want to feel old?
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No thanks, I already do.
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I don't feel old, but I do feel hopeful.
I love how I'm somehow being targeted in "want to feel old" things now. Until I stop getting carded for alcohol, I won't feel old.
BTW, they were asked how old they were when they first started using a computer. They mostly said age 3 or so. That's the same for me. The biggest difference is with cell phones, iPods, etc. Technology has simply advanced to make it practical for them to have these things long, long, long before I did (I didn't get a cell phone until I was 16 or 17). But that's a good thing. Odds are, technology will have moved to the point where their childhood is no longer the norm in 7-8 years.
I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
BTW, they were asked how old they were when they first started using a computer. They mostly said age 3 or so. That's the same for me. The biggest difference is with cell phones, iPods, etc. Technology has simply advanced to make it practical for them to have these things long, long, long before I did (I didn't get a cell phone until I was 16 or 17). But that's a good thing. Odds are, technology will have moved to the point where their childhood is no longer the norm in 7-8 years.
I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
And today's kids probably wouldn't recognize the clattering sound of a manual typewriter. Well, fuck typewriters. They were klutzy machines and I'm not the least bit nostalgic for them.I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
It's a little scary, though. The next generation will probably be using computers before they know how to use the toilet.
And today's kids probably wouldn't recognize the clattering sound of a manual typewriter. Well, fuck typewriters. They were klutzy machines and I'm not the least bit nostalgic for them.I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
It's a little scary, though. The next generation will probably be using computers before they know how to use the toilet.
I may be reading your intent incorrectly. Perhaps you're being facetious, but why the hate for dial-up and typewriters? What were the alternatives? Do you assume that broad-band would have arrived full-blown on the scene despite the lack of technology or the presence of a suitable network? And should we have continued to hand-write everything rather than utilize a faster means of writing that produced a more legible print?
And today's kids probably wouldn't recognize the clattering sound of a manual typewriter. Well, fuck typewriters. They were klutzy machines and I'm not the least bit nostalgic for them.I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
It's a little scary, though. The next generation will probably be using computers before they know how to use the toilet.
I may be reading your intent incorrectly. Perhaps you're being facetious
I'll stop you right there.
Also, just because something was all we had doesn't mean it doesn't suck compared with what we have now.
Wait a minute. Nine-year-olds identify more with events, products, or trends from the last nine years? STOP THE PRESSES!
What are the odds that a group of kids all being interviewed at the same time while sitting at the same table would come up with similar answers, too?
I can't believe they said Michael Jackson was a big pop star. That really does make me feel old, because he wasn't a big pop star in the 70s, 80s, or 90s when I was growing up.
It's a shame that the kids don't have a greater grasp of history and recognize that there were other black presidents of the United States before they were born. Wait, what?
What are the odds that a group of kids all being interviewed at the same time while sitting at the same table would come up with similar answers, too?
I can't believe they said Michael Jackson was a big pop star. That really does make me feel old, because he wasn't a big pop star in the 70s, 80s, or 90s when I was growing up.
It's a shame that the kids don't have a greater grasp of history and recognize that there were other black presidents of the United States before they were born. Wait, what?
Everyone should be upset by George Lopez. That's just a natural reaction, like recoiling from a flame.
i love them. actually, i use mine more often that i use Word. and considering the answers, i'm probably the youngest here. btw, is there anyone under 25 who posted in this thread?
That was the thing I noticed the most (both the computers and the cellphones/ipods/etc). I didn't have a computer until about 6-7, and a cellphone until about 20-21.
Yeah, but that's not so strange. I believe dinosaurs still roamed the planet when Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
(I'm so sad that game is actually going to be released; it's been epoch-defining...)
And today's kids probably wouldn't recognize the clattering sound of a manual typewriter. Well, fuck typewriters. They were klutzy machines and I'm not the least bit nostalgic for them.I laughed out loud when they didn't know what the dial-up sound was. I don't miss that. Fuck dial-up and fuck AOL. It's a scar on my childhood
It's a little scary, though. The next generation will probably be using computers before they know how to use the toilet.
I may be reading your intent incorrectly. Perhaps you're being facetious, but why the hate for dial-up and typewriters? What were the alternatives? Do you assume that broad-band would have arrived full-blown on the scene despite the lack of technology or the presence of a suitable network? And should we have continued to hand-write everything rather than utilize a faster means of writing that produced a more legible print?
I'm not saying there was an alternative then, I'm just saying I'm glad it was replaced. I'm not nostalgic for old things just for the sake of being nostalgic.
I'm 23. There are a couple other young posters. This board has a pretty good demographic distribution (at least as far as age goes).
I felt the same way about GNR (or Axel Rose's) Chinese Democracy. I liked it better as something that would never come out than what it ever could be.
That's exactly what I meant. Of course, typewriters were state-of-the-art technology for 100 years. Hell, when the IBM Selectric first came out around 1969, I thought it was hot stuff. But even that machine had very limited capabilities. I knew there had to be something better.
WTF is Duke Nukem Forever?
Please tell me you mistyped that, and that you haven't forgotten Thriller.
I actually thought he was pretty much washed up over the last 10-15 years before he passed away, and I was fairly confident that his comeback attempt was going to fizzle out after a bit of success based on the nostalgia of 30-40-year-olds.
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