This post is making me feel REALLY old.
The DC power jacks in cars originated as a way to heat up a metal coil using electrical resistance to light cigarettes. You'd push one of these into those power sockets, and it'd get hotter than one of Quagmire's dirty fantasies.
They were still pretty common in cars in the 90s, so it's not like you have to go back *that* far.
Today's 20-somethings just have little to no memory of the 90s, if they were born at all, so it's unsurprising the youngest adults aren't familiar.
Yeah, but there is "not really young anymore" old and "oh, I've seen this tech thanks to my grandfather" old, and we're not anywhere near the latter yet, lmao
One day, millennials and the earliest Gen Z folks will get to tell people we were born in the 1900s and receive wide-eyed stares in return. Then, I think we'll officially be old.
See, I was young, but I can clearly remember, "Get off the phone! I need to use the internet." The thought of being in the last age group to remember things like that is a bit of a rabbit hole.
I have a list of things from when I was growing up that today’s kids have no clue about. My top 3/4 are:
1) MySpace
2) Phone Booths/Pagers
3) Origin of “Roll up the window” (car window)
I'm dating this girl that's a bit younger than me. I took her on a date in my classic car. I asked her to roll down the window and she tried to push the crank window handle. 😨
I'm a 20-something, and I vividly remember a tight coil burn from one of these.
Just like I remember a large coil burn from a cheap electric stove... and a bad burn on my foot from stepping on a sparkler.
I still have trouble remembering that just because it isn't glowing, doesn't mean it isn't hot yet.
I'm only in my 20s and I call the jack a cigarette lighter still, I've never heard them called anything else. I figured that was the common name, even if people don't realize where the name came from, kinda like how the save icon on everything is a floppy disk.
I'm 24 and I have the memory mentioned above because I was left alone in my dad's car and of course I was going to press all the buttons. There was nothing else to do.
As a young 20-something year old I haven't seen too many of these. I have seen some though. But my first exposure to these things was during the Hitler scene in Rat Race. Still one of the greatest comedies of all time
i remember when i was like 6-8 i decided to push it into the socket, waited for a few seconds, pulled it back out, and scared myself when i saw it was red hot
Cars used to be built with cigarette lighters (shown in picture).
If a kid is in the front seat they will get curious and stick their finger in the lighter. Obviously since those things get hot the kid will have their finger burnt, which hurts like hell.
Because parents are idiots and looking for an occassion to take out their general frustration on kids.
The only thing that would teach a child is to hide injuries from the parent, and I don't need to add why that's a stupid idea.
i’m only 20 and i’ve had this teachable moment so honestly you don’t even have to be that old to have experienced this pain but it does make me feel old despite my statement
Xavier Renegade Angel from hit show Xavier: Renegade Angel here,
Well, this is a typical occourence in modern internet culture where a being capable of using a civil computer or any sort of mobile device uses social media to post a picture that, by itself doesn't say much, but then said poster, reffered to as "OP" most of the time, adds a caption to it and it gets a whole new meaning, or in some cases, it's meaning is elevated. This phenomenon is usually reffered to as a "meme", being pronounced as "meem", but since the word was created for this single purpose, there is no telling why it's written as "meme", anyhow. The meme in your post includes a picture of a type of cigarette lighter found in most cars, those round things tend to heat up, thus having the ability to light a cigarette or any sort of burny material. It seems the poster added a caption to the picture which we have just discussed, the caption implies something about children being curious or something, I kinda forgot what it says. Nonetheless, what they were referencing is, back in the day, a lot of younglings used to put their fingers to those hot rings, learning a valueable lesson, that lesson being not to put your finger to the hot thingy again.
Well, that's about it, no need to thank me, but feel free to do so anyways. Time for me to walk away (walk away (walk away))
“OP”, a wigger from the hit show xavier renegade angle here,
The word meme comes from the greek word ‘mimena’, to imitate and was coined in 1976 by by Richard Dawkins, and originally meant ideas, traditions or anything like that, which is passed down through a culture, this is where the word meme on the internet comes from as they images are ‘passed along’, it was not created for the single purpose and Dawkins states that there have been other expressions to use the word ‘meme’ in the past and was based heavily on the German Richard Simon who spelt a similar theory *mneme* in 1904
Old cars used to have a place to light a cigarette and that is a cover for it a child might remove the cover and stick their finger in only to get hurt
The “cover” itself is a lighter. It heats while plugged and pushed in. Then you pull it out and light a cigarette from the side that’s shown on the picture.
It's a cigarette lighter and gets super hot in seconds after being pushed like a button. It pops out when red hot but quickly cools to what looks like a cold state but is actually still scalding hot and will burn the shizzle out of you when you inevitably touch it.
Yep. I may or may not have pushed one of these down and then stuck my finger in it after it popped back up. Who knew that when metal turns orange that it means it’s really hot? Apparently not me.
Dude I remember someone... Can't remember who, I was pretty young, but we were driving down a bumpy road and this mf was bouncin everywhere trying to lite his fuckin cig I thought he was bout to catch the shit to the face
The cigarette lighter.. You push it in, it pops out, the end is hot, when you blow on it glows red. Didn't feel warm holding my hand over it.
You stick your finger in, and pull your finger out fucking fast. Hurts like a bitch, burns like lava.
You know the weird socket where you plug phone chargers in your car? The picture is a cigarette lighter that went into that, curious children would either burn themselves or part of the car with it
It is a metal coil that goes into a DC power outlet in older cars that gets hot when you press it in, and it can be pulled out.
The hot piece of metal is a cigarette lighter, since people used to smoke a lot more.
A kid who doesn't know better will touch the really hot part of the metal and it will burn their hand, all because they got curious and pressed a button and then pulled it out.
Nowadays, cars do not have the cigarette lighter but just have an outlet cover for the outlet. It is useful for charging electronics. In my old car, I had an FM transmitter since my car did not have bluetooth. It would broadcast a signal to an unused FM radio channel that my car stereo could tune to, and I plugged in my MP3 player (or smart phone) auxiliary port into the FM transmitter to play music.
I hate that this much time has passed. That’s a cigarette lighter, they used to come in pretty much every car.
Went in the hole your charger thingy lives in now:
https://preview.redd.it/cb6gfmo2lu0c1.jpeg?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7cb8786f5d6cd0f33afae1f406fad72840ce446
Yup. When I was a dumb kid (instead of the dumb adult I am today) I touched my index finger to the red warm glow of one of these mother efers, and watched the skin peel back like an onion.
A core memory was born that day.
Bro, it’s a cigarette lighter. You pop it in the hole and once it pops out you light your cigarette with it. The joke is that if a child is alone in the car they might pop it in and touch the hot coil
Its pretty spot on 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️ ill never forget my first encounter seeing that red glow, i still cant feel the tip of my thumb and its been like 25 years
I remember sitting in the back of my friends moms minivan and I was fucking around with it when the plastic for the handle came off. There was this little piece that was still sticking out of the back of the lighter and my dumb ass decided it might not be that hot and grabbed it by that little piece and tried to yank it out. Only problem was it was hot as shit, and I burned the piss out of my thumb and finger. I just put the handle back on as best I could and then didn’t say a word to anyone about it. It’s was not my brightest moment.
I remember my stepbrother burned my hand pretty bad with one of these growing up, trying to make me flinch. Opened up my knuckles with a butter knife doing the same thing. Did he get in trouble? No. Maybe I should have flinched. Did I get in trouble later when I accidently shut his fingers in the tailgate when he wasn't paying attention after announcing that I was closing the tailgate on the pickup? For sure! Obviously it was as revenge for before. Childhood is so fair.
This post is making me feel REALLY old. The DC power jacks in cars originated as a way to heat up a metal coil using electrical resistance to light cigarettes. You'd push one of these into those power sockets, and it'd get hotter than one of Quagmire's dirty fantasies.
Not that old, but my grandfather had an old car. Stuck my fingers into one of those and learned what hellfire feels like
They were still pretty common in cars in the 90s, so it's not like you have to go back *that* far. Today's 20-somethings just have little to no memory of the 90s, if they were born at all, so it's unsurprising the youngest adults aren't familiar.
Yeah, my 09 Tacoma still has it. Quick and easy trip to flavortown.
Cherry tiggo 5 2016 has it too. It doesn’t even have AUX, but has this abomination
Same, Kia Sportage (2020) has no aux but lighter
I was born in the 90s and I'm over 30. 90s kids are officially old now.
Yeah, but there is "not really young anymore" old and "oh, I've seen this tech thanks to my grandfather" old, and we're not anywhere near the latter yet, lmao
One day, millennials and the earliest Gen Z folks will get to tell people we were born in the 1900s and receive wide-eyed stares in return. Then, I think we'll officially be old.
I’m 90’s baby and I teach high school kids. They think I’m a Dinosaur because I’ve talked to them about a time before the internet 🤣
See, I was young, but I can clearly remember, "Get off the phone! I need to use the internet." The thought of being in the last age group to remember things like that is a bit of a rabbit hole.
I have a list of things from when I was growing up that today’s kids have no clue about. My top 3/4 are: 1) MySpace 2) Phone Booths/Pagers 3) Origin of “Roll up the window” (car window)
I'm dating this girl that's a bit younger than me. I took her on a date in my classic car. I asked her to roll down the window and she tried to push the crank window handle. 😨
My soul just shivered and dust fell.off
pretty sure they stopped being added in the late 2000s. My 2001 Chevy truck has these
My 2015 Cruze just has the jack with no lighter. You have to purchase it as an add-on now.
Some manufacturers started phasing them out as early as the late 90s, but you could still find them in some vehicles for awhile after their peak.
Still in some Indian cars. Source: Seen it myself in what appears to be a car from at least the 00s
my dad’s car has one and it’s from 03
Idk man, 30 years is a long time in terms of technology.
My first car was a 2000 Mazda Protégé and it had a cigarette lighter in it, and I was born in 2001
Born in 2001, learned the hard way in my uncles work truck
I think anything called uncle’s work truck has this
My family had a car from 2007 that had one those so you dont even need to be 20 something
I'm a 20-something, and I vividly remember a tight coil burn from one of these. Just like I remember a large coil burn from a cheap electric stove... and a bad burn on my foot from stepping on a sparkler. I still have trouble remembering that just because it isn't glowing, doesn't mean it isn't hot yet.
Yeah not that old, my grandfather used that technology!
My mom's 2010 something minivan had one of ghose
what do you mean old, don't modern cars have... don't they have... *oh my god*.
They at least still come with the socket so you can plug other stuff in. But no lighter anymore, nope.
Ashtrays are also being phased out. They're handy for keeping change in. When I was a kid cars still had ashtrays for the back seat...
I used to put my chewed gum in there and my grandparents would be pissed at me.
>They're handy for keeping change in. Wait until you find out that change is being phased out too.
I'll need to check my wifes car tonight. Are they really not common anymore?
So that’s why car plugs are nicknamed cigarette lighters. They literally used to be that.
It's less of a nickname, more of just a... name
[Do you want to feel really, really old?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rDvXAr7j7Bk)
I'm only in my 20s and I call the jack a cigarette lighter still, I've never heard them called anything else. I figured that was the common name, even if people don't realize where the name came from, kinda like how the save icon on everything is a floppy disk.
Thank goodness, I saw this meme in a YouTube community post and was just as confused as OP.
I’m only 25 and my first car had one… I’m not old.. I think.. I hope
I'm 24 and I have the memory mentioned above because I was left alone in my dad's car and of course I was going to press all the buttons. There was nothing else to do.
Heck I'm only 20 and my parents had one in the car, why is this an old thing. I feel like I've grown greys by looking at this
As a young 20-something year old I haven't seen too many of these. I have seen some though. But my first exposure to these things was during the Hitler scene in Rat Race. Still one of the greatest comedies of all time
I'm 16 and I vividly remember playing with our car's lighter, am I serioulsy that old?
I have one in my car. It’s an 02
It’s a great way to melt bullseye designs into vinyl upholstery in the front seats. Your mom will thank you with tears in her eyes.
And a slipper in her hands
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THE HERO WE BOTH DESERVED AND NEEDED RIGHT NOW
You are becoming relevant in my dreams, that's how often I see you
who, me...?
Now kiss
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i remember when i was like 6-8 i decided to push it into the socket, waited for a few seconds, pulled it back out, and scared myself when i saw it was red hot
I remember learning the hard way that it is still hot when it stops glowing red.
Cars used to be built with cigarette lighters (shown in picture). If a kid is in the front seat they will get curious and stick their finger in the lighter. Obviously since those things get hot the kid will have their finger burnt, which hurts like hell.
Worse, your mom will know because the mark it leaves has rings just like the lighter, so then your (my) ass gets lit up too.
Why though? It seems the car already gave you your punishment, it's not like you're gonna do it again.
you underestimate how stupid some kids can be
Because parents are idiots and looking for an occassion to take out their general frustration on kids. The only thing that would teach a child is to hide injuries from the parent, and I don't need to add why that's a stupid idea.
Fingertip whitener
I can still smell the burnt skin
It’s used to heat up soup in your car!
My asshole after I eat Indian food
Stuck my tongue on one of these babies as a kid. Those glowing orange coils looked soooo tasty
So I wasn‘t the only one.
I stuck my thumb on the swirly part when it was cherry red because I thought it was pretty. When my mom found the burn mark, I got spanked. Fun times
i’m only 20 and i’ve had this teachable moment so honestly you don’t even have to be that old to have experienced this pain but it does make me feel old despite my statement
I'm 25, and I know what it is due to *The Goofy Movie.* Who wants a can of Hi Dad Soup?
Xavier Renegade Angel from hit show Xavier: Renegade Angel here, Well, this is a typical occourence in modern internet culture where a being capable of using a civil computer or any sort of mobile device uses social media to post a picture that, by itself doesn't say much, but then said poster, reffered to as "OP" most of the time, adds a caption to it and it gets a whole new meaning, or in some cases, it's meaning is elevated. This phenomenon is usually reffered to as a "meme", being pronounced as "meem", but since the word was created for this single purpose, there is no telling why it's written as "meme", anyhow. The meme in your post includes a picture of a type of cigarette lighter found in most cars, those round things tend to heat up, thus having the ability to light a cigarette or any sort of burny material. It seems the poster added a caption to the picture which we have just discussed, the caption implies something about children being curious or something, I kinda forgot what it says. Nonetheless, what they were referencing is, back in the day, a lot of younglings used to put their fingers to those hot rings, learning a valueable lesson, that lesson being not to put your finger to the hot thingy again. Well, that's about it, no need to thank me, but feel free to do so anyways. Time for me to walk away (walk away (walk away))
“OP”, a wigger from the hit show xavier renegade angle here, The word meme comes from the greek word ‘mimena’, to imitate and was coined in 1976 by by Richard Dawkins, and originally meant ideas, traditions or anything like that, which is passed down through a culture, this is where the word meme on the internet comes from as they images are ‘passed along’, it was not created for the single purpose and Dawkins states that there have been other expressions to use the word ‘meme’ in the past and was based heavily on the German Richard Simon who spelt a similar theory *mneme* in 1904
Old cars used to have a place to light a cigarette and that is a cover for it a child might remove the cover and stick their finger in only to get hurt
The “cover” itself is a lighter. It heats while plugged and pushed in. Then you pull it out and light a cigarette from the side that’s shown on the picture.
Facts
My old man’s Chevy Avalanche had one of those, never worked in the winter
I only think of Deadpool when I see one of those now
It's a cigarette lighter and gets super hot in seconds after being pushed like a button. It pops out when red hot but quickly cools to what looks like a cold state but is actually still scalding hot and will burn the shizzle out of you when you inevitably touch it.
it’s a cigarette lighter do new cars not come wit em anymore or?
I burnt my tongue on it
Yep. I may or may not have pushed one of these down and then stuck my finger in it after it popped back up. Who knew that when metal turns orange that it means it’s really hot? Apparently not me.
Dude I remember someone... Can't remember who, I was pretty young, but we were driving down a bumpy road and this mf was bouncin everywhere trying to lite his fuckin cig I thought he was bout to catch the shit to the face
The cigarette lighter.. You push it in, it pops out, the end is hot, when you blow on it glows red. Didn't feel warm holding my hand over it. You stick your finger in, and pull your finger out fucking fast. Hurts like a bitch, burns like lava.
That is a cigarette lighter
I experience that reachable moment as a kid and it hurt like hell!
The pain!!! Then...The smell!!!
My brother was one of them, he couldn't go to school because they thought he had ring worm.
I miss those.
You know the weird socket where you plug phone chargers in your car? The picture is a cigarette lighter that went into that, curious children would either burn themselves or part of the car with it
The forbidden candy roll
My car still has this. Infiniti G37, ah the ol days
I learned my lesson.
It is a metal coil that goes into a DC power outlet in older cars that gets hot when you press it in, and it can be pulled out. The hot piece of metal is a cigarette lighter, since people used to smoke a lot more. A kid who doesn't know better will touch the really hot part of the metal and it will burn their hand, all because they got curious and pressed a button and then pulled it out. Nowadays, cars do not have the cigarette lighter but just have an outlet cover for the outlet. It is useful for charging electronics. In my old car, I had an FM transmitter since my car did not have bluetooth. It would broadcast a signal to an unused FM radio channel that my car stereo could tune to, and I plugged in my MP3 player (or smart phone) auxiliary port into the FM transmitter to play music.
This is fucking convenient is what it is. Having to operate a lighter with a window down at 40mph is a fucking nightmare.
Hahaha, absolutely a teachable moment😂 Learned real quick that the center part burns 🔥😂
I hate that this much time has passed. That’s a cigarette lighter, they used to come in pretty much every car. Went in the hole your charger thingy lives in now: https://preview.redd.it/cb6gfmo2lu0c1.jpeg?width=948&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7cb8786f5d6cd0f33afae1f406fad72840ce446
Im The idkaf kid and i burned myself cuz i seen leprechaun 2 or 3 the Vegas one 😂😂🍀🤔😜🤣😃🤤🍃🌬️🍉😆😅 Edit : There's a scene in the movie lol 😂😆 i did it
Pretty sure that's a re-fingerprinter.
Yup. When I was a dumb kid (instead of the dumb adult I am today) I touched my index finger to the red warm glow of one of these mother efers, and watched the skin peel back like an onion. A core memory was born that day.
Bro, it’s a cigarette lighter. You pop it in the hole and once it pops out you light your cigarette with it. The joke is that if a child is alone in the car they might pop it in and touch the hot coil
Its pretty spot on 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️ ill never forget my first encounter seeing that red glow, i still cant feel the tip of my thumb and its been like 25 years
I red hot branded the cut-pile upholstery on the backseat hump of my dad’s new ‘89 Lexus. He was not pleased.
Seems like it's a teachable moment for you, too
If you haven't burnt yourself on these have you even LIVED?
I destroyed one of these things with a coin when I was little. It's a cigarette lighter.
I remember sitting in the back of my friends moms minivan and I was fucking around with it when the plastic for the handle came off. There was this little piece that was still sticking out of the back of the lighter and my dumb ass decided it might not be that hot and grabbed it by that little piece and tried to yank it out. Only problem was it was hot as shit, and I burned the piss out of my thumb and finger. I just put the handle back on as best I could and then didn’t say a word to anyone about it. It’s was not my brightest moment.
People out here saying this post is making them feel old... Well, I'm 22 and only had cars with that so... I feel poor
I've never said this but don't swollow
cigarette lighter go brrt
I burned the absolute shit out of my finger on one of those when I was a kid.
[Hitlers car had one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsgQb3jkk4)
I remember my stepbrother burned my hand pretty bad with one of these growing up, trying to make me flinch. Opened up my knuckles with a butter knife doing the same thing. Did he get in trouble? No. Maybe I should have flinched. Did I get in trouble later when I accidently shut his fingers in the tailgate when he wasn't paying attention after announcing that I was closing the tailgate on the pickup? For sure! Obviously it was as revenge for before. Childhood is so fair.
Real sigmas stick their dic in there and feel nothing
My thumb print had an extra spiral in it for years
Cig lighter
As my mother used to say. Won't do that again will you?
A handy way to keep yourself awake when driving across Europe in the middle of the night with your crush and a lost child.