1. What Berlin wall?
35. Stadiums, rock tours and sporting events have always had corporate names.
43. Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
55. MTV has never featured music videos.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born. —Beloit College
Which ones struck you the most? #66 really blew me away — though CERN didn’t actually open up the WWW to the general public as a free service until 1993. (I was taking a non-credit humanities computing class that summer, and one week the guest lecturer gave a demo of this new piece of software — a “web browser” called Mosaic.)
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Surprised me:
13. “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM
Didn’t surprise me:
57. Jerry Springer has always been lowering the level of discourse on TV.
58. They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
I remember when they came out with a list for the class of 2003, or the “if your students were born in 1983” lists. Half of the things on those lists, I laughed at–because I knew them. I swear, I’m going to turn 24 in Oct, and I swear I feel older and older by the minute as watch kids that I used to watch play little league, or watch play midget football graduate this past June. It was one of those moments where you learn to take life one step at a time.