Sh!t that makes you feel old.

02-07-2019 11:14am

Seeing the 'Floppy Disk' icon for to save your work in Windows applications (I'm using MS Access 2019 right now) and knowing I am one of a dwindling number of people who used the floppy disk to save anything when I was in college.

ohnonotgmail · 02-07-2019 11:16am

Deleted User wrote: »

Seeing the 'Floppy Disk' icon for to save your work in Windows applications (I'm using MS Access 2019 right now) and knowing I am one of a dwindling number of people who used the floppy disk to save anything when I was in college.

yeah but are you old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

02-07-2019 11:18am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

yeah but are you old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

Yes. Using Apple II floppy disks. Being told that each of them cost 40 pounds.

SexBobomb · 02-07-2019 11:21am

The girl who just beat Serena Williams at Wimbledon was born in 2004 ...

ohnonotgmail · 02-07-2019 11:21am

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. Using Apple II floppy disks. Being told that each of them cost 40 pounds.

Blimey, you're nearly as old as me

do your knees hurt walking down stairs as well?

storker · 02-07-2019 11:22am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

yeah but are you old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

I can remember an Apple II coming to our school and everyone oohing and aahing over it. All it had were two floppy discs. No hard drive, no networking, no colour or 3D graphics...

My Commodore 64 didn't evan have a floppy drive. You recorded to and loaded from audio tape.

Tell me how · 02-07-2019 11:26am

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. Using Apple II floppy disks. Being told that each of them cost 40 pounds.

I was tidying through home office recently and found a box with Floppy's, Zip Drives and Mini-Discs in it.
I held on to them purely for nostalgia sake but I was looking at them thinking how much things have changed. Memory sticks are hardly being used now even!

banie01 · 02-07-2019 11:30am

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

yeah but are you old enough to remember when floppy disks were actually floppy?

I'm old either old enough to remember that, and that you could make them double sided with a hole punch!

Or young enough to have been waaaaay ahead of my time when I was doing that :P

banie01 · 02-07-2019 11:32am

storker wrote: »

I can remember an Apple II coming to our school and everyone oohing and aahing over it. All it had were two floppy discs. No hard drive, no networking, no colour or 3D graphics...

My Commodore 64 didn't evan have a floppy drive. You recorded to and loaded from audio tape.

I had the tape deck, and the 5.25" floppy drive for mine.
The C64's cartridge slot was a game changer, not enough good games available for it tho, and didn't really get used until the end of the life cycle.

fergus1001 · 02-07-2019 11:54am

young ones: I'm 18

me: when we're you born ?

young ones: 2001

me: that's not possible !!!!????

fergus1001 · 02-07-2019 11:54am

young ones: I'm 18

me: when we're you born ?

young ones: 2001

me: that's not possible !!!!????

Nikki Sixx · 02-07-2019 1:23pm

Not being able to handle a night out anymore.

freshpopcorn · 02-07-2019 1:58pm

When you see a bunch of 18 years olds who used believe in Santa in about 2010/2011 out drinking/going to college/etc.

jippo nolan · 02-07-2019 3:41pm

When you’re children played Flimbos Quest on the Commodore 64!

Bannasidhe · 02-07-2019 3:51pm

When the first friend I made at collage became a Great Grand-mother.

Yeah, she was (sadly she died of cancer 9 months ago) 6 years old than me, and I did start collage aged 16, and she was a very very young great grandmother but still... my close friend who I had some mad sessions with was a little boy's great grandmother. :eek:

Calibos · 02-07-2019 4:25pm

When you are reading a youtube comment section about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis near the end of WW2 and hardly anyone 'gets' the Jaws Quotes.

Rubberchikken · 02-07-2019 4:36pm

i have an original Walkman. kids are fascinated/horrified that i used it!

Trekker09 · 02-07-2019 11:11pm

When I thought my 10 speed racer was the height of transport technology

Ol' Donie · 02-07-2019 11:29pm

storker wrote: »

I can remember an Apple II coming to our school and everyone oohing and aahing over it. All it had were two floppy discs. No hard drive, no networking, no colour or 3D graphics...

My Commodore 64 didn't evan have a floppy drive. You recorded to and loaded from audio tape.

You know, I'm looking at that and thinking at least I was around when things were good, and not all just mobile phones, selfies and fùckin eejits.

harr · 02-07-2019 11:30pm

When people younger than you start dying, I am only mid 40,s and in the last 6 months my friends brother died at 41 heart failure, ex work colleague younger than me had a massive stroke and died.. another lad I play five a side with died from massive heart-attack aged only 48.
Definitely feeling less and less invincible the last year or so and to be honest has frightened the **** out of me... haven’t touched a takeaway in months.

Harry Palmr · 02-07-2019 11:31pm

Remembering Arctic ice sheets...

dd973 · 02-07-2019 11:47pm

Footballers born in the 1990's.

retalivity · 02-07-2019 11:49pm

Pamela anderson being 51

nails1 · 02-07-2019 11:51pm

dd973 wrote: »

Footballers born in the 1990's.

Some footballers born in the 90s are nearing their 30s now. So that should make you feel extra older

fergus1001 · 03-07-2019 12:01am

retalivity wrote:

Pamela anderson being 51

and having HIV

joe40 · 03-07-2019 12:05am

A Colleague (a teacher) at her retirement do said when kids tell you that you taught my mum/dad you know you're getting old but when they say you taught my granny, its time to go.

branie2 · 03-07-2019 12:11am

Ol' Donie wrote: »

You know, I'm looking at that and thinking at least I was around when things were good, and not all just mobile phones, selfies and fùckin eejits.

I had a commodore as well

Trekker09 · 03-07-2019 12:17am

When you look at TOTP 2 and say 'that was only a couple of yea........oh sh**'

paleoperson · 03-07-2019 12:19am

nails1 wrote: »

Some footballers born in the 90s are nearing their 30s now. So that should make you feel extra older

Cori Gauff who beat Venus Williams out of Wimbledon was born in 2004, basically yesterday.

branie2 · 03-07-2019 12:30am

I'm in my 40th year.

Mam of 4 · 03-07-2019 12:42am

branie2 wrote: »

I'm in my 40th year.

You're only a young man Branie !

But you're making me feel old

fryup · 03-07-2019 9:03am

branie2 wrote: »

I'm in my 40th year.

and still w*nkin

Boom_Bap · 03-07-2019 9:08am

fergus1001 wrote: »

and having HIV

sure it's not Hep C you are thinking of?

Mrcaramelchoc · 03-07-2019 9:10am

fergus1001 wrote: »

and having HIV

Having hiv makes you feel old?im sure it does

castletownman · 03-07-2019 9:18am

I am older than every player that started for Wexford on Sunday, and only one player on the entire panel is older than me.

Christ, they all seemed like mythological figures going to games years ago.

Crazy how the minutes fly by without you realising.

ohnonotgmail · 03-07-2019 9:20am

fergus1001 wrote: »

and having HIV

Boom_Bap wrote: »

sure it's not Hep C you are thinking of?

Correct, she has HepC not HIV.

branie2 · 03-07-2019 10:27am

fryup wrote: »

and still w*nkin

not a lot these days

BrianD3 · 03-07-2019 8:37pm

I was just thinking about USA 94 - obviously about the matches involving Ireland, Giants' Stadium, Aldridge's meltdown etc. But also about Romania and Bulgaria in the tournament. 25 years ago today, Romania beat Argentina in a fantastic match.

25 years. It is now as far back to 1994 as it was from 1994 to 1969 - the f*cking 1960s. And in another 25 years it'll be 2044 and I'll be pushing 70 years old if I'm even alive.

paleoperson · 03-07-2019 8:53pm

BrianD3 wrote: »

I was just thinking about USA 94 - obviously about the matches involving Ireland, Giants' Stadium, Aldridge's meltdown etc. But also about Romania and Bulgaria in the tournament. 25 years ago today, Romania beat Argentina in a fantastic match.

25 years. It is now as far back to 1994 as it was from 1994 to 1969 - the f*cking 1960s. And in another 25 years it'll be 2044 and I'll be pushing 70 years old if I'm even alive.

With Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players the world has ever seen, sitting on the bench.

SaveTheBees · 03-07-2019 9:08pm

Your kids have never heard about a floppy disk, walkman, game boy, Amiga 500 or C64

The J Stands for Jay · 03-07-2019 9:23pm

BrianD3 wrote: »

I was just thinking about USA 94 - obviously about the matches involving Ireland, Giants' Stadium, Aldridge's meltdown etc. But also about Romania and Bulgaria in the tournament. 25 years ago today, Romania beat Argentina in a fantastic match.

25 years. It is now as far back to 1994 as it was from 1994 to 1969 - the f*cking 1960s. And in another 25 years it'll be 2044 and I'll be pushing 70 years old if I'm even alive.

Closer to the moon landing than today...

eisenberg1 · 03-07-2019 9:26pm

Born in 45, makes you 33 in 78.

Knowing the significance of all three numbers

MissD93 · 03-07-2019 9:57pm

A few of us went brogg in cork last week, me (24) my partner (28) three girls who are all twenty and 22 and 26 year old. We could see they were asking everyone for I D i didn’t have any on me and so me and my boyfriend said we’d queue first so if I got refused entry and I also had my phone open on my Facebook and I was totally prepared to explain to the bouncers the situation. They let me in without blinking . I feel very old

Gimme A Pound · 03-07-2019 10:09pm

MissD93 wrote: »

A few of us went brogg in cork last week, me (24) my partner (28) three girls who are all twenty and 22 and 26 year old. We could see they were asking everyone for I D i didn’t have any on me and so me and my boyfriend said we’d queue first so if I got refused entry and I also had my phone open on my Facebook and I was totally prepared to explain to the bouncers the situation. They let me in without blinking . I feel very old

:eek:

A 24-year-old feeling very old just because they look older than 18, is sh1t that makes me feel old.

Sharp MZ700 · 03-07-2019 10:12pm

SaveTheBees wrote: »

Your kids have never heard about a floppy disk, walkman, game boy, Amiga 500 or C64

Ahem. :-)

( Poor man's C64).

03-07-2019 10:13pm

Gimme A Pound wrote:

A 24-year-old feeling very old just because they look older than 18, is sh1t that makes me feel old.

The fact they were going to use Facebook as id makes me feel old

trashcan · 03-07-2019 10:38pm

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Born in 45, makes you 33 in 78.

Knowing the significance of all three numbers

I wish I was young enough for that to have gone over my head, but it didn't. Still, the consolation is those of us who got it are probably much more likely to have good taste in music, so, every cloud.........

Gimme A Pound · 03-07-2019 10:52pm

I get it now - and I like it! You don't have to be old though, just a music fan.

uch · 03-07-2019 10:58pm

Sh!t that makes you feel old? that's be every shít and the fact I've to rub cream on me grapes after every one too

valoren · 03-07-2019 10:58pm

Being 38 and wearing a 24 hour blood pressure monitor.

Sh!t that makes you feel old.

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