I'm not going to say that today's kids have it easy.....but they have it pretty easy. The world is constantly at their fingertips, to the point where they barely even have to exert brain power to do something.

I've seen 10-year-olds walking down the street with their faces in a smartphone.

I mean, millennials might be the most self-absorbed generation, but at least we can do mental math without pulling a phone out and asking Siri what 2+2 is. We may have been born along with the internet, but we still had our fair share of struggles, struggles that ultimately defined who we are today.

1. Having one phone, the "Home Phone"

Bonus points if your phone was connected to your dial-up and thus never being able to use the phone and internet at the same time.

2. Having to memorize phone numbers

You knew your best friend's phone number by heart and you could probably still recite it today. Now there's no use in memorizing phone numbers with caller-ID.

3. Dial-up

BAAADUNNNNNN DA DUN DA DUNNNNNNN. Internet wasn't always around us, floating in the air, kids.

4. Sharing the "family computer"

Maybe kids still have this today, but I'm talking about those thick as hell, clunky, bulbous computers that your parents kept in their own room and you had to ask permission to use.

5. Taking a selfie without a front-facing camera

"Please let me look good, pleeeeease let me look good." *looks at the picture* "I don't look good."

6. Renting a movie at Blockbuster

Half of the time they didn't have your movie and the other half your parents didn't want to drive you to the movie store.

7. Keeping your Tamagotchi alive

Do you think there's a world record for how long someone has kept a Tamagotchi alive? Because mine would never last more than 3 days.

8. Making paper bag textbook covers

This was actually pretty fun until you saw someone with a cooler stretchy fabric textbook cover.

9. Figuring out that sea monkeys aren't actually monkeys

What even are they? I swear someone just put the dusty crap that's left over in cereal boxes in some water and capitalized on our stupidity.

10. Your Ferbies turning on at night

I honestly think those things were possessed.

11. Getting Silly-Putty in the carpet

There's still a stain on my carpet where I ground in some silly-putty and frantically tried to clean. I put a lamp on top of it to hide it. Don't tell my mom.

12. Nickelodeon turning off their channel for "Worldwide Day of Play"

I remember turning on the TV to Nickelodeon and there just being a title screen that said: "Go outside and play!" I don't think I've ever been that angry again in my life. I had just had a hard day in elementary school and Nickelodeon is trying to play me like this??? Oh hell no, Disney it is.

13. Breaking your ankles with a skip-it

I just recently tried a skip-it again and guess what happened? Yeah, you know what happened.

14. Having nightmares from Goosebumps

Honestly, the movie about the Halloween mask still scares me to this day.

15. Never achieving your dream of being slimed on Nick

Looking back, why did I ever want to have green shit poured all over me? Unless that green stuff is money, no thank you.

16. Texting without a full keyboard

"Back in my day, I had to hit the 7 key four times to type out the letter S!"

Overall, these struggles have made millennial kids stronger. Good luck to generation Z, I hope your eyes don't melt from constantly staring at screens!