How incredibly rude...

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Ds has just asked me what the 1990's were like in the manner of an interested history scholar.

They weren't THAT long ago.

I've just explained what the rave scene was like.

He is perplexed.

DD picked up a cassette tape and asked me what it was. She laughed when I explained and told me that I'm old.

She's grounded.

You should have seen the dses' faces when dh and I told them about the days when there were only 3 TV channels! And no video recorders, never mind dvds!

My mobile doesn't have camera or Internet

I remember when ds must have been about 6 or 7 he asked me whether I had known Guy Fawkes when I was younger. Dh thought it was hilarious!

When my son was in Reception, he asked me (seriously) if I could remember the Great Fire of London. I said "No! It happened in 1666!'
His response......'and....?'

I may have had a tough few years, but I'm sure I don't look 400 years old!

About 7 years ago DD2 asked if the Beatles won BGT or X-Factor and her mind was blown when I explained that they didn't exist in the 1960's. she also couldn't get her head round not having a mobile phone to ring my parents from school (in the early 1980's) and has a face when I sing along to all the songs that are cover versions or on Glee.

DS asked if everything used to be in black & white when I was little.

Pair of cheeky buggers

Heh mine asked if the world was in black and white when I was little as well. But I remember asking my grandparents the same question

My son persisted in calling my childhood years "old-fashioned times" or "the Olden days"

My friend's dad bought a video (flash git!) - it was a top loader and it had a remote control (sadly you had to plug it into the video and the lead was about a foot long!

Oh yes, the Betacord, our first VCR was a mahoosive great thing with a cord.

But crude though they were, those early VCRs ended the tyranny of the People Who Wrote The Schedule!

I wrote in my 'About Me' book in school that when my parents were children they didn't have cars, everyone went about in horses and carts. My mum was born in 1954!

Zombie is older than your mum, Randall.

My ds2 seems to think I personally knew Jesus...

DD1 asked mil very loudly during a wedding reception whether she remembered the Fire of London. we may have very slightly encouraged the actual asking of the question

My 7 year old is was doing the Victorians. "Was that when you were a child mummy?"

Aa aargh luckily her grasp of numbers and timescales shaky I don't look like I was born in 1894 (maybe first thing in morning)

In the summer kids program I worked for we had theme days, one was The Nineties, with a 1990's themed dance.

What have you got to moan about!

DC1 "What mobile phone did you have when you were 15, Mum?"
Me: "None"
DC1 "Why? Wouldn't Grandma let you have one?"
Me: "Not that, no. They weren't invented when I was 15"

DC1 falls off the sofa in shock and says "I didn't realise you were that old!"

And,

DC2, talking about man and machines: "Mum, what was it like in the olden days, you know, when you were young?"

I was explaining to a young man recently that television used to end in the evening, with a nice man with a BBC accent saying goodnight, then the national anthem playing. Then the programmes just stopped and there was nothing on. He didn't really believe me and we had to find a reference to it on the internet before he would accept it.
He was a work colleague! How can I be working with someone who is too young to remember before 24/7 broadcasting?!

The 90s were definitely only 5 years ago .

My ds has just finished his History A-Level....... duplicating much of what my brother did for his Government and Politics A-Level, with some events added that didn't happen until after we'd all left school

How can these things POSSIBLY be in a History Curriculum ???

The DCs thought the world was black and white when I was a child cos that is what tv was like.

DS' history GCSE included learning about Margaret Thatcher. History can't have happened in my lifetime

I had to explain to my DC about the girl with the clown and the blackboard on the test card.

They also ask questions about how you arranged to meet up with your friends in the days before mobiles:
'Yes, but if you turned up and they weren't there yet...?'
'Well, you waited.'
'Wot, you just waited?'
'What else could you do?'

I explained to them about the Baby Burco my mum had in the same way she explained to me about the mangle.

I've only just had to bin my VCR as it died.

It had an option to input VideoPlus codes from the TV mag to record a particular programme.

DD1 (nearly 16) thinks this is hilarious. "Why didn't you just Sky Plus it?" she said!

Nancy66 My DF gave his date of birth for some store card (optional) the other day. Should have seen the face when he put 1925!

I remember
when everywhere closed on a Sunday and it was a family day
The tv channels used to shut down and go off air at midnight and start again in the morning
You had to physically get up off the sofa to turn over the channel before they invented a remote control
When we were crammed in like sardines to the back of an astra to go to school, not a seatbelt in sight!
You could get penny sweets no matter how little change you had

Oh how times have changed