20 Skills Millennials and Boomers Have Ditched From the 90s
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Back in the 90s, many millennials used skills that are not very useful anymore, and some they have stopped using altogether. Recently, a question was asked, “Millennials, what skill did you acquire in the 90s that you no longer use?”
Memorizing Phone Numbers
One Redditor replied, “Memorizing phone numbers. Now everyone just saves contacts on their phone.”
Burning CDs
One comment was, “Burning CDs. I was the first one in my class who learned how to do it and had a computer capable of doing it. Oh, what a brief and shining moment of popularity.”
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Bead Animals
One user said, “I was so good at making those little bead animals out of pony beads. The number of lizards that I made was stunning.”
Fixing a Cassette Tape
One Redditor said, “Using a pencil to roll the tape back into the cassette after it got chewed up by the f’in pitch roller.”
A second Redditor added, “Fingers worked too! I used my pinky.”
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Cursive
Another comment read, “Everyone saying cursive, did you not end up with just a weird smish smash of both cursive and printed handwriting? Is that just me? Lol, I still use cursive every day. It’s just about half of my handwriting.”
Buffing Scratches
One Redditor replied, “Buffing the scratches out of CDs was a skill that served me well for a very limited time.”
Another added, “Oh, yeah! Also, like How to operate and maintain floppy disks.”
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Fixing Video Game Cartridges
A user suggested “Blowing on video game cartridges to make them work.”
A second user said, “I don’t care what you say. That totally worked.”
Playing Pogs
A most liked memory read, “How to smack the pogs with the slammer just right.”
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Mix Tapes on Cassettes
One Redditor commented, “Recording the top 40 songs off the radio onto cassette.”
Another Redditor replied, “From the radio? Gotta be ready!”
A third Redditor added, “Finger on the pause button” and “pray really hard that the DJ doesn’t talk over the music at the end.”
Reading a Paper Map
A user commented, “People are confused when I tell them I don’t use a phone. Legit get told, “how do you know where to go without GPS.” I’m like…I look at a map and remember or write down the directions.”
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Using Physical Books for Research
One Redditor said, “Using an encyclopedia and dictionary when writing papers.”
Checks and Checkbooks
A user commented, “Writing a check & balancing a checkbook. I think I last wrote a check about seven years ago. I don’t even know where my checkbook is anymore.”
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Macarena
One Redditor replied, “I can’t believe the Macarena isn’t the top answer. I’ve never been so disappointed in Reddit.”
A second Redditor wrote, “Still comes in handy when I need to embarrass my daughter in front of her friends!”
Recording on a VCR
One comment was, “Recording shows on a VCR.”
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Oregon Trail Video Game
One user simply wrote, “Two words: Oregon Trail.”
A second user added, “One word: dysentery.”
A third user finished with, “Mary was bitten by a snake.”
T9 Texting
A Redditor said, “T9 texting. I could do it with one hand without looking.”
Another Redditor replied, “T9 texting was torture, lol!’
A third added, “I was insanely fast at typing via number pad .. yea..”
Card Catalog
One comment was, “Going to the library and using the card catalog to do research for school projects and rent DVDs.”
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Dial-Up Internet
One Redditor commented, “Yelling at family members to get off the phone so I can use the internet.”
Millennial Redditors sure had a lot of skills and things the newest generations will never experience. I’m just not sure if getting to skip these skills is a good thing or a bad thing.
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