The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'.

I see your slide projector and raise you an overhead projector.

I always heard people that I don’t know cassette tapes or vinyls or slide projectors when I was a kid.

Cassettes?

Sorry... Cassettes!?

There's someone out there who is attempting to insult millennials by saying we're too young for cassettes?

What the heck else would we be listening to music on, Brenda? We didn't have discmans, sure they existed but we had kid money, and it wasn't worth it until anti-skip came along in 1997, by which point at 10-15 we already had a cassette collection... so we had walkmans!

2 billion blank cassettes were sold in 1997, 2 billion the year before... those born in 1996 didn't get born into a world where the 2 billion cassettes sold that year magically disappeared before the kid was old enough to form memories.

Cassettes were the best, though CD-R changed the game for custom mix "tapes", I never went back to actual mix tapes after we got the tech to burn cds. Mix tapes were still going around all year levels in my first year of highschool, but it was mostly mix CDs going around when I graduated, and the rich kids were already just swapping usbs. By uni, we'd send each other mediafire links to a zip file full of mp3s.

I can still kind of imagine the sensation of sticking my pinkie finger in a cassettes to rewind when I couldn't find a pen. Though weirdly, I can't remember how I used to rewind VHS's, I can't picture that feeling. I'm guessing I probably used the rewind feature for video more often, and was find hand rewinding my music.

I think the older generations are forgetting how the passage of time works. Also, just how many of us millennials grew up poor with Gen X hand me downs 😂

vinyls

FYI it’s called a “record”, or music could be “on vinyl”. They were never referred to as “vinyls”.

Also VCRs were never called “VHS’s”

But unlike cassette tapes (that were still quite popular if you were an earlier millennial, plus Guardians of the Galaxy) slide projectors that are often shown in many movies and TV shows (and again, used in school when millennials where there) and vinyl that had made a big resurgence and is still sold today; pagers were pretty much extinct in the US by the time the first gen z kid came into existence.

Obviously, some of them will know what they are, but I'd bet like half wouldn't.

Fax machines are still in big use. Source, am an attorney without a fax machine and it's a major pain in the ass because all older attorneys use them.

You're not gonna believe this but early gen alpha were around when fax machines were still common.

people don’t still fax for work? maybe my country is old fashioned.

Wearing one right now. It’s my cue to go drive people to the hospital.

Also volunteer fire departments are big users.

floppy disc reader

2007 here, never used a pager. Honestly thought it was one of those clippy step counters at first.

I do however have a Gameboy and a stack of floppies.

I think those are the "recent events" OP is referring to

Still are.

Millennials at least had media that were still active that used pagers. For example, any kid growing up with Hey Arnold (1996, the final cutoff year for a millennial roughly), you would get introduced to Big Bob's Beepers which is literally just a store that sells pagers.

They used them at my parents’ church in the late 90’s— parents of little kids would hold one during the service in case the nursery needed them

I thought he was the Ratking?

I use dvds on my T60 (;

El Psy Kongroo

I have a banana and a microwave at home, should I do it?

Not really. They're using them because they're untrackable (one way pagers only receive data and never send anything). That's quite important if your enemy has laser guided bombs and a complete lack of empathy for civilian lives.

maybe they don't read articles, but news gets out way faster than it used to (including fake news). the avrg 12 yo probably didn't read it, but saw it on instagram or something

Floppy disks are too iconic, even if as Save-buttons. Now try them not knowing early ones were actually floppy!

I'm talking about myself, my 1997 ass had only heard of, and saw pictures of, the hard ones

I drew a floppy disk as part of an online game of Pictionary and the youngest member of the team thought it was a Playstation 4.

Although he also tried to spell tarantula with a Q in it, so maybe there's something else going on there.