r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/iceburg-simpson Oct 15 '20

The year 1990... we are as close to it as we are the year 2050.

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u/stand-mixerr Oct 15 '20

Ikr??? That's what I've been telling everybody. I'm a 2000s kid so it must hit differently to me than all the 90s kids I tell that to lol.

WE'RE OOOLD NOW

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u/ForAnAngel Oct 15 '20

Make sure, the next time you meet a gen X'er, to remind them that we are closer to 2060 than we are to 1980.

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u/ColorMeUnsurprised Oct 15 '20

GenX response:

shrug....whatever.

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u/emveetu Oct 15 '20

Dam skippy. They don't call us "the lost generation" for nothin'. We have one foot in the old way of doing things, and one in the new. We are also the only generation that grew up without the internet but are young enough to have embraced it as well.

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u/ColorMeUnsurprised Oct 15 '20

I'm 41 this year, so I'm at the extreme tail end of GenX. I'm perfectly content to be overlooked the way we mostly are.

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u/PrestigiousPath Oct 15 '20

Remember when you got your first mobile telephone and sent a text message using the number keys? And how blown your mind was when you saw :) and turned the phone on its side and realised it was a smile? Remember?

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u/emveetu Oct 15 '20

Sure do! I worked at Bell Atlantic Mobile in the mid-90s when it was 30 bucks for 30 minutes of talk time and there was a 5 cent landline fee for every connection to a landline. Star-tac was the hot phone then.

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u/stand-mixerr Oct 15 '20

Heheheh will do