Me too! I mean I do indeed remember life before the iPhone, but I just realized there was a time when people would just kind of be OK with not knowing that actors name and it did not send them into an existential crisis and cause them to immediately grab their phone.😂🤯
I remember these days. I'd have to wait till it just came to me out of the blue, or I saw the actor in a side roll on Seventh Heaven or something and make sure to watch the credits
I’ve kept receipt shoe boxes since 1992 (or earlier) . When a shoe box is 8 or more years old, its contents are thrown out & the box is marked for the next year.🗃🗄📁🗂
@@qualms9197 My mom definitely had a large shoe or boot box for taxes and definitely followed the rule of saving them for 7 years before discarding. In more recent years I think she's cut it down to 2 or 3, since most things are digitized now, even though she still uses a preparer.
who remembers printing map quest instructions and then losing their crap when they took the wrong turn and the paper doesn't redirect so you have to spend 5 mins extra getting on the exact route on the paper...fun times man
My mom was always super strict about the printer, so I got in the habit of writing down the directions instead of printing them. I still do it to this day, lol. I rarely ever use my phone's GPS. 😅 It also sucks up too much battery, so no thanks.
if it's something i don't miss.... it's this lol God forbid if you didn't print the printer friendly version and it's ads in between every freakin turn lol
Mom's gorgeous, blue set was recently destroyed in storage. It was pristine, too (I'm 99% sure that out of six people, I'm the only one who ever cracked those babies open).
I had a favorite volume from our encyclopedias. It was fashion through the ages with a bunch of beautiful illustrations. We definitely would read them for fun or to see how much the Louisiana Purchase was. 😊
I remember my first "Discman" (portable CD player you could clip onto your waistband and listen to CDs while you walked around). Skipped ALL THE TIME ☹
We're going back to CDs for home use and my 4yo is learning that he can't jump off of chairs onto the floor without the music skipping. He's also learning about scratched discs and how to care for his little collection properly. He thinks it's so cool.
life before cell phones was bussin. it was a grand time. i’ve lived both and both are great but i’m glad phones weren’t around in my day, i wouldn’t have had the childhood/teen years that i had.
Same. Plus I'm especially glad my friends weren't constantly videoing me and taking photos and posting them on the internet for the whole world to see forever!!! For...reasons. 😂
Life without phones used to be a lot harder and more frustrating but we didn't know there was any other way so all those things were just normal to us and didn't really bother anybody. We were able to actually have lives though. I used to read books like I'd starve to death otherwise. Now I just spend most of my free time staring at a screen. The worst part is I know that it sucks but I still can't stop myself. Sometimes I delete social media for a while but then I feel like I'm missing out on so much because everybody else is on it. Smartphones are like meth that we now start our kids on as babies and you can't go through life without.
True that. I have to force myself to ALLOW my brain to wander wherever it wants to go at least once or twice a day. I feel way more productive, have way more useful ideas and way less stress afterwards.
All of us old people (I'm 41) remember what this was really like. Waiting in line at Blockbuster, having to sit by the landline so you don't miss a call, needing to be at home so you don't miss your TV show (no streaming), going to bookstores, movie theaters and having actual in person social skills because you had no choice.
Also you actually asked people questions and got to know them rather than look them up on social media or Google them. Plus you actually heard news from people and not just on social media feeds. Oh my gosh cassette tapes. Sigh.. Having to rewind over and over and then getting a kink in the tape and trying to fix it and ruining your whole tape.
50- waiting rooms so mind bending and no one knew what you did or were thinking… or really knew how you broke your are doing that flip in the backyard 😁
I'm 39 and, yeah, that's childhood. My mom and dad rarely bought movies for us. They'd always buy a TON of blank VHS to record everything on. 😆 The tapes would get so used and worn, that tracking wouldn't even help. I was really happy when CDs and CD players were invented, lol. I loved boomboxes that came with both a CD and cassette player. I think that's when mixed tapes were born. I miss my big boombox. Apparently my phone doesn't even recognize it as a word. 😆
It definitely has something to do with social media. People only post the good things that happen to them, and other people see that and get sad that they don’t have what others have.
@@MsBianca78 it’s not really that cause we do interact it’s bc of what ppl post on social media, like most famous men and women are skinny and ppl looking at that can be like, “hey I’m rlly fat” and get super sad and everyone posts all the fun things they are doing which makes you feel like you don’t do fun stuff like them
I remember having to call 3 different people for directions to somewhere 20 minutes away. Writing it all down with pen and paper then trying to read it while driving. Getting lost was a common occurrence way back in the 90's.
I once circled around a mall in St Louis FOREVER because the instructions my husband had given me didn't include the fact that the mall had CHANGED NAMES several years before!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
As someone who doesn’t have a real cell phone, I do many of these things including using a CD player. I also do the thing where you just sit there looking like a psychopath
I did so many things before I had this phone If this ever happened I’ll just pull out my old vhs player I also I had a CD player I would sit too Close to the tv and eat pop tarts while watching Disney movies lol I remember those days….
They aren’t wrong social media is a shitshow it’s the reason people are so addicted to their devices I wanna go back to the 80s or 90s when we weren’t addicted to our phones and social media wasn’t a thing and stuff I feel like I’m the only one on this planet that’s not addicted to her phone and can go a few days without it and eventually forget I have it and then when I check it i got all these notifications cuz I was away for so long lol and no I’m not capping lol
Lmao every generation says that. I was watching an episode of Leave It to Beaver and the dad mentioned something about missing the good old days (show came out around the early 60s, I think?)
But when you or someone you knew did actually remember it.... that was the most satisfying feeling ever to finally have the answer. Phones make it so anti-climactic. I remember it would sometimes be a week later and someone would figure it out. Ahhhh such a good feeling!
Hahaha! Some of these hit home for me. We chose to ditch our cell phones about 10 years ago. While we have moments of wishing we had the convenience, we're still holding out! So we're pros at map reading without a gps, twiddling our thumbs while waiting and accepting weird looks from everyone when they find out we are cellphone-less. Thanks Trey for the laughs!
The 90s and early 2000s was the best time to be a kid/teenage we had the perfect amount of technology but we were outside all the time actually doing things... Cellphones were literally just there for us to play snake and so our parents could reach us.. Smh I hated school but I loved those times as a kid and teenage.
“In today’s society, the cell phone has become a remote control. People do not leave their homes without it. With it, they navigate the world and this device turns into their guide to reality.” ~ J.R. Rim
honestly, if everyone in the whole world would get off their phone we would realize how much better our lives could be. but we’re just all too deep into it and there’s no going back now.
Remember the Encyclopedia Britannica? Those were big huge books at the Library full of information where we had to look things up , kids.....lol haha 🤣🤣
The song at 1:29 is Stay by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber. Just for anyone who thought it sounded familiar but couldn’t peg which song it was (like me). It took me forever to find lol
@@StephanieJeanne my sister at 19 took me and my BFF at 9yo from md to Georgia to six flags. We had an atlas road map. That was in 1989!! Now I rely on gps lol
@@StephanieJeanne Honestly I never had an iPhone or any garbage like that as a kid my Dad set up our first desktop computer in 2008 but we didn't have internet until 2010 we just played solitaire and PC games on Sundays after church my first treehouse is still in the backyard and sitting in it as I type my life is simple and I like it that way. Edit: I can't read road maps.
This is just basically what if feels like to grow up homeschooled 😂 Oh the good old days when we'd go the library every week to learn things instead of googling it.
@@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339 thanks, I will now get out of bed every 2 minutes to check the clock to see if it is 8:30 yet. then smash it to bits as a snooze button
in old school Britain, there was a job of literally waking people up with big sticks and banging on their windows as an alarm. Not sure how that would translate to timers
* honstely how did our parenst survive like this? ill tell you how they had friends Oh my goodness guys! This is the most likes I've ever had on a RUclips comment, thank you!
I feel like the lack of technology and inability to entertain yourself 24/7 gave people no other option BUT to reach out to other people just to make it through the weekend. Now that need is all but diminished, and I fully admit I'm guilty of it as well. Today I can browse the internet, watch endless videos on RUclips, binge Netflix, play video games and use my phone. With this constant bombardment of entertainment options and the convenience of having them from the comfort of home I find the effort of making plans, getting ready and going out to honestly be a hassle. I 100% believe I'd be much more social with less access to technology
I'm 33, but my family was always late getting new technology lol. We never had cable, we didn't get internet until I was around 10, and then we only had dial up which was soooo slow and there wasn't much to do on it, yet. (No RUclips, Social media, etc.).... and my parents didn't upgrade until after I moved out for college. I got my first cell phone when I was 17, and it was a pay as you go little Nokia phone. So it was basically just for emergencies. I didn't get a smart phone until after I was married (22). All that to say, I had an awesome childhood. I have a super tight-knit family that had dinner together every single night. My siblings and I played outside for hours and hours, and we were all best friends with our next door neighbors and had a movie night with them every Friday night for years. We never had DVR or anything so we either taped shows on the VCR if we weren't going to be home, or we just missed an episode and had to wait for reruns to possibly re-air it. If there was nothing on TV, you would find something else to do. Play outside, do something creative, read, hang out with friends, etc. We did have a super nintendo and later a nintendo 64, but my my parents were strict about technology so we didn't get to play very often. I HATE how everyone is addicted to their phones now. I miss the 90's.
lol nooo....I have no friends & no license to be able to get any. Plus we don’t really live in the city either. 😭😭. I’ve been wishing lately that we had roller rinks,arcades,comic book shops,little cafes & things like that.
@@forman208 Dude this hit me hard. But since covid came, it gave me psychological damage and I began to miss being in school with classmates and people my age, getting hugs, having conversations, and heck even just observing other people or just listening to their convos since all that was taken away for a while because of lockdown. It also made me realize that I do not really have close friends. I have always been nice to everyone around me and was like the popular but shy kid in school. I am still guilty of entertaining myself with techonology, but I feel like I am very SLOWLY wanting to reach out and go out more. I'm still pretty shy though and don't have the best social skills.
Brilliant! When I was a kid my parents would take a map on our trip. We would have to stop at rest stops along the way to figure it out. (1970's) Those were the best days EVER!
I showed little neighbor kids the paper maps i keep in my car (emergency back up and i love maps) and they were blown away. They are 5 years old and now love folding maps 😁❤️
Life was much better before cell phones. It was great to go out and not be bothered by people constantly contacting you and needing to know your location. You could just disappear with no worries. Life was more fun and people got up and out and did a lot more socializing.
It was also nice not having to hear people’s inane conversations and personal business. People have no manners or sense of things being private anymore.
Wow library days were theee absolute best ! Also having to wait for a computer to use was annoying but once you got on you didn’t want to get off just like the person before you LOL then they came out with “timed computer use” 🤣🤣
To us introverts, there is no such thing as just sitting, looking like a psychopath or bored.......that is the most valuable quiet time for us, and our minds are continuously going......analyzing, contemplating, fantasizing, daydreaming, wondering, remembering, trying to solve an issue, you name it. We like to give proper attention to a thought 💜😎💜
@@genxx2724 You're welcome. Took me 53 years to be able to identify and articulate it. Many have made me feel wrong for being this way growing up, I always thought there was something wrong with me!
The 90's. So amazing. We had true freedom. Our parents couldn't track us down, so the rule was, when you go somewhere call and let us know where you're going. The thing is, they never checked, because they would have had to drive there or call a random place. We literally wandered the city, without any real supervision until we got hungry.
My life growing up as a Boomer. I had to use a phone to check the time and the weather. I had to use a phone book to look up phone numbers and addresses. Plan a trip? Travel agent's office.
in the past they had arcades.... and adults would let their kids go anywhere with their friends for hours... according to all 80's movies. honestly that sounds fun, I miss the 80's and I wasn't even alive for it
We really were allowed to go anywhere for hours....nearly required to do so, as our parents wanted us out of the house, lol. Stranger Things is pretty accurate when it comes to life in the 80s.
Yep I was out riding my bike in my neighborhood for hours on end and my mom only had a general idea where I was. Also riding in the back of the pick up truck with all your friends was a thing.
Yeah, my childhood was pretty free range. It's not really socially accepable to let your kids wander around like that anymore though, so mine mostly play in our backyard.
Before programmed contact lists and GPS we Gen Xers knew hundreds of phone numbers and could deliver pizzas anywhere in town in less than 30 minutes…the cell phone made our brains so lazy. 😕 (and every bathroom had an edition of Reader’s Digest or People magazine to read)
@@MidnightSonnet Gen X are in between boomers and Millennials. I was born in 86 but my parents are Gen X not Boomers. They had me young but the majority of Millennials parents are from the Boomer generation
@@lillianp8900 Damn, this is some confusing stuff. ^^; According to some sources, I'm a Xennial, even though most sources still say I'm a millennial. According to the consensus, you're a millennial, since you were born after 1981.
My mother was a nurse, so every symptom I ever had, she could name 5 different diseases and 7 cancers it *could* be...but then she'd shrug and say "but it's probably not. Don't worry about it. Let me know if it gets worse." 😂
😂😂😂 I loooove technology but I seriously miss those days of not being as consumed and stressed. I told my son his childhood sucks 🤣 bc he doesn’t know what it feels like to just play. 😩😭
I'm extremely tempted not to give my kids the option of having a phone or tablet until they're at least teenagers. But it'll be awhile before I have kids, soo.
@@Sunbeargirl- good luck with that. 😔 I hope you can keep a tablet away from them when they're little. My son is 6 and I've been teaching him how to initiate his own breaks from it. Today he said "here mom...put my tablet in your closet..." Meaning, he initiated a break from it all on his own (not that I wouldn't have taken it eventually lol).
@@karaa7595 Wow, congrats, haha! Guess he knew he was spending too much time on it. Maybe his eyes started to hurt? I think I'll try to instill the desire to read books in my future kids. Books are freaking awesome, and I always forget how much I love reading until I set everything else aside and pick up a book.
“honestly how did our parents survive like that?” honestly I’m surprised I survive in the world of advanced technology and cell phones. I hate how young people don’t really connect with each other and wish I had grown up without internet :(
I used to think like this but then I broke my cell phone when i was studying abroad and i wasn't able to get a replacement (long story) but i was actually fine. i travelled around Europe, just had to either use maps or ask people for directions, i learned how to read subway and bus stop schedules/maps, i learned to appreciate peace and quiet, i walked a lot in my free time or if i was travelling i brought books to read, and i talked with the people around me. i'll admit i was a little nervous, but it's amazing how quickly you adjust. I'm probably the last of my generation who lived most of their lives without a cell phone (I'm an older Gen Z who didn't get a phone until i was 14) and that certainly helps, but I also think that people are just incredibly adaptable.
Sometimes I go out with my mom and I really wish I could tell her leave your cell phone home. People will call her and carry on one hour conversations and Im like 🤦♀️.
It’s not the phone that’s the problem, it’s your mom. She doesn’t have to answer. She can call back later. This is why so many young people don’t make eye contact and can’t converse. They grew up with their parents ignoring them in favor of the phone. I’ve seen it for 20 years.
1:28 you played a CD and it's Stay song.. Good song choice. I like it 😊. 1:57 using real calculator.. this is so relatable when there's no phone and calculator is near you 😆
This man is brilliant! A true comedian can create comedic relief in crisis (check out introverts 🆚 extroverts in pandemic) and then make us think 🤔 and contemplate our purpose and how we spend our time in sketches like this. Respect ✊ Trey!
"Our teens spend a lot less time today talking to each other than they did a few years ago, and a lot more time communicating with each other on their smartphones without saying a word. They post messages, photos, and videos. Waiting rooms of bus and train stations, airports, and restaurants are filled with teens texting rather than talking to each other." ~ Unknown
Waiting rooms of bus and train stations and airports would be filled with people reading or listening to headphones if cell phones weren't around. The notion that people were talking all the time pre cell phones is absolutely laughable revisionist history. I remember taking a train, flying, being in a waiting room, no one said shit to each other, they just distracted themselves in different ways
In the before time, we really didn't run over to the computer to look things up online. 1 - because dial up was a pain and depending on how early this would have been set, you could have been paying per minute for internet usage, 2 - the internet search engines we used weren't as good as Google is now.
@@ScarletHyena but that's what I mean....in this bit, is it just that we don't have cell phones as in smart phones, or is it that we don't have the internet? is this supposed to be back in the days of dialup or card catalogs? or is it the same world, just without smart phones/cell phones/whatever.
@@LayllasLocker but that's what I mean...is this bit based in just no cell phones but still having internet, even with dial up or ethernet cables, it was better than nothing. and is this bit just smart phones or all cell phones? I don't know, seems like those of us without cell phones when we grew up managed okay.
@@BrownEyedBirdAudios I grew up before internet and I also managed stuff okay 😁 it was just different. But I also believed Chris Isaak died in a plane accident (missunderstood it somehow) and 10y later when I came online I saw that he is actually alive. 😅 I was so happy to hear all of his new music.
The GPS part, cut me out since I don't have GPS and I've lived here 5 years. That's sooooo me! I still need directions in the parts of town I'm never in. Ohhh Jesus, thank you for all of this technology truly at our fingertips and not only at a library or map!
My four year old asked me what Encyclopedia meant yesterday. I immediately thought he won't ever know the book or the CD rom format which was high tech for us in 8th grade. Yikes!
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‘what was that actor’s name? well, guess we’ll never know’ *i could not stand this*
My thoughts exactly
That’s indicative of a personal problem
Me too! I mean I do indeed remember life before the iPhone, but I just realized there was a time when people would just kind of be OK with not knowing that actors name and it did not send them into an existential crisis and cause them to immediately grab their phone.😂🤯
I remember these days. I'd have to wait till it just came to me out of the blue, or I saw the actor in a side roll on Seventh Heaven or something and make sure to watch the credits
I know her face… but. idk her name
"we used to develop photos, now we develop depression" THAT HIT WAY TO HARD
Fr
Period 💀
He said dementia
@@Zavidar2 he said depression
Too
“Let me get my receipt shoebox” *Best line, no competition*
We had one, it instantly flashed before my eyes lol
I still keep my receipts in my sock drawer. Lol.
Lol I've seen your profile pic before
I’ve kept receipt shoe boxes since 1992 (or earlier) . When a shoe box is 8 or more years old, its contents are thrown out & the box is marked for the next year.🗃🗄📁🗂
@@qualms9197 My mom definitely had a large shoe or boot box for taxes and definitely followed the rule of saving them for 7 years before discarding. In more recent years I think she's cut it down to 2 or 3, since most things are digitized now, even though she still uses a preparer.
who remembers printing map quest instructions and then losing their crap when they took the wrong turn and the paper doesn't redirect so you have to spend 5 mins extra getting on the exact route on the paper...fun times man
YES!!!
And Mapquest was so unreliable yet the only thing we used lol
My mom was always super strict about the printer, so I got in the habit of writing down the directions instead of printing them. I still do it to this day, lol. I rarely ever use my phone's GPS. 😅 It also sucks up too much battery, so no thanks.
if it's something i don't miss.... it's this lol God forbid if you didn't print the printer friendly version and it's ads in between every freakin turn lol
@@88Roshan ROFL YES!!!
"It will just take me 3 minutes, and my legs won't be asleep after"
Back in the old days we just read all the ingredients on the shampoo bottle while sitting down and went "hmmm... Intreresting"
I remember when it was totally normal to have a magazine rack next to the toilet. There were even genres of books just for reading on the toilet.
I died at that line!
@@JUMALATION1 I still do this!
Literally watched this video while pooping. LOL
Why wait for the library to open when you had complete set of encyclopedias proudly on display on the shelves in the living room?
Mom's gorgeous, blue set was recently destroyed in storage. It was pristine, too (I'm 99% sure that out of six people, I'm the only one who ever cracked those babies open).
We just got rid of our set last year. 😭
Omg, that's exactly what I was thinking too! 🤣
@@alice_rabbit8345 They're a great source of information! Definitely "food" for hungry brains. I always walked away from an Encyclopedia "full."
I had a favorite volume from our encyclopedias. It was fashion through the ages with a bunch of beautiful illustrations. We definitely would read them for fun or to see how much the Louisiana Purchase was. 😊
"Don't shake it too much it will skip" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠
I remember those fearful days
yea nothing worse then scratched disk.
Who forgot about the 24 package of AA batteries that you went thru every week running the CD players and asking or being asked for batteries 🤦♂️
I remember my first "Discman" (portable CD player you could clip onto your waistband and listen to CDs while you walked around). Skipped ALL THE TIME ☹
We're going back to CDs for home use and my 4yo is learning that he can't jump off of chairs onto the floor without the music skipping. He's also learning about scratched discs and how to care for his little collection properly. He thinks it's so cool.
@@bookgirl810s Why though? Can't you just get an mp3 player if you want to avoid phones? Or is it more of a nostalgia thing like vinyl records?
life before cell phones was bussin. it was a grand time. i’ve lived both and both are great but i’m glad phones weren’t around in my day, i wouldn’t have had the childhood/teen years that i had.
Same. Plus I'm especially glad my friends weren't constantly videoing me and taking photos and posting them on the internet for the whole world to see forever!!! For...reasons. 😂
@@ChanaRo613 yeah, no evidence of our shenanigans 🤣
I absolutely agree with this
Life without phones used to be a lot harder and more frustrating but we didn't know there was any other way so all those things were just normal to us and didn't really bother anybody. We were able to actually have lives though. I used to read books like I'd starve to death otherwise. Now I just spend most of my free time staring at a screen. The worst part is I know that it sucks but I still can't stop myself. Sometimes I delete social media for a while but then I feel like I'm missing out on so much because everybody else is on it. Smartphones are like meth that we now start our kids on as babies and you can't go through life without.
@@monkiram 💯 to everything you just said
"Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production" ~ Robin Sharma
Amen to that!
So damn true! I'm a very creative [old] person, but RUclips and Pinterest take up lots of my free time.
@@MidnightSonnet same
I'm going to record that. Great quote!
True that. I have to force myself to ALLOW my brain to wander wherever it wants to go at least once or twice a day. I feel way more productive, have way more useful ideas and way less stress afterwards.
"I FINALLY have enough free time to go to therapy, which now I don't need therapy... because... I'm not... on... the phone" 😅
All of us old people (I'm 41) remember what this was really like. Waiting in line at Blockbuster, having to sit by the landline so you don't miss a call, needing to be at home so you don't miss your TV show (no streaming), going to bookstores, movie theaters and having actual in person social skills because you had no choice.
And waiting for your favorite song to come on the radio so you could record it on your blank cassette tape
Also you actually asked people questions and got to know them rather than look them up on social media or Google them. Plus you actually heard news from people and not just on social media feeds.
Oh my gosh cassette tapes. Sigh.. Having to rewind over and over and then getting a kink in the tape and trying to fix it and ruining your whole tape.
@@trybeinggr8239 I hated that lol. Your tapes getting their internal tape all knotted up was the bane of growing up in the 80/90s lol
50- waiting rooms so mind bending and no one knew what you did or were thinking… or really knew how you broke your are doing that flip in the backyard 😁
I'm 39 and, yeah, that's childhood. My mom and dad rarely bought movies for us. They'd always buy a TON of blank VHS to record everything on. 😆 The tapes would get so used and worn, that tracking wouldn't even help. I was really happy when CDs and CD players were invented, lol. I loved boomboxes that came with both a CD and cassette player. I think that's when mixed tapes were born. I miss my big boombox. Apparently my phone doesn't even recognize it as a word. 😆
Bro if we didn’t have phones, what would our parents be able to blame for everything?
It’s cause you’re always on that damn…
@@MattXC314 ...VIDJA GAMES
Those dang fantasy books
@@MattXC314 book
Bed, Comics, TV, comics, boomers/gen X will blame anything on something we have that we don't lol.
The more technology advances the line of depression goes up. He’s really not wrong at all
Very true.
It definitely has something to do with social media. People only post the good things that happen to them, and other people see that and get sad that they don’t have what others have.
Because we aren’t interacting organically and it’s not natural or healthy.
@@MsBianca78 it’s not really that cause we do interact it’s bc of what ppl post on social media, like most famous men and women are skinny and ppl looking at that can be like, “hey I’m rlly fat” and get super sad and everyone posts all the fun things they are doing which makes you feel like you don’t do fun stuff like them
I have to agree. Sometimes progression isn't always better.
I remember having to call 3 different people for directions to somewhere 20 minutes away. Writing it all down with pen and paper then trying to read it while driving. Getting lost was a common occurrence way back in the 90's.
It still is , GPS barely made it better lol
I enjoyed getting lost, but my children hated it.
My father still has his maps. I bought a few just in case there is a zombie apocalypse.
I got so lost my friend's mom had to pick me up wherever I was and drive me to their house haha.
I once circled around a mall in St Louis FOREVER because the instructions my husband had given me didn't include the fact that the mall had CHANGED NAMES several years before!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Used GPS for everything “Ive lived here for 5 years” hit hard 😅
He should have used use a physical map that even our parents hated using 😂
I remember driving and trying to read written directions. That was the old texting and driving
Right! I'm at the same address for 16 years and still use my gps lmao
I remember my parents printing off directions from the computer's mapquest and one of them being the "direction-reader."
Shoot, it was written directions, not gps! We thought it was cool when MapQuest came out!
As someone who doesn’t have a real cell phone, I do many of these things including using a CD player. I also do the thing where you just sit there looking like a psychopath
why did you make this decision? truly asking out of curiosity.
😂😂
I did so many things before I had this phone If this ever happened I’ll just pull out my old vhs player I also I had a
CD player I would sit too Close to the tv and eat pop tarts while watching Disney movies lol I remember those days….
@@elenaspano5067 not my choice. My parents chose not to get me a real phone and I’m not old enough to have a real job so I can’t pay for a plan
Same here. I threw my tv out five years ago and don't have a cellphone. I now have to limit mayself on youtube usage.
Like what my parents said: “The good ol’ days”
Yeah..
Fr tho
They were lying to themselves that it was better back then
They aren’t wrong social media is a shitshow it’s the reason people are so addicted to their devices I wanna go back to the 80s or 90s when we weren’t addicted to our phones and social media wasn’t a thing and stuff I feel like I’m the only one on this planet that’s not addicted to her phone and can go a few days without it and eventually forget I have it and then when I check it i got all these notifications cuz I was away for so long lol and no I’m not capping lol
Lmao every generation says that. I was watching an episode of Leave It to Beaver and the dad mentioned something about missing the good old days (show came out around the early 60s, I think?)
I graduated high school in 1996!! I didn't get cellphone until 2004. I remember reading shampoo bottles in the bathroom!
I still do that
@@boyhood1018 Awesome!!
Or taking a book to the bathroom if you were gonna be a while! Lol 🤣
@@rebaland 👏🤣
Yes whatever was in there to read 😊
“what was the actor’s name? well i guess we’ll never no.”
i would literally die
You know we had internet before cellphones 📱 🤣
@@Migkamilla yeah lol i did think about that but he was saying that they would never know lol
@@Migkamilla Search engines back then sucked. Don't lie.
Sounds crazy, but back in the day, if you didn’t know something and couldn’t find it out, it just didn’t bother you as much! It’s all relative.
But when you or someone you knew did actually remember it.... that was the most satisfying feeling ever to finally have the answer. Phones make it so anti-climactic. I remember it would sometimes be a week later and someone would figure it out. Ahhhh such a good feeling!
“Logan Paul? I’ve never heard of him.”
Is that what Heaven is like?
😂😂😂
HAHAHAHAH🤣🤣🤣
ahh yes not knowing about the paul brothers would make life a little better
I actually don't know who that is!😂😂😂
ok imma start being good so i can go to heaven
Hahaha! Some of these hit home for me. We chose to ditch our cell phones about 10 years ago. While we have moments of wishing we had the convenience, we're still holding out! So we're pros at map reading without a gps, twiddling our thumbs while waiting and accepting weird looks from everyone when they find out we are cellphone-less. Thanks Trey for the laughs!
I'm still "ole school" about so many things-I write lists, save receipts, and write things on a yearly calender! It works for me...
😆 I was waiting for him to whip out a Rand McNally roadmap.
😆
“we used to develop photos, now we develop depression”
this hit hard 😅
You're really out here making me miss the early 2000s huh
I miss the 2000’s.
I liked that we had email, instant messaging, online forums, etc, but not social media for people to obsess over and be constantly checking...
I miss the 90’s!
@@maryjane4432 haha I wasn't even alive
I miss the 80s and 90s!
The 90s and early 2000s was the best time to be a kid/teenage we had the perfect amount of technology but we were outside all the time actually doing things... Cellphones were literally just there for us to play snake and so our parents could reach us.. Smh I hated school but I loved those times as a kid and teenage.
I had the high score for snake on my own phone… imagine that
90s kid here, I miss those days so much.
“In today’s society, the cell phone has become a remote control. People do not leave their homes without it. With it, they navigate the world and this device turns into their guide to reality.” ~ J.R. Rim
You dont leave your house without a remote control?
@@UnschoolingCOM ok boomer lmao
You forgot that twitter is the copilot.
That's terrifying considering most cell phones are made in China...
@@colebowman5102 THATS WHAT I THOUGHT AT FIRST GLANCE BAHSKAKDJJWK
Literally just sitting in his own living room
"you look like a psychopath"😂
I hate how true that is lol.
Agreed 👍
that was funny
3:28
“I don’t like to compare. I’m not into comparing everyday for hours on end”
That one hit hard, cause that’s all social media is 😔
“What will I do for the next 30 minutes???” 🤣🤣🤣
honestly, if everyone in the whole world would get off their phone we would realize how much better our lives could be. but we’re just all too deep into it and there’s no going back now.
Yeah and people are going to reply to this saying something like ok boomer but as a gen z your actually kinda right
No
No no he's got a point
Amen
This is a great comment made on an app on a phone, that we're all reading on our apps on our phones
Remember the Encyclopedia Britannica? Those were big huge books at the Library full of information where we had to look things up , kids.....lol haha 🤣🤣
"Drawer under the alarm clock, next to the compass, next to the map"😆
The song at 1:29 is Stay by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber. Just for anyone who thought it sounded familiar but couldn’t peg which song it was (like me). It took me forever to find lol
Personally, I wouldn't mind at all going back to when we didn't have smartphones.
"Now I don't need therapy because I'm not on the phone." Sheesshh, so much truth.
I didn't realize how long it's been since I got a paper cut till just now.
Really?! I still get them at work or from mail at home.
@@marysummers9274 I mean I still use paper, it's just been a minute since I got a paper cut. Him mentioning them made me realize it though.
Yeah, it was funny that the cameraman acted like he didn't know what a paper cut is 😅 he was acting, right?????
Call me a wimp if you want, I got so many paper cuts in 6th grade I just decided to where gloves when handling computer paper
I get cardboard cuts
Love the spoofing of ",olden times." 😂 It wasn't that boring though. Maps could be fun, especially on family road trips!🤣🤣👍
We survived it somehow!!! Didn't know any better.
@@anniefenter8697 Exactly! I kind of liked it! More human interaction. :)
@@StephanieJeanne my sister at 19 took me and my BFF at 9yo from md to Georgia to six flags. We had an atlas road map. That was in 1989!! Now I rely on gps lol
@@maryjane4432 😆 technology has taken a giant leap since then.😉✌️
@@StephanieJeanne
Honestly I never had an iPhone or any garbage like that as a kid my Dad set up our first desktop computer in 2008 but we didn't have internet until 2010 we just played solitaire and PC games on Sundays after church my first treehouse is still in the backyard and sitting in it as I type my life is simple and I like it that way.
Edit: I can't read road maps.
Honestly I'd like to live simply like this for awhile.
Then.... put your cell phone away. 🙃
@@aimeevang3145 Right? People acting like they have no choice lol.
Do it
Same but i need texting and gps and facetiming and emergency stuff mainly bcuz of family reasons
@@sta._rina Interestingly, people were able to handle emergency and family stuff pretty well before any of that existed.
Old man Jenkin’s daughter 😂😂
I miss these days
This was my favorite line
So hilarious and I grew up without cell phones. It's sad we are all so addicted to them.
"I'm not in the habit of comparing for hours upon hours." I felt attacked...lol.😂😭😂 Good one!💜
This is just basically what if feels like to grow up homeschooled 😂 Oh the good old days when we'd go the library every week to learn things instead of googling it.
Damn right
2:49 is my life….I also love the part where he says, “delete the history “.😂😂
I’d like this to be the reality for the world for just a day and see what happens 😳
Everyone would just be hella bored lmao for something to actually happen I think this would have to be the reality for way more than a day
Everyone over the age of 35 would be fine.
I'd die of anxiety.
@@shellym79 this thread is making me feel old lol, I didn’t have a smart phone until I was 20.
People would go insane and crime rates would increase
"paper cut! don't you hate those?" "a what?" 😅
Imagine setting timers:
“Hey could you set a timer for 20 minutes?”
“Sure! 1…2…3…”
It’s called look at the clock every 2 minutes to make sure you didn’t miss the moment 😂👌
@@excessivelyfangirlingbookw3339 thanks, I will now get out of bed every 2 minutes to check the clock to see if it is 8:30 yet.
then smash it to bits as a snooze button
Lemmie stare at this shadow!!!
in old school Britain, there was a job of literally waking people up with big sticks and banging on their windows as an alarm. Not sure how that would translate to timers
@@wiIdirishroses I'm sure it was helpful in the days before alarm clocks lol
“Can’t shake it too much or it will skip” 🤣 that was the real struggle!!!
* honstely how did our parenst survive like this? ill tell you how they had friends
Oh my goodness guys! This is the most likes I've ever had on a RUclips comment, thank you!
I feel like the lack of technology and inability to entertain yourself 24/7 gave people no other option BUT to reach out to other people just to make it through the weekend. Now that need is all but diminished, and I fully admit I'm guilty of it as well. Today I can browse the internet, watch endless videos on RUclips, binge Netflix, play video games and use my phone. With this constant bombardment of entertainment options and the convenience of having them from the comfort of home I find the effort of making plans, getting ready and going out to honestly be a hassle. I 100% believe I'd be much more social with less access to technology
I'm 33, but my family was always late getting new technology lol. We never had cable, we didn't get internet until I was around 10, and then we only had dial up which was soooo slow and there wasn't much to do on it, yet. (No RUclips, Social media, etc.).... and my parents didn't upgrade until after I moved out for college. I got my first cell phone when I was 17, and it was a pay as you go little Nokia phone. So it was basically just for emergencies. I didn't get a smart phone until after I was married (22). All that to say, I had an awesome childhood. I have a super tight-knit family that had dinner together every single night. My siblings and I played outside for hours and hours, and we were all best friends with our next door neighbors and had a movie night with them every Friday night for years. We never had DVR or anything so we either taped shows on the VCR if we weren't going to be home, or we just missed an episode and had to wait for reruns to possibly re-air it. If there was nothing on TV, you would find something else to do. Play outside, do something creative, read, hang out with friends, etc. We did have a super nintendo and later a nintendo 64, but my my parents were strict about technology so we didn't get to play very often. I HATE how everyone is addicted to their phones now. I miss the 90's.
lol nooo....I have no friends & no license to be able to get any. Plus we don’t really live in the city either. 😭😭.
I’ve been wishing lately that we had roller rinks,arcades,comic book shops,little cafes & things like that.
@@forman208 Dude this hit me hard. But since covid came, it gave me psychological damage and I began to miss being in school with classmates and people my age, getting hugs, having conversations, and heck even just observing other people or just listening to their convos since all that was taken away for a while because of lockdown. It also made me realize that I do not really have close friends. I have always been nice to everyone around me and was like the popular but shy kid in school. I am still guilty of entertaining myself with techonology, but I feel like I am very SLOWLY wanting to reach out and go out more. I'm still pretty shy though and don't have the best social skills.
@@forman208 they still had technology back then like gaming consoles and computers and TV
Brilliant! When I was a kid my parents would take a map on our trip. We would have to stop at rest stops along the way to figure it out. (1970's) Those were the best days EVER!
LMAO… I can relate entirely… I lived through those times… At least I had a BEEPER🤣🤣🤣
I showed little neighbor kids the paper maps i keep in my car (emergency back up and i love maps) and they were blown away. They are 5 years old and now love folding maps 😁❤️
Trey: Wakes up, "what am I supposed to do for the next 30 minutes"?
Pray, haha
Printing the directions haha. I grew up with my mom on Mapquest haha. I miss the old days sometimes. Things were so simply. But I do like technology.
Life was much better before cell phones. It was great to go out and not be bothered by people constantly contacting you and needing to know your location. You could just disappear with no worries. Life was more fun and people got up and out and did a lot more socializing.
Until people did start disappearing. ☹ If my kids were still young I would definitely be tracking their phones with GPS!
Um that’s what my bf said before he broke up with me- that jerk
And before cell phones, if someone was talking with no one around them, they were usually just hearing voices.😜
You don’t have to answer the phone when you’re out.
It was also nice not having to hear people’s inane conversations and personal business. People have no manners or sense of things being private anymore.
I was born in 1962 and actually lived like this. When I could print Map Quest directions to take with me I felt very high tech.
LOOKING UNDER THE MATRESS I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!! Why did I get that so fast???!!! LOLOLOLOL
I didn't get it? Was he looking for money?
@@matokaknox971 Dirty magazine.
"I'm actually 6ft 2in. I didn't know that. " Truth makes me giggle.
Me when he talks about the sponsor:
Me: Oh Honey-
Trey: Karma
Me: Wait what
“We use to develop photos... now we just develop depression” !!😂 💀 killed em!!
“Oh, can’t shake it around too much, it’ll skip.”
OH the flashbacks
Wow library days were theee absolute best ! Also having to wait for a computer to use was annoying but once you got on you didn’t want to get off just like the person before you LOL then they came out with “timed computer use” 🤣🤣
To us introverts, there is no such thing as just sitting, looking like a psychopath or bored.......that is the most valuable quiet time for us, and our minds are continuously going......analyzing, contemplating, fantasizing, daydreaming, wondering, remembering, trying to solve an issue, you name it. We like to give proper attention to a thought 💜😎💜
Thaaaaaannnk yooooouuuu yes!! Just the deepest thought ever
@@hippydragon13 I know and I love it!!!
Thank you for explaining what we do. We actually think.
@@genxx2724 You're welcome. Took me 53 years to be able to identify and articulate it. Many have made me feel wrong for being this way growing up, I always thought there was something wrong with me!
@@SC-gp7kt Our wheels are always turning. The people who talk the most actually have the least to say.
The 90's. So amazing. We had true freedom. Our parents couldn't track us down, so the rule was, when you go somewhere call and let us know where you're going. The thing is, they never checked, because they would have had to drive there or call a random place. We literally wandered the city, without any real supervision until we got hungry.
I'm loving the content lately
The PRINTER! 😂😂😂 The directions, the tickets, the boarding passes!
Since I only have a flip phone this is more or less how I live, by choice.
Today we picked up a brand new cassette set at a yard sale
.. our teenager was completely confused LMAO 🤣
i enjoyed watching the karma ad just because he makes it so fun and enjoyable which not many people can do
My life growing up as a Boomer. I had to use a phone to check the time and the weather. I had to use a phone book to look up phone numbers and addresses. Plan a trip? Travel agent's office.
in the past they had arcades.... and adults would let their kids go anywhere with their friends for hours... according to all 80's movies.
honestly that sounds fun, I miss the 80's and I wasn't even alive for it
We really were allowed to go anywhere for hours....nearly required to do so, as our parents wanted us out of the house, lol. Stranger Things is pretty accurate when it comes to life in the 80s.
@@karynsweet3138 ah yes because my mom who was a teenager in the 80s was also kidnapped by a demagorgan.
@@DocLL Lol, that's why I specified the part about life in the 80s...not sure how accurate they are about demagorgans and telekinetic children, lol.
Yep I was out riding my bike in my neighborhood for hours on end and my mom only had a general idea where I was. Also riding in the back of the pick up truck with all your friends was a thing.
Yeah, my childhood was pretty free range. It's not really socially accepable to let your kids wander around like that anymore though, so mine mostly play in our backyard.
So this video was my childhood growing up 😂😂 no phones, map quest, portable CD players, NO GOOGLE
Before programmed contact lists and GPS we Gen Xers knew hundreds of phone numbers and could deliver pizzas anywhere in town in less than 30 minutes…the cell phone made our brains so lazy. 😕
(and every bathroom had an edition of Reader’s Digest or People magazine to read)
Gen X was the generation we (millennials) birthed, right? I get generation names confused. 😅
@@MidnightSonnet Gen X comes before Millennials.
@@karaa7595 How? Boomers had millennials? Therefore, Gen X would have had to have come before boomers or after millennials...
@@MidnightSonnet Gen X are in between boomers and Millennials. I was born in 86 but my parents are Gen X not Boomers. They had me young but the majority of Millennials parents are from the Boomer generation
@@lillianp8900 Damn, this is some confusing stuff. ^^; According to some sources, I'm a Xennial, even though most sources still say I'm a millennial. According to the consensus, you're a millennial, since you were born after 1981.
While growing up, we had a book that was just like WebMD. And yes, I always thought I was dying. 🤷🏾♀️😂
My mother was a nurse, so every symptom I ever had, she could name 5 different diseases and 7 cancers it *could* be...but then she'd shrug and say "but it's probably not. Don't worry about it. Let me know if it gets worse." 😂
Me in the middle of my summer class: OOOOHHHH Trey Uploaded! *drops everything and watches Trey's new video*
"Just sitting there" why does it feel so weird to just be doing nothing 😭😭😭😂
😂😂😂
I loooove technology but I seriously miss those days of not being as consumed and stressed. I told my son his childhood sucks 🤣 bc he doesn’t know what it feels like to just play. 😩😭
Nice thing to tell your own son. Geez. You know that you can make plans to get him out of the house, right?
I'm extremely tempted not to give my kids the option of having a phone or tablet until they're at least teenagers. But it'll be awhile before I have kids, soo.
@@Sunbeargirl- good luck with that. 😔 I hope you can keep a tablet away from them when they're little. My son is 6 and I've been teaching him how to initiate his own breaks from it. Today he said "here mom...put my tablet in your closet..." Meaning, he initiated a break from it all on his own (not that I wouldn't have taken it eventually lol).
@@karaa7595 Wow, congrats, haha! Guess he knew he was spending too much time on it. Maybe his eyes started to hurt?
I think I'll try to instill the desire to read books in my future kids. Books are freaking awesome, and I always forget how much I love reading until I set everything else aside and pick up a book.
@@Sunbeargirl- BOOKS ARE SM FUN
This is actually a good way to live!!
“honestly how did our parents survive like that?” honestly I’m surprised I survive in the world of advanced technology and cell phones. I hate how young people don’t really connect with each other and wish I had grown up without internet :(
Life was so much simpler before all this technology.
I used to think like this but then I broke my cell phone when i was studying abroad and i wasn't able to get a replacement (long story) but i was actually fine. i travelled around Europe, just had to either use maps or ask people for directions, i learned how to read subway and bus stop schedules/maps, i learned to appreciate peace and quiet, i walked a lot in my free time or if i was travelling i brought books to read, and i talked with the people around me. i'll admit i was a little nervous, but it's amazing how quickly you adjust. I'm probably the last of my generation who lived most of their lives without a cell phone (I'm an older Gen Z who didn't get a phone until i was 14) and that certainly helps, but I also think that people are just incredibly adaptable.
Sometimes I go out with my mom and I really wish I could tell her leave your cell phone home. People will call her and carry on one hour conversations and Im like 🤦♀️.
Ask her to leave it at home & tell her how it feels for you. She might not even realize.
It’s not the phone that’s the problem, it’s your mom. She doesn’t have to answer. She can call back later. This is why so many young people don’t make eye contact and can’t converse. They grew up with their parents ignoring them in favor of the phone. I’ve seen it for 20 years.
1:28 you played a CD and it's Stay song.. Good song choice. I like it 😊.
1:57 using real calculator.. this is so relatable when there's no phone and calculator is near you 😆
To quote my parents, “The good old days.”
Um I could be his parent !!! Lol
the HEALTH this radiates is ABSURD
Imagine an alternate reality where there were no phones. Life would be a lot better
Love your profile name and pic 🙌🏻
It's not all that bad not having a cellphone!😂 Life goes on... we just go on at a slower pace😂.
1:10 didn’t know there would be a mind torture scene in this video. I’ll never know?!😖 PAPER CUTS too?! You’re brutal!!!😭
This man is brilliant! A true comedian can create comedic relief in crisis (check out introverts 🆚 extroverts in pandemic) and then make us think 🤔 and contemplate our purpose and how we spend our time in sketches like this. Respect ✊ Trey!
*What I could have become today if it weren't for the darn "Dewey Decimal System"*
🤣🤣
2:00 I don't have a phone and I can confirm I spend a solid %40 of my life doing this.
"Our teens spend a lot less time today talking to each other than they did a few years ago, and a lot more time communicating with each other on their smartphones without saying a word. They post messages, photos, and videos. Waiting rooms of bus and train stations, airports, and restaurants are filled with teens texting rather than talking to each other." ~ Unknown
Lmao you’re quoting yourself
Waiting rooms of bus and train stations and airports would be filled with people reading or listening to headphones if cell phones weren't around. The notion that people were talking all the time pre cell phones is absolutely laughable revisionist history. I remember taking a train, flying, being in a waiting room, no one said shit to each other, they just distracted themselves in different ways
Dr rooms and hospitals you couldn’t go in the patients room because kids were full of germs and they didn’t want the patients to get sicker
But people still are communicating and talking to each other, they just don't have to be in the same room to do it
My daughter is 20 and she actually FaceTimes a lot…for hours sometimes. She texts and DMs a lot too, but rarely makes voice only phone calls.
beautiful song selection on the cd player 👌
Seems like “if we didn’t have internet” would fit better
In the before time, we really didn't run over to the computer to look things up online. 1 - because dial up was a pain and depending on how early this would have been set, you could have been paying per minute for internet usage, 2 - the internet search engines we used weren't as good as Google is now.
Not really. Because back in the day not everyone had internet + if u are at the event u wouldn't just leave to go to your home and google something.
@@ScarletHyena but that's what I mean....in this bit, is it just that we don't have cell phones as in smart phones, or is it that we don't have the internet? is this supposed to be back in the days of dialup or card catalogs? or is it the same world, just without smart phones/cell phones/whatever.
@@LayllasLocker but that's what I mean...is this bit based in just no cell phones but still having internet, even with dial up or ethernet cables, it was better than nothing. and is this bit just smart phones or all cell phones? I don't know, seems like those of us without cell phones when we grew up managed okay.
@@BrownEyedBirdAudios I grew up before internet and I also managed stuff okay 😁 it was just different.
But I also believed Chris Isaak died in a plane accident (missunderstood it somehow) and 10y later when I came online I saw that he is actually alive. 😅 I was so happy to hear all of his new music.
The GPS part, cut me out since I don't have GPS and I've lived here 5 years. That's sooooo me! I still need directions in the parts of town I'm never in. Ohhh Jesus, thank you for all of this technology truly at our fingertips and not only at a library or map!
I’m gen x and this is a very accurate representation of my teens and twenties
The GPS one... I remember my dad printing the mapquest directions 😂😂 crazy times
“We used to develop photos, now we develop.. ✨depression✨.”
Lmafo I felt so called out when he stood up straight 🤣
We could look things up in the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
My four year old asked me what Encyclopedia meant yesterday. I immediately thought he won't ever know the book or the CD rom format which was high tech for us in 8th grade. Yikes!
I love the bits of laughing you keep in after you make a joke 😆