Dial up internet was when your computer connected through your house phone. So when you were connected you couldn't use your house phone. It also made a certain noise while connecting, that we all remember. And it was so slow connecting
🧡 I think for my kids' sake, I would like to go back to how things used to be. As kids, we may have struggled with some things, but it gave us patience, persistence, and a feeling of accomplishment to overcome those things. We learned how to be self-sufficient, yet we shared more directly with our social circles, too (online friends are great, but not the same). We had a sense of independence, but also community and comraderie that just isn't as common anymore. So, for my kids, I'd happily go back to that. But... since I already went through that, for myself, I'd rather have things easier and more convenient like they are now.
The Dewey Decimal is a numerical system for classifying nonfiction library books into categories: 000 - Computer Science, Information, & General Works 100 - Philosophy & Psychology 200 - Religion 300 - Social Sciences 400 - Language 500 - Science 600 - Technology 700 - Arts & Recreation 800 - Literature 900 - History & Geography Each main subject in the hundreds is divided into smaller subtopics in the "tens" and "ones" - even into the tenths and hundredths decimal places.
He doesn't understand how to use it though, like can you explain a card catalog and a physical search to someone who has always done all research online?
Dewey decimal made simple. Book on shelf has a tag with numbers and letters. The shelf has numbers and letters on them. Go to index card drawer find book title on a card. Card has numbers and letters. Go to shelves and and books and match the numbers and letters. Simple.
If we called someone with a different area code it cost extra and very expensive. 411: for information *69: call the number that called YOU last. I related to all this. The music was fire. I miss that the most.
6:39 😂😂😂 we would connect to the internet through the home phone . So if you were online and someone picked up the home phone to make a call, you were booted offline. It was through the home phone lines
It was h-e-double hockey sticks! My Grandparents couldn't walk fast so they had 10 extensions... and one computer and one modem. Each use I had to literally put bags over all the extentions to remind them not to pick up until they checked if I was still on the computer, which of course it was still just loading 20 minutes in 😂😂😂
The Dewey Decimal System is a way to put books in order by subject. It is often used in public libraries and schools in the United States and other countries. It places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999. Hope this helps you to understand 😊
Technically we didn't have printed directions until later 80s I believe. We used real road maps. They are still available get on and check those out 😂😂😂😂😂
We rewond the VCR tape. If we didn't, a staff member at the video store, where you rent movies, would have to do it, so, it was ready to be played at the beginning of the movie for the next customer. I think the workers spent too much time rewinding tapes, as a service for the next customer . So, you were fined if you did not do it.
Okay phone history.Alexander Gram Bell spilled something.He called out for his assistant Watson who heard him over the phone.That grew into really big centers but instead of Google and computers it was human operators pulling out plugs and switching them to connect the calls.That grew into the modern phone system
Dewey Decimal was the numbers on library books, there was a cabinet with drawers in it, that contained cards with the name of the books and the corresponding number. Dial up was Internet that worked through a land line phone system.
@johnw8578 let's be honest, most of us didn't bother, we had the ones who would just go to the section (fiction, non fiction, whatever) and just look the shelves until they found what they wanted, the ones that would actually look it up in the catalog, and then there were the ones who drove the librarian nuts asking "where is this book" every time, to get them to look it up for you
Back then you could almost support a family, buy a house, and car on close to minimum wage. I know, because I made about 800.00 per month and had a home, car, insurance and groceries on a little more than minimum wage. I worked for my dad and he was a cheap skate and paid me beans. I was even able to save money. I remember my Chevy nova took 11.00 to fill up in around 1986.
In 1986 if you made $800 per month you made well above minimum wage. Minimum wage was $3.35 per hour, a total of $536. Per month. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make?
@ That’s what I made was 800.00 per month in 1987 but I did make 3.33 at some point too and always had money. The point was that the cost of living was small and one could survive on substantially small wages compared to now. Now you can in no way survive on 20.00 per hour. That was my point was that inflation has destroyed the power of our dollar. What was your point?
@@noself7889 In 1986 the average house price was $111,900. with an interest rates of around 10 percent. In 1986 I don’t think a person making minimum wage would be able to afford a house.
@ I did, I owned a two story log cabin on 800.00 a month in 1987. My cabin was $80,000.00 . Maybe not quite as low as minimum wage but close enough . Now p!$$ off!
Dial up internet is how we went online before wifi. It used the telephone (we only had landlines) to access the internet. The modem plugged into the landline phone wire. Physical networks of wires connected phone lines around the world. Phone companies used switchboards, with human operators first literally unplugging and re-plugging wires on a board to connect calls within the network. By our time, human operators pressed buttons to connect the calls within the network, and most routine telephone traffic (not long-distance-outside of your area code-or international calls, or collect calls) were beginning to be routed automatically. You couldn't use the internet and the phone at the same time, and it took forever. Uploading or downloading music files could take hours, and if someone in your family picked up the phone or an extension, it could break your dial-up connection, and you would have to start all over. Gen X learned patience by force, lol.
Rotary phone you have to spin the dial with your finger for every single number. So depending who you were calling that could be up to 10 numbers/spins for 1 call. 411 was who you called to get help finding a number if you didn't have it.
You meant you had DVD not CD's😂 It wasn't a struggle at all, it was just life and living the same as now🧡 We definitely wouldn't be watching you for entertainment, it would have been the Benny Hill show, or Hee Haw or some other variety show... We can definitely switch through more channels now🧡 Thanks again ✌️🍂💞
Things may be easier now, but they’re also much more stressful, stifling, alienating, jaded, solitary, complicated, frustrating, divisive, burdensome, neurotic, hi paced.. I could go on. But you get the idea. It shouldn’t be a surprised to anyone when sociologists talk about unprecedented mental illness in the younger generations. We are now rearing whole generations of kids to be completely blazé, lonely, bored out of their minds w/the status quo because everything is preset for them. There is no sense of wondrous discovery for themselves and figuring things out w/trial and error as Gen Xers did. Their creative, resourceful skills are highly underused, if at all. That’s just so sad. Not knowing what the freedom of childhood is. 😢 My heart goes out to them.😢
This! 100%. I would add that many younger ones today think and communicate in bits and bites through a screen. Holding an extended conversation with someone is a challenge, unless they happen to discover they both like playing XYZ game or something. A professor friend of mine was saying a decade ago that his freshman college students couldn't write a basic paper. It wasn't about grammar or spelling. They had to be taught what a paragraph was, how long it was, etc. From there they then had to be taught how to connect the paragraphs so that they flowed from the opening to the conclusion. Of course this isn't the case for all of them, but many don't have what we would consider common courtesies. Eye contact, checking behind to see if someone is close as you open a door, and then holding it for them. Situational awareness. It's become a lot easier (for all of us with screens) to go around in a kind of inwardly-focused bubble.
The shops that rented out vhs cassettes (movies) had their own machine made for rapidly rewinding the movies when they were returned. Before that they had to use regular vhs players (VCRs) to rewind the movies and it took much longer. A normal 2 hour movie with 15-30 mins of previews took about 3-5mins to rewind in some VCRs. The rewinding machine did it in less han half the time.
Some things were better back then. With the yellow pages you looked for a type of business, and every business of that type (that paid to be in the yellow book) was listed there. Then, write down the address, and go there, or, dial the phone number. With internet searches, you get what that search engine gives you, and it's almost never all the choices. Some things are easier/better, and some things are worse.
People used to have and some still do have a home phone. The line going into the telephone would be unplugged and plugged into the back of your computer where you would click to connect and the computer would dial a specific number and you would hear a bunch of noises which was telling you it was attempting to connect you to the internet and when your homepage finally appeared you were connected usually at less than 1 Mbps, because before DSL, Cable and fiber optic internet we measured our speed in kilobytes not megabytes. To be fair the majority of the internet websites were tailored for that speed and as technology produced faster internet the websites made their sites for higher bandwidth speeds, which for those in rural communities became a pain because most accept those in the cities kept taking longer and longer for a page to load much less watching a 60 minute video on a website that was so low quality you could barely make out the faces and would frequently stop because it would have to buffer.
Good video, I enjoy your reactions and thoughts. Thank you. So...It wasn't hard for us, it was new and interesting. Cordless phones freed us from the wall and even from the house (as far as the back yard), VHS freed us from the cable networks, dial-up internet (sort of like your modem is the phone company...your computer dials a number and you wait to get connected) freed us from...well, it sort of imprisoned us, so scratch that one. It's like ear pods free you from wires, but Gen C will wonder how you ever managed to get by without implants (you mean you had to physically put them into your ear?).
When the internet goes down, we will be a good ally to have. I miss those days, they were great. It wasn't a struggle, it's just how things were. I would go back in a heartbeat.
The Dewey decimal system for youngans... It was our Google. You want a specific book or genre? You go to a long cabinet full of 3 to 4 inch drawers. Each drawer would have a grouping of letters on it. Ie. A - alm... You would find the drawer with the name of your book in it and look through hundreds of indext cards till you found your title. On the card would be a number or number leter combo that you would then use to find were in the library your book is. Each book isle had numbers on the ends and every book was catalogued and placed useing the Dewey decimal system. It was our search engine except we were the engine.
Lol gen x-er and #flexor. Back in my childhood, I felt both more connected to others and more lonely. You knew everyone and of you didn't know them, you still had a common background you could start a friendship from... or since there were less than ten channels for most of us, chances were good we had a show to talk about. Our classes were all teaching the same stuff... music was on the radio and if you weren't allowed to listen to a genre, you had a source at school who would make you a mix tape (thank you, Hawkins!!! For my first taste of INXS). I will never forget the day a bunch of kids broke out in dance randomly n the hall at my high school. Also, I still have my childhood diary that specifically states who my siblings and I were gonna have a Rock War with the next day. And no, that is not referring to music. We were literally throwing rocks at kids from down the block. And yes, they had been our friends the week before and were again, two weeks later.
For dial up internet you had a phone line that ran to your telephones and you would have that same kind of line running to your computer you would essentially use a phone line which was a wire connection in order to dial up your internet essentially you would use your phone number to get your internet and it would make a really loud beep
Nice reaction...glad u found you. So we all had land line home phones..we would get our internet through the mail. Then to get " online" went bu using the home phone line. And you could not do both..either online or phone calls...and we absolutely had to watch what we said and who we called what, and if there was issues we would fight then most times make a new friend. Keep up the good work little brother
Ok... The best way to explabin the Dewey Decimal system, is.... You go to your library during study hall, you locate the large quantities of boxes that look like your grandma's recipe holders on legs. They are filed alphabetically. So let's say you are doing a paper on Darwin's Theory of Evolution. You would look up either Darwin, or evolution. There will be numbers that correspond to each of those searches that are labeled on the ends of every isle of books. More specific numbers, matching the card from the file in your hand are taped onto the spine of each book. You take the number that you've chosen from the card file and find the book by matching those numbers.
Generations are like ebb and flow. Your offspring will be daredevils who can hand write, socialize in person and are able to enjoy a Tom Jones video without clutching their pearls.
Also, Dewey Decimal system: basically a database on paper. books are categorized into genres. Each genre is given a series of number, like, all the 100s are science. Then within science, there are sub categories, like maybe 110 is the number for psychology and 190 is the number for Biology. And then under that you would have 190.1 which maybe is genetics. And then 190.15 is maybe a book on the Pea theory... and then it maybe gets to 190.15 Buch which is a book on genetic pea theory in the history of biology by Adolf Buchanan. What sucked was fiction wasn't included.
I think she's just a different personality type. I can relate to her. Definitely Gen X though. We're the ones who didn't do the really dangerous stuff, but we still watched the ones who did.
Come on!!! You've been doing these videos long enough to know what dial up internet was.... Rather than wifi, we had dial-up. Like the name suggests, dial-up went through the phone lines. It made weird noises before connecting, and once we were connected we could be disconnected SO easily by anyone else in our home who decided that they needed to use the phone. I am elder Gen X... Gonna turn 60 in less than 2 months. I remember coming home from college with my 386 computer, and getting kicked off the internet because my mom wanted to call her brother. And it took SO long to get connected!!!
Dial up internet was when your computer connected through your house phone. So when you were connected you couldn't use your house phone. It also made a certain noise while connecting, that we all remember. And it was so slow connecting
And it was also a little cheaper to use it after 6 PM and on weekends.
Oh honey. I would use up all my comment space to explain this. All you need to know is we did it so you don't have to. Therefore, we win. Love, GenX
X❤
We didn't want to, we made due with what we had on hand at the time.
I'm a Gen X and I remember seeing the internet for the first time!!!
🧡 I think for my kids' sake, I would like to go back to how things used to be. As kids, we may have struggled with some things, but it gave us patience, persistence, and a feeling of accomplishment to overcome those things. We learned how to be self-sufficient, yet we shared more directly with our social circles, too (online friends are great, but not the same). We had a sense of independence, but also community and comraderie that just isn't as common anymore. So, for my kids, I'd happily go back to that. But... since I already went through that, for myself, I'd rather have things easier and more convenient like they are now.
The Dewey Decimal is a numerical system for classifying nonfiction library books into categories:
000 - Computer Science, Information, & General Works
100 - Philosophy & Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Sciences
400 - Language
500 - Science
600 - Technology
700 - Arts & Recreation
800 - Literature
900 - History & Geography
Each main subject in the hundreds is divided into smaller subtopics in the "tens" and "ones" - even into the tenths and hundredths decimal places.
I hope you realize that this is WAY too much information...
Nerd
Yup. Then add letters at the end to get to the exact book you're looking for.
@milissasilks2174: Yes, I'm a nerd, and I have the scars to prove it.🤓
He doesn't understand how to use it though, like can you explain a card catalog and a physical search to someone who has always done all research online?
Dewey decimal made simple. Book on shelf has a tag with numbers and letters. The shelf has numbers and letters on them. Go to index card drawer find book title on a card. Card has numbers and letters. Go to shelves and and books and match the numbers and letters. Simple.
All the stuff genx kids say we did we actually did.... im 55 an born in 69,
Ditto😊
Another '69-er here! ✋🏼
If we called someone with a different area code it cost extra and very expensive.
411: for information
*69: call the number that called YOU last.
I related to all this. The music was fire. I miss that the most.
6:39 😂😂😂 we would connect to the internet through the home phone . So if you were online and someone picked up the home phone to make a call, you were booted offline. It was through the home phone lines
It was h-e-double hockey sticks! My Grandparents couldn't walk fast so they had 10 extensions... and one computer and one modem. Each use I had to literally put bags over all the extentions to remind them not to pick up until they checked if I was still on the computer, which of course it was still just loading 20 minutes in 😂😂😂
The Dewey Decimal System is a way to put books in order by subject. It is often used in public libraries and schools in the United States and other countries. It places the books on the shelf by subject using numbers from 000 to 999. Hope this helps you to understand 😊
I liked using the Road Atlas that was sold at Walmart because it also showed you where each Walmart was located at.
Wow
at the time, warmart had no superstores...it was basically the size and function of walgreens now.
Technically we didn't have printed directions until later 80s I believe. We used real road maps. They are still available get on and check those out 😂😂😂😂😂
We rewond the VCR tape. If we didn't, a staff member at the video store, where you rent movies, would have to do it, so, it was ready to be played at the beginning of the movie for the next customer.
I think the workers spent too much time rewinding tapes, as a service for the next customer . So, you were fined if you did not do it.
Okay phone history.Alexander Gram Bell spilled something.He called out for his assistant Watson who heard him over the phone.That grew into really big centers but instead of Google and computers it was human operators pulling out plugs and switching them to connect the calls.That grew into the modern phone system
The Dewey Decimal System was a nightmare.
Dewey Decimal was the numbers on library books, there was a cabinet with drawers in it, that contained cards with the name of the books and the corresponding number.
Dial up was Internet that worked through a land line phone system.
But if you knew Dewey well enough, you could go right to the section you wanted.
@johnw8578 let's be honest, most of us didn't bother, we had the ones who would just go to the section (fiction, non fiction, whatever) and just look the shelves until they found what they wanted, the ones that would actually look it up in the catalog, and then there were the ones who drove the librarian nuts asking "where is this book" every time, to get them to look it up for you
@@melissawood1506 Lol -- I worked in the library in junior high, so I new it pretty well.
Oh yes when students could still do that, I worked in our library in high school 😂
🧡Blockbuster video
If you didn't rewind the charge would be on your account when you rent the next time.
Back then you could almost support a family, buy a house, and car on close to minimum wage. I know, because I made about 800.00 per month and had a home, car, insurance and groceries on a little more than minimum wage. I worked for my dad and he was a cheap skate and paid me beans. I was even able to save money. I remember my Chevy nova took 11.00 to fill up in around 1986.
In 1986 if you made $800 per month you made well above minimum wage. Minimum wage was $3.35 per hour, a total of $536. Per month. I don’t understand the point you are trying to make?
@ That’s what I made was 800.00 per month in 1987 but I did make 3.33 at some point too and always had money. The point was that the cost of living was small and one could survive on substantially small wages compared to now. Now you can in no way survive on 20.00 per hour. That was my point was that inflation has destroyed the power of our dollar. What was your point?
@@noself7889 In 1986 the average house price was $111,900. with an interest rates of around 10 percent. In 1986 I don’t think a person making minimum wage would be able to afford a house.
@ I did, I owned a two story log cabin on 800.00 a month in 1987. My cabin was $80,000.00 . Maybe not quite as low as minimum wage but close enough . Now p!$$ off!
@ wow you come across as insecure 😂
Dial up internet is how we went online before wifi. It used the telephone (we only had landlines) to access the internet. The modem plugged into the landline phone wire. Physical networks of wires connected phone lines around the world. Phone companies used switchboards, with human operators first literally unplugging and re-plugging wires on a board to connect calls within the network. By our time, human operators pressed buttons to connect the calls within the network, and most routine telephone traffic (not long-distance-outside of your area code-or international calls, or collect calls) were beginning to be routed automatically. You couldn't use the internet and the phone at the same time, and it took forever. Uploading or downloading music files could take hours, and if someone in your family picked up the phone or an extension, it could break your dial-up connection, and you would have to start all over. Gen X learned patience by force, lol.
Rotary phone you have to spin the dial with your finger for every single number. So depending who you were calling that could be up to 10 numbers/spins for 1 call.
411 was who you called to get help finding a number if you didn't have it.
You meant you had DVD not CD's😂
It wasn't a struggle at all, it was just life and living the same as now🧡
We definitely wouldn't be watching you for entertainment, it would have been the Benny Hill show, or Hee Haw or some other variety show... We can definitely switch through more channels now🧡
Thanks again
✌️🍂💞
😂😂😂 Benny Hill!!! With my Nana ❤
Speaking of, how great would it be to see him reacting to Hee Haw??
@@allibrown8960 let's hope, although he can never in this lifetime watch and hear as much things we experienced, it's fun watching the journey✌️🍂💞
I'm thinking a Modern History class should be required for graduation.
Watch the movie "You've Got Mail".
Seriously?
Things may be easier now, but they’re also much more stressful, stifling, alienating, jaded, solitary, complicated, frustrating, divisive, burdensome, neurotic, hi paced.. I could go on. But you get the idea. It shouldn’t be a surprised to anyone when sociologists talk about unprecedented mental illness in the younger generations. We are now rearing whole generations of kids to be completely blazé, lonely, bored out of their minds w/the status quo because everything is preset for them. There is no sense of wondrous discovery for themselves and figuring things out w/trial and error as Gen Xers did. Their creative, resourceful skills are highly underused, if at all.
That’s just so sad. Not knowing what the freedom of childhood is. 😢
My heart goes out to them.😢
This! 100%.
I would add that many younger ones today think and communicate in bits and bites through a screen. Holding an extended conversation with someone is a challenge, unless they happen to discover they both like playing XYZ game or something.
A professor friend of mine was saying a decade ago that his freshman college students couldn't write a basic paper. It wasn't about grammar or spelling. They had to be taught what a paragraph was, how long it was, etc. From there they then had to be taught how to connect the paragraphs so that they flowed from the opening to the conclusion.
Of course this isn't the case for all of them, but many don't have what we would consider common courtesies. Eye contact, checking behind to see if someone is close as you open a door, and then holding it for them. Situational awareness. It's become a lot easier (for all of us with screens) to go around in a kind of inwardly-focused bubble.
Google what does dial up internet sound like.
lol
The shops that rented out vhs cassettes (movies) had their own machine made for rapidly rewinding the movies when they were returned. Before that they had to use regular vhs players (VCRs) to rewind the movies and it took much longer. A normal 2 hour movie with 15-30 mins of previews took about 3-5mins to rewind in some VCRs. The rewinding machine did it in less han half the time.
Yes, and rewinding the tapes was hard on your VCR and shortened its lifespan.
Some things were better back then. With the yellow pages you looked for a type of business, and every business of that type (that paid to be in the yellow book) was listed there. Then, write down the address, and go there, or, dial the phone number.
With internet searches, you get what that search engine gives you, and it's almost never all the choices.
Some things are easier/better, and some things are worse.
People used to have and some still do have a home phone. The line going into the telephone would be unplugged and plugged into the back of your computer where you would click to connect and the computer would dial a specific number and you would hear a bunch of noises which was telling you it was attempting to connect you to the internet and when your homepage finally appeared you were connected usually at less than 1 Mbps, because before DSL, Cable and fiber optic internet we measured our speed in kilobytes not megabytes. To be fair the majority of the internet websites were tailored for that speed and as technology produced faster internet the websites made their sites for higher bandwidth speeds, which for those in rural communities became a pain because most accept those in the cities kept taking longer and longer for a page to load much less watching a 60 minute video on a website that was so low quality you could barely make out the faces and would frequently stop because it would have to buffer.
Good video, I enjoy your reactions and thoughts. Thank you.
So...It wasn't hard for us, it was new and interesting. Cordless phones freed us from the wall and even from the house (as far as the back yard), VHS freed us from the cable networks, dial-up internet (sort of like your modem is the phone company...your computer dials a number and you wait to get connected) freed us from...well, it sort of imprisoned us, so scratch that one.
It's like ear pods free you from wires, but Gen C will wonder how you ever managed to get by without implants (you mean you had to physically put them into your ear?).
When the internet goes down, we will be a good ally to have.
I miss those days, they were great. It wasn't a struggle, it's just how things were. I would go back in a heartbeat.
Printing out directions? Please. . . . how about unfolding a map in the car while looking for a roadsign?
The Dewey decimal system for youngans...
It was our Google.
You want a specific book or genre? You go to a long cabinet full of 3 to 4 inch drawers. Each drawer would have a grouping of letters on it. Ie. A - alm...
You would find the drawer with the name of your book in it and look through hundreds of indext cards till you found your title. On the card would be a number or number leter combo that you would then use to find were in the library your book is. Each book isle had numbers on the ends and every book was catalogued and placed useing the Dewey decimal system. It was our search engine except we were the engine.
In my mind... Gen Z is just the digital version of Gen X and I am here for it!
Right? I was trying to explain Gen Z to my War Baby / Boomer parent the other day and I said just that, they're like Gen X but with technology!
Lol gen x-er and #flexor. Back in my childhood, I felt both more connected to others and more lonely. You knew everyone and of you didn't know them, you still had a common background you could start a friendship from... or since there were less than ten channels for most of us, chances were good we had a show to talk about. Our classes were all teaching the same stuff... music was on the radio and if you weren't allowed to listen to a genre, you had a source at school who would make you a mix tape (thank you, Hawkins!!! For my first taste of INXS). I will never forget the day a bunch of kids broke out in dance randomly n the hall at my high school. Also, I still have my childhood diary that specifically states who my siblings and I were gonna have a Rock War with the next day. And no, that is not referring to music. We were literally throwing rocks at kids from down the block. And yes, they had been our friends the week before and were again, two weeks later.
For dial up internet you had a phone line that ran to your telephones and you would have that same kind of line running to your computer you would essentially use a phone line which was a wire connection in order to dial up your internet essentially you would use your phone number to get your internet and it would make a really loud beep
Nice reaction...glad u found you. So we all had land line home phones..we would get our internet through the mail. Then to get " online" went bu using the home phone line. And you could not do both..either online or phone calls...and we absolutely had to watch what we said and who we called what, and if there was issues we would fight then most times make a new friend. Keep up the good work little brother
The fining for not rewinding the tapes were if they were hired from a video store. As it would take time for the store staff to rewind them all.
Ok... The best way to explabin the Dewey Decimal system, is.... You go to your library during study hall, you locate the large quantities of boxes that look like your grandma's recipe holders on legs. They are filed alphabetically. So let's say you are doing a paper on Darwin's Theory of Evolution. You would look up either Darwin, or evolution. There will be numbers that correspond to each of those searches that are labeled on the ends of every isle of books. More specific numbers, matching the card from the file in your hand are taped onto the spine of each book. You take the number that you've chosen from the card file and find the book by matching those numbers.
😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀fingerprint thingys😂😂😂😂
Generations are like ebb and flow. Your offspring will be daredevils who can hand write, socialize in person and are able to enjoy a Tom Jones video without clutching their pearls.
I would prefer to go back BUT I want my current video game system and video games.
For some reason with dial up I don’t remember having internet troubles with slow speeds and disconnects like I do now.
Also, Dewey Decimal system: basically a database on paper. books are categorized into genres. Each genre is given a series of number, like, all the 100s are science. Then within science, there are sub categories, like maybe 110 is the number for psychology and 190 is the number for Biology. And then under that you would have 190.1 which maybe is genetics. And then 190.15 is maybe a book on the Pea theory... and then it maybe gets to 190.15 Buch which is a book on genetic pea theory in the history of biology by Adolf Buchanan. What sucked was fiction wasn't included.
Basically, the computer had to be hooked up via telephone cord to get the internet and it made this horrible screeching sound! Haahaa
Omg someone send him a pc with dsl or aol
that song nearly touched my heart. but i'm gen x, and we don't give an f
He is way more genx than wifey is 🤣
I think she's just a different personality type. I can relate to her. Definitely Gen X though. We're the ones who didn't do the really dangerous stuff, but we still watched the ones who did.
@ perhaps.thankfully it does take all of us to make the world go round
This is funny.
The internet was by landline phone line = internet dial up
My sister and I would crimp our hair
Come on!!! You've been doing these videos long enough to know what dial up internet was....
Rather than wifi, we had dial-up. Like the name suggests, dial-up went through the phone lines.
It made weird noises before connecting, and once we were connected we could be disconnected SO easily by anyone else in our home who decided that they needed to use the phone. I am elder Gen X... Gonna turn 60 in less than 2 months. I remember coming home from college with my 386 computer, and getting kicked off the internet because my mom wanted to call her brother.
And it took SO long to get connected!!!
Why do you even bother with songs? you pause it every 15 seconds, then go back 5, This Gen X'er finds it tiresome beyond belief.