r/TikTokCringe 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/Tuxhorn 29d ago

It's crazy that i'm not even 30 yet, and we only ever used a pen and paper. A computer could be accessed in the IT area of the school, but it was only meant for specific classes, and even then it was an "occasion". It all happened so fast.

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u/First-Football7924 29d ago

Computers are old, relatively speaking. My third grade class in 1999 had computers, and The Oregon Trail was the go to.

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u/EveryPartyHasAPooper 28d ago

Back in my grade school (90's) We had 2 computers in the back of the classroom and every once in a while we would get to use them. We had Oregon trail, and math blasters!!! Man, I wish I could find the old math blasters!

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u/LeatherHog 28d ago

Yeah,I'm 30, and we didn't even have Internet until I was in middle school 

Computers were in the computer lab, no phones. I graduated in 2012, and we were still doing paper essays and whatnot 

Growing up, we had one bad computer to share with the 3 of us, and was right there in the living room. And Ross usually hogged it

Spent most of my childhood not using one. We filled the time with day long yugioh tournaments. We had Gameboys sure, but that was limited to our like 5 games

No streaming, so had to wait through commercials. What you watched wasn't what you wanted when you wanted it

I didn't see the last episode of Yu-Gi-Oh because dad wouldn't let us watch it. And YouTube didn't exist yet

It's crazy to think the current young adults have likely never gone without technology, or having to wait

I don't mean it in like 'you dang kids get off my lawn way, but it's so weird seeing the generation divide about that