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Here is the list of what kids born in 1990, who are now college freshmen have experienced.
98.6 has always been checked in the ear? I had a physical a month ago and they put the thermometer in my mouth.
What surprises you? What do you disagree with?
Me too. I don’t have an ear thermometer at my house, either. However, someone born in 1990 would probably only remember digital thermometers, not mercury.
I didn’t know that it ever did stand for that!
I saw that earlier. The one about the Warsaw Pact seemed kind of random. Other than that, get off my fucking lawn.
Macaulay Culkin has always been Home Alone.
whut?
Did they remake it, or was it a remake, coz I only remember Mac being left in the house.
They made two Home Alone movies with him, and then another one or two without him, so that’s a bizarre phrasing. It’s a dumb way to say the movie was made in 1990.
When they were seven years old, their parents had to shield them from news stories about a semen-streaked dress. They were ten when the chads swung, eleven when the towers fell, and in junior high/middle school when the troops entered Baghdad.
I went back and looked at the one for 2004, my own class. “They have never used a bottle of “White Out.”” :dubious:
Good idea. I just looked at mine - 2003. It relaxed me a little bit about the 2012 list, because I figured 1/3rd of mine was true, 1/3rd was not true, and 1/3rd was stuff no one gave a shit about. I doubt the current list is much different.
Oh, and:
No, I don’t. And neither does Google or Urban Dictionary.
But I can hum the tune to Inspector Gadget! (can class of 2012 not do this???)
Probably from Press Your Luck. “Big money, big money, no whammies!” I can just barely remember when that was on a channel other than the Game Show Network.
Meh.
Spelled differently, and I don’t know why we would be expected to know something from a show that got cancelled as we were entering kindergarten.
What about Nanos and Tamagachis? They were this generation’s pet rocks…
My daughter is one of these kids. They also have no familiarity with rotary phones. black and white TVs and cola wars, among other things.
Kids born in 1990 have likely never used (and possibly never seen) a computer without a mouse attached.* They’ve also likely never seen a dot-matrix printer or a Selectric typewriter. They may or may not have ever used cassette tapes, but they’ve damn sure never seen an eight-track. Also, their whole conception of the Republican party has been formed by watching Dubya.
*(MS-DOS applications would occasionally use a mouse well before Windows 95 made it nearly essential. They weren’t rare in the early 1990s.)
Overall, I just wasn’t very impressed with this year’s list. It seems like they are really having trouble coming up with year-specific items. When this list started, it was really shocking to read some of the differences, mostly because they drew from all years prior to the birth year. Now, in order to make a list every year, they are limiting themselves to the birth year only. To truly use these lists as they are intended you have to consider the 2012 list in addition to the 2011 and the 2010, etc. etc.
I do teach at the college level, so I have a professional interest in these ideas, but I think I will be better off to consider them in 5 year chunks.
That was a separate list at the bottom- stuff kids of the 80s would remember. You wouldn’t remember it, but we would.
Can’t you kids even read these days? Oh, and get off my lawn!
Why wouldn’t I remember it? It was the list for the college class of 2003 - that’s me.
I always find these lists terribly condescending on behalf of the kids in question. It’s like when some old fart at work started explaining to me what a record player was. I’m 27 for Christ’s sake, I’ve got one in the garage!
:rolleyes:
I looked up the page for 2004 (the year I would have graduated if I hadn’t changed my major)…some of the assumptions they make are downright insulting. I’m familiar with the 409 and the Deuce Coupe, didn’t know about ATMs until the mid-90’s, didn’t have satellite TV until high school, am well aware of Three Mile Island’s impact on nuclear plant construction in the US, don’t buy Calvin Klein or Coors, am familiar with the original Woodstock, had an actual ringing phone in the house for most of my childhood, think Madonna’s American Pie is blasphemy, have heard Ode to Billy Joe, and I keep a bottle of (off-brand) White-out in my desk at work. And my grandfather spent quite a bit of time in Vietnam; I definitely know about “Hanoi Jane”.
It’s a nice concept though…maybe they should aim for a larger time span. The trivia bits were good; the list should be more along those lines.
Yeah, mine said I’ve never dialed a phone. I have no idea what the fuck that’s even supposed to mean. I still dial phones to this day. If they meant rotary, they could’ve worded it a little better, and fuck them anyway because we had a rotary phone growing up.
My eleven-year-old son cracked me up the other day. We have cordless phones in our house – you know, the kind with the base station that plugs into the wall and the handset you walk around with.
My wife was complaining about the crappy sound quality.
My son said: “You know, they should invent a telephone that plugs directly into the wall! I bet that would sound better.”