1. First and foremost, the fact that 20 years ago was not the '80s or even '90s, but 2002 😩.
The fact that "20 years ago" was in 2002 and not in the 80s is a problem for me...
I know it's a "duh" thing, but it doesn't feel like it really has been 20 years.
2. This year, teens who start high school in the fall will have been born in the year 2008. YUP, 2008!!!
3. Which means "Umbrella" by Rihanna...
4. ...and "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado are songs that were popular before they were even born.
5. The iPod was already old technology. Heck, even the iPod Touch had already been released.
6. And to them, an iPod might as well be a boomer gadget.
My 9 year old just asked me what this is? When did it come out? 1955? Is it for music? ~ I bought it the year before you were born #edtech
7. Which also means they don't know about making mix CDs 😩.
Wtf is “burning CDs”
10. It also means that since birth, they've lived in a world where Hannah Montana...
11. ...American Idol...
12. ...and Twitter have always existed.
13. They've also never had to wait for a DVD to be mailed to them.
I told an 18yo the other day that I used to get @netflix delivered to me in the mail and I’m pretty sure he thought I was lying.
14. Disney has never released a movie on VHS during their lifetime.
15. Destiny's Child has never released new music in their lifetime. To them, Beyoncé has always been a solo act.
16. And they have no idea who the Spice Girls are.
I had three people tell me, “I don’t know who The Spice Girls are, but I love your shirt” KIDS THESE DAYS. BACK IN MY DAY WE HAD RESPECT FOR LEGENDS.
17. Or who NSYNC is.
“bye bye bye” just came on and my 14 year old brother goes “what’s that from? high school musical?” sigh we’ve reached the generation that doesn’t know who *NSYNC is
18. In fact, to kids today, the Killers are considered "classic rock."
when some kid refers to The Killers as ’classic rock’
19. But I guess they aren't wrong, since they're played on classic rock stations.
Tonight I heard The Killers “Somebody Told Me” on a classic rock station and had a full existential crisis.
20. Speaking of things that would probably be considered "classic rock": Both Radio Head's OK Computer and Green Day's Nimrod are turning 25 this year!
21. If someone were to write a song like the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979" and set it back the same number of years, it would be called "2005."
22. And if someone were to write a song today like Bowling for Soup's cover of SR-71's "1985" and set it back the same number of years, it would be called "2003."
23. If Back to the Future were created today and set the same number of years back, it would take place in 1992. 1992!!!
24. Also, Marty would be traveling to the year when Aladdin was a hit movie!
25. While, if Now and Then came out today, it would take place in 1997.
26. And if Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery came out today, he would have been full of early-'90s references, as he would have been frozen in 1992.
27. Britney Spears' music now gets played on the oldies station. ON THE OLDIES STATION.
Hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears was just played on the oldies radio station… officially feel old
28. And so does Avril Lavigne's.
Just heard Avril Lavigne on the oldies station and my feelings are... Complicated.
29. Avril is also now considered "dad rock," along with Sum 41 and Blink-182 🙃.
Absolutely devastated to learn this DAD ROCK album with AVRIL LAVIGNE and SUM 41 is not just a meme but is, in fact, real
30. But I guess it really isn't too far off for Blink-182, 'cause the band officially turns 30 this year.
31. Brad Pitt is 58 years old today, which is the exact age Morgan Freeman was when their movie Seven premiered.
32. Lindsay Lohan is older today than Tina Fey was when Mean Girls premiered.
33. Liam Neeson is older today than Alec Guinness was when he played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars — while Ewan McGregor is older today than Liam was when he played Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace.
34. Also, we are further removed today from the release of The Phantom Menace than The Phantom Menace was from the release of Stars Wars: A New Hope.
35. We are also further away from the premiere of Friends than the premiere of the show was to the moon landing.
36. Also, while we're at it, 1997 is closer to the year President Nixon resigned than to today.
37. Stu Pickles looked like a total adult on Rugrats, but he was only 33.
38. And George Jetson may have been from the very far-off future, but he was actually born in 2022.
Reminder that we are now less than 2 months away from George Jetson being born into the world
39. There hasn't been a new episode of The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 20 years.
40. And it's been 20 years since The Osbournes premiered on MTV.
41. There are YA novels where the characters find out about very ancient things, like the TV show Felicity...
OMG. This new YA just made me feel so ancient and I love it. Teen heading off to college stumbles upon Felicity, an “old” show, and is inspired by it. I can’t wait to read this. ALSO REMEMBER WHEN FELICITY CUT HER HAIR WHYYYY
42. ...and LiveJournal.
Just learned there is a YA book coming out soon in which a teen looks for clues about her birth mother in HER DAD’s LIVEJOURNAL. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt older than in this very moment.
43. You singing along to Kelly Rowland and Nelly's "Dilemma"...
44. ...or Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" today would be like someone in 2002 singing along to a song from 1982.
45. And lastly, we're now closer (by a lot) to the opening of the Nickelodeon time capsule than to when it was buried.
