The other day...

[elisi]

Miss M: "This is a voice recorder!"
Me [looks up]: "It's a walkman."
Impish Girl: "What's a walkman?"
Me: *feels about a million years old*

ETA: After I wrote this entry, I [randomly] went to look up Right Said Fred on youtube...

*cue waves of nostalgia*

Still remember sitting up late on a weekend, listening to the official countdown on Longwave Radio 252 (already indoctrinating myself with English culture - and was there ever anything gayer than that band?), to find out if Deeply Dippy was still Number 1. I think it held the spot for... 4 weeks? And oh, 'I'm Too Sexy' was EVERYWHERE, and one of my friends bought their album (it was called 'Up'), and I only much, much later discovered that 'Right Said Fred' was originally a song recorded by Bernard Cribbins. And thus my life is all beautifully circular.

ETA2: OH GOD. Now youtube is giving me links to Ace of Base: All That She Wants. *cries*

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

God, I remember when I got a Walkman. I was ecstatic.

Was just having a conversation with a friend the other day that people cannot possibly have been born in the Nineties. People walking around like ordinary human beings who were born in the Nineties. How did the universe allow this to happen?

[owlboy]

I realised the other day that one of my friends was born in 1994. o___O

[elisi]

Stop the world, I want to get off...

[owlboy]

There are people born AFTER the first Harry Potter book came out. ;_____; Who will never understand the phenomenon of the Spice Girls or Mambo #5. (brain melts)

[elisi]

I feel like I'm a cyberman and my head is exploding...

[promethia_tenk]

I need to go listen to so much mid-Nineties pop RIGHT NOW. Ace of Base, omg. Maybe it will restore some sense of order to the world.

How the heck am I supposed to communicate with someone who doesn't understand the Spice Girls? /o\ Civilization will COLLAPSE!

[owlboy]

It's a beautiful life, ah ah, ah oh oh! This is the pinnacle of 90's pop perfection, though.

What about people who have never programmed a VCR?? Or used the internet before broadband???

[promethia_tenk]

You may be right about that . . . *bops along*

It scares me a bit that I am among the last generation who will have a meaningful understanding of what life was like before the internet. People just a bit younger than me are not going to remember . . .

[owlboy]

I like the bbwwwwrrrpppsshhhhhh sound modems make because of nostalgia ;_____;

I even remember rotary dial telephones and typewriters OH GOD. And when cellphones were as big as your HEAD.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

It scares me a bit that I am among the last generation who will have a meaningful understanding of what life was like before the internet. People just a bit younger than me are not going to remember . . .

So true. And scary. I'm thinking of playing Oregon Trail with those horribly blocky graphics and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

And what about the kids who don't remember what the world was like before everyone had cellphones?

[elisi]

*clings to you*

Also, Miss M was born in 1998... THE WORLD IS GOING TOPSY-TURVY!