• Bluedragon012@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    So, when do we get… A break? Like did Karma get really high and forgot to help us out or? Do we get that peaceful life yet? Or are we doomed to forever being the witnesses and victims to this horrible time line?

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      1·
      44 minutes ago

      Even as a teenager I was pretty crystal-clear on the fact that anybody who knew anything about how a computer worked also knew that Y2K was not the cataclysmic society-ending event that the fucking braindead news media were making it out to be at the time.

    • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I remember in '99 the radio DJs loved talking about how there was a chance the world would end on new years, so there was a degree of anxiety, especially to dumb kids like myself

    • Tabooki2@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Y2K was a nightmare for us GenX. Months of overtime and late nights with lots of contractors coding 24/7. I hope I never have to go through that again.

  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
    6·
    5 hours ago

    On the older side of millennial, I vaguely remember the opening news broadcasts of the Gulf war.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 hours ago

      I’m trying to remember the name of it, but there’s a micro-generation made up of late X and early millennial (Like 78-85 or sokething) that’s seen as the transition generation from the analog world to the digital world.

      We’re old enough to clearly remember pre-digital/internet life, but young enough to have been exposed to tech while our brains were still developing. We’re the generation that’s comfortable in both worlds.

      We’re also good with computers generally because we developed alongside them and had to learn more about their inner workings and quirks as they were less automatic. All my new college graduates at work are surprisingly illiterate on tech because they grew up in a world of apps that are so automated they didn’t have to learn anything.

      Stuff as simple as navigating a network is weird to them, because they’re used to apps just handling stuff like file locations.

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      According to this slop all that happened after you hit 40? How old are you?

      Or did you just not bother to proofread what the robot vomited out? Typical lazy gen Xer, can’t even make their own meme.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        What’s wild is, it takes soooo little effort to just crop the top off, then add a new black header and drop some text on it.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    111·
    7 hours ago

    It’s worse for us Gen-Xers. We remember living as adults in the time before it all went from kinda shitty to the diarrhea apocalypse.

    • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      6 hours ago

      '88 here. 9/11 sits at such a clear demarcation line for us. Happened in 8th grade where you’re still straddling the fence that’s childhood, while still capable of grasping the enormity of what was unfolding.

      Though I also grew up in the rust belt, so there was always the sense that you were riding a wave that had long since crested.

      • Philippe23@lemmy.caEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Try being a few years older and they brought you all into the cafeteria to watch the Challenger launch live.

        🤩🚀💥🤯😭🪦

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 hours ago

    I was rippin’ Rust a few years ago, especially after reading Stephen Markley’s The Deluge and having a bit of a breakdown. Then I was

    Then the anxiety counter got to 999,999 and ticked back over to 000,000 and broke, so now I’m just sorta

    getting more weird and whimsy instead of more anxious.

    I don’t have any kids of my own. I feel sorry for the other people’s kids but I wish them all the best in the cannibal wars to come.

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.