Someone In This Online Group Asked “Without Mentioning Age Or Date Of Birth, How Old Are You?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Answers
People in the same age group tend to have similar interests and even if two people are complete strangers, they still might share some of the same memories. For example, remembering what TV shows they both liked as kids or what major world events they have witnessed.
These kinds of things can actually give away your age even if you don’t say the number or your birth date. Reddit user teddyjr32378 asked “Without mentioning age or date of birth, how old are you?” and the thread got pretty popular, being upvoted 46.6k times with 45.7k people getting deep into the nostalgia, naming movies, songs or other recognizable things that would let other people guess what age they are.
What is the thing you can say about yourself that would let others pinpoint the year you were born? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to upvote the submissions that you can relate to the most!
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I'm "had to make a mad dash sprint to the cassette player to mash the record button when your favorite song came on the radio" years old.
MTV actually played music videos.
They sure did. And they always had "cooler" videos than VH1. Video killed the radio star... then reality shows killed the video!
Would you like to accept a collect call from MomWe’reDoneComeGetUs?
Rotary phones were a thing.
A tiny mistake in the number and you had to hang up and do it all over again lol
There was only one newscast at 10pm, and before it started, a booming voice asked, “it’s 10pm. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILDREN ARE????” and after it was over, there was an hour of maybe an infomercial , then a test pattern, and TV was OVER for the night. And there was only 7 channels
I saw Disney's "The Lion King" in theaters when it came out.
I saw Disney's original Jungle Book in the theater. Cried because I thought Baloo died.
Went to computer labs in elementary school to Paint and play pinball.
Drop dead Fred, Little Monsters, Ghost Busters, The Last Unicorn, & Labyrinth were my favorite movies as a child.
I got in trouble in kindergarten because my tamagotchi kept telling me it was hungry
I’ve lived in two millennia’s, two centuries, and four different decades yet people still tell me I can’t call myself old.
The calendar picture shows the date I was born. Edit: To be considered young by some made me feel better about the grey hair I have at 32.
Old enough to have my first phone be a nokia brick phone/flip phone to now having a smartphone. Ahh simpler times lol
I played the all green Oregon Trail.
When I was little, my favorite cartoons was My Little Pony, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, and She-Ra.
I watched blockbuster close and remember when netflix mailed movies and videogames
Grew up watching classic cartoon network shows such as dexter laboratory, courage the cowardly dog, Johnny bravo, the powerpuff girls and my personal favourite Ed, edd and eddy.
I’ve had experience with these ways of listening to music: 8 track, vinyl, cassette, CD, and mini disc.
Rabbit ears on my television..
I remember Baby Jessica and I was afraid something like that might happen to me too.
Until I was in pre-school there were 48 stars on the US flag.
Toby McGuire is my favorite Spider-Man
I was around when man landed on the Moon.
My mother wouldn't let me stay up. But my father was on a course in US at the time, and he came home with a load of fabulous souvenir stuff
When I was a kid the big playground argument was Sega vs Nintendo.
In elementary school, I got to watch the space shuttle Challenger explode on live television.
Edit: the more I think about this and read others' comments, while I was indeed in 2nd grade / 7yrs old, I'm almost positive school was out and I watched this at someone's house with my mother. I know we watched it on CNN and I can see that thin red stripe at the bottom of the screen and that font they used in the 80s in my head and no elementary school would've had access to that channel back then.
I had a furrby as a kid
Most dist(f)urbing thing is that the eyes are on front of the head. It implies that Furrby is a predator.
I wore Dittos and high waisted bell bottom jeans to high school. We had a rotary phone in our house. We didn't wear seat belts in the car until I was older and most cars only had lap belts. There weren't car seats when I was a baby. Wooly Bully was the number one song the year I was born and Flashdance... What A Feeling was the number one song the month and year I graduated high school.
I was the first person in my high school to have a cell phone
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To the older millennials, if you want to feel old, the people born on 9/11 are in college now. You're welcome.
I really didn't need that today.
At least we were born in the late 20th century instead of the Middle Ages or being a teen during the Great Depression and later an adult in WW2.
We had the Cuban missle crisis, everyone building bomb shelters. The Vietnam war; what are you doing after high school? Every generation has its problems. Having covid show up as a retirement present ...
I don't get why you got downvoted..
Probably because they miss the good 'ol days of having the plague and waging a crusade. Who knows.
If anyone starts rabbiting about the good ol'days, I just say "dentistry"
Thank you so much. I must go lie down now.
That's okay. I became immune to these things early in the past decade, seeing my nephews and my niece growing up. My oldest nephew was born in 2001 (or 2000?) and now my little sweetheart is a macho looking guy taller than myself. ♡
oh my yes. It was so unsettling to go to a memorial service (they call it something specific I just cannot recall what) at a middle school a few years ago. The two oldest kids were CAP cadets at this school so they wanted to do a color guard for the service. Of course, none of these kids had a clue what was going on and I'm just a chaperone standing there thinking "crap! I'm ooollld."
Time sure does fly. Honestly, the early 2000s don't seem that long ago even if it has been 20 years. There are no distinct trends like the 90s, 80s, and 70s. Everything in the 2000s kind of mesh together, which is why the 2 decades seem to went by fast.
i remember sitting in my schools library with all the other kids in my grade wen it happen. i was in 6th grade if i remember correctly. i hate feeling old as it is i was constantly getting the im old feeling all day bc i found pictures of neices and nephews wen they were kids 2 of them r out of college and working now
this was around Britney performed with the albino python at the VMA's, so yeah, it's been more than 20 years since that too
I was made to feel old the other day when somebody mentioned that if Austin Powers were remade today, it would be about a spy frozen in the early 90s and brought back to life now.
Same thing with that show The Wonder Years. If it was made today it would be reminiscing about the 90s.
The equivalent of That 70s Show would be a show set in 1999.
The German Wall fell when I was 5.
Croatia (Yugoslavia) won Eurovision the year I was born. With the band Riva.
I'm older than Daria. If I may allow to try out - harder version: Maserati started selling the Biturbo. Easy version: Germany had two Chancellors of the same first name.
1982... I was a teenager
...t'was an easy one, huh? Daria, you were born when ... eastern Germans finally stood up for themselves in a number the regime couldn't oppress anymore. They tried, while they still had the remains of a dying power to their service ... but, ultimately, failed.
DC, it was no easier for Croatia, take a dive into wikipedia to find out. It's just, I chose a more cheerful event for the year 1989. Just this.
Nothing wrong with that ... did I sound like that?
Well, being a small country, and, since I don't know where you're from, I presumed you might have not known. Maybe I should reconsider how well-known Croatia is and the region it is within. With that assumption in mind, you did sound, not like there's anything wrong, but, honestly, it sounded like Germany had it more difficult. Just this. Glad it's not what it seemed. Peace. ♡
+ how's it in croatia today? Being a EU-member, I guess the times of war are over ... not only "no war right now!", but, hopefully, never to come back - easier than overthrowing a government consisting of a geriatric ward, it sure wasn't. Getting through war, or ultimately getting rid of an oppressive system never is easy, always demands a price, and you never know beforehand if you'll be on the winning side, or if their last resort is unjustified cruelty, such as yearlong sentences for attending at a protest and stuff like that ... if they'd known how empty, out and naked their government would have been, once seriously put into question, eastern Germans wouldn't have had to wait until then ... but, sadly, you never know before. Accepting the risk of a long sentence, or even death, in order to get rid of an opressive government, whereever and whenever, deserves respect and appreciation at the very least, from us who grew up in a rather free and pampered situation...
Thanks for the concern. War is long gone, a chapter that's been close for many years now. But, really, I've been to S. Korea since 2010, so I can't say for sure how it is in Croatia now. I know they struggle economically, and I can imagine. A country surviving off tourism.... in the Covid-19 era..... u.u
Well ... nothing THAT special else happened that year in germany. Bush Sr. got inaugurated (in the US). With easy, I meant the year 1982 wasn't hard to guess - you only have two chancellors in election years, and two bearing the same first name happened ... uh, once. While ... who cares for the Biturbo? An early one, I wouldn't buy anyway - too many unresolved problems, and lacking two essentials to turbocharged engines (intercooling and injection), rendering them well below their abiites, in regard to efficiency and power. + rust, + the transition into modern industrial production went with that model at Maserati, who remained very traditional and craftmanship-dependet, making cars for kings doesn't pay off in times of revolutions... And ... Peace, that anyway!
I started university the year the Berlin Wall began construction.
my roommate says he was 14.
I knew everyone's telephone number.
I still remember a few of my friends' old phone numbers from the 60s.
To the older millennials, if you want to feel old, the people born on 9/11 are in college now. You're welcome.
I really didn't need that today.
At least we were born in the late 20th century instead of the Middle Ages or being a teen during the Great Depression and later an adult in WW2.
We had the Cuban missle crisis, everyone building bomb shelters. The Vietnam war; what are you doing after high school? Every generation has its problems. Having covid show up as a retirement present ...
I don't get why you got downvoted..
Probably because they miss the good 'ol days of having the plague and waging a crusade. Who knows.
If anyone starts rabbiting about the good ol'days, I just say "dentistry"
Thank you so much. I must go lie down now.
That's okay. I became immune to these things early in the past decade, seeing my nephews and my niece growing up. My oldest nephew was born in 2001 (or 2000?) and now my little sweetheart is a macho looking guy taller than myself. ♡
oh my yes. It was so unsettling to go to a memorial service (they call it something specific I just cannot recall what) at a middle school a few years ago. The two oldest kids were CAP cadets at this school so they wanted to do a color guard for the service. Of course, none of these kids had a clue what was going on and I'm just a chaperone standing there thinking "crap! I'm ooollld."
Time sure does fly. Honestly, the early 2000s don't seem that long ago even if it has been 20 years. There are no distinct trends like the 90s, 80s, and 70s. Everything in the 2000s kind of mesh together, which is why the 2 decades seem to went by fast.
i remember sitting in my schools library with all the other kids in my grade wen it happen. i was in 6th grade if i remember correctly. i hate feeling old as it is i was constantly getting the im old feeling all day bc i found pictures of neices and nephews wen they were kids 2 of them r out of college and working now
this was around Britney performed with the albino python at the VMA's, so yeah, it's been more than 20 years since that too
I was made to feel old the other day when somebody mentioned that if Austin Powers were remade today, it would be about a spy frozen in the early 90s and brought back to life now.
Same thing with that show The Wonder Years. If it was made today it would be reminiscing about the 90s.
The equivalent of That 70s Show would be a show set in 1999.
The German Wall fell when I was 5.
Croatia (Yugoslavia) won Eurovision the year I was born. With the band Riva.
I'm older than Daria. If I may allow to try out - harder version: Maserati started selling the Biturbo. Easy version: Germany had two Chancellors of the same first name.
1982... I was a teenager
...t'was an easy one, huh? Daria, you were born when ... eastern Germans finally stood up for themselves in a number the regime couldn't oppress anymore. They tried, while they still had the remains of a dying power to their service ... but, ultimately, failed.
DC, it was no easier for Croatia, take a dive into wikipedia to find out. It's just, I chose a more cheerful event for the year 1989. Just this.
Nothing wrong with that ... did I sound like that?
Well, being a small country, and, since I don't know where you're from, I presumed you might have not known. Maybe I should reconsider how well-known Croatia is and the region it is within. With that assumption in mind, you did sound, not like there's anything wrong, but, honestly, it sounded like Germany had it more difficult. Just this. Glad it's not what it seemed. Peace. ♡
+ how's it in croatia today? Being a EU-member, I guess the times of war are over ... not only "no war right now!", but, hopefully, never to come back - easier than overthrowing a government consisting of a geriatric ward, it sure wasn't. Getting through war, or ultimately getting rid of an oppressive system never is easy, always demands a price, and you never know beforehand if you'll be on the winning side, or if their last resort is unjustified cruelty, such as yearlong sentences for attending at a protest and stuff like that ... if they'd known how empty, out and naked their government would have been, once seriously put into question, eastern Germans wouldn't have had to wait until then ... but, sadly, you never know before. Accepting the risk of a long sentence, or even death, in order to get rid of an opressive government, whereever and whenever, deserves respect and appreciation at the very least, from us who grew up in a rather free and pampered situation...
Thanks for the concern. War is long gone, a chapter that's been close for many years now. But, really, I've been to S. Korea since 2010, so I can't say for sure how it is in Croatia now. I know they struggle economically, and I can imagine. A country surviving off tourism.... in the Covid-19 era..... u.u
Well ... nothing THAT special else happened that year in germany. Bush Sr. got inaugurated (in the US). With easy, I meant the year 1982 wasn't hard to guess - you only have two chancellors in election years, and two bearing the same first name happened ... uh, once. While ... who cares for the Biturbo? An early one, I wouldn't buy anyway - too many unresolved problems, and lacking two essentials to turbocharged engines (intercooling and injection), rendering them well below their abiites, in regard to efficiency and power. + rust, + the transition into modern industrial production went with that model at Maserati, who remained very traditional and craftmanship-dependet, making cars for kings doesn't pay off in times of revolutions... And ... Peace, that anyway!
I started university the year the Berlin Wall began construction.
my roommate says he was 14.
I knew everyone's telephone number.
I still remember a few of my friends' old phone numbers from the 60s.