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• Places

  Going to Blockbuster Was Half the Fun of Watching the Movie

  Before streaming, choosing a movie meant Blockbuster, video store aisles, employee recommendations, pizza next door and a whole ritual before pressing play.

  5 min read

• Growing Up

  Millennials Were the Last Generation That Had to Be Bored

  Millennials had plenty of entertainment. The difference was that it eventually ran out—and we had to figure out what to do next.

  6 min read

• Growing Up

  The Things We Didn't Know We Were Doing for the Last Time

  From AIM and MapQuest to burned CDs and being unreachable, ordinary parts of millennial life disappeared before we realized they were ending.

  7 min read

• Screens

  The Time Machine: What Dazed and Confused Preserved About Being Young Before Smartphones

  Dazed and Confused preserves a teenage world built on cars, gathering places and word of mouth, when finding the night was part of the night.

  9 min read

• Sound

  We Used to Listen to the Whole Album

  We used to buy a CD, press play and live with every track. Streaming gave us almost every song ever recorded. It also changed the way we listen.

  5 min read

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