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Late 1900s
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Which sounds worse:
- From the late 1900s
- From last century
From last millenium.
"1900s" makes me think they're referring to the decade of 1900-1909 😅
Not what you asked, but I find turn of the century most jarring.
Turn of the millennium?
That stings, but not quite as much as century as with that my brain now has to go through the process of determining which century when it never had to before.
Century has that human element because "last century" is where old people are from. You wouldn't meet people from the last millennium, but you know people from the last century. It's 100 years, that's a lifetime. Implying that you're from the "last" one means you're not from "this" one. Aka, ancient.
From now on, when someone asks how old I am, I'm going to say I was born in the late 1900s
If this was a CS major, 1994 might as well be Antiquity
I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.
I was just reading the first paper on TCP Vegas (TCP congestion avoidance protocol) and the tests were done with bandwidths of "over 100 Kbps" over the internet. Feels almost unreal.
I'll just be over here checking into an assisted living home. Don't mind me.
I love to say “before the turn of the century” when referring to stuff like 1997.
In the late millennium
Oof size: big.
I had to translate German papers to English. Not necessarily because I'm that old, but they were the only ones that had the information I needed. Although most of my research was based on stuff in the 90's....
And how kind of you to share that with us here. On Lemmy. That skews older.
(sad) lmao
Hey now, 1995 will always be 10 years ago. Always.
Funny how time works.
- 1995 was ten years ago.
- 1997 was three years ago.
- Every year of the 80s was 20 years ago.
- 2010 was 10 years ago.
- 2016 was two years ago.
- 2018 was two years ago.
- 2019 was one year ago.
- 2020 lasted for six years, but ended three months into the year.
- 2021-2022 didn't happen.
- 2023 ended just a few weeks ago.
- 2024 still hasn't ended. We also invented time travel. Consequently:
- 2025 apparently started in the 1960s, and rapidly progressing towards the 1940s.
I can still hear the dialup tone in my brainnnnnnn
My tinnitus can negotiate a V.92 handshake.
were it not so sad.... that'd be impressive....
nrmally tinnitus is a constant sine wave right? I'm lucky that mine is only audible at a noise floor of "super quiet" (my dB meter crapped out on me a while back and I've not had the money to replace it sadly)
Good news is that if dial-up tinnitus is real, my other comment was only plausible by lucky coincidence. Got a little of the standard variety like what you're talking about (just enough to make me care about good PPE moving forward) and thought it'd be an interesting consequence of tech exposure for old geeks.
Today in Warframe a new character dropped he is a rockstar. One guy from my clan asked me "Do you know who David Bowie is? He is kind of an old rock legend..." Bruh I'm 40 WTF?
Nickelback is classic rock.
My local classic rock station classifies "classic rock" as released >25 years ago. They play Green Day fairly regularly now
This one gets me, as when I learned of the concept of "classic rock", Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" had just came out and was playing non-stop on the "newest hits" radios.
I used to be a huge motorhead fan. One day i bought the "new" album and didn't really like it. I still listend to the band, but less and less, and never bought a new album. To me, that is still the new album when i think about motorhead. That album is now 20 something years old.
Bowie died in 2016. Is your clan mate like 14?
Four years ago, got it.
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