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If not for the three grey hairs peeking out, I’d feel as fresh as new. It seems like only yesterday we’d drink Capri Sun, burn CDs and listen to the Smashing Pumpkins. Speaking of the latter, kids these days call it “dad rock,” and how can you blame them?

The oldest of Gen Z, aka the newest generation that was born between 1997 and 2012, is now 24. No, it’s not you who are 24, it’s the kids who have no clue what “pick up the phone'' means.

So today, we’re diving deep into the world of no illusion, ready to face one fact we all dread (hence the booming skincare industry among millennials!)—we are old. Thanks to the corner of Reddit ‘Heck I’m Old,’ we have a collection of posts to make you feel not just old, but rather ancient. “When you look at kids nowadays and see their music you can't help but think of how everything is old,” says the group’s description and from what you see below, they ain’t lying.

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If you ever feel like time is passing at the pace of a hadron collider, you can be sure you’re not the only one. Most of us feel that the passage of time is inevitable, and that it only makes us older (but also wiser, more confident and happy overall!).

Having said that, it's no secret that our modern society is obsessed with freezing and even turning back time. This ageing paranoia that’s sweeping across our society has been heavily fueled by social media, where young folks constantly put pressure on achievements, looks, and everything, really. Its competitive nature shows that someone is doing better and has accomplished more by your age than you have.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes, spilling the juice while running back to the tv and constantly bumping your knees or toes when jumping over the furniture... but thanks to the adrenaline: no pain felt!

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Being scared of ageing is not only nothing new, it seems like it creeps into the minds of younger generations obsessed with anti-ageing life choices earlier than ever in history. In 2018, a report from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) found that millennials felt the most negatively towards ageing, viewing it as a steep decline and assuming dementia and loneliness as inevitable.

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I'm Old I Remember Having One Thinking It Was So Cool

I'm Old I Remember Having One Thinking It Was So Cool

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the 16 colour version. It was a bitch to write with because it was so fat.

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I Feel This Deep In My Soul

I Feel This Deep In My Soul

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That cashier was just jealous that you got to experience Blockbuster and they didn't lol

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I Consider This A Small Victory

I Consider This A Small Victory

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In some extreme cases where fear of getting older interferes with your life, doctors diagnose people with gerascophobia. “Gerascophobia sufferers have very frequent thoughts about changes in their appearance due to ageing and increasingly losing control over their life as they get older. These thoughts trigger panic attacks, shortness of breath, sweating and shaking," Dr. Rose Aghdami, a consulting and coaching psychologist, told Refinery29.

"Their behavior is affected too, as they often avoid certain activities which remind them of ageing, withdraw from social contact, and become more isolated."

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You Might Be Old...

You Might Be Old...

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Doc Brown And Marty Mcfly Still Here, Together, In 2021

Doc Brown And Marty Mcfly Still Here, Together, In 2021

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Napster, Bearshare, Limewire.....arrrrhg, a pirate's life for me.....

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm too old to even remember this! When I was a kid, there was no internet to connect to. When I was at university I would use the much faster uni network to download stuff and I couldn't afford a landline anyway. There there was then a period of using dialup on my own landline, but I lived on my own, so nobody ever interrupted my connections. Then I got broadband and you could use the phone and the internet at the same time!

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Margaret Weaver
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember playing Mech Warrior over dialup. That was so long ago the air was a different colour.

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Brendan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably lowering the tone here, but I remember waiting (for what seemed like) hours for a pic of a naked lady to load.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was in my early 20's when Napster was big. I still bought cd's as I had no interest in waiting forever and day to download a song. In addition to the fact that even back then I thought it was wrong to steal music.

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B C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol the amount of youngins who think channel 3 is a reference to hdmi/input 3... No he literally means tv channel 3.. (though some fancy connectors had a toggle switch for 2 or 4). You literally had to turn your tv to channel 3. With a k**b. And then rotate the sub k**b to tune the channel properly.

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Dee B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's this world coming to when BP won't let you use the word k n o b? 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Lars Arne Gipling
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think kids these days really appreciate the luxury that is high speed internet ^^ And they've really missed out on the history of it all.

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Lucky2BAlive
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On this day 40 years ago, I waited all night for a song to come on the radio, I succeeded, until my mother unplugged the radio.

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Shreeky
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try recording from a tape player while finally listening to a video that you have been waiting on all day to play on MTV and your mom knocks on your door saying "Supper" :/

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Thomas Turnbull
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used a small program at that time which allowed you to continue a download if it stopped. It was a free program.

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Baali Venomax
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When Kazaa came out and you could reconnect a download, the world became a happier place :)

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Marco Conti
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait, I had high speed internet 15 years ago. And I had WiFi. But I had the same issue downloading photos from Usenet in 1989 to 1996 when I finally got something faster than my 9600 baud modem.

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Liv
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok but seriously, what is Napster? Is this a website to download movies or games?

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Kelli Pike
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, I'm the one that ran the wiring setting up my parents first home internet connection (a 14-4 dial-up bit). I used to go to work with my graphic designer dad to download music with their 56k in only half an hour per song, rather than 3 hours at home! F**k bees, I'm old.

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Kristen Lee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I spent all summer once staying up all night downloading a few songs at a time. End of summer, SUPER proud to have made it to 1000 songs… only to have them start skipping and freezing. Sent my laptop to be checked out, hard drive was cracked. Lost all my songs. An entire summer. Wasted.

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Alicia GriffonLady
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ohhhhhh my x mil would call just to see if i was using the internet and kick us offline for fun, i guess? She was a special kind of evil.

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CrazyDogLady
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can still feel the fear when I picked up the phone and all I heard were those ear-ripping noises... And I knew my brother was jumping over his table to come smack me 'cause I riuned everything!!! 🤭😅

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Abdul
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's where he got his name from, he's been angry ever since

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Kit Spiker
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More than one mom or just improper English? I truly am confused

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kayla Mckee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look it up kid, Metallica killed Napster and limewire because they were losing too much money. It is the equivalent of corporate greed. Like how today we are paying enormous gas prices because the oil companies can't stand to make a couple million less out of their billions of dollars.

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Carla McDonnell
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved Napster! Internet was slow as hell back then! It took so long to download a song sometimes that by the time you got it, it was no longer on Casey Kasem's top 40! LMAO :-)

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Cecilia Hink
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't that illegal anyway?My son downloaded like 100 songs for me and I thought I'd never hear them again then for some reason, maybe he was angry bout something or needed space he erased them all. Anybody remember mili vanili?

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Thecoolbonnie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Napster lol then when it was gone... Morpheus, limewire, Bearshare... Haha I never knew if I was downloading house music or viruses

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG!!! I hated that!!...eventually my mom got a separate phone line for the internet....oh the days of dial up and AOL lol 🤬🤣

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Tracy Owens
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel your pain ... brings back some very angry moments in my download history.

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Mark Kelly
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or when you burn a CD overnight and wake up to find it f****d up

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Karen Anderson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nobody knows anything about any history on any subject anymore.

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Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Back when dial-up downloading took a serious time commitment and explicit instructions to family/friends not to touch anything until complete.

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Andy Hinds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to use a different website for that stuff. A single song of three minutes could take forever.

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Lynn Morello
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can sympathise with you, although my download was 11 hours.

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Agamemnon Padar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially frustrating when you finished the download and it was the wrong file.

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Isabel Care
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Two weeks ago I still had to leave my computer on overnight to download an hour long tv program. My up to 19 speed was only ever up to 3 and a half at best and recently 0.8 most of the time. New provider can give me about 22 so far. Shocked at the download speed and the ability to watch something with little buffering. The new housing estate to be built opposite will no doubt slow it down again

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Ryan Oliver Tan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Napster? try downloading a 2MB Picture file from Netscape. hahaha

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Yusuf Shariff
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you nearly finish down/upload in among us and some calls a meeting

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Rena
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I meet my man... Long time ago.... We talked about music, downloaded one song, and the 20 minutes it takes we talked about anything. Listen to it and found another sind the other doesn't know ... Spending nights that way Still wondering how young folks find time to be just there with each other.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really?? 15 years ago the dial up internet has been long gone. I was already working from home on a PC and sending my work through emails.

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Mazer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you still a little shaken? I think you would have to be. Virtual hugs

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Tania Dubodiel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

eMule was my jam. At least there you could check the other names the file had, so you could see if you were about to download a porn movie.

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kjorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i was using Getright. that way i could pause my download and start it back again later :-)

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James016
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The "Noooooooooo" for when this happened was very distinct.

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Daniel (ShadowDrakken)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, that was no big deal with Napster though, it could resume files from day one... imagine it happening when you're downloading from a BBS, that REALLY sucked.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm in my 40's and I still don't know what Napster is. I mean, I was an adult when it was around and I know the name, but still no idea what it is. Was it just in America by any chance?

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Jessica Gunn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably...it was a sight that you could pirate download any music you wanted. I'm in my 40's and after making mix tapes in my teens in the 90's, Napster made mix CD's in my 20's

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The RSPH has also urged people to stop using the term 'anti-ageing' popularized by the beauty industry, since it could be putting pressure on women to see ageing as something inherently detrimental. Another 2017 study found that 30% of women under 35 were regularly using anti-wrinkle products, a fact that’s so obvious when browsing through social media that you don’t need a survey for it

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"I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack

"I Grew Up With No Internet" Starter Pack

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And still have no idea how to play minesweeper 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Beware This Man

Beware This Man

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thanks, Macaulay. I wish you would look up to Bart Simpson, he doesn't age like that.

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This Feeling All Of The Time

This Feeling All Of The Time

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What Else?

What Else?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UK specific but when I was a kid in the 80's we had a grand total of 4 TV channels to choose from.

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In The ‘80s, TV Stations Just Turned Off Late At Night. No Infomercials, Nothing. Just This

In The ‘80s, TV Stations Just Turned Off Late At Night. No Infomercials, Nothing. Just This

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, they played a nifty tune first, and then some nice white noise to fall asleep to...

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70's Kids Checking In

70's Kids Checking In

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Well, This Is The New Metric For How Old We Are, I Guess

Well, This Is The New Metric For How Old We Are, I Guess

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Phoebe’s Baby Is A College Grad

Phoebe’s Baby Is A College Grad

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hahaha, I actually thought to myself: wow, she actually kept in touch with him even tho it wasn't her baby?

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Was It A Nokia Or A Razr You Had?

Was It A Nokia Or A Razr You Had?

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Michelle M
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a Nokia c2 when I was 10 or 11. Used to feel quite smug typing fast without looking at the keyboard.

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We All Knew This Day Would Come

We All Knew This Day Would Come

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a great imagination right there!! I remember the young person that saw a real floppy disc and asked his dad why he has 3d printed the save icon!!

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Anyone Else??

Anyone Else??

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then you go to the actual store and those young whippersnappers rearranged it again.

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An Ancient Artifact From A More Civilized Time

An Ancient Artifact From A More Civilized Time

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Pretty Much!

Pretty Much!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh crap, i totally have such location in my home town, the realization hit me like ton of brick

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Old School Uncool

Old School Uncool

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Some Redditor Is Mocking His Dad For This 80's Handset That's Plugged Into His iPhone. All I Can Say Is, That Looks Amazingly Comfortable....

Some Redditor Is Mocking His Dad For This 80's Handset That's Plugged Into His iPhone. All I Can Say Is, That Looks Amazingly Comfortable....

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I Was 20 When It Aired And God, Do I Still Feel Old....

I Was 20 When It Aired And God, Do I Still Feel Old....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

me, 35, in march 2021 : for vaccination too young, for gynecologist 'geriatric' :D

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Afv Anyone?

Afv Anyone?

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After 9 And On The Weekends Plus $.10 Texts

After 9 And On The Weekends Plus $.10 Texts

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Pink Floyd::pride

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This Cut Me Deep

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yesterday i was watching the next top model of my country! And i kid you not but the models(18-19 years old) didn't know Sharon stone, Michelle Pfeiffer and CHER!!!!! How can you not know Cher????

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Never Failed

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use to have a fake 8 track player to fool my car into playing cassettes. In 1992.

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That's Relatable

That's Relatable

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly: I did see this picture in a different BP post and: yes, I was absolutely thrilled and thought I need to get this for my little recreation cabin in the mountains!

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Internet Is For The 1 Percenters

Internet Is For The 1 Percenters

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