What fact makse you feel old?

BerryH
BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
in Chit-Chat
I graduated from my IT degree the year Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web :laugh:

Can you imagine doing an IT degree, or in fact anything, without a readily-accessible internet?

Edit: I hate the fact you can't edit badly-spelled topic headers :explode:
«134567…16

Replies

  • rmalford
    rmalford Posts: 58
    People who where born in the 80's can drive :)
  • artbkward
    artbkward Posts: 238 Member
    Some people born in the '90's can legally drink.
  • sktllmdrhmz
    sktllmdrhmz Posts: 1,799 Member
    Tupac Shakur died 16 years ago.
  • chanson104
    chanson104 Posts: 859
    My son graduates high school Sunday. :(

    Should I say -- Hopefully my son will be graduating Sunday!
  • scribb
    scribb Posts: 3,659 Member
    People that I went to HS with are now grandparents.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    Tupac Shakur died 16 years ago.
    RIP Biggie and 2-Pac
  • Kamikazeflutterby
    Kamikazeflutterby Posts: 770 Member
    I remember making mix tapes.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    I have friends that I have known over 20 years.
  • Rae6503
    Rae6503 Posts: 6,294 Member
    There was a "Throw Back Weekend" on my radio station this past weekend. Yeah, none of those songs were "old"...
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    Hearing songs from my late teens on the "Classic Rock" station.
  • biggsexy7
    biggsexy7 Posts: 78 Member
    I graduated high school 15 years ago!!!!

    The music I grew up listening to is considered oldies

    I catch myself saying, " When I was your age........
  • KellyKAG
    KellyKAG Posts: 418
    The kid I used to babysit for now babysits my kid.

    and the music I used to listen to is on the "Classic Rock" station.
  • pdj1220
    pdj1220 Posts: 175
    Stairway to Heaven is now elevator music.
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    I have a Public Enemy t-shirt which is older than some of the people on my FL...
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    I look at 'kids' these days and despair of the future of our society.
  • Expialidojess
    Expialidojess Posts: 441 Member
    The fact that kids starting high school this year were born in 1998.
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    I graduated high school 15 years ago!!!!

    The music I grew up listening to is considered oldies

    I catch myself saying, " When I was your age........

    Hmm. I graduated high school 15 years ago......None of the other two apply to me.
  • Foxypoo61287
    Foxypoo61287 Posts: 638 Member
    Now 42. :sad:

    And the fact that my baby sister graduated last Wednesday & turn 18 on Friday
  • magichatter06
    magichatter06 Posts: 3,593 Member
    There was a "Throw Back Weekend" on my radio station this past weekend. Yeah, none of those songs were "old"...

    Mine too! However, those were songs when I was a child and before that! LOL
  • valerie521
    valerie521 Posts: 140 Member
    That two and three year old kids have computers in their school/daycare's
    and KNOW HOW TO USE THEM

    GEEZ
  • mdcjmom
    mdcjmom Posts: 597 Member
    The fact that my oldest child would be a senior in high school!
  • missdaisy79
    missdaisy79 Posts: 566 Member
    I threw away a 20-year old pair of cycling shorts today. I know people who are not as old as those shorts.
  • biggsexy7
    biggsexy7 Posts: 78 Member
    I graduated high school 15 years ago!!!!

    The music I grew up listening to is considered oldies

    I catch myself saying, " When I was your age........

    Hmm. I graduated high school 15 years ago......None of the other two apply to me.

    It's the 80's rock music that is played on a "Classic Rock" station here.
  • debloves2ride
    debloves2ride Posts: 386
    that kids born in this century have no idea what the world was like before the internet and cell phones.
  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    People that I went to HS with are now grandparents.

    ^ This. In my mind's eye when I think of grandparents I think of my old, frail, gray haired grandparents. Not vibrant 45 year olds!!
  • 2Grtkids
    2Grtkids Posts: 93
    My kids ask me what things were like "in the olden days". I'm 38. :grumble:
  • ambrwaves27
    ambrwaves27 Posts: 206
    My daughter's class when she graduates will be Class of 2021!!!
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    The BBC is happy to play the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen which it banned during the Silver Jubilee in 1977 as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.
  • Nerple
    Nerple Posts: 1,291 Member
    A couple mentioned above, like:
    Most of my friends I hang out with I've known for about 25 years
    the local oldies station is now playing music I grew up on

    Also...
    I'm an uncle
    My grandmother now has 5 great great grandchildren and counting
    Kids I used to babysit have graduated from college.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    My niece was talking about this "old creeper" who was hitting on her at a club. He was 28. :laugh:

Categories