Do people realize they can just put the phone down and live like its the 00s?
>While widely shared as an internet meme about having the "rarest" childhood, sociologists note this cohort uniquely remembers both the fully offline world and the digital boom
>>542315920I can't find wooden office desks anymore. It's all metal frame flattops without even drawers.
>>542315920Zoomers are addicted to social media. They "cant" put the phone down because of it.
You can't.It's the same as going innawoods and saying you can live like a paleolithic homo sapiensIt's not true because the world is changed
I remember one summer I was my friends house nearly every day, bxm and building dirt jumps and redneck rampage at night. Was great
>>542315920it's kind of confusing that those 10-15 years that seemed so big were just a tiny start of everything. For me, internet seemed like an escape but since everyone is online now, I just escape to real life now.
I built a raft with my friend
No, shit for brains. Because not everybody else is doing that, part of the time period is the texture of life created by everybody having that same experience. In the same way you can't go live like you're a caveman because some park ranger will turn up with a bodycam and fine you then evict you. Stop with the cringey hyper-individualistic larp, you're like boomers that go to coffee places and say "heh, we didn't have it all fancy like you kids today". Imbecile.
>>542316072Pretty sure I was alive during the digital boom too, retards.
>a study saysJFC all the "legacy lefist Jew boomer media" is the same. SLOP!
>the rarest version of childhoodwhat in the actual fuck does that mean
>>542315920The problem is that people that do use their phone will continue to vote, while being influenced by ads and AI.
>>542315920Fuuuuuck that Taz poster goes so hard. Pretty sure I had a binder with that image in 1999.
>>542315920I live in both realms
That picture has nothing to do with being born in 1992-03. More like born in 85
>>542315920shitposting on 4chan as an underage child isnt that rare
>>542316777nobody can put their fucking phone down unless we have a full blown transformation of society, OP is a delusional hippie retard>just put your phone down broooooo>t. barefoot homeless person stinking of piss shouting at people in the street
>>542315920sounds retarded it should be called generation 9/11 that is when the true change in the world happened.
>>542316162>redneck rampageKek I loved that game
>>542315920No you cant because in the 00s you could still get pussy whereas now it is a herculean task.Inb4 pussy doesnt matter, there is no bliss like 19 year old pussy
>>542316796Im pretty sure i had a t shirt with that image and it had a button you could press that made a glass breaking sound
I’m tired of slop
>>542315920yes?
>>542316528>alive during>childhood
>>542315920I fucking wish. The worst part about smartphones is that you’re expected to be available to your employer either through actual work calls or bullshit networking that you have to participate in or you fall out of favor, at least for white collar work. I feel like I’m essentially on call 24/7. I can only imagine what it was like to have the power to go home after work and not have the expectation or even ability to continue dealing with work horseshit. It’s bad enough that wages haven’t risen with the cost of living, then when you favor in extended work hours it’s just depressing how much less we make per hour relatively speaking.
>>542316865I want a set up like this so bad
>>542315920if you were born after 2001, your childhood was objectively ASS
>>542316865>Rush 2fuck yeah
>>542315920Gen-Z has no idea what this is
>>542315920That doesn't look like someone born in 1992 or later.>>542316717It's just the usual bullshit to get clicks. It doesn't mean anything. People click because they have the same reaction you had.
>>542317538So you're saying that being a child during the digital boom gave them some kind of insight an adult wouldn't have about it? Fuck off, that's stupid.
>>542316304What is the punishment society will impose on you for not being on 4chan 8.5 hours a day?
>>542315920i like to have sex with my balls only
>>542316865Okay now do the 00s part were u have freinds and go outside also
I can't go outside and find anyone to play basketball or football with. I am not even sure I still can.
1993 chad here, it was amazing.I got to experience the dawn of the internet, birth of 3D video games, legendary kinos like titanic and spider-man were in theaters, I saw 9/11 live, and niggers were just a thing you saw on natgeo
>>542317416Im honors u chose this thread as half ur internet time for the dayAlso, its like u were doing a lot of meth but cut down to a little meth, like u are a functioning member of society now but u are just ruining ur health for no reason now
>>542316658Yeah fuck studies. I just follow youtubers and twitter. More views/likes = more truth
The best version of childhood and life in general was when we were hunter-gatherers.
>>542317580Apply to a wfh job
>>54231792394 chad here and ur full of shit, by the time we were 8 they have 3d
Every day on Pluto I watch Mannix Barnaby Jones and the original Hawaii five 0. Watching well dressed people drive up in massive shiny cars, running after a suspect on the beach in a full suit, the way offices are decorated and meeting at the steakhouse meant something important. Not like today where slobs are everywhere cars are shit and Sysco gets the boil in bag at the sterile eatery. I go way back in time. I am done with boring today. You can't even find a decent cafe after midnight to sit and smoke and drink coffee and solve mysteries.
>>542317954i only use my phone when i shit, im done now, cya tomorrow.
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>>542317762Boomers watched TV while their kids browsed the early web. Maybe you were different, idk.
>>542318003my cousin had a megadrive before my dad got me a playstation, and I had shit like doom on w95
>>542315920I was born in 93 and I probably grew up in the best possible time
>>542317735fuck off boomer have a terrible day
>>542315920>you know you can just get rid of all your identification, and live like its the 1800'syeah, you can always just stop, until the enforcers come along and remind you that you live in current year.
>>542318176Except u dont want to live like its the 1800, u want to live like its 2007, iphone was out but we used it to communicate and for music and youtube
>>542318003this. these threads are always hilarious because you can tell by the years zoomers made it
>>542315920But can we all do it at the same time?
>>542317834Anon is 200% correct and you're retarded as fuck
>>542318234Also we omly spent 20 mineuts a day on youtube
>>542316072>this cohort uniquely remembers both the fully offline world and the digital boomno they fucking don't
>>542315920>Do people realize they can just put the phone down and live like its the 00s?I had a flip phone until 2024. Everything has gotten so smart phone dependent at this point that its no longer viable. I hate smartphones, I use mine as little as possible; but you need the fucking things to function in the modern world..
>>542318246Holy shit it is a zoomer. Titanic and Spiderman lmao!
future is bretty gud tho
>>542316304>In the same way you can't go live like you're a caveman because some park ranger will turn up with a bodycam and fine you then evict you.or kill you (after they call in the county)
>>542318095I browsed the web too and actually had the wherewithal to understand it. No fag born in 2003 understands that or even remembers the before times.
>>542317762Right. The only insight they would have is in comparison with those born after them, which are the generations born into smartphone hell, smartphone+slop hell, and smartphone+slop+TBD* hell.* to be determined>>542317923>1993 chad here, it was amazing.>I got to experience the dawn of the internetNo, you didn't. You're a gay nigger born way too late to ever know the pre-internet world. But it's ok, it's not your fault.
>>542318253What u are talling about is draining ur dopamean receports while still having a large doapmean supply to keep us motivated to do shit. I have done this, its called no fap
>>542318308U are on 4chan. This counts as a reason for why u arent as happy as when u were younger
>>542318299I do. Internet only went fully mainstream in the early 2000's, and it was more like a rumor mill than it is a dystopian control system like it is now.The internet used to be a place you visit in the corner of your room, not the ubiqutous hellscape which invades every facet of daily life
>>542318340For those that edpace their current dopamine holes
>>542318354nigger I played outside and only ever went online to look for vidya cheats or play runescaoe here and there. Dial up was expensive nigger.
>>542318270Not an answer.
>>542315920the internet is more jewish and gay now. also more nigger, spics, and jeets
>>542316147Ironically I just dumped my wood desk in a creek because my knees and thighs get banging into the drawers. Got a sleek metal one now. Minimalism is based.
>>542316865i was a teenager when xbox came out. my social group had that one rich friend. when it came out, we all got to play halo in his dad's boathouse that had the 90s equivalent of a mancave. i just want that social experience again, but actually for gen alpha or whatever the newest teens are.i feel like millennials have a duty to pass on true retro normal times knowledge to the younger crowd out there. our memes might actually be worthy of historical studies
>>542318429Nigger you can stop viewing 4chan as le bad when normie social media has been way more soul destroying for the longest time, you sound like a boomer from 2009>>542318726ask better questions if you want an anwer princess, you're entitled and out of touch
>>542315920What, the childhood where everything I could have had was ruined by niggers? That childhood? That was rare?The most depressing part of my life was finding out the rest of the world wasn't a nigger-infested shithole. I was robbed
>>542316147>metal flat slabs on some skinny pillars or A-frames which cost more than a 1990s desk that has several levels, 1 or 2 sets of drawers and a smoothed edgeThe illusion of luxury within the reality of poverty and economic hardship.Selling less for more."It's trendy to have nothing."Fuck that shit.
>>542319053ill say this is actually not discussed often enough, particularly here. places like baltimore, detroit, gary indiana, atlantic city existed in basically the same state back in the 90s. new york was getting better tho
>>542315920what I did in the '00s was browse the internet, but big companies that pander to phoneposters bought up and destroyed it4chan comes closer to the spirit of those times than other places I've found, but it has some key differences. No usernames, so can't make friends (probably necessary insofar as it stops people from trying to go viral/chase e-fame, but still can't make friends) and people here are absolutely obsessed with race/ethnicity (no one cared back then)
Let people use music on their youtubes.
Thats it. Its all i want.
>>542317629do it>>542317728yes!>>542317872>>542318945I managed to spawn a couple gen alpha friends to play old vidya with and go outside on our bikes
>>542315920you can but there isn't much to find. there hasn't been since 2012 or so. even if you go offline, what made it the 00s was the enormous experiential and values overlap without the stress and strain of jews and other brown people
>>542319205i miss the chipboard veneers too. it was just perfect, and thicker back in the day. shit was solid. that desk in op photo, you could build a science project on it. then clean up the mess with windex and then go watch new spongebob
>>542318299I do you retarded nigger. I was born in 1991 mouth breather, I remember when we had to knock on someone's door to see if they were home
>>542315920Chat, is this true?
>>542319262one of my grandpa simpson viewpoints is scooters. those things fuckin rocked as kids AND teens. teens would ride the shit out of them, way beyond manufacturer warranty. punks would smoke weed and flip their razors all around in the air. people brought them to recess.now, theyre all electric and boring. youth being wasted n whatnot.
>>542318003Sort of kind of.I'm from 1994 too and had a Genesis, then a PS1, then PC and original Xbox, so I get what he meant.3D gaming existed before PS1 in various forms (BattleTank in the arcades of the early 80s, similar vector games like Star Wars as well) and some Genesis games (notably the ones named after fighter jets) were in shaded 3D.Alone In The Dark for PC, 1993.But let's not pretend that PS1 was a side grade and that 1999 was the same as 1993. Holy shit what a difference. Put Unreal Gold or Turok next to Star Fox.I'm sure if people google enough they can factmog anybody, but I was 3 when I slotted the Star Wars Arcade game into the family's Sega 32X and exploded in 3D.Witnessed the growth myself.
>>542316072>this cohort uniquely remembers both the fully offline world and the digital boomInteresting, my family had Internet access since 1993. Do normgroids think the dawn of the Internet was the iPhone and Facebook?
>>542316304fuck off glow nigger
>>542319426Yeah those razors were cool, around 1999/00, I got one and would zip around on that while my lanky friend would tag along with his makeshift stilts he made out of 2x4s.
>>542316304Hey, don't be so hard on amerimutts. They are all developmentally disabled by the system, can't see or think beyond the immediate and the materialistic.
>>542318430>>542319365stfu children. you weren't conscious without the Internet
>>542317629it's overrated, expensive and takes up too much room. just emulate. scanlines and crt filters are really good nowadays and emulation up to around ps2 is so good that you'll barely even think about what you're missing with original hardware.
>>542315920>1992-2003i call bullshitif my years on /pol/ have taught me anythingit's that my single piece of lived/anecdotal evidence is more than enough for me to dismiss an argument, whole cloth, with absolutely no further inquiryborn in 79, late gen x>i was a latchkey kidas long as i have the blocks, i can build literally anything i want from legos, with no instructions>i can fix a bicyclei WILL fight a dog>i've beaten more video games than most have ever playedi was in middle school for the launch of mario 3>i can use firearmsi can use a speed square>i can write beautiful cursivei can back up a trailer>i can still navigate using paper directionsi know how to save money>i know how to say noi asked a girl out during PE in the 9th grade & we were making out under the stairs in like 30 minutesit started a sweat fetish that still persists>smoking cigs was allowed inside the DMV when i got my first driver's license. there were ashtrays built into the desks where you took the paper testi build custom arcade machines; cabinet, hardware, software>my current PC is fully UFO rated on userbenchmarki can solve a rubiks cube, it was sold as a childrens toy when i was little & they come with instructions>i had pizza parties with my royal ranger youth groupi bought x-ray specs from the back of a kung-fu magazine>i once had two of my friends get in a fight in a potato field & the fight ended with them hurling potatos at each othermoral of the storyi'm getting oldpotatos are hardand the generational contract has been broken
>>542316304>Because not everybody else is doing that, part of the time period is the texture of life created by everybody having that same experiencefuck ur faggot ass "texture of life" u aussie faggot. we are living in times of moral degredation and not taking part in it is perfectly rational and healthy. there is no reason to follow the herd to experience "texture of life" u foid brained cock sucker. go taste the texture of cum. Fuck australians
>>542317016My job literally requires me to stare at my phone for hours a day
>>542319575Yes they literally do.Everyone used to make fun of me for spending to much time on the internet before Iphone normies got online.Now I go do real life things to escape the internet.
>>5423159202001 here, I never got into social media and stuff like snapchat and instagram deeply confuse me
>>542319575Yeah, wouldn't people born in the 80s be rarer then since they remember using bbs and newsgroups?
>>542316147I think you just have to make your own wooden stuff these days, that's what I do anyway. You can get big cuts done for you so you don't need much equipment.
>>542321315>>542319575Um, no, we didn’t really have anything like we have now especially for normies. Even BBS just doesnt count. It was a chatting app for tech smart people at first not a panopticon kike device that help gangstalkers lile it is now
>>542318299>t. Broccoli hair
>>542319575Do you think every detail about your life is representative of every single person referred to by this article? I had dial up until 2014 and first got it in mid 2000s
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>>542316717It's utterly meaningless.
>>542316147The desk I'm using right now, is an old wood and metal desk from the 90s. real wood, not that particle board shit. Real metal, steal not aluminum. thing is old but will last forever. If I have an autistic chimp out and slam my disk. I'll only damage my own fists and maybe the floor.
>>542316147Trees stopped existing 20 years ago
>>542316072I remember it too and I was born in 1985. It's kind of retarded to put the cap at 92. I remember the fully offline world far more clearly than someone born in 92 and I was only 14 when we got internet access here.
>>542315920Sorry Zillennial bro, you have to underatand the Zoomers don't know any better, while according to Millennial their phone addiction is "progress"
>>542318308I obtained an old smartphone from a friend last year for this reason -- something came up that I just needed it for. I still use my flip phone except for the one or two times a year I need the smartphone for something, then I activate a prepaid for a month. It's not efficient but I'm fucking stubborn. If there weren't a carrier issue I'd just swap the SIM card out between the phones.
>>542315920I had the literal, exact same desk as the o.p.'s and I had to keep checking the image to make sure it wasn't me.
>>542318950>Nigger you can stop viewing 4chan as le bad when normie social media has been way more soul destroying for the longest time, you sound like a boomer from 2009100%. It's the personalized algorithms, they fuck with your head. This is the one (large) place left where I can be (almost) sure I'm looking at the same thing as everybody else.
>>542315920No zoomers are just that fucking retarded.
>>542319365>six of you asking some kid's mum if he can come out and playDamn, memories
>>542318430This right here.>>542319892Kike
>>542315920>put the phone downWoah you must be them tribal African uganda zulu tribe niggas
>>542318299Fuck you yes I do, childhood nobody had phones or Internet, then it ramped up during adolescence and now as an adult everyone and everything is digital.
>>542315920works fine until you get to the part where you have to pay the mortgage or rent. $70k salary was very respectable in the 90s meanwhile right now that probably isn't even enough for you to rent a single bedroom apartment in any decent city.
>>542323274We live in hell
>>542315920>The rarest version of childhoodThis is such a stupid fucking statement.
>>542318935>i just dumped my wooden desk in a creekYou are a fecaloid.
>A STUDY SAYS
>>54232103683 so close but I'm cooler and can do more stuff (seriously). Being 18 on 9/11 and thinking wow I'm really glad I told that Marine recruiter to fuck off was peak. The perfect time for video games as well
>>542315920That picture is like 1999. Kid is born in mid 80s.
>>542319575You flexing your shitty dialup, I was there in the 90s too but we're talking about web 2.0, the death of the good times Normies and boomers ruined the internet in 2007 with Facebook and the iPhone and DSL speeds. This mass migration of retards is a well known fact
>>542323427>Woah you must be them tribal African uganda zulu tribe niggasthe ones who have figured out toilets and food hygeine practices to an exponentially higher level than your subhuman race? why are you speaking of your betters as if they are your lessers jeet?
>>542315920This brings back memories. I had that same desk in the early 90s. His computer looks like it's from the early 90s too. Kek. Poor kid.
>>542316147That desk wasn't real wood anyway, just compressed sawdust, kek. The drawer on the bottom right pulled out entirely and that's where you would put your printer.
