People Are Sharing The Shocking Things People Under 40 Will Never Understand And It’s Making Me Feel About 100,000,000 Years Old

Posted on Nov 10, 2026 UTC

A few days ago, X The Everything Site user @AbakpaJob asked a simple, yet very important question:

Needless to say... the replies were... abundant. Here are a bunch of things that kids today might not fully appreciate:

1. The most casual phone drop:

2. The infamous "Computer Room":

3. This magical device:

4. The price of texting:

5. I mean... the horror:

6. The book with all the answers:

7. The ancient technology we used to have:

8. Suffering through commercials:

9. Getting absolutely hot boxed by a dude spraying deodorant:

10. Having to sweat it out to send some texts:

11. What TRUE suspense is:

12. The Harry Potter speedreading:

13. The 2000s love-letter:

14. The natural sequence of events:

15. The loudest sounds on the planet:

16. Phones with a distance limit:

17. The most boring photo albums ever:

18. This wonderful device:

19. Commercials like this every 3 minutes:

20. Having an encylopedic knowledge of numbers:

21. Falling asleep in the back of a class with this on:

22. A beautiful cornicopia of phones:

23. So many episodes:

24. Just everything being open all the time:

25. High fashion looking like Dwight from The Office:

26. Forcing people to hear your music:

27.

28. The best value around:

29. That old Andrew Jackson face:

30. One charge lasting an eternity:

31. What this logo is:

32. Tiny, tiny TVs:

33. Easy replacements:

34. The power of a $20 bill:

35. And the most worthy cause:

Been there.

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