1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
The whole list can be found at: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php
I love these lists. It helps us Oldtimers get a read on you young Upstarts. I remember the year it said that this generation of kids have never turned a TV on or off without remote control. That seemed funny at the time, but shoot, that's been years ago.
ReplyDeleteWhat freaks me out a little is when I think about how old you kids were on September 11, 2001.
Oh yea. I also remember the first time I heard that the computer system inside a compact car is more powerful than the computer that took us to the moon in 1969.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta love Moore's Law.
ReplyDeleteOh, Mrs. Fletcher you're not old your experienced! :D It makes me feel sad sometimes that people won't appreciate the older things. Even today I feel sad for the 1st graders that won't watch the great cartoons I watched as a child. I guess it's just life.
ReplyDeleteThe CD-rom comment reminded me of this old Sandra Bullock movie from 1995 called The Net where basically her identity's stolen and everyone thinks she's a criminal... Well she's running around trying to figure out why this is happening and she's using computers to do it. The funny part is that to store the info she's getting she's using the height of technology... a floppy disk.
ReplyDeleteI made me realize just how quickly technology is developing... that was only fifteen years ago.
Here's the trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qKHq7REI4
Speaking of TV and media...have you kids seen my favorite commercial for Minolta printers and business hubs? It airs on the Golf Channel all of the time -- that demographic tends to be older, business oriented, so it's a good target audience. I don't see it as often on other cable or network stations.
ReplyDeleteThis young guy is printing color, collating, and whatever else the machine will do. Some other young people come up to him and start mocking him, saying he has it easy -- when THEY started, if they needed color, they had to send out for it; the scanned things with a scanner; they faxed things on fax machines with "slimy fax paper"...then they all look up, freeze, and reverently say, "Look! It's the Elder! He Who Speaks of Floppy Disks!" and this "grizzled" guy in his 30's sneers at them and says, "You're all soft." I love that commercial.
Quang! I'm going to be 53 on Sunday! That's not old compared to a tree or a mountain, but compared to technology, I'm ancient...I remember when 3 MB of RAM seemed like an endless supply. I had a Mac SE, but before that, I had this TI thing that I plugged into my TV set, and played pong on it, and typed stuff on just for fun...because you couldn't DO anything with what you typed...I was merely typing for the joy of watching it pop up on a screen. Weird.
I think I still have floppy disks in my classroom. I used to loan them to kids when we went to the computer lab to work.