22 photos that people born subsequently 1999 won't understand

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Before iPods and iPhones, music lovers listened to a Walkman.
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  • People who were built-in in 1999 will plow 21 this year.
  • The 2000s have been full of technological advancements. Almost all of the tech we used in the '90s is completely obsolete today.
  • From Furbys to floppy disks, kids born in the 2000s just don't get it.
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Kids who will turn 21 this twelvemonth were born in 1999 (allow that sink in for a second). Engineering has changed a lot since then.

It was a better fourth dimension, a simpler time. Doesn't life without dating apps and smartphones seem pretty nice right almost now?

That said, anyone built-in after 1999 will never know what it was like to acquit around CD cases, fold up a newspaper map, or be reliant on a payphone to attain your friends. Hither are 22 things that people born after 1999 would have a difficult fourth dimension explaining.

The sound of a real alarm clock will probably give anyone born after 1999 a heart attack.

A rare old vintage Wehrle "Three-in-1" warning clock is seen at a shop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan January 24, 2018.
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Near phones take an alarm clock, stopwatch, and timer built in, making alarm clocks completely unnecessary.

Everyone wanted a Furby, even though the toy was always creepy.

Furby.
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Furby appeared on the scene in 1998, and became every child'southward about wanted Christmas toy.

It shortly became every kid'southward nightmare, as the gibberish-speaking, giant middle-blinking toy was terrifying.

While Hasbro recently gave Furby a makeover, it will probably never achieve the same fever pitch it did in the '90s.

Floppy disks weren't just the "salvage" icon on your computer.

Floppy disks.
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Floppy disks, amongst basically every other course of engineering used in the 1990s, are all but forgotten. Truly, most kids just know almost floppy disks from Microsoft Discussion.

Floppy disks were first introduced in 1967, and now, 50 years later on they first appeared, Sony is rumored to take finally stopped producing them.

Beanie Babies were a global obsession, and anybody thought they would get rich off of them.

Beanie Babies.
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Dorsum in the day, people would obsessively collect these toys, keep the tags on, and believe they would exist worth millions one twenty-four hours.

If a child saw a Beanie Baby today, they'd probably be confused — they look like any other stuffed animal.

With step-by-step directions on Google Maps, paper maps are hardly necessary anymore.

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Kids these days will never know the struggle of trying to fold these back together.

The quickest way to get in impact with someone was using a pay phone.

A pay telephone in New York Metropolis.
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While pay phones today are few and far between, they're obviously withal generating millions of dollars. Someone should tell NYC — the mayor announced a plan to catechumen all the pay phones into WiFi hot spots.

When you wanted to talk on the phone, you had to stand adjacent to the wall or near a plug.

Kids probably wouldn't even know what that cord is.
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In 2017, 45% of kids between 10-12 had their own smartphone in the The states. Before the globe became so technologically linked, pretty much the just way to make it touch with anyone was by — get this! — calling them on their "home phone."

Rolodexes were the preferred mode of keeping all of your addresses in one identify.

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Can you imagine having to scroll through this thing to discover a friend's number?

A trip to Blockbuster to rent videos was a care for.

Now, kids have no idea what "be kind, rewind" means.
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VHS tapes were still the nearly price-effective and pop way to watch movies — it wouldn't exist until 2002 that DVD players would out-sell video recorders. But in 1997, at that place were only around 100 movies available on DVD. Everything else was on VHS.

While some people miss tapes, no i volition miss the anger of discovering someone taped over the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" finale, or finding out the tape hadn't been recording the entire fourth dimension.

Crystal Pepsi was Then much better than regular Pepsi, even though it tasted the same.

It'due south unclear where the "crystal" comes from.
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Crystal Pepsi appeared on shelves in 1992, and then mysteriously disappeared after a couple of years. Information technology's only clear-colored Pepsi, merely people were weirdly obsessed with it.

Pepsi brought it back for ane final run this summer, though a bottle of Crystal Pepsi can go for equally much as $eight,000 on eBay.

Lisa Frank designs were everything — and everywhere.

These designs are from a new clothing line in 2017.
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Mode has never again been and then colorful and whimsical. Lisa Frank made literally everything that a middle schoolhouse girl could maybe want: dress, school supplies, posters, bedding. Truly, your unabridged life could accept been decked out in Lisa Frank.

Even in 2017, the nostalgia for Lisa Frank is existent; Target released a pajama line, and Frank successfully crowd-funded a makeup line.

Dial-upwardly was the only manner to go on the net.

That's what the little phone icon is for.

Near young people these days have no thought what this sound ways. Merely for those that practice, it probably sends chills downwards their spine. It's a reminder that in a time earlier WiFi, people had to use their phone line to use the internet. And it also meant that if y'all were on the telephone, no one else could utilise the net.

"Beep me" is a phrase you don't hear anymore.

"Folio me" isn't too common either.
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Largely only seen on medical Boob tube shows at present, pagers were status symbols in the '80s and '90s. Now, with the rise of cell phones, everyone is reachable all the time — they don't need to be paged commencement.

Thanks to the cyberspace, telephone books aren't actually a affair anymore.

A phone book.
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Remember having to bosom out 1 of these to find someone's number?

People carried around all their favorite CDs in a behemothic CD case.

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If you wanted to be the DJ at your friend's altogether party, instead of making a playlist, you'd have three choices: 1) to bring all of your CDs over, 2) to burn down a CD, or 3) to make a mixtape. None were every bit easy as but hopping on Spotify and compiling your favorites.

Even only listening to music on your discman involved carrying these cases around, unless you wanted to mind to the same fifteen songs on echo.

Fax machines were the original email.

A fax machine.
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Almost instantaneous in their sending and receiving, fax machines were like the original email, but handwritten. Today, a fax machine seems archaic.

Accidentally killing your Tamagotchi was every child'south (and Tamagotchi-sitting parent's) worst nightmare.

A Bandai Co employee displays the company'south new version of its virtual pet toy in Tokyo in 2004.
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The Tamagotchi was originally released in 1996. Basically, they were portable pets — owners would feed, clean, and play games with them. In that location was also a social aspect: if two Tamagotchi were near each other, they were able to detect one some other (not different Snapchat's Snapcodes characteristic) and visit each other's screens.

While Tamagotchi are still beingness made, they never recreated the magic they had in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Nintendo 64 was the ultimate game console.

GoldenEye 007 was one of the most popular Nintendo 64 games.
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The Nintendo 64's principal contribution to the globe of gaming was the innovative controller and its analog stick. When information technology start premiered in 1996, the N64 was on every child's wish list — along with archetype games like Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and GoldenEye 007.

Though its graphics and gameplay take been far surpassed, there's a reason that game developers continue to reimagine original N64 games to this day.

Vinyl records take fabricated a comeback with the hipster crowd, but most kids would have no thought what to do with them.

Records.
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While record players are enjoying a bit of a renaissance with the hipster crowd, they're pretty much forgotten by everyone else. People enjoy being able to carry around their entire music library in their telephone too much to go back to lugging vinyl around.

You had to REWIND tapes to hear songs again — and approximate when to end.

A Walkman, hopefully with "anti-skip" technology.
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Before iPods, Zunes, or smartphones, there was the Walkman, which offset walked into our lives in 1979. The only manner to mind to your music on the get was to pop a cassette into this fiddling contraption (and afterwards a CD into a discman), and hope that your picayune sis didn't record over your mixtape.

The Wonder Ball combined everyone'southward favorite things: chocolate and processed.

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Ah, the Wonder Ball. Before being discontinued in 2004, these candies were everyone'southward favorite treats. Originally they came with a toy inside, like a Happy Repast, but Nestle was shortly alerted to the fact that this was a choking hazard. And then they rebranded and filled them with candy instead.

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