Being fair, all they’re missing in comparison of the era between “post 9/11 and pre smartphone” (from my experience) was a lot of snotty teachers saying YOU WON’T ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR WITH YOOOOUUUU
Eat shit Mrs. Miller, I do and have for the last decade and a half. It doesn’t make me much happier but at least I don’t need to remember how to do long division on paper anymore, and that does make me happy.
A coworker asked if I could help her cousin and their partner with something as they were moving in just a few blocks from my house. Afterwards we went out for dinner. I was showing them my new fancy foldy phone and the cousin was like "yeah, I really like Android phones over iPhones, I’ve always had iPhones because that’s what my dad always had " and then I realised the three of them had all grown up in the age of smartphones. I had to break it to them that I was fully an adult when the first iPhone came out, and that while it was cool I never saw the need to have a phone that was also an MP3/video player. I had a minidisc player and books.
Nah, screw that, as I get older, there’s people who weren’t even around for 9/11.
Probably why they’re so depressed.
But yeah, that age gap is way too big, I couldn’t do it.
I’m already friends with people who don’t remember a world without smartphones.
Being fair, all they’re missing in comparison of the era between “post 9/11 and pre smartphone” (from my experience) was a lot of snotty teachers saying YOU WON’T ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR WITH YOOOOUUUU
Eat shit Mrs. Miller, I do and have for the last decade and a half. It doesn’t make me much happier but at least I don’t need to remember how to do long division on paper anymore, and that does make me happy.
A coworker asked if I could help her cousin and their partner with something as they were moving in just a few blocks from my house. Afterwards we went out for dinner. I was showing them my new fancy foldy phone and the cousin was like "yeah, I really like Android phones over iPhones, I’ve always had iPhones because that’s what my dad always had " and then I realised the three of them had all grown up in the age of smartphones. I had to break it to them that I was fully an adult when the first iPhone came out, and that while it was cool I never saw the need to have a phone that was also an MP3/video player. I had a minidisc player and books.
Plenty of pre iPhone phones that could play MP3s or listen to radio though.
Most of Gen Z.
Literally people 25 and younger. Time’s arrow marches forward.