Things All Millennials Will Recognize But Gen Zers Definitely Can’t

There’s no escaping it: Millennials are old now. But if you need proof, here’s a bunch of photos of stuff that millennials will remember well. Even though it’s all been obsolete for decades. Take a look and ride the wave of millennial nostalgia…

Disposable Cameras

In retrospect, the idea of a disposable camera sounds absurd. It’s literally a piece of advanced technology that you throw away after using for a single afternoon. This wouldn’t fly in today’s more environmentally friendly society.

iPods

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You might be prepared for the idea that the original iPod is a bit dated now. But show literally any iPod (other than an iPod Touch, which doesn’t count) to a child today and they won’t know how to use it. Or why it was necessary. All versions of the iPod music player are now obsolete.

Floppy Disks

In the modern era, kids see this iconic shape as little more than the “save” symbol on a computer. Once upon a time, these poorly-named “floppy” disks were our lives. You could fit a whopping 1.44 megabytes of data onto a floppy disk.

Although why anyone would ever need more than this amount of storage seemed baffling.

Corded Phones

Modern kids don’t know why ending a phone call is called “hanging up.” They’ve never had occasion to hang up a phone, and have never enjoyed the tactile pleasure of winding a pencil into the middle of a curly phone cord.