Name Some Things My Kids will Never Know, like the sound of a Dial-Up Modem?

Question

I'm working on a new post for my blog at www.therogueparent.com/blog/ about the things that our kids will never know or understand. Things like

- having to rewind a song on a tape

- not being able to fast forward, pause or rewind TV

- the wonderful sound of a modem

Can you help me out and give me a few other things that our kids will never know?

Answer 1

the sound of a land line phone ringing.

answering machine

record player

Answer 2

-cheap gas prices

-wholesome role models  for kids (you can't even look to most athletes now b/c everybody wants to be a media/celebrity w***e with ongoing scandals

and certainly not Disney "stars"

-true rock 'n roll in general

-wonderful '80s/early '90s cartoons

-just enjoy being a kid (not today's kids with complications like stylish clothing, tween marketing, computers, cell phones, video games, play dates etc.)

Answer 3

Not worrying about always having change for a pay phone

Answer 4

the clicking of a rotary phone

having to get up to turn channels on the tv

using a payphone

being able to stay out till dusk by yourself without worry of "stranger danger"

using the dewey decimal system instead of google or yahoo search

Answer 5

blk and white tv.

Answer 6

Adjusting 'rabbit ears' on a black and white TV.....Many kids nowadays do not even know what a CLOTHESPIN is.!! A PONG game. Playing cards on bicycle wheel spokes to sound like a motorcycle. Playing cowboys and Indians in the dirt. 'Howdy Doody'..

Answer 7

not being able to celebrate the millenium  sp?

Answer 8

-Booting a computer using a floppy disk

-The crackling sound of a record on a record player

-8-track tapes

-reel-to-reel tape player

-A camera that uses 35mm film

-Looking up a business in a phone book

-Doing research for a paper using encyclopedias.

-5 1/4" floppy disks

I could keep going...

Answer 9

Changing film in a camera

using a command-line interface for their computer

The sound of a manual or electric typewritter

Using a portable AM/FM radio

Answer 10

Not having a remote for the television or for the garage door to open.  

Actually getting out of the chair and walking up to the television to change it.  Actually getting out of the car to open the garage.

Not having the chargeable television.  Always having to answer the telephone by the one on the wall and standing there.

They wouldn't know what an 8 track tape was.

Always having to cook your food on the stove, no microwave.

Having to have a clothes line to hang up clothes.

Answer 11

What real life is like. What it is like to create your own entertainment and to play outdoors from morning to sunset. To play hide and go seek, cops and robbers, tag, to catch fireflies, to go fishing. Now they have computers and video games to entertain them. Kids are tied down and held captive by the virtual world

oh yes being able to call directly without pressing 1 for this and 2 for that only to be taken to a new menu.

Answer 12

having to put 50p coins into the TV to make it work, then have the telly man come round every so often to empty (i used to get watery eyes looking at all those 50p coins....)

paying with cash and cheques

millions & millions...caring about others, staying like a child until you are a teenager...it makes my heart yearn for the past...sob

Answer 13

There used to be a Betamax vs VHS war. ;)

8-track tapes.

Answer 14

Affordable gas prices, lol

Walkmans

Research done in a library, instead of the internet

Probably pretty soon, regular cd's and dvd's.

Answer 15

Dialtone

B&W TV & antennas

Electric Tubes (for TV & radio)

Dial telephone

When Michael Jackson was Black

An ice box

Defrosting an ice box

Tire chains

Air Raid Drills

Decoration Day

Answer 16

Pluto used to be a planet.

The horrifying sound of a VCR eating your rented VHS movie.

A world without people walking around with their pants halfway down, underwear showing.

1 cent candy.

How to live without some form of music plugged into their ears.

Answer 17

to have to get up to change the channel on the tv

Answer 18

How about the sound "CAR" from the kids playing road hockey.  Most kids I know would rather play videogames.