I checked everyone except for AOL or myspace
you know you’re getting old when a rocking chair feels like a roller-coaster
people call at 9Pm and ask did i wake you??
AOL and My Space.
Our encyclopedias were 1911 so we went to the neighbors. Later, new ones for us because new baby in the family.
I scored a 1.
My dad’s best friend was in sales with World Book. We got a 1 year old edition at a discount, but as I recall, my dad still had to make time payments, and we would get a new volume every month or so. All my knowledge throughout elementary school came from the latest information of 1966.
Scored a 1. Never had a MySpace.
When I can’t do push ups anymore
I’ve yet to redeem my Senior discount for coffee at McDonald’s.
Ah, yes…AOL dial-up internet. You had to have the patience of Job to use it, because it was slow as molasses.
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When I participate in a fitness challenge here doing push ups and my shoulder is giving me hell ever since.
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And I had 'm all except for AOL but I’m not American. I do have and still use yahoo mail and hotmail. Does that give me bonus points? And I was a user of De Digitale Stad, our local usenet that started in 1994. On dial up of course with a modem that had a speed of a whopping 2400 baud if I remember correctly. Probably not, I’m old.
People Don’t use yahoo or Hotmail anymore?
I do got a Gmail for easy login so I don’t have to remember every freaking password.
But for some things I still very much use yahoo mail.
I didn’t hear that
When a newly-met colleague who is about my same age makes a jokey reference in a mixed-age group of academics to some old TV show and immediately tacks on the “Yeah, it’s only us old geezers that will get it”, and you think to yourself “Well, you’re in good company, pal”.
I have been trying to get AI to make an image for me. We get close then it completely goes haywire and keeps making the same ridiculous mistakes. I got frustrated and asked it if it was on drugs. It assured me that it cannot use drugs. After another session I started chewing its ass like I would if a human was this hard to deal with. I’ve invested quite a bit of time, now I’m cut off from generating to many images. all of the images were wrong, and Im worried that AI is going to send the terminator after me for talking shit.
When two young colleagues show up, one in a Nirvana and the other in a Che Guevara T-shirt. And both have no idea what and who those were. Just funny tees.
My brother who is 7 years younger than me bought a used skateboard from a second hand store when we where kids in the 90’s.
He came home, and was a little upset about the fact that it was a good skateboard but it had “an old man” printed on it. That old man was Kurt Cobain.
You know you’re getting old when…
You start to say “Oooooof” when you’re getting up out of your chair.
Or is that just me?
Getting up, sitting down, merely thinking of a chair.