They didn't stop selling VHS in stores until the mid 2000s. When the PlayStation 2 came out it helped push DVDs which were still new. Somebody born in 2002 would have been exposed to VHS. Maybe saying 2012 you'd have a case.
Gen Z asked to name this 90s electronic device, and they are dumbfounded
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Devilinurear
Veteran
You just in old people homes.
We're maybe 20 years removed from them selling those items in stores. Unless you are literally around 15 years old or younger you'd have been exposed to that stuff as a child.
Also people have family members that are old.
Devilinurear
Veteran
You are in old people homes anyone else would put away technology they don't use. Not leave it out hoping for a comeback. Only old people do that. I had VCR when I was a child. I put it way when I got a DVD player
Chrishaune
Veteran
Why would they know what that is?
We have had CDs, DVDs, Flash drives, solid state drives, streaming devices, and cloud storage since VCRs were relevant.
This also shows that the world always needs teachers to inform the youth about what came before them.....
We have had CDs, DVDs, Flash drives, solid state drives, streaming devices, and cloud storage since VCRs were relevant.
This also shows that the world always needs teachers to inform the youth about what came before them.....
Breh, OP posted a clip about Gen Z not knowing about technology that was available when they were born. You made a horrible comparison and still are trying to have the last word about said horrible comparison.
There is no detraction on anyone's side besides you. The entire debate is that it's pathetic to not know shyt that was available 20 years ago. He talking to college kids and not 8 year olds. You just talking to talk at this point
Blackrogue
Superstar
When my dad told me not to touch his shyt when i was a kid 
He had records of stevie wonder, James Brown, Paul Simon, Millie Jackson
Nevertheless I scratched a few things I wasn't supposed to
By the time we get to regular radios and speakers his shyt was so loud we would test when he's not home how far out we could hear it. It'd shake the glass in the house.
I have a homie who as a hobby now finds and restores old machines that people not using and giving them life again
Gen Z are the children of Gen X. They for the most part except the last few of them born 2010-2012 would have been exposed to a VCR watching movies as kids. Hell it wasn't until the mid 2010s that Netflix started becoming mainstream for streaming. Before that home video was way more common.
If you told me they didn't know what a MiniDisc was I'd believe it. If you told me they didn't know what Betamax was I'd believe it. I think that video is staged.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
I use to accept this but I'm not sure if I do anymore.
For what it's worth I do know what a telegraph machine looks like because I've seen them in movies. Mimeograph, not so much. Likewise, I've never seen an 8 track tape in person before but I know what it looks like.
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
It might just be education level. I did a report on Granville T. Woods in school for a black history project so I'd be able to identify it. But also just watching films you'd know about old technology.
This is really a microwave generation where they don't look back at historical references. Thats probably why they think everything they come up with is new....when in reality
This. I know of old tech just from old movie pop culture references. I mean shoot, stranger things is 40% nostalgia.
But then again, perhaps they never watch movies that take place before 2010
or they prefer to watch skibidi streamers 6 hours a day instead of going to the cinema 