Thing's that make you feel old. - That pop in your knee when you get up aint going to get better faggot.

[The Last Stand]

The Beatles: Rock Band released on September 9, 2009. It's 2023 now.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Aww man, I remember secretly taping the South Park episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" in motherfucking 1998 and then biking round to my mate's house the next day to watch it.

Obviously kids these days don't need to do shit like that, but honestly they're poorer for it. The feeling of genuinely getting away with something, when really all you were doing it watching a cartoon with swear words in it? That's gone, the world is just less innocent now.

I'm younger, but I remember torrenting the Southpark movie and putting it in my PSP so I could watch it in secret in my room, or VHS taping the simpsons so you could watch shit home alone.
Back when the PC was in the living room so you could only do shit in the living room so you learned to delete your history and search history, so you couldn't do much unless the once in the blue moon when you were home alone.
Do kids even have this kind of thing where they have to learn to be sneaky?

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Do kids even have this kind of thing where they have to learn to be sneaky?

They don't. It is impossible to keep track of every avenue that a kid can have access to media nowadays. Even if they went Amish someone else would have a phone available to them.

 

[DwayneTheSockJohnson]

Remembering that in 2nd grade a friend tried to give me a pirated version of Warcraft 2 by copy pasting the shortcut on a floppy disc.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Realising that burning media onto CDs is something literally no child born today will ever experience

 

[Something Awful]

This video on YouTube, and in particular seeing that it was uploaded 15 years ago:



Then expanding the description and learning that 15 years ago means 2008:



The video itself is from the first game cartridge I ever owned, like 30 years ago. 9999-in-1, baby. Bootleg game menus never got better than this, what a masterpiece.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I've used an instant messenger program (MSN Messenger).

 

[Linako 2.0]

Realising that burning media onto CDs is something literally no child born today will ever experience

I remember by middle school I was the weird kid because I still burned CDs and used a CD player instead of a smartphone.

 

[el bandito loco]

Autistic kids who are absolutely obsessed with a media franchise character from the 80s-2000s, and drags them through the deviantart/fanfiction.net hellhole, shipping them in gay relationships etc., but don't even know anything about the character or what franchise they're from.

They're the same type of people who obsess over Hazbin Hotel and The Amazing Digital Circus for the same reasons. It bothers me because it seems like a symptom of Late Gen Z-Gen Alpha iPad baby brainrot. Like they only learned about Johnny Quest through some elsagate video they watched when they were 3, and draw him sucking elmo's dick when they're 13.

man this reminds me, and I wish I had saved links. one time on reddit I randomly came across some post somewhere where this dude was commenting this in depth ramble about the robot from the Nickelodeon show My Life as a Teenage Robot. I remember laughing at it because it was so specific and unrelated I thought it was a joke. the name of the show was familiar to me and I looked it up and I remember commercials for it but I never saw the show (I liked cartoon network way more in 2002 or whatever) and his profile was entirely about this girl robot character, he was running a sub reddit that consisted of just him he posted in all the time and he posted about this character and show everywhere he went. I laughed about it all that day, ill never understand how someone could possibly be that into anything, let alone a single character.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Recognizing what this still is.View attachment 5693825

I broke so many A: drives with these in uni.

I'd have a few in my backpack for transferring files to the public computer labs to do work. But I'd beat the shit out of them so much carrying them around that the aluminum slide would dent, then subsequently get stuck in the A: drive. Then I'd leave the lab in a hurry worried I was going to get in shit.

I don't remember how I'd recover the files I'd leave behind. I'm guessing I'd attach them in an email to myself via my Hotmail account.

To be a fly on the wall when south park came out must have been a wild time.

I remember seeing the promos for weeks on broadcast TV before the pilot.

We had analog TV with rabbit ears at the time with 3 channels.

Pretty sure I watched the pilot live (I remember it as Cartman's anal probe). I'm not a burger, so it was paired with either Simpsons or Seinfeld, so the primetime slot after was a huge platform at the time.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

I broke so many A: drives with these in uni.

I'd have a few in my backpack for transferring files to the public computer labs to do work. But I'd beat the shit out of them so much carrying them around that the aluminum slide would dent, then subsequently get stuck in the A: drive. Then I'd leave the lab in a hurry worried I was going to get in shit.

I don't remember how I'd recover the files I'd leave behind. I'm guessing I'd attach them in an email to myself via my Hotmail account.



I remember seeing the promos for weeks on broadcast TV before the pilot.

We had analog TV with rabbit ears at the time with 3 channels.

Pretty sure I watched the pilot live (I remember it as Cartman's anal probe). I'm not a burger, so it was paired with either Simpsons or Seinfeld, so the primetime slot after was a huge platform at the time.

Were you Kenny's house with a colecovisin hooked to a black and white t.v?

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

No child today would have the memory of rewinding a cassette or VHS, I was one of the last born to do so.

 

[Meat Target]

It's been:

9 years since I adopted my dogs, bought a PS4, graduated from college, and watched the Royals win the World Series; 7 years at my current job; 6 years living in my own place; and 4 years on Kiwi Farms.

Listening to 'classic hits' radio and hearing something from like 2009, and realising that's 15 years ago...

I've been binge-listening to old clips of Opie & Anthony. It's like a time capsule from the 2000's. It's especially fascinating to listen to them talk about the advent of Netflix, social media, and other things that would burgeon into pillars of Web 2.0.

 

[Smar Mijou]

Even better, when those pop culture things become cool again and you’re forced to watch a younger generation try to emulate them, but they always get it wrong. And they don’t notice.

The "8 bit pixel art" is one of these that instantly sets me off. If only for the simple fact that for kids nowadays, apparently "pixelated graphics and sprites = ZOMG 8 bit!!1!!2!!" to zoomers. I personally blame all of the idiot Minecraft shill types for this. Don't get me wrong, the aesthetic is neat, and I can appreciate the creativity of some of the handmade art and things like that, but it does make me cringe when a kid sees something like this:

and goes "OMG that's 8 bit!" It's like, c'mon, I was there, other than the mushroom power up, Goomba, block and pipe, none of the rest of the design was ever even possible on an original 8 bit NES system, even with the later games with built-in accelerator chips. Later SNES and Genesis era, sure, but not anything from the actual 8 bit era. And when you try to tell or show them actual games they just roll their eyes at you or refuse to believe it, because the broccoli-haired ziddiot on Jewtube or TikTok said so... /sperg over.

No child today would have the memory of rewinding a cassette or VHS, I was one of the last born to do so.

"Be kind, please rewind!"

 

[Something Awful]

 

[pot of sneed]

Realizing a lot of vidya games don't physically exist anymore. I miss getting dust all over my face when blowing out those old NES cartridges. I remember once time I was ill as a kid, my brother played through some classics to keep me entertained while suffering chickenpox.

 

[OutInTheRain]

I have a minion who revealed he was born after 9/11. I don't know why that makes me feel so old, but it does.

 

[DwayneTheSockJohnson]

I've used an instant messenger program (MSN Messenger).

Fuck, this made me remember being at a friends house when he got Yahoo messenger. Us laughing at the voiced emotes and then the internet getting cut off because of a call on his landline.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

I remember seeing the first South Park episode and the new Spice Girls video for "Wannabe" on adjacent TV channels one evening while on family holiday.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

No child today would have the memory of rewinding a cassette or VHS, I was one of the last born to do so.

At least today's children will be spared the trauma of the VCR chewing up your favourite tape and your parents saying, "oh well, watch something else", and knowing the chances of having that beloved tape replaced are slim to none.