22 Funny and Spot-On Tweets About Growing Up Before the Internet

Ahh, the good old days, back in the “1900s” as my sarcastic children would say. I, for one, have always been grateful that I grew up before technology took over the world.

Grateful that my childhood was full of long bike rides with my friends and visits to our public library. Not that kids can’t do that today, but it’s not the same. They’d be receiving texts and social media notifications on that bike ride and well, it’s a lot faster to Google something than drive to the library.

But this post – this is for all of you, like me, who grew up in a different time.

Hope you enjoy this little walk down memory lane!

#1 Right?? I haven’t memorized a phone number since 2007…
Twitter/@AnthroOmri
#2 Basically LOL…
Twitter/@joeheenan
#3 Yup, it’s amazing we survived…
Twitter/@askhalid
#4 Umm…I remember waiting to hear my school name on the RADIO. OMG I am so old…
Twitter/@G88Gassi
#5 Or begging your mom to hurry up and get you home so you wouldn’t miss your favorite show…
Twitter/@FlossAus
#6 Hoping your teacher wouldn’t see you passing it during class…
Twitter/@David_Leavitt
#7 Now THIS was a very hard habit for me to break, but yes, I am finally FREE lol…
Twitter/@bartonswaim
#8 Not my grandparents…ME! We had wood paneled walls in our basement when I was a kid in the 70’s & 80’s…
Twitter/@maryfairybobrry
#9 I don’t remember this, but I do remember adjusting rabbit ear antennas to try to get the picture clearer…
Twitter/@Cheeseboy22
#10 We had it rough…
Twitter/@byclintedwards
#11 Yup. We learned how to make awkward small talk at a young age…
Twitter/@emmabo
#12 And you had to PAY for each one of the blurry, grainy photos…
Twitter/@ThatEricAlper
#13 Exactly…
Twitter@natasha_dolan
#14 I can smell that photo…
Twitter/@WasteShifter
#15 Naptime!
Twitter/@NoContextBrits
#16 BE KIND REWIND…
Twitter/@80s_Kidz
#17 Truth…
#18 LOL…
#19 Who remembers Casey Kasem and the Top 40 countdown?
#20 Yup…who knew that someday we would have the answer to just about anything from a device that fits in the palm of our hands??
#21 LOL – I can still hear that high pitched sound…
#22 I remember absolutely sliding across the back seat of my grandfather’s big ol’ Cadillac and colliding into my brother…
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