Things Our Kids Will Never Understand

[@gamom1]

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

[@christinestrohmeyer1701]

Nice to your walket: you would pay extra 🙈 if returned not wound back

[@jennieepp8263]

Or get charge extra if you don’t. 🫤

[@pcguy13x]

you beat me to it. i was just waiting for her to say that, lol!

[@StumbleNH]

"Be kind, rewind!"

[@ilovenoodles7483]

Now that's classic!! Great comment! You won the internet! @Rose B

[@SuzySylvania]

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

[@RyanOlsen]

😂

[@reneeelias9514]

In the late 70’s i bought a magazine called song hits so i didn’t have to rewind my cassettes and relisten to get the words. I am still a fanatic about words to the songs i listen to. Happy I was not alone back then.

[@luannfeld3983]

Was it “Stairway?”

[@foxwaffles]

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

[@ItsLaurenE]

I feel that. There have been times i said I wish I had this back in the day, and times I've said I'm so glad not to have had this back in the day. My daughter's are only 6 years apart and watching how much changed while they were growing up and comparing the 6 years is almost crazy to comprehend. Now 22 and 16 years old.

[@jackmandu]

I’m so thankful that my college parties could only be captured with a Polaroid or a 110 camera with the flip-flash.

[@emmaschauer5409]

For real. I am thinking the Amish know what's up lol.

[@alexbensky3631]

I can't tell you how glad I was a teenager long before internet and no one will know what I said and did then.

[@Loveandkindness33]

I hear ya! Can you imagine if we did have the internet back in HS with all the shenanigans we got up to out there?!🫣😵 Our parents would’ve never let us leave the house, ever again!

[@sadfaery]

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

[@dblevins343]

Your correct, it was 3s company. I might be 22 but who doesn't love good shows? My favorite is MASH

[@danielisle2542]

Speaking of the 80's and 90's, ever notice how the radio stations today play "The best of the 80's, 90's and today!"? Lol

[@sadfaery]

@@danielisle2542 What depresses me is when the radio stations refer to 80s music as "oldies".

[@danielisle2542]

@@sadfaery right?! Lol The 60's and 70's used to be the oldies.

[@Dexy1017]

The 50's were oldies and the 60's and 70's were 'classic rock' when I was a kid (in the 80's) and even in the 90's and early 2000's. When they started referring to the 70's as oldies was when I knew that I was old lol

[@akasbm]

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

[@theholdernessfamily]

Yes! Do they even know what a newspaper is anymore?

[@bluejedi723]

@@theholdernessfamily Find a payphone, give the kids some quarters and see if they can figure it out. Maybe film them playing a 1985 Nintendo game(s) and get their reaction? :)

[@weronikalinda4917]

Yeah, or looking up what they play on tv in the newspaper.

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

Omg I remember how exciting it was to check out the movie theater listings in the newspaper to see what was playing! As a kid/preteen, it was pretty much the only reason I opened the newspaper lol! 😂

[@heathrusty]

What about when they started having a recorded message with the movie times for the day, but you had to listen to the listing for every movie and time because there were no push-button menus.

[@cocoavideos]

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

[@christinarouton7990]

I got to typing class early so I could grab the good electric typewriter with the correction ribbon.

[@cocoavideos]

@@christinarouton7990 I remember seeing those typewriters and wishing I had one. Would have saved a lot of time for my writing classes. You really learned to type carefully back then.

[@saba347]

Yeah, my mom talks about that all the time. Sounds so frustrating!

[@lauran.9427]

Still use White-Out....from time to time😉

[@laurent.9968]

She isn't that old enough for the typewriter thing. The typewriter thing is for boomers. Kim is a gen xer. She's a member of the generation that everybody forgets about. My parents are part of that generation too.

[@GamerDad1987]

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

[@theholdernessfamily]

🤣🤣🤣

[@tiffanybittman7523]

When that happens it's like we are dinosaur 🦕

[@Nurichiri]

Baby GenXer and I feel this so much. I remember being in college and having to wait longer for a KZbin video to load that the length of the video. (And it had to be no more than 10 minutes long.)

[@sahmnancy]

My daughter, in about fourth grade, got let out of school early due to a gas leak, and they couldn't get hold of me because I was Christmas shopping online, on dial up. She was so mad. I said, too bad. Do you want gifts? Later someone found out I shopped online and asked, "But how do you return it if you need to??" "You shove it in the printer, of course!"

[@KathInNJ]

When I tell young people I had to wait for the paper newspaper to list the bridal shows that were happening that upcoming weekend (I think it was the Wednesday or Thursday paper), drive to a hotel somewhere (hopefully not too far away) to look at & choose vendors for our wedding, I get the strangest looks. I got married before the internet existed, no searching for photographers online and reading reviews!

[@shanaadams5119]

And one landline phone for the whole household. 😂😂

[@TheSamjane4]

And your mum telling you to get off the internet as she needed to use the phone so you have to do the whole 10 minute redial start up again 😂

[@TheGraduate702]

The kids from affluent families had two lines (or two #’s).

[@alphanerd7221]

@@TheGraduate702 We weren't affluent. Your family was just broke, or had no daughters.

[@Lancelotlobstertail]

I’m gen z and my family had a landline until 2021 💀

[@karenrangel4830]

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

[@mhedstrom]

Yup. "Mom I'm ready" was what we would do.

[@sarah-phillips]

YES!

[@golfnz34me]

I always love that commercial where the guy calls his dad collect, and he says his name is "Wehadababy Eetsaboy" to avoid having to pay the charges.

[@stevekrein6824]

@@mhedstrom Mom was home, so we just let it ring twice and hung up. Got the quarter back and knew she was on the way.

[@Merbella]

Yes!!

[@blondegiraffe2023]

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

[@HariSeldon913]

Just looked and Amazon has several types. The one she had came up at $20.04 for one, or you could get a two-pack for $41.

[@llamasugar5478]

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

[@katysmith3379]

I had to prove to my kids that I am older than Google. They were visibly stricken too.

[@mmille10]

I had someone ask me what remote learning was like in college. We had a kind of remote learning in the late 1980s, but not like what students have had to go through in the last year. The internet existed for universities, but broadband was slower than today by a lot, and we didn't have digital video streaming. There were certain classrooms where they had video cameras, and it was hooked up to recording equipment. Remote students would get videotapes of lectures about a week after they happened, because they were sent through the mail. Likewise, all assignments and tests were sent the same way, so they were a week behind us with everything, including due dates.

[@kimberleydavis501]

😁😆😁

[@ilovenoodles7483]

😂😂😂

[@Frankie5Angels150]

So, do you know that tick tick allows the Chinese communist party to spy on every aspect of your life?

[@graceaxisa4213]

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

[@poetlover30]

Yep finding out only half came out lol

[@graceaxisa4213]

@@poetlover30 yes!!! Sad but hilarious 😅

[@oscarfun100]

"Oh that's a blurry picture of a statute, I think.. Another bad one on the museum, cause that was important. But sure, pictures of stupid Jenna, all looking geat!"

[@katebell2557]

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

[@lauraarldt8139]

🤦‍♀️

[@shaunah.creations9233]

Lol my dad had one! 😂

[@abby-ze6mz]

.....Then she asked what is a pay phone.

[@katebell2557]

@@shaunah.creations9233 thanks for making me feel old! Lmao!

[@BethALadyReadsAlot]

I still have pager nightmares from when I worked at a hospital. only place you can find one now is that nightmare...

[@stephaniek5433]

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

[@sr-lw6bi]

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

[@DivergingLives]

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

[@broderickelliott8527]

What's funny to me is the way I get cranky if a device takes more than 2 seconds to execute a command, but I used to beg for the PRIVILEGE of going into Grandma's sitting room to use dial-up internet, and I would wait for it to dial with breathless EXCITEMENT for that. Also, total absence of social media. Anyone remember how exciting we thought chat rooms were?

[@karenwagner6880]

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

[@denisefallin8042]

Remember renting the VCR with it???

[@mieander]

and the "be kind, rewind" sticker?

[@EricaGamet]

@@denisefallin8042 Yep! My dad was so tired of me renting the machine and Star Wars and Empire Strikes back like once a month for sleepovers. In 1984 he broke down and finally bought us our own VCR!! Also, @Karen Wagner up there with her fancy 48-hour window... were you rich or something? 🤣Back in my day, we only had 24 hours AND WE LIKED IT!

[@joshuaburba1048]

@@denisefallin8042 One of my earliest memories is walking about a mile up the road in snow, to go to the nearest Kroger to rent the vcr and movie (It was "Tank" starring James Garner). Then we walked a mile back in the snow carrying all that, then had to figure out how to hook it up to the T.V. Good times.

[@denisefallin8042]

@@EricaGamet LOL!! Kids these days....hahahaha. Girl- I was a freak about Empire Strikes Back.....Han Solo was my man! Remember the threat of if you lost the tape it was $79.00??

[@sunnyrays2281]

Love this! I miss the simpler times. Although watching Holderness Family on KZbin is one of the best things to happen from technological advancement!

[@kristenbrissey8437]

The sound the camera makes when you wind it up brings back so many fantastic summer memories of camp and time with friends! My mom still has some of the pictures we took of the ground or the sky when we were little. Lol. I remember when my cousins got DSL instead of dial up and we were amazed at how fast it was!

[@blugreen123]

Remember that awful sound cameras used to make when the film ran out? Like a really loud buzzing noise.

[@kristenbrissey8437]

@@blugreen123 I just remember the high pitched whine the disposable camera flash would make when it was turned on 🤪

[@juanitaglenn9042]

@@blugreen123 buzzing and grinding to a halt! Yah, I was always concerned the film would break or something.

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@blugreen123 I didn’t but you just unlocked a memory 😂

[@poetlover30]

Did you know people don't have rolls of film developed anymore- it's now where it all goes online to a CD or DVD & that goes on your computer 😳🤯

[@kathyfritz9962]

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

[@homethatilove4595]

Friday night @ the skating rink 🛼🛼 😊😊 🎶 "Let the Music Play, she won't get away..." (Shannon) AND "After All that We've Been Through" (Chicago) 🎶

[@Mama_Bear524]

Yup! Always had to have at least one quarter

[@juzoli]

We had a weekly paper based TV guide to show what’s on TV on each channel. I circled everything I wanted to watch, a week in advance. My kids are like “I want to watch 10 DuckTales in a row, right now”, and they can do that…

[@sadfaery]

To be fair, if I could have watched 10 DuckTales in a row back then, I totally would have. It was one of my favorite after school shows to watch.

[@ItsLaurenE]

Ahh ducktales, one of my favorite theme songs to a cartoon, and i believe the first Nintendo game I beat as a kid. Great memories all around for that show!

[@shaunah.creations9233]

We had like 10 extra steps to get to something like pagers, renting a movie, and internet lol. Now it’s like an instant!

[@TheAlexa1983]

Yes!!!

[@dougwheeler1265]

I WISH we still had those TV guides in a little booklet. My cable Co. won't show what's coming on for even the next couple of hours! I have no way of knowing what is on TV until it comes on now. NO Box, No nothing!! I want my TV guide back!

[@rosehelmich2979]

Those fun Friday-after-school trips to Blockbuster were so much fun!!! Kids learned the art of compromise in multi-child families. Loved it!!!

[@johncasey5594]

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

[@HariSeldon913]

That would be the 70's. I remember we got a Betamax in1982 and there were already rental stores, just not Blockbuster yet.

[@johncasey5594]

@@HariSeldon913 Just because it was available, does not mean everyone had one. It was a rich man's luxury in the early to mid 1980's.

[@poetlover30]

Yea didn't get a VCR in my house growing up until the early 90's

[@AdamYJ]

Sometimes they would rerelease them in theaters. But usually not until like a decade later. I saw Disney’s Sleeping Beauty in theaters in the late ‘80s even though it first came out in the ‘50s.

[@amandaneumann4047]

I am 46 and this was LIFE!! I’d forgotten about some of these!!! SO funny!!!😂

[@sasapetroski981]

Me 43 today😊😊

[@edmeyer8091]

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

[@salliestephens1252]

Yes! This!

[@kelleydaniels6331]

When I was engaged to my husband over 40 years ago, my soon to be inlaws showed me hours and hours of slides and super8 video of him growing up. It was wonderful and became a tradition with his siblings. I felt like I knew him as a child!

[@mykijiji1958]

Oh my gosh!! And once, when we went on vacation, I bought a WATERPROOF disposable camera!! The TECHNOLOGY!!!

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@mykijiji1958 oh that was the fancy one you spoiled kid you! 😂

[@anya425]

I remember.

[@kathyfritz9962]

As a language arts teacher, I LOL’d at the dictionary bit. I still teach my kids how to use one

[@homethatilove4595]

Thanks Kathy, for doing your part to teach how to look up stuff. Ya never know, how the skill may translate in usable life ...

[@customer5032]

Same here Kathy!

[@jobethk588]

"You'd skate backwards for me, baby." Smile.

[@raea3588]

I actually miss a lot of this. Especially being able to rent movies the "old fashioned way" and sit down to watch them as a family and the first phone number I memorized was time and temperature. But I don't miss not knowing who was on the phone before you picked up the receiver...scary!

[@dougwheeler1265]

Not really. phone calls back then weren't as scary, so you really didn't need to know who was on the phone back then.

[@wordivore]

@@dougwheeler1265 I'm with ya. I used to like the element of surprise back then.

[@HariSeldon913]

No time and temperature calls at my house. There was a thermometer mounted outside the bedroom window and I had a wristwatch (now I have a wrist mounted step counter that will also tell me the time).

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

As someone born in 1981, all these things were part of my childhood so I can totally relate. Today's kids have things way more easily accessible than we did; we didn't have all the world's music and movies available digitally right at our fingertips, nor could we look up information at a whim, tickets to places and services had to be purchased physically and the Internet took forever to come online haha! But there was a certain charme to waiting for that specific song on the radio and recording it, I had several cassette tapes of songs recorded from the radio...ah, those were the days! :)

[@Mama_Bear524]

Also born in 1981 yay!!! Remember having to do research at the library? Like we actually had to plan it out? Then look for the book in the card catalogue? Those were the days 🎶🎶

[@kynn23]

There are songs that, to this day, my brain fills in the DJ's voice and words as part of the actual song.

[@aureas]

So true... 😌

[@bharathsf]

We had to watch mtv for hours for our favourite songs to come on

[@shellygreenan2407]

@@bharathsf we had to wait for years for cable so we could see MTV lol.

[@miyajij]

Did anyone else also have a recording schedule for movies that would show during the free HBO week (highlighted the schedule in the newspaper, planned out which tapes to use). I could get like 3 movies on one VHS tape and felt so accomplished.

[@Mama_Bear524]

No but that’s so cool you did that!

[@mathmannix]

I remember our TV paper would always have the five Premium channels at the bottom - HBO, TMC, MAX, SHO, and DIS...

[@jefferyfelix1416]

That’s how I ended up with my own copy of the movie “Clue” and I made sure to pop the tab out of that tape so it couldn’t be recorded over. There were a couple commercials of my recording because I think I recorded over an old program lol.

[@511pearl]

And we still have them in the basement,people who know this have asked to borrow them because they have a working vcr.

[@511pearl]

And we still have them in the basement,people who know this have asked to borrow them because they have a working vcr.

[@cfmeyer01]

The DJ talking during the song drove me crazy as a kid. Every time I tell our kids about waiting for things to actually be on TV instead of streaming it on Netflix, they look at me like I'm insane.

[@forcelifeforce]

No DJ should talk during any part of a song. Play fewer songs if you need to play more commercial to play some bills, *and* do not cut off the songs, either.

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@forcelifeforce but they did and it was so annoying

[@erinc9672]

My kids think it’s nuts that we had to sit at the TV at the exact time the show started, lol, they live in the on-demand world!

[@sahmnancy]

We had a big conversation at the dinner table one night about how shows were on when they were on and you either watched them or you missed it. And if you missed it you might not have anything to talk about next day at school and NO ONE went out on Friday nights cuz All in The Family was on ( or whatever the big hit was).

[@mlek1313]

Even worse, one time when I was recording a song, the DJ started singing with the end of the song . . . poorly. I'm still salty about that.

[@fredm5570]

Love this! This brought back so many memories! I’m an older Gen Xer. In the days before video recorders we used to use tape recorders to record the sound from our favorite TV shows and play them back over and over. Also, remember doing reports in school and having to hand copy text and images from encyclopedias because there were no copiers?

[@tgayer1]

I think I finally parted with our audio cassette tapes of our school musicals, recitals, etc. that my dad recorded in the 70s. There were no video cameras, so he recorded everything on cassettes for posterity!

[@fredm5570]

@@tgayer1 That’s wonderful! My aunts tape recorded a few conversations with me as a toddler. It’s neat to be able to hear my voice back then.

[@christinarouton7990]

I tape recorded the finale of three’s company because we didn’t have a vcr. Now I can watch whenever I want. We had some audio tape of my mom and grandmother recording voices over my tap dance music because they didn’t know how to work the player and they wouldn’t listen to an 8 year old 😑

[@melanietillman6308]

My mom wanted to do a craft at church with pictures of the kids, so she got a disposable camera at the drug store. She asked her teenage assistant "do you know how to use one of these?" She said, "yeah, sure," then proceeded to take around 20 pictures WITHOUT rolling the film forward between shots. She just didn't know. So we developed the film and got 26 black photos 😆

[@lauraarldt8139]

🤣🤣

[@robinmeehan1765]

When our daughter was a teen, my husband was walking down the hall by the bathroom and he said, "Why does it smell like 1981?" I proudly declared, "I bought her a jar of Noxema! I couldn't resist." I think around the same time, I bought her a bottle of Love's Baby Soft.

[@elainehill6504]

omg just reading the word Noxema I can smell it.

[@metagaminguniversemgu2240]

The 80's always smell like Polo cologne to me.

[@RyanOlsen]

My friends and I were so excited when we snuck over to a girls slumber party in high school. We were mortified when they let us in and they all were in pajamas with robes and Noxzema on their faces. Needless to say, all of our dreams were shattered and we left ASAP.

[@customer5032]

I buy my two teens Noxzema now in 2022, because I used it for several years and it worked great. They both love it!

[@cmm5542]

​@@RyanOlsen I'm very cruel, but I can't help cheering for those girls' brilliant counter-psychological tactics. 😁

[@wherami]

This was too brilliant. Well done. I felt so nostalgic watching this.

[@theholdernessfamily]

Thanks for watching!

[@eph2vv89only1way]

I remember all of these. And I remember running to the video store to make it before closing to avoid late fees. Lol

[@boomfiziks]

I’m having flashbacks of my childhood. Thank you for the laughs. It’s neat reflecting on how things have changed. I once was talking to an elderly person and they were interested in something I saw on KZbin. They asked what station was KZbin on. 🤣🤣 I laugh, but realize that someday we’ll all be like this, in some way.

[@lochness3224]

THIS ......everything about this is 100 % spot on ......miss those days .... my first camera was a 110 , where you had to load the film on 1 side then pull the film out and hook it on the other side , then wind it on ..... scary times ......🤣🤣

[@homethatilove4595]

Hand crank the car windows & hand wind the actual film cameras

[@kynn23]

@@homethatilove4595 Oof, I don't miss window cranks at all. Trying to roll down the passenger-side window from the driver's seat at a stoplight was a test of strength.

[@emilybell9051]

So much nostalgia ✨ I LOVED coming home and listening to the messages on the answering machine as a kid.

[@earthstar7534]

Me too, my Dad used to call before I got home to leave the list of stuff for me to remember to take care of. He'd always end it with "I love you more than anything in the world, nerd" I wish I had saved the tapes now.

[@theholdernessfamily]

Haha, and now we think "please for the love do not leave me a voicemail." 🤣

[@maddykob]

Yes! And then the disappointment when it was for someone else 😂

[@andrewjameshenderson1389]

i loved that as an adult! Yeah, i'm old. 🤣

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@earthstar7534 awww that made me cry. I love how he called you a nerd 😂

[@carolhenryscheevel5432]

SO TRUE!! You reminded me of some of the things I had forgotten about... like calling TIME AND TEMP.... to make sure our watches and clocks were correct!

[@forcelifeforce]

My family members *still* call the time and temp in Meade County, Kentucky regularly.

[@saba347]

It still exists! Really!

[@brianperrine8099]

I actually forgot about calling to get the weather for the day ☺️. Dang I fell old watching this...

[@earthstar7534]

Did you ever call for your parents, not really have been listening, then have to just make it up and hope its right because you don't want to admit you called, but were so busy with your furby you didn't hear what it said? Just me?

[@theholdernessfamily]

Thanks for watching!

[@julieb7044]

Our town still has the time and temperature line. I still remember the number as I called it for my mom so many times as a child.

[@Ashes_to_Ashes628]

@@earthstar7534 oh man I loved furby.

[@SustainedFuture]

Sounds fancy. We only had the time feature. For weather, we had to adjust the set-top antenna and wait for the evening news.* * Or just use a trusty weather rock (if it's wet, it's raining; if it's white, it's snowing, etc.)

[@gypsybelle4757]

This is so good I want to cry! The sound of the camera click and wind at the end. I didn't realize how much I miss that!! And I used to have the Time and Temp number memorized! Don't ever get rid of your jambox or corded phone. Priceless!

[@jennifertrue7970]

Gee thanks for making me feel old! But it was definitely a trip down memory lane for sure. Oh OREGON TRAIL day at school!! That was the best. I remember rewinding vhs tapes before returning them (you'd get a penalty fee if you didn't, they'd check!), Also, living on a street with a bunch of kids, you'd know where everybody was by the amount of bikes in the yards. Definitely, card catalog at the library. I first used the internet in high school.

[@tracyfitch4873]

Also, I realized a while ago that in years to come when I tell young people about life before cell phones and the internet, that they will think of me the same way I thought of my grandmother when she told me about riding in a horse and carriage down a dirt road as a kid!! 😳😂

[@scotthaymore]

Loved the Greatest American Hero theme song!!!

[@katysmith3379]

I loved that show as a kid!

[@jennieepp8263]

Loved that show! I had my kids watch it.

[@TheAlexa1983]

When 1 hour photo came out, it was so exciting. Also, how about calling the movie theater to hear the times? We thought that was so cool!

[@poetlover30]

Movie Fone!!

[@andrejka_talking_out_loud]

So amazing! Also the phone book, no one knows how to use them.. Once I forgot about them and I did not have the internet right there!! Thank you for the nostalgia :)

[@CrystalKStearns]

I love that you included The Greatest American Hero and its theme in this. That was one of my all time favorites growing up along with Knight Rider, ATeam, Remington Steele, and Street Hawk. And yes I have them on DVD

[@sleepybobo2403]

But she said it was boring! That hurt my heart a little.

[@forcelifeforce]

No, "The Greatest American Hero" theme song is not boring, in my opinion. I play it on KZbin.

[@garamvolgyiandi]

I wonder what our children will feel nostalgic about the same way.

[@mattslupek7988]

I wonder that, too.

[@Keopp69]

Remember when we use to talk on little computers? You know, before everyone got the brain chip.

[@cmm5542]

​@@Keopp69 😆😅😂

[@whimsy339]

When I took Driver's Ed in High School part of our education was learning how to read a map. We got extra points if we could fold it back up properly. 🤣 I was in my late 20s before I learned that highways that were an odd number, i.e. I205, ran north and south. Highways that are an even number, i.e. I84, run east and west. And remember card catalogs at the library, phone books and encyclopedias?

[@dianeericson7900]

Ah, as in Portland, eh?

[@whimsy339]

@@dianeericson7900 Yup 🙂

[@lyndaemery6420]

I was talking with my six-year-old grandson about something and we got onto the subject of spankings. I told him that when I was in elementary & middle school the teachers were allowed to give us spankings with a paddle. He was shocked and said, “Well, that was back in the old days. Ya know like when they didn’t have electricity.” Ummm, Exactly how old do you think I am? Kids! 😂

[@sadfaery]

Lmao. I mean, microwaves and cable TV and VCRs were new when I was a kid, but not electricity. Lol. And I had a teacher who drilled holes in his paddle to make it hurt worse when he used it on someone.

[@dougwheeler1265]

well, you were lucky if there weren't holes in the paddles. They paddles they used on us had holes! And it was Yes Sir, No Sir, Yes Mamm and No Mamm in Texas where I went to school!

[@tstepp71]

My son once asked me if we had school buses ..😂 I had him convinced I rode a dinosaur that I named Leroy... We still laugh about that!!

[@saba347]

Corporal punishment is/was awful. 😞 Control your classroom with mutual respect, not fear!

[@JustNatasha93]

In my small, rural elementary/middle school, only the principal could administer the paddle.

[@jwrightgardening]

I was explaining to my kids about the phone book yesterday, how there were white pages and yellow pages and how it was really convenient to sit on if you needed a boost.

[@hanab837]

We homeschool, and trying to explain to my kids how to look up a word in the dictionary to find out how it is spelled had MY head spinning. It was so natural when I was in school. But it makes no sense! 😂

[@sierraarmour]

🤣 I always joke to my kiddos that “at least I don’t make you look up a word to know how to spell it without knowing where to look like my mama did!” Lol I totally relate to you on this one

[@anathealolen4175]

I have my kiddo use my huge oxford English dictionary for vocabulary practice and to look up meanings (but not so much for spelling). Partly to have some non-screen time, partly because there's a lot of little skills in the process, even silly things like how to handle the thin pages and how to quickly get to about the right section, that probably will be useful to her at some point. It took her a while to get the hang of it, but now she likes to find really obscure words to see if we know them.

[@violetopal6264]

Nobody uses a thesaurus for this? I'm surprised. Much faster to think of a synonym know how to spell

[@Pixiehome]

@@violetopal6264 I own two Thesaurus' and do exactly that all the time :-) I know I could ask google, but it is ingrained into me now.

[@jennieepp8263]

I remember asking teachers how to spell a word and they told you to look it up in the dictionary too. So frustrating… never made sense.

[@SharonHF]

“Always remember that we’re home, even if we’re not.. we’re just not available so you need to take a message” -my parents every single time they left me at home. Also.. being a test neighborhood for fiber optics & getting a SECOND LANDLINE for free just to use for the internet = winning at life in 1993/4 (I forget which). It was so amazing.

[@DioneN]

Haha I love that you’re using your Hallmark voice😂. “We are GenX!”

[@wendio5437]

I was a teenager in the 80’s and this is 100% accurate - except for all those DVD’s at “Blockbuster” since they were VHS tapes in the 80’s. We were still buying VHS tapes when my first son was born in 1999. DVD’s were standard by the time my second son was born in 2003.

[@MamaEvaUSA]

and remember: Be Kind, Rewind!

[@stevekrein6824]

And for those of us who hadn't yet shelled out the $400-$500 for a VCR in the 80's, they had those monstrous top-loaders that they would rent you. And when Disney started releasing all their titles on VHS, claiming to be 'limited time only', look out!

[@wendio5437]

@@stevekrein6824 Oh my gosh yes! Renting those VHS players was such a pain!!

[@sarahschreffler5407]

@@stevekrein6824 We had a VHS and recorded shwos on it. But we rarely rented anything.

[@hollishan]

Thanks for the walk down memory lane! Especially plugging in the modem! With my family, the computer was in the basement, so you hoped no one else picked up the phone while you were connected. I also remember when call waiting was developed (that was another thing you had to disable if you were going to use the modem). Great video as always!😁

[@codreaming9304]

1:37 Don’t forget “Be kind and rewind!” 😂

[@julieb7044]

Don't forget typing term papers on an actual typewriter, and the dreaded realization that you hadn't left quite enough space for your footnote at the bottom of the page so you had to type the whole page over again. Thank goodness for word processors!

[@stevekrein6824]

Or not using erasable paper, so if you had to correct an error, lining up the paper, finding the correction tape, damn, it's giving me anxiety just thinking about it. And that was 40+ years ago!

[@d26075foxy]

🤣🤣🤣I love your robotic voice in these type of videos... Y'all nailed it...My hubby and I found some old camera rolls & we had to take them to Walmart to be shipped off for development...I miss the old days with the drive up 24-hour photo kiosks.

[@lindagarner723]

I remember putting dimes in my penny loafers so I always had change for a pay phone in an emergency. Our phones were rotary. We used records and then 8 track tapes for music. Records are making a comeback, but I don't think the rotary phone will. Can you imagine carrying something like that around? lol

[@johnree6106]

The rotary phone is coming around mainly for nostalgic purposes. As fewer people are using landlines

[@CCGem]

I think I'm Linda's age!!!

[@cindybollinger6411]

I must be your age as well, as these are all things I recall from my youth. At times when picking up the rotary phone, you may have had to wait, as someone else (a neighbor) may be using the phone since several homes within the area may be on the same line. Was never a problem for us, as we were great friends with our neighbors, so we'd just wait a few minutes, then see if we could make our call. We'd hear that wonderful, familiar dial tone sound (not a beep or buzz!) and we'd then make our call. And oh man.....this may sound weird, but I still love the sound of those records......even when they'd get scratches!! There's just something calming about that sound!! Thanks for the memories.

[@johnree6106]

@@cindybollinger6411 used to use records as Frisbee yes still have some records.

[@lucyspencer9752]

I was born at such a weird time. Whenever Kim does a video about her childhood the old tech's last days were in my childhood but whenever her kids are in a video the tech or trends they talk about were coming into the world during my teen years.

[@aarond23]

The disposable cameras really have had a life, from being the next big thing for a few years, something that was so cheap people would stack them up for people to use at weddings and such and now they are an expensive 'niche' item. Pretty weird history.

[@raea3588]

I'm sad they're leaving. I used to get pretty good pictures with those :(

[@afriend9428]

*some stores were nice they ask ya if ya want the tiny AAA battery back or the sucky camera back!*

[@missymh9169]

OMG, you brought back so many memories. I remember having one of those phones you can see through. I loved that thing! Now I feel old! Dang it! lol😆

[@andcohen12]

I remember that too! My cousin who's older than me had one of those see-through phones and it was #goals for me!

[@daveschmarder-US1950]

When I was a kid, the only records I could play were the ones that spun at 78rpm. We had lots of spare steel needles as they didn't last all that long. Didn't have to worry about changing channels. Our 10 inch B&W set only got channel 12. Remote control? Yeah, in your dreams. The remote control was one of us kids sitting close enough to adjust the vertical hold control.

[@janethays3408]

Or you would wrap tin foils around the rabbit ears.

[@michelewaters7291]

I still have a cassette tape of radio recordings from @1975 that I can clearly hear my mom calling me to dinner in the background. Classic.

[@gaellegoutain1286]

Growing up in France, I was so jealous to see that teenagers in US movies had a phone in their bedroom. In France, we had a phone service to call to know the exact time lol

[@sarahschreffler5407]

Be assured not every teen had a phone in their bedroom. I was not allowed one

[@LL-zb3dl]

Oh wow, that listen to the radio all night to press play and record at once really got me 😁. Actually the whole video did, I'd actually erased so much of this from my memory 😂.

[@johnree6106]

Well as someone who remembers floppy disks being floppy, a tine without the world wide web, mix tapes, rotary phones, beta tapes, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, blu ray, mini disk, and even owned a paget. I am super old

[@joleenpietrzyk4790]

Kim, this video is PERFECT!!!! Those were the good old days!! And don't forget to "Be Kind, Rewind" when you rent from Blockbuster!!

[@ChristiGeorge1210]

I actually still have the tapes I made off the radio all these decades later.

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

Same, my cassette collection has too much sentimental and nostalgic value for me to throw it away.

[@ilovgudmuzik]

This is really great! Such memories. Warmed my heart and brought up tears for years gone by...💖

[@BelowTheYellowLine]

2:37 my mom just told me about this! My grandpa was a farmer in a small town in south Arkansas. Every morning, he'd call the local bank to get the weather for the day at breakfast, as well as trying to see if they knew the weather for the next day.

[@theholdernessfamily]

Yep, it was a real thing we did back then. 😆

[@Laurieohio]

I'm loving these videos with Kim. Hysterical!

[@aspiringauthorerinrail2890]

As a 90’s kid, this is so much nostalgia! 🤣 Yay millennials! 👍

[@KlipschHead281]

I remember when color TV came out, the first cordless phone you could sword fight with, the first 8 tracks and when the street light came on you got your ass home, great times. Thanks for this video, really brought back memories.

[@marylyn5965]

Back in the 80s, I remember in high school lining up for the cheap movie night. $2.50 Tuesdays. Also, what about catching the latest music on American Bandstand or Top of the Pops? And in Canada we also had a Friday Night Videos.

[@jeffallen1342]

You could do one with your parents generation (baby boomers) to yours. Doing laundry all day monday. Ironing the laundry all day Tuesday. No microwave ovens to reheat left overs. All food spoils in 4 days or less unless you can it. Tupperware. All meals are made from scratch so no box cakes, no Mac&Cheese, no TV dinners, but the food tasted better. Household appliances were big and noisy. But you could repair them instead of just getting a new one. Only middle class or contractors had any power tools. No one had battery powered tools. Ciggerette smoking indoors, in offices, in airports, airplanes, busses, indoor concerts, in your car with the windows up and your children in the back seat. The sunbeams cutting through a smoke filled room. Your pediatrician smokes while examining your child for asthma. You and your clothes just always reeked of smoke when you came home. The Cold war. Bomb drills. Fear of Sputnik. Dads cut the seatbelts out of their cars because they were uncomfortable. Kids rode on the back dash of the car while playing with the dead bugs. No child safty seats. Car headlights didn't illuminate the road much. They just let other people know you were coming. You had to be very very drunk to get a DUI. You got a flat tire about every 2000 miles that you drove. When a deisel semi truck accelerated, they left a cloud the size of a hot air balloon. Smog. Industrial pollution. Your neighborhood smelled different in bad ways depending on the direction of the wind. Could be sewage from the water treatment plant, the fuel refinery, a paper mill, a slaughter house, a coal power plant or another kind of factory. Scarey nuclear powerplants and the thought that they would explode like a bomb. Lead was in paint, in the air from leaded gas, tooth paste tubes, and children's toys. Your household flash light battery was always dead. And if the flashlight was working your current smart phone light is 10 times brighter than the old flashlights. A large metal filing cabinet was a common item in every home because, every document was on paper. All letters were written and mailed by USPS and took a week to be delivered. Pen pals you never met but corresponded with 3 times a year. You memorized +20 phone numbers, but only needed to memorize 7 numbers. Some places you only needed 4 numbers. You hated people with 9's and 0's in their phone number because of rotary phones. You couldn't "hear a pin drop" on a long distance call. You had to talk on a long distance call like you were calling in an air strike. Half of the effect of over the counter medicines was to get you high or drunk. There wasn't any allergy medication, effective mental illness medication, epipens, cancer treatment, lasik eye surgery. You just lived with it.

[@PatMcFadyenGrowingGradeByGrade]

I'd forgotten about some of these things! Time & Temp!!!

[@katysmith3379]

I used to call the time number all the time to be sure our clocks were correct. lol

[@bd5289]

I know EVERYTHING in this video! Thanks for the throwbacks!

[@stephiebella]

Kim - I made the same face although I had to go look at Amazon. Still lots available there but most of them say “last # order soon “. Walgreens overcharged you for sure. Love this video. I still have “radio tapes” where I would sit by the radio waiting to record songs. So many memories.

[@stevekrein6824]

I had many where I missed the first 5 seconds of a song!

[@HariSeldon913]

I think I still have cassettes stashed somewhere. What she missed (probably didn't have equipment to do it) was recording LP records to cassette so they could be played in the car. I've still got a turntable and a big box of records, but it isn't hooked up.

[@kathyfritz9962]

Calling Time and Temperature 🤣. Forgot about that.

[@justnerdystuff]

And then don't forget the "party-lines". We were on one until the late 60's

[@ekidd79]

Those few seconds of Believe it or Not from Greatest American Hero has unlocked memories from over 30 years ago of that blond fella repeatedly flying into a wall, because why would a guy read the manual for his superhero suit 😂

[@erika1995]

It’s so funny because they said blowing into the cartridges could damage the game, but we all did it still 😂

[@suzybear22]

We used a dampened cotton swab and ran it back and forth over the "teeth" in the cartridge. Got up a load of dirt and they worked great afterwards.

[@Grim_Sister]

Worse was trying to clean a laser disc with your dirty shirt

[@afriend9428]

@@Grim_Sister *Ewwww!!!!*

[@afriend9428]

@@suzybear22 *dip it in alcohol girl! your q-tips then rub the game!*

[@johannakenwood3359]

This video brought me back to my childhood! Bringing the camera to camp and once they were printed so many horrible shots or thumb in the shot. Ohhhhh when you're be waiting 4 hours to download 1 song and your mom picks up the phone and you have to start all over again!!

[@jsanns]

Omg… this is too accurate. I feel like a teen again. Also, be sure the VHS tape is rewound so you won’t be charged.

[@paigejacobsen8014]

The video store I went to as a kid had stickers on all the tapes that said, "Be Kind, Please Rewind."

[@afriend9428]

*rewinded*

[@loopeylag]

The disposable camera was $37!? Last week I helped clean out a hoarder's house, and I got rid of at least 100 unused disposable cameras. I could have made some money! 😥 In other news, I'm listening to your book for the second time in a week. I love it. I love the realness that comes through by hearing your voices, and getting to hear a bit of your personalities. ❤️ I appreciate your genuineness!

[@jennykinas3023]

I remember trying to record songs off the radio. That was great! And rewinding the cassette tape with a pencil. Do you remember the small VHS tape rewind machines they had back then , because you had to return the tapes to the rental place already rewound or they would charge a fee? Haha! Good times.

[@afriend9428]

*the blue BIC pen were like made or perfect to rewind cassette tapes!?!*

[@RyanOlsen]

Not sure what the robotic acting was about, but this was pure nostalgia. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

[@jobethk588]

As a baby boomer I remember these and so much more. Love your creativity!

[@AngieWade]

I’m 51 and I enjoyed this very much. So true!

[@golfnz34me]

You know you're old when you can answer the question, "When calling somebody, how many times do you let the phone ring before you hang up?"

[@sarahschreffler5407]

used to be 8. Became 3 when answering machines became a thing

[@thelawofficeofjbhilliard8666]

Oh man!! You brought up SOOOO many memories! I cracked up through this WHOLE video! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Theme song from Three's Company (was one of my favorite shows); calling Time & Temp (I did that just about every day!); hanging out at Blockbuster on a Friday nite...yep...what fun! And recording on our small tape recorder from the radio AND the TV - remember Soul Train & American Bandstand?! I remember recording a song from the radio one time and the DJ just had to make some comments before the end of the song. For MANY years after that, my brain automatically inserted that DJ's voice in that same spot every time I heard the song.

[@mariaskabardonis8353]

Ah dial up. I remember people in the house getting mad cause it blocked the phone lol.I miss blockbuster too

[@Ashes_to_Ashes628]

I remember my mom telling me to log off or get off the phone so she can check her aol emails.

[@stevekrein6824]

That's where we added the second line, which was essentially call waiting, so we could browse and talk at the same time. Heaven forbid someone picked up the phone while you were waiting to connect!

[@Ashes_to_Ashes628]

@@stevekrein6824 lol my family was too cheap for that. My grandparents didnt even get internet until I moved in to their house and I needed it for college in 2010.

[@kloughman100]

Love this…. My kids (older two) remember most of this but not all. They had more TV channels and remote control, but the internet and computer technology was just exploding when they were growing up. So fun!!

[@angelahagemeyer698]

I actually got nostalgic and wished for the quieter days after I watched this 😂

[@gempalm2003]

lmao true

[@RamblinRick_]

I'm 70 YO. I fondly rmember all of those. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@janiceflores8922]

Ok, I’m 61 and we got our first TV with a remote control when I was about 16….so that might have been a stretch for someone your age. 😆

[@stevekrein6824]

61 as well, and I remember our first cable box when I was about 14. It was essentially a push button box, numbered 2-30. Great thing was, it had a cord long enough to reach the sofa from across the room, so the box WAS the remote control, sort of. TV dial tuner set to channel 3. And if you pushed 2 buttons down together, halfway, you could watch HBO fuzzy and only half scrambled.

[@FMD70757]

I am 48 and I remember doing exactly what she did in the video.

[@scottfree641]

LMAO!!! "Greatest American Hero" playing in the back ground. I about fell out of my chair.............classic!