40+ Things Kids Born After 1999 Will Never Understand
Times were hard before 1999.
3. The painful decision of which text to delete because your phone memory ran out.
4. The crushing disappointment of getting a new phone and realising you’d lost your high score on Snake 2.
5. Learning how to compose a ringtone, and then doing it on all your friends’ phones too.
8. The amount of time you spent trying to get the perfect angle for a webcam selfie.
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10. But eventually having to log off MSN because your mum needed to use the home phone.
11. The pain of downloading a song on Limewire, only to find that it was a radio recording where the DJ spoke over the end of it.
13. Seeing yourself in someone’s Top 8, even though you only sat by each other in like, one lesson.
16. The race to cover your screen before Internet Explorer started working again.
17. The horror of accidentally connecting to the internet on your phone.
18. Having to cough on the hour, every hour, when your Baby-G went off in a lesson.
20. Getting told off for copying your friend’s homework when actually you’d both just copied Encarta.
22. Getting a video from the rental shop and finding out the person before you hadn’t rewound it.
25. Having to go through the Yellow Pages every time you needed someone’s number.
27. The absolute mystery of picking up the phone and not knowing who was calling.
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28. But not being able to walk around because your phone wasn’t cordless.
29. The awkwardness of calling your friend and having to make small talk with their dad before they passed you over.
30. And then hearing breathing down the phone line and knowing someone in one of your houses was listening.
33. Waiting ages to get your holiday photos printed, and then realising they were all too dark and blurry anyway.
34. Writing a letter in banana gel pen but then not being able to read it.
35. The absolute mindfuck of what Big Brother was back when reality TV wasn’t really a thing.
38. The excitement of using different search engines, like AskJeeves or ABC Search, even though they all gave you the same results, because why the hell not?
40. The devastation of bending one of these and seeing your future fortune disappear.
42. Having to delete files off one of these so you had room to save your homework.
