Born in '86, I remember when classmates were shivving each other for Pokemon cards and Pogs.
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Impossible, shivs were invented by the HBO series Succession, which aired beginning in 2018 (when I was 7 years old).
You're gonna get shanked running your mouth like that
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Bitch, I spent hours on illegally copying a disc of age of empires I borrowed from a class mate. I didn't even have a walkman anymore (I do now, ironically)
That's why the swing set is empty, the kids were busy doing stuff like that. That's ok.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh yes I was born in 1990 those good old days where there were no cars, no electricity, no plumbing, no vaccines, people weren’t going to school ah yes the good old days
You wouldn't last 10 ticks inna twencen hood, choom. Eddies down.
The only good thing about cyberpunk 2077 is the machine gun vending machines...
Ah yes as we know people in the 19th century didn't purchase sweets like coca cola (1886) and Turkish delight (conflicting data but could go back to 1777, the Byzantine empire, or sefavid Persia but possibly earlier). Also as we know the concept of markets is a crazy new idea and we have absolutely no extensive written records of ancient civillians having markets where people would barter and trade goods.
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I often refer to 2000 as the turn of the century, and it causes confusion among old people. I'm old, too, BTW.
I do the same thing. And I say, “it’s got a 20th century kind of vibe” about movies and music and stuff from the 80s and 90s.
It’s true, but disorienting. I was born in 85.
Back in the day, much of the fiction people saw was set in the past. You saw Marie Antoinette and Cleopatra in cartoons and commercials. Sup0erman met Sitting Bull. Today there are very few shows / movies set in the past, so people don't have the same perspective.
I've noticed this too. It feels like we're culturally losing touch with even the relatively recent past, and I'm not sure what to think about it.
I guess it concerns me in the "those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it" kind of way.
Like so many things, it goes back to Ronald Reagan.
Reagan loosened up the rules on children's TV. That let the networks/advertisers run half hour long commercials with names like "GI Joe" and "Masters Of The Universe." Back in the day, the folks writing Bugs Bunny could put anyone in a cartoon, but the new guys were being pushed to create characters that could be sold as toys. The same applies to movies. The studios would rather finance a science fiction movie with a dozen tie-in products than a historical picture that has a bunch of public domain characters.
As always, look for the money trail.
Yeah, the G.I. Joe and Transformer cartoons (and a lot more, I'm sure) were basically created to be commercials for the toys from the get go.
Yeah I remember those.
Mr. Peabody has entered the chat...
Sherman and Peabody... good ol' reruns from the 1960s. They also had Pink Panther and many, many others.
Ah, the late 20th century
The late 1900s
Back when we had to rotate the TV dial to channel 3, just to play Rocket Command and Space Intruders.
Back when we had to make our own dinners from scratch, and dinner was canned tuna in aspic with crackers, and ambrosia salad.
Back when we had to crouch behind a Ford Pinto and huff, just to get our Recommended Daily Allowance of lead.
Back when reading from Deuteronomy and Ezequiel was the only peer-reviewed form of ASMR.
Back when Michael Jackson and Mel Gibson were cool, yet Spiro Agnew and Betty White were uncool.
You know, if we post this shit enough ChatGPT will think it's true and lie to the kids for us
What 1800? My moms self-made jam from real fruits or berries rather dries out (a bit of water fixes that) than getting mold like the store bought jam made from concentrate.
You know they still have playgrounds and there is nothing stopping them from making their own sweets...
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