‘You Are Too Young to Understand It.’ 15 Things That People in Their 30s and 40s Miss the Most

#1 Slamming the receiver of a landline phone. Pressing the red button does not compare

#2 'The beauty of being out of reach. Nobody would take a phone with you when going away.'

#3 'You could do stupid things without worrying that it will go online and stay there forever.'

#4 'Taking photos and waiting to to get them developed hoping that all the pictures will look sharp and clear.'

#5 'To listen to your favorite song you had to buy an entire album. Or wait until your radio station played it and record it on tape.'

#6 'Our parents did not know where we were sometimes. All we could rely on was trust.'

#7 'You never knew who was calling you. Was it my girlfriend? My grandmother? Or a salesman? It was like a guessing game!'

#8 'I miss these good old days when there was some music on MTV.'

#9 'When I wanted to play with my neighbors first I had o go there to see if they were at home and ask their parents if they would let them go out. You never knew whether your request would be approved or not.'

#10 'Old-school library drawer catalogues. I hated them and... I loved them at the same time.'

#11 'If there was something interesting on TV, you had to look it up on the TV program and wait until it was actually broadcast.'

#12 'When you had a date, you had to wait for the person to turn up. When they didn’t, you had no idea what they were up to.'

#13 'I loved browsing through the thick encyclopedia volumes. They were in every single house!'

#14 'Driving in a new city without a GPS unit was a hell of an adventure.'

#15 'There was a moment when we felt that the world was becoming a better place.'