deadcatbounce ,
@deadcatbounce@reddthat.com avatar

Privacy.

Ownership. (not quasi ownership like 'buying' a HP inkjet printer)

zettajon ,
@zettajon@lemdro.id avatar

The original 4loko

fhek ,

MapQuest printouts.

Tyfud ,

Dial up internet.

Pagers.

Not being in contact with people 24/7.

Polar Ice Caps.

TokenBoomer ,
ICastFist , (edited )
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Not having to worry about AI generated pictures of you, especially any of pornographic nature. Girls are already having to suffer through this shit

Speaking of which, they'll never know what "finite porn" is.

ivanafterall ,

I still don't have to worry about AI generated porn of myself, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

At least in Brazil, there's been 2 cases that ended up in the news, with 13-15yo boys making and sharing said AI nudes and porn of the girls in their classrooms (https://www.em.com.br/gerais/2023/11/6652005-pornografia-infantil-com-uso-de-ia-em-escola-de-bh-e-investigado-pela-policia.html PTBR)

This also happened to Spanish girls of Almendrajelo.

omxxi ,

getting lost

PoliticallyIncorrect ,

One of your parents handling the phone to you because someone called you..

Railison ,

Yep glad that’s gone

Pat12 ,

I wouldn't use "never get to experience" but i would say it's much harder to have that real sense of community that we easily found in the 90s, early 2000s, etc.

People are more connected to others but still more isolated from others. We were less connected to other people back then so people made a real effort to come up with fun activities and bond together. For kids, it's the lack of just playing outside in the neighbourhood with friends. For adults, it's the lack of third places and community/religious events.

weeeeum ,

Though to an extent, the lack of community, especially amongst children is due to the complete lack of independence and they have to depend on their parents to drive them everywhere. Parents have been arrested for picking up their child from school on foot, as in walking to school.

Due to that, and the kidnapping/child predator scare, children depend solely on their busy parents to drive them everywhere for every social interaction.

Pat12 ,

Though to an extent, the lack of community, especially amongst children is due to the complete lack of independence and they have to depend on their parents to drive them everywhere.

where do you live that there's not even a playground or a residential street within walking distance of your home?

ZeekMacard ,
@ZeekMacard@feddit.cl avatar

Clean freshwater.

Zorsith ,
@Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don't think there's a human alive today that has. We've been dumping chemical waste in water supplies for centuries, but particularly nastier stuff (PFAS) over the last century.

HaywardT , (edited )

Or rivers so polluted they catch on fire.

BurningRiver ,

I feel personally attacked by this comment.

MirthfulAlembic ,
@MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world avatar

Not being in constant contact with everyone you know, and not having a neverending stream of notifications assaulting you via your phone.

When you got to see relatives who lived far away, you talked about what had been going on in their life because you probably had no idea.

You read, listened to, or watched the news when you wanted to, unless someone you know told you sooner.

If you had to wait somewhere without a book or magazine, you just sat there with your thoughts. During childhood, you learned how to be bored and practice imagining things.

Aussiemandeus ,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Not me, i was just bored imagination has never been one of my skills

SwingingTheLamp ,

My previous answer to this question was about buying a phone instead of renting from the phone company. I realized that something today's children may never experience is the government actually enforcing antitrust law, and in the bigger picture, the feeling of trust that the government is there to look out for us and will do the right thing.

(Yeah, that trust was sometimes misplaced, but it existed. We also used to believe that the violators of that trust would be held accountable.)

tanka ,
@tanka@lemmy.ml avatar

And the classic.

Why it's called "Roll down the window".

FilthyHookerSpit ,

Or "hang up" the phone

tanka ,
@tanka@lemmy.ml avatar

Okay, something simple.
Being annoyed that you forgot to rewind the video cassette the last time you watched a movie.

FireWire400 ,
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

Sharing polyphonic ringtones over infrared. Hell yeah, that was pretty awful.

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