What are today's yoofs gonna be nostalgic about?

Being able to speak freely on the internet without large corporations and a small number of highly sensitive activists censoring them.
 
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Kreeeee said:
Every generation feels the way you do. Previous generations had the same concerns as you do about tablets and consumption but with CDs, TVs and mobile phones.
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Pretty much summed up this thread!

It looks like I'm around the same age as the OP as I remember Walkman, Discman and good ol' arcade 8-bit games, then later on, the 16-bit consoles. Could I go back to the 80s now though as an adult? The answer is probably no. We were under the Margaret Thatcher regime. Lots of strikes back then, eye-watering high interest rates. Also, politics wasn't very progressive, with little or no thought given towards minority groups. Marital rape was still legal as well :(

The teenagers nowadays are known as Generation Z, born from around 1999/2000 onwards, which is after the Millennials (Generation Y). The internet was already mainstream by 2000, so the present teenagers will remember internet memes, streaming (e.g. Twitch), using the internet to help with homework (remember we didn't have internet back in our homework days). The last 'main' Harry Potter book was written in 2007 and I think the corresponding last film was around 2013 - someone may need to correct me there. So I think HP will still be part of the part of the popular culture as it is with some of the older generation. Same with Roald Dahl really as he spanned generations with his popular books.

Edit: Generation Z will also remember the later Disney films e.g. Frozen. Our generation will remember Aladdin / Beauty and the Beast etc. The baby boomers will remember Snow White / Bambi / Fantasia etc.
 
Its not just items that kids miss out on now.

I read an article recently that said young people dont go out drinking any more and it correlates, worldwide, to the rise of snartphones since 2007.

And I think studies have also shown that mental health issues correlate to smartphone use as well.

We need a judgement day to redress the balance.
 
ANDARIAL said:
If it is so great over there why do we have lorry loads of immigrants trying to sneak into the UK?:confused:;):D:D
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Yea it always makes me laugh. If Europe is so great why are people literally traveling across the entire continent to reach the UK O_o

But anyway, it's going to be Xbox/PS4 games and mobile phones probably. "I remember the days when an iPhone only cost 4 figures" :P
 
They'll be nostalgic for pre-Brexit Britain.

'Remember the good old days, when we still had a functioning economy?'
'Shut up Carl, and keep rubbing those sticks together. That fire isn't going to make itself—and if there's no fire, there's no boiled weeds for dinner tonight!'
 
Kreeeee said:
Every generation feels the way you do. Previous generations had the same concerns as you do about tablets and consumption but with CDs, TVs and mobile phones.
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Not quite the same though. Those of us in our 30s grew up with the birth of the internet and so the information generation began. We grew up with the first mainstream gaming consoles and grew up playing the very games that became the baseline for every other big game game currently available. Only we will remember putting two CRT TVs back to back to play multiplayer Goldeneye 64 via a Y splitter, or how it felt to have a NES contorller launched at your head by an angry sibling for stealing his or her mushroom in Mario Bros 2.

The list goes on.

I guess they will be nostalgic about the world's first black US president and then later the first genuinely dumb one? :p
 
Petrol stations, cigarettes, satellite dishes (barely see them now mind), big brother (tv), the era of dancing shows, fat people (remember them), Windows (how did that last so long), x86/64 ‘personal computers’, comedy (can you believe what they used to say!), glasses, Nike’s, cooking with gas, sugary sweets (as in ACTUAL sugar!), milk (ewww), no phone signal
 
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ANDARIAL said:
If it is so great over there why do we have lorry loads of immigrants trying to sneak into the UK?:confused:;):D:D
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Maybe it's the view that the benefit system is so great (or so the Tories tell us) or is it the chance to do work that none of today's youth will touch because it doesn't come with an instant 40k wage and company car?
 
They would have never known of life without mobile phones or internet and would have never of known of vinyl albums and would have never known of other things that I couldn't of remember of now ect ect.

Oh, I wouldn't of know of gud gammar
 
mrk said:
Not quite the same though. Those of us in our 30s grew up with the birth of the internet and so the information generation began. We grew up with the first mainstream gaming consoles and grew up playing the very games that became the baseline for every other big game game currently available. Only we will remember putting two CRT TVs back to back to play multiplayer Goldeneye 64 via a Y splitter, or how it felt to have a NES contorller launched at your head by an angry sibling for stealing his or her mushroom in Mario Bros 2.

The list goes on.

I guess they will be nostalgic about the world's first black US president and then later the first genuinely dumb one? :p
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You’re too young to remember Jimmy Carter then?
 
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