# OK, I feel old now **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870 "2012-09-06T17:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/41 "2012-09-10T13:53:39Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Er… I haven’t even graduated yet (I will this semester) and I certainly remember that time, when I was really little we had a DOS computer. I’m sure around 92-93 (when I was 2/3, old enough to have a few memories) there were BBS boards up and running, but that’s not the same multifaceted beast as “the world wide web”, **that didn’t really get its start until 97-98 at the earliest**. (My bolding.) You’re off by a couple of years at least there. I started university in 1994 and my spring 1995 we had web browsers on our uni computers. By my second year, in late 95/early 96, I remember using Amazon, and a whole lot of other websites. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/42 "2012-09-10T16:12:51Z")
I’m the youngest by a lot, 18 years, so no matter how old I get, my sister, and the one following her by another five years, will be older. The oldest just turned 50, my next oldest sister will be 45, and I’ll be 32. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/43 "2012-09-10T16:43:34Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > (My bolding.) You’re off by a couple of years at least there. I started university in 1994 and my spring 1995 we had web browsers on our uni computers. By my second year, in late 95/early 96, I remember using Amazon, and a whole lot of other websites. I’m sure it existed, but I’m talking about market penetration, did a significant number of people have it by then? I don’t think any of my friends’ families had internet access by that point. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/44 "2012-09-10T17:36:26Z")
I distinctly recall swearing with all my heart and soul that cassette tapes would never replace 8-tracks. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/45 "2012-09-10T18:27:15Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I’m sure around 92-93 (when I was 2/3, old enough to have a few memories) there were BBS boards up and running, but that’s not the same multifaceted beast as “the world wide web”, that didn’t really get its start until 97-98 at the earliest. The world wide web started in 1994. And the Eternal September started in 1993. But I see your point; most folks not attending or working in colleges or not in technology didn’t notice it much until it matured a couple of years later. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/46 "2012-09-10T18:44:36Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > The world wide web started in 1994. And the Eternal September started in 1993. But I see your point; most folks not attending or working in colleges or not in technology didn’t notice it much until it matured a couple of years later. Wow! Eternal September. I had almost forgotten that time. Today is September 6950, 1993. The September that never ends. And, no, I do not feel old. At all. Ever. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/47 "2012-09-10T19:59:50Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > The world wide web started in 1994. And the Eternal September started in 1993. But I see your point; most folks not attending or working in colleges or not in technology didn’t notice it much until it matured a couple of years later. Right, I overstated it a bit saying there were “only BBS”, but I was referring to market penetration. Nobody on my block really had internet until maybe 96, unless you wanted to go to the Library, and I’m not even sure about that – my mom was pretty tech savvy and usually an early adopter so that I could learn emerging technology too so I don’t think it was particularly unusual to not have it. I was referring to “nobody remembers a time before the WWW”, whereas most people my age, while we don’t really remember a time before it existed, definitely remember a time not having it – and especially a time where it didn’t permeate and shape culture like it did starting around the millenium. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/48 "2012-09-12T22:30:53Z")
Anyone who decides, at some point, that they are going to continue listening to the same style and era of popular music must be resigned to the fact that the advertising associated with it will age in place, as it were. The next thing will be Medicare supplement insurance, followed by Jitterbug phones and walk-in bathtubs. I’m definitely in the classic rock demographic myself, and I love rock music. But I long since reached the point where I can hardly stand to listen to classic rock radio anymore. A big part of the reason is that those stations don’t play enough album cuts except as part of special programming oriented to whole albums or sides. To take my favorite band The Doors as an example, and their album _L.A. Woman_, you get to hear “Love Her Madly” ad nauseam, but never “L’America” or “The WASP”. And it’s similar for all their other albums, and for all the other important musicians of the era. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/49 "2012-09-12T23:22:15Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I was listening to my favorite radio station here in Tucson, KLPX, which plays classic rock. Artists like Aerosmith, Van Halen, Ozzy, ZZ Top, Zeppelin. Same format since 1979, unchanged for the last 32 years. > > Anyway, this morning, I heard a commercial for reverse mortgages. For those of you who don’t know about reverse mortgages, they’re only available to persons 62 years of age or older. So, I’m off to pick up a rocking chair. Stay off my lawn while I’m gone. That’s nothing! I learned from my favorite oldies radio station that I have been eligible to apply to, and live in, the city’s finest senior citizen only apartment building - for FIVE YEARS now. Monthly bingo night. Hair salon and pharmacy on the premises! Sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/50 "2012-09-12T23:38:47Z")
Oh, I saw an older man out trimming some shrubs on my mom’s street. I said to my mom, “I saw Mr. Jones working in his yard, he still seems pretty active. What is he, about your age now?” Mom: “Mr. Jones died years ago, that was his son Bob you saw - you went to school with him, remember?” ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/51 "2012-09-13T00:03:14Z")
Was the Jones family known for growing at a different rate? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/52 "2012-09-13T01:30:12Z")
I just got a new phone Friday. While talking to the rep at the ATT store, we got into a conversation about how far communications technology has come. I told him that my dad remembered crank phones and even I remember the phone w/ no dial at my aunt’s house (operator connected) and the phone hardwired into our home growing up and my first few apartments. His addition? That his 1.5 year old daughter would likely never hear a dial tone. Now get off my lawn! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/53 "2012-09-13T03:20:14Z")
The “half your age plus seven” rule says it would be creepy if I dated a porn star, but my kids are fair game. ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/54 "2012-09-13T16:22:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Now you feel old? Didn’t you get one of those AARP cards when you turned 50? Nothing in my mailbox when I hit it last year. Perhaps they can’t find expats. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/55 "2012-09-19T12:27:32Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > High school? I’ve heard songs that came out when I was in my thirties being played as classic oldies. I was 35 at the time I heard an 80s song called a classic oldie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/56 "2012-09-19T12:37:05Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Now you feel old? Didn’t you get one of those AARP cards when you turned 50? I got my first mailing from them before I was 30. ---
**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/57 "2012-09-21T11:26:06Z")
Being that I am in my 80’s ,No, I don’t feel old. My feeling is one gets older from the time they are born, the ER stands for emergency room, if you can’t be helped there then you are old! I had a heart test yesterday and the doctor who gave the test said I did better than many people half my age.He said I have the heart of an athelete! Age is a matter of mind over matter. Everyone even a new born is older today than yesterday! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/58 "2012-09-22T20:36:06Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Was the Jones family known for growing at a different rate? Evidently; in fact it was impossible to keep up with them. Gimme a rimshot, please! ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/59 "2012-09-23T19:48:00Z")
The local classic rock station ran a commercial for dealing with out-of-control teenage children. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870/60 "2012-09-23T20:43:03Z")
One of my lab partners told me recently that his mother is a year older than me. I’m only 32!! However, he did seem genuinely shocked at my age and said he thought I was in my early to mid 20’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-i-feel-old-now/633870.md?page=4)