Downloading what you think is a song off a file sharing program only to find out that it’s a virus.
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman. But I did buy viagra or whatever this ad was always about.”
Porn*
Fixed
Ah that reminds me of the time every single file on my computer got replaced with a .vbs version of itself. Good times.
The Kazaa gamble.
Okay, something simple. Being annoyed that you forgot to rewind the video cassette the last time you watched a movie.
And the classic.
Why it’s called “Roll down the window”.
Privacy.
Ownership. (not quasi ownership like ‘buying’ a HP inkjet printer)
LILO
being a gleek
The original 4loko
Democracy
Rewinding a VHS tape.
As time goes on, more people are going to start wondering why a video has warping video and sound effects added to a sped up or reversed video.
I cannot reply to a previous comment, due to it not federating here, but the children of 2020s will literally be online from day one!
There are countless parents that are posting pictures of their newborns on social media, on Instagram or Facebook, straight to a server in California, so imagine that every single person whose parents are like oh, I don’t care about privacy, I got nothing to hide bro will have at least one photo there.
And it’s not only that. They’ll just never get to experience how life goes with no computer in sight, with no smartphones, not even cellphones at all. No computer, and more importantly, no internet, just cartoons on TV such as Life with Louie or Courage the Cowardly Dog or the Looney Tunes series. And even more importantly, no social media. None at all. Nothing to distract you from actually living.
I worked at a young familie’s home. By yound i mean she had her first kids pretty young i assume, she was around 40, and he oldest maybe 18. She probably had in total 6 kids in their houshold. There were a lot of pictures of her, her boyfriend and children in the house. It super reminded me of my best friends house when i grew up. They had a lot of children and a lot of fotos, most of them very formal and some hand painted, because that was a thing back then, most of them very nice and framed.
The weird thing i found about her houshold was, all oft the pictures there where heavy filtered. Not just beauty filters, also the dog filters and all that instagram stuff. Something about it was so odd. Some pictures even had instagram handles on it, even the youngest had her own Instagram and he couldn’t even write yet. Apparently it was really important to her to get them “good” handles as soon as possible. I dunno, i’m glad i don’t have social media and non of my family is into it as well.One of my friend/couple sent me a friend request for their newborn… Like, dude, I was willing to get a TDAP/LDAP booster so I wouldn’t kill your newborn, but I’m not going to friend them on Facebook/insta…
I would say that not only the children’s lives are documented on the internet (that was the case in 2010’) but also their parents.
e.g. pewdiepie had a child recently and basically his whole life is documented in a video form. All his highs and lows.
MapQuest printouts.
My previous answer to this question was about buying a phone instead of renting from the phone company. I realized that something today’s children may never experience is the government actually enforcing antitrust law, and in the bigger picture, the feeling of trust that the government is there to look out for us and will do the right thing.
(Yeah, that trust was sometimes misplaced, but it existed. We also used to believe that the violators of that trust would be held accountable.)
Livable planet :)
Careful, acknowledging reality makes you a “doomer.”
This, and playing Doom
I live in a country that spends half the year on fire, my doomerism is justified (and worsening with the constant lack of action on climate change).
Not being in constant contact with everyone you know, and not having a neverending stream of notifications assaulting you via your phone.
When you got to see relatives who lived far away, you talked about what had been going on in their life because you probably had no idea.
You read, listened to, or watched the news when you wanted to, unless someone you know told you sooner.
If you had to wait somewhere without a book or magazine, you just sat there with your thoughts. During childhood, you learned how to be bored and practice imagining things.
A single moment without radiowaves
FM/AM, TV, etc have all been around for LONG before the 2020s
The prompt didn’t specify it had to be something in my lifetime
Cosmic background radiation?
True, I was thinking man made
