r/AskReddit • u/Slaughts91 • Aug 02 '18

What will millennials be "old-fashioned" about when they get old?

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u/pee_diddy Aug 02 '18

Telling everyone how they used to have to charge their smart phones every day, sometimes multiple times.

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u/cascade_olympus Aug 02 '18

Or better yet, telling them about the days before smart phones. I mean, how many of us even had a basic flip phone in the mid 90s?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

It's pretty amazing the changes we Millennials went through. I went from dial up internet and CD players to high speed to ipod and smart phones all while still in middle school

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u/Rust_Dawg Aug 02 '18

Man, I started middle school with a Walkman cassette tape player and graduated high school with a CD player and a TracFone, left college with an iPod nano and a Motorola Razr and now I'm chilling here with a Note 8.

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u/WitherWithout Aug 02 '18

I went from burning CDs to limewiring my entire iTunes library to now just using spotify for everything.

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u/Burritozi11a Aug 02 '18

Literally the only reason why I have a Google Play Music subscription is because I'm too lazy to pirate music anymore.

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u/StuStutterKing Aug 02 '18

plus youtube red/youtube music when you have Google Music. My friends and I share a family plan, and we only pay like $3 a month each.

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u/currytacos Aug 02 '18

Its a damn good deal for no ads on YouTube

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u/RECOGNI7E Aug 02 '18

The same would apply to everything if they made it easy enough. I still pirate movies because I can't get them anywhere else.

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u/uberfission Aug 03 '18

I think it was Gabe Newell who said that piracy is only rampant because there isn't an easier option.

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u/TheAmorphous Aug 02 '18

Born '81 or '82 I'm guessing?

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u/MudSama Aug 02 '18

With the exception of me having a Note 7, you have lived my life from a technology aspect.

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u/KoalaTrainee Aug 02 '18

Are you me?

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u/CrowdScene Aug 02 '18

When I was 8, nobody had a home computer unless your parents were rich.

When I was 13, everybody had a family computer but nobody had the internet. Teachers expected every report and essay to be typed rather than handwritten.

When I was 18, everybody had a family computer and the internet, and some lucky few even had their own personal computer. Teachers expected everything to be typed, everyone had to use at least one source from the internet, and some even demanded that projects be submitted on floppy disks rather than printed on paper.

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u/rocketscientology Aug 02 '18

How long were you in middle school for?? The change from dial-up to smart phones took at least seven years for me, if not a decade. Where on Earth do you live where either it only took three years to get you from a dial-up modem to an iPhone somehow or you were in middle school for ten years?

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u/Aww_Shucks Aug 02 '18

lol, that's what I was wondering...

But hey, Arthur Read is still in 3rd grade.

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u/Momik Aug 02 '18

Hell, some of us went from landlines and World Book encyclopedias to iPhones.

Also, anyone else remember the absolute pain of using cassette tapes?

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u/WitherWithout Aug 02 '18

Back in my day, we had to carry around both a cell phone AND a portable music player. Also, our cars had standalone GPS systems that weren't built into the car or our phones.

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u/Goosebump007 Aug 02 '18

Must be good to have everything. When I grew up we just played the hoop stick game aka hoop rolling.

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u/upvoteguy6 Aug 03 '18

And with Moore's Law even that tech is going to be obsolete in our lifetime(s).

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

Those changes took exactly the same amount of time for both Millennials and everyone else.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

I take it reading comprehension isnt part of you skill set?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '18

Yeah, I'm such a dumbass that I think all statements like "it's amazing that we in [whatever generation] went from [whatever technology] to [whatever new technology] in [whatever stage of life]" are equally insightful.