@talantorriero asked people on TikTok, “What’s one thing millennials did back in the day that today’s generation would think was crazy?!”
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As a millennial (I know, shocking,) here are the ones I found especially relatable in the replies:
1.
“Getting asked and asking A/S/L.”
2.
“Calling the radio station to request a song in order to hear it.”
3.
“Asking a gas station worker directions somewhere.”
4.
“Literally calling 411 to ‘look up’ stuff.”
5.
“Used to check out cinema listings in the newspaper.”
6.
“Using Photobucket to store photos.”
7.
“Use a phone on our kitchen wall with no privacy.”
8.
“Recording a TV show with our VCR!”
9.
“Take MacBook photo booth pics with the filters and the rollercoaster backgrounds etc. before going out for the night.”
10.
“Hang out at a mall.”
11.
“Wait 3 hours to download one song on limewire just to find out it’s a clip of crazy frog.”
12.
“Waiting for your fav song to come on the radio to record it on your boom box.”
13.
“Slamming a phone when hanging up.”
15.
“Jean skirts and uggs lol.”
16.
“Calling our parents jobs when we needed them, and asking another coworker if they were there.”
17.
“Pay for ring back tones.”
18.
“Rushing home to watch TRL.”
19.
“Hitting a number key on a flip phone 3 times to get the letter you wanted to type in a text.”
20.
“Tanning as a teenager literally every day after school, with a lil stick[er] on your hip to show the progress.”
21.
“Call[ing] people after nine and talk on the phone the whole night.”
22.
“TV guide channel and spacing out, forgetting to look at a certain channel, and having to rewatch it.”
23.
“Carrying a digital camera around our wrist to the bar.”
24.
“Having to wait for a certain day and time to watch your favorite show and its one episode per week. No binge-watching or anything.”
25.
“Accidentally opening the browser on your cell phone.”
26.
“Going to blockbuster and renting a movie/video game.”
27.
“Wearing business casual to the club.”
28.
“Leave the house without a phone.”
29.
“We had to just sit and wait for our parents to pick us up, and hope they didn’t forget us.”
30.
“Memorize your friends’ phone numbers …. their HOUSE phone.”
31.
“Having to call a friend’s house and talk to their parents first. It was awful.”
32.
“Print off mapquest to know where to drive.”
33.
Posting 40 pictures to Facebook from a single night out.”
34.
“Waiting for your school to scroll across the bottom of the TV to see if you had a snow day or not.”
35.
“Spend hours coding and creating the perfect MySpace profile.”
36.
“Recording 20 seconds of a song for your voicemail.”
37.
“Ranking our friends publicly LOL aka MySpace top 8.”
38.
And lastly, “Made our own ankle socks by rolling over crew socks.”
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