I felt old the day my son asked me about the box of “big CDs” in my dad’s basement.
Those are called “albums”, son. Get off my lawn.
I wasn’t aware they had anything to say in the 80s, either. Do teenagers today even know who Milli Vanilli is?
What, are kids today not allowed on planes? Airline food never became good.
Most of this list is a bunch of garbage. College freshmen may not admit that they know who was President in 1968, but when it really matters you’ll usually find they do.
I seriously doubt any of them think Laguna Beach has been on TV for more than five years (and it’s cancelled now anyway, right?)
Before Laguna Beach, there was The OC; and before that, there was Melrose Place; and before that, there was Beverly Hills 90210. So this one’s pretty much right; there’s always been something about affluent southern California teenagers on TV.
I used carbon paper back in the early 80s to trace comics onto blank sheets of paper. Dunno why, it was just something I liked to do 'til I started drawing my own comics. My dad worked as an offset printer, so he had access to all kinds of cool paper stuff.
See post #17. Frankly, it weirds me out. It’s one thing for a store brand type company to go making all manner of things from food to clothing to electronics, but when a well-known company known for its variety of pastries and other frozen confections goes and starts making cosmetics and undergarments, it just creates a disturbance in the force.
Just imagine Sara Lee brand flavoured condoms…
Maybe they’re thinking of the airlines that don’t serve food at all. IIRC, Southwest doesn’t serve anything to eat. There are a few others, right?
I’m 21 and I find most of this a little silly. I remember watching the election results in 1988 (I was three) and George Bush winning and my parents being very upset. I remember bad airline food. I was taught both the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal system (I hate the LoC system, BTW). I who Millie Vanilli is, although I would be at a loss to name any songs. Flock of seagulls hair is mentioned in The Wedding Singer so I know what it is. I remember the time shortly after the reunification of Germany. I certainly remember the USSR and being terrified of nuclear war.
Either the people who made this list are ignorant, or they assume that anyone under 30 is.
Wait, so it’s the corporation that somehow bought other brand names, like Hanes and Playtex? I don’t think that really counts. Since the only thing marketed specifically as “SARA LEE” are baked goods.
I also don’t think it’s that well-known, is it?
As for LoC vs. DD, at the main branch of the Carnegie library here in Pittsburgh, I believe they use both-when you go into the stacks on the one floor, one side has books shelved according to LoC, the other with DD (these are mostly the older books).
I smoked on a plane as late as 1997 on a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Osaka.
Interestingly, while Singapore Airlines had a no smoking policy on all its other flights, smoking was allowed in a cramped last-two-rows smoking section on flights flying into or out of Japan. What I mean is if you were flying to Japan from New Delhi going east and there was a change required at Singapore, the flight between New Delhi and Singapore would be smoke free while the Singapore - Tokyo leg would allow restricted area smoking. Apparently, Japanese have a higher average number of smokers in general, or perhaps used to, and this practice as adopted to avoid losing business.
Subsequently however, AFAIK, Singapore Airlines have made all flights non smoking.
For the record, I’m 19.
31. They grew up in minivans.
Funny, my parents never bought one until I turned 18. Vans were always a treat to ride in, I was used to the backseat of the car.
36. They have rarely mailed anything using a stamp.
WTF? I admit, I don’t use stamps when I go to the postal outlet, but when dropping them in a mailbox? Of course I do!
55. They have always had access to their own credit cards.
Uh? My mom co-signed for me on one when I went to university. Or are we talking about those funky American cards that double as debit cards? I got one when I got my first job.
we know who Milli Vanilli is because when Ashlee Simpson lipsynched on SNL, all the old people said it was like Milli Vanilli. And so we were educated.
I’m not a college freshman yet, but:
it’s not that it’s never existed… just that it’s always been the “Former Soviet Union”
really? what’s it like when someone actually “rings it up” then?
I don’t remember any blue dresses. Is this in reference to the clinton thing? I was too young at the time to know the details.
no. by the time I knew what a fax machine was, it was something that people used to use but don’t anymore.
Actually… that show’s been on since before I was born. The one I watch tells me that, in the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit. also, In New York City’s war on crime, the worst criminal offensers are pursued by the detective of the major case squad.
what did it used to do? cure diabetes?
what was in style before white christmas lights?
Also, the Beatles is only his secondary role. First and foremost, he is Mr. Conductor from Shining Time Station.
I heard about this on the news last night.
Can anyone tell me what they mean by this one?
**52. They never played the game of state license plates in the car. **
Didn’t they still go on long car trips with the parents, as older generations did?
Not only that, but the lighted “No Smoking” signs were built in the very cabin design of the airliners back then, so it was obviously intended that smoking would permitted except for certain times like landing and taking off. They also used to ask smokers not to smoke pipes or cigars, but limit themselves to cigarettes.
Truly it was a different world.
You know how people say “cha-ching!” sometimes, in reference to money changing hands? They’re imitating the sound an old-fashioned cash register used to make. The checker would enter the amount of the item, press the Total button, a bell would ring (cha-ching) and the drawer would open.
Multi-colored lights. Big ones (thumb-sized) when I was a kid.
I think they’re overreaching a bit, but they probably assume that kids in the back seat are just plugged in to Walkmen, Ipods and/or DVD players, and never need to pass the time playing games.
But you’ve probably never used “U.S.S.R.” in a geographical or political conversation. Unless you were discussing a particular Beatles song…
Once upon a time, in a grocery store far, far away, cash registers had a bell in them that would make a pleasant “ding” sound when they pressed the ‘total’ button. Coupled with the mechanical noise of the roll printer smacking the paper, you ended up with, as was already mentioned, the “cha-ching!” noise that is often used to refer to an influx of cash.
Even I don’t know what this refers to. Anyone?
Did people really use fax machines in lieu of regular post? I’ve been around them for ages but they’ve always been business machines used for sending/receiving documents to/from other companies. It was only by the mid-90s and the advent of fax modems coupled with the growing SOHO trend that faxing from the home started becoming commonplace.
No – it just didn’t exist. Back in the day it was all commercials for lotions and cremes containing jojoba, cocoa butter, and whatever other wrinkle-spackle-of-the-year was in vogue.
Let’s not forget George Harrison’s short-lived 80s solo career.
…but it’s gonna take money, a whole lotta spendin’ money…
It was only eight years ago; how old are you?
Yeah. Lewinsky had a blue dress that was stained. (You can imagine with what.) For whatever reason, she didn’t get it cleaned and then it was used (DNA-testing, I believe) to prove that Clinton did have sexual relations with that woman. That’s pretty much all I know for that matter, other than that I really didn’t care.
Yes, the blue dress was evidence in Clinton’s scandal, and the “third-rate burglary” was the crime that began to shed light on all the dirty stuff of the Nixon Watergate scandal. The burglary was really men who broke into Democratic Party offices in the Watergate Hotel to plant listening devices.
Nixon resigned because he was on the brink of being impeached for ordering warrantless wiretaps on his political enemies. You know, there’s something familiar about that phrase.
Back when airplanes had smoking and nonsmoking sections, everybody on the airplane breathed second-hand smoke. Today, airplane ventilation systems reuse only about half of cabin air; back then, it was much more. It didn’t matter how far you were from a smoker, it all got blown in your face again and again.
Ah, so that’s what that meant. I recognized the blue dress bit, but I had no idea what it had to do with a “third-rate burglary.” Watergate was some time before my political receptors developed. (I was born the year before it broke)
I was born in 1986, so I probably had a lot of the same childhood experiences as these freshmen. In addition to the one about the stamps, there are three I don’t think belong on the list:
This is something that came about recently, of course.
Eh? He retired five years ago, which is when most of these kids were in middle school. I’m guessing at least some of them watched the news then.
Nope, WNYE (a public-TV station based in NYC) was doing this as late as 1998 or '99, just to give one example.