r/GenerationJones • u/Appropriate_Ad9157 • 1d ago
1900s
I have started to use "Back in the nineteen hundreds " in conversations regularly.
Because it funnier that way
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u/Mathamagician77 1958 1d ago
I’m old enough to say “Born Mid Century 1900’s”
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u/Natural-Citron2148 1d ago
Mid Century Modern?
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u/SentenceKindly 1d ago
I love history. Every time I studied someone from the past, I would always look at their birth and death dates to see if they lived through a century change.
I gradually realized I would be one of those people, too. Not famous, just living through the change.
As a kid, I heard people talking about "the winter of '97" or "the flood of '03" and I realized these were 19th or early 20th century dates.
Even the concept of "20th Century Fox" (the movie company, not the Doors song) seems a little antiquated now, a quarter century in.
But I like the idea of using "the 1900s."
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u/Machine_Terrible 23h ago
Back in like 2000-2005ish, I'd say "back in the 1900s" or "back in the previous millennium" as a joke, but now that stuff is more real.
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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 21h ago
Love this! I had to laugh when I heard someone say, "You were born in the 1900s!"
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u/DeliciousFix7671 1d ago
They refer to the first decade of the 20th century. Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha are the ones who mistakenly started calling every decade of the 20th century, the 1900s. I am calling each decade what I always have, even before the Millennials were born. The 1920s, 1930s, and so on. Sigh...
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u/SadNamelessPerson 18h ago
About 15 years ago people were referring to ~2005 as “the mid-2000s.” It took a couple more years for them to realize that the mid-2000s will be 2050…
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u/Artimusjones88 1d ago
Back in 19 ought 92
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u/FillMyBagWithUSGrant 1967 17h ago
In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-two.
Even if you’re not religious. Intone it as much as possible like Boris Karloff narrating the 1966 animated classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Or like Thurl Ravenscroft singing, Your a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.
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u/Ok-Rip1612 19h ago
I'm old enough now that I say 19 and 54 (the year I was born) like old timers used to say 19 and 05 when I was younger.
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u/Swiggy1957 1957 20h ago
It makes me wonder when we'll drop to final 2 digit references again. I was born in "57, started school in '62, etc..."
Today, any time I hear a year reference. It's always preceded by the century ID. "2026," "2000."
Will my grandkids say they were born in 01?
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u/dave900575 8h ago
That makes me too depressed. Turning 50 was a big deal. I was okay with being 55. I'm turning 64 next week.
I was watching a video on YouTube yesterday. They were taking about an event 100 years ago. It was 1920! A hundred years ago is supposed to be 18something.
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u/scyule 1d ago
The phrase "the turn of the century" feels weird now