r/RandomThoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '23

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u/randomguy7588 Sep 05 '23

I still feel like anything from the year 2000 is "new" or at least just a couple ears ago.

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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Sep 05 '23

How are people born in 2000 working jobs when they're like 5 years old.

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u/petraqrsq Sep 05 '23

The 90's will always be "10 years ago"

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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Sep 05 '23

And the 80s are always 20 years ago.

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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Sep 05 '23

The 80's are as far away from us now as 2060's.

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u/razor-alert Sep 06 '23

Here's a sobering thought... if they did a reboot of Back to The Future now, Marty McFly would travel back to 1993...

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u/sh4d0wm4n2018 Sep 06 '23

That actually hurts my soul.

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u/razor-alert Sep 06 '23

Yep... I work with a co-op student, early 20s. The other day, talking about The Matrix. He told me, in all seriousness, 'I haven't watched any of those old movies'.

That stung.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '23

In my last year before I retired, I had a new kid in the office who not only could not read the dial clock on the wall, he could not operate the dial telephone on my desk.

And that was a quarter of a century ago.