Getting Old

[Ultrajoe]

The Simpsons itself is 20 years old

[HEADING=2]NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/HEADING]

 

[lwm3398]

Oh, Animaniacs.

16 years old.

Wow. Seriously.

I... Wow... I'm not even that old... But... God-damnit, I'm motherfucking OLD!!!!

 

[Labyrinth]

Computer programs use to run off floppy-disc,

Dude, the OS used to come on floppy discs. 5.5 as well, not this new fangled 3.25.

I still have a floppy drive (admittedly 3 1/4) in my computer. Young as I am I remember Loom and Commander Keen on DOS. Oh, and there are still 5 1/2 inch floppies hiding in my house. Belonging to my father, admittedly.

What makes me feel old, really old, is when my peers think that two months is a long time to be in a relationship.

 

[Proteus214]

The day I realized that my favorite game of all time, Super Mario RPG, was 13 years old...

Wow, seriously, I've been playing that thing for 13 years?!

 

[Plinglebob]

I suddenly feel old and i'm only 25!

I suddenly felt old the other day when I decided to do a Custon Install option for a PC game and found all you could change was the directory. I remember when custom install meant deciding how much would be on the HD and how much was read off the CD. I also remember arguments on PC forums about how games would NEVER!! come on DVD because now enough people would have a DVD drive installed.

Edit:

I still have a floppy drive (admittedly 3 1/4) in my computer. Young as I am I remember Loom and Commander Keen on DOS. Oh, and there are still 5 1/2 inch floppies hiding in my house. Belonging to my father, admittedly.

I remember playing Frogger on the school BBC computers. My friend and I were the envy of everyone because we had a copy and knew the password to the 5.5inch floppy the teachers had with all the games on for wet lunch breaks. I also remember copying (well, pirating nowadays) Commander Keen from a mate. Still got the files on an old 100mb hard drive.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

I don't really have much contact with the younger crowd, but this website makes me feel old, especially music threads, people talking about old or 'classic' bands they like and I realise I had seen them in concert before the person in question had been born. That's always depressing.

 

[Chipperz]

Ren and Stimpy. Floppy Disks. SkiFree and Chip's Challenge being the height of entertainment. Power Rangers... God I'm old...

Also, just because this has me on YouTube looking up old stuff from my childhood, I think it's time for the nostalgia-driven "they weren't really that good" links to start!

Spoiler

 

[corporate_gamer]

I suddenly feel old and i'm only 25!

I suddenly felt old the other day when I decided to do a Custon Install option for a PC game and found all you could change was the directory. I remember when custom install meant deciding how much would be on the HD and how much was read off the CD. I also remember arguments on PC forums about how games would NEVER!! come on DVD because now enough people would have a DVD drive installed.

Edit:

I still have a floppy drive (admittedly 3 1/4) in my computer. Young as I am I remember Loom and Commander Keen on DOS. Oh, and there are still 5 1/2 inch floppies hiding in my house. Belonging to my father, admittedly.

I remember playing Frogger on the school BBC computers. My friend and I were the envy of everyone because we had a copy and knew the password to the 5.5inch floppy the teachers had with all the games on for wet lunch breaks. I also remember copying (well, pirating nowadays) Commander Keen from a mate. Still got the files on an old 100mb hard drive.

I remember having to go and take out every single floppy disk drive out of the (hundreds of) older machines at the uni i worked at because the only person who was still using them was using them to screw the hard drives because he/she/it thought they were a clever little bastard. I felt like i was pulling out my milk teeth or something, removing my childhood.

 

[Seydaman]

I feel old...because I complain about my back a lot.... ;_; and I'm 13.....

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I remember when Nickelodeon had quality programming like Double Dare, Ren and Stempy and Rugrats.

 

[Plinglebob]

I remember having to go and take out every single floppy disk drive out of the (hundreds of) older machines at the uni i worked at because the only person who was still using them was using them to screw the hard drives because he/she/it thought they were a clever little bastard. I felt like i was pulling out my milk teeth or something, removing my childhood.

Whenever I rebuild my PC, I always transfer the floppy drive and stick it in a spare bay even though I can't get Vista to recognise it. Throwing it away would feel like I'm betraying my gaming heratige. I still have the 1st massive HD from our 1st PC (100mb) 1st CD drive and the massive hard drive from the 1st PC I built (17.5Gb).

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

George Clooney as Batman in Batman and Robin: the first time I felt old.

 

[CptPanda29]

Just the other day I met a class of 16 year old guys who never watched a single starwars movie. Im 18 and I've seen all of them at least thrice. When did that happen? Is 2 years all it takes?

 

[Spitfire175]

Damn. The collapse of the Soviet Union feels like yesterday. I remeber watching the big news on telly.

 

[CIA]

It was Pokemon I believe.

(Spoiler alert on that XKCD. Some of us are not as fast as you are.)

 

[Plinglebob]

It was Pokemon I believe.

The worrying thing for me is I'm not sure whats worse. The fact that I played pokemon when it 1st came out (I was 14) or I'm still playing it now.

 

[Collymilad08]

At work, various things I was talking to a pair of 19 year old girls about.

They never knew a lot of the stuff.... I'm only 24!! *sobs*

 

[Sonicron]

All those people comparing Obama to Hitler.

You gotta be shitting me.

OT: Seems like yesterday I watched the first few episodes of Beast Wars on TV. More and more folks on the web have no clue what I'm on about when I talk about it, and then I remember that the show debuted in 1996.
... I need my walking stick.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Can I say Trap Door? I swear no one knows what the fuck I'm talking about every time I mention it.

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

i remember when the special effects in Red Dwarf looked awesome