Video Stores Explained To Modern Kids Will Make You Yearn For The Past

What To Say When Your Kid Asks What A Video Store Is

Once upon a time, people did not carry screens in their pockets. If you wanted to watch a movie, you had to travel out into the world -- to a place called "the video store."

Kids today may never know the pressures associated with browsing new releases on a shelf and the pain of discovering that movie you wanted was already out. They also might not know the joy of watching a movie together as a family, on one TV screen. But thankfully, our friends at BuzzFeed are here to help explain the time when renting a movie was actually kind of an... experience.

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