Back in my day you were happy with a floppy, you were a rich man if you had 2! No hard disks in this pc.
Look man, I wanna chill with some hard ciders and a little whiskey. You have problems, I’ll help you analyze them and find a solution. I want you to have a better childhood and adulthood than I did.
We are going straight to Jurassic Park.
I played it in my third year of university (it was directly responsible for a few bad grades.) Am I dead already?
I think you qualify as undead now?
Does that mean I can stop paying taxes?
Hahaha, No.
Living impaired tax(LIT) incoming
The game I bought with my first summer temp job.
Born between 65 and 70, Gonna do a gender reveal when I hit 60. (Props to Jimmy Carr).
I’m from '78. I might count as archeological evidence now.
I’m only one strata above you when they start digging.
I just played Horizon Zero Dawn and can confirm you would be categorized as “The Old Ones”.
Your disco era relics will be coveted by those who followed.
Nice. Fear my HORRIBLE ELDRITCH POWER, bitches.
Wait, you guys are getting eldrich powers? All I got were dodgy knees and a moving hairline.
I’ve got a long coat that doesn’t fit anymore. I’m not sure that falls under 'powers` though. Pudding the pet to hoover a doughnut in a single gasp.
Well they’re eldritch, so mostly they’re inscrutable and drive people insane.
It’s just cats, isn’t it?
71…same :)
It’s weird to think about it. I was born in '87 and grew up hearing ahout the distant '60s and '70s as though they were this mythical, out-of-reach time in which my relatives reminisced. They even came with those old, shitty polaroids that really sold the vibe. Now it’s 2026 and people talk like the late ‘80s were a lifetime ago. Then I realize that from young peoples’ perspective now, that time period is even further away than the '60s were back when I listened to my parents talk about them.
I think the late, great Bozo the Clown said it best when he said, “WWHHHAAWT DA FFFFFFUUUUUCK…”
The 80s were 30 years after the 50s. The 20s are 30 years after the 90s. So the 90s are as far gone today as the 50s were in the 80s.
1980 is closer to the end of WWII than it is to today.
Kurt Cobain has been dead for longer than he was ever alive. Or in other words, there are people born after Cobain’s death that are now older than he was when he died (current cut off date for that is if you were born in 1999). His 59th birthday is tomorrow.
These people gonna have their minds blown when they’re 50 and they’re still alive.
With all the changes RFK is making 50 will be the new 80.
I’m already feeling like 30 is the new 60 🤣 Worrying about everything going tits up and white knuckling the wheel.
*if
Spartans checking in
Me at only 41 years old:
Hey there youngster! I’m 42. So, make room in that casket. We’re gonna snuggle.
Damn hookup culture you young people get up to these days.
The undead need love, too!
Also with how expensive a plot of land is these days, no way we’re splurging for individual accommodations.
I’m 45 and I don’t know what you younguns are on about. I don’t have knee issues. I don’t have major back issues. Heck I can still out work an Amish crew.
Y’all need to stretch more.
I would say something like this rather. We are the lich kings!Trust me, if I was the Lich King with the Lich King’s army and powers, there would be a lot fewer billionaires…
You are me. I am you. Old enough to be burdened with the memory of a world before the internet, doomed to watch the death of freedom because of it.
That keyboard is fascinating. Explain yourself.
It’s called TypeWise and takes a little to get used to. However, for someone who absolutely hates digital keyboards, I like it the best of any digital keyboards I’ve used!
Looks a little pricey, what features are locked behind the paywall?
Silly ones like keyboard colors and predictive text outside of like the first 3 or 4 words. Those were the two I hit before paying for it. Their trial is pretty good. Seems a lot of the paywall features are convenience, not necessity.
Damn, I remember in the late 90’s playing Everquest with some guy in China that knew almost no English thinking how fucking amazing it was to be playing a game with someone on the other side of the world. Now I sit around thinking how the unabomber maybe wasn’t so crazy. I work in cybersecurity and all I want to do is go back to the AOL era
I feel this in my very creaky bones! I, too, have fond memories of playing EverQuest on a 56k modem and thinking how cool it was that I could play with people from all over the country and world. At least until someone picked up the phone and got me killed mid-fight! Ted wasn’t all that right with his choice of targets, but his assessment of our broken system back then was spot on, I agree. I wish technological improvements since those days didn’t come with the side of techno-fascism that we see today.
I feel ya man -
Limnals and early millennials spent enough of their lives able to perceive Good Shit and still have some modicum of hope.
'90-‘99? Those folks grew up in a fuckin’ 911 world. All they know is shit and all they pray for is an early grave
I’m not from the U.S.A., but yes, still terrible conditions in my region and obviously internationally. My older siblings and my cousins (all older) had great childhoods in the 80s and early 90s. I was a late child. Everyone was old and everyone was busy. My parents struggled more and more economically, and my aunts kept telling me how I shouldn’t normalize what I was living, but… how? I didn’t have the maturity not to do so. I internalized a lot of sh*t. I needed healthcare, but there was not enough money or attention for that; today I live with the consequences. I guess I was sort of neglected. It’s hard for me to accept because my mom tried her best, even my dad did. I feel like I’m unthankful if I say it, but it’s a sad thing that happened even though they tried to prevent it (they just minimized it, I guess, which is nice).
I definitely don’t want a long life. Add all this fascism and dark world that’s always existed but now it’s blatant and crushing. Now I am tired. I believe the world can be better, but that much better…? It seems that we always have peaceful or abundant times that, nonetheless, brew and cement darker times. Human vices never rest, they just get in check from time to time. It’s a constant struggle against the greedy ones, the sadistic ones, etc. Of course I’m not having kids. You don’t throw more wood into a fire, as some say. And I just hope that we can collectively achieve some better times, a better period in our history. I have little faith on that (and little interest to fully participate in it once achieved because I would still be tired), but it would be nice (and fighting for it is still a duty, so here I am trying to help as much as I can).
Sorry for the oversharing. Just the perspective from a person born in the mid 90s.
USian ‘90s born:
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9/11 before kindergarten, watched it on live TV.
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Increasing school shootings year over year
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Incessant racism by paranoid family members and media writ large (which made even little me feel icky)
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2008 Great Recession. Constant fear of where my next meal was coming from all through middle school.
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More school shootings
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Was supposed to idolize a man who dumped drone bombs on foreign kids because at least he wasn’t Bush. Still wondered why we had troops in the Middle East if things were supposed to be better?
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At least equal marriage was federally legalized in 2015. Yay
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Missed the deadline to vote in 2016 due to moving issues, had to watch hell happen in real time.
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Lived in a major city, therefore in constant fear of nuclear holocaust due to a deranged rapist not keeping his mouth shut. After growing up in fear of anthrax in the mail and getting gunned down at school :)))
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Told that college was the only way I’d make anything of myself. Graduated into COVID.
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Watched reproductive rights get ripped away from millions after my family scoffed that they wouldn’t. My own grandmother had bodily rights longer than I did.
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Been pinching my nose and voting consistently since 2018, but still see fascism come roaring back full swing and transphobia+racism+now pedophilia get openly celebrated by a majority of rubes.
Plus a ton of my own health issues that only worsened after getting COVID (and that’s with the vaccine, I fear for what would have happened without it)? Yeah, I’m waiting to get off the ride but refuse to do it myself out of spite.
I want to see the obituaries of at least a few of these bastards, first.
I just wrote my experience, but you gave a lot of details. Exactly!
2008 was terrible because we had the age to understand what was happening but not the tools to live through it healthily. My anxiety was through the roof. My health got so much worse.
I also didn’t vote the first time I could here in my country due to moving issues, attentional issues, etc. Life was hectic and I had no time (no brain) to get my ID, honestly, lol.
COVID’s lockdowns were a relief to me, I have to admit. I was so fed up of going outside, of ‘masking’ my obvious problems and differences (e.g., ADHD), etc. I was failing miserably. Zoom calls were a lot easier, still are.
I hope you get better from the long COVID. I’m guessing you’re neurodivergent too. Take good care of yourself, psychologically, physically… We need it.
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Lol yep. Except it’s weird, I remember the world generally getting worse, but people getting less bad for a lot of my childhood. Around the beginning of my memories every adult in the country lost their goddamn mind and a lot of them got super racist to middle eastern folks. So yeah over the course of the 00s I watched as insane people chilled out and my generation became increasingly chill with people of different skin colors, religions, genders, and sexual orientations. I watched as Obama was elected, homophobia became uncool, and Americans learned to get over themselves and eat a falafel.
Then in college gamergare happened and the one area where things had been improving became a constant battle. So yeah hope faded to anger. I still have hope, but it’s a very different hope than one of my youth
I was 12 when the berlin wall fell. So yeah, seen some shit, but also saw it get better, and old enough to have the concept of safety nets and social responsibility embedded in my psych.
Watching the world right now is watching someone descend into meth addiction. But i hope. We have pulled out before. We can do it again. I’ve seen environmental laws created out of nothing. I lived as a Queer through the AIDS crisis. I remember the cold war. Those redpill idiots? Random background radiation of my childhood you little pussy fucks, try me.
Those cunts lost before, they’re gonna do it again. I wish you kids could see it.
Am i naive? Not really. I’ve fucking seen it, and i’m old enough to have grown up with a casualised violence these modern pissfarts think is their sole territory. It’s not.
‘90-‘99 checking in, yep.
'75 here. All you youngsters can get the hell off my lawn.
Actually, what I’ve noticed is that I don’t so much feel older as I do the “kids” keep getting younger. Was I like that at their age? Yep, probably, but I felt mature and adult then. To some degree. That thing about how you never really feel like an adult? I still get that a little bit. But after three decades of being an adult, it has also set in a bit.
Mostly, I’m opinionated, and I remember things from the past 40 years because I was alive for them, so they aren’t history to me, they are a part of the life I experienced.
So as you guys get older, I think you’ll find that - like whatever happens after Trump, unless it does continue to get worse (which is quite possible), there will come a time when a younger generation won’t know what it felt like to live under this fascism, and you, having lived through it, will have your mind blown because it’s history to them.
Which I guess has helped me when I think about figures from history and the past in general. While I can’t imagine living before the era of cars, I do know that whatever time frame you look at - to the people living at that time, it was all contemporary and modern. And so when you see people that had relationships with other people and arguments and such, you really do realize that we’re all human.
Also, the older I get, the more I realize just how precious life is. And when you’re young, you really are going to live forever. But every single day that passes is gone forever. Every month takes you further forward. Each year goes by and never comes back. When your 20s are gone, they won’t ever return. Don’t let that upset you, just make sure you aren’t coasting along and wasting time, waiting for what comes next, because if you spend you life waiting for what comes next, you die without anything ever coming next. Don’t “make every moment count” - do take time to relax. Just make sure that you are not ONLY relaxing, and don’t put everything off to the future. Do what you can to enjoy the life you have as best as you can while also trying to keep improving things.
Thanks, Mr. Miagi.
(He was your age when Karate Kid was made)The pharaoh has spoken!
I remember watching a CRT television belted to a five-foot tall roller stand, and we had suspended all classes that day, even though we were at school. We had just sat there, crying and watching the news, as both towers were smoking, then one had collapsed and myself and other kids had screamed, wailed, and one vomited there on the carpet. Occasionally someone would get pulled away to take a phone call, and they didn’t come back the same. They changed. We all changed.
I still remember Kevin Cosgrove’s last phone call.
Newberg, Oregon, September 11th ‘01.
For me, it was my first day at Texas Instruments. I had to show up to a mandatory Outlook training session (which was hilarious as I was being hired for a helpdesk position. I’d used Outlook since the first version in 1997 and supported it…). A guy came in and turned on the televisions.
I called my wife, who was working in the flight path of DFW airport. We also tried to get hold of my stepmother, who was working in the tallest building in downtown Dallas at the time.
It was much chaos, as I’m sure you remember, as nobody really knew what was going on or what further attacks might happen.
So for me, I was a young adult, married for about a year and a half when it happened - I got to live half a decade as an adult in the pre-9/11 world.
It’s hard for me to remember that for newer generations, all this bullshit that really started taking off hardcore after 9/11 is normalized. I saw our rights being taken away, the constant fear increase, the hatred for Muslims that blossomed into racism coming back out of its dirty closet, the rise of fascism.
It wasn’t always that way. :(
What a beautifully written comment. Thank you
When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3
I really appreciated that. Thanks for the perspective.
Now, get off his lawn!
Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)
Okay. I was born in the early 70’s. Lemme just brush the dust off, and I’ll join you.
As one legend to another: Before the Ancestors, there were Legends. That’s what the 70’s kids are.
The 1960s has entered the chat.
1970 here. I concur.
60s baby here. Oh dear, I don’t even know what to say anymore.
I think that makes you primal.
Platinum edition.
Bruh, someone from '99 is only 26
27 in the case of a friend of mine. He just had his birthday party.
Yes, we (90s babies) are not that old, but teenagers and young adults apparently always feel that life ends at around 25. Then… life just continues and you realize you’re just you, kind of young still, with a lot of living (and learning) left.
I’ll take getting older over the alternative every time.
I’m not happy I’m sixty. But, I am happy I’m not dead.
Ain’t that the point of it all.
