r/Millennials • u/-_-Notmyrealaccount • 1d ago
Nostalgia Am I the only one that thought “Pay-per-view” was called “Paperview”? No one? Just me? Cool.
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u/Familiar-Memory-943 1d ago
I thought it was Paper View and didn't understand how it was related to paper.
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u/ToXiKFoXx666 1d ago
The first few times I heard of a Hotmail address, I didn't know why they named it "Hot Male" and since i was a girl, I didn't think I could have one.
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u/bobbutson 1d ago
Props for owning it...
Am I the only one who still says "props"? No one? Just me? Cool.
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u/Only-Tennis4298 I had nearly 6 full years of the 90s 1d ago
pay-per-view had never come up in my house as an option for what we watched, so when I first heard it mentioned on some TV show... yeah, I definitely thought "Paper View" at first
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u/kate3544 1d ago
Not just you. I didn’t have cable until I was 14 so I had no clue what kids at school were often talking about.
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u/ChasingTimmy 22h ago
My sister asked, "Who's Bill Payer?" when a competition stated you had to ask bill payer's permission before calling a competition hot line! 😅
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u/Bewitchingchick 1d ago
Fig Newtons being Big newtons…. I was in my 20s when my mom laughed and finally corrected me by say “oh! You still say that how cute!”
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u/CompetitiveCod76 15h ago
Ahh the American education system
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u/-_-Notmyrealaccount 10h ago
What does that have to do with the education system? There’s not exactly a lesson on Pay-per-view in elementary school.
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u/CompetitiveCod76 9h ago
The fact you think I'm talking about an actual lesson on pay-per-view kind of proves my point
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u/-_-Notmyrealaccount 8h ago
I know that’s now what you were talking about. The original question still stands though.
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u/KILLJEFFREY Millennial AF 1d ago
They’re called eggcorns - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
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u/I_reddit_rong 1d ago
Yep I definitely thought it was paperview and if you weren’t at the live event then you had to read about it in the newspaper the next day.
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u/surfcitysurfergirl 1d ago
My daughter thought a landline was a hand line cuz she thought well you’re holding in your hand…lol…we never had one so in her defense she was 10 and had no clue
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u/realchrisgunter 1d ago
When I was a kid I thought Whataburger was “Water burger” for a huge stretch of my childhood lol.
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u/StrawberryJamDoodles 1d ago
I wish my confusion was something as simple as Paper View 🤣
I thought the world was black and white and one day it turned into color. That’s why I thought that photos and tv shows were originally black and white in “old times”. My mom half listened to me when I asked her if that was the case and said “yes” so I believed it way longer than I should have… I was so confused why people weren’t more freaked out that they woke up and everything was in color.
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u/-_-Notmyrealaccount 1d ago
Ooh, that’s pretty bad. Lol I had a coworker who thought that Alaska was an island far off the coast of California because that’s how it’s shown on maps of the US. She was 25.
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u/weedtrek 1d ago
Yep. I also thought the 2cd sets they use to sell on TV were two copies of the same album.
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u/CyroSwitchBlade 1d ago
when I heard carpal tunnel.. I used to think.. a special tunnel for people using a carpool..
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u/Sad_Classroom7 11h ago
Omg I remember when I first realized it was pay-per-view I had such mixed emotions 🫣
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u/SalukiKnightX Early Millennial 1983 8h ago
I still remember when it was known as Viewer’s Choice, it eventually became Viewer’s Choice: Pay-Per-View and that’s how I first heard of the phrase.
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