It’s a little frightening, really. In another thread I realised I was listening to ‘oldies’:
Sometimes I’ll watch an episode of Star Trek: TNG or Northern Exposure and look up an actor. Then I see that these shows were on 20 or more years ago! :eek: Yet to me, they’re not ‘old’. So when I see Buffy lines, it’s a bit of a shock. (I’ve never watched the show, but I did like the original 1992 film.)
When I posted the OP, I was thinking specifically about TV shows before 1985. Those are ‘old’ to me. Culturally, I identify more closely with people in their 20s than in their 40s. They don’t have the ‘touchstones’ that 40-year-olds do; but I’ve never been married or raised a family, so I never got into the habit of ‘growing up’ and can’t really relate to many of the things my generation is into. Hearing things from the '90s being called ‘old’ makes me stop and say, ‘Whoa… Dude…’