I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100.
But it also made me think that people only get old when they’re like 80.

I mean like actually “old”. The “old” adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different “old”.

    • Golfnbrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Everything looks better looking backwards. But now is easily better. We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias, cars were less comfortable… Heck, I’m on a hand-held computer we call a smartphone… :)

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        We had to go to the library and check out actual books, we had to research in the physical encyclopedias

        That was true into the very late 90’s. Heck, even in the 00’s a lot of professors wouldn’t accept internet sources for reports.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I was pretty young in the 60’s but I always think that I’d going back to that time. Even if I could bring a laptop with me, I could use it to compile local applications but can’t use it for any communications.