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When I was a child, the 1960's were only 20 years prior. The trends and ideas were thought of as old and outdated. It wasn't glamorized in any way. I still remember my father had an 8 track player and I unironicly had a record player.

It also wasn't uncommon to know someone born in the late 1800's (like my great grandfather)

Almost all of my classmates grandparents served in WWII. Some of my classmates parents were Vietnam vets

I remember watching the OJ Simpson chase and trial. The televised POTUS address where Clinton looked at me and told me he didn't have sexual relations with some intern (it was on at 9pm on CBS after Everybody Loves Raymond). Heck I even remember watching an Entertainment Tonight where they interviewed upcoming actors/actresses for a new sitcom called Friends. I experienced Columbine since I was the same age as the shooters...and as an adult I can relive 911 like it just happened. I was in college and just started working at Walmart. At my orientation my hiring manager was bragging about how she just had given blood two days before and knew it had probably been used for the survivors. Then my co-workers and I poured over all the tabloid articles at the registers claiming Notradumus predicted the attacks.

Anyway, all that to say...it is funny and cracks me up to read "conspiracies" about some of these events....and then watch others become glorified, for reasons I can't even think of. For example...none of the cool kids watched friends. The airhead cheerleaders and your mom watched Friends. My grandparents had a midcentury 1960's table in their garage that greasy car parts sat on, those things are worth thousands today. The stories I would hear about the depression, like it had just happened. It's weird to think there are almost three generations of kids now who grew up or are growing up outside of that world. It really has struck me when I realize we have full grown adults whose only context of this world started in 2000. It's baffling.

When I was a child, the 1960's were only 20 years prior. The trends and ideas were thought of as old and outdated. It wasn't glamorized in any way. I still remember my father had an 8 track player and I unironicly had a record player. It also wasn't uncommon to know someone born in the late 1800's (like my great grandfather) Almost all of my classmates grandparents served in WWII. Some of my classmates parents were Vietnam vets I remember watching the OJ Simpson chase and trial. The televised POTUS address where Clinton looked at me and told me he didn't have sexual relations with some intern (it was on at 9pm on CBS after Everybody Loves Raymond). Heck I even remember watching an Entertainment Tonight where they interviewed upcoming actors/actresses for a new sitcom called Friends. I experienced Columbine since I was the same age as the shooters...and as an adult I can relive 911 like it just happened. I was in college and just started working at Walmart. At my orientation my hiring manager was bragging about how she just had given blood two days before and knew it had probably been used for the survivors. Then my co-workers and I poured over all the tabloid articles at the registers claiming Notradumus predicted the attacks. Anyway, all that to say...it is funny and cracks me up to read "conspiracies" about some of these events....and then watch others become glorified, for reasons I can't even think of. For example...none of the cool kids watched friends. The airhead cheerleaders and your mom watched Friends. My grandparents had a midcentury 1960's table in their garage that greasy car parts sat on, those things are worth thousands today. The stories I would hear about the depression, like it had just happened. It's weird to think there are almost three generations of kids now who grew up or are growing up outside of that world. It really has struck me when I realize we have full grown adults whose only context of this world started in 2000. It's baffling.

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You're weird bits.

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It’s crazy when you think about it.

TV was telling me we would have flying cars by the year 2000. All we got was a RTC bug because manufacturers were too lazy to anticipate it or did it intentionally to force people to buy new hardware that was dependent on the date and time.

Michael was black, Anita Ward was trusting the charts, the C64 was the real deal. We were riding our bikes around town searching for stuck coins in pay phones to buy ice-creams and candies. Tree houses in the woods and fighting with neighborhood kids with slingshots and green ripe plums.

Those were the good days.

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>the C64 IS the real deal.

FTFY.

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It still is! but the Amiga changed everything. :P

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8580 SID destroys the Amiga.

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I agree with you on this. I'm probably the old geezer here ... born in the early 50s ... my childhood the 50s and 60s, my young adulthood the 70s and raising a family with a wife and two daughters thru the 70s, 80s and 90s. The world that surrounds me today is unrecognizable from what I knew. The conspiracy things you speak of are also an oddity of today that I wouldn't have ever imagined. I was in grade school when Kennedy was assassinated. I watched the space program on black and white TV as Mercury, Gemini, and the Apollo spacecraft took off for the unknown. I actually saw the Sputnik satellite, the world's first, arch across a clear starry night and saw Neil Armstrong take his first step on the moon. I was at work and we watched 9/11 non-stop on color TV for the whole day as that unfolded.

I often, and I'm serious about this, feel sorry that those today who will never really know what the world and people were like just half a century (or less) ago. Maybe we were just naive, but I don't think so. It wasn't a perfect world by any means ... yet today, many think the things I witnessed never happened, or were somehow manipulated and covered up. I find most of this difficult to believe. There have always been conspiracy theories and those who refuse to believe what is real, believe me, we had them back when, too ... it's just in today's world such often illogical skepticism has been monetized and with the ease of communications, what was once laughed off as a few loonies now make big bucks pushing their craziness on those susceptible to the delusions. YT alone has empowered the fools ... I can go on, but I guess you get my drift by now - LOL

My ultimate theory is that what I once thought as a wonder of the world, the internet, may in fact do more harm than good. People no longer are required to think.