25 things a twenty-five year old can do today that was not possible 25 years ago.
1. You'd be stuck with your specs and would probably be known as four-eyes, as disposable lenses were only invented in 1987
2. "Papa don't preach... I'm keeping my baby" - you'd definitely be keeping your baby if you were doing the deed; the morning after pill was only invented in 1988.
3. Drat! No cloning Bambi - the first genetically-engineered animal was made (I mean made is the right word here- you can't possibly be born) in 1988
4. No Blackberry, no iPhone, no Galaxy, no apple vs Samsung war as the first mobile only came into existence in 1988. (Probably, they were fighting about which boom box has the best features and great battery life ? After all, that's important when it's on your shoulder)
5. No blogs, no Google, no YouTube as the world wide web was only perfected in 1990! Oh and no Justin Bieber - no offense Biebs, but how would Usher have taken note of you without YouTube?
6. Which leads me to my next point - No email! Omg! We would actually have to sit and write letters... Using pens... And paper... And send them with a pigeon (lol, no not really.. We did have a working postal system by then but that was an awesome image)
7. "Hello" "Oh how are you?" "I'm great, yeah really busy" "You're probably going to be so pissed right... Yeah cos this is my voicemail" That whole situation would have been impossible without its ancestor - the digital answering machine which came to us in '91.
8. No Uggs and no Crocs! (Can't say that we're better off having lived through them)
9.No Spice Girls - the epitome of modern pop culture! (No extremely anorexic Victoria, oooh and no Spice Girl Shoes)
10.No Viagra - sorry Hef! That would have sucked for you!
11.No Mandela (sadly he was still in prison)
12. No Twilight ... No elaboration required
13. No Jerry Maguire which in turn means none of the most famous movie lines ; I mean, can you conceive of a world without: "Show me the money" or "You complete me" and my favorite "You had me at hello" -life would suck
14. No mega upload, bearshare, torrent sites - if you wanted to get music from a friend, you'd better have a blank cassette. Although blank cassettes were great for lyrics!
15. No "War on terror" which means we could still travel on a plane with a pair of tweezers which is so necessary.
16. No Digital Photo Frames, I mean we'd actually have to print stills and put them in alien places like albums or those strange squares on walls called frames.
17. Before the world of Global Positioning Systems, more commonly known as the GPS, there were maps and I do not know how to read them! A special commendation goes out to Garmin - thank you.
18. No Hipstamatic, Instagram and Old Photo pro... The fact is, if we were around in the 80's all your pics would look like that! Embrace the red-eye zombie look everyone.
19. No Internet shopping, no eBay and no amazon - we would just stick to looking at magazines.
20. Before the cheque account - there was a cheque book, and if you were twenty-five 25 years ago, you'd be using it!
21. No E! Entertainment which means: No Kardashians, no Dish, No Fashion Police - how would I get my daily gossip dose mmm?
22. Reality TV! Thank you! Okay to be fair, the first ever reality show was aired in the 70s, but the birth of reality as we know it today (sexy, cut-throat, controversial) was born in 1992 - and we still can't get enough!
23. No Nespresso machines - what did the lazy people, who wanted coffee as much as the next person do?
24. Listen to Michael Jackson and weep (if you were around 25 years ago, he would still be alive and you'd be able to watch him live)
25. Type an entire blogpost on a tablet pc... Because you'd be using a type-writer, so we win!
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