Feel Old Yet?

(Credit to whogotya.com and Chezzy)

This year's crop of kids starting college were born in 1983.

That means:

• They are too young to remember the space shuttle blowing up.
  
  
• Their lifetime has always included AIDS.
  
  
• Bottle caps have always been screw off and plastic.
  
  
• The CD was introduced the year they were born.
  
  
• They have always had an answering machine.
  
  
• They have always had cable.
  
  
• They cannot fathom not having a remote control.
  
  
• Jay Leno has always been on the Tonight Show.
  
  
• Popcorn has always been cooked in the microwave.
  
  
• They never took a swim and thought about Jaws.
  
  
• They can't imagine what hard contact lenses are.
  
  
• They don't know who Mork was or where he was from.
  
  
• They never heard: "Where's the Beef?", "I'd walk a mile for a Camel", or "de plane Boss, de plane".
  
  
• They do not care who shot J.R., and have no idea who J.R. even is.
  
  
• Michael Jackson has always been white.
  
  
• McDonald's never came in Styrofoam containers.
  
  
• They don't have a clue how to use a typewriter.
  
  
• They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan Era and probably did not know he had ever been shot.
  
  
• They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
  
  
• There has been only one Pope in their lifetime.
  
  
• They were 10 when the Soviet Union broke apart and do not remember the Cold War."
  
  
• Tianamen Square means nothing to them.
  
  
• Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.
  
  
• They have never owned a record player.
  
  
• The statement "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
  
  
• They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.
  
  
• They may have never heard of an 8 track.
  
  
• Most have never seen a TV set with only 13 channels, nor have they seen a black and white TV.
  
  
• There have always been VCRs, but they have no idea what BETA was.
  
  
• They don't know what a cloth baby diaper is, or know about the "Help me, I've fallen and I can't get up" commercial.
  
  
• They were born the year that the Walkman was introduced by Sony.
  
  
• Roller skating has always meant inline for them.
  
  
• They have never seen Larry Bird play.
  
  
• The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them as W.W.I, W.W.II and the Civil War.
  
  
• Kansas, Chicago, Boston, America, and Alabama are places, not bands.
  
  
• They have no idea that Americans were ever held hostage in Iran.

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