▲Fifty years ago, this might've been better known as witchcraft.

▲You mean people spend money to look like they don't have that much money?

▲They're at home, where their phone is. Right?

▲What a waste of film!

▲Instead of lighting up leaves, kids these days are sucking on what looks like a USB flash drive—another incomprehensible part of modern life.

▲That’s a hefty price for something you can get for free…

▲You mean people don’t like second-hand smoke anymore?

▲How strange that people will call it a bonding experience, and pay a pretty price for it!

▲It was all about getting men up to space, and now we're sending robots.

▲How far can a flimsy plastic card get you?

▲And one that's hanging on the wall? But where are all the mechanics?

▲People of the future seem to walk less and less…

▲You can buy plane tickets, read something educational, order food, and send work emails, all while relieving yourself.

▲Recording shows, skipping ads, picking from different movies at home, and pausing live TV is a modern luxury. Even the younger kids today will never know what it was like to fight for the remote.

▲How can an office be a 'virtual' space in your home?

▲The phrase "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" kind of implied that if it did break, you should fix it.

▲And yet never speaking to your next-door neighbor...

▲Then again, it's hard to find a modern phone that's solely a phone.

▲Companies now specifically make products that can't be fixed by the average consumer, and their specialty repairmen charge such a high price that you might as well buy a new one.

▲Then having them hang over your head for the next decade...

▲The same goes for your car!

▲Organic relationships that come and go are a thing of the past, and now it's more common to collect more and more "friends" till death do you log out.

▲You mean you want to pay someone else to have fun with your dog?

▲You can have relationships over text messaging, you can order food and clothing online, enjoy endless entertainment at your fingertips, and never face a salesperson.

▲Even the things people believed just 10 years ago, like "don’t meet strangers from the Internet," have been completely replaced with apps like Uber.

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Sending little images of smiley faces, piles of smiling poop, and everything in between would not fly for grown adults half a century ago.

▲From video games to advertisements, the acceptable level of graphic violence and inappropriate imaging is much higher.

▲Sure, people would go on dates with people they'd met through newspaper ads, but there never seemed to be so many fish in the sea as there are at your fingertips.

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There is firstly the question of who even cares, and secondly the question of how that computer fits in your pocket.

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When was the last time someone dropped by because they saw your porch light was on? There's no more "dropping by"—there is only texting "Hey I’m outside" instead of using the doorbell.

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In another expression of modern times, people of the Internet came together on a Reddit thread to think out loud (sort of) about what everyday things we do now that would have seemed absolutely ridiculous half a century ago.

Click through to see the mind-blowing results.