 of downloading a 5 minute song, only to have your sister make a phone call and stop the whole thing

[@Purple0fairy0bunny]

@@Lew2000 omg right the Napster and lyme wire song downloads thay you prayed downloaded overnight.

[@snowpuppies1]

Juno mail! I forgot about that!

[@grievinggeekclairedixon3445]

Except for max headroom, I remember all those things. I even remember PHONOGRAPH RECORDS. I used to get mad when the needle wore out and the record scratched. And when cassette tapes got twisted. I couldn't breathe(figure of speech) without classical music (Baroque especially), even back when I was little. So when a record or tape broke, so did my heart. Of course I listened to the radio, but it was not "all Renaissance and Baroque all the time", so I preferred buying recordings over listening to the radio. And of course I cried when my Handel's Messiah VHS tapes broke. I don't miss analog recordings, whether records or tapes. They weren't durable enough to withstand being played over and over. Later today, I'm going to listen to my Handel's Best Compositions playlist... over and over, of course. Thank goodness for KZbin! And of course I love this channel as well.

[@christschool]

If you don't remember Max Headroom, you're too young to call yourself Gen X.

[@chizorama]

She may not have known the name, but going Rock'em Sock'm Robots was worth a bonus.

[@suran396]

Yea, but it was obviously a typewriter.

[@LunaStarlight35]

I'm Gen Z and I got quite a lot of these! The THX movie opening has been used in my childhood as I watched all the Disney films

[@gamom1]

My childhood everything..also commercials like “ where’s the beef” - Time to make the donuts- I don’t want to grow up I’m a toys r us kid..”um the busy signal on the phone, Spuds Mackenzie, Zelda, we had the laser disc too! Our email was handwritten notes, passed around school…ahhh my whole childhood

[@cindymeadows5394]

When I am really tired and have to get out of bed and go somewhere, I often say, "Time to make the donuts!" It is amazing how small, insignificant things can stay in our memories for 30 yrs. (Yet I can't remember what I did yesterday.)

[@karaa7595]

My 5 year old asked "where's the beef?" at lunch one day so we HAD to show him that commercial. 😆

[@fruff30]

A true 80's kid knows all that stuff. Even to this day when I hear the "I don't want to grow up" Toy R Us song I start to tear up.

[@rustyshackleford4338]

The Price is Right was the best thing on, out of the 4 channels to pick from.

[@daehawk9585]

Just hearing it took me back to being a kid and watching it. Made me smile and feel warm. It ended when Bob retired in my mind.

[@billyoung8118]

The funny thing is that I bet most people, if they were being honest with themselves, are only watching 4 stations today (even if you count all the streaming services they use).

[@haydengoodall6767]

"The price is wrong.. Bob!".

[@rbeck3200tb40]

Why was Bob always wanting to spade and neuter pets?

[@jillmcavoy333]

Ohhhhhh, the memories of my childhood and although these things bring me back to great times in my life..... and so many other people, it’s also sad because things have changed so much. BUT, in all fairness, my parents and their parents, and prior generations most likely feel the same as they remember their childhood. Time will continue to go on and on, and sadly, our children will be in our shoes in their future. Great video, great memories. 💕💕💕💕💕

[@kell_checks_in]

4:41 "The audience is listening."

[@LydiaKrow]

It's kind of spooky how every time the mom smiles she suddenly looks like she is 22 years old. These are such fun videos, thanks for the good times!

[@sportsshorts9607]

Please do a gen z quiz for gen x! Love your videos!

[@member-berry-bonbons1124]

They did

[@BRM202]

As a Gen Xer. I have 3 Gen Z Children.

[@saramahler1108]

My GenX heart be still.

[@gretchenmittelstaedt6703]

Boomer here - not my childhood, but all still nostalgic for me! Love how mystified Lola gets!

[@jb888888888]

Ripped jeans were a GenX thing too, not just GenZ.

[@AandB1998]

True but we started that trend by cutting them or using a safety pin. Not only girls did it either.

[@YoMamasLlama22]

Lola’s 14 and that blows my mind. I remember when Christmas jammies came out

[@marthonic1]

Maybe it ‘s the Rock’em Sock’em robots using the typewriter !

[@examinaitudoretendeobem]

Modem signal, I used that in the 90s, and it seems prehistoric.

[@TheCoolCookieKitchen]

Brings back memories. Happy Monday!

[@mikee6666]

Don't you mean Blue Monday? Or are you just twisting my melon, man?

[@mmille10]

"A waterbed." "Why?" "Exactly." :)

[@jessicapeyton5444]

It’s interesting taking this quiz as a millennial! Didn’t know any of the bands but I remember dial up and using the yellow pages/floppy disks. We didn’t have a rolodex, but my mom just used an address book for all her contacts

[@usernameonutube]

I was born ‘91 into an older family and knew everything gen z grew up in a different world

[@anneb889]

Rolodexes were typically more for offices. My mom had an address book too, but I can see the appeal of the Rolodex if someone moves…..you hated scratching out the info in the address book.

[@davidmaynardprospecting]

The modem dialup sound was called the handshake.

[@80cardcolumn]

I called it the modem mating call.

[@VegetaLF7]

@@80cardcolumn I called it the "my parents are sleeping in the next room and I'm not supposed to be on my computer, you'll give me away" sound

[@jewelleryaddict]

@@VegetaLF7 yeah why can't this thing be more quiet?

[@cindland]

And on the modem, you couldn’t use your actual phone since you’d be connected for hours trying to download one thing! You forgot to bring up the AOL messenger!

[@baddogchalet2709]

It took me literally 3 DAYS to download Netscape Navigator so I could do searches. Nowadays, of course, they call it Google Search...this was wayyyy before Google! I had call waiting which I could not turn off so every time my phone rang, the whole thing would start over! 😱

[@STL-Railfan]

@@baddogchalet2709 Most computers you could program in the code to deactivate call waiting. I think it was *70 then the number.

[@stephanieclark9683]

Ah, I love this! I have three teenagers and the first time they heard a busy signal on the phone they didn’t know what it was. 😂 Ellen used to do a segment where they had to dial with a rotary phone and re fold a travel map. It was hysterical. Love these kids!

[@lynnettelg]

I think of the girlfriend model in the motel room in the film In and Out!

[@eriklin793]

hahaha the hashtag sign on the phone was brilliant!

[@MarthaAnthony]

I'm Australian. It is a matter of national pride that my kids know, appreciate and listen to INXS.

[@TheOReport1994]

*spits out drink* Things I learned today. . . . INXS is Australian!?!?!?!? (Granted I grew up watching a lot of British/ Scottish shows so the Australian accent isn't too far from that to my ear, and I've always been able to understand that too. . . ) I never would have guessed INXS was Australian! (Then again I only figured out 2 years ago that Pooh Bear was British (I'm just shy of 30), after an entire childhood of watching it. Maybe I'm just really dense! 🤣

[@MarthaAnthony]

@@TheOReport1994 Lol, I know what you mean. D*sney and MTV and constant American versions of shows from other countries make everything seem American lol.

[@rosencain]

Ok, hands up whose skin crawled when you heard the modem dial up The horror...

[@Mandalorian_of_Christ]

I cheered...I miss those days...before we had high speed and narcissistic influencers

[@karaa7595]

Reminded me of my ex husband and his chronic p-rn addiction. 🙄

[@rosencain]

@@Mandalorian_of_Christ excellent point. I think I will fondly shudder next time I hear it :)

[@cbiltcliffe]

I once installed Linux from base 5 1/4 floppies, and dialup for the rest. Took me about 4-5 days of overnights.

[@metalvideos1961]

Nothing horror about it. Love the sound. Learn to appreciate art

[@kristinr4470]

Can you please do a Gen Y quiz for both Kim and Lola and see who gets more right? I'd love to see who would do better!

[@HALberdier17]

Most of these are Gen Y. Gen Y is anyone born between 1982 and 1996 so between the ages of 25 and 39.

[@Modine.]

@@HALberdier17 aka millennials

[@Murph_gaming]

There's a lot of overlap between Gen X and Gen Y, at least with the stuff in this video.

[@bmanske1]

The telephone buttons... The "star" is called an asterisk. The "pound" is called an octothorpe. Yeah, I'm from THAT generation!

[@lastminott]

Interesting

[@prishiousart8638]

How do you even say octothorpe

[@bmanske1]

@@prishiousart8638 octo as in octopus + Thorpe has a hard o as in organ + the e at the end is silent. Think the Norse God Thor with a p at the end.

[@alect5953]

Nobody says octothorpe not even Silents you're just a nerd.

[@bmanske1]

@@alect5953 you nailed it

[@lrvogt1257]

It's completely unsurprising that people don't know things they never saw from before they were born.

[@jyndev4570]

Should have really blown her mind and shown her a 5 1/4" floppy or even an 8" one.

[@mmille10]

It sounds like neither one of the parents experienced this, but the pre-internet days of modem use were even more clunky. I'd say show her a terminal program hooked up to a BBS, but I don't think any of them would know what it was.

[@jackson5116]

@@mmille10 even if you're old enough to have, most people didn't experience the BBS days, because modems and long distance phone calls were both expensive in the 80's. The World Wide Web is what we consider the web now, and that was primarily when people started getting modems, and phones.

[@mmille10]

@@jackson5116 - You didn't have to call long-distance to experience BBSing, but I know what you mean. Most people weren't doing it. The scenes in WarGames where David was "war dialing," and hacking in to his school grade record were not that far off. Not that I knew anyone who did that (or changed their grades surreptitiously), but war dialing was a thing among hackers then. A few years after the movie came out, there were public services that you could dial into with a modem to get information. My local public library had that for its card catalog toward the end of the decade, which when I look back on it, was pretty amazing. I bet most people who lived in my area didn't know about it, even though the library had free handouts on how to access it.

[@Ed__Powell]

The “pound sign” on a phone is called an octothorpe. Now you know.

[@dagman85]

That's a term that originated in 1968, or possibly 1964, if it came from "octotherp". The character was used long before it was put on a telephone, though. Some believe that it was derived from an abbreviation for the Latin term "libra pondo", which meant "pound weight". So "pound sign" makes a lot of sense as a term, though it's a primarily American usage. Early references to it (from the 1800's) include "number character", "number mark" and possibly "number sign". Unicode has chosen to refer to it as the "number sign". Wikipedia FTW!

[@braceletlife28]

I was going to look it up. Now i don't have to. Thanks!!

[@Palindrome78]

Also known as a sharp sign or tic-tac-toe board! 😊

[@ORIGINALCRESTED]

No. It's the pound sign since the 80s

[@Ed__Powell]

@ColonialBuckeye Octothorpe is the Bell telephone company's term for this button on the phone. Almost no on used that term back in the day except people who knew a little too much about how the phone system actually worked, like those who knew that there are actually 16 "buttons" on the push-button telephones, not the 12 visible ones.

[@09_CRAZY]

The fact that most of the sounds are memes now.

[@dawnchafin548]

As soon as my son heard super mario he was like "SUPER MARIO!!!" (Because he plays it alot)

[@nkellegher1938]

You. Stole. My. Thoughts.

[@Zarga8]

60 yr old here- missed some 80’s stuff - it was After my time and I raised no children. Loved hearing old folks’ stories, though- better than a diorama and a book report!

[@BEACHDUDE71]

Give her a pencil and a cassette tape 😂😂😂

[@expatfamilylive9041]

WE LOVE your videos together, ladies 🙌so much fun and positive energy ✨❤ Our daughters are 6 years and 2 and we are thinking of how we will tell about our childhood to them 🙏

[@chadmiller6487]

Your expression while awaiting her reactions was priceless.

[@r0bst4rl1ng]

Best guess at a 3-1/2" floppy i've heard is "a 3-d printed save icon?" :D

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

My brother had an airmen literally say that, he had no clue what it was.

[@thedarcbird]

Max Headroom was the worlds first computer generated character! He was introduced in a sci-fi thriller called "Max Headroom" and it got it's name from the sign that said 'Max Headroom' in a car park. Wow, the things I remember when I think hard!

[@mistyfan69]

He had his own show. It didn’t last long

[@InjunJoe-sh7wn]

Ha. That mom ain’t part of our club! She’s gen y

[@craigyarmulasr1845]

Happy Memorial Day everyone. I love when my kids can sing to the old songs I used to play in the car.

[@nancyschwartz7692]

Waterbeds are awesome! I had one in my late teens until I moved out for college. Wish I had one now. So comfy and HEATED!

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

They had some issues, mostly the inconvenience of filling and emptying them, and god help you if they started to leak. But, I think the biggest issue was that they were typically a single chamber, so the water would slosh around leading to a rather uncomfortable sleep. Or at least the one I saw was like that.

[@beverlycrowell_]

I have had a waterbed for 34 years now. Love it.

[@emerald2700]

Ahh, the good ol' dial tone from certain video games or dialing a phone.

[@Calebs_Aviation]

I remember so many of these “vintage” sounds! Even though I’m not old enough to have used all of these I remember some like the Simon says, the floppy disc,the internet modem, Mario theme and my favorite the good old THX logo sound, it just reminds me of the original Disney & Pixar Cars movie (not the new one the 1st one! 😱)

[@theinvisibleswordsman1196]

Great way to start the morning, such sentimental flashbacks. ☺️ Have a great day! 🌄

[@thecheetahchica]

Lola: and she's my 30 year old mother... Kim: 😏

[@willshad]

She looks about 30.

[@davidkneitel1840]

You were really bummed to the max if someone said they had to use the phone and you had to disconnect from the internet. All the cool kids had two phone lines in their house.

[@petitemaam]

The internet sound is my childhood 😂

[@sbc_4738]

THX intro is when you would crank it up to truly appreciate your home theater surround system!

[@jewelleryaddict]

I do miss that when we rented movies on all 4 to 5 speakers talkin big ones on floor, about knocked windows out. always had to turn that up.

[@deannmichele6466]

The THX sound is my favorite sound in the world. LoL

[@betharritt]

"Nobody knew what Max Headroom was" shows the slight number of years older I am than Kim. Sigh.

[@wncwaterfalls]

I also thought max headroom was on Back to the future 2, since they already referenced back to the future once

[@rbbecker73]

@@wncwaterfalls Back to the Future 2 made a Max Headroom reference, but with Ronald Reagan, in the 2015 retro 80s place.

[@ruskrewed]

I knew immediately this vid would make my millennial butt feel old and you didn’t disappoint! I may not be Gen X but I definitely understand Kim world more than Lola world 😂

[@bharathsf]

Yup

[@shivvypoppy]

I had goosebumps and a huge smile this entire video. But now I'm tearing up bc I miss the '90s so very much.

[@j.w.griggsiii8698]

I love your channel! Some of the things that you shared I wouldn't mind having back! It brings back great memories!

[@malkavthejester]

When I heard the Simon sounds at first I thought it was Merlin, another weird electronic game from the 80s. I still have two of them, only one is totally burned out.