I've actually met a 35-year-old who doesn't know...

[HardyGirl]

...what a 45 (record) is! I mean how is that possible? My niece is 35 and she knows what they are! She actually asked me "Is it a gun?" She'd never seen one and even told me, "I wouldn't even know how to LOAD a record." LOAD a record? OMG! I showed her what one looks like and she thought it kinda looked like the old style floppy discs. She told me the first music device she ever saw was a boom box. *faint*

I'm flabbergasted!

[Werewolf]

Introduce her to 8 tracks and Black and White TV sets and really mess with her mind.

[emeraldknight47]

And if you REALLY want to scramble her brains, show her an old, rotary dial telephone and tell her about the days when, if you wanted to make a phone call from anywhere other than home, you had to use a payphone and a coin!

[jwyblejr]

Or a rotary phone.

Crud. was beaten to the punch.

[Mikey]

Growing up I still remember the wonderful sound of our tubed radio warming up - and that was the 70's

Can ya tell my family didn't like throwing things out ?

[HardyGirl]

Actually, this is my temporary housemate. She does know B&W TV b/c she does like old movies. And there is a rotary phone (just for show) sitting on one of the endtables in my living room. I just couldn't believe she didn't know what records were, and she lives w/ ME!!

[daz71]

i'll send some betamax videos and you can watch her try to load them.vinyl is doing really well over here at the moment.

[Spyweb007]

I work with a 35 year old who didn't know who the Beatles were, seriously.

[HardyGirl]

What's really bad is that I know she's the same age as the kids were when I first started teaching in the 80s. And I had records for them of that period. Children's records like Care Bears and Rainbow Brite and Get Along Gang. She told me she loved We Are The World (which is where this whole conversation got started), and it was released first on a 45 single, (and then later the 12" version). Skating rinks in the 80s were using record players. She told me she never saw anyone operate a record player, and that she only knew a boombox. She asked me if the 45 records could be played on the same player I used for the "regular records" (meaning albums). I mean she had to have been pretty oblivious to what was happening around her not to see records at that point in time.

[Mikey]

Heck, I even grew up listening to 78's

For the longest time as a kid I thought Sugar Blues was the funniest song ever made.

[emeraldknight47]

I've still got a box of 78s stashed somewhere in my house. I've been known to pull them out and play a few now and again.

[Earth 2 Chris]

My mom had some 78s around the house. Those things were HEAVY!!!

Chris

[Hector]

That's just plain ignorance.

Heck, I know what a harpsichord is...and that was invented in the late Middle Ages, lol.

People should really make an effort to not be so closed off from history, seriously.

***I misspelled harpsichord, that's why I had to edit, I'm ignorant too, lol***

[Hector]

I work with a 35 year old who didn't know who the Beatles were, seriously.

Yet you and I know who Beethoven and Mozart were...and they have been dead for over 200 years.

What's his excuse?

Stuff like that really boggles my mind...

[Hector]

You would think computers and internet would produce more well informed people...but looks like many are regressing, again...it really makes me scratch my head in disbelief, lol...