- Millennials are people born between 1981 and 1997 who are between 21 and 37 years old in 2018.
- Many millennials aren't familiar with some of the technological and cultural relics from earlier eras.
- For instance, most millennials probably aren't familiar with Brownie cameras, sea monkeys, or 'H.R. Pufnstuf.'
You can bet most millennials have heard of Snapchat, emojis, AirPods, and Drake.
But sea monkeys, Brownie cameras, milk chutes, and Ricky Nelson?
Not so much.
The Pew Research Center defines millennials as those who are between 21 and 37 years old in 2018, on the cusp of Generation X (and including the youngest "Xennials") and followed by Generation Z. They're the largest generation so far, and they influence everything from fashion trends to office layouts.
But they don't know everything.
Below, find 23 things that for many people are fond memories — but for millennials, they're almost unheard of.
Green Stamps
The Sperry and Hutchinson company's wildly popular Green Stamps program was one of the first ever retail loyalty programs.
Shoppers at grocery stores, gas stations, and department stores would earn the small S&H stamps of various denominations with each purchase. They could then collect the stamps in special booklets and redeem them for rewards in S&H stores or catalogs.
The Green Stamps program was especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s, although S&H has since converted its model to digital "Greenpoints." But should you happen to be stashing a physical Green Stamps booklet in your attic, you're in luck — the company is still redeeming those for gift cards.
8-inch floppy disks
Even millennials are old enough to have used floppy disks in their younger days. But few of them likely had exposure to the 8-inch behemoths that predated the 3 1/2-inch floppy disks most are familiar with.
Eight-inch floppy disks were the first variety that were commercially available, introduced by IBM in 1971. In the late 1970s, they were replaced by 5 1/4-inch disks, which were in turn superseded by the 3 1/2-inch format, which ruled until the advent of USB drives in the early 2000s.
Tab soda
Tab was the most popular diet soft drink of the 1970s. Known for its bright pink packaging, enigmatic name, and slight chemical aftertaste, Tab quickly dominated the sparse sugarless-soda industry upon its introduction in 1963.
Health scares contributed to Tab's demise after scientists linked the drink's sweetener, sodium saccharine, to cancer. But the real nail in coffin for Tab was the introduction of another Coca-Cola company product, Diet Coke, in 1982.
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