Bruh, someone from '99 is only 26
27 in the case of a friend of mine. He just had his birthday party.
Yes, we (90s babies) are not that old, but teenagers and young adults apparently always feel that life ends at around 25. Then… life just continues and you realize you’re just you, kind of young still, with a lot of living (and learning) left.
I’m from '78. I might count as archeological evidence now.
I’m only one strata above you when they start digging.
I just played Horizon Zero Dawn and can confirm you would be categorized as “The Old Ones”.
Your disco era relics will be coveted by those who followed.
Nice. Fear my HORRIBLE ELDRITCH POWER, bitches.
Wait, you guys are getting eldrich powers? All I got were dodgy knees and a moving hairline.
I’ve got a long coat that doesn’t fit anymore. I’m not sure that falls under 'powers` though. Pudding the pet to hoover a doughnut in a single gasp.
Well they’re eldritch, so mostly they’re inscrutable and drive people insane.
Hrm… People do act strangely when I drone on for long enough. You might be on to something there.
It’s just cats, isn’t it?
71…same :)
As an August 89 kid… I don’t know what to feel.
Either way I am offended and this has ruined my day
holy shit, I am born in the mid 80s. I must be decrepit.
Settle down youngling!
I have it on good authority (mine) that the 90s were only 10 years ago!
Yup, 1998 specifically will eternally remain the boundary between the old days and recent stuff.
'75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.
Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.
Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.
So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.
Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.
Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.
What a beautifully written comment. Thank you
When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3
I remember watching a CRT television belted to a five-foot tall roller stand, and we had suspended all classes that day, even though we were at school. We had just sat there, crying and watching the news, as both towers were smoking, then one had collapsed and myself and other kids had screamed, wailed, and one vomited there on the carpet. Occasionally someone would get pulled away to take a phone call, and they didn’t come back the same. They changed. We all changed.
I still remember Kevin Cosgrove’s last phone call.
Newberg, Oregon, September 11th ‘01.
For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I’d used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.
I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.
It was much chaos, as I’m sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.
So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.
It’s hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.
It wasn’t always that way. :(
The pharaoh has spoken!
I really appreciated that. Thanks for the perspective.
Now, get off his lawn!
Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)
Thanks, Mr. Miagi.
(He was your age when Karate Kid was made)
I guess that means I’m ancient. In the context of Stargate I’ll take it, just call me Janus.
Hugh?
Olo. Hans Olo.
Not that’s his brother, your thinking of Lar.
Indeed.
Back in my day
I’ll take getting older over the alternative every time.
I’m not happy I’m sixty. But, I am happy I’m not dead.
Ain’t that the point of it all.
Early '85 here… I’m scared of getting out of the chair after reading this one, might get a hernia.
All the “being old” feels aside, why would you be happy with a “tired” person?
They’re not ‘running around’ or ‘playing games’.
They’re ready to settle
Me at only 41 years old:
Hey there youngster! I’m 42. So, make room in that casket. We’re gonna snuggle.
Damn hookup culture you young people get up to these days.
The undead need love, too!
Also with how expensive a plot of land is these days, no way we’re splurging for individual accommodations.
I would say something like this rather. We are the lich kings!Trust me, if I was the Lich King with the Lich King’s army and powers, there would be a lot fewer billionaires…
I’m 45 and I don’t know what you younguns are on about. I don’t have knee issues. I don’t have major back issues. Heck I can still out work an Amish crew.
Y’all need to stretch more.
You are me. I am you. Old enough to be burdened with the memory of a world before the internet, doomed to watch the death of freedom because of it.
That keyboard is fascinating. Explain yourself.
It’s called TypeWise and takes a little to get used to. However, for someone who absolutely hates digital keyboards, I like it the best of any digital keyboards I’ve used!
Looks a little pricey, what features are locked behind the paywall?
Silly ones like keyboard colors and predictive text outside of like the first 3 or 4 words. Those were the two I hit before paying for it. Their trial is pretty good. Seems a lot of the paywall features are convenience, not necessity.
Damn, I remember in the late 90’s playing Everquest with some guy in China that knew almost no English thinking how fucking amazing it was to be playing a game with someone on the other side of the world. Now I sit around thinking how the unabomber maybe wasn’t so crazy. I work in cybersecurity and all I want to do is go back to the AOL era
I feel this in my very creaky bones! I, too, have fond memories of playing EverQuest on a 56k modem and thinking how cool it was that I could play with people from all over the country and world. At least until someone picked up the phone and got me killed mid-fight! Ted wasn’t all that right with his choice of targets, but his assessment of our broken system back then was spot on, I agree. I wish technological improvements since those days didn’t come with the side of techno-fascism that we see today.
I feel ya man -
So if you are three generations removed from current times youre an ancestor?
I played it in my third year of university (it was directly responsible for a few bad grades.) Am I dead already?
I think you qualify as undead now?
Does that mean I can stop paying taxes?
Hahaha, No.
Living impaired tax(LIT) incoming
Born between 65 and 70, Gonna do a gender reveal when I hit 60. (Props to Jimmy Carr).
1965 clocking in. I want slippers and some soup.
Got the stuff for you here to make everything right as rain.
