As a part of older GenZ I can assure you that VHS was still around when I was little
I’m sorry to tell you that if you’re older Gen Z you’re probably not a kid anymore 😅
I realized I was no longer part of the young crowd when I needed someone to explain newer slang words… I literally could not discern what was meant by it… never had the issue when I was younger I always understood the implied meaning of slang…
I think OP is probably referring to gen-alpha. The millennial’s kids. The ones that are growing up never knowing a world without Minecraft or smartphones.
I’m 37. How do I co-exist with fully 100 different “generations?” I can’t keep up.
There’s only like, five or six alive right now. There’s the Baby Boomers (our parents, because most of our grandparents have died off by now), there’s the one after us, the Zoomers, which are Gen-X’s kids. Gen-X is the one that came right before us. You and me are Millennials, I’m 40. We came into adulthood in or around the year 2000. Our kids are mostly gen Alpha. The first generation born entirely within the 21st century and have never known a world that wasn’t fully connected 24/7.
Or have ever called a landline hoping the dad won’t pick it up, and then when he does fear for one’s own life.
Or to look your crush up in the phone book after working up the courage for ages. Call, heart-racing. Parent answers. Ask for the girl. They yell across the house. One year later. “Hello?”
“Hey, it’s me, ivanafterall.”
“Who?”
Classic rite of passage, am I right, guys!? We’ve all been there!
“Be kind, rewind”
Literally no one called them VHSs. They were just called video tapes. The players were called VCRs.
I don’t miss VHS or optical media.
It was fun though. I could tell where did my brother stopped and rewatched a scene in a VHS of Return of the Living Dead.
At some point it even became censored due to the amount of static.
Wow. I had to look that scene up. I must have watched the censored version or something, because I definitely don’t remember that.
Are you sure we’re talking about the same movie?
https://www.mrskin.com/anatomy-of-a-nude-scene-the-return-of-the-living-dead—25364
It is quite memorable
BlueRay came out in 2006, there are Teens that have probably never seen a CD or DVD.
Blockbuster died around 2010, apple stopped shipping optical drives in the last of their computers around 2013, Streaming became the norm, there might be teens that haven’t used “Discs” for video and have streamed everything.
Got one living with me who falls into this category. She about lost her mind when I showed her a laser disc; thought it was some kind of special record. Yes, that’s the world we live in, now: kids collect records and cassettes, but have never seen a blu-ray.
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Even more so when you realize they aren’t even digital, they use analog NTSC, PAL signal modulation / encoding.
Thought it was some kind of special record
Well, there was something like that. CED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
To be fair, adoption of bluray took a bit of time. The cheapest blu ray player was the PS3, and that was like 600$
I have never used a blu-ray. By the time they came around I was either pirating or streaming everything.
