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

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I rember the wall falling as I saw a kid and saw it on TV and my mum running to the phone to call my dad and other family about it and being really excited, a lot of people my age (mid 30's) know it happened but tend not to realise why it was so significant.

I'm starting to see that happen with 911 and kids born just before or just after, it's kinda shocking to be honest I can recall exactly where I was when I found out what was happening half the world away and all the miss information and using my portable FM radio to listen to the news on the bus on the way home, and trying to talk to friend of mine on ICQ in the US to see if they where alright.

What I remember of the Berlin Wall falling was people using whatever they could find - chisels, sledge hammers, and even their bare hands - to rip the wall apart. The part that stands out most to me was how truly happy, excited, and jubilant the people looked as they did this - suggesting this wasn't merely an act of mob mentality but people excited for what they thought was a positive step forward.

Replaying 9-11 in my mind is still surreal form my initial realization to the aftermath. It's definitely scary that we now have a generation that has no idea what happened except for stories and what's documented in history books.

Yea that bug's me, the first time I encountered anything like social media was a Swedish company called Communities,

My first exposure to the precursor of social media was some site titled SixDegrees before it went defunct. Oddly enough, I still interact with one person I connected with from that site all these years later.

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

What I remember of the Berlin Wall falling was people using whatever they could find - chisels, sledge hammers, and even their bare hands - to rip the wall apart. The part that stands out most to me was how truly happy, excited, and jubilant the people looked as they did this - suggesting this wasn't merely an act of mob mentality but people excited for what they thought was a positive step forward.

Yea, it was on the TV all day and at the time that was unusual I can recall that video of a woman going mental on the wall with a lump hammer and a BBC news reporter talking to East Germans who'd wanderd into West Berlin and where given free coke etc there was some other stuff like boarder guards etc just standing there totally taken aback knowing if they tried anything they'd get curbed stomped and once it was clear what was happening just joining in.

Replaying 9-11 in my mind is still surreal form my initial realization to the aftermath. It's definitely scary that we now have a generation that has no idea what happened except for stories and what's documented in history books.

Yea it's surreal isn't it for many of us it was THE defining moment of our youth and now it's something that people don't pay much thought to, I think for my parents generation they had it a bit more of it my Mum and Dad talked about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the quite preparations there families made like water and tinned food etc, my dad recalls seeing the Fall of Sai-Gone on the TV (not ammerican but he was in the age range of people who where getting drafted).

The world still distinctly feels like a split between pre 911 and post 911 to me, but now there is a whole generation of people who are able to drink, smoke, drive vote etc who have never known the world before that.

SixDegrees before it went defunct.

I think I recall that as well, wasn't there a game on there where you had to find the point of contact between you and someone else on the site etc?

 

[Cheesegirl78]

What I remember of the Berlin Wall falling was people using whatever they could find - chisels, sledge hammers, and even their bare hands - to rip the wall apart. The part that stands out most to me was how truly happy, excited, and jubilant the people looked as they did this - suggesting this wasn't merely an act of mob mentality but people excited for what they thought was a positive step forward.

Replaying 9-11 in my mind is still surreal form my initial realization to the aftermath. It's definitely scary that we now have a generation that has no idea what happened except for stories and what's documented in history books.


My first exposure to the precursor of social media was some site titled SixDegrees before it went defunct. Oddly enough, I still interact with one person I connected with from that site all these years later.

I remember being so happy that the Wall was torn down, seeing all of the people being able to experience freedom for the first time for many of them.
Still give me goosebumps when I think of it.

 

[Pee Cola]

I remember being so happy that the Wall was torn down, seeing all of the people being able to experience freedom for the first time for many of them.

The Berlin Wall coming down didn't really hit me at the time, probably because I was on the other side of the world. It wasn't until a couple of years later until this came out when the reality hit:

I don't care if it's a bit naff, this is still a great song and it doesn't get played nearly enough on classic rock radio stations. Fight me.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Don’t know if I’d count this as a feeling old thing or a “the retards I deal with” thing, but I’m seeing more and more people who tell me that they flat out refuse to watch any show or play any video game from before a certain time point. My brother’s girlfriend is 27 and she refuses to watch any movie made before 1995. My brother himself is 28 and refuses to try any video games made before the PS2 era. Both of their reasons are “because those movies/games are too old and must suck”

I get irrationally angry over this and have caught myself unironically thinking something to the effect of “damn retard kids wouldn’t know what good was if it kicked them in the teeth”

I got irrationally angry over this, as I've heard it before.

The good thing is, you can use this as an effective screening tool for people who should be BTFO of your life in a heartbeat. Anyone who can utter any such statement is an incorrigible retard.

I feel like I lost two years to COVID, despite the fact I broke the rules constantly. Just having shit grind to a halt with a concatenation of retarded rules feels like I missed out hard. Two years ain't much in the grand scheme of things, but you can do a hell of a lot of livin' in that time.

 

[Chad Holdenford]

There was a time when the kids came running home to watch cartoons and anime the same way their parents watched primetime dramas and soapies. I was one of those. The thrill of watching an episode of Dragon Ball Z and unwind after a boring, cumbersome day at school was priceless. And once the episode was over, you'd carry on the rest of your day, have dinner, do fuck-all until bedtime, and only know how would Goku get out of the rut he and his buddies got themselves into the next day, same Z channel, same Z time. And discuss the previous day's episode with your classmates and neighborhood friends? Another cool part of the innocent experience. "Duuude, Vegeta is like totally cool and strong, he's gonna kick Goku's ass when they duke it out," so on and so forth.

Now, most channels no longer show cartoons for one reason or another, mostly because one can easily pick them up to binge-watch them whenever one feels like it like I did with the aforementioned DBZ. Not to mention those entry-level anime are rather mediocre plotwise, and adults just can no longer see things in defined black-and-white tones anymore.

Changing the subject, another thing that reminds me of my age is that I have also reached the "get winded during sex" phase of sedentarism. Fuck my life.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I think I recall that as well, wasn't there a game on there where you had to find the point of contact between you and someone else on the site etc?

I don't remember any games, though I wasn't into online games at the time. So maybe it was there and I didn't notice. What I do recall is that if someone was within six degrees of you and you clicked on their profile, it would show you the link/path between you and them.,

There was a time when the kids came running home to watch cartoons and anime the same way their parents watched primetime dramas and soapies.

That sounds like me and my neighbors. We were motivated to get our homework done ASAP upon getting home because it meant we could watch cartoons until dinner and the evening news and it also meant we kids could get together and play after dinner until it was dark (before the days got too short from November through March).

Now, all people seem to do is live on their electronic devices. Genuine human interaction feels as if it's becoming as extinct as dinosaurs.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I remember when you could buy a 4-pack of T-shirts and their seams stayed solid for more than six washes.
I remember when t-shirt cotton was thick and soft, not basically tissue paper.
It‘s horrible to see the millennial ‘disposable fashion’ approach being applied to clothes that are supposed to be durable and reliable. Fuck you, Gildan, you pack of Jews.

 

[The Ugly One]

I'll play a game I think of as "recent," like Halo, then remember it's over 20 years old.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember MySpace being a known thing but infrequent enough to be a passing fad. Like Limewire.

 

[Spunt]

When you still think the Holden Monaro is a new, interesting car because you saw it on Top Gear and then you find out it has been out of production for 17 FUCKING YEARS.

 

[Stanley the Gay Wizard]

things that make me realize I'm old. Part 2: Internet edition

I decided to put this at the top due to it's nostalgia factor. I remember back in 8th grade (about 2006/2007) I would get home from school and watch wtf boom memes.

I know this seems probably not surprising but I really love bloody and gory shows. I saw the first episode of HTF back when I was about in 7th grade (2005/2006) and immediately loved it. I still do tbh. I Had to stop my 5 year old sister & 6 year old brother from watching it though.

It's cool. makes me feel old tho

These 2 also makes me feel old. I miss old memes like this from back in the day.

EDIT:

A bonus one, I know it's from metalocolypse but I remember seeing this on yt back in the day (and also when it first aired with my father) and thinking this was the funniest shit

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I don't deserve to live in a world where this shit is 10+ years old

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Aldi seems to have stopped selling their 'budget' bags of cafetiere coffee. I drank both the regular and decaf versions by the cartload. Tasted good, did the job, and was plentiful at a cheap cost. I was that bothered by this decision that I've contemplated writing to them and asking 'why did you do it?'

Even a few years ago I wouldn't even dream of doing such a thing. But goddamn it, that coffee hit the spot. Other brands just don't cut it.

 

[Stasi]

The PS2 is 22 years old this year. I work with people younger than that

 

[Maratus volans]

The other day my boss asked me if I knew a certain technical thing. I remember taking a class on it in college but hadn't thought about it since, so I said, "A bit, but it's been about..." and then I did the math on how many years.

Woof. A decade and a half. I'm not even that old, but man, it made me feel old.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The simple fact that I no longer have any connection with "youth culture", neither online nor offline. We aren't even on the same platforms (wtf is a TikTok or a Snapchat).

Whenever I see a new trendy youth social media website with their users doing these controlled obnoxious trends it makes me feel like a fossil left behind in the early 2010s.

 

[AnOminous]

Whippersnappers (who need to get off my goddamn lawn) acting like they're smart. You piss weak tiny little young things, sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

current year

I remember when LGBTQ+ was nornally seen as freakish.

That seems to have changed overnight in Current Year.

Remember when animu dubs would edit out LGBTQ+ stuff?

No one's having fun anymore.

I've said it before, but something about the modern world - especially Clown World - breeds oversensitivity.

 

[The Last Stand]

The 90s used to be ten years ago.