JCC You know you feel old when...

You know you feel old when you avoid clicking on this thread.

 

This. The continuation widening of the generation gap.

 

When, for a legit few seconds while your flipping channels, you mistake the College World Series for being the Little League World Series.

 

I never struggled either considering it was one of three albums by Bolt Thrower, Celtic Frost or Dark Angel.

 

When you tell a younger colleague you are searching for a replacement diamond for your phonograph, and they don't know what a phonograph is for.

 

When you realize that more than once, years ago, you were in a room full of people who are all passed now. Four others. There's nobody left to remember but you.

I'm in my late, late 20s and that's already happened to me. My dad was next to last, and someday I'll be the last.

 

...You remember black and white television.

And the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights, following the Wonderful World of Disney.

 

...your first experience of seeing Star Wars was on a Betamax video tape.

 

...you were excited to learn that SW was coming out on video tape and started asking around to find who owned a VCR.

 

...when kids today ask you what is a VCR?

 

You remember when American Movie Classics (AMC) actually showed classics.

 

There was a hilarious tweet the other day where a journalist said her nieces and nephews asked her why she wanted to see Incredibles 2, and she said "because the first one came out when I was a kid," and they asked, "Was it in color?"

 

Better Call Saul is still on.

Wait, are you talking about movies only?

 

Yeah, that might be an addendum: you remember when AMC showed movies.

 

No, it was a failed joke on my part, referencing the recently referenced meltdown on your part

 

You could appreciate the SW home console games that were released during the OT.

 

...your first video game experience was Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo.
...you had to blow out any dust to make sure said Nintendo cartridges worked.

 

When you feel like everyone else in Captain America Civil War or Infinity War whenever Spidey says “you know that really old movie...”

Shaddup Parker!

 

you're just making those of us whose first video game experience was "pong" feel even older.

 

My Pong brother.

 

At least I can't say that my first movie viewing in a theater was a black-and-white film.

 

...you get the new TV listings mag and you're looking through it at all the dozens of channels and thinking ' there's nothing on , it's all ****' .

when I was a kid I used to dream of having , 50 , 100 channels , I'd occasionally see the US TV Guide and drool at all the channels the yanks had ( we had 4 ) .

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We couldn't necessarily get all those channels when I was a kid. (This is before cable/satellite). Our house in CT had an aerial on a pole that towered above the roof. There was a hill between us and New York stations. It did work though.