You know what’s really weird?

[Sage]

When you realize for the first time that you’re around people who were born the decade after you.

I just realized the other day that there is a whole class of students at my school who were born in the ’90s. It makes perfect sense – those born in the early ’90s are in their early teens right now – yet it’s just something I’ve never given thought to before, and now it’s a bit weird to think about.

I was looking at someone’s profile today, and when his birthday was something 1991, I thought “wait, isn’t that too young to be using the Internet?”, then I realized that he’s 14, which is when I joined GTP. And it just hit me that a largeish population of GTP must’ve been born in the ’90s…

It’s all very strange to think about for the first time. I suppose when I’m 30 I won’t care. Except maybe when I hear that Giles’s daughter is graduating high school, then I’ll get all weirded out again.

 

[VIPFREAK]

It's not weird more odd that there are things around me here that are older than I am... take for instance that I found out my dad still has a 286 he's trying to revive. It's about 25 or so yrs old.

 

[ceiling_fan]

Yeah, that's what I think when I look at benzoboy's profile.

Edit: Good point VIPFREAK. Until I was about 14 my cat was older than me. Then it died.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

I feel exactly the same way as you all of the time, Sage (being 10 days younger than you ). Every time I see someone born in the nineties, I always think: "Wow, they're what? 10? 11?" ... then I realise they're a bit older than that, and in their teens.

It's quite odd. We're starting to get old, Sage.

 

[VIPFREAK]

Yeah, that's what I think when I look at benzoboy's profile.

Edit: Good point VIPFREAK. Until I was about 14 my cat was older than me. Then it died.

My dad has a 65 stang and when we dug it out of my grandma's garage before it was torn down was a '79 news paper... It was probably like '99 or so when this all took place.


Hell I remember back in 03 joining this place, being a noob, and looking at the top people in the posting department. Now, I'm not a noob and I'm pretty much at the top.

 

[Sage]

Every time I see someone born in the nineties, I always think: "Wow, they're what? 10? 11?" ... then I realise they're a bit older than that, and in their teens.

Yup, that’s exactly what I always do – I always associate 1990s with being 10 years old, not 14 or 15. Maybe it’s because we were born so close to 1990, yet still associate our birth with the 80s. I wonder if people born in 1980 ever get the same feeling?

What was really freaky was that the other day, I was tutoring this kid, and his mother runs an art class in her house for children. She was teaching some Chinese calligraphy or something, so she was discussing the Chinese zodiac, and started to ask the kids what year they were born. I was walking by the room, and I nearly walked into a wall when I heard most of them say 1996. I mean, yes, they’re young children and all, but jeebus, I actually remember 1996!

Hell I remember back in 03 joining this place, being a noob, and looking at the top people in the posting department.

Yeah – I wasn’t even in high school when I first joined, and now I’m a few months from graduating. Scary beans.

 

[-Fred-]

Except maybe when I hear that Giles’s daughter is graduating high school, then I’ll get all weirded out again.

Now, now, one thing at a time, young man... She's got the right to decide which one of us she wants to take to the prom.

 

[niky]

Damn... the nineties were like, what, last month?

Yeah. it's kinda strange that most of the people on the internet nowadays weren't even born when I wrote my first BASIC program.

 

[emad]

maaan, i was being weirded out enough by it as it is. Just wait 5 years and we'll be seeing people born TWO generations after us

 

[VIPFREAK]

Yeah. it's kinda strange that most of the people on the internet nowadays weren't even born when I wrote my first BASIC program.

I don't even remember a time without the internet or how it happened... it just did. Yet, I do remember when I had a really ****ty program compuserve or something like that. It was orange with menus similar to AoHell but even slower... like slower than 28.8

 

[Casio]

What freaks me out is now, children are starting school who were born in the year 2000....

I'm a child of the 80s and my brother was born in 1991, I to always think he is 11 or 12, but he is almost 15. Scary.

But what's really scary, is that my cousin is almost 4 and he'll sit on the internet for hours...

 

[VIPFREAK]

I'm a child of the 80s and my brother was born in 1991, I to always think he is 11 or 12, but he is almost 15. Scary.

No no... you're freaking me out... 91... My sister was born '81.

 

['85fierogt]

were born so close to 1990, yet still associate our birth with the 80s. I wonder if people born in 1980 ever get the same feeling?

People born in 1981 do and you saying that makes me feel that much older.

 

[Andrew R]

I was born in '89 and seeing people born in like '94 freaks me out. I think they'd be like 7 or 8 but they're 11. Makes me feel old.

 

[niky]

I don't even remember a time without the internet or how it happened... it just did. Yet, I do remember when I had a really ****ty program compuserve or something like that. It was orange with menus similar to AoHell but even slower... like slower than 28.8

Young man, if you have never had to dial a rotary phone to get on the internet, you have never lived...

Wanna compare notes on the oldest computer used? Ever had to insert a cassette tape to load your program?

 

[Omnis]

The Human race will never be the same not having experienced the 80's and early 90's.

 

[VIPFREAK]

Young man, if you have never had to dial a rotary phone to get on the internet, you have never lived...

Oh, I did and I thought, WTF is this ****?

Wanna compare notes on the oldest computer used? Ever had to insert a cassette tape to load your program?

I had a Comodore 64 (that's the oldest I can remember) but my dad was using Tape drives as backup and I thought WTF is that ****.

I've seen 8 tracks before... barely remember hearing how ****ty they were though.

You do realize we are seriously dating our selves.

 

[unsanctified]

It's a strange thought indeed. I see my friends younger sisters and I feel sick because their 14 and 15 years old. I'm about to be a married guy, and 14 and 15 year olds can catch my eye? Scary.

What's even weirder to think about I guess is that I'm going to have a child born in the year 2006. When my kids have kids they'll be asking when their grandfather was born. My kids will tell them 1987. They'll be thinking, "Back in the 1900's? Wow, he's ancient!"

 

[niky]

Dated? I remember when Carbon Dating was new.

I've got a kid now, born just last December. I think it's kind of sad that she'll never know the romance of putting an LP on and hearing the first few seconds of scritch scratch as the turntable starts up, or the wind in your face as you hang your head out the window of a rattly old Ford Escort going down a near deserted highway (is that even legal anymore? ). Yeah we're dated... either that or the world is moving just way too fast.

 

[Pupik]

It’s all very strange to think about for the first time. I suppose when I’m 30 I won’t care.

No, you'll always think the latest generation is a bunch of idiots! I remember thinking that our graduating class was a bunch of level-headed, reasonable people. After all, the Class of [insert year] was surely the Age of Reason, and the barbarians that graduated after them, well...they're just kids! What the heck do they know!?!

Then you realize that they probably think the same of those after them, and that the year previous to them were a bunch of dolts. Ah, youth. Welcome to growing up, Sage.

I recall looking at the vitals of the kids in my mother's 1st grade class, all of them between the ages of 5-7 years old. I felt older and older, and now the latest bunches are all born during that weird fin-de-millenia era of 1999-2001. Next year, they will be a year older, looking down on them as if they'd completed a military tour of duty.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

I felt old the other day when I was talking to my parents about how they're making a new Transformers movie, and how it has been 20 years since the first one came out. Then I realized I was 6 when I saw it in the theatres.
I'm gonna start wearin depends undergarmets and using a cane.

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I always remember my parents reminiscing, and saying "Wow, that was 20 years ago." Since I was probably 8 at the time, 20 years seemed an inconceivable amount of time.

Now I'm 33, and I started secondary school 20 years ago. I graduated from University 9 years ago. I've owned a CD player for 19 years, a computer for 20 years, and I developed my first web site for NCSA Mosaic 0.5 in 1993, twelve years ago.

The passage of time is inexorable.

 

[FoolKiller]

My age hit me when I first saw that "The Wonder Years" TV show was going to be on Nick At Nite and TV Land. I thought, "Wait a second, those are reserved for old shows! I watched those growing up." Then it hit me.

I have since recovered until I saw someone (Sage) born in 1988 talking about people born in the 90's and feeling old.

 

[Jondot]

I was looking at someone’s profile today, and when his birthday was something 1991, I thought “wait, isn’t that too young to be using the Internet?”, then I realized that he’s 14, which is when I joined GTP. And it just hit me that a largeish population of GTP must’ve been born in the ’90s…

*Cough*



I don't really have this problem - i don't know anyone on GTP who is under 6...

 

[zoxxy]

I got a radio that's older than me.

 

[Seanman]

Whoa, Jon., you're 8 days older than me! Now that's ancient....


And just last week, I realized a friend's younger brother's old enough to be in middle school next year. I always remember him as the little guy in elementary school. Now, he's the little guy in middle school.

 

[McLaren]

When you realize for the first time that you’re around people who were born the decade after you.

I just realized the other day that there is a whole class of students at my school who were born in the ’90s. It makes perfect sense – those born in the early ’90s are in their early teens right now – yet it’s just something I’ve never given thought to before, and now it’s a bit weird to think about.

I was looking at someone’s profile today, and when his birthday was something 1991, I thought “wait, isn’t that too young to be using the Internet?”, then I realized that he’s 14, which is when I joined GTP. And it just hit me that a largeish population of GTP must’ve been born in the ’90s…

It’s all very strange to think about for the first time. I suppose when I’m 30 I won’t care. Except maybe when I hear that Giles’s daughter is graduating high school, then I’ll get all weirded out again.

Some of you are making me feel old now though I'm only a year ahead of Jimmy and Sage.

Sage, I don't get that feeling you have about others. I get that about me. Not to mention though, alot of your posts make you seem a lot older than me.

These days, I know I'm only months before 19, and I feel so old. Everyone can't wait to turn 18. Almost out of high school, parties, po..., well, you get the drift.
But I realize now, I'm out of high school and I'm about to turn an age that most people don't really care about. 19 is such a wierd number imo, and I feel a bit old now when I realize a lot of GTP members are now 15-18 and still enjoying school, a thing I'm actually starting to miss. It'll be a year in June when I graduated from high school, and see I'm still a bit of a poor, doing nothing with life, kid.

At this age, you'd think I'd have a girlfriend, be thinking of my future, going to a full-based college and in a completely new surrounding. But I'm still here in Plano, going to a community college, and living with my sis' and her boyfriend with no girlfriend.

I feel a little alone nowadays, espcially since Logan moved out to Hawaii, and my other friends in college or moving away...

 

[Carl.]

The Human race will never be the same not having experienced the 80's and early 90's.

Yep. You have to experience behind surrounded with people having moustaches at least once in your live...

But seriously, 80s were damn cool.

 

[Blake]

What freaks me out is now, children are starting school who were born in the year 2000....

It really is scary how fast time goes by, a few years ago I couldn’t imagine life after graduating from high school, now I’m living it.

Man, everything really does go so quick and you don’t even notice it at the time. I mean, I remember New years Eve in 2000, how much the world has changed in 6 years.

 

[cardude2004]

I always think the same way. I see somebody was born in the 90's, and think they are like 10, even though I was born in 1989.

Sage, how are you already graduating? I am only a sophomore, and I am 16. You are probably a Junior, or are you a Senior in high school?