What makes you feel old?

[Aptspire]

reruns of stuff i used to watch in the 90s

 

[C4azyMik3]

knowing the old pokemon games and 95% of them

 

[Doug]

Seeing my little cousins and realising nearly all of them where born in the 21th century, whereas I was born in the 20th century.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Looking at playgrounds and all their missing rides.
Would you call them rides? You know the teeter-totter, that spinning thing, the lack of rocks for splintering wood chips.

 

[SunGryphon]

What makes me feel old? This thread. Other threads. Knowing that I've been gaming longer than most of you have been alive. People who think Nintendo had the first game console. People who don't have any experience with DOS, or even know what it is. People who don't know the joy of reel-to-reel. People who don't know that a cassette player used to be a peripheral.

But mostly, it's the fact that for most of you do not know a time without the internet, without cell phones, without IM programs. You do not remember having to write letters instead of e-mails.

I got my first grey hairs last year and pulled them out. Now they're back. I don't think I'll pull them out this time.

 

[CadeHolwind]

What makes me feel old? This thread. Other threads. Knowing that I've been gaming longer than most of you have been alive. People who think Nintendo had the first game console. People who don't have any experience with DOS, or even know what it is. People who don't know the joy of reel-to-reel. People who don't know that a cassette player used to be a peripheral.

But mostly, it's the fact that for most of you do not know a time without the internet, without cell phones, without IM programs. You do not remember having to write letters instead of e-mails.

I got my first grey hairs last year and pulled them out. Now they're back. I don't think I'll pull them out this time.

I'm with you.

I was helping a kid do a research paper, when I asked him if he could use the internet as a cited source he replied, "Of course."

I realized that when I was doing term papers the only sources I had were periodicals, books, and articles. The Internet was still being developed and hadn't even gone beyond connecting two universities together.

I have a niece and nephew who have children that are older than my son.

I used to own a stereo system with a turntable, dual cassette player with playback (The highlight of the entire system) and an eight-track player. I know what (and owned a few) 45s are.

I remember when it wasn't "Retro-trendy" to own vinyl....that's all we had.

I remember when my brother bought a laser-disc player and it was the coolest thing ever.

I remember BEING the remote control for our television/VHS player, since they didn't have a remote at that time.

Intellivision, Collecovision, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 2600, Nintendo....I've owned all of those...in that order.

The fact that if you have no clue as to what something is, "Google it" has become the phrase for finding an answer...

Where's my walker?

 

[Inverse Skies]

-Liking Classical music.

I love classical as well but that doesn't make me feel old... more cultured than anything else.

I feel old when I can still remember playing the atari and nes quite clearly...

 

[Lord Honk]

telephones. i like the wired ones but they're getting so fething rare these days.

at least nobody can get strangled with a wireless bluetooth headset =/

 

[wgreer25]

When I go to a mall or other place where those young people will be and I see some 16yo girl scantily dressed and my first thought is not "I'd hit that", it is "I wouldn't let my daughter wear that".

 

[el_Chi]

I design and make T-shirts; one of the designs has a cassette on it. A young teenage girl (13 maybe?)asked me what it was.
"It's a cassette."
"What's a cassette?"
It occurred to me that when she was born cassettes were only a few years away from being completely obsolete and that she'd grown up with CDs and mp3s. Yikes.

 

[Doug]

What makes me feel old? This thread. Other threads. Knowing that I've been gaming longer than most of you have been alive. People who think Nintendo had the first game console. People who don't have any experience with DOS, or even know what it is. People who don't know the joy of reel-to-reel. People who don't know that a cassette player used to be a peripheral.

But mostly, it's the fact that for most of you do not know a time without the internet, without cell phones, without IM programs. You do not remember having to write letters instead of e-mails.

I got my first grey hairs last year and pulled them out. Now they're back. I don't think I'll pull them out this time.

You've own just got your first greys? Welcome to the club, I'm getting whites! And I'm only in my mid twenties.

Anywho, yeah, the old casette driven ones where....yeah, best not to remember the 20+ min load times for platformers that would be shamed by even the simplist flash game today.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

The kids in year 7 that have never played an N64

 

[Doug]

The kids in year 7 that have never played an N64

*winces* We aren't THAT old...are...we?

 

[high_castle]

I do some work with kids occasionally. Nothing makes you feel older than making a He-Man reference only to have them stare at you in awe. Or hearing Nirvana on the classic rock station. That's pretty bad, too.

 

[Doug]

I do some work with kids occasionally. Nothing makes you feel older than making a He-Man reference only to have them stare at you in awe. Or hearing Nirvana on the classic rock station. That's pretty bad, too.

Ah yeah, He-man. And the movie they made of it, heh. Although nothing is as truly awful as the Mario movie (wait, not flaming the games, which are good, flaming the movie, which takes after any Uwe Boll movie).

 

[Random Argument Man]

I'm 19. I'm starting loosing hair. Planning to go bald later. (Russ Pitts no.2)(No offense Russ(If you had any)).

 

[high_castle]

I do some work with kids occasionally. Nothing makes you feel older than making a He-Man reference only to have them stare at you in awe. Or hearing Nirvana on the classic rock station. That's pretty bad, too.

Ah yeah, He-man. And the movie they made of it, heh. Although nothing is as truly awful as the Mario movie (wait, not flaming the games, which are good, flaming the movie, which takes after any Uwe Boll movie).

Haha! The Mario movie. I remember seeing that when it came out on VHS. That movie is the biggest mindscrew out there, and I include The Prisoner in that estimation. I think it was made by people who were aware of the Mario games, but had no idea what they were about.

 

[soren7550]

-Experiencing horrible back pain.

-Having serious problems moving about.

-Talking about the good ol' days of The Simpsons when they used to be good.(along with Family Guy, King of the Hill, South Park, etc.)

-Remembering when certine events/movies/t.v. show original airings/song releases & popularity from ten or more years ago.

-Complaining about how this generation of kids are ruining this country. (which they are with their hippity-hop and po-kay-muns. *shakes cane at the kids on the stoop*.)

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

The first time a waitress called me "sir" at a restaurant I nearly cried.

Tripped me out, too. Also, these high school-looking kids called me "sir" in Taco Bell a week or so back. I'm 18.

Also, my brother's a month and a few weeks away from finishing his first year in high school. Eep.

 

[DragonChi]

being around young'uns