You know you are old when...Y

[F-ZeroOne]

...when you actually saw the "Elan" be renamed "Enterprise" in print.

[Belkov]

...when you actually saw the "Elan" be renamed "Enterprise" in print.

Merely the fact that I know exactly what you are referring to makes me feel old.

[PFVA]

... to remember the Iran-Contra affair investigations and Ronald Reagan getting away by saying
"I can't remember". And I remember the Democrats bringing up memory health issue and the Republicans saying there was no problem.

[KlaxonCow]

Reagan actually had Alzheimer's in his last few years in office.

And the White House knew this. But they said nothing and let him run out his time in office.

But, ah, Republicans adore Reagan. For many Republicans, Reagan is their "golden age".

So that happened and no-one said or did a single thing, even though Alzheimer's is not just "old age", but actual physical brain decay.




(It's actually Chris Barrie - Rimmer from Red Dwarf - who played Reagan on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood records. He's a very good impressionist and was working on Spitting Image to do a lot of the voices, before he put his face in front of the camera for Red Dwarf.)

[KlaxonCow]

...when this ode to aging is aimed at millennials, and you're a whole generation older than that:

[gilesgoat]

One or two ? I am from 1970 ...

[KlaxonCow]

One or two ? I am from 1970 ...

Don't make it worse, giles.

But, no, I'm sure it's "Gen X", "Millennial" then "Gen Z", right?

Like, "Millennial" is really "Gen Y" but renamed to make a fuss of them being born near an arbitrary decimal round number after an event that arguably never happened anyway. Despite the name, it's not "born after 2000", as you might imagine, but "has formative years surrounding 2000" so it takes in '90s kids as well. Something like that.

Not that these labels mean anything. After all, births are a continuous process, so there's no magical boundary there, any more than the signs of the Zodiac actually define anything concrete. Like, I posted it because, even if it is aimed at younger folk, it still feels largely correct.

[PFVA]

That made me feel old.

I remember when The Simpsons first came out.

[gilesgoat]

That made me feel old.

I remember when The Simpsons first came out.

I don't feel ( well yes I do a bit ) "old" but I more ( should ) feel privileged that "we have seen things that others did not" .. I remember when Space Invaders came out and Asteroids and the first arcade game I ever seen in colour was Phoenix

[PFVA]

I remember Pong in arcade version. Some cafés here had it back in 1976-77.

[MattyP]

Remember playing Star Wars and Battle zone arcade cabs and being amazed way back.

When you think a film made in 2000 is still fairly new.... And realise it's 24 years ago! Same to a degree with music.

One thing that is kind of weird with gaming is when you think the PS2 was released around 24 years ago and when you look back 24 years before the PS2 was released it was 1976 pre space invaders and primitive stick monochrome graphics.

Certainly tech seems to have slowed down a bit since say the PS2 released graphics have just got a bit shinier and wireless pads etc. Certainly the flow of games have slowed down from the big publishers too since then and the variety of game genres.

I do feel a bit old these days as I seem to spend most of my gaming time playing on the Xbox 360 and Switch.Think I just can't be bothered with the faff new games with patching and overly complex controls etc. Half of the time if I come back to a newish game after a bit can't remember the controls and have to relearn them half of the time!

[Orava]

When you know how to code in Cobol.

[Whiteball]

I once asked someone at work if they ever watched [a tv series I can't remeber now] to which they replied "I wasn't born then". I was talking about this program as it seemed like it was on a year or two ago when in fact it was almost 26 years ago at the time

[MattyP]

When you know how to code in Cobol.

They were teaching COBOL on my Uni course when I started it in the early 90's. Apparently it was (and probably still is) used by a lot of banks and financial places. Never got on with it... even on a text screen editor we still had to place things in certain columns because of the throwback to punchcards It felt very retro and quaint at the time... we even had to use old green screen terminals to hook into a mainframe to code in it.

[NorthWay]

While I had a s it at work for some reason I realized that small kids soon wont be making engines noises when they play with toy cars but possibly Star Wars style "swoosh" sounds.
I felt old and sad.