Stuff that makes you feel old

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

Are there anything out there that makes you feel old now? For me it's hard to believe that...

Most kids in K-12 today were born in a post 9/11 world.

I used Myspace at one point.

I was on Youtube when it was brand new.

When I was a kid mostly only kids with more money had cell phones.

I remember people talking about Y2K.

Some kids today have grown up in a house without a landline phone.

I remember before my family had a computer and internet. Barely though.

The last movie to be released on VHS was 15 years ago.

I remember a time when liberals defended free speech.

The Wii hype was almost 15 years ago.

I was apart of the Pokecraze when it started around 1999.

Many classic cartoons like Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack, and The Wild Thornberries ended in 2004.

When I was a kid traditional animation films were the norm and CGI only once in a while.

 

[Niggernerd]

Video games
It reminds me i grew up when games were good. Good times.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Not being able to be the first level in Mario World anymore because I'm old and decrepit.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Most people saw Space Ghost Coast to Coast on Adult Swim. I was watching it in 1994 when it premiered.

Most of my favorite video games are from the late 90s and early 2000s

Remembering downloading music on dial up internet and praying nobody called while I was on.

My idea of torrenting back in the day was renting movies and having my dad make copies with our dual deck VCR

Remembering my friends and I really getting into the console wars in the early 90s (I was team SNES and he was all about Genesis)

Hearing bands I grew up with playing on classic rock stations

 

[Flavius Anthemius]

I never see people ever read or touch a newspaper anymore, like for instance, I got a newspaper delivered to my door for a market research survey a few months ago, I completely forgot about what sections of a newspaper are where on what pages.

I used to get the newspaper every few weeks from my father, he'd often bring them home after work and I'd be excited since the paper might have came with football or soccer stickers on Sundays, I liked to read the comics and look at the weekly weather as well.

Since I was a kid, I didn't really notice that newspapers where slowly becoming a dieing form of media, but it just seems kinda surreal and sad in a way that newspapers have been apart of my life and many others for decades and some kids and teenagers are alive today that have probably never even touched or read one, let alone know they exist.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

All the grey hairs on my head. About 80% of my beard is now grey.

The fact that we didn't get internet access until I was a teenager

My first gaming console was the Atari

First computer was the Apple II with the green and black screen

Used to go to arcades all the time. I have a huge library of games on MAME.

All the first albums I got were on vinyl

 

[Jabroni]

I used to binge watch a VHS set of automotive tuning videos, including things like tuning carburettors and other fun pre-sensor technology.

 

[Takodachi]

I clearly remember the world pre-9/11.
A lot of Yurpoors attribute this to American ego, but whoever says it didnt affect them is full of shit, it changed the world for the worst.
It gave governments and big tech the excuse to crack on civil rights and privacy.

If you think 9/11 didnt affect you in some way, you are probably a retard or a filthy zoomer.

 

[Dona Morte]

Power Rangers.

The BEST and the most sophisticated season.
The best song tied closely with

I had a girl crush on

 

[ClownBrew]

This entire thread ironically enough. Apparently I am old enough to be the father of even the oldest users here.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I was watching it in 1994 when it premiered.

My first time seeing it was when I was probably 8 years old when my parents rented The Mask, and the VHS tape had a little promo for SGC2C with his Jim Carrey interview. This was maybe 1995-ish. After that I used to watch Space Ghost, Zorak and Brak religiously on TBS with Cartoon Planet.

 

[SITHRAK!]

The first role-playing game I ever had was the 'red box' Basic Dungeons and Dragons, that came with the shittiest cheap blue plastic dice (and a crayon to color in the dice numbers) but the awesome Larry Elmore 'barbarian vs red dragon' artwork on the cover.
A year or so later it turned up in 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial'.

Fucking METAL, amirite?

My earliest memory was my father, the Vietnam veteran, getting angry at the grainy grey footage of the fall of Saigon.
I was born during one of the last manned moonshots.
I remember the introduction of unleaded gas.
I remember when muslims were the rest of the world's problem because there were basically none of them here.
I remember treating nonwhites with respect and having it returned.
I remember TV being four channels with no reality garbage and the flag and national anthem at the end of the broadcast day.
I remember watching Gordon on Sesame Street and thinking eh was a cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything.
I remember McDonalds in styrofoam clamshell boxes.
I remember the daily news reports of the utter carnage of bodycounts in the Iran-Iraq war.
I remember the 'global cooling' and 'peak oil' panics of the late 70's.
Fuck I'm old.

Are there anything out there that makes you feel old now? For me it's hard to believe that...

Ahahahahahahaaaaaa fuck off you were born in '92 or '93 right? You ain't fucking old, son.
I was dialling into BBS'es with a phone-cradle modem before you were born, you fag.

 

[Totally Awesome]

The Wii hype was almost 15 years ago.

When my realize my favorite games and consoles are decades old.

I liked to read the comics and look at the weekly weather as well.

Since I was a kid, I didn't really notice that newspapers where slowly becoming a dieing form of media

I'm fine with news being on websites instead of old newspapers, but I miss reading the comics, the fortunes, and the silly entertainment shit. Why do websites not do this anymore?

 

[I Love Beef]

When my realize my favorite games and consoles are decades old.

I'm fine with news being on websites instead of old newspapers, but I miss reading the comics, the fortunes, and the silly entertainment shit. Why do websites not do this anymore?

Comics: Business stuff regarding residuals and paying authors and differences in format. Syndication is much more different than being able to publish your own stuff online.

Fortunes: I'll sum it up in "*tips fedora*" and "SCIENCE IS FUCKING AWESOME".

Silly Entertainment Shit: They all went to Kotaku/Entertainment Weekly instead of being holed up in the local papers where they were once contained. The bar got that lower.

I realize I am old because.... you know what fuck this, I'm tired of thinking that being in my adult life, I can't do shit.

I'm old because I had an odd year life crisis, and got myself out of it. Mainly by realizing that the past had tons of wants younger me wish I had that I have now and garbage shit problems that I wanted to get over with.

Keep on truckin', everyone. Go for the gold.

 

[JULAY]

When I started smoking, Marlboros were 89 cents a pack.

Yeah...

 

[axfaxf]

Listening to young people talk. They´re just as retarded as my generation, with a SoMe boost. God help us all.

 

[Sped Xing]

My neck; my back.

 

[Spunt]

When I was a little kid, I would ask my mum what life was like in "the olden days", by which I meant what life was like 20 years ago, which was the 1960s. I may has well have been asking about life in ancient Greece for how long ago 20 years seemed to me at the time. If someone today asked me the same question, I would talk about 9/11, the release of the Gameboy Advance and the first Gorillaz album.

Actually here are some more albums that are now 20 years old:

- Alien Ant Farm's "ANThology"
- Nickelback's "Silver Side Up"
- Rammstein's "Mutter"
- SOAD's "Toxicity"
- Katy Perry's "Katy Hudson"
- Opeth's "Blackwater Park"
- Train's "Drops of Jupiter"
- Tool's "Lateralus"
- Radiohead's "Amnesiac" ("Kid A" is old enough to drink in the US)
- The Strokes' "Is This It" (the album that launched "Landfill Indie" - a trend that has already been dead for a decade)
- Slipknot's "Iowa"


Also Nevermind will be 30 years old this September.

 

[Coelacanth]

The videogame Black & White came out in 2001. It turned 20 years old this year. I remember being a young child when I first played it.

 

[Viam]

I'm a filthy zoomer relative to all of you, christ; fond childhood memories to me are the early days of Roblox and Black Ops Zombies. I was around 9-10 at the time.

I have to say that my impression of this site's median age was nowhere near what this thread reflects. Never would've anticipated that any given internet forum was primarily populated by 30-50 year old men, especially one of this nature.

And yeah, I was born shortly after 9/11 and never witnessed a world before it. While I do understand the ramifications to an extent - especially in the realm of how it ramped up U.S interventionism - I figure that I'll never quite have a grasp of just how insidious and persisent its effects were on modern culture comparable to that of anyone who was an adult in the world that preceded it.