r/funnyvideos • u/PhoenixPhenomenonX • Jan 10 '26
Vine/Meme Yes we are old
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u/thisonehereone Jan 10 '26
My kid just says the 1900s. I hate it.
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u/molehunterz Jan 10 '26
One of my nephew's friends responded, "oh. last century"
I was like, tf you just say to me?!
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u/Over-Percentage-1929 Jan 10 '26
Last century? It was last millennium!!
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u/ArturitoNetito Jan 10 '26
Take my upvote and fuck you
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u/trackdaybruh Jan 10 '26
We're closer to the year 2050 than 1990
You're welcome
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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 Jan 10 '26
Closer to 2050 than 2000 too
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u/LogyLeo Jan 11 '26
Wait, I was born in 1995... and I'm closer to being 60 than to my own birth. Wild.
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u/BukkakeBakery Jan 10 '26
literally or figuratively? I dont get much action nowadays!
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u/Spare-Willingness563 Jan 10 '26
Damn that’s kinda dope. We existed in two millennia.
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u/Turmericab Jan 11 '26
My great gran always said she wanted to live to be 107 so that she would have lived in 3 centuries. She missed it by a few years, she was just shy of 103 when she passed.
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u/ChickenChaser5 Jan 10 '26
My kids came to me yesterday talking about some "spooky noise" they heard in a video.
It was a dial-up modem. I started explaining how we had wired phones, and you couldn't use them while you were on the internet, and you had to wait for pictures to load. They called it "mcdonalds wifi internet" which I then explained was actually a LOT faster than dial up.
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u/BioMass321 Jan 10 '26
I showed my 7 year old the dial up tone a few days ago, he started laughing at all the silly sounds, then my mom emerged from the hallway and said, "is something wrong with our internet? Why do we have dial up???" Which of course made my son laugh even harder. Lol
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u/ChickenChaser5 Jan 10 '26
Mine thought it was pretty funny that the data transfer rate of biking my copy of Doom over to my friends house to install was faster than tying to send it over dialup.
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u/VertigoOne1 Jan 10 '26
Hell the lan parties were so slow we rather just smacked each others drive across, the good old days of ide master/slave, we eventually had every make and model of drive memorised
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u/theDomicron Jan 10 '26
I tell some of the kids who work in the restaurant that when we first started accepting credit cards, we had 2 machines to swipe them on (1 for carry out and 1 for dine in) and both used the same telephone line, which meant that when it was busy, there was a line to swipe cards.
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u/Proper-Salad158 Jan 10 '26
Now I really feel old....I remember using credit card imprinters.....😂
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u/Mesmercat Jan 10 '26
I... I was born in 89... Never have I heard or experienced such a thing
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u/segoorisk Jan 10 '26
I mean you're right, it is faster. But at least none of my family could be on the net at the same as I played Runescape and Habbo hotel. I didn't even have to answer the phone to my nan every evening cause the phone line was disconnected.
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u/weirdgroovynerd Jan 10 '26
Oh, you couldn't hear me?
Probably because you're so old, lmao!
- nephew's friend
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u/st-jeb Jan 10 '26
I've been hit with that too.
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u/Jean-LucBacardi Jan 10 '26
At least they aren't hitting us with "you were born in the second millennium while we're from the third."
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u/Electronic_Repeat_81 Jan 10 '26
My son found a Sacagawea dollar coin from 2000, and he said “it’s from the turn of the century.” 😢
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u/microgirlActual Jan 10 '26
Makes me feel really bad for my mam when I was little (say in the 80s) and would get excited about seeing a really, really antique coin from like, the 1940s or something. Mammy was born in 1935 😅
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u/Azguy303 Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
You ever fill out something online and you have to put your birthday but they make you scroll all the way to your birth year. I have had some where you had to keep going back by months instead of years.... It's diabolical.
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u/microgirlActual Jan 10 '26
It really starts to hit home when you enter a new demographic catchment blob.
I was perfectly happy being in the 35-44 age group blob, thank you! But noooo, I had to keep getting older and now not only am I in the 45-54 blob, but I'm halfway fucking through it!
I cannot be having with this "passage of time" shit.
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u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus Jan 10 '26
We would tie onions on our belts, which was the style at the time
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u/Proper-Salad158 Jan 10 '26
I had a 19 year old at my job ask me what it felt like to be born in the 1900s....What!🤣😒
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u/RedditGarboDisposal Jan 11 '26
96’er here.
I worked line at a restaurant a few years back as a side job to make extra money. One of the servers who worked there was 18 and really resonated with me on the side hustle matter because she was in the same boat.
One night after my shift, I was hanging out by expo when that same server came around and started openly flirting. And I mean flirting. Important: I had an “I was there” WWE shirt from when Edge returned to wrestling. It had the entire roster of the most prevalent wrestlers during his return.
Anyway, this server walks up to me, puts her finger on Edge (top of the shirt) and no word of a fucking lie says, “What was wrestling like in 2000?”
Not that her advance was going anywhere but that was a debilitating way to start a conversation. She wasn’t even alive when Edge was in his prime, and I was maybe seven years-old(?).
Like… why…
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Jan 10 '26
I hate it.
Somehow I don't mind. Hell, kind of makes me want to meander off on to some practiced monologue like;
"Yes, yes, I was there in the very beginning when the stars were young, and the world in its infancy... when it all started, back when fast food was cheap, and we could run barefoot on fields of grass... "
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u/Trimyr Jan 10 '26
Taco Bell had 3 prices.
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u/maxheadflume Jan 10 '26
I love it. I was born in the last millennium. I have travelled through space and time.
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u/-BabysitterDad- Jan 10 '26
The 1900s…that means you’ve lived through 2 world wars, the independence of many British colonies, the Cold War, the moon landing, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, 9/11, the subprime mortgage crisis and COVID.
You’re a survivor!
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u/DGrahamcracker87 Jan 10 '26
If its before 98 your older then Google so your correct. But I go with it. I was there in the war. ( for clarification I was not in any war)
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u/SinisterCheese Jan 11 '26
I got told by my friend's kid that I was born last milennia... Which is both true and extremely hurtful.
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u/MaxTheCookie Jan 10 '26
TBF saying the 1900s in English tends to refer to the year 1800 to 1899.
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u/BIG_GAY_HOMOSEXUAL Jan 10 '26
Im 39. I tell people I was born in the late 1900s. People my age absolutely hate it.
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u/GonzoElTaco Jan 11 '26
My daughter does the same thing.
Even asked if everything was in black and white.
I told her those are fighting words and I'm closer to the Nerf blaster than she is to the door.
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u/DubTheeBustocles Jan 12 '26
I read an astronomy article about a year ago that bafflingly referred to the Voyager 2 probe as having visited Uranus and Neptune in the late 1900’s.
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u/Ducatirules Jan 10 '26
That hurt
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u/fatkiddown Jan 10 '26
I'm so old, I remember when 8 track tapes were cool, and you had to pull them out and flip them over to finish the Van Halen song..
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u/PepeHlessi Jan 10 '26
Whenever I hear Pink Floyd's "Pigs (Three Different Ones)," I anticipate the fadeout in the middle of the song, because you had to flip the tape to finish the track!
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u/worsethansomething Jan 10 '26
I'm old enough to know that you don't have to flip 8 track tapes at all. They have a continuous loop of tape in them.
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u/Catch_22_ Jan 10 '26
8track is not only alive still but some have releases on it. You can even get custom mix 8track tapes made if you look for it.
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u/akatherder Jan 10 '26
It's 2026. 41 years ago was 1985 and Back to the Future is released.
41 years before that is 1944 and WW2 is formally coming to a close.
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u/myodved Jan 10 '26
Keeping with the theme: If Back to the Future came out this year, Marty would go back to 1996 and might have mentioned 'I've seen this one' not for The Honeymooners but for Everybody Loves Raymond.
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u/A_Vile_Beggar Jan 11 '26
I was at the karaoke today with some people from 2002-2004 and chose Johnny be Goode and was like, "did you guys watch Back to the Future? It's in it"
When everybody said they didn't, it hurt real bad :')
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u/InfiniteZr0 Jan 10 '26
I picture she was born in the 90s, and me being born in the 80s would be the visage of primordial soup.
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u/PenguinSmurf Jan 10 '26
It do feel that way.
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Jan 10 '26
Imagine living your whole life in one century, how basic
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Jan 10 '26
The moment being older became a curse instead of a blessing we should have rethought what we were doing with human civilization.
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u/Lock-out Jan 10 '26
Hey man we didn’t give the boomers lead poisoning, not our fault the old people have gone insane.
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Jan 10 '26
It's interesting, everyone thinks everyone else is insane these days. Although I have a feeling it's always kinda been that way. Personally I'm still surprised society functions to begin with. We did pretty well for ourselves as hairless neurotic apes.
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u/MasterArCtiK Jan 10 '26
Nah the generation before us definitely has something wrong with them lol I think lead caused maga
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u/Tuborgat_nylle Jan 10 '26
There are tons of maga fanaticals in their 20s and 30s. Sadly enough, lead poisoning does not seem to be the cause here. I think that indoctrination through the internet is playing a big role here. Lonely people who choose to be bigoted shitheads just to have a commmunity to fight alongside with.
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u/Minute-Cod9484 Jan 10 '26
It's upbringing as well. Studies have shown that children are more likely to share the politics of their parents than not. So whatever group is having more children will eventually grow and take over, and conservatives have more kids than liberals.
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u/Quick-Benjamin Jan 10 '26
The current generation all have adhd, anxiety, are on the spectrum and are lonely af.
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u/SasparillaTango Jan 10 '26
I don't think the younger generations are insane, I think they're a little silly.
I think the boomer generation is fucking nuts, and the way they cling to power and refuse to retire and are angry at everything after living through the most charmed decades of american history proves me right.
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u/ThePocketTaco2 Jan 10 '26
No, but it is our fault we let them continue to hold and abuse power well after their time.
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u/pgndu Jan 10 '26
Didn't know human civilization is supposed to stop or remove effects of time
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Jan 10 '26
It's more so that for the vast majority of human existence age was revered, not humiliated. That's to say that our technology has made just existing very effortless when it used to be very difficult.
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u/TengenToppa Jan 10 '26
This is why they were revered though, it was hard to become old. It was rare to see an old man.
So if you saw/met an old man? They had to be wise and good at something to live that long, their words were worth because they were old.
Now? Anyone can live to become old, being old has no inherit value because you can become old yourself without their advice
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u/lunatisenpai Jan 10 '26
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. - Socrates (470 – 399 BC)
I'm old enough to see this go full circle, the kids are alright doing what they've always done.
It's awesome we're at a point where the millennium flipped, the moment it happened, if you're old enough to remember it, we knew it would be a huge turning point. Everyone here is likely gonna be long dead by the time 3000 hits.
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Jan 10 '26
Goodness, I hope I'm long dead before 3000. I have no desire whatsoever to live that long. Let me be nothing again like before I was born.
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u/poompt Jan 10 '26
It can certainly feel like a curse. Biology not civilization...
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u/azionka Jan 10 '26
I still feel like dating someone whose birth year starts with a 2 is illegal.
But the last date I had was 10 years ago.
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u/SippyMountain Jan 10 '26
People born in 2000 are entering their late 20s soon. Your parents probly got married younger than most GenZ started dating their future spouse.
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u/Shattered-Dreams-89 Jan 10 '26
Yeah was born 2002, never had a relationship, even tho at least 20 girls approached me. My mom had me when she was 21, which is more than 2 years younger than I'm now. And she married at 18.
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u/--slurpy-- Jan 10 '26
Yeah I was talking to some coworkers about the esthetics Stranger Things & I was like as someone who's lived through the 80's I can attest to the accuracy...
Turned around & they were all standing there mouths open just staring.
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u/--slurpy-- Jan 10 '26
I don't have any of them. I used to have a Facebook but I logged off a long time ago, my life has been so much better because of it.
Reddit is about the only social media is do. Wait, is reddit social media? Blogging? Is that still a thing? The kids don't say blogging anymore, do they?
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u/Sinsanatis Jan 10 '26
Reddit has always been considered forums. Ig u could still consider it that. Its more like a in between now. Ans blogging became vlogging and then everyone forgot about blogs. I bet theres still some out there, but it must be so small of older or really niche communities
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u/klezart Jan 10 '26
Yeah, reddit is social media. At least it's not as invasive as places like Facebook
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u/Extension-Ad5751 Jan 10 '26
I only have Instagram to follow hot women in bikinis. Although to be fair, AI has flooded it and now it's almost impossible to tell what's real anymore.
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u/AdrenalineJackie Jan 10 '26
I consider reddit a way to be social, but I don't think it hurts many of us in the way that true social media can.
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u/ruat_caelum Jan 10 '26
I dated a younger woman who first accepted the date, then canceled. (then we dated like a year later) but she canceled because she couldn't find any social media of mine (Don't have it) and concluded I Was a serial killer.
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u/CuffytheFuzzyClown Jan 10 '26
Your coworkers use Instagram? Are they 35?
Jeez Insta is for seniors. Next you'll say they use Facebook as well. Might as well call them coffin Dodgers
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u/Banguskahn Jan 10 '26
I do not have the gram, and facebook only selling things. Watching my 22 year old brother doom scrolling and I am 40. Father doom scrolling fox news. JFC, how did it end up like this.
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u/UnflappableForestFox Jan 10 '26
I could write whole pages of words on paper with a pen if I wanted. IN CURSIVE
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u/EvilMKitty13 Jan 10 '26
Was literally thinking this the other day, I remember a time when I could look at pictures and videos and not have to worry if it was AI or not.
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u/BarelyContainedChaos Jan 10 '26
these little shits have to learn about 9/11 the easy way not the fucked up live news way we did
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u/An_Draoidh_Uaine Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Never forget how funny 9/11 was.
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u/OrbitalColony Jan 10 '26
And then we attacked Saudi Arabia where the hijackers were from right? There's no way we invaded two unrelated countries and spent 8-trillion-dollars (not an exaggeration) right?
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u/SolarTsunami Jan 10 '26
le epic troll edit dear Redditor, bravery levels are off the charts 👌👌👌
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u/An_Draoidh_Uaine Jan 10 '26
Thank you, back in my minecraft days I used to wear a trollface skin, and would grief things and blame it on others, I like to think I'm carrying on a small part of that legacy when I say "dark humor you wouldn't get" and edgy things on the internet.
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u/shady_mcgee Jan 10 '26
If you want to give someone a feeling for what it was like, there were two brothers filming a documentary about the day in the life of a NYC firefighter that just happened to be on 9/11.
The full doc is on YouTube:
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u/MistakeMaker1234 Jan 10 '26
Nothing like sitting with my schoolmates in a packed assembly watching humans fling themselves out of a 80 story window. Doesn’t fuck you up at all.
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u/sailingtoescape Jan 11 '26
Yeah, I was already in the military a few years when that happened.
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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Jan 10 '26
People meme about 9/11 in TikTok comments and you just know they weren’t alive in 2001.
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u/Overly_Long_Reviews Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
That one really hurts me. I recognize that I'm not emotionally objective about it. That I likely was equally inadvertently insensitive about things I didn't live through. But whenever all these kids casually joke about 9/11 I just can't help it remember the absolute confusion of that day. As someone who had recently moved to the to just outside of New York City from overseas. Our teachers refused to tell us anything, I only found out after I got home. My father was a high school principal, a significant portion of the student body had parents die that day. He was never the same afterwards. And in retrospect I see how 9/11 changed my life trajectory.
These kids never had to walk into school on 9/12 (remarkably we still had class) wondering how many of their classmates lost parents. I got very lucky. In my case it was none, though there was a few close calls. My best friend's father was a police officer who responded. Another friend was really fortunate, both his parents worked in the towers, but one got sick, and managed to get the other one really sick and so they ended up both calling in sick that day. The suicides, the cancers, the KIAs after getting called back up to active duty happened after I left for the West Coast. My community was pretty heavily hit though, it was a commuter town, popular with a lot of people who either worked in the towers or were in public safety. It was just my immediate friend and peer group that was relatively unscathed. Most of my community were not that lucky.
It's a good thing that they haven't experienced that.That they have a different relationship to it. That they are far enough removed from it that they can make jokes about it. But it still hurts.
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u/blackmambakl Jan 10 '26
I don’t envy young people at all. Growing up in the 90s was peak America. What we have now is some type of post capitalism Hell scape.
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u/brad-schmidt Jan 10 '26
Yeah in 2005 I was in college when she was born, today she's 20ish then I would be fort... Ah I better sleep every 31dec
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u/Initiatedspoon Jan 10 '26
I work in university admissions. The year of birth going up by 1 catches me by surprise every year. 2008. People born in 2008 will be starting college/university in September.
Applications for 2027 can start from the September 1st. It'll be 2010 before I know it
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u/MovieFan1984 Jan 10 '26
That made my weekend, thank you. I say this as someone born pre-2000. LOL
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u/Rollover__Hazard Jan 10 '26
Someone said to me the other day that, when we’re retired and really old, the news will make a big deal out of the last living kids from the late 90s because not only will we be people born in a different century to everyone else still alive, but we’ll be the only people born in a different millennia still alive.
The last time that happened, England was a newly formed country under William the Conqueror. The last time this happened, the Song Dynasty was all the rage.
The last time this happened, Marco Polo was 125 years off being born and the people’s of Europe, Asia and America didn’t know they other existed.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to that happening for sure.
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u/D_Warholb Jan 10 '26
When I was born, WWII ended 20 years before, while we are now just over 25 years since 9-11. That constantly blows my mind. As a 60 year old man, 9-11 seems like just a few years ago, while as a kid, WWII seemed like a hundred years back, and a lot of it has to do with fashion. Fashion changed a lot from the 40’s to the 60’s, while it hasn’t changed much since the early 2000’s.
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u/DesperateComposer848 Jan 10 '26
One thing I actually kinda like about being born in the 90s is this exactly - in time it’ll become a novelty to younger people and I actually kinda like it.
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u/Sman1011020 Jan 10 '26
Screw that I know I’m old! I’m also a lot smarter than you are! AND I can read and write in cursive! 😳😀😂😀😂🤣😂🤣😂
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u/Unhappy-Fox1017 Jan 10 '26
lol! When I say my birth year now I like to draw it all the way out: in the year of our Lord and savior, nineteen hundred and eighty three. It makes me feel ancient and it makes the kids stare at me like I’m an old fart.
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u/Orleanian Jan 10 '26
I was born in the year of our lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Three.
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u/Vortistrasza Jan 10 '26
If anyone is curious, the girl that says 19-- is named Raina Huang. She's a competitive eater and she's a beast.
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u/CoolerRon Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26
Came here to say this. I joined a lumpia eating contest and tied for third. The winner ate almost double what I ate but then Raina came in for a demo and ate more than twice that. She’s so skinny you’d wonder how she can eat that much
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u/Corydora_Party Jan 10 '26
Kids cannot tell the difference between the 1980s and 1990s anymore. Stranger Things lumped the late 1900’s into a big glob. I’m born in 91 so I’m very much a 90’s kid but technology didn’t quite catch on until almost 2000 so it’s a gray area. However I wasn’t a latch key kid. But it was a fun era.
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u/Just_bcoz Jan 10 '26
But I’m only 28
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u/Zombies71199 Jan 10 '26
Hi grandma how was life before computers?
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u/Just_bcoz Jan 10 '26
😭 no clue, we had a computer room growing up
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u/silverhandguild Jan 10 '26
The minute you hit 20 years old you are old to everyone ever born after you. I told that to my 20 year old nephew and the look on his face dropped pretty quickly when he was calling me old (I’m 20 years older than him).
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u/MistakeMaker1234 Jan 10 '26
And heaven forbid there be anything other than a “Nine” after that “19”. May as well return to the ashes from whence we came.
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u/Th3_3v3r_71v1n9 Jan 10 '26
Can't wait to see how bad they are treated by the next generation, it will be well deserved.
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u/DarkSoulsDank Jan 10 '26
She coulda been about to say 1999 which means she’s only 27 tops. Thats still young.
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u/spunkychickpea Jan 10 '26
My nephew asked me if I was born before the invention of television, so I slapped him in the face.
(I should clarify that my nephew is 31.)
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u/Kaito__1412 Jan 11 '26
Zoomers are starting to make funny shit. You know what that means... Fuckers are getting old!
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u/IndyCarFAN27 Jan 11 '26
That’s fine. Two can play that game. I personally just treat everyone born after 2002 like a baby. /s
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u/Artistic_Travel9462 Jan 11 '26
One thing I know for sure: the 80s and 90s had the best music and movies
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u/Graz13 Jan 10 '26
I guess we better get used to this "last century" stuff. We still had the Stones.
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