As a millennial born in 87, we still had analogue TV's, payphones, cell phones didn't exist for the common middle class family until I was in High School, hell I was taught cursive in school. It's not millennials that need to "learn about from the 'good 'ol days'', it's the Gen Zers who dont know crap. I grew up with a rotary phone, phone book, paper maps etc. This is a little offensive lol.
Im a millennial and I can do half this shit. Pssh, please. I delivered pizza for almost a decade without a GPS btw, i only had a paper map. Rotary phones aren't hard to figure out, nor payphones, nor typewriters. Also, I learned cursive as a kid and its still in learning aids. Bonus i can drive a 3 on the tree- none of this makes me special. Old folks need their kids help with newer tech, so whats the difference?
Yeah... TV's have crystal clear pictures but also 50% advertisements. In the 1980s you could watch a movie without disruptions by ads. At least in Europe.
Those TV stations were (and still are) usually publicly owned and funded partly or wholly by taxes. Commercial stations get revenue from either voluntary subscriptions or ads. It is an expensive business.
Well, the Ads came from doing a similar thing on radio, in the US & were nearly always an ingrained aspect of television. People used to pay radio hosts to work ads into their broadcasts, somewhat similar to how UA-camrs do sponsorships today. They were ironically a bit squeemish about the television method, because they felt it would turn people off & annoy them, but when it started working, more & more companies got involved. The only station that ever chose not to interrupt their broadcasts with ads was PBS, which is a largely nonprofit corporation that focuses mostly on educational content & high arts & gets a good chunk of their money from donations, but they still put several ads in between shows.
Yeah but you were limited to whatever Is on, there’s a variety of ways to watch whatever you want without an advertisement today, the thing I notice is there’s so much media options now days that it devalues what you watch , play , listen to or consume. Media and stimulation overload, not complaining just noticing.
@@Chrisrobba Yes you can watch movies witout ads, but you have to pay for it. And it is true that most TV stations in the 80's were financed by some sort of taxes. So we paid for that too. But some stations overdo it today. I mean when watching a two hour movie takes three hours because of the ads...
@@PlaywithJunk you don’t necessarily have to pay… well you’re supposed to but lots of options was my point. You’re right though I am add fatigued but it’s mainly due to excessive youtube adds which are the most annoying, I occasionally watch twitch and adds on there are more excessive than youtube. Tv station commercials I’m used to and don’t mind except when I was watching the walking dead it seemed like there was a commercial every 5 minutes it was ridiculous. You know what’s funny though? If I find recorded programs from the 70s 80s 90s and the commercials are included I actually look forward and enjoy them 😂
I grew up in the '60's and '70's I remember cursive writing and every kid had small bump on their finger from holding the pen. I think this improved your spelling.
My youngest is now 27 and out of 4 kids is the only one that never learned cursive. I really wished it hadn't been taken out of the school system he was in.
Cursive was made for the quill pen, and the fountain pen, which are both obsolete. I graduated high school in 1977 and most of my class mates had seen but not used a fountain pen. Most had never seen a quill pen! ' Cursive is virtually impossible for a scanner to handle as anything other than a single image. Essentially a photo. there is no OCR that can do anything with it.
I'm pretty sure cursive died because Gen X absolutely refused to use it for anything at all, including their signatures. I don't know anyone under 55 who remembers how to write it, or signs credit card purchases with anything other than a unique scribble.
Which is Orwellian, to make this current generation and their posterior _unable_to read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights & US Constitution for themselves 😮
There were no debit cards when there were payphones. You couldn't swipe a credit card either. Who was going to do the thing with the carbon copy and slide the imprint thing across. You couldn't even tell if the credit card was valid, you could use a completely invalid card and nobody would notice, until a week later or so. It was 100% honour system, with a threat of prison being the only incentive to use it legitimately. The most feeble-minded criminal could do hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraud, easy. And get away with it, 100%.
Most of those skills are no longer needed, anyway. What skill was it to call on a dial phone? Show it to someone young once and they will know. Now 13 skills the Baby Boomers don't have that kids today do. I'm waiting.
@@nooneshome8746 yes, but when I say most, it means not all, so no except is needed. Who is partly responsible is the food industry, literally bringing food on a silver plate to people so they don't even need to cook. Back in the old days it was a necessity.
This is just emotional hogwash. Most of this stuff still exists just in an updated format. Kids still have the basic skill, the usage has evolved. Many of this was also ridiculously inaccessible to most people. Modern technology has opened it up to everyone. Cooking still happens but costs time and money which most don't have. Letters are still written but through email or messenger so you can have closer contact to distant friends and family. Checkbooks are still done except instead of on paper which get's lost it's in excel which is saved and easily shared for error checking. Worst in this though is typewriters. Those things are the main cause of woman having clawed fingers in their old age, it literally destroyed their hands. Not men's hands but women's hands because it was considered women's work. It was fast paced and murder on the knuckles and joints. Don't romanticize the past, see it for what it was. A starting point upon which people have tried to improve on. Sometimes successfully sometimes unsuccessfully.
As a millennial born in 87, we still had analogue TV's, payphones, cell phones didn't exist for the common middle class family until I was in High School, hell I was taught cursive in school. It's not millennials that need to "learn about from the 'good 'ol days'', it's the Gen Zers who dont know crap. I grew up with a rotary phone, phone book, paper maps etc. This is a little offensive lol.
Im a millennial and I can do half this shit. Pssh, please. I delivered pizza for almost a decade without a GPS btw, i only had a paper map. Rotary phones aren't hard to figure out, nor payphones, nor typewriters. Also, I learned cursive as a kid and its still in learning aids. Bonus i can drive a 3 on the tree- none of this makes me special. Old folks need their kids help with newer tech, so whats the difference?
I had a typewriter class in high school, 1970.
Literacy being one of them!
Yeah... TV's have crystal clear pictures but also 50% advertisements. In the 1980s you could watch a movie without disruptions by ads. At least in Europe.
Those TV stations were (and still are) usually publicly owned and funded partly or wholly by taxes. Commercial stations get revenue from either voluntary subscriptions or ads. It is an expensive business.
Well, the Ads came from doing a similar thing on radio, in the US & were nearly always an ingrained aspect of television. People used to pay radio hosts to work ads into their broadcasts, somewhat similar to how UA-camrs do sponsorships today. They were ironically a bit squeemish about the television method, because they felt it would turn people off & annoy them, but when it started working, more & more companies got involved. The only station that ever chose not to interrupt their broadcasts with ads was PBS, which is a largely nonprofit corporation that focuses mostly on educational content & high arts & gets a good chunk of their money from donations, but they still put several ads in between shows.
Yeah but you were limited to whatever Is on, there’s a variety of ways to watch whatever you want without an advertisement today, the thing I notice is there’s so much media options now days that it devalues what you watch , play , listen to or consume. Media and stimulation overload, not complaining just noticing.
@@Chrisrobba Yes you can watch movies witout ads, but you have to pay for it.
And it is true that most TV stations in the 80's were financed by some sort of taxes. So we paid for that too.
But some stations overdo it today. I mean when watching a two hour movie takes three hours because of the ads...
@@PlaywithJunk you don’t necessarily have to pay… well you’re supposed to but lots of options was my point. You’re right though I am add fatigued but it’s mainly due to excessive youtube adds which are the most annoying, I occasionally watch twitch and adds on there are more excessive than youtube. Tv station commercials I’m used to and don’t mind except when I was watching the walking dead it seemed like there was a commercial every 5 minutes it was ridiculous. You know what’s funny though? If I find recorded programs from the 70s 80s 90s and the commercials are included I actually look forward and enjoy them 😂
True but I have to help all my boomer family members do stuff like connect their printer to Wi-Fi.
That is not a life skill!
@@ericjones8176 basic technological prowess is absolutely a life skill in the 21st century.
New York didn't get rid of the last payphone until 2022? Because my city had to have gotten rid of all of ours shortly after 2000.
Couldn't fill out an envelope to mail a bill from a company they worked for. Didn't know how to do that - unbelievable!!
I grew up in the '60's and '70's I remember cursive writing and every kid had small bump on their finger from holding the pen.
I think this improved your spelling.
My youngest is now 27 and out of 4 kids is the only one that never learned cursive. I really wished it hadn't been taken out of the school system he was in.
Cursive was made for the quill pen, and the fountain pen, which are both obsolete. I graduated high school in 1977 and most of my class mates had seen but not used a fountain pen. Most had never seen a quill pen!
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Cursive is virtually impossible for a scanner to handle as anything other than a single image. Essentially a photo. there is no OCR that can do anything with it.
I'm pretty sure cursive died because Gen X absolutely refused to use it for anything at all, including their signatures. I don't know anyone under 55 who remembers how to write it, or signs credit card purchases with anything other than a unique scribble.
Which is Orwellian, to make this current generation and their posterior _unable_to read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights & US Constitution for themselves 😮
Pfff, most of these so called skills not even needed in post-apocalyptic age...
There were no debit cards when there were payphones. You couldn't swipe a credit card either. Who was going to do the thing with the carbon copy and slide the imprint thing across. You couldn't even tell if the credit card was valid, you could use a completely invalid card and nobody would notice, until a week later or so. It was 100% honour system, with a threat of prison being the only incentive to use it legitimately. The most feeble-minded criminal could do hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraud, easy. And get away with it, 100%.
Most of those skills are no longer needed, anyway. What skill was it to call on a dial phone? Show it to someone young once and they will know. Now 13 skills the Baby Boomers don't have that kids today do. I'm waiting.
Except for cooking
@@nooneshome8746 yes, but when I say most, it means not all, so no except is needed. Who is partly responsible is the food industry, literally bringing food on a silver plate to people so they don't even need to cook. Back in the old days it was a necessity.
This is just emotional hogwash. Most of this stuff still exists just in an updated format. Kids still have the basic skill, the usage has evolved. Many of this was also ridiculously inaccessible to most people. Modern technology has opened it up to everyone.
Cooking still happens but costs time and money which most don't have.
Letters are still written but through email or messenger so you can have closer contact to distant friends and family.
Checkbooks are still done except instead of on paper which get's lost it's in excel which is saved and easily shared for error checking.
Worst in this though is typewriters. Those things are the main cause of woman having clawed fingers in their old age, it literally destroyed their hands. Not men's hands but women's hands because it was considered women's work. It was fast paced and murder on the knuckles and joints.
Don't romanticize the past, see it for what it was. A starting point upon which people have tried to improve on. Sometimes successfully sometimes unsuccessfully.
butt wipers, butt wipers .