Things My 15 Year Old Sister Will Never Understand

Hello dear readers! A few weeks ago, I saw a picture on Pinterest of something from the 90s that kids now will never get. And it got me thinking. There's so much that has changed in the last decade and a half in our world, particularly with technology. Although I'm sure my grandparents and parents would say the exact same thing about my generation, technology has very rapidly come such a long way that nearly everything (or at least everything awesome) about my childhood is obsolete. I've come up with a list of things that teenagers and especially children today will never know, understand or appreciate. So here's to you, kids of the 90s (and early 2000s). Let's reminisce, shall we?

A work in progress:

• Rewinding a cassette tape with a pencil eraser
• Listening to the radio all day waiting to record your favorite song. On said cassette tape, of course.
• Or just a cassette for that matter.
• The inevitable skip while listening to your disk-man in the car
• The anxiety of not feeding your Nano Baby/Tomagotchi for the whole eight hours of school 
  
• Pressing the tracking button on your VCR to get the lines to go away while watching a movie
• Recording a tv show onto a VHS
• Or a VCR and VHS
• Watching TGIF, going to bed, and then waking up to One Saturday Morning
• Snick. I don't care if it's still on. Is it still on? Anyway, nothing will be better than All That, The Amanda Show and Keenan and Kel
• Also, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Land of the Lost, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Clarissa Explains it All, Aaah Real Monsters, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and the Adventures of Pete and Pete
• 
  Stick Stickley
• Floppy disks
• Waiting for dial-up to connect
• Making someone get off the phone so you can use the Internet and vice versa
• Having a complete AIM profile
• Setting your AIM away message as seemingly deep lyrics
• Matinee movies for $5.50
• Having to blow on a video game console for it to work
• The satisfaction of angrily slamming a flip-phone shut
• How indestructible the Nokia brick/flip phones were
• the epitome of boy/girl groups. Hello... BSB, Hanson, N*SYNC, 98°, Britney, Christina and the SPICE girls
• MTV actually having music videos
• TRL, Daria and Beavis and Butthead
• Calling your parents from a payphone to pick you up from the mall
• Gellies, platforms, belly shirts and one-shoulder-hooked overalls
• Lee Pipes, tech vests and "The Rachel" haircut
• Lisa Frank
• Trolls and beanie babies

• Having every color of gel pens on the face of this earth
• And lastly for now, but certainly not least, actually having an imagination and creating fun for yourself without technology!