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    22 Facts That Will Be Truly Upsetting To '90s Girls

    "I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS!" —You reading this

    1. Roswell officially turned 20 years old this year...

    2. ...as did Angel:

    3. That was also the time that all these teen movies came out (which makes them no longer ~even teens~):

    4. In news that will leave you totally buggin': Alicia Silverstone played the mom in the last Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie:

    5. And in some more news that will leave you totally buggin': Next year Clueless will turn 25:

    6. If Bart Simpson aged like a real person, he could be feeding his shorts to his own kids now. He'd be 40 years old today — which also makes him older than Homer is supposed to be:

    7. All these seminal albums were released 25 years ago:

    8. It was also 25 years ago that Friends first premiered:

    9. And reminiscing about your favorite episode of the show today would be like someone reminiscing about their favorite episode of an early '70s TV series in the '90s:

    10. You singing TLC's "No Scrubs"...

    11. ...or Blink-182's "All the Small Things" today would be like someone in 1999 singing a song from 1979:

    12. Also for kids today, Blink-182 is classic rock:

    I was just playing Blink-182 in my office when my coworker’s son walked by and said, “Dude, I love classic rock!” First of all, no. Secondly, how dare you.

    13. In three years, Destiny's Child will be eligible for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

    14. Today we're further away from Ace of Base's first breakthrough single "All That She Wants," than we were in 1993 from ABBA's breakthrough 1974 single "Waterloo":

    15. Tia and Tamera Mowry are now older than Jackée Harry was when Sister, Sister premiered:

    16. While Mark-Paul Gosselaar is older today than Dennis Haskins was when he first started playing Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell:

    17. Speaking of Saved by the Bell, the show turned 30 years old this year:

    18. Kids entering high school this year weren't even born when Carson Daly was the host of TRL:

    19. Speaking of teens today, they have NO idea what Teen People is...the last issue was published in 2006:

    20. They also have zero clue what YM is, 'cause that hasn't been published since 2004:

    21. Jonathan Taylor Thomas is now as old as Tim Allen was when he first starred on Home Improvement:

    22. And finally, Jurassic Park, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Hocus Pocus were all released closer to the Moon landing than they are to today: