Comment on When I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museum
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Being in a museum doesn’t make it ancient. Moma had the iPod and iMac on display when those things were like 5-10 years old.
Comment on When I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museum
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Being in a museum doesn’t make it ancient. Moma had the iPod and iMac on display when those things were like 5-10 years old.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago