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

[Kiwi & Cow]

Am I the only one to remember this kid and his dumb rap video?

From back when Leafy (RIP) and Pyro (Also 'RIP') would gossip about this dumb video and the lyrics alone made me burst out laughing.

Then another video I was watching when I was like 11 was this one below.

Man, I wish we could just go back 1 decade ago when the internet was vastly better, now it's widely used by bitter assholes and degenerates.

 

[Captain Syrup]

now it's widely used by bitter assholes and degenerates.

That's part of what poisoned imageboards, lame political posts instead of amusing or interesting shit. Most of these spaces were counter-cultural but now they post endlessly about politics.

"the internet is serious business" stopped being a meme and became a way of life.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Skyrim came out 10 years ago. It feels like the release party I went to was just yesterday. Me and some other nerds hanging out watching someone play DC Universe Online while we waited for gamer Christmas to begin.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Bodily, I have never felt better. I am quite literally the strongest, healthiest, and well put together I've ever been in my life at thirty-something. Which is strange really, because most of those around me are falling apart, and have most definitely already passed their 'best years.'

It's odd to remember that the kinds of women I normally date had yet to be born when I was almost entering high-school. That doesn't come as much of a culture shock as it sounds, which is even more strange.

Needless to say, I've always taken care of myself since I was in my late teens; and while it wasn't so noticeable on a day to day basis back then, the chickens are certainly coming home to roost. I wonder how much higher I can go before things legitimately start to decline.

I'm also old enough (just) to remember the decidedly pre-tech era. No smartphones. Home computing was expensive and still very uncommon. Kids played out all the damn time after school and on the weekends. Playing videogames was still somewhat 'nerd shit' that the cool guys didn't bother with. I can remember all of that vividly, and contrast it with the present.

 

[Art Kassul]

Feeling nostalgic for windows 95, xp, msn, forums, irc chatrooms… Basically feeling nostalgic for pre social media internet when you consider the internet is not that old.

le olde feeling

 

[Jason Wynn]

A younger coworker brought up Fellowship of the Ring is 20 years old now. I laughed and said it takes me back to my high school days seeing it on opening night with a group of friends. He said he had to wait to see it because he was only 7 when it came out (I was 16) made me feel kinda old

 

[Captain Syrup]

A younger coworker brought up Fellowship of the Ring is 20 years old now.

Two Towers: Absolutely peak Brad Dourif. I'm the only one who knew him from the Chucky movies.

Long working actors who seem to own scenes but don't have big name recognition.... In my day, science fiction seemed like a small world: you always saw actors from one franchise show up in another. Today they show up as replaceable MCU characters.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Two Towers: Absolutely peak Brad Dourif. I'm, like, the only one who knew him from the Chucky movies.

Long working actors that seem to own scenes but don't have big name recognition.... In my day, science fiction seemed like a small world, because you always saw actors from one franchise show up in another. Cut to 2021: they show up as replacable MCU characters.

Brad Dourif is the man! I got such a kick seeing him as Grima.

If I really want to feel old though, I didn’t recognize him from the Child’s Play movies, but as Billy from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Try being a teen in the early 2000s excitedly talking about a 70s movie and having your friends give you blank stares lol

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I will be 60 in less than 18 months. My oldest cheeselet is 37, the other one is 19.
My oldest granddaughter is 11.
I had to explain to the youngest son how a rotary phone worked, and there used to be pay phones all over town. We kids were the remote control for the TV, and there were only three or four channels, if you count PBS.
He wants to know how we entertained ourselves back in the day.

To quote the Ramones, how the HELL did it get here so soon? I don't want to grow up.

 

[Ponzo]

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Brad Dourif is the man! I got such a kick seeing him as Grima.

If I really want to feel old though, I didn’t recognize him from the Child’s Play movies, but as Billy from One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Try being a teen in the early 2000s excitedly talking about a 70s movie and having your friends give you blank stares lol

Dourif was also great in Deadwood.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I keep running into less people that know the weirdly somehow lost/memory holed big memes from before the 2010s that died before the status quo became to be scooped up by KYM and reddit fuckers lmao. It's a real fucky feeling when the corny poopshitfart kinda jokes of the past are both not understood by those older or younger than you.

 

[Captain Syrup]

I had to explain to the youngest son how a rotary phone worked, and there used to be pay phones all over town.

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

 

[Disastrously Dumb]

In a random discord server
I said something that coincidentally got the attention of another member who said they went to the same highschool I did. and we got to talking and reminiscing about highschool since he recently graduated and he joined the highschool about 4 years after i graduated.

thats what reminded me that im old...

 

[Yizu]

I used to think boomers were full of shit, but seeing young people constantly on their phones like mindless zombies oblivious to an outside world is depressing.

 

[Un Platano]

I used to think boomers were full of shit, but seeing young people constantly on their phones like mindless zombies oblivious to an outside world is depressing.

Now you just hold it right there, great grandpa. Smartphones are such a mature technology now that even the boomers are on them all day now. It's not a young person thing anymore, the only difference is what app they're looking at.

For me, it's thinking back to when I could eat pizza at 1 in the morning and be glad that heartburn is something only old people get.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I remember back in my day there were all those jokes about casting blacks, gays and women to play characters who are originally were straight white males. Or like I remember an old sketch from a comedy show, where a guy is hosting bingo game and his every remark is met with "this offends women" or "this offends disabled people". And now this is just your typical woke agenda.

 

[Stardust]

People addicted to internet connection. Growing up, the "cool kids" only used the internet for homework, maybe cheat codes. You were weird and uncool if you used it otherwise, but now, you're weird if you aren't always on. Seeing how commercialized things are online has me feeling old, too. I miss the wild west days of the mid-to-late 90s.

MySpace opened the normie floodgates, and Facebook demolished the entire dam.

 

[Herrinnert_U_zich_Jezus?]

Usenet was great, ICQ was fun. All under fake names instead of the use your real name internet we have now. My mom told me i should behave on the web, i quoted the wild west days and the fun we had... she told me if she knew that was what the internet was made off, my dad would have been a internet lumberjack too. I miss Rotten.com, ogrish.nl and less geo locked content.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I don't know about "old," but the other week my sibling pointed out that the PlayStation 2 turned 20. I'm only a few years older than the PS2 so I wouldn't say it made me feel old per se, but it was really odd to think that the video game console I grew up on is now considered old if that makes sense.

Metalocalypse is 15 years old now, Facebones.

Brutal.

People addicted to internet connection. Growing up, the "cool kids" only used the internet for homework, maybe cheat codes. You were weird and uncool if you used it otherwise, but now, you're weird if you aren't always on. Seeing how commercialized things are online has me feeling old, too. I miss the wild west days of the mid-to-late 90s.

MySpace opened the normie floodgates, and Facebook demolished the entire dam.

2007 was the year Facebook opened to people without a college email, the iPhone was released, and The Big Bang Theory debuted.
Truly it was the year that the internet and popular culture were democratized, and for those observing, proved democracy's non-viability as a long-term governance strategy.
Every single aspect of harmonious society has rapidly and precipitously declined since. And it's all because human nature seeks to control that which should be free.

The internet was better when none of you other cunts were on it.