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17-Jun-2002

Does this make me look old-school?

Filed under: General — codeman38 @ 9:51 pm

News flash: Some high school graduates have never seen record players or heard of Atari.

Wow, I’m starting to feel old. I mean, sure, I just graduated from high school last year. Nonetheless, I actually had a record player when I was young (heck, I often listened to my dad’s and my sister’s old LPs!). No 8-tracks, though–that’s just a bit before my time. But I did, however, play Pong, along with other such classics as Pac-Man and Frogger, on the family’s Atari 2600…

Of course, there are people within my generation that aren’t entirely out of touch with the ’80s. After all, I know of quite a few people who, though they’re still in high school, have seen and/or heard of most of these things first-hand.

But then again, I’ve also discovered that there are kids who’ve never heard of the Speak & Spell, or if nothing else, recognize it as “that red thing from E.T.“. How sad. 🙂

1 Comment »

  1. they don’t know who Alfred E. Newman is? wow. that’s pretty bad. for the record, (haha) we still have a record player…and it’s younger than I am!

    Comment by Lesi — 18-Jun-2002 @ 2:28 pm

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