16 things only people of a certain age will have experienced

Now we’re not saying that kids these days have it easy but there are certain things that they’ll never have to go through that people of a certain age had to endure when they were young.

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2. Having to look up a phone number in a book then use a pay phone to call the person.

 

3. Queuing for hours to see a film at the cinema as you couldn’t prebook tickets.

 

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5. Only having 4 TV channels.

 

6. Having to arrange to meet someone at a specific time and place and not being able to contact them if the plans changed and they’d already left home.

 

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8. Running out of room on your floppy disc.

 

9. Being disconnected from the internet when someone picked up the phone.

 

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11. Arguing for hours about a fact because you couldn’t settle the argument by googling the answer.

 

12. Not being allowed to use the phone until after 6pm as it was cheaper then.

 

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14. Having to look up information using an encyclopaedia.

 

15. Finding out how to get somewhere using a paper map.

 

16. A parent interrupting your phone conversation by picking up the extension in another room.