What's a Sound from Your Childhood That Younger Generations Will Never Hear?
If you're 30 years old or older, you could hear the classic, screeching "dial-up internet" tone . . . and be transported back to a time filled with the Smashing Pumpkins and Blockbuster video. If you're younger than that, it probably means NOTHING to you.
Millennials, Gen X'ers, and Boomers online are listing the nostalgic SOUNDS from their childhoods . . . that the younger generations won't hear. Like . . .
1. A floppy disk being read.
2. The clink of those metal seatbelt buckles.
3. A cassette rewinding faster and faster and faster, until that final thump.
4. That squeaky sound of the AIM chat door opening when a friend logged on.
5. A host asking, "Smoking or Non-Smoking?"
6. The phone recording, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."
7. The cha-chunk of a manual credit card machine thingy.
8. The squeak of the crank windows on cars.
9. The staticky sound from those gray computer speakers when a call was coming in.
10. Clapping out the chalkboard erasers.
11. That little static discharge fizzle when you turned off an old tube TV.
12. Casey Kasem on the radio.
13. The sound of a quarter dropping into the coin return of a pay phone or vending machine.
14. Dot matrix printers.
15. The sound Kitt made on "Knight Rider".
16. A REAL old-schooler said, "The bell being physically shaken at school to signify the beginning and ending of lesson periods." Someone else joked, "Wow. We found Laura Ingalls' social media account!"
17. The intercom at K-Mart telling you your parents are looking for you.
Originally posted on June 4th, 2025