I nearly fell over at my last college reunion when I found out that the older sons/daughters of my classmates were either finishing high school were already in college themselves :eek:
The Beatles started their carreer 50 years ago.
There are no longer any 20th century kids in Primary School (defined as grades 1-6)
It’s not there yet, but I will soon have co-workers who are younger than my daughter. Thank OG for mandatory military service in Israel, or it would have happened already…
And I remember taking my (appropriately aged) kids to Monsters, Inc…
The kids who were taken to see Toy Story are taking their own children to see Brave.
I was born in 1980 (that makes me 31 for another month). The Vietnam War ended in 1975. My son was born in 2009. This means that 9/11 will be farther in my son’s past than the Vietnam war was in mine. And I remember learning about Vietnam and thinking it was ancient history.
I also remember being a teen or early 20s and hired for jobs where no one could believe someone born in the 80s could be working. This is now happening with the early 90s kids…
Every two years, we have a new crop of law clerks at my office. The latest bunch seem especially young, though they’re not any younger than the previous groups. One of my colleagues pointed out that we had started working for our court before any of our new law clerks had learned how to walk.
Just today, a co-worker of mine complained that the new recruits are getting younger and less experienced every time.
Me (and I’m a decade older than him, so I can say it :p): “They’re not getting younger. You’re getting older!”
When I was a kid, in the early 1970s, my brothers learned about computers on machines that used punch cards. I specifically remember a box full of cards could be used to print out a year-appropriate calender with a big picture of Snoopy on it in Xs and Os.
I still used a typewriter to type up school stuff into the '80s.
My 6 year old kid grew up on ipads and ipods. Punchcards and typewriters? Might as well be taking about taking your horse-drawn buggy to the doctors for some leech therapy. 
More to the point: in three years (hell, close to 2 now), it will be 2015. We will then be as far from 1985, the year Back to the Future was made, as 1985 was from 1955, the year Marty went back to.
Odessy 2001? That’s more than a decade ago
I am watching this today with my son who is home sick from preschool, so I thought I’d resurrect this Zombie to say, now I feel old thinking Boo is 17. Ugh 
I think your math is off. Unless the Toy Story kids popped out kids of their own the day they turned 18.
When I was in Junior high and high school, I taught 3-4 year olds Sunday school. One of my former students is now a Grandmother. Thinking this completely impossible, I did the math. Yep, it’s entirely possible that one of my four year olds had a baby at 18, and so did her baby.
WTF?!?
Brooke Shields, onetime pre-teen hooker in Pretty Baby, recently played the Frau Blucher-ish Madame Varcolac in The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.
Back before mrAru retired [!] from the Navy in 2003 he was serious when he told guys in the division he was running that he had boot camp issue that was older than they were. :dubious::smack:
Alyssa Milano turned 40 last month. She is now older than Ah-nold was when they made the greatest film of the 1980s “Commando”.
I’m farther away from my birth than my birth was from the moon landing. That might not sound like a big deal but my public education made the moon landing sound like ancient history.
How do you think I feel? I was alive (but somewhat smaller) when it happened.
LOL! I was reee-hee-heeallly tiny. I remember my Grandpa pointing to the TV and telling me to remember this, you’ll be telling your grandchildren about it some day. Years later I asked him what that streak of light on the TV was and he explained; he was shocked that I had actually remembered it.
Now get off my lawn!! 
This seems like a good place to quote this:
Full text of April Inventory, by W.D. Snodgrass, here.
It’s possible. Imagine a kid born in 1990. They would have been taken to see Toy Story in 1995 as a five year old. They had a kid in 2008 when they were eighteen. That kid was four years old when Brave was in the theatres in 2012.