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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ll tell you what makes me feel old:

  When I was a kid in the 70s, everybody was talking about the year 2000, and I kept thinking “That like in 25 years, it’s like a quarter century. It’s like in forever!”

  2000 was 25 years ago, and it felt like it half a century went by in the blink of an eye.

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  • thfi@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Things had “2000” in their names to make them sound cool or futuristic, like Video 2000 or Windows 2000.

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  • ScrollerBall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In the year 2000…

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  At a thrift store this past weekend I saw a pristine copy of Windows 98 for dummies. We are closer to 2015 than 2015 is to when that book was printed.

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  • aviationeast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But did it have that disc?

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Didn’t see a disc or a pocket for one. Don’t remember the for dummies books having the things they were written for included.

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