Stuff that makes you feel old

[Spartacus Mills]

I'm starting to feel like technology is moving too fast for me and it makes me feel like a boomer when I'm in my 20's. WTF IS NFT?

 

[The Last Stand]

The Xbox 360 came out 16 years ago. Modern Warfare 2 is now 10+ years old.

CoolMathGames and Funbrain was the shit on school computers.

 

[DarkSydeHyde]

I'm starting to feel like technology is moving too fast for me and it makes me feel like a boomer when I'm in my 20's. WTF IS NFT?

For real, wtf is NFT?

 

[Mr. Bung]

Just a millennial here but still pretty reliant on physical media for many things (I fuckin' OWN that shit motherfucker!)

I see the way zoomers can tap and flip through their phones so quickly and it's pretty obvious they've been doing that since shortly after they were born. It's crazy seeing nativists and remembering being introduced to that shit not long ago.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

Just about everything nowadays.

The Simpsons. Depending on who you ask, it's been on for 10, 20, or even 25 years too long. Then there's the fact that the movie was 14 years ago.

This is a stupid one, but I was watching a few episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, and then I realized that all of the elderly parent characters are now dead. Then I feel even older remembering that Peter Boyle died back in 2006 and how bummed I was.

I still see Ninja Turtle stuff everywhere. I was a bit too young for the original comics and cartoons, but I grew up with the 2003 version. Seeing "2003" makes me feel old.

Hearing "All Star" at the supermarket, and realizing that not only has it been two decades since it was popular, but it's been 5 years since it got a huge meme resurgence.

Realizing how long Pokemon has been out for, how many of them there are now, and how the games have been on a decline, for me since Black and White 2. Then I remember that now the first Black and White games are already 10 years old, and I feel old.

And now, enough consooming:

Remembering the car my parents gave me when I turned 16 (their old one) and how it kicked the bucket last year. They had had it since I was 8.

And the big one, my little bro is no longer little. He's in his mid-twenties and has a happy family. That asshole.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I'm a zoomer, but I still get to feel a tiny bit old whenever I think about:

• Having dialup when I was a young child. It fucking sucked when I was younger but now it's just a thing to laugh at.
• AOL Web Browser, AIM Chatroom, all these archaic ways of surfing the web.
• VHS tapes and Blockbuster instead of Blu-Ray and Netflix
• Playing Neopets before Viacom sunk its greedy claws into it and turned it into a soulless husk
• YouTube with the 5-star system and none of the faggot influencers that plague the website today - just good ol' fashioned videos
• To expand upon the previous: Numa Numa, Caramelldansen, Hamster Dance, Cotton Eye Joe, Barbie Girl, Eiffel 65 - basically any popular meme song from before 2010
• Getting shareware games from fucking CDs - no Steam, no itch.io, just a bunch of CDs stuffed with 100 or 1000 great games.
• Not having depression / having a sense of optimism and whimsy.
• Not having to worry about politics and cancel culture, just enjoying life.

I remember ‘computer gaming world’ magazine from the 90’s, it was the pinnacle of pre-web 2.0 games reviewing. No grift, no back door deals, just a meaty phone-book sized slab of real vidya journalism. Back in the early days it didn’t even have giveaway demo discs like every other gaming mag, because it didn’t need them.
Anyone who had any respect for the medium and zero-payola reviews read it. It set a standard for independent video game journalism we shall never see again.

I miss you CGW, even more than I miss the slutty 90’s goth bitches I used to bang.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I saw an image or post that pointed out that people talking about the 90's now are just like people in the 90's that were talking about the 60's. It's correct but it ain't right.

 

[TurdFondler]

Gigabytes of ram in embedded devices. What the FUCK? My sick gaming rig had a 2400Mhz single core processor and a whole gigabyte of ram, it was a flex. Now your fucking bullshit raspberry pi boards just blow it right out of the water.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The year 2011 being a full decade ago makes me feel old.

So does the fact that the year 2002 is almost 20 years ago.

I remember when a decade felt like an eternity and when I could just barely or not at all remember 20 years ago instead of remember it clearly.

 

[JULAY]

Gigabytes of ram in embedded devices. What the FUCK? My sick gaming rig had a 2400Mhz single core processor and a whole gigabyte of ram, it was a flex. Now your fucking bullshit raspberry pi boards just blow it right out of the water.

My first computer had 38911 basic bytes free, motherfucker. Fuck your gig of RAM.

 

[Meat Target]

People younger than me getting married and having kids.

 

[Some JERK]

TV shows and movies set during my childhood are now period pieces instead of just callbacks.

 

[Zeta Reticulan]

For real, wtf is NFT?

Non-Fungible tokens. It's some gay ass shit where people take digital art and transform them into one time verifiable assets. Like free pizzas for life from a pizza shop in town or something. It's all very gay and memey.

 

[soy_king]

That smartphones have been around for 15 years.

 

[C.U.N.T.]

I heard a good one recently; "I remember when beer cost more than cigarettes."
I felt pretty old when I realised I played Electronic Arts' first ever game not too long after it first came out.
I remember being amazed at our expensive new 20mb hard drive. Luxury! But are there even enough games in the world to fill it?
Someone I met had a portable phone. It was about the size of a shoebox. It cost some ridiculous amount per month for the service as well as per phone call. I wondered how anyone could possibly be so busy that they need a phone near them at all times.
I'm going to stop now, this is making me have feels.

 

[JULAY]

I heard a good one recently; "I remember when beer cost more than cigarettes."
I felt pretty old when I realised I played Electronic Arts' first ever game not too long after it first came out.
I remember being amazed at our expensive new 20mb hard drive. Luxury! But are there even enough games in the world to fill it?
Someone I met had a portable phone. It was about the size of a shoebox. It cost some ridiculous amount per month for the service as well as per phone call. I wondered how anyone could possibly be so busy that they need a phone near them at all times.
I'm going to stop now, this is making me have feels.

First computer I had with a hard drive was 40 MB, which seemed like an enormous amount of space I'd never be able to fill even given ten lifetimes to try. Now I have 6 TB of external storage, to say nothing of internal storage, and I'm running out... Amazing how that works.

 

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Seeing how Seinfeld is now to a kid what Andy Griffith was to me when I was a kid.

 

[C.U.N.T.]

A zoomer relative tried to be a bit of a patronizing smartass to me about the internet/computers. I don't remember the specifics but I had to remind them I was using the World Wide Web(TM) for a good fucking decade or two before they were even born.
I doxed an ex-classmate of theirs in about 5mins including some surprise semi-nude gay pics that they had no idea of.
I used it as a chance to teach them that shit posted online is out there forever, the importance of online security hygiene, and of course that I am superior to them.
I then installed a keylogger and used it to blackmail them hahaha no I'm not a monster

 

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I wager a lot of people here will feel pretty damn old this September.

 

[TheRetardKing]

Can't believe that the Xbox 360 came out 2 generations and 16 years ago. Remember receiving the 120GB Elite model that came with both Lego Indiana Jones & a Kung Fu Panda game around Christmas of 2008. (No longer have the disks of both games though sadly.) I still have that same 360 to this very day.