As if I wasn't feeling old enough already...

[pat]

My mother in law sent this to me today:

Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things.

The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in 1987 . They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.

Their lifetime has always included AIDS.

The CD was introduced the year they were born.

They have always had an answering machine

They have always had cable.

Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.

Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.

They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.!

They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.

They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".

McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.

They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter

Do you feel old yet? (Sorry) Pass this on to the other old fogies on your list. Notice the larger type, that's for those of you who have trouble reading.

Save the earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.


I can add a few:

If you didn't want commercials, you could only see a movie at the theatre.

MTV played only music.

MacIntosh has always meant something other than just an apple.

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

"Apple" has always meant something other than just an apple!

n.
(old fogey!)

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

My daughter is a first-year university student who was born in 1987.

She used my portable typewriter for a while when she was in elementary school, but she gave it back sometime before she got her own laptop computer.

I think she knows how to make popcorn on the stove, but I'll ask her.

When she was six, she performed in a school musical about environmental issues in which she and her classmates sang the line "We'll be the last dudes to eat fast food from polystyrene." This didn't seem odd to me at the time, but maybe in fact that age had already passed.
Her family didn't always have an answering machine. They did have cable when she was young, before moving to satellite TV.

CDs were actually introduced in Canada the weekend after Easter in 1983. I know that because I went away for the weekend with an audiophile, who dragged me to a mall to hear a CD player.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Because I was upgrading from the ancient Photoshop 5.0 to CS2, the installation program did not recognize my previous (did I say ancient?) version of PS, so I had to call Adobe Customer Service for an unlock code to get the upgrade to install.

I'm sorry, that was *really* a run-on sentence, but the chain on the gears of my brain seems to be a bit loose today.

*Anyway*, I'm on the phone to the very nice (and I suspect very young) man and he asked me to read the serial numbers for 5.0 and for CS2. It took me four tries and a magnifying glass. I kid you not. And then I asked him to repeat himself several times. Not only can I not see, I cannot hear.

I will be shopping for a rocking chair and an ear horn very soon now. Oy.

[karenbynight.livejournal.com]

They were 6 years old when the first graphical web browser was released, and around 9 years old when the Web started to become popular. They've never had a bank account where you couldn't check your balance online.

They've also never known the more unified, less commercial online environment I remember. If they're aware of Usenet at all, they consider it quaint at best. Email has always had spam. Web sites have always had ads. Google has always been the real search engine.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

True! : )

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

I'm adding that to the news that my classmates are having a thirty-year high school reunion, which I will not attend.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't trade my sagging figure and strands of grey at the temples for my youthful self--not if it meant giving up all the joy and wisdom and balance I've learned over the years.

Life is much, much better these days. Thank you, Jesus.