15+ Things Gen-Z Won’t Ever Experience in Their Lifetime

As the world evolves, so do we, and as new generations come along we witness how they might not ever imagine a life without the possibility of watching a TV show whenever they want, not having all the information in the world in their pocket at all times, or just playing around outside as a kid without their parents knowing where they are at all times.

5-Minute Crafts has compiled some lost habits, situations, and even sentences that won’t ever be said again so you can really see how far we’ve come.

Everyday situations we won’t experience again

• The need for you and your friends to be punctual and reliable. Just to meet up at some place at a specific time was painful. If one of you missed a bus/train then there was no way of letting the others know. It was always such a relief to see your friends waiting at an agreed meeting point at the agreed time. styzr / Reddit
• I cannot even provide a good guess as to the number of hours I spent at libraries during my youth. Everything for school required me to go to a library and manually search for information.
  Typing papers on an actual typewriter. No autocorrect. No spellchecks. No cut/paste features. If I made an error, it meant retyping the entire page or trying to use the corrective ribbon, which never really worked well. lori1119 / Reddit
• Parents not knowing where their kids are and trusting them not to get into trouble. malamalinka / Reddit
• My kids watched Stranger Things with me and they thought it was unrealistic how the kids would just go ride their bikes wherever late at night. I told them we used to do that all the time. One time I broke my collar bone in a pick-up football game and had to ride my bike home. I was like 10 miles away. (That sucked.) dog_superiority / Reddit
• Removing the faceplate of your car stereo so it wouldn’t get stolen. ebjazzz / Reddit

• Not being able to watch whatever you wanted whenever you wanted. We actually had to look up the show’s schedule in a TV guide and be available when it came on. togotfury1983 / Reddit
• Texting without looking at your phone because -> abc def ghi jkl mno pqrs tuv wxyz. shipwontsail / Reddit
• How about not knowing who was calling...was it your crush? Your grandma? A telemarketer??????? It’s like a game show every time the phone rings. andthrewaway1 / Reddit
• Listening to the radio with a blank tape, waiting for your favorite song to come on so you can hit record the second you hear the first note, then the DJ starts talking over it and ruins the whole thing. lizzieb77 / Reddit
• Back in the day, if you had a friend who moved away, the only way to stay in touch was with letters and having a human deliver these letters to the other person’s home thousands of miles away. This process could take weeks. And if you really cared about that person, you would carefully choose your materials, practice your handwriting, decorate the envelope, and agonize over every word. Then there was the delicious anticipation after putting the letter into the mail. What would they think when they read it? How will they respond? And then the heart-stopping moment when you open up the mailbox and there, in the well-known handwriting, is a letter addressed to you...taking the letter, running upstairs to your bedroom, locking the door, and only then opening up the letter to read it carefully and savor every word... LinIsStrong / Reddit

• Taking pictures, then waiting for them to be developed to see if they turned out okay. Cautious_Emotion9839 / Reddit
• Finding the whole roll of film is someone’s thumb because they didn’t know how to hold the camera. dzotzer / Reddit
• Having to get up and walk across the room to change TV channels. Then you’d have to tweak the rabbit ears so the station would come in. lakast / Reddit
• The magic of flipping through the booklet of a highly anticipated new CD during your first listen. Just reading lyrics, checking out the illustrations, and getting really into the band. No social media, so you had to invent the artist’s personality solely based on lyrics and their music videos. FirstTacoInSpace / Reddit
• That fear of talking to people’s parents when you called them and having to make small talk. mmisery / Reddit
• Literally hanging up the phone, literally rolling down the window. 62frog / Reddit
• Having a limited amount of music with you when traveling. Even with MP3 players, if you didn’t have the song on it, you weren’t going to listen to it until you could connect to a computer. It’s wild having gone from CDs to MP3 players to streaming. Zune was best. g**batman75-6 / Reddit
• Missing an episode of a show meant MISSING IT FOREVER. There’s still an episode of Battlestar Galactica I never saw. I could go back and watch it now but 10-year-old me hurt like a gunshot wound for a long time after missing that thing. The _Patriot / Reddit
• Waiting for the phone. Especially if you have other sisters or brothers. Everybody wants to use the phone but you have to share. Also, waiting for somebody to call. Being afraid to leave the house in case that special person decides to give you a call. DIGGYRULES / Reddit
  

Sentences we don’t ever hear anymore

• Have you tried taking the game out and blowing in it? Maybe that helps. Zerokx / Reddit
• Get off the phone, I need to use the Internet! grumpy_hedgehog / Reddit
• Wind it back up with a pencil. Bikeboy76 / Reddit
• “You won’t have a calculator in your pocket at all times.” Jicier / Reddit
• “Page me as soon as there is news.” pherring / Reddit
• “I made you a mixtape.” EmployerAdditional28 / Reddit
• Did you clean your mouse’s ball? ahhwoodrow / Reddit

What is a sentence no one ever says anymore? Tell us in the comments. 🧐