Wired had a great list of 100 things that the youth of tomorrow will miss. My comments will be off to the side.

Audio-Visual Entertainment

1. Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something. ***Is this a bad thing?***
2. Super-8 movies and cine film of all kinds. ***Google reminded me this is moving film and 8mm***
3. Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. See what happens when you give a Walkman to todays teenager. *** Yep, better sound, and a lot smaller iPod***
4. The number of TV channels being a single digit. I remember it being a massive event when Britain got its fourth channel. ***Meh, pros and cons here***
5. Standard-definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room. ***That sounds like a dang big tv!***
6. Rotary dial televisions with no remote control. You know, the ones where the kids were the remote control. ***Thank God for remotes.... A lazy person's best friend***
7. High-speed dubbing.
8. 8-track cartridges. *chuckles*
9. Vinyl records. Even today's DJs are going laptop or CD. ***And there is even a DJ Guitar Hero with a disk-looking thing!***
10. Betamax tapes.
11. MiniDisc.
12. Laserdisc: the LP of DVD.
13. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations. (Digital tuners + HD radio bork this concept.)
14. Shortwave radio.
15. 3-D movies meaning red-and-green glasses. ***Anyone know why they had the colors and why ones of today don't have color?***
16. Watching TV when the networks say you should. Tivo and Sky+ are slowing killing this one. ***Not only that, but the internet and news coverage***
17. That there was a time before ‘reality TV.'
    

Computers and Videogaming

18. Wires. OK, so they're not gone yet, but it won't be long ***This is a good thing. Though I dunno if they will be gone anytime soon***
19. The scream of a modem connecting. ***ahahahaha. Agreed*
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer ***Still agree***
21. 5- and 3-inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage. ***God those floppies were huge***
22. Using jumpers to set IRQs.
23. DOS. ***Nope, future generations won't ever have to work for their information... All those prompts were so much fun!***
24. Terminals accessing the mainframe.
25. Screens being just green (or orange) on black.
26. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it.
27. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure they've all got a different ID.
28. Counting in kilobytes. ***No Gigs??? :O***
29. Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade.
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it'll load this time. ***Gooooood times***
31. Turning a playstation on its end to try and get a game to load. ***Even more good times***
32. Joysticks. ***Only liked them for flight sims***
33. Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive. ***I still do. lol***
34. Booting your computer off of a floppy disk.
35. Recording a song in a studio.
    

The Internet

36. NCSA Mosaic.
37. Finding out information from an encyclopedia. ***Wikipedia!***
38. Using a road atlas to get from A to B. ***Pssh, we'll have flying cars in the future. ***
39. Doing bank business only when the bank is open. ***Online banking rocks***
40. Shopping only during the day, Monday to Saturday. ***Well, you have Wal Mart and ebay...***
41. Phone books and Yellow Pages. ***Online, thanks. Though I still use a physical one too***
42. Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees. *** Haha. Dead trees. We're going to run out of trees eventually***
43. Actually being able to get a domain name consisting of real words. ***I guess eventually "www.gaergqarhwejrefeddf.com" will be a site...***
44. Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it. ***Post? Like the pony express? :P***
45. Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment. ***Ah, when stalking meant peeking in windows...***
46. Carrying on a correspondence with real letters, especially the handwritten kind. ***Having to write a letter was such a pain***
47. Archie searches.
48. Gopher searches.
49. Concatenating and UUDecoding binaries from Usenet.
50. Privacy. ***What a concept***
51. The fact that words generally don't have num8er5 in them. ***gtg, the d!nn3r was gr8 and l33t***
52. Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs.
53. Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something. ***Yo ho ho, welcome to the slow world***
54. The time before botnets/security vulnerabilities due to always-on and always-connected PCs
55. The time before PC networks.
56. When Spam was just a meat product — or even a Monty Python sketch.
    

Gadgets

57. Typewriters. ***gasp***
58. Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk? *** 35mm will soon fade out... Forget anything before that. . The digital age is HERE!***
59. Sending that film away to be processed.
60. Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.
61. CB radios. *Breaker, breaker. This is Texas Ranger. 10-4 good buddy***
62. Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away. ***People will always get lost imho***
63. Rotary-dial telephones. ***Can you say touch sensative Smartphones?***
64. Answering machines. *** We still have one in the house***
65. Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart ***Yay powerpoint***
66. Pay phones. ***I think they still have a few in ghetto ATL***
67. Phones with actual bells in them.
68. Fax machines. ***Dunno how long before these go out of style... I think it will be awhile***
69. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them *sucked when the bag broke...Or overflowed***
    

Everything Else

70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen to during a long drive.
71. Remembering someone's phone number. *I'm really bad at this now...***
72. Not knowing who was calling you on the phone. ***Terrible experience***
73. Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie. ***Yo ho ho***
74. Toys actually being suitable for the under-3s.
75. LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door. ***These are still fun***
76. Waiting for the television-network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theater. ***I still do this too***
77. Relying on the 5-minute sport segment on the nightly news for baseball highlights.
78. Neat handwriting. ***I never had it***
79. The days before the nanny state.
80. Starbuck being a man.
81. Han shoots first.
82. "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they've already seen episode III, so it's no big surprise. ***lol***
83. Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC. ***Yep, fried is bad now***
84. Trig tables and log tables.
85. "Don't know what a slide rule is for .” ***Slide rules are the devil***
86. Finding books in a card catalog at the library.
87. Swimming pools with diving boards. ***Since when have they gotten rid of these?***
88. Hershey bars in silver wrappers.
89. Sliding the paper outer wrapper off a Kit-Kat, placing it on the palm of your hand and clapping to make it bang loudly. Then sliding your finger down the silver foil of break off the first finger ***Yeah, never did that***
90. A Marathon bar (what a Snickers used to be called in Britain).
91. Having to manually unlock a car door.
92. Writing a check. ***still do this***
93. Looking out the window during a long drive. ***Still do this***
94. Roller skates, as opposed to blades.
95. Cash. ***Can't beat the smell!***
96. Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the internet. ***I see this being the future as books go online***
97. Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall. ***Yeah, I did this. The local arcade closed a few weeks ago. :(***
98. Omni Magazine
99. A physical dictionary — either for spelling or definitions. ***The internet rocks!***
100. When a ‘geek' and a ‘nerd' were one and the same. ***ahahahahahaha. Nerddrop anyone?***