When you think of "ten years ago" do you think of 1992 rather than 2002? I feel old... anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:23:01 here. When I was in college the very rare exception had their own computer and nobody had a cell phone yet. Not to mention the clothes styles and big hair in the late 80's!

My children think I'm older than dirt because I didn't send my first email until I was 27. Literally inconceivable to them.

[Anonymous]

I'm a college professor, and my colleagues and I joke (or we joked, several years ago) that our incoming freshmen were younger than Maggie Simpson.

[Anonymous]

Like the meme goes, in the original Back to the Future released in 1985 Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel from 2012 to 1982.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:23:01 here. When I was in college the very rare exception had their own computer and nobody had a cell phone yet. Not to mention the clothes styles and big hair in the late 80's!

When I was a freshman in college I brought a typewriter to school. No one had a computer; we went to the computer lab and it was open all night, but it was mostly for computer programming. You types your papers (or hand wrote and hired a typist!)

Me too! I had an erase button on my typewriter so I was the most popular person on my freshman floor....seems like a lifetime ago (and yesterday).
25th college reunion this year...

[Anonymous]

my son who just turned 7 told me that it didn't feel much different from 6. i told him i didn't feel much different than i did when i was 20....

i remember my mother telling me that when she turned 40 something that she felt the same as she did when she was 17. now she's 76. all very disconcerting.

[Anonymous]

Oh, yeah. I started my freshman year in college 25 years ago this week.

My friends from high school are starting to have grandkids.

It's a little weird. I thought 43 would feel older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The worst is that a 21 year old was born in 1991!

Gosh, I'm old...and I thought it would never be "my turn" to say that (I always heard that from other people).

Yes! My first nephew that I held in the hospital the night he was born, ring-bearer in my wedding...left for college 2 weeks ago!! I am frickin' old!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like the meme goes, in the original Back to the Future released in 1985 Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel from 2012 to 1982.

That is truly disturbing. If you were Marty, or just possessed the kick-ass Delorean, what is the first thing you would do (other than buying Apple, Starbucks, and Berkshire Hathaway stock, and betting on various long-shot sporting events, of course)?

[Anonymous]

I do this and I'm 24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like the meme goes, in the original Back to the Future released in 1985 Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel from 2012 to 1982.

Oh dear. That is within my lifetime. Not good
The first season of the new 90210 (yeah - get over it) one of the kids is doing the sex-ed-baby-thing. Aunt Becky aka Mom says something about "nobody puts baby in a corner" and she and Rob Estes laugh while kids look at them like they are insane. And if you get the Aunt Becky reference, you are old as well.
DH and I immediately laughed at the line and then were MORTIFIED because it clearly put us in the parents' age bracket rather than the kids. Ugh.
A month ago we were talking about something that happened in 1992 (at work). The intern said "I wasn't even born then." Gee, thanks for making us all feel old.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I totally get the "Aunt Becky" reference AND the "Nobody puts baby in a corner" reference! I am 39 and, clearly, OLD!!! Gaaa!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like the meme goes, in the original Back to the Future released in 1985 Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel from 2012 to 1982.

That is truly disturbing. If you were Marty, or just possessed the kick-ass Delorean, what is the first thing you would do (other than buying Apple, Starbucks, and Berkshire Hathaway stock, and betting on various long-shot sporting events, of course)?

Try to date and marry Bill Gates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like the meme goes, in the original Back to the Future released in 1985 Marty travels back 30 years from 1985 to 1955.

If Back to the Future was made today, Marty would travel from 2012 to 1982.

Oh dear. That is within my lifetime. Not good
The first season of the new 90210 (yeah - get over it) one of the kids is doing the sex-ed-baby-thing. Aunt Becky aka Mom says something about "nobody puts baby in a corner" and she and Rob Estes laugh while kids look at them like they are insane. And if you get the Aunt Becky reference, you are old as well.
DH and I immediately laughed at the line and then were MORTIFIED because it clearly put us in the parents' age bracket rather than the kids. Ugh.
A month ago we were talking about something that happened in 1992 (at work). The intern said "I wasn't even born then." Gee, thanks for making us all feel old.

But at the same time, this explains why 19 year old interns know nothing. They haven't been alive long enough!

[Anonymous]

Things that have made me feel old lately:

1) seeing the "Can't buy alcohol unless you were born before 1991" sign at the store (the year I graduated high school). Or cigarettes, if you are born before 1994.
2) Movies on TV. I'll start watching a movie that I think was made last year or only a few years ago, when actually it was made 20 years ago.

The Fugitive was on last night, and I thought, "oh this movie is about 10 years old." No, it is about 20 (!) years old.

Also The X-Files --watched this on Netflix recently; I thought that was more recent than it was. (The clothes, phones and computers are distractingly old. Scully's suits are double-breasted, tent-y horrible blobs with shoulder pads.)

[Anonymous]

Mine is 1999, that is 10 years ago for me.