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re: How would kids today react if went back to 80 and there is no caller ID?
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:13 am to prplhze2000
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:13 am to prplhze2000
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How would kids today react if went back to 80 and there is no caller ID?
shite sheer fact they dont have text and would actually need to have a voice communication with someone would put half into anxiety ridden madness.
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 10:15 am
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Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:56 am to Dawgirl
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Correct. Kids today don’t realize how fun it was to actually go outside and play with friends
how fricking stupid and out of touch are you?
Go to any small town and/or suburbia on a day without school and there are kids outside all over
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:57 am to terriblegreen
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There aren't many kids from today that you could drop in 1980 and they'd be fine. They'd be a little lost without devices, social media and xbox.
Same as you'd drop an adult from 1960 into today's world
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:00 am to Dawgfanman
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get one of the 5-10 channels.
Get a load of moneybags over here
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:03 am to prplhze2000
Was it *69 that would give you the last number to call you? There was a code like that to do so.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:04 am to Midtiger farm
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how fricking stupid and out of touch are you?
Go to any small town and/or suburbia on a day without school and there are kids outside all over
they are way way out of touch. what you said is 100% true
its funny to other posters saying things like having to go play sports outside would be the biggest change
wtf? kids play more wiffle ball than ever and play more sports games than ever before.
sure there would be some adjustment but yall act like we didnt have nintendo in the 80s, it came out in 86 or that we didnt have TV or video stores.
Normal kids from today would be just fine. I dunno if the OT is just way out of touch or if I am living in a bubble when i see post like this.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:07 am to prplhze2000
Probably not too differently if we took the kids of 1980 and dropped them into 1935.
Y’all know 1980 is closing in on half a century ago, right?
Y’all know 1980 is closing in on half a century ago, right?
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:08 am to prplhze2000
And phone scammers had to pay long distance rates from Nigeria and Mayanmar, etc.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:10 am to real turf fan
They'd have withdrawals for a week then instantly become happier and more well adjusted.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:35 am to prplhze2000
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These kids who can't carry conversations and prefer texting to talking on phone
I'm 40 and 9 times out of 10 I prefer texting/email over a phone call.
Unless it's important, or you're 1 of like 5 people I actually care to talk to, it's a time waste. This is especially true at work.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:39 am to SpotCheckBilly
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Today's kids would have issues with dial phones, no internet, and manual transmissions
All my 15 year old wants to drive is a manual transmission. I recently bought him a 1992 Dodge w250 with a manual transmission. He loves it.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:39 am to prplhze2000
They would die. Soft.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:39 am to LegendInMyMind
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frick that. Just hand them a paper map or Rand McNally atlas of the states, sit back, and watch the show.
Always kept a U.S. map book in my car. Rarely consulted it, though, usually just drove by general sense of direction and where the sun was.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:49 am to lsu777
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Normal kids from today would be just fine. I dunno if the OT is just way out of touch or if I am living in a bubble when i see post like this.
Bunch of boomers or boomer wannabes
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:10 pm to prplhze2000
I do often wish phone technology stopped with flip phones. Our quality of life would be way better.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:27 pm to SpotCheckBilly
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We had cable by 1980, but it was cable with maybe 12-15 stations
They had cable in South Lafourche by the 1970’s through Callais Cable.
13 channels, they had a large antenna so they could pull New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette stations. I remember seeing the line up in my mom’s South Lafourche yearbook on 1970 or 1969. This was before HBO and TBS.
Gradually they added more stations in the 1980s. MTV was channel 36, CNN 11, etc. I don’t remember what channel HBO was on, but I remember the scrambled days of watching scrambled channels for the occasional topless scene.
By the 1990’s they needed even more channels and went up to 60 and scramble premium channels were gone for digital cable.
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:28 pm to Tr33fiddy
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I do often wish phone technology stopped with flip phones. Our quality of life would be way better.
how? please explain
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:33 pm to Dawgfanman
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Subtle brag
VHF
2/5/8/11
UHF
17/30/46/69
Heck, when we got our first TV there was only one channel: WDSU. WWL came along a few years later.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:44 pm to Tr33fiddy
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I do often wish phone technology stopped with flip phones. Our quality of life would be way better.
Disagree. While there will always be negatives to improved technology, it's made our lives (both personal and professional) exponentially more efficient.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:50 pm to SpotCheckBilly
My kids would notice the severe lack of bounce houses.
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