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ZipDisk said:
I went to charge up my video iPod up for my mom, and had a battery scare. Eventually it did charge, but it was giving me that "No more battery power remains" horseshit.

I know my old cell phones are landfill tech, but I bought that iPod new. :(
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Anyone who remembers what your username is is old

I was looking at my old YouTube videos I recorded with either unregistered Hypercam 2 or a pirated copy of FRAPS, some of which are over a decade old now. Same with my Minecraft account. I distinctly remember being "so late" to YouTube and Minecraft because oldies like paulsoaresjr and ethoslab already had huge channels.

I guess that doesn't even count as old because I remember flash games on albinoblacksheep and messing around with Win98 and XP. But I remember being young and having no idea what I was doing and it was fun. I don't feel that much older but it's been a decade or more since.
 
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Pissmaster said:
Hell, even the Wii will be showing up there soon. I met a guy at work who told me about how one of his favorite childhood games was Guitar Hero 3 on the Wii
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That time is now old man, I'm only a quarter of a century old and my favorite childhood games were lemmings and halo:ce. Though the ones with the biggest impact on me were the sourcemod days. AoC, ZP:S and Zombie master were my jam.

Its funny though, the generation I exist in was at the very tail end of the "old world" before the internet truly inundated everyones lives. Middle school still had weebs being rightfully bullied. And everyone pretended they didn't use the internet despite them all using it on their parents computers at night browsing newgrounds and whatever small sites they enjoyed. Just a few years younger and that experience was replaced with smartphones granting a comical amount of cultural drift. Many people my age can wax poetic about dicking around on livejournal or that vampire forum twilight lovers would fawn over. The smaller relative size of the internet is what I'll always be nostalgic over. Just a few years younger and it would be disparate smartphone applications with no real shared experience, just void shouting. The pace of cultural change has increased so much since smartphones were introduced that it shocks me. But mysteriously subcultures in schools have seemingly disappeared. Most adults my age have an internet history that's mostly lost to time while they have an archive of the last ten years.

Politics will be a wonderful shit show when my generation ages into it. Political attack ads will feature statements like "my political opponent is a furry who paid artists on the internet to draw Sonics stinky feet"

What makes me feel old is when I told my younger cousins that I had to get DVD's from Netflix in the mail and they refused to believe me until I pulled out a movie I never returned w the sleeve on it.
 
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It's not really all that old of a thing, but being around when little dedicated fan sites for your book/game/etc franchise or character of choice was still a thing. I remember I used to be part of some absolutely angelfire/geocities-tier text-and-image forum fansite for a character I liked, was reminiscing with a younger coworker and this was a totally foreign concept to her.

I have a cousin who I babysat as a squalling infant who's heading to college this year. All my younger cousins are getting married. The first one just had a kid. All my aunts and uncles are retiring. It feels like just yesterday I was going 'jesus dude when did you grow leg hair' to my little brother, and now he's showing me his stock portfolio.

Idk man, shit's wierd.
 
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A-Stump said:
I remember when one of the worst things you could say about Bill Clinton was that he was a nerd with a saxophone.
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Third Way Dems were shockingly effective at first. The same can be said for New Labour; one can still hear D:Ream echoing in the noggin.
 
Just found out my childhood video store where a cousin and his older friends worked is a Korean spa now. The 99 cents store a few stores away which was owned by a nice couple and where the neighborhood kids including me and my friends got snacks from is now an insurance place. The neon lights and wood exterior is all gone and it is a bland concrete color now. It's one of things where it seems almost infantile to feel sad about, but it was like a little thorn in my heart walking by it all those years later. Do I feel old? I shouldn't but I do.
 
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Remember when liking Bush Jr. - or calling him a monkey - didn't cause too much REEEing?

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The neon lights and wood exterior is all gone and it is a bland concrete color now.
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Reminds me of a shopping center where I used to live that had this multicolored open space.

They recently - or years ago for all I know - painted it over with a plain grey.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
It still seemed much tamer than TDS and BDS of Current Year.
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That's because Bush and Obama ended pork-barrel spending.

Guess what? Reaching across the aisle and adding earmarks to bills is often the only way to get shit passed. Now they have no way to get reelected without mindless war-mongering and culture war crap. The left are just as much to blame for this: look how they hammered Bernie over the head with the '94 Crime Bill.
 
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