Iconic childhood experiences that kids today will never get to have - Children today literally have the world at their fingertips and will never know what it's like not to live in a digital era. The modern technology boom has completely changed the way we live our day-to-day lives. It also means that children will no longer experience certain activities, such as using a walkman or going to a store to rent movies.

In the following gallery remember some of the classic childhood experiences that modern-day kids will most likely never get to have.

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Walkman - The former cultural icon has since been replaced by digital devices. Children will never understand that the only way people used to be able to listen to music was by popping a cassette tape into this bulky contraption.

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Cassette tape - With the walkman comes the cassette tape, another outdated technology that kids will most likely never see. They will also never experience the dedicated and well-thought-out process of making mixtapes and giving them to friends or crushes as presents.

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Saturday morning cartoons - Waking up bright and early at 8 AM on Saturday mornings to watch cartoons is a thing of the past. With the availability of recording and streaming devices, children can watch cartoons any time, any day.

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Paper map - Until relatively recently, no one would dare begin a road trip without a stack of maps in the glove compartment. All children know now is the mechanized voice calling out the directions from the Google Maps app on a smartphone.

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Movie rentals - Blockbuster went out of business as it just couldn't stand up to the competition of companies, like Netflix, who offer streaming services. Children will never have the experience of adding their name to a waiting list in order to rent a popular movie that never seems to be available in the store.

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CDs - Kids will never understand what it's like to lend a CD to a friend and have it returned looking like it survived an apocalypse and completely unplayable.

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Camera film - Do you remember the anxiety of bringing your camera rolls to the store to get developed and hoping that the photos didn't end up completely ruined or blurry? Smartphones and digital cameras will prevent children from ever having this experience.

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Metal playgrounds - Playgrounds are built with safer materials these days, so children will never experience burning their little tooshies off on a hot, metal slide.

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Pay phones - As pay phones become less and less common, children will never know what placing a collect call means.

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Bake sales - It may have once been a common activity to share baked goods at school for someone's birthday or have neighborhood bake sales, but with a heightened consciousness around allergies and health, these are becoming far less common.

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Game Boy - Cell phones, iPads, and other devices provide the gaming fun that was once had with the modest Game Boy. Children these days will never know what it's like to hold a technological device that doesn't have a backlight.

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Tamagotchi - Kids these days will never understand the agonizing pain experienced when your Tamagotchi died. The simple technology was highly coveted in the 90s and while it still exists, the level of hype will never be the same.

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Print TV listings - More and more people are opting for online versions of publications, newspapers, and magazines. Weekly printed TV listings used to be a coffee-table staple for knowing when a program would be showing. Now, all you have to do is a quick Google search to find this information.

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Phonebooks - It's hard to believe that these giant, yellow books used to appear on everyone's front doorstep. Will children ever understand what it's like to page through the tissue-thin book to find a number or what it means to be "unlisted?" Probably not.

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Encyclopedia - The giant multi-volume encyclopedia that used to take up an entire shelf is now gone. Modern-day children will never understand what it was like when internet research didn't exist.

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Memorizing phone numbers - Most adults will remember having to memorize the phone numbers of their house landline, friends, and family back in the day. With the convenience of smartphones, children these days will most likely never have to memorize a phone number.

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Photo albums - As photography has become an almost completely digital experience, it is possible to store photos on computer hard drives or in the cloud. Less and less people are printing photographs, meaning that children now flip through photos on their cell phone photo library instead of a physical book.

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Libraries - Children are more likely to own a Kindle than a library card. Digital books are becoming a more popular way to read and less children will experience trips to the library.

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Writing a check - online banking has made transferring money as simple as one click. Writing a check will soon be obsolete, and most children eventually won't even recognize a check if they see one.

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Pencil sharpener - After the invention of the electric pencil sharpener, this model was slowly phased out. Modern-day children will most likely never experience mechanically sharpening their pencils at school.

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Cursive writing - Learning and writing in cursive used to be a requirement in many schools. Nowadays, cursive classes are replaced with typing lessons.

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Floppy disk - If you hand a ten-year-old a floppy disk and ask them to tell you what it is, don't be surprised if the only response you get is a blank stare.

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Writing letters -

Snail mail is a thing of the past. Emails and text messages are the way we communicate now and children will most likely never know the joy of fetching the mail and discovering a letter from a friend or pen pal.

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Landlines - Cell phones have rendered the landline phone almost useless as more people just prefer using just their cell phone for everything. Therefore, children will never know the terror of calling their crush and risking his or her mother answering the phone instead.

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Rotary phones - Forget the landline and pay phone, modern-day children will never lay their hands on a rotary phone unless it's in an antique shop.

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Projector - This bulky piece of technology used to be a staple in every classroom. Modern projectors are much more discrete and compact—there are even projectors that can now hook up to a smartphone!

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VCR - VHS tapes and VCRs are now only sold in second-hand and antique shops. Children will never experience the frustration of popping in a movie only to find that someone forgot to rewind it to the beginning.

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Furby - There are many toys the children of today will never hold, and Furby has a good chance of being included among them. The debate continues around whether this is actually a good thing—did anyone ever figure out how to turn off the annoying creature?

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Slinky -

The once-omnipresent children's toy has been replaced with more modern toys. Children may never know the hours of fun that can be had watching the metal object "walk" down the stairs over and over.

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