GEN Z Kid FIRST TIME Reaction To JASON SALMON On (GEN X Don’t Care!)

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[@elizabethstump4077]

Escape room designed by Gen Xers for Gen Z: 1) First direction written in cursive 2) Must play a cassette tape for rest of instructions to escape 3) Must find a phone number in the yellow pages 4) Must enter that phone number on a rotary phone to get an address 5) Must use a Thomas Guide (paper map in book form) to locate an address.

[@reignofbastet]

THIS!!

[@acsstancil]

And you have to escape by the time the street light comes on or you fail

[@christinab1288]

Can they also have to look something up in the Encyclopedia, or look something up in a card catalog?

[@acsstancil]

@@christinab1288 Card catalog for sure bc that Dewey decimal was no joke!

[@elizabethstump4077]

@@christinab1288 YES! Excellent idea. Card catalog system! Then to find the encyclopedia in the stacks.

[@karmaleeyoung9110]

Gen X went thru all the changes of technology. I didnt have a computer class until my senior year of high school. Music was on 8 track tapes, records, cassette tapes, CD's, ipods and digital downloads. We have lived through having nothing to having everything. We had to adapt to something new every time we turned around. From house phones through the creation of the cell phone and all its phases. The same with computers. We've seen it all from the very beginning. Yes, our childhoods were great....yes, its true we do not care....and yes, just leave us alone. Leave me with my books, my movies, my loud music, my dyed hair and tattoos....and im a happy camper.

[@Yuriel1981]

I was born in 81. Literally on the cusp between Gen X and Melennial. Experienced all of the Good old tech (was a poor kid) and was one of the first to really get and understand where technology was taking us. Now I have teched out my home and am currently transferring all of my old media to computer backups lol. And oddly Preservation of a lot of the older media and tech have become important to me as that is our contribution to society.

[@Steve-gx9ot]

Baby Boomers dud nit have computer classes because the only computers were owned by college orifessirs and Steve Jobs who actually made them from scratch. Can a milkennial ir gen z make a computer from scratch?.??

[@Yuriel1981]

@Steve-gx9ot A kid built a working virtual circuit computer in a video game called Terraria. Yes, yes, they could. Hell, even I am a melinnial and understand the basics of what is going on out of hobby knowledge. All the tech is much more advanced these days. High-schoolers study the basics of what Jobs and Gates accomplished. It's not really about who could or couldn't, just when it started.

[@KairiPrime]

@@Yuriel1981 I was born in '86 so I am very much an Elder Millenial and I still vividly remember all of this. I remember being so excited when we bought our first DVD player. We didn't even have have a computer in our house until I was like 10 or 11 and I didn't have a cellphone at all until I started driving, even then it was a brick and stayed in my car. A lot of this new tech is nice.... but I will admit that I miss living in a world before social media.

[@NeilHolland-mh9jc]

'68 here and this is so accurate! I grew up with technology. I watched them send men to the moon using a 4 bit processor computer running punch card COBOL. I had to go to the library, find books in the card catalogue using the Dewey Decimal System, find the books and do the research, then write the paper, in cursive, by hand. WTF you guys got Google and can type stuff out. I adapt to technology like a Millenial, but I bitch about it like a Boomer. Dick Tracy comic strip in the 40s through I know the late 70s early 80s they had wrist watches where they could talk to each other on TV. Facetime!, Messenger! We are tough as nails, don't care if we hurt your wittle feelings, and expect everyone to just "suck it up", cause life's hell, deal with the hand you're dealt! Love watching Zeds react to our lives! Funny as hell the shock and amazement!

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

As a gen x...I use GPS. But in the woods I use paper maps and a compass. Because I know how to. And they never run out of power and never loose signals. ;)

[@desmien679]

In the 80s I learned how to use the Thomas Guide which I used into the 2000s.

[@Gashouse69]

Ditto

[@joanna_bourque3980]

And they never try to send you down a road in Maine that doesn’t exist, because it’s actually a walking trail through the forest. ;)

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

@@joanna_bourque3980 😁 I have ended up in many realy strange places driving by GPS. :D

[@vickifournier5065]

Exactly. What if WW3 broke out and Communications Satellites get knocked out? How are new Generations going to navigate if they didn't learn the basics?

[@StrawberryPie1973]

Y2K is the abbreviation for the year 2000. When computers were configured they did not go past 1999. It was thought that on Jan 1st 2000 at 12am all computers were going to shut down and the world would be f'd. That did not happen, but it was expected.

[@BohoBunMom]

Poor Peter Gibbons had to update all that software for his TPS reports.

[@trtarts4814]

It didn't happen because someone identified the issue and we spent 5 years preparing for it and updating everything. We were still nervous that everything wasn't updated and had contingency plans, an emergency meeting place and an intense New Years Eve.

[@cherchikatilo3032]

It was the most awesome NYE party I ever attended! Jumped a rooftop awesome

[@desmien679]

The concern regarding the Y2K bug wasn't exactly that computers weren't configured to go from 1999 to 2000 but that the actual internal clock was only setup to use 2 digits instead of 4 regarding the year (99 instead of 1999). There was a valid concern of this going from 99 to 00 would cause unknown issues in the code not being able to handle it. From a gaming perspective and this has been an issue in multiple various games. The computer can't exactly properly computer a negative value, so in instances in which a value would be negative, instead the computer will flip that value to the maximum value (00 would become 99). This was a big in one text based MUD I played in highschool where a certain powerful npc you can kill would give negative exp for killing it. So if you had 0 exp and were to attack it just before it was killed by high level characters. You would instantly have the maximum amount of exp possible in the game and get to max level. In another game, Eve Online, there's an area that used to give penalties to the accuracy and range of turret weapons. Players found a bug from this that only worked in this area. By further reducing the accuracy of everyone in your fleet to a negative amount, it instantly maxed out the accuracy and range of turrets. Allowing them to do max damage at ranges no weapons were normally able to reach. Experts didn't exactly know what would happen until New Year's but there was a fear that this could cause computers to basically reset. The reason this wasn't fixed years ago was because they honestly didn't think computers would remain popular for as long as it has, so they only did a 2 digit year.

[@1001Hobbies]

It was used as another opportunity to make money off of people's fear.

[@sailordave1000]

Gen x was the last generation to listen to music without autotune and a concert without prerecorded music. Musical acts had to play their own instruments and sing their own songs instead of playing a recording of their songs while dancing and changing costumes.

[@noelojeda3590]

Ehh, u must of not known about the funk era lol

[@khalaq2]

There was a time when all actors had to know how to sing, dance, and act, and all performers had to know how to sing and dance. By the 1980's, those expectations were on their way out. Once people started using computers, digital recordings, and synthesizers, it was only a matter of time until Hatsune Miku concerts appeared.

[@Lendul]

Milli Vanilli happened on the GenX watch so really prerecorded concerts started with us.

[@khalaq2]

@@Lendul Technically, it started with music videos. The critique of the industry that was "Money for Nothing" turned out to be a huge hit for Dire Straits.

[@skepticalmaiden]

Not completely true.

[@randomreactions16]

"what if there was traffic coming and you didn't know?" HAHAHAHA! bless your heart! HAHAHA! We had to sit in traffic. That's what we did. Sometimes for hours on end.

[@mnix5427]

Could you imagine his face when you shut off the car and get out in the middle of it and just start walking up the road to see if anyone knows anything 😂

[@randomreactions16]

@@mnix5427 yup. I've done that before. HAHAHA!

[@phglam]

Hahahaha right 😂😂😂😂

[@ConspiracySmurf]

And that's where you would flirt and people would write down their phone number on a piece of paper and throw it into another car if they liked somebody in there. Sometimes you would bond with the cars next to you and get out of traffic and go hang out and get to know each other or go to a party with them or something. We should all be dead.

[@ConspiracySmurf]

Sometimes the traffic was soooo GOOD that it happened every Friday and Saturday nights on the same street and the stereos would be up loud, there would be people in the truck beds partying, people would just "CRUISE" on the weekends and meet other people. There were no apps to scroll and swipe. You just sped up/slowed down/changed lanes or looked the other direction and pretended not to see/hear them if you weren't interested. hahaha

[@ruthparker9756]

Genx doesn't care until they do. I grew up in a small town, and yes, we were pretty apathetic. My senior year in high school, the kkk was planning a rally in our town. That brought us out of our apathy, and there was a counter rally. A bunch of teenagers telling grown men to stay out of our town. I'm happy to say the kkk didn't find any support in our area.

[@emmawilde152]

I had to get home from South Carolina without GPS. It was dark so I couldn't see my directions. I drove east til I got to the ocean and then went south. Cause gen x adapts.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Yes, the very 1st thing you did with a map was like, 'Ok, where are we?'. 🤣

[@merchernel123]

@@jenniferfoster1692 100%. That's how you activate the map reading part of the brain for sure.

[@rossmackay-williams4583]

Yes always remember a road trip/holidays in the car and my dad would hand me the map.....I was like " right where the fuck are we "

[@jenniferfoster1692]

@@rossmackay-williams4583 Exactly! 🤣 We didn't have any 'You are here' on the map!

[@the-dave-house-project]

I remember being in elementry school in the very early 80's. The teacher would get the globe and ask for volunteers to find us on it... so, knowing that we would grow up and be required to get past this first step, they started the training early. Lol.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

@@the-dave-house-project Good! I wonder if map reading is taught at all now? I was taught map reading in the early 70s when I was young, it's so important! And yeah, finding where you are is the most important first step, lol.

[@christinab1288]

Your statements about maps were so funny. Yes, we actually had to know the area (or at least what it looked like on the map) and leave early to make sure traffic didn't make us late cause we didn't know current traffic conditions.

[@deannacrownover3]

I'm from near the beginning of GenX (68) These accounts are not only accurate, but watered down! We didn't have a successful day until one of us was in a cast lol!

[@StrawberryPie1973]

I had many successful days. 🤦‍♀

[@kimberlyhicks3644]

It only failed when one of us was dead.

[@deannacrownover3]

@@kimberlyhicks3644 Danged near!

[@innerlude]

This!!! Look how popular Jackass on MTV was. Everyone just about, was able to identify with the nature of it.

[@ConspiracySmurf]

My boy cousins were always in casts. One broke an arm, a week later jumped same 6ft high fence and broke the other arm. That was a hard summer for him.

[@JaquelineGoodspeed]

Our music defines us most out of everything and the fact we spent most of our time outside the house. We dont talk much about 1. We were both scared and respected our parents. 2. We rarely did any hard drugs. 3. We looked out for eachother. 4. Race did not matter for alot of us. 5. Our music carried such deep messages we often talked about.

[@FunkyLittlePoptart]

Rarely did hard drugs? Did you live in the woods? I was born in 75 and survived the 90s rave scene. We did all the drugs. Why? Because we could. And no, a lot of us don't respect our parents and never did. Why would you respect someone who had kids they didn't want?

[@kali550]

⁠@@FunkyLittlePoptarti never did hard drugs, respected and feared my parents. My folks not only wanted their children, they gave everything to make our lives better than theirs. Sorry you didn’t get the same experience.

[@xtravert2012]

Race did not matter at all. If you were nice, cool, and most importantly.... if ya had a bike, you were in our gang!!

[@AB2B]

I think the best sayings about Gen X are "born 30, still 30" and "as old as I ever was, as old as I'll ever be". We grew up with the Cold War and the threat of nukes over our heads. Want to know how that felt? Watch the Threads (British) and The Day After (US) miniseries shown on national networks. We were latchkey kids, expected to do fine unsupervised because our parents were generally working. Got home, snack, homework, meal prep, chores, etc. When we weren't in school, we were out without trackers or portable phones, hanging out with friends and getting into scrapes and daring-dos, just had to be home by sundown. We are independent because we have, for the most part, always been independent. If we grumbled, we were told to be appreciative and given a harrowing story about our parents and/or grandparents messed up childhood/teen years. We watched our parents work, then work some more, so we knew they were busy and simply took care of things ourselves. If things get bad, we step up and help out, but we do it quietly, because it's just the right thing to do and we don't necessarily need the heaps of praise (it's nice, but not necessary). To be honest, most of us are just exhausted, and want to be left to our devices because it's easier and what we're used to. And yes, we are the "middle child" at the moment, being the go-between and peacemakers between our children and our parents; it can be complicated, but ultimately it helps to bridge the gap so the other two generations can see each other's POV.

[@sherisimms9213]

Thank you for bringing up the nuclear war fear, because that defined us. We were very nihilistic, because we thought we were going to die in a nuclear war, and I think that’s what we have in common with Gen Z, but for them it might be mostly climate fears.

[@volksy7261]

It's easier to find it now, but "Threads" was really hard to find for a long time. I don't do conspiracy, but people don't seem to understand the magnitude of how this threat shaped the Gen X psyche.

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

All of it is true! I'm a 1971 and we literally lived in the best of both times! We played outside, we had to use our imagination to have fun but we got videos games in the early 80s. We took computer classes in Junior high and used computers towards the end of High School. We saw Doctors with their car phones, then we had ones that you had to plug into the car to charge. Then by the time some of us were 20 we had Windows on our own home PC's, then we got AOL and so on and so on! And, as he mentioned a time or two...We just don't care! 😂😂😂

[@jenniferhill5001]

Don't forget about the 📟 pagers😂

[@KatyFaulkner-f6c]

@@jenniferhill5001 😂 oh yeah! 👍🏻 good call!

[@kmom452]

We're a tribe.😊

[@ruined2595]

Mapquest, like gps BUT, we didn't have a portable device to look at in the car. SO we had to print out the gps directions before hand like it was a map. It was a kind of a in-between of maps & gps. This is oversimplified but I hope it helps.

[@johndrews206]

mapquest was a modern Triptik

[@Traci2000]

We'd print them out, follow them and then end up at a dead end nowhere near where we were trying to go. 😂😂

[@TimesUp8888]

Oh the Fun days 😂. I still keep a full US road map book in my car at all times. you never know when that cell signal might die for any reason... My Hot Tip for youngers. :)

[@staceymay4594]

I’m GenX and can sum it up: take away all tech and “deal with it”.

[@OtterMayhem]

If you were uptown you had an Atlas. An Atlas is a book of maps for an entire region or country. You updated it by buying a new one.

[@ConspiracySmurf]

lmao update by buying a new one...

[@Woman_In_TX1206]

I still keep one behind my backseat in case I’m out of range. My kids don’t even know how to use it. My grandkids don’t know what it is. 😂😂😂

[@ConspiracySmurf]

@@Woman_In_TX1206 We should mess with them and present it as secret knowledge passed down through the family from aliens or something. :)

[@teresagoodman-walters7720]

Can you imagine not only having to read maps, but not having a cell phone or internet access at your disposal at all times, we used paid public phones to call when he werent next to a landline phone. I had to do resesrch in books in libraries instead of looking stuff up online, we had to handwrite our papers for school, somwtimes your hands would cramp up. I am technically a millennial but grew up on the verge of GenX and was raised like GenX

[@tobiasb9645]

When shit hits the fan in this wef bullshit we Will bad off , but we Will take care of it you cant do that It is aginst the law Nope we dont care

[@creepyoldlady2995]

Next time you're in the mood for Prince, check out "1999." Greatest party song ever, and it's basically about the end of the world. 🎉

[@Steve-gx9ot]

Prince was not any boomer would want to see = a weeeeerdo who was not at all original or intelligent and sounds were crappy

[@ConspiracySmurf]

Can't miss 1999 !

[@ctakitimu]

I would suggest 'Cream'

[@nerd1858]

Most of us gen xers, not the ones begging for attention on tiktok, but the rest of us. We don't really care what generation you are. Are you a good person or do you do stupid reckless shit on the daily? Well then come on over cuz we have fun here. We are the masters of doing chaotic shit just to see what happens

[@SacredWaves]

Well said. Indeed it is true. We do things to see what happens...lol. Good times

[@TimesUp8888]

Agree.

[@angelaR4661]

That's not Gen xers, that's just people in general. This generational shit is just fun to talk about, if you're taking it very seriously, you should probably spend more time with actual humans and less on social media 😂

[@SacredWaves]

@angelaR4661 Wrong. Yes, every generation is the same to a point. We are all people with the same needs and (somewhat) desires. However, the environment you grow up in shapes the upcoming society. Gen X and Gen Z are very different. For example.. Gen X doesnt care what you do, Gen Z only concerns themselves with what you do. Gen X doesn't want to be bothered. Gen Z won't leave you alone. Especially if you don't share their opinions. Yes, generations are very different. Maybe you are the one that needs to get out more.

[@angelaR4661]

@SacredWaves I didn't say the generations are the same, I said people don't generally give a crap about generational stuff and if they do, they need to get out more. Calm yourself, sir.

[@dnoordink]

Growing up in the 70s and 80s we were left to ourselves a lot, but it was also very chill and we had great fun. I'm never going to complain :)

[@desmien679]

GenX here and we actually are this way, we just want to be left alone to do what we enjoy and don't care what others are doing as long as it's not intentionally to harm others. We will socialize and hangout with friends, family and neighbors but for the most part we just want to do our thing, clean up our own messes, and fix our own problems. We don't want to have other people doing this for us nor do we want to do these things for others when they did it to themselves and can fix it themselves. We may give some advice but it's up to whether the other person uses the advice and if they fail because of not using the advice it's both entertaining to us but we also won't take the blame for the failure either. Instead we'll probably laughing about it and trolling you if you try to blame us for it. He was wrong though, some older GenX did participate in Desert Storm which took place in the mid-late 80s. It was a short war with Iraq.

[@6Ozomatli]

Desert Shield/Storm was 1990-91, Aug-March.

[@desmien679]

@@6Ozomatli it actually started around 88-89, I was in second or third grade when it happened. In fact I remember being in school when when the teacher turned on the TV in the classroom to show the news of it occuring.

[@6Ozomatli]

@@desmien679 I was there, Kuwait was invaded on Aug 3, 1990, I was there on Aug 15, 1990, for Desert Shield, Desert Storm started around Jan 1991 when we stopped setting up and went on the offensive, my time was up in the Marine Corps about 2 months after I got back in May of 1991. I know the dates, I'm a veteran of this conflict.

[@6Ozomatli]

and yes, I'm gen X too, born the first year in 1965

[@desmien679]

@@6Ozomatli the reason why I know it was between 88-89 was during those 2 years I was in a Catholic school and only during 2nd and 3rd grade. It was in this school that it was announced that the US declared war against Iraq. In late 89 I went back to a public school that I enjoyed more and where friends of mine in the neighborhood were going to school. In fact the public school I went to didn't have TV's in each class but a shared TV. The Catholic school I went to had a TV in each classroom and it was on one of those TV's that we were watching this from. Also the woman who had us watching this was my godmother and she was telling us that our lives will be completely changed by what's happening

[@schiffelers3944]

I'm Dutch our culture we have the tradition of DROPPINGS. Dropping is an outdoor activity, often organized by scouting groups or during school camps. In this activity, children or participants are taken to an unfamiliar location, usually in a forest, and are “dropped” off. (In my day often at night/in the evening). The goal is for them to find their way back to a predetermined point, such as a campsite or meeting place, using clues, maps, compasses, or sometimes just their sense of direction. Key Aspects of Dropping: Teamwork: Participants usually work in groups, which helps build teamwork and cooperation. Navigation Skills: It teaches basic navigation skills, such as reading maps and using a compass. Problem-Solving: Participants often encounter obstacles or challenges that they need to solve together. Confidence Building: Successfully finding their way back can boost participants’ confidence and independence. It’s considered a fun and educational way to develop various skills while enjoying the outdoors.

[@terrimobley6067]

Brilliant!!

[@claudiayates7621]

We did that too; in the Adirondack Mts. in upstate NY (near Vermont). Groups of 4 or 5 kids, ages 9 thru 12.

[@schiffelers3944]

@@claudiayates7621 Nice, normally when Americans hear about the droppings they act like we do something crazy. Good to know it's not that undone. I could be mistaken but NY & Vermont do have Dutch history interwoven with them because NY once was a Dutch colony. What is your take on that?

[@InverseofAbstersive]

Here's my theory. We only really figured out how to grow enough food in the 1950's. So for the ten thousand years before that, we knew people were going to starve and there was nothing we could do about it. Now days all shortage is man made, but back then food was a big game of musical chairs and if you lost you died. So they didn't grow up with the idea that everybody has a right to exist, because they didn't. So when people died in preventable ways like car accidents or smoking related illness, nobody really cared. A certain level of breakage was expected. And those are the people that raised us.

[@marab1440]

That's weird that he said that about quick sand? I never knew that was a common Gen Xer thing. I DO however remember having a fear of it😂😂😂 It must've been from all the action packed series' we watched with the crazy stunts like the one starring Lee Majors and Heather Locklear that can't remember name of(just the centerfold poster of her on my brothers wall)😂 Now that I'm thinking bout it, I do vaguely remember quicksand being a common danger the action hero would find themselves either a victim of o saving someone from! That's crazy!😂😂😂

[@Woman_In_TX1206]

My g-parents lived in OK, just across the red river. We spent a lot of time with them on their farm. We were always warned to never go down in the river bc they said it was full of quicksand. That’s one of the few rules that we followed so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

[@JodiDay-rc7zm]

Oscar Meyer bologna, Smokey the Bear, McGruff the Crime Dog & obviously, Big Bird from Sesame Street...yep, that was our stuff. Lol!😂❤

[@cmr8er8]

And we had so many years where all of our shenanigans weren't recorded to potentially be used against us.😅

[@Woman_In_TX1206]

This!

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Just to nitpick a teensy bit, elder Gen Xers were absolutely alive during the Vietnam war. I was 7 when US troops were withdrawn & 9 when Saigon fell & the war was over. I had classmates with fathers in Vietnam & it was on the news all the time. The OG Gen Xers, the ones the generation was named after when the term came out in the late 80s, went to high school & college in the 80s. Pretty much aligned the John Hughes movies timeline. Gen Xers born later are often more Xennials, that transitional period.

[@Woman_In_TX1206]

Yeah. I had older cousins over there and my oldest brother just aged in with the last call up, I think it was done lottery style but I don’t remember. I just remember my folks being very relieved.

[@sailordave1000]

Gen x also learned how to make popcorn on the stove and reheat leftovers either in the oven or on the stove. Ask your grandmother to show you

[@ConspiracySmurf]

They don't know what left overs are because the delivered meal kit leaves you hungry.

[@Cocreatewithus]

Lol I'm gen x. I haven't even had a microwave in 14 years. Bleh. Don't need all that radiation and soggy food. Hahaha and I do make popcorn on the stove and reheat leftovers on the stove and in the oven. Just like I did as a kid before we got our first monstrous microwave.

[@Inmatesixdoublefive321]

I had a Garmin GPS (remember those?) and my brother programmed it to speak Mandarin Chinese, rendering it useless until I figured out how to fix it. 😂

[@gibladar5560]

I had one of those. The one time it talked, it said " impossible" while I was driving through a parking lot.

[@Inmatesixdoublefive321]

@@gibladar5560😳😂

[@christinalehman8862]

my bologna has a first name it's O S C A R .. my bologna has a second name it's M A Y E R.. LMAO you should look up the song from the 70's

[@KimisCat]

...I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why, I'll say because Oscar Mayer has a way with B O L O G N A.

[@joanna_bourque3980]

I have an Oscar Mayer wiener mobile matchbox car. 😂

[@Pops-km8xt]

I haven't thought of that in 50+ years. All came back instantly.

[@cindypierce8780]

How about " I wish I was an Oscar Mayer HotDog, That is what I'd truly like to be..."

[@TacomaGirl]

Or Homer Simpson's version, my bologna has a first name it's H O M E R. My bologna has a second name it's H O M E R 😂

[@auditoryecstasy]

As a Gen X'er, I love Jay's reactions & breakdowns! Keep going💖🤘

[@SITHJELLO]

Family road trip, my dad plotted the map directions, noted gas stations, depended on local radio stations for weather and traffic, depended on mile markers. Mom had craft kits, games, etc for us kids. It was a great adventure.

[@mostlyharmless1]

On a less angry note, I would LOVE to see you read an old folded paper map!

[@kelsijodryer6348]

I would love to see him try to refold it! 😂 That was the worst.

[@adamdonovan4071]

Smokey the Bear was a cartoon fire prevention campaign in the 80s and 90s…might still exist, his tagline at the end was “only you can prevent forest fires.”

[@williamcook8743]

Just remember, during catastrophic events, the technology doesn't always work so you should know real skills

[@Angi_Mathochist]

If you're going to a strange place, you bring the map with you. And if you need traffic updates, you listed to a local radio station while you're driving. And if you need to find another way around, you stop and look at the map, or you go by the seat of your pants. Knowing how roads are usually laid out (there's usually a grid, often with roads going north and south and major through streets going every so often with minor streets in between, so you can find the next through street just by going along the grid for a little while usually, for example -- not so hard, in most places). Also when you move to a new location, it really helps to just drive around a lot, getting the lay of the land, going in all different directions and checking out different neighborhoods and places, trying different restaurants and things. That way you are able to find your way around the area when you need to. When I would travel, I would plan out my routes and have them all laid out ahead of time. It was amazing when we had the internet. like around the late '90's to early '00's, and I could go to Mapquest and get a route planned out that way and then download it and print it out. That was before you could just have the GPS on your phone in your car with you in realtime. It was *almost* as good, as long as you knew where you were going ahead of time. I would go to visit friends 2 states away (on the West coast, that's a 13 hour drive away) and I would have a whole folder full of driving routes printed out of all the places I thought I might go while I was down there. My home to friend A, friend A to friend B, friend B to friend A, friend B to home, friend A to home, back and forth to tourist attractions and shopping areas from each friend's house, etc. You couldn't do it on the fly, and it was SO nice to have the routes printed out, so I would do it all ahead of time. What is Y2K? The Year 2000. Before that year, there was a big concern that a lot of computers might have problems because so many computer programs and operating systems had been designed with 2-digit years and were still operating with those systems in place. That meant that when the year changed from 1999 to 2000, those systems would think it was 1900. Many systems had been updated, but not all, and nobody knew how many systems might have what kind of problems. There was a big crush in the latter part of the '90s for programmers to try to fix everything, but nobody was sure how much was really fixed until the moment came. On NYE that year, we all looked to Australia to see whether their internet stayed up and how many of their systems went down or had problems. And then breathed a huge sigh of relief that everything operated as usual. And as the date line went around the world, everything continued to be normal from zone to zone. There were a few minor problems in places, but nothing major. The internet stayed up. Phone systems stayed up. Satellite systems stayed up. Nothing major broke at all.

[@breezyautumn]

Paper maps were a nightmare 😢but when everything crashes we can read them 😊😊😊 10:00

[@pequena_ninera]

My parents are from the Silent Generation. Dad was born in 1941 and mom was born in 1942. My parents had 5 kids. My parents were not boomers. LOL. Thank heavens for that.

[@sailordave1000]

Map reading is a great skill. It gave you control over your trip. “I want to go here, but I want to make a side trip to this spot on the way.” You had to know your compass point directions in the real world.

[@LazloHo]

"A foot in both worlds," feels really accurate.

[@rh1507]

Wait. I am one of the Gen-X people. The States was still fighting in Vietnam when I hatched.

[@JohnFleshman]

I was 6 when Vietnam ended.

[@pequena_ninera]

@rh1507 Me too. I was about 4 when the Vietnam was still going. It didn't end until a month after my baby brother was born in March, It ended in April. So yeah us early generation Xers born in the beginning of Generation X era, did hear about it and etc....

[@kmom452]

True the last soldiers left when I was a child. My Aunt who graduated high school in the 70's is technically a Vietnam Vet but she was stationed in Thailand. Go figure.

[@lisacarter6096]

It started in 1955.

[@katc7669]

Very early Gen X here and I'm really enjoying your react vids on these. Yeah, they're all quite spot-on. I mean, we've got that middle-child invisibility from the very beginning when all the other gens got 20 years, but we're somehow only 15 years long. Whatever. Perspective on the war thing, though. We didn't have as much active war, but our entire (US) generation was born under the Cold War thinking that nothing in life mattered because Russia might nuke us to oblivion at any moment. So.... whatever. As adults, we went out at night, then showed up at work in the morning and worked hard. No fanfare. No handholding. Just wanted to be left alone to do our thing because we'd been figuring out stuff on our own since we were kids. Whatever. Anyway, lovin' the channel. Looking forward to more.

[@Eniral441]

Mapquest was like Google Maps, but we didn't have smartphones yet. So we had to print the instructions. Mapquest is still around and some Gen Z remembers their parents using it.

[@tdstellar5218]

I’m loving these videos! It’s good to someone your age try to understand us. We were a major bridge generation… first to have both parents working so freedom after school plus responsibilities, we remember having to do math in our heads to make change cuz old registers then progressing to computers in school…we actually knew Steve Jobs while he was building his first computer! We needed to learn tools to survive outdoors, learn from elders about our environment, and plan trips by map and figure out where to stop- no one flew their whole family cross country- we had no seat belts, helmets, padding…. Made us tough, and super independent. As we watched technology work out the bugs, we still relied on old skills. You guys have never had to learn about these things… Oh, we also memorized phone numbers. Hundreds of them. So I argue that “smart” devices have made us all less smart- I now only know 2 phone numbers yet remember all the ones from my youth. That’s why I say the BRIDGE generation is Gen X

[@robertherring9277]

As an Xer, I have a map when I travel. Have GPS too. However, I remember the OG GPS syatems and even today's... I figure it out on the map the make sure the GPS isn't full of shit. GPS has directed me to some strange places... maps don't lie. Honestly, I only use GPS in big cities. Well, unless the wife is the navigator... then I trust nothing!

[@hildajensen6263]

Yep. Just bought a new map for my car. GPS might get you there, but definitely not always in the best way. You're also not going to know if you pass close by something interesting.

[@ConspiracySmurf]

Yes, we had to know things! lol We used a MAPSCO that was produced for an area. It was a map in spiral bound book and you had to figure out what page you needed of the whole map in the book. The ones we used were often 10 or 20 years old and you just had to figure it out by stopping to ask people in their yards or at gas stations, etc. You had to pay attention going to new places so you could backtrack home. People got lost. People ran out of gas trying to find places.

[@lacywoodbury6788]

Gen X proud. We are multi talented. We can do math in our heads, get lost and find our way without gps. Plus learn all the new things. Our brains can comprehend a situation without making some whimpy complaint that has nothing to with the situation.

[@claudiayates7621]

I was taught directions from my father. He lived in Minnesota. When he was 25, he decided to walk to Seattle, by himself. Via Canada. He was Silent Generation. After WWII (age 19), he got back to Minn from San Diego own his own. He had a notebook of addresses (towns only) of war buddies; he visited them (or surviving fsmilies) along the way.

[@lacywoodbury6788]

@@claudiayates7621 my grandfather was of the silent Gen too they were super tough. I miss and love him very much he was and still is a big influence in my life. Like I'm sure your father was to you. They were awesome

[@Pops-km8xt]

On longer road trips with friends, someone was designed as Navigator and handed the map

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

Boomers and Millenials were both activist groups... Gen X if it doesn't affect them they mind their business. The world could learn a lot from us. Before GPS... the cheat was Atlas Maps, a book with all the maps in it, or once in a while we did something crazy, we stopped and asked. Just by his memories he's a younger gen x, because us older ones didn't have all of that. We had like 8 channels on TV, and had to use aluminum foil on the antenna to get all those...lol. My mom is silent generation, our biggest conversation was trying to help her understand what the home button was on the computer. As far as children I have 4 millennials and one just barely Gen Z, the oops in the family.

[@AnnMarie-q9r]

Same

[@davidj.379]

GenXers had a tv remote... it was US changing the channel manually for our parents.....lol

[@volksy7261]

Errr, there was an entire Nuclear Disarmament movement. Not to mention the AIDS crisis.

[@kmom452]

Big Bird-Sesame Street, Crime Dog-McGruff the crime dog anti crime commercials on tv, Bear that pinned forest fires on you- Smokey the Bear another tv commercial, guns has roses-Guns &Roses the band, Balonga had a first name- Oscar Myers sandwich balonga tv commericial. We watched a lot of tv on Saturday mornings. LOL😊

[@LoriPeace]

"My bologna has a first name, It's o-s-c-a-r. My bologna has a second name, It's m-a-y-e-r. Oh I love to eat it everyday, and if you ask me why I'll saaayyy, cuz Oscar Mayer has a way with b-o-l-o-g-n-a!"

[@LoriPeace]

Smokey the Bear: only YOU can prevent forest fires!

[@claudiayates7621]

Smokey is a boomer..."born" in 1953

[@kerriniemi9525]

Y2K means the year 2000... We got to party like it was 1999.. you will have to google the kaos that was happening He was hilarious 😂😂😂, i will check more out by him, thanks 💙 ✌️💮💕

[@tangyjoe4326]

My dad used to complain that I had too much junk littering my car. I always responded with “Y2K supplies!” 😅

[@kerriniemi9525]

@@tangyjoe4326 💓

[@markhenning6310]

Y2K was because early computers didn't have enough memory for a full date. There were concerns that at midnight the computers would go from 1999 to 1900 because the 19-- was hard coded at first. This could have played havoc on computer systems that needed dates to operate. They were concerned all tech could implode because of it. And just like every other doomsday gen x saw, nothing happened. Flights and businesses were all canceled/closed for nothing, great party though!

[@kerriniemi9525]

@@markhenning6310 yes, I was there, barely caring or paying attention 😂😍✌️

[@aaronbono4688]

I miss pouring over a map. It really gave me a sense of the area around me. I might find cool places I could go or odd routes I might want to take for fun. Now it is all about getting to your destination as quick as possible.

[@Spyrit2011]

Gen X made IDGAF an emotion.

[@davefenton102]

Finding where you are on a paper map is pretty easy, especially if it has an index of street names with grid their grid coordinance. Basically you look at the street names as you drive along, and then find those street names on the map. Once you find where those streets are on the map, you know where you are. Quite simple really

[@scottcoates8095]

Imagine not having a cell phone until you’re almost an adult , not having internet until you’re almost an adult, and imagine having 2D video games until you’re an adult.

[@belkyhernandez8281]

That's how it should be. Kids shouldn't be exposed to Mobil phones or the Internet until they are at least 15 imo. At that point they will pick it up quick enough.

[@coryb6810]

Gen X ppl love GPS but also know how to use a map & compass ! We can text & face time but prefer having a conversation on the phone ! We stream and download music & movies but still keep a few CD’s & DVD’s around just in case the WiFi goes out ! We can use air fryers but can also cook on the stove! We had to learn & do for ourselves bc usually both parents worked but the world was still safe enough to walk home from school ! It was the best generation by far, but that’s coming from someone who knows what an 8 Track tape is and Cloud storage as well, we have experienced both !!

[@marab1440]

You're description is so on point! I'm 48 and I approve this comment😂😂😂

[@coryb6810]

@@marab1440 👍👍

[@reignofbastet]

Gen X learned early on that when attention was on us, bad s**t ensued. I hear and see the complaint that Gen X isn’t involved enough in politics. That’s why. Just let us be, please.

[@Danceofmasks]

You can absolutely know what it feels like to be gen x. Just leave the house without your phone or wallet, and only take $10 with you. Choose a direction, go that way for 3 days, then turn around and head home.

[@amyblasingim2136]

You should go watch some 70’s and 80’s commercials and you will understand the references to bologna having a first name and a bear blaming us for fires

[@allenruss2976]

I delivered pizzas in high school. I knew every street and shortcut in town. I could shave three minutes off of a delivery just by driving through the cemetery.

[@shanestover1696]

Alot mentioned printing out from mapquest but there's rwice as many who didn't have printers and had to write those instructions out by hand.

[@bernadettekutch5240]

💙 I’m a later boomer, born in 1957. I married late for my generation (at 27) so my children are millennials (ages 32 and 36). I can’t relate to hating the millennial generation or any other generation. I sometimes tease my children about how easy they had it compared to my generation growing up but it’s all in fun and we laugh about it. They tease us too. I can certainly relate to the whole GPS/map thing! I remember going from having to figure a route out on a map, to printing out a route, to using GPS. I LOVE GPS!! It makes things so much easier, as I’ve always been directionally challenged 🤣. I sometimes wonder how I ever did without it. I remember driving somewhere alone, many times, and having to pull over to read the next few directions. Glad those days are over! Thank you for your reactions, Jay. I always enjoy them!🥰

[@christypriest30]

Maps were both a godsend as well as a curse! I remember being on road trips with my dad driving and my mom was sleeping so I’d be helping him navigate with the map and GOD forbid you missed a turn and your dad had to make a u-turn! Also maps didn’t show you traffic so if you ended up in a traffic jam you were just going to be on the road for a couple more hours. You mentioned maps getting updated and in order to do that you had to buy a whole new map. That’s why every gas station sold atlas’s

[@claudiayates7621]

For long trips, ya got a trip tik from AAA, so ya knew where construction (or other delsys) was. Once (1974) I went from Rockedter NY to Denver, no maple, no directions. Just get on I-90, head West & watch the signs. Basic 7th grade Geography acted like a check aa ya passed major cities. I had a friend that hitch hiked from Miami to Alsska. His only map was 11x17 sheet showing entire US & Canada; major cities only...no details or even roads.

[@laraismyname821]

So Mapquest was like the predecessor to Google maps. It was like if you went to Google maps & used the directions feature where you put in your start address & end address--then you printed out the directions. That was Mapquest--just pages of directions like 'continue 2.1 miles then turn left on 1st Avenue".

[@stormeart]

‘73 Gen X - I had & used a glovebox full of paper maps, printed out MapQuest directions by my mid-late 20’s, & had a GPS less than a decade, now.

[@crystalmorgan1959]

George Bush classic was president for 4 years. Went into Kuwait, then left and brought the troops home. His son George Bush was president for 8 years and he went to war on Saudi Arabia and never left. He had no exit plans.

[@scottcoates8095]

I remember the first time I introduced my mother to video chat, She was absolutely amazed. I was in one state, and she was in another 890 miles away, yet I could see her, and she could see me, live. Now she has the best of both worlds. She went from letter writing, to emailing, to text messaging, to video chat. It’s funny how fast my mother picked it up, she’s even figured out how to use Google translate. Now she can drive more people crazy in another language, as she loves to talk.

[@sageduff4747]

He’s not right about wars. I’m an older Gen X and I remember seeing stuff about Vietnam on TV when I was little.

[@kevinressler242]

I was a DJ in the 80's and the tech changes in music and producing is astonishing!

[@kmom452]

For Mapquest we printed the directions from the website on our desktop computers because we didn't have internet on our phones in those days. Fun times as it never took into construction in consideration.😊

[@Hadrian-p7f]

How would GenZ cope if we lose electricity and their batteries run out you wouldn't be able to survive.

[@claudiayates7621]

I am full on boomer. Got trapped in my house for 3 days in a snowstorm; no electricity, 1 day of firewood, 10 hours of phone life, 2 days of radio. Had food & cold running water. I DID NOT like it at all !!. Once I got heat back, it took 16 hours to dig out the driveway (over 3 days).

[@aliciasavage6801]

We as a species have lost skills because of technology. People may not like Boomers, but if sh*t ever hit the fan, they'd be the ones who could survive. Those and some of us Gen Xers, although not as well. Personally I dont think this guy is quite right with his perceptions of some of the things about the generations . Y2K was "the year 2000". People were freaked out that the change in years wouldnt be comparable with many computers since they ran off a two digit year mark, so going from 99 to 00. some people were afraid it would cause all computers around the world to go down, causing the electric grid, the water, basically everything cities run on off. This was mostly due to the news over hyping the situation like they always do.

[@jenniferhill5001]

I'm a fortunate gen-x, my older siblings are boomers, my parents are pre-boomer. I'm basically 1 generation from "O Brother Where Art Thou". What most people consider 'survival skills' were my daily chores. But my dad was smart enough to get me a radio shack computer early, so I love my technology too. 😁

[@howlingbreeze7078]

Yeah it was tense for awhile lot of people envisioned 1159 everything is good 1200 the world was going to explode

[@jenniferhill5001]

@@howlingbreeze7078 seems like I remember a 2012 end of world prediction too...humans are weird

[@TLowGrrreen]

​@jenniferhill5001 The Mayan Apocalypse. I was working in a restaurant kitchen on the day it "hit." One of my coworkers began filming a behind the scenes mockumentary. Somewhere out there is footage of me plating an order of wings and commenting, "Funny thing about the Apocalypse, it seems to bring out a pretty good crowd."😊✌️

[@JodiDay-rc7zm]

All of the Gen Xer's I know would not only survive but thrive if things went to sh*t. Maybe that's because we were "raised" in the country & have been hunting, fishing, building traps & shelters & camping out since grade school. Things go sideways, head to the woods. That's where we'll be.😂

[@louisefernandes1770]

Maps are awesome. A great skill... looking towards the apocalypse. Love your curiosity mate, Also that you are UK based (I am south London) Y2K was the madness that all tech (and the world) was about to explode as we switched to 01/01/2000

[@mariegraves8202]

No technology, just looking out the window, listening to the radio,, coloring, playing games on a "fun pad" an odd shaped coloring book.

[@JulieFox-h3w]

Gen X here. My kids are two millenials and one Gen Z. My kids keep me updated. Yes we freaked out about Y2K (when 1999 turned 2000), but the software company I worked for made some adjustments and had no problems, along with every other company. Yep we had Michael Jackson and Prince. We also did not wear seatbelts. Love your channel!

[@davidj.379]

Y2K is an abbreviation for "Year 2000" and refers to a potential computer problem that could have occurred when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.

[@queenoftangledyarn]

Something that wasn't mentioned, is that after you unfolded a map, you could never fold it up again. So, after all the frustrations of trying to figure out where you were, where you wanted to go, and how to get there, you had to deal with trying to fold the map again. Often that was the last straw that pushed our parents over the limit and they lost the plot. I remember seeing my friends dad going absolutely nuts on the side of the road once, screaming, swearing, throwing the map on the ground and stomping on it. Map rage, the forgotten cousin of road rage.

[@radish6740]

How did we know if there was traffic coming up? We turned on the radio. lol

[@robrussell8870]

What’s extremely funny is when I was a kid I thought quick sand was going to be a big thing for real. Yes I’m Gen. X and no we don’t give a shit.

[@amykell5687]

Gen X music went from vinyl albums to 8-track tapes to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to digital. What a wild ride!

[@trueseattleite6958]

Asking "what is Y2K?" is the most Gen Z thing I've ever heard! Miidnight Y2K signified the day that all of technology was possibly going to implode in on itself and send us back to the 1800s technologically. 😂

[@eventuallyeverafter7277]

He's quite accurate. I'm an old millennial, but have young Gen x aunts and uncles with whom I was half raised. 9/11 happened my senior year of high school, and most of my friends enlisted into the military seeking justice. There was a gigantic shift into a new reality during the middle to end of my childhood. No wonder so many people are confused in today's world. It's weird to remember back through the timeline of events. Also.... Eminem was the defining artist for millennials. This guy brags about Michael, but Eminem can't be denied his impact globally. 💐

[@joanrobijn4118]

Gender ideology wasn't a thing when i grew up. Today's world is insane!!! 😂

[@crystalmorgan1959]

Another comedian points out the younger generation never using maps before and not being taught cursive writing in school like this. If we ever have to go to war, we can just use paper maps and write everything in cursive. Our enemy will not be able to figure out what we're doing.

[@trtarts4814]

Gen X invented most modern technology.

[@rustknuckleirongut8107]

Computers, boomers. Cell phones, boomers. Touchscreens, boomers. The internet, boomers. The electric car, about 60 years before boomers were born. What modern technology were you thinking of? Gen X invented a lot of software, but quite often just refined tech that existed previously. Crack, now there is a Gen X invention for you.

[@n.d.m.515]

​@@rustknuckleirongut8107I agree with you, but Gen X was the first generation as a whole to learn how to use all those inventions to perfect them.

[@claudiayates7621]

Actually, first computers were used in WW II, so that would be boomers parents. Same for transistors, which allowed tech to transition from Tues. Boomers took next step to chips.

[@jakeand9020]

Yeah, GenX didn't "invent" modern tech, genX just made what had already been invented into what it is today. Sure, genX didn't INVENT computers or cell phones, but genX did make those two very different things into the same device you carry around.

[@teddennison344]

The issue with Y2K was that for generations software was written to use only 2 digits for dates. However, at the year 2000 all that software would theoretically break, because the year would be (20)"00" and that's less than (19)99. Anything that cared about relative dates would break. In theory.

[@fightingidiocy7724]

Y2k Scare: all computer code used TWO Digits for the YEAR...like 20 for 1920, ...peeps were terrified that software and computer servers would stop working or crash ..so we spent years updating code..some people thought "airplanes will fall out of the sky"...nothing happened, of course.

[@Eniral441]

When I was high school in the 80s, I had a history teacher that had us watch videos about the different generations. We learned how history affected and influenced the hows and whys of their thinking. The teacher felt that learning this would help us become more successful in life because we could understand and empathize with other generations and work with them better. He was right. 🙂

[@michellejennings5887]

We GenXrs appreciate the attention. 😂 we grew up very different. We strangely fell into over protecting our kids 😳

[@raevj]

When we grew up, our parents were gone all the time….some overcompensated with their kids.

[@mattb.1357]

You forget gen x is both digital & analog we developed the digital age 😂

[@schiffelers3944]

August 1980 Gen X/Cusper Gen Y (Millennial)]: I had old school fold up maps in my car. Also from multiple countries (being European from one of the smallest nations). Sure you could print your maps. You could draw/copy them. That's still what I do at times, only note the important stuff you need to know to get from A to B. I was raised with the same wisdom my grandfather bestowed on my mother as a child. You are never lost as long as you can communicate* with locals. My grandfather was descendant of Romani ("Gypsy" ) * this meant also non-verbally. Or a broken language of the local population.

[@wishingb5859]

In response to protests that Gen X went through things like school shootings and 9/11 and Katrina. Gen X was 1965 to 1980. Columbine was 1999 so the youngest of them was 19 and out of high school and most were out of college before Virginia Tech shooting 2007. 9/11 came in 2001. The youngest was 21 but most were working adults by then - some being 36. Katrina was in 2005. By then, some Gen X had already reached 40. Not meaning to offend them, but they were adults before almost any events and the 80s were times of great wealth in the USA.

[@crystalmorgan1959]

Y2K is short for year 2000. There was panic because when computers were invented in the 1900's, the space allotted for the year was the last two digit's only. People worried shipments would be messed up because year 2000 might be read 1900. Companies were in a race to get their software updated before the new century started.

[@andreasauder2855]

My mom said if they were going on a cross country trip they would actually go to AAA and they got the people who work there to draw out the route on the actual maps.

[@wishingb5859]

The thing is, the older generations lived through the Great Depression, World War 1 and 2 and Vietnam and race riots and pandemics and food rationing. They got things like polio and died of things like hypertension and the flu. They were before insulin was around for treating Diabetes and before penicillin was invented for infections. Before everybody had electricity, refrigerators, air conditioning and good heating. They used newspapers for toilet paper or used it to insulate their bed on Winter nights. Gen X came after most of the big stuff was resolved and they only had lifestyle stuff to think about.

[@volksy7261]

And nuclear annihilation.

[@baimun]

💙Also remember that us Gen-Xers are the ones who would say "Spring Break!!!... hop in a car with a 250page paper atlas... and drive 1,200 miles from Chicago to Fort Myers Florida for the week! Once we had "MapQuest" we would print out the detailed map of the area around the hotel and beach to know where all the bars and restaurants were once we got there. Understanding North-South-East-West and which highways go which direction is still handy even now, but we do appreciate the real-time traffic or alerts when you have to get way over in the right lane to exit. 🤣

[@stephenpublicover8818]

Hey young man, my parents were the silent gen, I am the last year of Bomber gen, at 14 I went hunting rabbits a cross the road from my house, lived in the out skirts of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Drove 70s cars, no abs ,no air bags , no power steering, no power brakes, no fuel injection! Life was simpler times!! Great Video!!😀👌👍✌🤘

[@G_Demolished]

The rest stops on the highways always had the cheat code. There was a state map on the wall with a red dot that showed where you were.

[@thdryvr]

Wow! This was a candy-coated rated G description. This guy grew up easy.