100 things your kids may never know about

# Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.
# Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control.
# Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio b0rk this concept.)
# Shortwave radio.
# 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses.
# Watching TV when the networks say you should.
# Finding out information from an encyclopedia.
# Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
# Doing bank business only when the bank is open.
# Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday.
# Phone books and Yellow Pages.
# Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees.
# Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it.
# Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
# Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind.
# binaries from Usenet.
# Privacy.

more:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/