Before TikTok, before Instagram, before your every move was caught on someone’s Ring cam… there was Gen X. A generation raised by cereal, free-range parenting, and the sweet sound of a dial tone.

This music video by The Holderness Family truly captures what it was like to grow up in the wild west of the analog era. Need to find your friends? Start walking. Need a ride home? Just scream “outside the mall” during a collect call and hang up. Dinner? That was six free samples at the mall. Gourmet.

We snuck out, pulled pranks, prank-called, and somehow didn’t get arrested. Why?

No smartphones. No surveillance. No. Flipping. Evidence.

So grab your Walkman, hit play, and take a rad trip down memory lane.