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10 THINGS KIDS TODAY DON’T KNOW

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum. We work to promote a greater understanding of, and collective responsibility for, the biodiversity of BC, Canada, and the World.

beaty logo red  The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum. We work to promote a greater understanding of, and collective responsibility for, the biodiversity of BC, Canada, and the World. Come visit us on UBC campus - we’re located at 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. You can find more info at beatymuseum.ubc.ca. Follow us @beatymuseum on Twitter & Instagram and like us on Facebook.

This list was inspired by our feature exhibition shutterbug showcasing Ian Lane's photographs of local insects. The images on display are a selection of prints of the 10,000 slides Ian donated to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. While preparing for the exhibition one of the students assisting the team was flipping through a book of slides and wanted to know what they were - he'd never seen slides before. It made the rest of the team feel old!

Here are a few things that kids these days will never know:

1) “Be kind rewind”

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 2) The sound of dial-up internet

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3) Floppy disks

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4) Searching for change to make a pay phone call and having to dial the number from memory

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5) Mix tapes/CDs

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 6) Saturday morning cartoons

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7) Group messages on answering machines

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 8) Encyclopedias – before there was Wikipedia

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9) Waiting to see your pictures until the film has been developed

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  10) Gathering around a projector for a slide show.

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Teach your kids, enlighten yourself, or reminisce on the good old days by coming into the Beaty Biodiversity Museum to check out slides. We’ve got a light box on display with a recreation of one of Ian’s slides as well as a drawing activity based on slides.

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Slide display at Beaty Biodiversity Museum

If you'd rather look forward than backwards then check out our selfie station where you can dress up like a bug and snap a selfie with our selfie stick (yes we are selfie stick friendly!). Share with #BeatyBug on your social media platform of choice.

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