I feel really really old lately

[Twiddly]

To preface, I am 25 years old, I was born in 86'. The explosion of electronics/internet/cellphones/laptops and stuff lately has just boggled my mind. I did not have internet until I was 15 (I lived way out in the country, we could not even get reliable dial-up..) and cell phones? Nobody had those! I seriously had one of the rotary dial phones until my teens as our main house phone.

I see my little nieces now with the toys they have, and it boggles my mind! Electronics everywhere, toy computers with more power then anything I ever had growing up, as our main (And only) desktop computer!

I was buying a lego set for a little eight year old cousin of mine recently, and it boggled my mind the things they have now. Gigantic Harry Potter castles with moving parts and stuff? The kinex (Or however you spell it) sets where it can operate like a real city? WTF is this! I thought my star wars xwing fighter was high tech when I had it, because it had movable wings!


Does anyone else just feel really damn old lately? (Oh and I did not even mention the internet...2.1 mb file? Hope nobody calls the house phone in the next couple of hours!)

[Deleted]

Do you know the name of every character on iCarly? If not, then you're old.

Getting old doesn't bother me though. :P

[Alixie]

Do you know the name of every character on iCarly? If not, then you're old.

Getting old doesn't bother me though. :P

Im 25 and I watch iCarly. Im comfortable with my old age that I still like watching kids shows. I feel old, but I feel young. I remember dial up, and rotary phones, and cell phone were seen as a luxuary to be kept out of school.

I only worry about the day I'll sound like my parents, "You want a what, DSi Nintendo 3D for Christmas? Whats that lol"

[Elite Peon]

Ive had high speed cable internet since 1997 so you were like 11 ....thats crazy you must have been out in BFE ..and by the way if you feel old now just wait until your 30th birthday ...it really hits you that your youth is over .

[ThatInternet]

Im 25 and I watch iCarly. Im comfortable with my old age that I still like watching kids shows. I feel old, but I feel young. I remember dial up, and rotary phones, and cell phone were seen as a luxuary to be kept out of school.

I only worry about the day I'll sound like my parents, "You want a what, DSi Nintendo 3D for Christmas? Whats that lol"

let me know in a few years if you are still comfortable with watching the disney channel. I swear, that channel is run by pedos.

[vep]

I only worry about the day I'll sound like my parents, "You want a what, DSi Nintendo 3D for Christmas? Whats that lol"

Those days will most probably never come. 'Cause, unlike out parents, we are growing along-side technology and we do stay in touch one way or another.
Hope that comforts you :P

[Cairhiin]

If it means anything, 25 is nothing, you are still young! I know how you feel regarding technology.

[StaeleAilar]

you're not alone OP lol, im only 20 and i feel really old lately >.> donotlike!

[Deleted]

For me it's like this. I'm born in '81. I have trouble accepting that people born in the 90's can actually look adult. I remember when my mother was younger than I am now. I've had a driving license for more than a decade.

I rewatch a movie I used to watch much when I was a kid and realize I now relate to the parent character in the movie and not the child. Wtf happened.

Most upcoming hollywood stars are younger than me, I'm probably too old to become a professional athlete and techonology starts to impress me more and more. What the fuck did I do before I had a cell? .. did we just.. show up in the agreed place at the agreed time? Did we go outside? And download speeds in 1997.. 3.5 mb file.. I've got a new song in just two hours!


But still.. I feel way better at 30 than I did as a teenager. Being an adult rocks. I always thought it would be boring and sad. It's not. It's awesome.

[Disenchanted]

25???

Son, when I was young, and if your family could afford cable, we had 13 channels on TV (if the President had a speech, your night was screwed), no such things as video games. Half of our reruns were in black and white. For that matter, many households still had black and white TVs. VCRs didn't even exist. Forget DVDs, DVRs and Blue Rays. Cassette tapes were the wave of the future and destined to eventually replace 8-tracks. But most people bought vinyl albums. Laser discs? That's some sci-fi bullshit there.

Most people had to DIAL a phone. Push button phones were fancy and expensive. Wireless phones? When they first came out, only the rich folk had them. And cell phones? ROFL What kind of insane sci-fi are you watching? You mean those flip ups like in Star Trek??? I was a llittle older when the first cell phones became available, and you needed to lift weights to train to carry them.

Most special effects were stop motion animation, or miniatures. It was really obvious, but we liked it.

Some athletes were starting to experiment with these drugs called steroids, and it might be the wave of the future.

You had to get an immunization for this disease called small pox because that could really mess you up.

Most cars had AM radio. If you could get one with AM AND FM radio, you spent some dough. Or you could save your money and install an 8-track tape system, but it was expensive.

If you wanted to have recordings of select songs from various artists in one place, you had to record them... usually off the radio. and if the DJ was a jagoff, he'd talk and ruin the beginning or ending. Later on, you were able to record on tape through the same machine. but at first, we had to HOLD the tape recorder up to the radio or record player. Records were these discs made of vinyl that you placed a needle on, and it would amplify the vibrations.

There were computers, but only the government and a few companies had them. Most were housed in warehouse sized rooms and ran on vacuum tubes. Your iPhone has more power than probably all of them combined did.

.....

And I'm only 42! LOL

Get used to it. The world moves fast. You're barely entering your prime. Old... pfft!

[Slanderize]

I feel as though I am a founding father of this internet.
Then after I'm done crying about my poor bastard son that's strayed so far from the days of Yahoo chat and IRC pre kiddie porn, I think that it's not all too bad.

But yeah, my son had me get some Spynet toys for him on Christmas, and those fucking things.. are scary. They WORK. And they're charged on the computer.. and they're scary.

[Deleted]

I only like to get older, actually. I really DONT like the youth overall. No respect, act like kids, cant behave at all. Dont want to be "included" in those.

But well, thats how they act, not the technical part you are mentioned. :P But i do feel its kinda pathetic kids wearing iphones and whatever those things are called.

[Deleted]

I was born in 1983 and we first got internet when I was 16 or so. And the other things are pretty similar with you. Do I feel old though? Nope, for some reason I still feel like a teenager:P Starting uni again helps I guess since talking to teachers feels like talking to grownups or "old people":P

But it's strange I think. It's like there are 2 different kinds of people. Those who marry at 17-20, have family, children, work etc. at 20-25 and actually look old when they're 30. And then there's this other type who don't settle down before 30-40 and at 50 look like someone from the first type who's 30.

I mean I'm nearly 30 and people still mistake me for underage or teenager:P And I usually wear black and I'm tall (1.75m), not pink and a top with a picture of a kitty on it.

[Khyber081]

Do you know the name of every character on iCarly? If not, then you're old.

I just had to google "iCarly" to find out what the hell it was....infer from that what you may.

(31, married, 4 yr old daughter)

If you wanted to have recordings of select songs from various artists in one place, you had to record them... usually off the radio. and if the DJ was a jagoff, he'd talk and ruin the beginning or ending. Later on, you were able to record on tape through the same machine. but at first, we had to HOLD the tape recorder up to the radio or record player. Records were these discs made of vinyl that you placed a needle on, and it would amplify the vibrations.

Ahh..the old half assed self engineered mix tape...tape as in cassete tape...I was around for the tail end of that.

[aimziepoo]

Haha,

I actually just said to myself, today, on these very forums, "I'm too old for this shit". And I'm only 24! I am however thoroughly convinced that there are more argumentative teeney-boppers who just like to be annoying then people my age who peruse this site. I have caught myself thinking "Is this really how kids think and behave now?"

BRB while I fetch my whomping cane and huge Grandma glasses to better look upon you with disappointment and fear for your generation >.<