Though I'm still considered by most people to be a young adult, there are some things that do honestly make me feel kind of old. Unfortunately, I've been thinking about this a lot lately as the big 30 approaches, so I compiled a little list here of some of the things that make me feel old.

*The fact that my childhood is as old now as the '70s were back then.
*The fact that shows I grew up watching like The Wonder Years and Full House are now considered retro TV just like '60s shows were when I was a kid.
*The fact that my freshman year of high school was more than 15 years ago.
*The fact that the NES will turn 35 next year.
*The fact that many popular items from my childhood, like Pogs and the SNES, are considered relics.
*The fact that I can remember a time where my family did not have a cell phone, a computer, or even cable, and that this was not out of the ordinary.
*The fact that I can remember a time when a handheld gaming system with color graphics was a big deal.
*The fact that the main way we watched video growing up, VHS, is seen the same as 8-tracks by today's standards.
*The fact that people born around 1998 and 1999 are now adults.
*The fact that somebody born during the late '00s actually posted online somewhere.

Reading this thread.

knowing it's been 25 years since I graduated High School.

*The fact that people born around 1998 and 1999 are now adults.

Hey, you didn't tell me that :P.

Hey, you didn't tell me that :P.


Sorry, but can you blame me? Think of how you'll feel when a kid born around 2010 or 2011 turns 18.

Here's the things that kinda made me feel (slightly) old from m@chinehead's original post:

*The fact that people born around 1998 and 1999 are now adults.
*The fact that somebody born during the late '00s actually posted online somewhere.

Things that make me feel old:

1. Currently, the half way point of my life was almost a decade ago (2008).
2. When I was born there was less than 6 billion people on Earth...now there is 7.5 billion people on Earth. The 6 billionth person on Earth was born on October 12, 1999 in Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
3. When I was born 30 years in the past was 1969 and now...30 years in the past is the year 1987.
4. When I was born 45 years in the past was 1954 and now....45 years in the past is the year 1972.
5. I was born closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the start of the 2010s.
6. I can remember a time when smartphones weren't even a thing.
7. I remember a time when the PS2 and the original Xbox were considered "high tech".
8. I was born 2 years before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened.
9. When I was born TWA (Trans World Airlines) was still operating flights and in business.
10. There have 9 Olympic Games in my lifetime (5 Summer Olympics & 4 Winter Olympics).

Sorry, but can you blame me? Think of how you'll feel when a kid born around 2010 or 2011 turns 18.

Nope, I can't...I was just jabbing ya :P. Anyways, those people will turn 18 in 2028 and 2029 so I'll be 28-30 when that happens and I probably won't even think about it....I hope :-\\.

Things that make me feel old:

1. Currently, the half way point of my life was almost a decade ago (2008).
2. When I was born there was less than 6 billion people on Earth...now there is 7.5 billion people on Earth. The 6 billionth person on Earth was born on October 12, 1999 in Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
3. When I was born 30 years in the past was 1969 and now...30 years in the past is the year 1987.
4. When I was born 45 years in the past was 1954 and now....45 years in the past is the year 1972.
5. I was born closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the start of the 2010s.
6. I can remember a time when smartphones weren't even a thing.
7. I remember a time when the PS2 and the original Xbox were considered "high tech".
8. I was born 2 years before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened.
9. When I was born TWA (Trans World Airlines) was still operating flights and in business.
10. There have 9 Olympic Games in my lifetime (5 Summer Olympics & 4 Winter Olympics).


Yeah, I could see all of that making you feel old. Honestly, I think I was about 18 myself when I first started to look back on my childhood years as being a good while ago. Probably the first time I'd ever felt old during my entire life was when I found some old tapes I'd recorded as a kid during the mid '90s, which was sometime around early 2005. To people older than me, the fact that I was still a high schooler and feeling nostalgia for the past probably would've seemed silly, but I don't think it's as uncommon at that age as some may think.

Yeah, I could see all of that making you feel old. Honestly, I think I was about 18 myself when I first started to look back on my childhood years as being a good while ago. Probably the first time I'd ever felt old during my entire life was when I found some old tapes I'd recorded as a kid during the mid '90s, which was sometime around early 2005. To people older than me, the fact that I was still a high schooler and feeling nostalgia for the past probably would've seemed silly, but I don't think it's as uncommon at that age as some may think.

Yeah, I know. I've actually had nostalgia for my childhood since I was 13 :P.

-That 2000 is nearly 20 years old.
-The 6th generation of gaming will be 20 years old in 2 years!
-The fact that I can remember a time when the millennium was a big deal and was considered the future.
-The fact that I can remember a time when the internet was less common despite people being aware of it.
-The fact that I can remember a time before the millennium.
-Obama's historic moment was about a decade ago.
-The fact that I can remember a time when home consoles had cartridges.
-The fact that I can remember a time when Windows was only either 95' or '98.
-When I was born, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nixon and Kurt Cobain were still alive!
-When I was born, there was no Sony Playstation!
-The fact that I can remember a time when VHS, cassettes, and film cameras were simultaneously still common.
-The fact that I can remember a time when Sega made consoles, and Microsoft was only known for Windows.

Other facts that make me feel old, when I was born:

1. Ronald Reagan was still alive.
2. Gerald Ford was still alive.
3. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) was still alive and still a United States Senator.
4. Jesse Helms (R-NC) was still alive and still a United States Senator.
5. John F. Kennedy Jr. was still alive.
6. Wilt Chamberlain and Walter Payton were still alive.

* Somebody stated, on Reddit's Closer in Time page, that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's closer proximity to Jim Carrey's The Grinch than to today was evidence for it being surprisingly old. I never even saw that movie as seeming that retro because it came out in the year 2000, well after my sense of memory had developed, and the theater I saw it at was brand new at the time, anchoring it into modern times.
* I was born closer to 1967 than to today.
* There are presumably lots of kids today who play Pokemon Sun and Moon, yet their parents played Pokemon Red and Blue as children.
* Shrek is older today than The Black Cauldron was at the time of its release.
* Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is now two Spidey generations old.
* Little kids being heavily exposed to YouTube.
* Most television shows I grew up with are in standard definition and have 4:3 aspect ratios, making them fairly indistinguishable from stuff made in the 70s and 80s, which I once considered forever ago.
* Realizing how fat and plasticky most technology still looked in the early 2000s.
* The 90s began closer to 1962, when rustic stuff like "Limbo Rock," black & white television shows, old school Americana values, and rockabilly music were still current things, than to today.

Yeah, I know. I've actually had nostalgia for my childhood since I was 13 :P.


Same. Although I started to get more nostalgic for my childhood as I turned 14.

* Somebody stated, on Reddit's Closer in Time page, that Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's closer proximity to Jim Carrey's The Grinch than to today was evidence for it being surprisingly old. I never even saw that movie as seeming that retro because it came out in the year 2000, well after my sense of memory had developed, and the theater I saw it at was brand new at the time, anchoring it into modern times.
* I was born closer to 1967 than to today.
* There are presumably lots of kids today who play Pokemon Sun and Moon, yet their parents played Pokemon Red and Blue as children.
* Shrek is older today than The Black Cauldron was at the time of its release.
* Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is now two Spidey generations old.
* Little kids being heavily exposed to YouTube.
* Most television shows I grew up with are in standard definition and have 4:3 aspect ratios, making them fairly indistinguishable from stuff made in the 70s and 80s, which I once considered forever ago.
* Realizing how fat and plasticky most technology still looked in the early 2000s.
* The 90s began closer to 1962, when rustic stuff like "Limbo Rock," black & white television shows, old school Americana values, and rockabilly music were still current things, than to today.



No wonder you look old enough to be my mother :p (you're still pretty though  :( )


As for me:
I still need DVDs because some games, films and music I like and TV shows are no longer or not distributed digitally, except illegally. I found out at a university lecture that CDs first came out in the late 1980s which makes me look really old (granted, people mostly used tape back then).


I still use my computer and I still use emoticons over emojis in some cases, because I type way faster on a computer (web forums typically have their own smileys, and on an instant messaging app they have emoji support, but you either have to point and click for the right one or learn the names of it). I also prefer computers overall to phones in terms of technology because computers can run the sort of games and applications I want it to and they don't become obsolete as quickly. People normally get phones for social networking and maybe extremely casual photo editing and gaming. Probably the only time I see people use computers is out of necessity, to write essays, for this instant messaging app when no one wants to use voice and in my parents' case, to fill out forms or to watch something together that their phones would be too small and unsynchronised for.


I have some ways of thinking and speaking that make me stick out as a 2000s kid, i.e. thinking about cliques, which have pretty much vanished in the 2010s somewhat.


I still own my Xbox 360 and PS3, and have, although rarely, been playing games on them in the recent past, plainly because the newer consoles don't support the games that I want it to run.


Compared to my sister, I had no idea what transgender was when I was her age. She knew it when she was 9 while I found it out when I was in my preteens or in my teens.


I, at a few times in my life, had to live with the suckish channels that the UK offered me as a kid since my parents couldn't afford to pay up for a TV package with stuff like Cartoon Network on it; now, I've mostly outgrown cartoons, or I prefer to spend my spare time doing other things, namely playing games.

Things that make me feel old:

1. Currently, the half way point of my life was almost a decade ago (2008).
2. When I was born there was less than 6 billion people on Earth...now there is 7.5 billion people on Earth. The 6 billionth person on Earth was born on October 12, 1999 in Sarajevo (capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
3. When I was born 30 years in the past was 1969 and now...30 years in the past is the year 1987.
4. When I was born 45 years in the past was 1954 and now....45 years in the past is the year 1972.
5. I was born closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than the start of the 2010s.
6. I can remember a time when smartphones weren't even a thing.
7. I remember a time when the PS2 and the original Xbox were considered "high tech".
8. I was born 2 years before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened.
9. When I was born TWA (Trans World Airlines) was still operating flights and in business.
10. There have 9 Olympic Games in my lifetime (5 Summer Olympics & 4 Winter Olympics).


I can remember when The NES was the most popular console.

No wonder you look old enough to be my mother :p (you're still pretty though  :( )

:-[

:-[

Wait....are you gonna tell him? :-X

Wait....are you gonna tell him? :-X


I think my emoticon says enough. I don't like being called old-looking when I'm only going on 25 and still desperate for love.

I think my emoticon says enough. I don't like being called old-looking when I'm only going on 25 and still desperate for love.


Sorry about that. At the very least, you don't look my age (19).

Sorry about that. At the very least, you don't look my age (19).


Well, in all fairness, my avatar is just about old enough to be your mother.

To be honest, accepting late '90s borns turning 18 isn't all that hard for me because I was just a kid myself when they were born. But 2008ers posting online? That's a whole different ballgame. Honestly, it's gonna be so strange trying to have a conversation with a kid that's young enough to be your child.

Not to mention the fact of how would somebody born during the late '00s view the era when I grew up, a time with no smartphones, no social media, and where items like computers were still mostly for those that had the money to afford them? Actually, it would be quite fascinating to see how a 2008er views the '90s.

To be honest, accepting late '90s borns turning 18 isn't all that hard for me because I was just a kid myself when they were born. But 2008ers posting online? That's a whole different ballgame. Honestly, it's gonna be so strange trying to have a conversation with a kid that's young enough to be your child.

Not to mention the fact of how would somebody born during the late '00s view the era when I grew up, a time with no smartphones, no social media, and where items like computers were still mostly for those that had the money to afford them? Actually, it would be quite fascinating to see how a 2008er views the '90s.

Well, then watch these 2 videos:

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WARNING: You are going to age 20 years while watching these videos :P.

It's usually people treating the late 2000s like it was a long time ago that makes me feel a bit out of style, especially since those were my teen years.

*People who see Wii/Xbox 360/PS3 as their childhood consoles. Especially Xbox 360, since I was old enough to buy that with my own hard earned money! I remember muting and reporting kids on Xbox Live for being obnoxious or rude. To think those kids are fully grown adults today is kind of disorienting. ;D

*On a similar note, I was talking about Smash Bros. with a 1997 born friend, and he told me Brawl as his first Smash game, and he used words like "back then" to describe it. Kid, pause. It was yesterday when the daily Dojo updates of that game were breaking the Internet. ;D

*My 11 year old sister watches anime like Death Note (which was popular when I was in high school), and takes fashion inspiration from late 2000s emo. They were also of course into things like Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents when they were younger. To see things from my childhood/teen years to be treated so matter of factly and like things that always existed, when I can remember them being fresh and new, it reminds me of how much time has passed.

*People in YouTube comments talking about how they were in Grade 4 when California Gurls came out.

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On things not related to the late 2000s

*Having nephews and nieces that call me uncle.

*People asking if I'm my little sisters' dad or my mom's husband.

*My little sister telling me that 'I didn't grow up with technology'

*When young people act like something someone said on Tumblr or YouTube is important. Just close it if it upsets you lol.

*There's a holiday in my culture where adults give money to kids so they can go spend it on candy or video games or whatever. For the first time this year, instead of receiving money, I was giving money away.  :\'(

*On a related note, having to take or drop off my little sisters at places. Also having to spend my money on them buying toys or clothes or video games or what have you. Makes me feel more like a parent/adult than just doing house chores for them. ;D

*Childhood friends getting married or having kids.

*The government here is introducing a lot of new social programmes for youth. Their definition of youth being under 25, and I realize I only have a few months to take advantage of any of these services ;D

remembering the consoles that I used to play with consoles such as Atari, Intellivision and Vectrex and that goes back 30-35 years. :o

Remembering that the New Kids On The Block broke up in 1994 and then reunited in 2008.  The 20th anniversary of Hangin' Tough also made me feel shockingly old even though I was only 32 at the time that they reunited.

Some more things that make me feel old...I'm older than these things:

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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HhxTO6FsxLg/UkWwdXjfkRI/AAAAAAAAAF4/JtlZmnQnwpU/s1600/TonyHawksProSkaterPlayStation1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Toy_Story_2.jpg
https://static.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_medium/mig/1/5/9/8/2211598-box_re3.png
https://r.mprd.se/fup/up/36966-Grand_Theft_Auto_2_-1.jpg
http://www.leftoverculturereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1657984-crash_team_racing.jpg
http://download.gamezone.com/uploads/image/data/1101156/donkeykong64.jpg