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.

I did personal training to get in shape for my wedding and the young trainer was 21 and I was 27 so not a.massive gap but we were discussing the opening ceremony of the Olympics and the guy who invented the world wide web and he genuinely could not understand why the inventor was important because the Internet has always been around apparently and it's not impressive to be able to connect to other computers all over the world. He made me feel old and like was 20 years between us not 6...

I convinced my two that our mobile phones were a series of tins and string connected via all of our houses, they invented mobiles because of all the string tripping incidents.

DS and I recently visited a computing museum where he was fascinated with all the old equipment and I remembered every single bit of it coming out as newfangled and amazing. I had a great time beating him at pong though

Mine asked me if I was around in the Victorian age and today that the Mr Men series are really old. I am one year younger than the books..

My Dd (9) asked me what did I did before TV was invented. My Mum snorted her coffee laughing. She can't believe we lived without computers.

I knew my DDs lived in a totally different era when one of them shouted "Hey, there isn't a gollie in level one!"

They were playing physical football with a ball and small net.

I graduated as a mature student after doing a History degree last year. One of the modules we did covered the fall of the Berlin Wall. I struggled with the fact that for the youngsters on my course that was history. None of them were even born in 1989. It was like about five years ago wasn't it? To me it is still current affairs.

This reminds me of my 'O' Level Modern World History course, 1982-84.

I went home one day and mentioned to my parents that we were studying the Cuban missile crisis. The were stunned and kept saying 'That can't be history, we remember that!' They would have been about twenty when it happened. :-)

Only four TV channels and they switched off at about 11pm

My DS was looking through some records that we found under the stairs. He asked me if I had a gramophone to play them on.

The first time I took my DDs to the theatre DD1 asked me if it would be in 3D.

We got a car with a casette player in it and DS (5) was full of questions about it. I remember taping off the radio with a tape!

I'm immune to the history syllabus factor because my own history GCSE included events up to 1982, only which was only 5 years before I started the course.

I had to explain what 7 and 12"s were to an extraordinarily good IT consultant, who was pregnant and in a long term relationship (by which I mean she's a grown woman with an established, successful career and a mortgage and everything)

There are actual, proper adults who don't remember singles

DD came home one day having been taught about Churchill.

"He died when you were 5, didn't he Daddy?"
"Yes he did"
"Was that before or after the mammoths?"
"Eh?"
"You know, mammoths. Big hairy elephants, died in the Ice Age".

Sometimes I think I would to live in DD's version of history, where Nye Bevan wore plate armour and Napoleon discovered China.

All his just shows how hard it is to explain and imagine the length of time.

Ds1 asked me if there were horse drawn trams when I was little

let them play an early Computer Game

DD1 was asking me 'what was life like in the 1990's mum? Did you have computers and games like minecraft then?'

Shes 7.5

I felt old.

I also remember AOL when Dad got it and him insulting a woman because she used text speak instead of proper english.

Dial up modems

Mobile phones (oh my nokia 3310!)

taping off the Top 40

VCR recording from thetv

My DS was convinced that the world used to be in black and white.

In the olden days of my youth, tv had 2 channels. You hit the thing to make the picture stop moving so you could watch it.

CDs were this big and made of black plastic. If one was playing you had to tread softly so the needle didn't jump. You got singles which were 7" diameter and had one song on each side, and albums which had more (and artwork on the cover).

There was no velcro.

No actual person had a computer, or wanted one. They were eormous and had to be kept in a separate room lined with anti-static mats, and only printed on enormous reams of pyjama paper.

nokia 3310

I still have a working one (with a cracked glass) for DS to receive calls from his dad on holiday. Still going strong.

CDs were NOT black, by the way. Those are vinyl records.

try "kids react to" on youtube.