In MY dayyyy...
So this thing came out a week or two ago and I was going to post it the day after... and then I didn't, and then I still didn't, and then I forgot for awhile, and blah blah blah here we are weeks later and the tab is still sitting open there, MOCKING me! So here it is. Damn, this list makes me feel old.
The Beloit Mindset List for the Class of 2014
Each summer Beloit College puts out for the benefit of its faculty a list of major cultural touchstones which will have happened or gone out of style before the incoming class achieved self-awareness. This year's Class of 2014 will have mostly been born in 1992, and so we have things like...
*Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
*Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
*Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
*Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
*They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
*Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
and
*Few in the class know how to write in cursive. (To be fair, I had mostly forgotten how to do this by the late 90's myself.)
Though I must say I think they messed up the timing on #31, "The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum." The first home computer *I* ever touched was an Apple IIe clone (remember when computers had "clones"?) and I'm pretty sure those were long gone by 1990. It certainly wouldn't have been anywhere to be found by the time a '92 baby was old enough to be 'touching' computers at all.
Also "Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive." is a bit ironic now that netbooks and smartphones and flash-drives seem to be conspiring to send optical drives on their way again.
I remember laughing merrily at a list I saw back in 2008 about "Things John McCain is Older Than"... now I guess I know a little bit of how that feels! ;o;
The Beloit Mindset List for the Class of 2014
Each summer Beloit College puts out for the benefit of its faculty a list of major cultural touchstones which will have happened or gone out of style before the incoming class achieved self-awareness. This year's Class of 2014 will have mostly been born in 1992, and so we have things like...
*Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
*Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
*Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
*Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
*They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
*Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
and
*Few in the class know how to write in cursive. (To be fair, I had mostly forgotten how to do this by the late 90's myself.)
Though I must say I think they messed up the timing on #31, "The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum." The first home computer *I* ever touched was an Apple IIe clone (remember when computers had "clones"?) and I'm pretty sure those were long gone by 1990. It certainly wouldn't have been anywhere to be found by the time a '92 baby was old enough to be 'touching' computers at all.
Also "Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive." is a bit ironic now that netbooks and smartphones and flash-drives seem to be conspiring to send optical drives on their way again.
I remember laughing merrily at a list I saw back in 2008 about "Things John McCain is Older Than"... now I guess I know a little bit of how that feels! ;o;