Growing up in the late ’80s and ’90s was much different than it is today. There was no social media to update your friends on, and if you wanted to be in touch with anyone outside of school, you might have to actually go see them. If a young person was lucky enough to have a cell phone to use, they had to make sure that they didn’t send too many texts, otherwise their parents might have to pay them off on their next phone bill.
And technology isn’t the only thing that has changed in the past few decades. Young people today don’t remember a time when people used maps and encyclopedias to get all of their information. When Reddit user u/Bagolyvagymi asked the question, “What’s something that newer generations will never understand?” answers flooded in from “elder Millennials” who remember the good old days of sitcoms, passing notes in school and playing the newest NES games.