30 Problems We Had As Kids That No One Needs To Worry About Today!

As millennials, we don’t really get the problems that today’s kids have. And to be honest, we often don’t even understand the context of their problems. Or have you on TikTok lately? On the other hand, we had problems between the 80s and 2000s that are hard to explain today. Why did we have “Anti-Skip” on our CD players, for example? And why did we rub bananas onto our CDs?

We don’t think we can teach today’s kids anything with this article – but it might at least help you “oldies“ remember a thing or two… Here are 30 everyday problems that only millennials will remember!

#1 Starting a download and seeing a wait time like this

#2 This trauma

On this day 15 years ago my moms picked up the phone and interrupted a file at 96% I'd been downloading from Napster for 17 hours.
— ManSitChoAzzDown (@AngryManTV) September 8, 2017

#3 This safety measure

Removing the faceplate of your car stereo so it wouldn’t get stolen. from r/nostalgia

#4 Waiting days for your disposable camera’s pictures to develop, only to find out they’re useless:

Source: flickr.com

#5 This PC madness

#6 Carrying our music collection around was not quite so easy

#7 Printing out the route before you got in the car…

Today's kids will never know how we were the original GPS right from the passenger side. And you better had read fast and correct pic.twitter.com/OyiBTMJFcD
— Beyonce’s Thigh Meat (@AyanaTheDIVA) July 6, 2017

#8 Mobiles back then were complicated

Quelle: facebook.com

#9 Having to press a button three times before you got the right letter

#TodaysKidsWillNeverKnow
懐かしすぎる😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/rrX4x182fu
— Aaty (@Sweeeeeeeetieee) December 31, 2017

#10 Running out of credit on your phone

#11 Hobbling yourself with a scooter slam to the ankle

Getting hit on the ankle by a razor scooter…. from r/nostalgia

#12 Wow! We could fit a whole 21 songs onto our burnt CDs

#13 Not getting added by your high school crush on Myspace

#14 We used to pay a lot for a ringtone

We used to pay £1.50 for a polyphonic ringtone or wallpaper we could easily get from google now pic.twitter.com/LwYuyIhoGo
— Amy (@amiiwg) September 4, 2018

#15 Losing a part of your super-cool awesome pen

#16 When you were recording your new ringtone off the radio and someone started making noise

In 2004 When you was recording yo new ringtone off the radio and somebody started makin noise pic.twitter.com/LBx6zxyRwh
— Steven (@IAmAhjani) August 17, 2016

#17 When the one film you wanted to rent had already been rented

#18 Seeing this heinous sight on your XBox

#19 It hurt but you just had to do it

Some of you guys never went swimming as a kid and tried to force a boogie board underwater only for it to shoot back up to the surface and hit u in the face and it shows
— hay (@heavendols) February 13, 2019

#20 Listening to your CD player and trying to stay cool while it kept skipping

These panasonic CD players! Anti-skip technology from r/nostalgia

#21 Spending hours looking for the album art on Google just to have none of it save

#22 Taking the CD out and seeing this:

#23 …and trying to solve the problem

#24 When we infected our family PC with viruses after downloading from LimeWire

#25 That tear in your Livestrong getting bigger and bigger:

My life just fell apart #IStill #LiveStrong #LAK pic.twitter.com/PfSQ3Qv97J
— MannySmokes (@MannySmokes) May 29, 2015

#26 Writing on your totally cool Converse sneakers and always misspelling something

#27 “Quickly” scrolling through TV Guide and missing the ONE channel you wanted to see

#thestruggleisreal #tv #KidsTheseDays #KidsTodayWillNeverKnow #meme pic.twitter.com/cKV8Zdgplm
— Kat K. (@Kattkuh) February 11, 2016

#28 When getting kicked out of the top 8 friends list on Myspace could end a friendship

Remember ranking your MySpace top 8 friends? from r/nostalgia

#29 When you wanted to play your Game Boy, but the lights were already out

#30 Cleaning the mouse was an annoying job

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30 everyday problems that only millennials will remember!

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