What makes you say fuck I am Old ?

[Bomberman]

I know what a CRT is. Granted retro enthusiasts of any age do know but it’s becoming niche knowledge

 

[DOOP169]

My adult children, and the fact that my favorite Pearl Jam album is more than thirty years old, or even just that I have a favorite Pearl Jam album.

 

[Adrastia]

I know what a CRT is. Granted retro enthusiasts of any age do know but it’s becoming niche knowledge

We had quite a few with the faux woodgrain. That needs to make a comeback. I need to get a secondhand clock radio made of plastic wood. Mornings are just not the same without plastic wood.

I'm reminded of rotary phones now. When I was a kid we had a pink wall mounted rotary phone in the kitchen. My grandparents had the classic black table phone that was built to survive a nuclear bomb. That way you could call all your loved ones to see how irradiated they were. Even after my grandparents finally got a touchtone telephone they still had the rotary line for awhile because my grandfather wouldn't pay the extra 50 cents a month to switch it over. If you are wondering why this is an issue, every time you pressed a key you'd have to wait for the rotary line to stop clicking before you could press the next one. So dialing a number was a hassle. Even more so when area codes became mandatory. My grandfather finally relented because of how annoying and tedious it was to call anyone.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

I picked up a newer print of volume 5 of Sailor Moon.

There's a blurb in the back explaining what a pay phone is.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

the stupid gibberish that kids say these days

Even the online gibberish they say or come up with?

 

[zacharinolongpants]

Coworkers asking me what it was like being alive during Y2K qnd 9-11 lol

 

[Another Iori]

HD quality is no longer a premium resolution, because when you apply it to a native 4K game recording, the special effects look as pixelated as 240p from 20 years ago.

 

[thecrow2313]

HD quality is no longer a premium resolution, because when you apply it to a native 4K game recording, the special effects look as pixelated as 240p from 20 years ago.

The fact is 8K to 10K is the latest craze now. I saw Shin Godzilla in 4K in theaters @ https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/shin-godzilla-4k-80046

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I'm Win95 old, hate Windows Vista may it burn in hell for eternity but love & miss WinXP.

 

[Another Iori]

The fact is 8K to 10K is the latest craze now. I saw Shin Godzilla in 4K in theaters @ https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/shin-godzilla-4k-80046

It's something I can't even mentally metabolize, but the prices are still incredibly high. I remember that when 4K first came out, the Raimi directed Spider-Man trilogy cost something like €15, while each installment in 4K was sold for €30, so the total was €90...

 

[TacoMeister]

Damn, just reading through this thread made me feel old...

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

Other than the back pain I have (lifting 60 pound motors will do that to yah), realizing that the ps3 is almost 20 FUCKING YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUUUUUCK

 

[TinRattler]

Took my kids to an arcade last weekend and playing Double Dragon realised I'm not a spring chicken anymore

 

[Another Iori]

The 'new' front of systems—formed by the Nintendo DS (2 December 2004), PlayStation Portable (12 December 2004), Xbox 360 (22 November 2005), PlayStation 3 (11 November 2006), and Wii (2 December 2006)—can in no way be considered 'new' anymore and to be honest, none of them are still officially sold anywhere in the world... 20 years is a very long time... to put it in perspective, 20 years before the DS came out, the music scene was dominated by artists like Michael Jackson, Madonna, Wham!, Prince et cetera, while in 2004, the conversation was already about Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Eminem, and so on... the only explanation I've come up with is that the market changes that began with this generation have contributed to creating an era of soap bubbles with almost no long-term legacy.

Each time we're speaking of cultural decades we are making clear distinctions between each (from at least the 40's) up until the year 2000 where the 00's and 10's are sometimes blended together (as well as the 20's more recently).

Is there a massive cultural stagnation (with the many remakes, reboots, remasters and making sequels after decades) or we are psychologically wired to think that the year 2000 was like 4-5 years ago?

I've been thinking of that old post

https://twitter.com/x/status/1397709801891713026

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The DSL, the seventh generation of consoles and touch-responsive phones have definitively brought the 20th century into the 21st, however, from that particular moment on the feeling of novelty has completely faded, along with the perception that time is truly advancing, because those models are still used today as a modern base, but simply applying enhancements.

Moreover, it should be added that almost all consumers have stopped archiving physical copies and companies are not genuinely interested in preservation in a serious way, therefore, if I look for a game from the original PlayStation in the second-hand market, I might find it and it may still work, while since the PS3 the games that have been released as digital exclusives that no longer exist anywhere (if not thanks to the piracy) and so they have been forgotten and are no longer used as representatives of a specific historical period: they are like Twitch streamers (you find them now and in seven days they are already buried under the dust of forgetfulness).