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<\/p>\nNineties babies will be dismayed to discover three-quarters of Gen Z have never heard of dial-up internet – and 60 per cent do not know about the Yellow Pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some 74 per cent of young Brits were blissfully unaware of every bleep, screech and ding it used to take to get online, new research has shown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And nearly two-thirds do not know the analogue pleasure of looking up a number in that iconic directory, which went out of print in 2019 after more than five decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their cluelessness comes despite the fact a fair number of Gen Z – those born from 1997 to 2012 – are themselves kids of the nineties.<\/p>\n
Another iconic object which defined the decade is a Walkman, which finally allowed music lovers to listen to their favourite Top 40 hits on the go.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But only 41 per cent of youngsters even recognised the cassette player, despite the revival of other older listening methods like vinyl in recent years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just 17 per cent, meanwhile, could name teletext – the TV when shown its distinctive coloured fonts.<\/p>\n
Also among the top ten nineties staples the youth of today did not know about were cathode-ray tube TVs, with their distinctive chunky shape and thick glass screens.<\/p>\n
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Nineties babies will be dismayed to discover three-quarters of Gen Z have never heard of dial-up internet – and 60 per cent do not know about the Yellow Pages. Pictured: File photo\u00a0<\/p>\n
Incredibly, they were also none the wiser about paper bus tickets with a magnetic strip or a CD-ROM Encyclopedia with its digital representation of facts and figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gone were the days of printed AA Route Planner directions by the time of their birth, as were the joys of updating your status on MSN Messenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And MiniDisc players, games cartridges you had to blow on and Saturday morning children’s TV like SMTV Live or Wacaday were things of the past.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The research produced by Muller Corner comes as the yoghurt brand brings back one of its own nineties icons – the Apple Crumble pot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes after the company has in recent years revived other retro flavours too, like the Mississippi mud pie, to create its Original range.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While for some it might be yoghurt that gives them a taste of the pre-millennium, others across all age groups most associated musical icons like the Spice Girls and Take That with the decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blockbuster Video and the beloved children’s programme Art Attack were also strongly connected to the nineties in the minds of Brits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And despite seeming not to know much about those years, half of Gen Z still felt a sense of nostalgia for them, as a time without phones.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some 47 per cent, meanwhile, longed for the face-to-face interaction they felt was more common back then.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In fact, nearly half (49 per cent) of youngsters went as far as to say they would rather live in the nineties than now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Muller marketing manager Helen Carswell said: ‘There’s a reason the 90s was such a great time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It was a decade of bold flavours, chunky gadgets, and unforgettable TV and movie characters that are still revered today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘From the snacks we enjoyed after school to the tech that felt like the future, everything came with a sense of excitement and simplicity that’s hard to replicate today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘That’s why we’re pleased to bring a corner of this retro period back with our Apple Crumble Inspired yogurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘One spoonful and you might just bust out the running man or electric slide.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite Gen Z’s nostalgia for the nineties as a time of greater connection, it seems the youth of today are not that great at it themselves.<\/p>\n
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Nearly two-thirds do not know the analogue pleasure of looking up a number in that iconic directory (pictured, file photo), which went out of print in 2019 after more than five decades<\/p>\n
Young service workers are infuriating customers by refusing to greet or make small talk while serving them, instead giving them what has been dubbed ‘the Gen Z stare’<\/a>.<\/p>\n Members of Generation Z, currently aged 13 to 28, are struggling to make small talk in shops, restaurants and cafes.<\/p>\n Instead, they will ‘stare’ at the person and wait until they speak first, or even outright ignore something that has been said, according to hundreds of infuriated customers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Those in their teens and twenties have been labelled emotionless by Millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers, who have banded together to call the younger generation out on their ‘poor social skills’.<\/p>\n