I don’t know, as a millennial I always heard people that I don’t know cassette tapes or vinyls or slide projectors when I was a kid. I was in fact familiar with all of those since this old stuff doesn’t just disappear and was still used around me in some capacity.
I always heard people that I don’t know cassette tapes or vinyls or slide projectors when I was a kid.
Cassettes?
Sorry… Cassettes!?
There’s someone out there who is attempting to insult millennials by saying we’re too young for cassettes?
What the heck else would we be listening to music on, Brenda? We didn’t have discmans, sure they existed but we had kid money, and it wasn’t worth it until anti-skip came along in 1997, by which point at 10-15 we already had a cassette collection… so we had walkmans!
2 billion blank cassettes were sold in 1997, 2 billion the year before… those born in 1996 didn’t get born into a world where the 2 billion cassettes sold that year magically disappeared before the kid was old enough to form memories.
Cassettes were the best, though CD-R changed the game for custom mix “tapes”, I never went back to actual mix tapes after we got the tech to burn cds. Mix tapes were still going around all year levels in my first year of highschool, but it was mostly mix CDs going around when I graduated, and the rich kids were already just swapping usbs. By uni, we’d send each other mediafire links to a zip file full of mp3s.
I can still kind of imagine the sensation of sticking my pinkie finger in a cassettes to rewind when I couldn’t find a pen. Though weirdly, I can’t remember how I used to rewind VHS’s, I can’t picture that feeling. I’m guessing I probably used the rewind feature for video more often, and was find hand rewinding my music.
I think the older generations are forgetting how the passage of time works. Also, just how many of us millennials grew up poor with Gen X hand me downs 😂
fun fact people born after 1996 are Gen Z
Exactly, so the idea that millennials the generation older than Gen Z are “too young for cassettes” is laughable.
People born in 1995, and early 1996 are millennials, and billions of cassettes existed around them as they grew up.
I was born in 2001 and I still used casettes when I was a kid
I see your slide projector and raise you an overhead projector.
I see your overhead projector and raise you a zip drive and a mini disc. I blow my NES cartridge to bid adieu to you.
I bet a zip drive could blow their minds. The mini disc and nes cartridge wouldn’t even phase them. Stuff like that are too iconic.
I bet a zip drive could blow their minds.
Show the Blue Yeti streaming generation the old boom mics we had. The ones that looked like refueling probes.
It’s crazy how ubiquitous those were. Anyone with a mic for their PC had that exact mic.
They are still considered essential in German schools.
Germany still uses faxes, it’s not surprising at all.
Tho tbf they’re common in Italy too even in the better universities
Gen Z is a lot older than you think, early gen Z were around when fax machines were still common. Gen alpha maybe though.
You’re not gonna believe this but early gen alpha were around when fax machines were still common.
Gen beta will probably still see faxes being used by public administration
Ive never personally used or seen a pager in person but I’ve watched enough videos on old technology to know what a pager is. Also I have fond memories watching VHS tapes, using a CRT monitor, and I personally still use DVDs on my Thinkpad T440p.
I’ll have you know we’ve watched the 90s sitcoms
nope, I heard about it before in:
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school
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steins:gate
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and from richard stallman himself
+ I kinda knew what they were from idk where
but regarding gen alpha, you’re probably right
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Born just on the cusp of Gen z, so I’m debatably a zoomer. But weren’t pagers a big thing in hospitals for a long time? I certainly saw them while watching scrubs as a kid.
“Man, this removed be blowing up my beeper!” Has a whole new meaning now. Doesn’t it?
Not true, I heard they’re blowing up.
I think those are the “recent events” OP is referring to
Gen z here. I was not around in the 80’s or 90’s, but everything people describe as being from the 90’s and some stuff from the 80’s was just my life in the mid 2000’s. I definitely know what pagers are. Like hell, we had a stack of floppy discs at home and my first computer had a floppy disc reader. I used to play duck hunt on my dad’s nes and super Mario Land on my own Gameboy. That stuff doesn’t just disappear at the turn of the decade.
floppy disc reader
ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that
Everyone knows they are called flippy flops. Gosh
Pagers are still widely used in the medical field, especially, for surgeons.
Alpha, maybe, but zoomers definitely not.
Gen Z, probably would know. Although most of them probably don’t know what a floppy disk is
I drew a floppy disk as part of an online game of Pictionary and the youngest member of the team thought it was a Playstation 4.
Although he also tried to spell tarantula with a Q in it, so maybe there’s something else going on there.
Floppy disks are too iconic, even if as Save-buttons. Now try them not knowing early ones were actually floppy!
I’m talking about myself, my 1997 ass had only heard of, and saw pictures of, the hard ones
