{"id":175,"date":"2025-09-15T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/15\/gen-zer-used-only-tech-from-the-1990s-for-a-week\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:57:00","slug":"gen-zer-used-only-tech-from-the-1990s-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/15\/gen-zer-used-only-tech-from-the-1990s-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gen Zer used only tech from the 1990s for a week. Here’s how he felt at the end."},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of us who are old enough to remember the ’90s<\/a> can recall how quickly it seemed like technology<\/a> was moving at the time. Now that era <\/a>seems quaint and slow in comparison, which has many people\u2014even those who weren’t alive then\u2014yearning for those simpler times.<\/a> <\/p>

As convenient as modern smartphones, computers, and the like are, they’ve added layers of complexity and noise to our lives, prompting some people to question whether it’s worth it. Even young people who have grown up immersed in digital screens are taking a step back and wondering what life would be like without modern tech. <\/p>

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One Gen Zer, who goes by Lucky Boy<\/a>, even went so far as to experiment with ditching all of his devices and only using technology from the 1990s<\/a> for a week. No laptop, no iPad, no smartphone, no Kindle. No Spotify, no online gaming, no streaming movies. Just a Tamagotchi, an iMac computer (that ended up not working, forcing him to use pad of paper for his writing), a Sony Discman and CDs, books from the library, a TV\/VCR combo (that also ended up not working), and a flip phone that was as close as he could get to a phone from the 90s that would still function. <\/p>

“One of my goals this week has been to live more life,” Lucky Boy said. “I feel like people in the ’90s experienced more of life, whereas me, in 2024, I spend most of my day staring at a screen. The library, for example, is an experience of life that we’ve sort of eliminated because now we can just go online and order a new book or download it straight to our Kindle. We lose that real-world experience of searching through shelves of books, trying to find the one you’re looking for, and so if everything we do becomes digital, we’re no longer living life in the real world. And so I just want to disconnect from the modern internet world and try to live more in the real world.”<\/p>

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