Today's kids will never understand:

Pre-teens walking around the neighborhood before sunrise delivering already obsolete news on the worst quality paper imaginable for literal pocket change.

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don’t forget… we can drive those anti-theft cars, too (aka stick shifts) :cowboy_hat_face:

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Ummm… speak for yourself, there, buddy :cowboy_hat_face:

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Season 4 Jasper GIF by The Simpsons

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Playing in the sprinklers on a hot day
It just hit different

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Add a manual choke and that’d make it really theft proof!

(Or just drive some vehicle from a defunct brand named after a planet. There’s like next to no demand for them.)

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Exactly!

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I’m surprised playgrounds still exist today :disappointed:

tired episode 9 GIF

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The meaning behind any of the original ā€œTwilight Zoneā€ episodes…

Kick the can…
A Library…

:open_mouth:

Season 1 Rod Sterling GIF by Paramount+

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Mapquest was the original Apple Maps with pages of directions to print out.

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OMG…we used 2 spend hours playing this outside with all the neighborhood kids…great fun and memories!

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All of the above is the best answer but I chose playing outside it is just so different. A stick some dirt a great imagination and if you were lucky enough to live close (with in a mile or 2 of someone) to friends we could go all day and not go in the house. What fun we had. I feel sorry for the children of today and even worse for the ones of tomorrow.

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This is going to blow your mind but some of us readers of ancient text can read paper maps but almost none can fold them back up right hahaha

**I learned to read a map by getting lost a lot lol my personal trait. I used to be able to get lost in a paper bag in my bedroom

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:joy: being from the 90s has some benefits, but you definitely got me there. I love a map but they never got folded the same way twice.

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secretary GIF

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That’s what I call it now! The Dollar and a Quarter Tree! :slight_smile:

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Even the late 90s neighborhood kids in rollerblades with their cd players cranked up singing and dancing is too foreign for todays kids.

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All of the above!
I would also add: rotary phones (mess up a number? Hang up & try again!)
And pay phones (make sure you always have a quarter for an emergency!)

Phone Call Vintage GIF by US National Archives

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