What fact makse you feel old?

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  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    We didn't have central heating, double glazing or a shower when we first moved into my old family home. My nan still had an outdoors toilet. Televisions and phones were so expensive you rented them instead of bought. The television was black and white and had tubes glowing out the back.
  • MyFeistyEvolution
    MyFeistyEvolution Posts: 1,014 Member
    I used the term "floppy disk" this weekend and a highschooler looked at me like I was smoking crack. :noway:
  • newfette81
    newfette81 Posts: 185
    I read the other day that people born the year we found out who shot Mr. Burns on the Simpsons can now drive....


    It also makes me sad when I watch Sister Act 2 and realize that the banner hanging at the festival at the end says 1993!!
  • annabelsmommy
    annabelsmommy Posts: 24 Member
    When I was a kid the Oldie's station played songs from the 50's, now they play songs from the 70's!
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    I watched Back to the Future and thought he went so far back in time. If he went back in time today... he would only go to 1982.
    :noway:
  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    My neice has never owned a CD. All media for her has been electronic.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    When my son picked up the phone at a hotel room and thought it was broken because it made a 'funny noise.' It was the dial tone :tongue:
  • Jennchel
    Jennchel Posts: 16
    I'm the mother of an adult. I'm only 36!
  • hallie_b
    hallie_b Posts: 175 Member
    I can relate to this list:

    http://www.ketzle.com/child.html
    Child of 70's and 80's
  • shar140
    shar140 Posts: 1,158 Member
    The fact that kids starting high school this year were born in 1998.

    The fact that 1998 was the year I graduated from high school!
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I remember when 8 track tapes were the latest thing.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    We had a black and white TV when I was little. I thought Big Bird was grey for the first four years of my life.
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    I referenced the dukes of hazzard and noone had a clue what i was talking about \m/
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    The "Classic Rock" station out here now plays songs that I listed to in high school...the 90's does NOT constitute "classic rock"!!! :explode:
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    I know what this is:

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  • gseburn
    gseburn Posts: 456 Member
    The fact that I'm reading this thread. :-)
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    When my son picked up the phone at a hotel room and thought it was broken because it made a 'funny noise.' It was the dial tone :tongue:

    My grandson did something similar recently when he saw an old school land line phone for the first time. His first comment was "what is that?".
  • moskinnny
    moskinnny Posts: 118
    when i look at someones year of birth and it is after the year i graduated
    when i listen to classic rock (my fav) and any other music that comes on from my teens and early 20's
  • gwduker
    gwduker Posts: 293
    My kids have no idea what an 8-Track is, was, or even looks like.
  • shar140
    shar140 Posts: 1,158 Member
    that kids born in this century have no idea what the world was like before the internet and cell phones.

    Exactly!!
    They have never used a card catalog at the library, had to read a book to get facts or going to visit friends in person. :laugh:

    Or know how to read a map!!

    Or, you wonder why Maroon 5 made a song called "Payphone", when kids these days don't even know what a payphone is!!
  • kcgslp
    kcgslp Posts: 203 Member
    I will soon be an "empty nester"
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    I kid I used to babysit is a Marine and served in Iraq several years ago.

    All the "new" music they play as "flashbacks".
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    The fact that Eminem's daughter, Haley, who he's referenced in several songs, looks like this now:

    Eminemsdaughter.jpg?t=1338308899

    And the fact that my fav radio station has a "flashback lunch hour" and I regularly start jamming to every song and then realize "Oh God, my favorite songs from 8th and 9th grade are now considered flashbacks."
  • Emancipated_Tai
    Emancipated_Tai Posts: 751 Member
    Several things make me feel old, but I have outlined a few as follows:

    1. We didn’t have Xbox or Wii. We had Atari. Enough said.
    2. We were required to play outside. No sitting in the house all day or else you did chores.
    3. Cell phones were the size of bricks and the only thing you could do was call people.
    4. People had actual car phones.
    5. We were beaten in school by administration if we acted up. We were then beat again by family members when we got home.
    6. We had respect for your elders.
    7. Music had meaning.
    8. We recorded music off the radio and made mix tapes for our friends/loved ones.
    9. Tapes and VHS were all the rave.. what’s a DVD?
    10. Being gay on TV was NOT an option (thank gosh we’ve progressed from this stage!).
    11. TV actually went off at night. Once you heard the Star Spangled Banner, it was a wrap!
    12. Once we did get cable there was only A/B. You had to switch the box from one side to the other to get more channels. However, there still were not many channels!
    13. MTV played videos.
    14. The internet was still a new concept.
    15. AOL chat rooms claimed many virgins in its days of glory.
  • Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel
    Way_2_a_Healthy_Mel Posts: 175 Member
    My 7-yr old asked me the other day if the pilgrims were around when I was born...
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    I took a tour of my college's campus. The current student giving the tour (to myself, my family, and a prospective student with his family), took us to the union and said "We host frequent dances and parties here, often with an '80s theme".

    He then looked at me (knew I was an alum), and asked, "did you have '80s parties when you were here?"

    I answered, "yup. Every single one".

    hahahahahahahaha.

    He didn't even get it!
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
    And the fact that my fav radio station has a "flashback lunch hour" and I regularly start jamming to every song and then realize "Oh God, my favorite songs from 8th and 9th grade are now considered flashbacks."

    The fact that you were in the 8th and 9th grade when the flashback lunch songs came out and you feel old makes me feel ancient since I was out of college when some of those were new.
  • biggsexy7
    biggsexy7 Posts: 78 Member
    I explained to a kid what a beeper was and that was in the 90's. Plus how the cell phones use to be a hue bag phone.
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    This..

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  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    I took a tour of my college's campus. The current student giving the tour (to myself, my family, and a prospective student with his family), took us to the union and said "We host frequent dances and parties here, often with an '80s theme".

    He then looked at me (knew I was an alum), and asked, "did you have '80s parties when you were here?"

    I answered, "yup. Every single one".

    hahahahahahahaha.

    He didn't even get it!

    That's awesome! LOL
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