10 pains that kids nowadays would never get to experience

Last Updated on 2016-05-19 , 1:53 pm

With technology advances and different lifestyles, we bid goodbye to several things from our childhood days. What seems like the best during those days are now rarely seen, if not extinct.

And with different lifestyles come different problems. Here are 10 pains that we have gone through that kids nowadays would never get to experience.

Making ourselves wake up early to catch the Sunday morning cartoons

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Most of us from the 90s have done this, we forced ourselves to wake up and watch the cartoons or the children series every Sunday morning when our parents are still sleeping. Kids nowadays don’t do that anymore since they watch video streaming more than anything else.

Unable to make calls when you use the internet connection

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Dial up connection, we call it. Nobody make calls or receives them when they use the internet.

Not being able to read what you burned on the CDs

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Remember how we use to experiment with burning TV shows, music and stuff on CDs? Sometimes they miraculously work, but most of the time they don’t.

Everyone’s school project looked the same

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Yes, our school projects usually consist of carrying that big ass plastic cardboard around, a.k.a vanguard sheets. If it’s in soft-copy, everyone will be submitting that black floppy disk.

When downloading an episode of show or a game takes 39 years

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You get the gist.

Browsing through CD albums to find one song

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You will definitely remember the pain of digging through your CD collection to find the one CD with your favorite song in it.

Loose video cassettes

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The annoying moment when your video cassettes’ tape decide to escape, and you’ll have to use something pointy to rotate it back or get screamed at by your parents.

Walking to school when bus and trains weren’t so accessible

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You walk to school with your friends because the bus frequency is longer than recess.

When you can’t connect to MSN Messenger

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That horror. Life is over when you can’t get in MSN messenger.

Saving up for walkmans and MP3

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Saving up money to buy walkmans or MP3s unless our parents buy it for us. Having one is a great deal because Itunes or Spotify did not exist back then.