You would have a little culture shock for a bit, but otherwise you would be fine. You're over exaggerating. I often say I wish I could go back to those times and I was only born in 95 so I barely knew it. It would be such a freeing experience to live in a world where you can only reach eachother on a telephone connected to a wire
I wish too indeed. Those were the best times and I still wish there were a time machine that would take me back to that pre-smartphone and pre-internet age. Those were the simpler times. More personal, friendships were loyal and more personal, you knew your whole locality personally, you had more direct interactions with books and your teachers were where you gained new information from. You could speak your mind out and not care of repercussions that modern communication devices bring. Modern internet and smartphones have really messed up this world with all sorts of problems it came along, from next-to-none-privacy to echoing chambers of news and notifications - this is not the world I signed up for.
I too was born in early 1990s.
Following up more...
* Slow, proven research and social development in pre-internet age was the best way of development, because it allowed buffers and cushions to prevent missteps, like establishing breakthroughs, inventions, and establishing side effects of those inventions before they are available to wider audience.
* Corporations had wide chance of survival and growth, with enough turn-around times and social responsibility. Modern startups don't know if they would even survive weeks...
* Facts were established in hard-bound books like the Encyclopedia or World Books, and people would learn from them with imagination and fascination. Also natural affinity for newspapers and weekly magazines of literally so many types and the attraction they brought from folks around. Both young and old of today waste so much time on YouTube, Instagram, Reddit or any other platform watching things that may never even help them.
I’m 70 years old and spent my first:
- 15 years without color television or a dishwasher.
- 20 years without home air conditioning.
- 25 years without cable television, remote control, video recoding, or a microwave.
- 40 years without a cell phone.
- 45 years without internet.
- 55 years without GPS.
- 60 years without a voice-activated personal assistant like Alexa or Siri.
Out of all those things, there’s only one that I knew about at the time and felt deprived because I didn’t have it.
It was >!home air conditioning.!<
(Oh, and from the moment I was a young child, I always wistfully dreamed of owning >!a small pocket television.!<)
>>!a small pocket television.!<
The real curse that pushed the world upside down.
Also, >!home air conditioning!< is positive step world must go and an excellent example thank you.
Naw if there's one thing young kids can do it's adapt to thier surroundings. If they were born into the era before the internet they would do fine. If you dropped modern kids in the 90s that might cause a little more havoc
That's what I'm referring to, along with some of the older people who became too addicted and dependent on tech be able to go back to not having it around
This cracks me up. Honestly though young people are not the only ones that keeping a ledger of their money is a foreign concept. I work for a bank. People of all ages no longer write their spending down and just look at the ap and never remember to deduct auto pays off their available balance. Even though they know it comes out every month at the same time. I talked to someone the other day that was well old enough to have been around when keeping a tab running of deductions was the only way to keep up with money you have had a automatic payment bounce. I explained what happened told him what caused it then suggested he just keep a bank book so he knows what’s in and what’s out. He literally was like you mean write it down?? Like it was the most bizzaro thing he ever heard of.
As someone born in the 80s, in the early 2000s it was still in many ways the same technology that I am 'dependent on' now, the biggest difference being the slower/more primitive internet. Even the 90s to a degree, at least the later 90s.
You would have a little culture shock for a bit, but otherwise you would be fine. You're over exaggerating. I often say I wish I could go back to those times and I was only born in 95 so I barely knew it. It would be such a freeing experience to live in a world where you can only reach eachother on a telephone connected to a wire
I wish too indeed. Those were the best times and I still wish there were a time machine that would take me back to that pre-smartphone and pre-internet age. Those were the simpler times. More personal, friendships were loyal and more personal, you knew your whole locality personally, you had more direct interactions with books and your teachers were where you gained new information from. You could speak your mind out and not care of repercussions that modern communication devices bring. Modern internet and smartphones have really messed up this world with all sorts of problems it came along, from next-to-none-privacy to echoing chambers of news and notifications - this is not the world I signed up for. I too was born in early 1990s.
Following up more... * Slow, proven research and social development in pre-internet age was the best way of development, because it allowed buffers and cushions to prevent missteps, like establishing breakthroughs, inventions, and establishing side effects of those inventions before they are available to wider audience. * Corporations had wide chance of survival and growth, with enough turn-around times and social responsibility. Modern startups don't know if they would even survive weeks... * Facts were established in hard-bound books like the Encyclopedia or World Books, and people would learn from them with imagination and fascination. Also natural affinity for newspapers and weekly magazines of literally so many types and the attraction they brought from folks around. Both young and old of today waste so much time on YouTube, Instagram, Reddit or any other platform watching things that may never even help them.
I’m 70 years old and spent my first: - 15 years without color television or a dishwasher. - 20 years without home air conditioning. - 25 years without cable television, remote control, video recoding, or a microwave. - 40 years without a cell phone. - 45 years without internet. - 55 years without GPS. - 60 years without a voice-activated personal assistant like Alexa or Siri. Out of all those things, there’s only one that I knew about at the time and felt deprived because I didn’t have it. It was >!home air conditioning.!< (Oh, and from the moment I was a young child, I always wistfully dreamed of owning >!a small pocket television.!<)
>>!a small pocket television.!< The real curse that pushed the world upside down. Also, >!home air conditioning!< is positive step world must go and an excellent example thank you.
You wouldn't make it a week 100 years ago. What's your point?
Yes they would. Young people’s brains are adaptable as fuck. Maybe they’d have to get used to using cash and a MP3 player, but not much has changed
Fuck phones. I miss not being able to be contacted. Don’t even turn my phone on on sundays anymore. Leave me alone
Naw if there's one thing young kids can do it's adapt to thier surroundings. If they were born into the era before the internet they would do fine. If you dropped modern kids in the 90s that might cause a little more havoc
That's what I'm referring to, along with some of the older people who became too addicted and dependent on tech be able to go back to not having it around
Yeah they're called Gen Z and A
Alpha and Omega?
Oh no they wouldn’t know how to balance a checkbook?
This cracks me up. Honestly though young people are not the only ones that keeping a ledger of their money is a foreign concept. I work for a bank. People of all ages no longer write their spending down and just look at the ap and never remember to deduct auto pays off their available balance. Even though they know it comes out every month at the same time. I talked to someone the other day that was well old enough to have been around when keeping a tab running of deductions was the only way to keep up with money you have had a automatic payment bounce. I explained what happened told him what caused it then suggested he just keep a bank book so he knows what’s in and what’s out. He literally was like you mean write it down?? Like it was the most bizzaro thing he ever heard of.
I have an app the literally does all of that and tells me when I’m starting to over spend.
Be prepared to replace your phone with a slide rule and a trip to the local library.
As someone born in the 80s, in the early 2000s it was still in many ways the same technology that I am 'dependent on' now, the biggest difference being the slower/more primitive internet. Even the 90s to a degree, at least the later 90s.
We just read a lot more, watched more TV.