28 March 2013

"Oldsters is old"

Atrios gets in on my schtick.
Obviously the big takeaway is holy crap I'm old (I was born 9 years after Please Please Me, but still), but I think there's a broader point about us olds not getting just how distant stuff is for The Kids Today. More than that, I also think there was a kind of continuity between people born, roughly, from the beginning of WWII until about 1993. The discontinuity here is the internet, a society transforming technology change.
Internet, sure, although I don't really think Compuserve and Prodigy were a hard break, and the disjunctive forms of the 'Net didn't really come around until the late 90s.  

And anyway, I don't agree with Atrios's thesis.  This shit just feels way closer because no one wants to admit they're as old as ... well, let's not get into precise figures.  Nirvana just doesn't feel 21 to me, because we don't want it to.

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