Born in 1980's

Are you feeling old? If not, consider this: The people who are starting college this fall across the nation were born in the 1980's!

  1. As far as they know, stamps have always cost about 32 cents.
  2. Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes; they may have heard of an 8-track, but probably never actually seen one.
  3. Black Monday 1987 is as significant to them as the Great Depression.
  4. Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the Kinks, the Sex Pistols -- are all old music they have heard of, if they have heard of it at all.
  5. Few have used a TV set with only 13 channels.
  6. Few, if any, have lived without an answering machine.
  7. From their earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
  8. Having not lived through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
  9. If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing Congressional candidate, or perhaps in some obscure survey history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long or Teapot Dome.
  10. "New Wave" is their PARENT'S musical generation.
  11. Most of them have probably never seen a real nun, even if they went to Catholic schools.
  12. Some use the word "clickers" for "remote control," yet they do not know why they say it.
  13. The digital Disc was presented to Wall street when they were 1 year old.
  14. The expression "You sound like a broken record" means nothing to them.
  15. The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
  16. The oil crisis is history of which they probably know nothing... and why anyone wouldn't buy a Chevy Suburban is beyond them.
  17. Their world has always included AIDS.
  18. They have no meaningful recollection of the Reagan era.
  19. They have no memory of a time before MTV.
  20. They see "Family Ties" as something middle aged ladies watch.
  21. They watched "Star Wars" years ago, when they were kids -- on video.
  22. They were born the year that Walkmen were introduced by Sony.
  23. They were prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.