I'm not even that old...

... but this makes me feel it:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/32-extremely-upsetting-facts-about-the-class-of-2017

I'm too old to understand most of those references.

I'm 32 and I don't get a lot of those references.

Yikes.

My current cell phone looks like the one in the museum picture.

DeadSkunk wrote: My current cell phone looks like the one in the museum picture.

ditto. I have a motorolla flip phone.

I know I'm a dinosaur but...

that just sinks me deeper in the tar pits.

SVreX wrote: I'm too old to understand most of those references.

This.

I get most of those references. I just don't get what is "extremely upsetting" about them... with the possible exception of never having to have learned to navigate with out a smart phone. Otherwise it's just, "OMG! Pop culture has changed over the past 10+ years!" BFD.

What if you actually lived in a time of AAA Trip-tiks? And real maps?

Jerry wrote: What if you actually lived in a time of AAA Trip-tiks? And real maps?

Folding a map was a lost art even then.

JoeyM wrote:

DeadSkunk wrote: My current cell phone looks like the one in the museum picture.

ditto. I have a motorolla flip phone.

Mine is a Samsung. My 2 year old nephew has a toy flip phone, and whenever he picks it up he "calls" me since we have the same phone. I also have 3-4 trip-tiks out in the glovebox of the Malibu.

I understand all of the references but I had never been down a Discovery Zone slide.

I'm 33.

I still don't own a cell phone. I know. You've only heard of people like me.

Bah humbug, get of my lawn you young wippersnappers

fasted58 wrote:

Jerry wrote: What if you actually lived in a time of AAA Trip-tiks? And real maps?

Folding a map was a lost art even then.

I think I'm the only person under 30 who's capable of such a feat, at least in my circle of friends.

SkinnyG wrote: I still don't own a cell phone. I know. You've only heard of people like me.

Even my mother finally bought herself a cell phone.

Heh. I'm 55 and said 'damn what a bunch of dumbasses, we had better (insert musician/actor/car/etc) back in my day'. I say things, my daughter gives me the RCA dog look (another reference she'd never understand) and I realize I'm as uncool as my dad was. Oh, well. GTFO my lawn, dammit!

The RCA dog, for all you other punk kids out there:

You know you're old when you enjoy the music of your parents' generation.

Yeah, I'm too old to even get some of those references.

SkinnyG wrote: I still don't own a cell phone. I know. You've only heard of people like me.

I wouldn't either if my mom hadn't bought me one.

I think I got all those references, and I'm 51

Just goes to show, keeping up with pop culture doesn't matter even a little bit, and I get all the references.

SkinnyG wrote: I still don't own a cell phone. I know. You've only heard of people like me.

You are my hero

I used an old-fashioned fold-up roadmap yesterday for navigating in northeast Pennsylvania. Stupid GPS had no idea that the bridge was closed due to construction, and I wanted some control over the detour route.

And yeah, I think I got less than half of those references.

I'm 30 and I get most of them, but I think that post is more or less for kids who grew up in the 90's and graduated high school in the early 2000's.