Apparently If You Did Any Of These 40 Things Growing Up You Are Officially Old

Posted on Oct 19, 2021

1.

Watched TV on an ancient device like this…

2.

Had to physically remove your car’s stereo to stop it from getting stolen…

3.

Ate ice cream out of a toilet paper roll…

4.

Almost caused a 15-car pileup trying to find the perfect CD…

5.

Had to set the TV to channel 3 just to watch movies…

6.

Drove a car that needed TWO keys just to unlock the doors and then get it running…

7.

Still have a mouth full of scars from these…

8.

Lived this nightmare…

9.

Remember exactly where this exact piece of paper used to be in your house…

10.

Burned the heck out of your arm on one of these on a hot summer day…

11.

Bought a soda on an ancient machine like this…

12.

Waited days for your pictures to develop only to find out they were all of your thumb…

Today’s kids will never know what if was like to take ton of pictures and have to wait a week to find out they were useless

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14.

Ever SLAMMED a phone down to end an argument…

15.

Played N64 on a greasy controller in a McDonald’s…

16.

Watched YouTube back when it looked like this…

17.

Spent way too long staring at this exact screen…

18.

Ever used a search engine not named “Google”…

19.

Spent hours waiting for a song to download…

20.

Used this medieval contraption…


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21.

Printed out directions only to get immediately lost…

22.

Had to use manual labor to rewind a cassette…

23.

Used these exact computer speakers…

24.

Ate at Wendy’s back when the packaging was yellow…

25.

Took batteries from every single thing in your house to just get 20 more minutes of Game Boy time…

26.

Listened to music using this thing…

28.

Experienced this disappointment…

29.

Had a room specifically for a computer…

30.

Took the ball out of your mouse and tried to bounce it…

32.

Spent 10 minutes typing a text through T9…


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33.

Stalked the radio waiting for the perfect time to record like a GD caveman…

34.

Spent way too long as a kid trying to get these right…

35.

Spent way too long fidgeting with this thing…

36.

Can HEAR this image…

37.

Carefully unfolded the lyric book from a cassette so you could learn the words…

38.

Took a million pictures that looked exactly like this…

39.

Watched one movie on two VHS tapes…

40.

And ever sustained minor injuries in a scenario like this…

CONGRATS! You’re officially old.

Don’t worry, I am too.

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