1. On 30 years ago:
Someone said “30 years ago” and my mind went “ah yes, the 1970s” but they meant 1991 and now I need a lie in.
2. On Meet The Parents:
3. On the 1900s:
One of my students really wrote a sentence that begins, "In the late 1900s.” I had to re-read it three times to realize what the heck was going on. My feelings are hurt.
4. On CDs:
5. On the teens:
6. On the '80s:
I just had it brought to my attention that 1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939. I'm just going to need a minute.
7. On 1985:
8. On Netflix:
I explained to my daughter that when Netflix started they used to send you DVDs. 6yr old: (old lady voice) You know, back in my day, the internet used to come in the mail.
9. On hanging up:
My 13 yo just asked me why we say “hang up the phone.” I’m now getting ready to check myself into a senior living centre 😭
10. On MTV:
11. On 9/11:
me, in my 9/11 class: So, how did YOU feel, when you heard the news? students: . . . . . Erm.. I was two years old 🤷♀️ #IFeelOld #phdlife
12. On ID:
13. On Funniest Home Videos:
14. On Austin Powers:
Just a reminder that if Austin Powers were revived today, he would have been frozen in the long ago, swinging days of . . . 1992.
15. On the Creek:
My teenage daughter just came into the kitchen and said "I'm watching this TV show, it's like a teen drama but it's set in the past". I asked her what it was called and she said "Dawson's Creek". I have been alive a long time.
16. On VHS:
my 9 year old sister just asked me what this is... she was shocked when i told her this is how we used to watch movies
17. On rock 'n' roll:
Absolutely devastated to learn this DAD ROCK album with AVRIL LAVIGNE and SUM 41 is not just a meme but is, in fact, real
18. On CDs:
19. On cassettes:
Text from my daughter. #Ifeelold
20. On cords:
21. On your friends:
22. On texts:
Told a group of teens that when I was their age we had to pay 10 cents per text message and now they think I’m a liar
23. On pencil sharpeners:
Asked my four year old niece what this was and she said “soap”
24. On ejecting:
25. On the Smashing Pumpkins:
26. On Kool-Aid:
27. On Dazed and Confused:
28. On the RUSH:
29. On iPods:
I gave my old iPod to my son: “Daddy, I don’t like it because it doesn’t work” 🤷🏻♂️
30. On rooms:
31. On $20 bills:
32. On music:
33. On floppies:
34. On hanging out:
35. On commercials:
Watching cable with my eldest son and a commercial comes on. He asked to skip it and I said you can’t skip tv ads. I then told him you have to pay to watch these too and he looked at me like I’m crazy
36. On projectors:
37. LimeWire:
38. On NSYNC:
“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
39. On Shrek:
there are children being born whose PARENTS were not alive when Shrek (2001) came out.. Crazy how the years start coming and they simply do not stop coming
40. On home phones:
41. On Twitter:
42. On aging:
