RetroFedOld [Mr Lovenstein]
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I hope the reboot is faithful to the original guy with a spear.
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4 Panel Comic
Panel 1: Two hairy cavemen sit on rocks and talk. They have long, unkempt hair and beards, as well as uni-brows, and wear short loin clothes. One of the cavemen on the left gestures while speaking to the other who is bush drawing in the dirt with a stick.
Caveman 1: Hey, you remember that cave painting of the guy with the spear?
Panel 2: Caveman 1 listens with a smile on his face. Caveman 2 is excited to discuss this masterpiece, his stick forgotten.
Caveman 2: Of course! That painting is the best!
Panel 3: Caveman 1 drops some knowledge on Caveman 2 who grabs his hair in shock and horror at the revelation.
Caveman 1: Would you believe that was made 20 years ago?
Caveman 2: Whaaat?
Panel 4: Caveman 2 covers his face with his hands to hide his despair. Caveman 1 somberly agrees with his companion.
Caveman 2: Fuck I’m old…
Caveman 1: Same
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It’s this supposed to make me feel better about being old?
At a previous IT job, the department had been around quite a while. User accounts didn’t provide a start date - at least not one that I could see - but there were ways you could estimate the general length of time the user had been with the department.
A few times, some aspect of those ways would cause a configuration or processing issue. For a while I was the only person handling … That department. Almost universally, after I fixed and explained the problem, the people having these difficulties would, mostly jokingly, complain about being old. I would say “you’re just a legacy user!” (or similar things) It almost always made them laugh.
So - I wouldn’t call you old. You’re a legacy and I appreciate your tenure!
When I was born, cave painting were already out of fashion so I’m old but not that old
When do you think this comic was made? Can you believe it was 50,000 years ago? Feel old yet?
What is this “feeling better” you speak of?
It’s hard to say if the comic is supposed to make you feel better about being old. All we can say is that it was written with you specifically in mind.
Twas my suspicion
Just that you are not alone. Take that as comforting or not.
Guy with a spear is closer in time to massive hut made of mammoth tusks than to now
Reminds me of a school textbook we had. I don’t know what the reason was, I guess they would just trying to be funny, but ot had little quotes in the margins that sounded sensible when you first read them, but fell apart if you thought about it for 3 seconds.
One of them was: Cleopatra was closer in time to stegosaurus, then we are now.
I miss this kinda shit.
Tangentially related: the Factoids feature in 3-2-1 Contact magazine
I hear something I remember was 20 years ago and my first thought is that it’s so cool I got to witness that! Then I think about the people older than me and want to extract their experience of the things they lived through. Then I think about the people younger than me and wonder what they think of the things I remember and they don’t, hope they have some interest in learning of and from those things. Then I realize some day I’ll be older than most people and will have very few people in my life that have shared my experiences and get a little melancholy.
There there buddy, I also saw the Superbowl halftime wardrobe malfunction. You aren’t alone.
Would hunter gatherer societies count years? After maybe a year or two ago would it just be “a while ago”?
@cannedtuna with the advancement of tech and the downfall of democracy into technofuedalism, it feels as if a million years have passed since now and 2004.
People who weren't alive during 9/11 may as well be a different species to those who were. Its similar to someone from 1890 being dropped into 1960. Except its a much shorter timeframe.
22 years were always long, especially when you are talking about the edge times just before there were massive changes.
Take for example 1913 vs 1938 in Austria. (Ok, technically it’s 25 years, but it’s not much more than 22 years.)
In this time span you had:
You can find similar periods of rapid change in every country. For the US look at e.g. the independence war or the civil war. Or the time before, during and after WW2.
Yes, we are in a time of somewhat rapid change, but neither is that unique, nor is it especially rapid.
And the comparison between 1890 and 1960 is entirely invalid. Much more changed in this time frame than between 2004 and 2026.
some things never change 😂