Twitter Users Demonstrate Yet Again How Much They Live For Nostalgia
We’ve already used this space to muse on Millennials’ strange obsession with premature nostalgia, but did you know that a tendency toward near-constant — and often wistful — retrospection is not limited to the young? Really! Anyone can be overwhelmed by their own mortality and faux-jokingly express the fear of their specialized skill set becoming obsolete as technology advances at a rapid pace! It happens all the time on the Internet. It’s a modern version of your grandfather’s performative superiority about how much better his generation was at hard work. For proof, look at what has happened today:
Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) December 28, 2016
Music correspondent Eric Alper got a lot of engagement when he questioned what sort of tech or trend his followers could remember that someone younger would not.
Knowing everyone’s phone numbers by heart. https://t.co/GzrhUxq3hg
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) December 28, 2016
Watching the TV guide channel scroll and missing the channel you wanted to check on and having to watch it scroll back through. https://t.co/vWQRPflpAS
— Nini (@TheHuskyAfrikan) December 28, 2016
When you needed to find an obscure fact you drove to a building, used a catalog of paper cards to locate a paper book, then read said book. https://t.co/KRYaRz2rlQ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 28, 2016
Phones that were physically and emotionally satisfying to hang up forcefully https://t.co/fVTK7ska8K
— Festive Holiday Hat (@Popehat) December 28, 2016
how goddamn important yr Top 8 was https://t.co/jym6eURTi0
— Sam Escobar ? (@myhairisblue) December 28, 2016
Looking up movie start times in the newspaper. https://t.co/jbCEh0QHXF
— Issa No (@essdotX) December 28, 2016
“Did you rewind the tape before we return it to Blockbuster?” https://t.co/1YPgBuW2JQ
— Dean E. S. Richard (@deanfortythree) December 28, 2016
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? https://t.co/eu9xklNp5V— Ivonne (@servoisnaked) December 28, 2016
In my household, I was the remote control for our television. https://t.co/yeRr5FUyjo
— (((Megan McArdle))) (@asymmetricinfo) December 28, 2016
There were, of course, some snarky responses and genuinely funny jokes:
You shot a 1,738 pound buffalo but were only able to carry 200 pounds back to your wagon https://t.co/dSpOEWwM0G
— Kirsten Schlewitz (@kdschlewitz) December 28, 2016
My Little Pony wasn’t filled with memes and pandering to grown men. https://t.co/rOABasnGmO
— Usagi-Claus (@Pretear) December 28, 2016
i committed a series of unsolved murders in London in the late 1800s https://t.co/Ohe81symRE
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) December 28, 2016
Twist: Without revealing your age, what’s something you do that if you told an OLDER person they wouldn’t understand? https://t.co/l7ACky8jRL
— Feminist Jack London (@BlairBraverman) December 28, 2016
In short, technology has advanced and made our lives easier.
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