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Currently finishing up the last of my thank you cards from the holiday season. (I'm so behind this year!) I doubt thank you cards will be mailed in about ten years.

Currently finishing up the last of my thank you cards from the holiday season. (I'm so behind this year!) I doubt thank you cards will be mailed in about ten years.

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[–] InnocentBystander 12 points (+12|-0)

Free-range children. The idea of young children being tossed outside in the morning to run wild in the wilderness, and possibly not seen again until dusk, is already becoming hard to believe.

[–] Boukert 6 points (+6|-0)

Luckily this is still very much the norm in the Netherlands. Riding your bike to school age 10-16 is considered normal for all schoolchildren (we dont even have schoolbusses)

[–] E-werd 3 points (+3|-0)

To be fair, most of your population probably lives within a couple miles of a school anyway and that makes sense. Here in the US a child might live 10-20 miles away from their school which makes busing a must.

[–] Boukert 0 points (+0|-0)

Yeah that;s true, about 90% of kids live within 30 min cycling distance, one of the benefits of living in such a dense populated country. Besides that benefit the "free-range mentality" is very much a cornerstone of growing up here though. Go play with a friend - take your bike, go play your sport (sports are not arranged by schools but their own associations) - take your bike, want to go into the citycentre (mall) - take your bike.

[–] simone [OP] 5 points (+5|-0)

Great answer! Now free range kids get child services called on them.

[–] smallpond 2 points (+2|-0)

Somehow I managed to miss your response before writing mine - clearly I relate.

[–] [Deleted] 9 points (+9|-0)

Choosing between a phone call and the internet. Now it comes in one device!

[–] simone [OP] 6 points (+6|-0)

There's more technology in your cell phone then they had on early space missions. I think I read that on the internet once so it must be true.

[–] TheRedArmy 9 points (+9|-0)

Browsing the "free tour" portion of porn sites because I had dial-up and could not load vids fast, not to mention free vid sites like Pornhub and the like were not a thing yet.

[–] E-werd 4 points (+4|-0)

I entirely forgot about that. That was also the time where videos weren't really feasible, so you were looking for image galleries.

I remember a site, I think it still exists, it was drbizzaro.com. It was curated by someone and it was basically direct links to free tour pages. Quality varied, but you usually got a half dozen pictures or so.

[–] simone [OP] 4 points (+4|-0)

This answer is perfect!

Reminds me of the blurred adult channels and thinking you might of saw something in those blurs.

[–] TheRedArmy 4 points (+4|-0)

Like on cable, where you would flip it to Cinemax at night (which should be called Skinemax at that time), and the picture was like this, and you were trying to catch the sight of what was going on so you could jack off to it.

Those were the days.

To this day I become aroused when I see a blurry screen.
A Pavlovian response, I guess.

[–] pembo210 8 points (+8|-0)

Not knowing who was on the phone until they started talking

[–] simone [OP] 5 points (+5|-0)

Will you answer your cell phone if you don't know the number?

[–] pembo210 5 points (+5|-0)

nope, not anymore.. My number was public a few years ago with work, so now I get sales/spam calls everyday trying to sell me something or scam me as a fake debt collector. Everyone that knows me, knows to text first if they calling from an unknown number or just email me.

[–] simone [OP] 5 points (+5|-0)

I remember when texts cost extra and really having to want to send a text...plus it was T9, the patience involved!

[–] Owlchemy 8 points (+8|-0)

Holy crap ... I was a kid in the 50s/60s ... hundreds of things many here wouldn't know now - LOL

[–] simone [OP] 8 points (+8|-0)

Give examples old fox!

[–] Owlchemy 6 points (+6|-0)

Cars with cranks and crank windows.

Drive-In theaters

Home movie projectors

Mimeograph machines

Car tires with inner tubes

The rabbit died

[–] KFCNyanCat 2 points (+2|-0)

Cars with cranks and crank windows.

I was born in 2001 and I remember these (and my dad's truck isn't older than me)

[–] [Deleted] 8 points (+8|-0)

I was spanked. Watched MTV for the music videos. Recorded music off the radio.

[–] simone [OP] 5 points (+5|-0)

I was spanked only a couple of times but those times are engraved in my memory bank.

[–] [Deleted] 7 points (+7|-0)

doing anything outside >_> no kids know what kick the can is anymore and the only reason they know capture the flag is from video games

[–] E-werd 2 points (+2|-0)

I almost forgot about proper CTF. We didn't play it a lot, but we did play it.

[–] simone [OP] 7 points (+7|-0)

Must See Tv. Use to rush home from evening activities to catch the new episode of whatever hit show was on.

[–] Justintoxicated 6 points (+6|-0)

Anti-commercialist art.

Kids don't want to create art/music/video as a rejection of society or as simple anti-social "fuck you" they want to be "accepted" and "encouraged". They want their works to be adopted by commercial culture. Also the idea of just creating something raw and unpolished for the sake of it befuddles kids who have the digital tools necessary to polish and homogenize everyone's voice.

Irreverent Social interaction. You can't just go up to your friends now and be like "hey faggot" or any other slur you want, you can't challenge your 6th grade best friend to grab some chick's ass at recess, kids can't go around egging houses or leaving burning bags of dog shit on porches and ringing the bell.

[–] E-werd 3 points (+3|-0)

The whole counterculture thing has changed because of what mass media became. We still have those people, but now they have derogatory labels and exist as fringe communities on the internet that get rather large. I feel like the closest thing we have now is hipsters, the punk/goth/emo types don't exist near as much as they used to.

It was a lot easier to be isolated when you were actually socially isolated.

[–] Boukert 5 points (+5|-0)

People who "bought playboy for the interviews!"

[–] simone [OP] 5 points (+5|-0)

Hey now, Playboy published some of the great minds before anyone else. I read the articles! I miss the advisor.

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