Shit that reminds you that you’re getting old - Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Damn young’uns

[Leonard Helplessness]

We belong at this point to an older generation. We post on the Farms because we remember when the internet was serious business rather than a pervasive corporate hellnetwork that everybody dumps their entire lives into like the world’s biggest toilet bowl. And our age is starting to show in the real world. Post your daily encounters with indicia of your growing obsolescence.

I got an oil change today. The tech doing a safety check and taking down my information was in his late teens, maybe his early twenties. He asked me to turn on my car’s ignition so he could check the odometer. He then checked the dashboard and was amazed: The odometer was a physical counter, rather than a digital readout that only appears when the key is inserted and turned.

He had never seen that before.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I'm old enough to see one of these things before the end of their run. And hearing the dial-up, treating the internet like a portal to a new world rather than a utility like now.

 

[Steelersfan22]

I was around when Blockbuster was at its peak in the 2000s. while im not old whatsoever, I do miss going to these with my mom and renting the resident evil movies.

 

[I Love Beef]

When you see that places that you can obviously tell were built from the 1980s and further down in the past are getting renovated over majorly or torn down. Maybe it's just me but I always liked that feeling that a place is from the 1980s or so but still kicking, maybe only because modern day architecture and interior design is sterile and cold, more so than what was in the past. Yet, even then, as you grow older, you come to also realize or somehow get a feeling in you that it's sadly not supposed to last, and it has served its time in this world. Then it hits you that you must move on to your ultimate destination as you walk on in this everchanging life.

A positive thing that tells me that we're getting old is that there are businesses like Uber and Doordash to help with conventional needs that would have been a godsend years ago when we were younger.

 

[Spooky Bones]

The number of things which can now only be done or only easily be done online rather than in person or on paper or whatever.

That 1990 was 30 years ago.

 

[Constellationzero]

When I was in high school, the go-to "fast fashion" stores in the mall were Chess King, Merry-Go-Round, Foxmoor, Brooks Fashions, and Jeans West. Some malls had a DEB, but I never liked that store. I worked in a mall that had a DEB that still had the weird mirrored storefront, purple shag carpet, and a fucking ROTARY PAY PHONE behind the cashwrap. One day I was bored and I asked the girl working there about it and she told me corporate didn't want the workers making personal calls on their store phone so they had to use that.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

All this new slang. Not even in my 30's and someone saying simp makes me feel ancient. Thought that meant a thirsty simpleton until recently.

 

[JULAY]

For freshman in college, 9/11 was just a historical event.

 

[crocodilian]

I eat less but stay fat.

 

[Swagstika]

I was callibrating some tech with a colleague the other day and had to compare outputs. We started writing the numbers down.
Younger colleague passing by: "Why don't you just take a picture?"
Yea. Why don't we. I've had a camera in my pocket for well over a decade and the thought didn't even occur to me. Damn I'm old.

 

[Redeemer and Destroyer]

I was gifted a Switch by a friend who's getting the Animal Crossing edition of it and there's so many fucking buttons on the joycons that I don't even know what half of them do.

Then I realized that this is how my mom feels, when she mentions how simple the Atari controls were and hates messing with Playstation 3 controls.

 

[Lina Colorado]

I found one of these:

and realised how long ago they were the shit and now it's seen as
something out of the stone age.
That made me feel pretty old.

 

[Pissmaster]

I was gifted a Switch by a friend who's getting the Animal Crossing edition of it and there's so many fucking buttons on the joycons that I don't even know what half of them do.

Then I realized that this is how my mom feels, when she mentions how simple the Atari controls were and hates messing with Playstation 3 controls.

Controllers haven't changed much since the mid 90's

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Watching Ken Burns' Vietnam and all the vets talking and they now look as old as WWII vets interviewed in Ken Burns' The War.

 

[Spunt]

9/11 has been old enough to fuck since last year.

Nevermind will be 30 years old next year.

Someone I went to school with is a grandparent.

 

[byuu]

My adult diaper.

 

[Lost send help]

Celebrity kids that I remember being born now having social media and being actual people. I actually think the past decade has just passed in a blur.

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I was around when Blockbuster was at its peak in the 2000s. while im not old whatsoever, I do miss going to these with my mom and renting the resident evil movies.

Wanna know how old I feel, I was the girl that worked in the video stores when I was in High School and Uni, best job ever all I did was watch movies (bear in mind this was the late 90’s early 2000’s when films where good) and basically eat the sweets and ice cream. Plus back then I was a cinephile.

I really miss video stores it's one thing I wish never went as it was actually fun going there and looking at all the boxes and picking films from box art sometimes. It's also a job modern teens miss out on having that was actually fun. Although I didn't work at Blockbuster it was a smaller chain.

Seeing the end of the last season of Stranger things where Robin and Steve get a job in a video store was nostalgic as hell.

 

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

No matter how hard I try I simply can't understand half the stuff Zoomers do.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I was presenting to a group of about 200 professionals and I noticed that they weren't following my metaphor. They were a little too quiet. I asked them to raise their hand if they didn't know who Bruce Lee was and everybody raised their hand.

 

[Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD]

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I was around when Blockbuster was at its peak in the 2000s. while im not old whatsoever, I do miss going to these with my mom and renting the resident evil movies.

Remember when rental copies used to come out months or even years before the home versions? and you could buy them for a massive premium sometimes? Last ever rental copy I ever bought was RE1 DVD in possibly 2002. Cost me £60. Came out 3 weeks later on normal DVD for £15 with extras and subtitles. Gutted.

I did manage to get a rental of 1989 Batman for £60 and that took nearly a year to come out retail back in the day. (got more than that back lending it out for £5 a night for a few weeks). Plus rental boxes in the UK were so much cooler, they were bigger with different artwork.